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The Christianity™ of Modernity

"'The Net is an anarchy.' This truism is the core of crypto anarchy—no central control, no ruler, no leader (except by example or reputation), no 'laws.' No single nation controls the Net, no administrative body sets policy. "...This essential anarchy is much more common than many think. Anarchy (the absence of a ruler telling another person what to do) is common in many walks of life—choosing books to read, movies to see, friends to socialize with, and so on. Anarchy does not mean complete freedom (we can, after all, read only the books that someone has written and had published), but it does mean freedom from external coercion. "...Strong crypto provides a technological means of ensuring the practical freedom to read and write what one wishes to...And of course if speech is free, so are many classes of economic interaction that are essentially tied to free speech. "A phase change is coming. Virtual communities are in their ascendancy, displacing conventional notions of nationhood. Geographic proximity is no longer as important as it once was. "...We will be the colonizers of cyberspace." – Timothy C. May, "Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities" (1994) https://monoskop.org/images/4/42/Ludlow_Peter_Crypto_Anarchy_Cyberstates_and_Pirate_Utopias.pdf

One man's terrorist organization is another man's government

normies when the ₿ price pumps

I think about this almost every day

GM, Lions

IMO The Yeshua movement effectively became comatose in the 4th century (Constantinian shift), was revived somewhat in the 16th century (Radical Reformation), then became comatose again in the 18th century (Great Awakening). We're just in the interim period for a few hundred years until another real revival.

Kyrie eleison We just want the death to stop

"History is written by the victors" is not taken seriously enough

Ozymandias will not save you

"A low-level civil war every four years is the apex of civilizational organization." – Average political midwit

The "Great Awakenings" were the Great Regressions

👏👏👏 The only things these sociopaths understand (and hate) are derision and disobedience

"Are you Left or Right?" Me:

If you have issues with no HDMI sound with on Ubuntu 24.04.1, try switching the display resolution

don't shoot the mal'ak

Argumentation in modernity – the height of intellectualism in the most advanced civilization in human history – includes blindly denouncing detailed exposition, historical antecedents, and contextual nuance as simply "siding" with whoever the "enemy" is

Work for the empire until your death, citizen. Notes: * 1.3m isn't enough * Zero mention of the Federal Reserve, government profligacy, currency devaluation... It mainly blames workers who are already living hand-to-mouth for not saving

Workers say they need over $1M to retire — most expect to miss that

It's entertaining how politicucks believe in their holy and stalwart system of peak civilization, where apparently a single crazy person on a whim can destroy it. Maybe your system just sucks