Thread by @justinsuntron

A Rally Call for Cryptoism
The Ideology Built-up for Neo-globalism

Yesterday I happened to remind someone of my academic background in social science, history in particular. Then it occurred to me that there are some lessons from the modern Chinese history that might be relevant to the regulatory battle Crypto as an industry is facing.

From the last days of the Qing dynasty to the founding of PRC, each generation trumped the former with a more powerful ideology. Republicanism over empire, nationalism over warlords, eventually Max-Leninsm over the KMT. The underlying theme is the continuous sense of progress.

The stronger ideology gets the morale and moral high ground as it is seen as being allying with the future itself.

Ideological weapons carry significance. Nobel Peace Prize for example, it can shake up the political order of weak states . Throughout the revolutionary struggles in history, the side with the stronger ideology can smash the other with defiance, even under the direst situation.

Ideology justifies power. Crypto as an industry has already got wealth, popularity and tech advancement, but lacks legitimacy facing the state crackdown.

Binance and Coinbase, have mostly been passively reacting to the regulators under the existing ideological framework set by the establishment. @cz_binance @brian_armstrong

That is not how real revolutionaries fight. Real revolutionaries, like Napoleon France, would build up strong ideological fortresses while military actives serve as compliments. Ideas charge first, the substances march accordingly.

And the ideas are from the people’s practice, thus we as a community need to think hard to fulfill such Cryptosim. The past wave of Globalism benefit the elites the most, thus causing pushback from the nation states. But globalism would move forward as a historical force.

Globalism was once anchored by physical trade, but no longer so in the coming digital age. The new free trade, as CPTPP itself does uphold, is the free flow of digital trade, which should be powered by Crypto. Thus Cryptoism would be the new reincarnation of Globalism.

And such Cryptoism/renewed Globalism would certainly go beyond the restraints of nation states, especially those incompetent “semi-states” as I previous tweeted. For the dismantled youth of those states, such tech alternative would be the new “The Internationale”.

As a real revolutionary would remark, “It is the people who create the history.”