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Erik Cason
erikcason@nostrplebs.com
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I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy. Cofounder Vora.io https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty
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erikcason 1 year ago
Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense. It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.
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erikcason 1 year ago
I love that Alfred Nobel—the dude who invented dynamite and who can arguably be link to more deaths via war that any other human in existence—then decided he’d use his money to make a ‘peace prize’. It’s funny stuff.
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erikcason 1 year ago
What the most crazy about this to me, is I am sure I’ll point this stuff out to NPCs and they’ll say shit like, “but that’s just a conspiracy theory!” I’ll show them these research around this, and instead of accepting that this could be true, there will be accusations of the research being bungled and that this is some far-right conspiracy. Anyways, happy I’ve been on well water for most of my life. View quoted note →
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erikcason 1 year ago
Holy shit, this honest to god tops the clusterfuck disgrace of ‘journalism’ that originally pointed to Dorian Nakamoto as Satoshi. Congratulations on this. Seriously, it was a high bar to fail to, and they somehow did it. View quoted note →
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erikcason 1 year ago
What I am excited for over the next decade is watching every single app be expropriated into the decentralized web as a P2P self-owned solution so no one gets to harvest your data and use it against you ever again.
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erikcason 1 year ago
I went into the local supermarket yesterday and noticed that there were maybe two dozen types of produce (all of which had been sprayed with poison and grown in nutrient starved soil), and I thought to myself, “What the hell are we doing to ourselves?” It’s sick, sad, and hard to come to terms with, but we are being fed poison for the most part. View quoted note →
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erikcason 1 year ago
It feels so cool and powerful to do cypherpunk stuff and feel yourself become empowered through the sovereignty of cryptography.
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erikcason 1 year ago
The government hates you and will continue to steal, hurt and punish you no matter what because the people in government believe that’s the right thing to do.
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erikcason 1 year ago
I love that the state in all of its lobotomized brilliance is doing more than anything at any time in human history to accelerate the revolutionary agenda of radically freeing people from its own wrath in a way that it will never recover from. The sovereign of cryptography and all of its various ways, modes, and functions is a one-way street that once understood, it cannot be taken away. It’s a form of logic that destroys the forms of power overreach the state has created from its panoptic.
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erikcason 1 year ago
When I was young man I had a mentor who I asked why some people totally fail at keeping their word or commitments. His response was: “The hard truth is that most people are going to let you down in life. Most people can hardly commit to their own word to themselves, nonetheless anyone else. Don’t expect too much of other people, or you’ll spend most of your life angry and upset at people who were always incapable of keeping their word. Focus on those who you notice always try to keep their word and live with integrity—they might let you down too, but they’ll at least own it.” I think about this a lot, and now that I’ve accumulated more life experiences, it’s a hard truth that I’m only fully coming to understand now.
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erikcason 1 year ago
My son who is under 10 bet me that he could read the1000 pages of the lord of the rings trilogy before the end of the month.