Oddbean new post about login | logout Who is John Galt? When I was younger I thought the world could be changed. I understood that privacy was key to gaining and maintaining freedom. I spent many years trying to teach people privacy techniques. Then I met Bitcoin and understood that to get freedom and keep it Bitcoin was also necessary. I wasted a few years trying to teach people privacy techniques and Bitcoin. Over time I've realized that it's useless, people don't want freedom, the world has become so fucking grotesque that I just watch it and try to laugh at everything that happens. If I have to give you a piece of advice, accumulate as much Bitcoin as you can and laugh. https://m.primal.net/JlJB.jpg
This. I also learned that you cant save people. They are the intoxicated kids at pleasure island in Pinocchio. They love their situation.
Yeah, its like we also can't change the chimpanzees, and it is unbearable to live among them, but we find a way to make a place for ourselves chimpanzees free, don't we? And at least some of us, despite chimpanzees being unbearable, still invest the effort to make life good for chimpanzees too, while not intermixing with them. So, can we do something similar with normies, without trying to convert them into ourselves, or at least at a much slower pace than we would like, perhaps at a pace they are capable to progress at.
👍. Being ascetic is fine for me. But in a perfect dream world, I would have something like Andrew Tate's Warroom. Maybe different format, different location, maybe everything different, but a band of badass ascetics. Am I the only one with such wild dreams? Let's take one step at a time. Let's not jump to, but location, but privacy, but security, but how to trust, etc. If anyone of you guys were a wizard and could make yourself a perfect world by the powers of magic, would you want a band of ascetics?
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Like Galt's Gulch, the normies don't need to understand it or even know it exists for it to work. I still try to tell people I like about it though :)
