Anarchy and peace: A paradox, or the natural order?
Everyone has the right to own one, and it’s a good idea to own one, but I still dislike guns, only because what I more broadly oppose is murder, even if the means is just defence. I oppose the very existence of a tool designed to murder humans. This opinion coming from an anarchist is painfully ironic. What’s even more ironic? The oldest dated human tool ever found in lomikiwi Kenya dates back 3million years, and it is a weapon.
I know the insane conflict in my world view and have thought about it for a very long time, hence the username.
The fact is the genie is out the bottle, and it has been since the dawn of man, and even the dawn of life. Just as Eve ate the apple, Adam sharpened the stone. You have the same right to own a weapon as our ancient ancestors, and their ancient ancestors before them. It is worrying that we’re now so advanced our weapons can cease millions in the blink of an eye, but we must accept that weapons exist, and because they exist everyone must have the right to own one to prevent tyranny.
In the name of self-preservation, our foremost survival instinct, it must be a good idea to own a weapon. It would be colossally naive to think everyone and everything has your best interest at heart, and if you know they have the ability to harm you, it is irresponsible not to protect yourself by any means.
I’m sure if we could however, we’d all rather not have to kill another human to save ourself. Well, that’s not against any laws of physics. We know of many ways to forcefully disarm bad actors without causing death. Tasers, sedation, tear gas, and so on. As your ability to do so increasingly prevails thanks to technology, it becomes morally unjust to still opt for the lethal choice. This is not the entire answer however as this can benefit bad actors, and all cause death when administered in large amounts.
Our problem is that we are obsessed with the sword, and have forgotten the shield. Do not only pay attention to the sword, as we’ve all heard to live by the sword is to die by the sword. Pay close attention to the shield. To live by the shield is to die by God. mutually assured destruction is not the means to a peaceful ends, the clue being the word destruction. To find anarchy and peace, and to unify liberty and security for yourself, do not ask how you can destroy bad actors, ask how you make them redundant.
Swords don’t make swords redundant, shields do. Guns don’t make guns redundant, armour does.
Missiles don’t make missiles redundant, iron domes do. When the bad actor takes it that step too far, we can rise above evil by becoming impenetrable.
The majority of violence is carried out by the worst bad actor of them all, the state. This is why not only can anarchy coexist with peace, but why peace can only exist in anarchy. It is a moral responsibility to opt out of the evils of the state, and we all seem to know this. The greatest deception of our lives however is to think we opt out by voting, and we have been distracted in believing that the only alternative to voting is violence, so we keep on voting. You do not opt out of tyranny with voting or guns, you opt out of tyranny by becoming invincible.
Strive to serve and protect your community and environment, that is the shield of your property. Store and exchange your favours in Bitcoin, that is the shield of your wealth. Spread word of your knowledge, wisdom and services on uncensored platforms of free speech, that is the shield of your liberty.
I’m not telling you that we need to start a revolution, I’m telling you that when we’re ready, we won’t have to.
I finally took the time to learn about and understand the implications of Nostr, and Wow!
Bitcoin and Nostr combined have real potential to solve humanity’s biggest problems.
The war against ego is misplaced, and if we're not careful, it could turn dystopian.
We are all human, and we all have an ego; you cannot destroy your ego, and if you did, you would not be human. Without the instinct of self-importance, we would eventually meet an untimely death.
Ego should by no means be the main driver of the average decision you make in your everyday life, but when it comes to serving yourself in achieving long-term goals, and serving the world to make it a better place, it is absolutely vital.
We should not be aiming for ego death, but the channeling of our ego in maintaining low time preference to achieve discipline and laser-eye focus. Ego is what gets you out of bed in the morning, and it is what gives you a reason to live. It is why you worship your children and love your family more than everyone else. Ego is why you can forgive yourself despite all your mistakes and love yourself despite all your imperfections.
Where would we be without the ego of Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, and Satoshi Nakamoto, to name the first that come to mind, all who dared to believe that they alone could change the world with their unique perspectives? Guard your ego with all your might, and don't expose it for all to see, for nobody else can understand it as you do, and nobody else can understand the depths of your self-assigned purpose.
A genius and he should be listened to. He might have an overinflated ego and peculiar approach to marketing because of how young he is, but what he is marketing is not simply a thesis. From his point of view, he is making a desperate attempt to ensure his country does not fall behind in this new age of humanity. My prediction is they won’t listen to him and they will fall behind anyway. The point is every one of us can make use of what he saying to wage our own peaceful battles in cyberspace. Bitcoin is more than just money, it is they key to global succession and will end the tyranny of large government once and for all. All anyone will need to form their own sovereign state will be hash power.
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