What The Film 300 Can Teach Us About #Crypto and Why We Are ALL CANADIANS🇨🇦: A Thread🧵
Part 1 (1/12)
Degens unfortunate enough to have received a first-world, third-rate public education were never taught to look to HISTORY to put the PRESENT into PERSPECTIVE...
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Instead of reading the Iliad or the Odyssey, history class in early 21st century America was an odd mix of fairy tale and propaganda, with a bit of Hollywood flair sprinkled on top for good measure.
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When many of us think of ancient Greece, for instance, we can't help but conjure images of Gerard Butler's six-pack abs and super-based beard...
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A sad fact, indeed!
Not many of us know the 2,500-year old battle depicted in the film is actually one of countless others just like it throughout human history.
And that there is a long-standing global tradition of defending decentralized FREEDOM from centralized POWER.
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We could refer to the French Revolution, or the American, or Germans stopping Romans at the Rhine.
All are examples of diverse groups of people coming together, putting aside tribal/regional differences, in defense of collective freedoms vs centralized threat.
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Today, more than ever before, as nation-state governments like #Canada (centralization), who still dare declare themselves guardians of freedom and democracy, even as they strip entire populations of what were supposed to be INALIEANABLE rights, like PROPERTY...
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Today, as we inch ever so closer to an abysmal precipice, one below which lies that vast and bottomless valley the Greeks called TYRRANY. Today, #Crypto degens, is a great day for a brief history lesson!
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Who the Greeks were and why the Persians had beef with them is beyond the scope of this endeavor, but let us reduce it to this:
The Greeks were TRIBES, much the same way "#Crypto" is TRIBES (decentralzd).
The Persians...they were one NATION (centralzd).
With 1 caveat...
9/12
The Persians were a nation of CONQUERED peoples, whose compulsion to fight stemmed not from an innate desire to defend one's freedom and way of life (they'd lost that long before Thermopylae), but instead out of COERCION, at spear-point.
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The Greeks, however, fought for their autonomy, their right to govern themselves as Athenians, Spartans, Thebans, Thespians...to exercise free will, to b in-control of their own destinies.
They fought so their sons could fight wars of their own choosing!
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In 2022, it is clear: centralized tyranny is once again on the move! Coming to take the freedoms of all those who would abide it.
An so we must ask of ourselves:
Is that degen who's really into #ADA that much different from the #ETH degen or the #BTC maxi?
Am I...?
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The war against Persia was not won at the "Hot Gates" of Thermopylae on that day in 480 BCE...no sers, victory came much later for Gerard Butler and his muscle-men, but that's a tale for Part 2...
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