Thanks for asking.🙏🏻👍😀

Participation in the apparatus of nation-states has historically only increased state power via the baked-in operation of the Hegelian dialectic; in contrast, bitcoin itself is a shining example of a better path, namely, the creation of superior systems that inherently withdraw power from the state.

We're having this conversation via another exemplary "freedom technology," namely nostr, a tool that eliminates the state's power to silence and censor.😆

I'm deeply grateful that every individual who contributed to the creation of these two revolutionary technologies used their time and energy to build new tools, rather than to battle the old system.🫂

Perhaps you feel you can accomplish more taking the state head on by voting or running for office; and perhaps, in your personal situation and given your history, you may be absolutely correct?

However, many of us choose to listen to Jesus, Ghandi, Ayn Rand, Larken Rose, and others who believe we can do far better by creating NEW systems, built on radically different, morally superior foundational principles. We expect the state to ultimately self-destruct, collapsing under its own weight.

For anyone who may be interested in considering an alternative approach to saving the world, here are my own collected writings on the topic:
https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf
 

 They are going to come after you before it totally collapses, that's the point. 

 Duncans right here.  Individually no one person can defeat such a thing. But collectively when enough have given up the ideal that someone somewhere MUST be in charge or everything fails. Thats when changes happen, then it becomes abour agency about what are YOU going to do about it not some hand wavey "im gunna make sure this person gets into office so X happens" 

 A small group of people is negligible and can be crushed by the state,  but how is the state going to do that to say a million people all just saying "ya I'm not doing that" when it's on a small level they can justify the violence at that scale (it was a fringe minority extremists group) but when you overtly participate in the other systems they cant control you make the violence more blatent, you make them show their hand to others that know this isnt right. Thats the point bring out the states motives to the light to show others what it is that they a truly dealing with. Sadly this isnt a war that can be won on dialect means, its one that can only be won by what the masses understand,  rhetoric.