Anakin's fall.

I rember when I watched Revenge of the Sith for the first few times. The progression, or let's say regression, of Anakin toward the dark side left me thinking the story was incomplete.

A gradual process of falling into the lies and manipulation of Palpatine seemed more likely to me than an abrupt conversion from values, honor and justice, to pure evil.

Then at some point, I came to consider the possibility that George Lucas had offered an alternative progression toward the dark side within the plot.

Here is an overview of the two possibilities:

A) Anakin kills the younglings in the Jedi temple.

B) Anakin doesn't kill the younglings in the Jedi temple.

Both scenarios are clearly possible and I will describe the case for the latter.

Now, in a previous scene we saw Anakin cutting off the arm of Mace Windu, so it is clear that he has already fallen into the narrative of Palpatine. The narrative is that the Jedi are the enemies of the republic and that peace can only be restored when they are killed. Anakin pledges to Palpatine to carry out this order.

Already here, Anakin is lost to the dark side, we just don't know the extent of his corruption - is he willing to kill children already? I always felt the sudden corruption theory was off. Anakin goes from having ethical values and a belief in a fair trial, to the next moment, executing younglings in an instant.

Next we see Anakin entering a chamber of youngling Jedi padawans in the Jedi temple, drawing his light saber as to kill them. What happened after that is hidden to us, except for the surveillance cameras.

After that, we see Palpatine's execution of order 66. His forces captures the Jedi temple. Senator Organa lands on a platform by the temple and is told to leave by Palpatine's stationed troops. A young Jedi attacks the troops and is killed. That Jedi youngling was not killed by Anakin. How did he survive Anakin's massacre? It is possible that  he was just lucky.

At this point, Palpatine has full access and control over the Jedi temple. He sends out a message to all Jedi; to return to the Jedi temple on Coruscant. Palpatine also have access to all the surveillance cameras at this point.

Considering the Machiavellian nature of Palpatine, he is not going to take any chances with his new apprentice Anakin. Palpatine is an advanced chess player that will likely always have a plan B. Anakin might kill the younglings on his orders, but Anakin might also refuse to kill them due to their young age - Palpatine cannot know the answer in advance with certainty.

The logical chess move for Palpatine then is to win Anakin over to the dark side regardless if he kills the younglings or not. If Anakin is at the temple and the surveillance cameras shows him murdering the younglings, Anakin's future as a Jedi is game over, regardless if he committed the massacre or not.

Palpatine is likely to attempt to trap Anakin in a situation that would result in his loss of humanity regardless if he killed the younglings or not. Neither his wife Padme nor his old friend Obi Wan would ever forgive him.

It therefore makes sense for Palpatine to prepare a false video of Anakin murdering younglings in advance, or use technology to make the murderer to appear to be Anakin, just in case he wouldn't go along with the orders.

Next scene, as the surviving Jedi arrives at the Jedi temple, we see dead Jedi younglings in an open area. This is not the chamber where Anakin drew his light saber. For some reason, while Anakin blocked the door of the chamber of younglings and drew his light saber, it seems as if he didn't kill them in that spot.

So if Anakin didn't kill them in that chamber where we saw him draw the light saber, what really transpired?

I like that George Lucas offered us this 'conspiracy' possibility, since we can consider both options - either that he killed the younglings or that he was framed - and decide for ourselves how quickly Anakin headed down on the path of evil.

After the surveillance video showed Anakin killing children, there was no way back for him, regardless if he committed that massacre or not.

It seems to me, from his belief that he would re-unite with Padme after killing the separatists on Mustafar, that he either didn't kill the younglings, or that he didn't remember killing them. There is no way that Padme would have forgiven him for such a terrible crime. His hope to re-unite with Padme therefore seems to be a hint that while he had already become evil to some extent, he was not yet a child killer.

After Anakin lost Padme, he was ripe for the ultimate conversion to evil by Palpatine. The crime of murdering children would forever be on his name, and perhaps he believed himself to be a child killer at that point. The erosion of all values from that point seems like the unfolding of an avalanche that he himself had aligned with and built up, guided by Palpatine's manipulation, regressing him down the path of the dark side.

Thank you for reading this alternative interpretation of Anakin's fall to the dark side. It challenges us with the question: how gradual is the process of coruption? Is corruption immediate or is it a process that spirals downward over time?


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#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes

Some extra, unrelated info for us, the #Bitcoin nerds:
Current block number is 809,798 and the next #halving ETA is 25 Apr 2024 19:08:03 UTC. Tick tock, next block and pura vida, #plebchain fren 🤙💜


The new world order was taken down by memes.

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😆 Yes, he missed the part of the State depriving rebels and emigrants of their property. Under communism, everyone who is not licking Great Leader's behind good enough, is a rebel with no rights.


😆😅 Genuine truth.

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„You can summarize all of modern climate science with one sentence basically and that is:
Everything that socialists like makes the weather good, everything that socialists hate makes the weather bad.“
–
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Oops. Parysatis. Not party satis.


Allright, my nearest book happens to be Xenophon 'The expedition of Cyrus'.

Cyrus answered. 'If he really is the son of Darius and Patysatis, if he really is my brother, I won't gain this empire without a fight.'


#Bitcoin detractors often spread FUD about its energy usage, but their underlying arguments and "solutions" always go back to limiting energy consumption.

In @Adn40's Cripto 360 with Pepe Fernández, nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a ponders what even is "good energy usage" and who gets to decide that.
https://v.nostr.build/OqZj.mov


Yup.

IP laws need to be given the anorexia treatment until they have been withered down to match a free market dynamic grounded in voluntary consent.

If far-reaching IP laws are allowed to exist, the result is a 1984 society where government + corporate surveillance and control reaches everywhere. The regulatory society is the surveillance society. Every regulation results in mechanisms to enforce it, hence totalitarianism.

Intellectual property rights are a part of property rights and should primarily be arbited via reputation. Engage in fraudulent behavior and your reputation will suffer accordingly.

Courts will be corrupted in a 1984 society and in a moneyprinting society the regular person often can't afford going to court, so we are left with reputational arbiting regardless which type of society we live in.


100%

The 'follow' label is not perfect but good enough, I view it as us having voluntary free subscriptions to a variety of feeds, from friends and acquaintances to both known and random strangers.

And the things we post are the tip of the iceberg of what we have on our mind. While we post a serious text we can have a good mood and a goofy humor at the same time. We can sense it when we know a person even if it is not visible.

Nostr is a completely mixed bag of cool, honest stuff and communication.


Hal Finney - 1998

https://m.primal.net/HLhu.mp4


Ayn Rand:

"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."

Her statement seems highly plausible.

A government money monopoly  + moneyprinting seem to be inevitable dynamics of a welfare state;

When politicians are buying votes in exchange for promising benefits to the majority 51% of voters, funded by taxes and moneyprinting, we can expect a regulatory superstate to grow exponentially.

As the State develop strategies to keep and expand its power, using moneyprinting to rig the markets in its favor, while blaming the negative results on 'free markets', and when that market is rigged at its core by the money monopoly, as unfree as a market can be, the inevitable result of far-reaching regulations is a matching surveillance system that enforces those regulations.

Welcome to 1984, where free adult agency is replaced by a system of individual licenses controlled by central planners that can allow or disallow your everyday life decisions based on the whims of the year.

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When the road to hell is designed by the U.N.

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More bad news for the mRNA vaccinated, which in a new paper have been seen producing non-neutralising antibodies for the spike protein, while unvaccinated and viral vector vaccinees don't. People who got covid before the mRNA vaccine did better than the ones who got the mRNA first, meaning that natural infection have some protection.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40103-x

https://youtu.be/aRsi4XEG_FA?si=8JvqVy8v_hdWV8MI


Haven't been uploading for quite some time here.. Time to change that. Updates on 'Bitcoin - Paradigm Shift' were the last I was showing on Nostr:

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TLDR:

When someone places you under their absolute control, you should expect criminal intent. They have announced that they are in a state of war with you and your liberties.

You have the right to self defense against anyone who seek to bring you under their power.


Some thoughts while reading John Locke's "Two treatises of government". Let's dive in.

".. it being reasonable and just I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction." (Chapter 3.16)

Here Locke identifies the practical necessity of evaluating and responding to  threats. He is primarily considering the threats of an abusive government.

".. and hence it is that he who attempts to get another man under his power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him." (3.17)

This is real talk. Locke is using logic to identify when a person or government is at war with a person. The moment this happens is when one the aggressor seeks to make another person dependent and place then under their power.

Locke continues:

"For I have reason to conclude that he who would get me into his power without my consent would use me as he pleased when he had got me there, and destroy me too when he had a fancy to it; for nobody can desire to have me in his absolute power unless it be to compel me by force to that which is against the right of my freedom -- i.e. make me a slave." (3.18)

Locke brings pure dynamite here by invoking only his reasoning. Why would a voluntarist want complete control over you? He wouldn't. A voluntarist leaves you alone, except if you abuse children, but that's a violation of consent - only adults can fully consent.

The voluntarist therefore is not a threat to any honest, moral man. But the authoritarian, he that seeks "absolut kontroll",, that is a man who is not going to respect your liberties.

Let's return to Locke:

".. so that he who makes an attempt to enslave me thereby puts himself into a state of war with me." (3.18)

Locke expands:

"This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther than by the use of force, so to get him in his power as to take away his money, or what he pleases, from him;

Because using force, where he has no right to get me into his power, let his pretense be what it will, I have no reason to suppose that he who would take away my liberty would not, when he had me in his power, take away everything else.

And, therefore, it is lawful for me to treat him as one who has put himself into a state of war with me -- i.e. kill him if I can; for that hazard does he justly expose himself whoever introduces a state of war, and is aggressor in it." (3.19)

My reflections.

Lockes logic is extraordinarily true when applied to Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. These policies requires the State to implement CBDC's, digital ID and social credit scores. When these are implemented, that regime is, following Lockes reasoning,  in a state of war against every individual, since it seeks absolute power over every individual. Logic together with history informs us that such power will be abused -- it is at most a matter of time until it is abused.

The worst criminals are expert at gaining a high rank in a totalitarian society: they have no values and can therefore parrot every official doctrine of a regime with the convincing belief of a trained actor,  regardless how immoral or absurd that doctrine is. We know therefore that the worst humans will always end up leading a totalitarian society. Therefore, a totalitarian society is by its own essence of absolute control, at war with liberty.


We are beginning the development process for transmitting Nostr events in a peer-to-peer fashion, away from relays. This will start with Gift-wrapped DMs, Private Attachments, Private zaps, Private Text Notes, and Private Reactions; and will be the preferred transmission choice if both users are online, falling back to relays when they are not. Our Push Notification system already transmitted over 500,000 GiftWrapped Nostr events that relays will never see. With a full P2P this will get even better and will open the doors for voice and video calls directly inside Amethyst. Side-stepping relays won't be easy or quick. And I am sure we will get strong pushback from relay operators. But we will get there. And while this might start as an Amethyst feature, it will be a NIP and other clients will be able to join the privacy train.

Nostr is just starting.


B-but where is uncle festerman?


Heh,I  hate when you have to click every damn square to prove your non-botnicity.


“Money is superordinate to laws… Unless money is fixed, the fight you think you're winning will be lost.” — nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe

Until you understand this, *you* will be lost.

Study #Bitcoin https://i.nostr.build/9VXE.png


"Money comes before regulation."
- nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a on #Bitcoin regulation

In the Dark Ages, books were burned; nowadays, governments are trying to ban Bitcoin, but as Samson explained in an interview with Cripto 360’s Pepe Fernández, that’s akin to fighting the ocean itself.
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Current #Bitcoin block: 808,397
Estimated day of #halving: 25 Apr 2024 17:31:08 UTC
#meme #memes #memestr


Link between MS and mRNA vaccine explained in this lecture.

Tldr; the immune system is attacking both spike protein and the myelin sheath as there is part of the spike that looks the same in some people.
https://www.youtube.com/live/sjO9P1GNxaw?si=NyMlo0-5_XzesA31


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Current #Bitcoin block: 808,404
Estimated day of #halving: 25 Apr 2024 17:23:37 UTC
#meme #memes #memestr


If you don’t like inflation, stop voting in the people that keep printing money. Inflation isn’t cause by “big oil,” gas stations, grocery stores, farmers, or anyone else without a money printer. Inflation is caused by governments and the central banks that support them. #Bitcoin


No.


😄😅

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If Superman was a hero of the people.

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Truth is not a series of statements proclaimed and implemented top-down by groups of central planners.

Truth is rather an understanding - a withstanding with the Universe - uncovered and discovered autonomously by individuals in a decentralized wave of calibrating awareness.

The embracing of truth is the process of voluntary alignment to existence as it is.


Truth is alignment to that which is. When you are attacked for standing up for the truth, the Universe is firmly grounded on your side and it is merely a matter of time until your stance is vindicated.

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When unidentified papier mache space aliens could have had another anatomical quality pass or two before publication.

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Also. Need sleep.


Yup. Aldo doing dishes by hand.


#meme #memes #memestr
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Inflation and Deflation (1919) by John Maynard Keynes:

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency."

Credit to John Haar for informing me of this document. This is pure dynamite.

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*central planning


Happy Pi day and $26,400 bitcoin.


Great capture, love the sky.👍


Didn't sign up for the March, didn't appoint Ross to centralized decisions and don't know who he is.


Canada Criminalizes Dissent
https://www.corbettreport.com/canada/

#FuckTrudeau


Shut up .eth bot. Blocking.


GM, evening now in Poland.🙃


- Open protocols don't die easily
- nostr can't go bankrupt
- All accounts already exist
- Social media is only the 1st use case
- It's an identity and reputation layer
- Many "stupid" things will run over nostr
- (Calendar sync, TODO apps, etc.)
- Private relays will be big
- Pay-to-write is not a paywall
- Paywalls (pay-to-read) = stupid
- NIP-07 kills usernames and passwords
- It will improve massively over time
- Time and attention are horrible graph currencies
- Sats fix this & enhance the social graph signal
- Special clients will replace whole networks
- Pivot to nostr or perish


👍 The best message to artists is to encourage them to host their art on Bitcoin L2, and respect the L1 as an economic liberty layer.


Decentralized protocols can’t be banned or restricted anywhere in the world. No matter how hard they try they will fail.


Nothing can stop this revolution of decentralization.


Large companies are extensions of the state. Or conversely, the state is an extension of large companies.


nostr pleb follow starter-kit 3
Plebs together Nostrong edition

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Francis – #[6]
Freedom man – #[7]
Martti Malmi – #[8]
matata – #[9]
Yegor petrov – #[10]
nostr report – #[11]
MainStreetChungus – #[12]
Carla – #[13]
walker – #[14]
Jack Mallers – #[15]
Ragnar – #[16]
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Lily – #[18]
Shawn – #[19]
Briggs – #[20]
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Codeologist – #[26]
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American Hodl – #[33]
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I was a Nostr bear for about a month or two. Typically I avoid new things that come with a lot of buzz and I prefer to take my time to let various options sink in. The more I thought about it the more sense it made.

Decentralized media is the future and Nostr looks like the best option at this point. It is better to build up a new social network without shadowbanning and government restrictions.


Great to hear.

Re-calibrating our course is paying attention to how our inner compass has moved its needle.


Sorry to hear. Over time I think there needs to be improved approaches to security. We must wrestle intimately with problems in order to understand them properly, which takes time and consideration. The approach to log in with a single private key will cause some acxounts to be compromized over time.

We should have a master key that lets us change our private key, or to deactivate our account and link to a new one. The master key would not be exposed until we use it. Its usefulness would depend on how secure the master key is.


General feedback:

I think the scrolling system is fine to begin with, but it would in my view be more efficient to navigate via pages, where you define let's say 20 - 50 notes per page. In this way way can easily go back and forth in the notes flow without scrolling, just skipping pages.

Another possibility would be to define one page as 30 minutes of notes, and let users go back and forth between pages that way.