I sometimes think about the totality of how many people throughout human history have gotten totally fucked by their governments and had to flee their homes and communities with nothing more than what they had on them.
What has been the economic cost of this, what is the cost of always living in a state of fear that it will happen again?
While it can happen, at least with bitcoin you can keep some of your property beyond the violent expropriations of any government. The value of such a thing cannot be understood by dollars or purchasing power, but only through the cost of life and what real economy security means to someone who has seen just the smallest amount of the horrors of the genocides of the 20th century.
Greater than the financial cost is the opportunity cost. Far greater. Source: my family history.
The true "yield" of bitcoin
The opulence has made us soft as a civilization. The worst case scenario most people can envision is extremely far from what the actual bottom looks like.
And yet the vast majority of people experiencing this relative opulence exist in a state of fear. The opulence is funded by credit & their uncertain income is constantly shrinking in real terms.
The fear is a low level fear that they're only a couple of missed paychecks away from being homeless. Sure they look successful, but they know it's a house of cards.
I personally didn't know I lived with this fear until it was lifted. It didn't lift until I'd placed my meagre savings into Bitcoin & watched it 4x in purchasing power. I'm grateful everyday to have shed it & I refuse to allow the fear to ever return.
Love (Agape) & Fear are mutually exclusive. You cannot experience unconditional love while you're filled with fear. You cannot be fearful when you're filled with Agape.
cultivation and nurturing of fear centered on the Leviathan (as opposed to God) is Hobbes' original accomplishment (see Robin 2004). Funny how it took us 500 years to begin thematizing 'politics of fear' and its effects. Wonder why that is?
Yes, this is why Leviathan is the cover of the book with bitcoin in the scepter, representing the overturning of the temporal realm to the spiritual once again.
True. The value of bitcoin is incalculable.
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