Thread by @BrainHarrington

A good point was made to me last night:

The ruling class believes they are helping. They sincerely believe they are helping. Gavin Newsom sincerely believes telling us when and where to eat and how and when to get a haircut is helping us.

So when in some of my rhetoric I cast him as an evil character that is not helping people, that can come across as confusing because he seems like a nice guy and they hear me saying he is leading some secret conference call every morning w/ the motive of fucking up peoples lives.

And what sucks is that we've all been burned by both crowds:

We've been burned by the overly "helpful nice guy" politicians

We've been burned by the "they are messing it up, just give us power" side too

Both sides suck, both sides are not helpful.

That's why when we talk about #Bitcoin disrupting Gavin Newsom's ability to tell us when and where to get haircuts its not specifically about him or about the haircuts its about decentralizing the power structure

Power is corrupting. And again not saying Gavin himself is corrupt, just having power and having the ability to control how government money gets spent or what rules businesses have to follow is a really tough job to do in a completely fair way.

No human is really able to have all that power and distribute it in a fair way.

That's why Bitcoiners talk about the federal reserve so much and the money printing. That is the source of the unfairly distributed power.

Look up this thing called "Moral Hazard"

Because a second good point has been made to me before about this:

"Well how are you any different than Gavin Newsom? How is Bitcoin different?"

Seriously honestly great question.

It's so fucking hard to believe in a new paradigm because we're used to being lied to so much.

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

#Bitcoin sounds too good to be true.

That's what's so crazy about it!!!

Like there is no way this non government money is gonna just keep growing and make it impossible for the Gavin Newsom's of the world to not have power...

And I mean that's the dividing line, that's currently where we sit in the revolution.

Some people believe in #Bitcoin and some people don't.

And honestly for me it's a combo of two things. I've listened and read so much stuff on #BTC that I'm convinced but even more than that I'm convinced that the old world doesn't have any solutions.

The round and round of "helpful politicians" one after another has no solutions

And another honest point, I'm not gonna let the American church get away w/ this anymore either:

The American evangelical Christian churches have no solutions

They don't preach freedom and they don't help people break their addictions to fear and drugs and distractions

So if the government doesn't have any solutions and if the churches don't have any solutions what is left?

Technology?

When we hear that we think of Facebook and Twitter and Apple and data being stolen and that sounds completely terrible too.

Then what happens, a few people on the internet that have been cast off as Alex Jones characters say Bitcoin is the solution...

Get the fuck outta here

You mean that thing used by drug dealers and gets hacked three times a month and people lose all their money cause the passwords are so hard

Is that the Bitcoin you're talking about

Plus I heard it was slow and you really should look at blockchains or alt coins...

#Bitcoin sounds too good to be true

The old paradigm of a helpful politician is comforting, the old paradigm of maybe just maybe if I donate enough money to this church I'll be happy is comforting

All the #btc mainstream media hit pieces sound scary, it sounds too hard

I've reached this point in my life where the #bitcoin path actually feels more safe to me now than the old world

The old world makes zero sense to me anymore

We need new language

I need new language to describe to people in the old world about this place where I live

Fuck Donald Trump
Fuck Gavin Newsom
Fuck Republican Party
Fuck Democrat Party
Fuck Churches

Fuck the old world, I'm done with that world. I'm done w/ that paradigm.

I'm writing this for myself as much as for others. I need to be reminded to leave the old world behind.

There is no way that #Bitcoin can make sense being described using old language

The old language is dead, it's effectiveness has been lost by politicians and pastors using it

It's impossible to talk about God or Bitcoin w/ the same language pastors and politicians use

Something is happening in the world

Learning about #Bitcoin is making it possible for me to break my addiction to the old world

I care about the old world less and I care about God more

Reading the Bible recently and thinking about God recently has felt more potent

Political power has been centralized and church world power has been centralized and both are now profit motivated

That's the table that #Bitcoin is flipping over

We're no longer playing a rigged game

#Btc gives your family and local community the ability to sustain itself

We are not serfs on anyone else's land

We are free humans created by God and we have it inside of us to be productive and happy and content

John 10:10

"I have come so you can have life and have it to the full"

God cares about you as an individual

A human will never be able to care for you in the completely unique way that God cares about you

Politicians see society as a whole and that is what they are helping

Pastors see the church as a whole and that is what they are helping

Even as I talk about God for some of you that word has been destroyed by pastors and churches that have burned the word

To get past that we have to burn down the old world

Burn down the old paradigm.

This story of this happening is in the Bible.

The pharisees were the political pastors of the day, you weren't allowed to talk to God direct, you had to talk to them and then they would talk to God for you

So they centralized power and became corrupt, sound familiar?

When Jesus died on the cross, he killed that game, he killed that old world, he killed that paradigm

Matthew 27:51 The veil was torn

That was the dividing line between who was allowed to talk to God and who wasn't.

When he tore that veil he made it so everyone can talk to God

That's what Bitcoin is doing now in the world today, it is completely destroying the old paradigm at its core

You do not need the governments permission to hold your own wealth

Your wealth is your stored up labor, you don't need permission to store your own time

Okay and again lets talk about this word "wealth"

This is a "bad" word, the old world has killed this word, we need a new one

The old world made wealth political because in the old world the only way to get wealth is to be close to power and wield it to your advantage

In the new world that is not how #Bitcoin wealth works

#btc is incorruptible, there is no central governing body of humans that can change the rules to their own advantage

All the incentives of all participants are aligned, that is whats so revolutionary

In the old world incentives are not aligned

Politicians and voters don't have the same rules for taxes

Pastors and congregants don't have the same rules for taxes

That leads to centralization of power and corruption

The new world sounds too good to be true!

The voters and congregants can't even fathom a world where they don't hate each other and aren't divided.

It's hard to believe that these helpful pastors and helpful politicians might be the problem.

Because the voters and congregants still live in the paradigm of their are good ones and bad ones and depending on what family you're born into you get raised to know which is which for your pastors and politicians that you like.

#Bitcoin is a hard paradigm to embrace because we've been burned by politics so many times

#God is a hard paradigm to embrace because we've been burned by pastors and churches so many times

#God has been the solution for me for a long time. I talk to him every day all day and I'm thankful to be alive. God is the only thing that destroys the negative self talk and doubt in my head.

#Bitcoin is the solution to so much other stuff that I had a feeling wasn't right but didn't know what to do about it

None of this is coming from a place of not trying

I looked for solutions to politics and church world for a long time

In my opinion #God and #Bitcoin are not "a" solution, they are combined "the" solution.

God has aligned incentives with you, he loves you as an individual.

Bitcoin has aligned incentives with you and with your family and with your community.

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