If you passed the Covid IQ test and the #Bitcoin IQ test, you have proven that you are not brainwashed and, above all, that you are essentially free.
But if you are a bitcoiner and you gave in to Covid pressure (e.g., to be able to travel), then you put a price on your freedom.
I don't mean to shame anyone with this. I just want to make bitcoiners think. In life, you have to make difficult decisions. Covid was one of them. But there will be others. When the time comes, don't put your freedom aside.
It's a tricky line to find.
I admire someone like Julian Assange for how he stuck to his values through everything he went through.
You need to have a belief system that supports you through challenges that are that immense.
This is trading one kind of freedom for another. It's trading societal freedom for peace of mind. The mental freedom that comes from knowing you stuck to your values.
It was hard here in Italy. But I refused to get tested and vaccinated. Also refused to wear a mask, in fact I had to wear it 2 times. And after I found out that your " status" is only a barcode on your phone I gave a shit. Over 50 years of age we had a mandatory vaccination, I also refused.
So when some monkey shit comes again, fuck'em.
Like smoking, drinking, etc
Only independent and strong individuals resist the peer pressure.
Not to reflect seriously on what concerns us is to show a culpable indifference to what is most dear to us (Sun Tzu)
It's true. It was a great filter for my social circle though. Cut a lot of friends and kept the real ones.
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