Oddbean

“But Erik, no one cares about decentralized, open-source, censorship-resistant protocols!” Right, just like how most of the Jews in Germany in 1935, despite the writing on the wall that what was going to happen was much more horrific than what had happened, most just kept plugging along, staying in their lane, oblivious to their own impending murder by the state. “The state would never let that happen!” They did and they’ll do it again. And again. And again. They keep stealing, killing, and violating every ‘right’ you have until you don’t let them do it anymore. Or they enslave you. Or kill you. Look, all the lemmings are gonna living in the camps, lick the boots, eat the bugs, and own nothing and ‘be happy’ under the tutelage of global ‘happy happy nice nice we all love each other and are totally equal…except for white men who are piece of shit who must burn’ communism. These people are worse than useless, but are detrimental to creating real change where we could be empowered against such totalitarianism, but refuse to engage it in any meaningful intellectual manner, because they are cowards and slaves, abated mostly unconsciously. They have allowed for the brainwashing to convince them the state is just a giant daddy to care for them and keep them safe. While it is true, it’s a much more sinister version that’s more than happy to engage in filicide because you didn’t clean your room. Trying to convince these people of real change and empowerment is a waste of time. Focus your efforts on people who want to be helped, and are willing to actually think about why you might need these tools in the future and to prepare for such a future. The masses are not our allies or friends, and we should stop looking to them as such. Change will come when we valiantly push forward with courage and tenacity that we have the solutions that are needed, and finding those who want to actively work with us to improve, deploy, and develop said solutions.