Oddbean new post about login | logout Having to ask for permission is the default. Being deplatformed is as commonplace as getting a time-out for posting something "wrong". It is expected. It is normal.
People aren't even aware that there is, could be, should be another way. They don't even entertain the possibility that THEY THEMSELVES SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK. To say whatever. To think whatever. To spend money on whatever.
Daddy Elon will fix free speech. Politician XY will fix the economy. Politician Y will fix social issue Z.
We lost freedom, because we lost responsibility. We want the next overlord to fix our problems. The next platform to fix all the issues that the current platform has. The next news cycle to wash our neurons clean of the last cycle; the next dopamine hit.
Most people can't even entertain the possibility of a world without rulers. They aren't ready for the responsibility that world entails.
He was on to something. https://image.nostr.build/e8fadd75f9dde60f87cc9472f866249ce94ea700a0510958f7b5d7c63b2378fe.jpg
Dude knew what was up. nostr:nevent1qqs2ssad7x7n3e9vs84hr0394e6hf29us2dg7mvy25nrgnh3zqe28zcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygrwg6zz9hahfftnsup23q3mnv5pdz46hpj4l2ktdpfu6rhpthhwjvpsgqqqqqqsu47ls8
You need rulers to measure your girlfriend's penis https://www.homestratosphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ruler-082418-min.jpg
Best comment here.
Correct. But, we still have to keep educating them. Never stop the education.
The truth is some people don't want a world without rulers. Many people are sheep and don't want the responsibility true freedom requires. But as I realized from reading Karl Ludwig von Haller (@note1x8lxmn70uda9qd847ajetclz5esswsg0asgfkxg66se8ymnwp22shk5a0y) there are some leaders who just arise naturally and people follow them voluntarily, and I think that's fine, so long as it's voluntary, and not imposed or maintained through force or fraud. #anarchy #voluntarism
The nature of our evolved hierarchical social groups. Most people are more comfortable following than leading. To change that would be to change the nature of what it means to be human.
Freedom is countercultural now nostr:nevent1qqsgrmfl5hvqkn570dk6gkh477056fn47yyw6tf5v3xznyua3kdce5gpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycrqsqqqqqp7slu2a
https://image.nostr.build/1917861618382def60cbf3282855f86fffa623ff29f9109620d2347a398f55bb.jpg How much is my life worth Binary 01100101 00100000 00110010 00110000 00100000 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110010 01110011 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110100 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110100 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01110101 01100101 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 00110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 00110010 00110000 00100000 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110010 01110011 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 00100000
Yes. Did we ever lose freedom though? Or do we realize only now that we never truly were free inside? Despite holding on to proclamations of fundamental rights etc. Is it an awakening more than a going back to something that never actually was? Either way, responsibility, self-sovereignty is the way forward 🤝
People don't exist, that's why. What exists is ineffable and it naturally struggles a lot before it can speak out what it feels or thinks. Peopleness does constantly keep itself busy to not have any spare time to fall asleep to see a dream that its peopleness in the wake could well also be a dream.
Not a political statement, but just sayin' ... "Your support of Bitcoin [and Nostr!] puts you in same category as the framers of the [US] Constitution...you are the current manifestation of that impulse, so thank you all...." -RFKjr, Bitcoin 2023
It should not be normal. We need a new normal!
