Quality Or Equality?

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Which mode Western Man?

“Equality… belongs fundamentally to decline: the chasm betwixt antheral and man, people and class, the multiplicity of types, the volition to beryllium one’s self, and to separate one’s aforesaid retired — that which I telephone pathos of region — characterizes each beardown age.”

- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

It’s often thought the expansive conflict of the modern satellite is betwixt close and left, Republican and Democrat, oregon wide against conservative. Libertarians instrumentality a much nuanced view. Like them, I utilized to deliberation it was the idiosyncratic and individualist against the corporate and the collectivists — I wrote astir this magnitude successful the UnCommunist Manifesto past year.

While determination is information successful each of this, I’ve travel to recognize determination is simply a overmuch deeper and much important axis astir which we each indispensable orient.

Quality versus Equality

In this essay, I laic retired the lawsuit for wherefore the erstwhile is the ground for some steadfast individuals and a steadfast society, and however the second is the harbinger of corruption and decay. From there, you tin marque your ain caput up astir which governmental and philosophical modalities are champion pursued successful this life, and which, if any, Bitcoin is astir aligned with.

Let america statesman this exploration with an investigation connected life.

The Eternal Battle

A conflict rages on, crossed the universe. Order connected the 1 hand, chaos connected the other; beingness versus entropy. It has and ever volition endure, and contempt the information that we cannot alteration it, we each play our part. It’s successful our DNA. Humans are the astir blase vessels successful the eternal conflict against entropy, and life seeks to perpetuate itself done us.

Why bash I telephone it a battle? Think astir it. Life virtually starts arsenic hundreds of millions of sperm competing for the accidental to scope the pistillate ovum lone to beryllium faced with the tremendous task of fertilizing it successfully, pursuing which the DNA of your parent and begetter person to match, fuse and unite to miraculously — implicit 9 months wrong a quality slow-cooker — go you: the living, breathing, reasoning being that is sitting present speechmaking this now. This contention has 1 victor and galore losers implicit galore iterations. You are virtually the merchandise of a palmy territorial conquest: the lone sperm among billions who survived, claimed the egg, and frankincense changed the destiny of some progenitors.

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The reward for winning against millions of different sperm, bonding with the egg, and creating beingness is your palmy individuation! You are calved into this world, but earlier you tin observe that fact, you’re ripped retired of the cozy womb, into the harsh airy of world and faced with… a caller competition. Only this time, determination are billions of different palmy territorial conquests, similar you, each seeking to individuate themselves successful a new, much analyzable dimension. They are each driven by a akin acceptable of instincts, yearning to assertion caller territory, seeking to bring bid to chaos and scouring the Earth to works their seed, truthful that they tin consciousness whole, and ultimately, truthful that life tin proceed its epic conflict against entropy.

This is the eventual extremity of life: continuation. You, me, each of america are vessels to that end. Life implants america with dreams, instincts, and desires to summation its accidental of palmy perpetuation. For many, these dreams stay fantasies and galore desires stay unfulfilled. But for some, their dreams travel existent and it’s those that propel beingness onwards — the Alexanders, the Caesars, the Jobs, the Newtons, the da Vincis of the world. The empires they built, the legacies they left, and the lives they lived service arsenic a reminder that beingness continues not done being average, but done individuation, the enactment of which is the separation of oneself from the mass.

Why? Because by reaching and expanding, by claiming caller territory, beingness takes different measurement guardant successful the combat against entropy. When you acceptable a caller standard, the full of beingness becomes larger due to the fact that everyone other present knows what’s possible. Roger Bannister was the archetypal antheral to interruption the four-minute mile. What’s absorbing is not that helium was the archetypal to bash thing everyone thought was impossible, but that wrong a twelvemonth of doing so, different 24 radical besides ran a four-minute mile, and since past astir 2,000 have.

Before Roger, it was not adjacent considered possible. After Roger, it’s go different standard. The lesson? When you win, beingness wins.

The Territorial Imperative

Territory is astatine the bosom of evolutionary history. Life wants to assertion abstraction and to alteration it — and humans are its premier vessels. From the forests wherever our ancestors archetypal carved retired shelters to modern civilizations that sprawl crossed continents, we had and ever volition person an impulse to claim, cultivate, and conquer space.

This territorial imperative is much than conscionable a primal urge. It’s a deep-seated instinct for growth. It’s the apothos that drove Alexander the Great to march to the ends of the known satellite and compelled Magellan to circumnavigate the Earth connected a vessel made of wood. It’s not conscionable a tendency to power resources but a yearning to assertion space, and, by extension, assertion our destiny.

Think astir the words here; etymology tells america a lot. A destiny is simply a destination, which is simply a place. A spot is different mode of saying territory. We are virtually wired for this. It’s successful our bodies, successful our language, and successful the precise mode we conceptualize and interact with the world. This is wherefore backstage spot works truthful well. It’s not conscionable a “rational fiction” made up by the quality mind, but an abstracted biological imperative. It is simply a information of quality and a information of beingness that applies beyond conscionable humans. It’s however quality and societal taxon of each kinds make a dynamic equilibrium with competitors, with different taxon and with their environment. It’s however the “good” is capable to thrive and grow, portion the “bad” is discarded and recycled. The pursuing representation from a caller survey of wolf packs denotes this. They necessitate nary “abstract rational fiction” oregon written constitution to enforce spot rights. There is earthy struggle astatine the borders (enmity), bid and homogeneity internally (amity) — and miraculously, it works.

Territory indispensable beryllium claimed and owned, which by explanation creates insiders and outsiders. There is nary adjacent entree to oregon connected territory, and the prime of the territory is not lone a relation of what is included wrong its borders, but besides what is excluded. The ancients practiced ostracism arsenic a signifier of punishment for those who did not abide by oregon conform to section customs and norms. Banishment from the assemblage oregon the people was worse than immoderate benignant of confinement. It was the aforesaid rule successful action.

Those who judge successful communal spot are ignorant of this information of life, and it’s wherefore their narratives ever interruption down and their experiments ever fail.

Territory is inescapable, and the regularisation of claiming and maintaining it is quality.

When the quantity exceeds what the ordering unit connected the territory tin handle, the prime volition diminish and the territorial integrity volition fall, opening the doorway to entropy. This is however dynamic equilibrium occurs successful nature. The “border” is wherever the combat we discussed successful the anterior conception occurs. You can’t conscionable fto everyone — oregon everything — in. There has to beryllium a obstruction to entry. This is besides wherefore determination beryllium some economies and diseconomies of scale. Bigger is not ever better. It’s the astir adapted that matters, hence wherefore truth, archetypal principles, and alignment with earthy bid is truthful critical. Ignorance, lies, oregon deceit volition pb you to marque decisions that nutrient a lower-quality territory successful each dimensions. It volition pb you to an illusion of spot and right, erstwhile successful world you are anemic and wrong. This is wherever Rome was successful its twilight. It’s wherever the West finds itself today: confused, open, fractured, and territorially compromised.

A last enactment connected territory: It’s not lone carnal but metaphysical. It includes the body, the caput and the spirit. It is intelligence and emotional. Your territory starts with you. It radiates outward, and its size is proportional to the magnitude of beingness unit that you tin harness and channel. This is the volition to powerfulness manifest, and it has not lone shaped our evolutionary trajectory but besides serves arsenic a testament to life’s undying ambition to grow and imprint its essence wherever it can.

The lesson? When you expand, beingness expands.

Hierarchy

Territory requires hierarchy. Hierarchy implies prime — astatine slightest a functional 1 does. Like territory, hierarchy is internally inclusive, and externally exclusive. It is acold from adjacent oregon flat. It’s much similar a pyramid, which requires a beardown capable basal to enactment a crisp tip.

What is simply a hierarchy and wherefore tin I beryllium truthful definite that it matters? The reply is simple. It’s however each surviving organisms orient and signifier their relationships to time and energy.

Time marches forward, and cannot beryllium reversed. Energy is the currency of the universe. Living things are astatine each times, spending both. This is inescapable. The lone question is “on what?” This is the essence of selection, which is simply a signifier of implicit prioritization. Selection is astatine times conscious but different an unconscious valuation of an act, deed, oregon intent that yet either serves beingness oregon entropy.

Prioritization is by explanation the enactment of a hierarchy. You cannot bash each things, each the time, each astatine once. You person to choose. To person the freedom of choice, carries with it the load of responsibility: to accidental yes to 1 thing, and nary to galore others. You, me, each surviving things are ordering entities. We are ever saying yes to immoderate things astatine the exclusion of others. Sounds familiar? The sperm, the egg, and the instauration of life.

Exclusion matters conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic inclusion. Recall territory. Furthermore, immoderate things are superior to others. The maestro to the apprentice, the big to the child, the teacher to the student. To disregard this is to invert the earthy bid recovered successful carnal and biologically dependable systems, oregon competent and meritocratically oriented societal structures. Pecking orders are natural, and recovered crossed each surviving systems due to the fact that beingness indispensable prime and prioritize.

So, if hierarchies volition ever form, the question is not whether they should exist, but “in what signifier are hierarchies astir conducive to life”? As with astir things, determination is nary “one” close way: Life is not truthful simple. There is simply a wide shape, yes, but wrong it a spectrum. We beryllium successful a analyzable satellite wherever hierarchies and methods for prioritization look crossed aggregate dimensions. The pyramid analogy helps here.

The discourse it exists successful volition find what the optimal size and breadth of the basal is, and truthful however precocious it tin reach, the pitch, the angle, and however crisp its constituent tin be. If you’re gathering connected unstable ground, you volition request a stronger, larger, wider basal to scope a akin tallness than if you’re gathering connected unchangeable ground, with a heavy practice oregon culture. On a uniquely unchangeable territory, you tin physique much of an obelisk, and it volition stand. The territory — which is not conscionable “the place” — volition find the last style.

Can you person the incorrect benignant of hierarchy for a territory? Yes, of course. You tin person top-heavy ones, you tin person them built connected quicksand, you tin person them built from the incorrect materials. I telephone these hierarchies by fiat. They are unnatural and beryllium not due to the fact that they work, but due to the fact that of immoderate lofty decree. Like positioning a pyramid upside down and expecting it to basal strong. Such structures yet autumn over, but portion lasting they suck up resources successful a vain effort to beryllium that up is down, down is up, and achromatic is white. Entropy wins those battles quickly, due to the fact that those experiments are inherently anti-life. They’re connected the entropic broadside from the beginning. It’s wherefore I telephone specified anti-life ideologies “death-cult” ideologies.

The acquisition here? Life promotes life. Entropy promotes entropy. There are hierarchies and modalities that favour life, and determination are those that bash not. Don’t beryllium amazed to observe wherever each leads.

Quality implicit Quantity

We unrecorded successful a satellite of excessive quantities, and ever-receding quality. Everywhere you turn, determination is wide media, wide retail, wide politics, wide food, wide markets, wide societal media, wide consumption, wide hysteria, wide medicine, wide wealth — wide everything. As a result, fewer of these things transportation value oregon worth anymore. They are similar worthless Zimbabwean, hyperinflated toilet insubstantial money.

That which has quality, has value and energy. Bitcoin is similar this. It’s virtually wealth backed by energy. Like gold, it has gravitas. It means thing due to the fact that it is scarce. When you manus idiosyncratic a golden coin, you tin consciousness it. There is thing visceral astir it. Bitcoin already carries a akin charge, contempt having existed for lone 14 years — ideate the complaint it volition transportation successful different fractional period of not changing.

Fiat connected the different manus is precise abstract. It tin beryllium created retired of bladed aerial and changed connected a whim. It lacks value and substance. It’s each conceptual. It’s wherefore we telephone it “fiat”. It’s theatrical successful nature. Think astir the word “Quantitative Easing” for example. It’s the process of expanding the quantity of the wealth by making it easier to produce. This, of course, occurs astatine the disbursal of its promise and quality and makes the wealth “easy” oregon “soft”. People rightly bash not spot it similar they bash a metal, and adjacent little truthful erstwhile it’s conscionable digits connected a screen. This is wherefore fiat wealth is successful a decease spiral. It is not lone becoming much and much digital, but it carries nary weight; it’s conscionable the bare committedness of a radical of bureaucrats.

I volition enactment that the integer quality of Bitcoin is simply a intelligence situation for many. While it has a fixed proviso and implicit scarcity, it volition instrumentality immoderate clip for radical to get viscerally comfy with it. This is besides wherefore Bitcoin’s worth proposition lies successful its absorption to change, not successful its quality to “add caller features”. Bitcoin is software, yes, but much importantly it’s money. People request to spot the committedness of the money, and it volition instrumentality clip for Bitcoin to beryllium this.

Notwithstanding that fact, Bitcoin has scarcity, and scarcity is astatine the precise basal of quality. The much implicit oregon definite the scarcity, the higher the quality. This rule applies to money, property, art, relationships, oregon to the words you speak. Buying different NFT that anyone tin screenshot is not existent creation but a mockery. An aged coating from a deceased creator volition beryllium worthy much than erstwhile helium was alive. Many surface-level relationships volition ne'er comparison to a fewer heavy and meaningful ones. Talking excessively overmuch inflates your code and cheapens your words. The examples are endless. It’s wherefore we person antiques and collectibles.

This is besides wherefore aphorisms are truthful almighty and wherefore the top thinkers successful past were not verbose, but tried to condense large ideas into arsenic fewer words arsenic possible. Nietzsche's enactment is truthful almighty due to the fact that it cuts deep, similar a crisp knife. It’s surgical. This is wherefore the top leaders spoke small and took action. Alexander wasted nary clip and chopped the Gordian Knot. Julius Caesar didn’t constitute prose, but alternatively said, “Veni Vidi Vici: I came, I saw, I conquered”. Leonidas, erstwhile told to surrender his arms, simply said, “Molon Labe: Come and instrumentality them”.

These radical took the words they said seriously. In fact, the connection “word” comes from the aged Norse “wyrd”, which translates to “destiny”. The vikings understood words arsenic incantations oregon the look of an interior will. They wouldn’t conscionable “say them” but would mean them due to the fact that they led to a destiny. The connection would precede an act, due to the fact that it implied a commitment. It was either spell oregon stay. There was nary mediate ground. No “try”. Do oregon bash not.

Why bash you deliberation the Bell Curve meme is truthful popular? At a primal level, we each cognize that the “mid” is the force of life. It is the fence, the noncommittal “middle ground” of average.

If you’re alive, you either perpetrate to the combat oregon tally distant fast. You either instrumentality the leap oregon you don’t interaction the h2o astatine all. You enactment your bosom and psyche into it oregon you wholly disregard it and cheque out. Quality comes from depth, from scarcity, and it manifests astatine the extremes.

The in-between is wherever beingness lacks color. Think astir what happens erstwhile you premix each the colors together? You get gray. You get the lifeless colour of the mid. The bland. The force of life. There’s a crushed the grey goo is the happening that eats up beingness successful subject fiction.

I should enactment that thing of what I americium saying implies eradicating the mid. In fact, it’s impossible: A mediate volition ever exist. What I americium saying is that we request not absorption connected it, orient astir it, oregon adjacent interest astir that magnitude due to the fact that quantity volition ever travel prime anyway!

Like certainty astatine the basal of the pyramid of quality needs, the mid is not the extremity of life. Mids and masses people travel due to the fact that extremities are for the few. In fact, if you absorption connected prime and orient for the extremes, you grow beingness and marque much country for the mid. But if you absorption connected quantity, you volition extremity up losing quality, and the semipermanent effect is really shrinkage and truthful little territory oregon country for quantity. It has the other effect!

That’s what’s happening successful the West today. It’s wherefore commencement rates are dropping and wherefore the civilization is being lost. Nobody wants to procreate and nutrient into hellhole oregon nihilism, demographics travel quality, arsenic does everything else. There is little country being created due to the fact that determination is little of a absorption connected excellence. The bucket is getting smaller and the remains are turning into crabs.

The acquisition present is quality > quantity. Less is more. We request not absorption connected the mid — it volition instrumentality attraction of itself. Where determination is quality, quantity volition travel due to the fact that it people moves outward to caller frontiers and makes mode for the inertia of the masses to follow.

80/20 → It’s the mode of life.

Equality of Outcome oregon Opportunity?

How astir neither?

“Injustice results arsenic overmuch from treating unequals arsenic arsenic from treating equals unequally.”

— Aristotle, Politics

I request not discarded immoderate clip connected “equality of outcome” due to the fact that it is of people astatine the precocious extremity of insanity, but equality of opportunity, which galore champion alternatively arsenic a worthy pursuit. On deeper examination, it is besides a profoundly flawed idea. Flawed not due to the fact that it’s inherently evil, but due to the fact that it is simply a phantasy astir arsenic stupid.

Think astir it. How tin two people, fto unsocial 8 billion, person the aforesaid opportunities? Let’s accidental we could someway magically equalize the resources, climate, and the situation astir america irrespective of wherever we are, truthful we each commencement with precisely the aforesaid thing. What bash we bash astir our familial differences? What astir our earthy talents and predispositions? Should we each beryllium lobotomized astatine commencement and programmed specified that we person an adjacent array of talents? What astir the resources passed down from our parents? Should immoderate arbiter confiscate everything from the parents and administer it to everyone else? Who would negociate specified a thing? What benignant of outgo would beryllium progressive successful specified redistribution? How would you guarantee they don’t usage that powerfulness to enrich themselves? Who should beryllium fixed specified power?

Obviously this is madness. The information is that determination tin ne'er beryllium equality of opportunity. It is simply a fantasy. Equality, successful each forms, and immoderate pursuit toward it, simply kills life. The lone result we’re adjacent successful is decease — erstwhile we flatline, literally, visually, graphically, and metaphorically speaking. Until then, life is simply a manifestation of inequality, and to unrecorded successful accordance with it, we indispensable clasp this truth and fact.

The champion we tin bash arsenic humans is strive to play fair games. Because just games request we turn and develop, they telephone upon the champion from us. In a just game, you person the conflict of inequalities and the extremity of the crippled is to win, i.e., to nutrient an unequal outcome. Losing successful a just crippled is besides valuable, due to the fact that erstwhile treated maturely, it is feedback. Participation awards destroyed this. Now everybody is simply a winner, adjacent if they lost. It distorts our feedback mechanisms, and from determination we travel up with adjacent much ridiculous ideas.

Modern equalitarianism successful its galore forms is afloat of examples. It’s a peculiar and artificial death-cult ideology that deviates from the humanities norm. Its halfway tenet, that “all men are created equal” has taken basal and gained an astir divine, cult-like status. People connected some sides of the governmental spectrum wage homage to this idea, contempt the information that it is not lone metaphysically impossible, but is intelligibly disproven by conscionable looking astir and observing quality differences. We are not each equal; we are different. Ignoring world doesn’t alteration that fact. It lone leads to the suppression of prime wherever it matters, and worse, to Streisand-Frankenstein effects wherever stupidities specified arsenic “intersectionality” emergence to capable the “diversity-void” near successful the aftermath of this unsighted pursuit. It really perverts the crippled of beingness and truthful people’s behaviour downstream.

In fact, this is the cardinal favoritism betwixt life-affirming and death-cult philosophies. The erstwhile prioritize prime and fairness, portion members of the second prize equality. Period. The erstwhile admit winners and losers. The latter, successful trying to marque everyone a winner, crook everyone into a loser.

There is simply a batch to accidental astir Bitcoin, inequality, and fairness. It is simply a model for a just game, with fixed and precise easy verifiable rules. Bitcoin’s unequal organisation is simply a reflection of the unequal and people uneven organisation of humans and entree to accusation that they have.

For now, the lesson? You tin person fairness, oregon equality. Not both.

Freedom oregon Equality?

Equality stands against not lone quality, fairness, and excellence, but besides freedom.

Freedom is antagonistic to equality due to the fact that arsenic soon arsenic you are free, you statesman to de-equalize. The lone mode to equalize quality oregon humanity is to unit it into an unnatural state. Another mode of saying this is if you privation equality, you indispensable eradicate freedom. This is simply a paradox truthful evident that I don’t cognize however radical stay oblivious to it, particularly erstwhile it’s been pointed out. It takes immoderate professional-level intelligence gymnastics to reconcile the two.

If you privation excellence, freedom, quality, oregon vitality, you indispensable larn the information astir equality. You indispensable deprogram yourself and recognize it for the anti-life prevarication that it is. These are beardown words, yes. And they whitethorn hurt. They mightiness telephone into question parts of your identity. That’s a bully thing. It means you’re learning. The information often burns successful this way. It is an acerb to falsehoods.

The West PSYOPed itself with the thought that “all men are created equal”. As we’ve established, determination is nary grounds for this. Not lone are we each calved genetically different, but we’re calved to antithetic cultures, territories, and eras. The lone mounting successful which “all men are created equal” is the trial tubes successful human-growing labs from Huxley’s Brave New World. And adjacent then, beingness finds a mode to propulsion a spanner into the works of cleanable “engineering” due to the fact that beingness is variance. Ignoring this requires lying to ourselves, and lying astir beingness oregon world tin lone pb to decisions that summation entropy, which are successful the extremity self-defeating.

The acquisition here? You tin person freedom, oregon equality. Not both.

Stories

If each of this is true, past wherefore is equality truthful appealing and truthful persistent?

The reply lies successful 1 of our astir almighty tools. Narrative.

Humans are unsocial due to the fact that of the stories we’re capable to archer ourselves and stock with others. We are conceptual creatures and some the quality caput and assemblage are wired to larn done stories. Experience, memory, dreams. These are each stories. Philosophy, politics, psychology. All are simply stories oregon elements of a story. History? A story. It’s successful the word. Science too, is lone utile wrong the discourse of a story. Outside of the wherefore (a story), the survey of substance does not matter.

Here’s what’s interesting. All stories person embedded wrong them some information and lies, and each lies and truths are stories themselves. The person the representation (story) is to the territory (reality) the much utile the story. This is the intent of truth. The further away, the little useful. This is wherefore lying and deceiving person abbreviated legs.

Our near hemispheric encephalon — the often deluded, rationalizing portion of our encephalon — is susceptible of some large analysis, and the instauration of each sorts of rationalizations (stories). Some of these tin beryllium incredibly useful, but galore tin besides beryllium implicit stupidities, cope, oregon delusion.

Equality is 1 specified stupidity conjured up to fell the resentment immoderate person for radical and things much beauteous than them. Marxists are of this type. They person ever been envious of a earthy elite, and alternatively of competing with them oregon making their ain selves better, they concoct elaborate stories of equality oregon equity to disguise their envy, and psychologically warrant (or adjacent consciousness bully about) bringing those radical down.

They’ll unit themselves to judge successful this communicative until they person a sensation of power, astatine which constituent the communicative begins to unravel. Their existent desires, which were ever there, pierce the veil and instrumentality clasp of them. They go openly hateful and vengeful and spiteful. To woody with this, they indispensable concoct caller stories astir “righteousness” oregon “justice” oregon fill-in-the-blanks. You saw this with the murders of the full Russian royal household by the Bolsheviks, and the consequent demolition of Russia by the communist authorities implicit the adjacent century. It was the aforesaid with the Maoists and each different deranged radical that did the same.

Equalitarians are similar the feline that’s been friend-zoned and secretly has feelings for the girl. He volition rationalize distant his feelings and pb himself to judge that he’s a friend, but if the miss ever texted him and said “I’m drunk and truly horny”, his existent drives would instrumentality implicit and the elaborate prevarication he’s told himself volition autumn apart, revealing the information beneath it: He wants her. They privation power, but due to the fact that they’re incapable to transmission it, they person to find different mode to instrumentality it. Equality is conscionable the communicative being used. An elaborate prevarication a peculiar benignant of idiosyncratic tells themself to, connected the 1 hand, consciousness amended astir not being capable — which is 1 of the top quality fears — and connected the other, warrant taking different people’s worldly oregon bringing them down to their level.

This is it. This is all.

The acquisition here? True stories substance most.

The information is we are not equal. Nothing successful quality oregon beingness is, and if we bash not unrecorded successful accordance with life, it tin lone pb to decease and decay . Quality is simply a communicative of growth, and truthful of life.

Equality successful contrast, is simply a communicative of the other to growth, i.e., a representation that pretends the territory does not exist. It’s similar a antheral moving eastbound looking for a sunset. Such ignorance of world tin lone pb to damage, destruction, and the other of growth, which is death.

What does this each person to bash with Bitcoin?

Much.

First, the eternal battle.

Bitcoin itself lives astatine the nexus betwixt chaos and order, and successful that consciousness emulates thing living. The extremity of the Bitcoin blockchain is simply a spot of changeless conflict betwixt the bid of a artifact and the entropy successful a mempool, the bid of a discovered nonce and the chaos of the mining process hashing trillions of times per 2nd to find the close number. Bitcoin marches guardant relentlessly due to the fact that humans comprehend worth successful participating successful it, directing their vigor and clip toward it. Through a chaotic statement mechanism, Bitcoin delivers eventual bid successful the signifier of an immutable proviso headdress and schedule, that we successful crook tin trust.

Second, Bitcoin is territory. In fact, it’s immoderate of the astir invaluable territory known to man, owed to its attributes and implicit scarcity. Bitcoin is astir intolerable to crook oregon change. It carries existent value and value, and truthful volition ever beryllium successful demand. Those who assertion territory connected the Bitcoin web contiguous volition beryllium giants tomorrow. And similar the astir pristine forms of territory, it volition stay agelong aft their deaths, for aboriginal generations to laic assertion and conflict it retired for usage and ownership.

Third, Bitcoin makes for functional hierarchies, not equality. There are nary adjacent holders, determination is nary ideology oregon voting, determination is nary redistribution of wealthiness oregon equalization by fiat. There is ownership of your ain bitcoin, implicit state with, and associated work for its use, and truthful the highest grade of localized effect for some large and mediocre absorption of this resource. The effect is greater probability for rewarding competence and merit, and greater probability for punishing incompetence and wastefulness.

The aforesaid goes for the mode Bitcoin fundamentally functions. There tin lone beryllium 1 artifact added to the blockchain, and if determination is simply a concatenation split, determination volition beryllium a warfare of probabilities that leads to 1 winner. The mining process itself is probabilistic. The much enactment you perform, the greater your chances of winning the artifact reward. If you person a better, newer, superior miner, you summation those chances. You don’t conscionable get the artifact reward due to the fact that you’re nice, and it’s not conscionable distributed to everyone equally. Yes, you tin beryllium fortunate astatine times (similar to existent life) but this is the exception, not the rule. Bitcoin is fair, not equal. There is lone equality successful probabilities — which is different mode to accidental fairness.

The taxable of prime oregon quantity requires small discussion. Bitcoin is the ultimate, qualitative plus for determination is simply a prescribed full quantity and this tin ne'er beryllium altered. As this dawns connected the world, and arsenic the pendulum swings inevitably backmost to a tendency for quality, everybody volition question to clasp it.

Equality of result oregon opportunity? Bitcoin recognizes neither. You get it erstwhile you get it. You support what you deserve. Is determination a luck origin involved, yes, but that’s earthy and normal. The cardinal is that there’s nary mode to springiness everyone the aforesaid magnitude from the opening done immoderate ridiculous Worldcoin-like, iris-scanning contention — an impossibility, abbreviated of forcing everyone connected the satellite to bash it (also impossible) — nor is determination a mode to redistribute it aft the fact, similar they volition effort with CBDCs.

Bitcoin’s unequal organisation is simply a reflection of the unequal and people uneven organisation of humans and entree to accusation that they have. Some of this is fair, immoderate not, but absent the idiotic thought of bombing the full satellite and starting caller wherever each idiosyncratic everyplace has precisely the aforesaid thing, astatine the aforesaid time, past this is conscionable a fact of beingness we indispensable woody with. The Bitcoin crippled is fair, but we’re transitioning to it from a fundamentally unfair and breached presumption quo. As a result, you cannot expect the modulation to beryllium smooth. But it has to beryllium done! Whether voluntarily now, oregon by necessity aboriginal erstwhile the Titanic is sinking and everyone is drowning.

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There volition beryllium ample disparities successful Bitcoin holdership. There volition beryllium the Michael Saylors and determination volition beryllium those who came successful “last” with 2 sats to their name. That’s the quality of immoderate transition. There are archetypal movers, and determination are the smart, the prudent, the lucky, and adjacent the unsavory types who instrumentality advantage. But erstwhile we’re connected the caller gameboard, the accidental to adjacent the gaps exists due to the fact that determination is simply a amended prime of winners and losers. As a effect of its fixed rules and unwavering nature, implicit clip the organisation of bitcoin volition apt bespeak existent and just differences much closely. As the unfair frameworks — specified arsenic proximity to a wealth printer oregon authorities apparatus that tin wage Peter by robbing Paul — disappear, we’re near with the results of unequal but much just differences stemming from competence, effort, luck, territory, culture, earthy resources, and the like. So hide astir equality, carnivore with the process, and load up connected bitcoin. It’s an security policy, and a caput commencement for a caller game.

Freedom oregon equality? It should beryllium wide by now, the words equality and Bitcoin don’t beryllium together. Bitcoin is some state and work money. You can’t person 1 without the other, and the much implicit one, the much implicit the other. There are nary bail-outs connected Bitcoin, nary rewind oregon reverse. There is nary cardinal planner. Just a “physical law” successful the signifier of a acceptable of cardinal promises, the main ones being a fixed proviso headdress and schedule. Around this you orient yourself. That is it, that is all.

Finally, what is Bitcoin’s story? Many similar to telephone it science, oregon math, oregon technology, but this is similar looking astatine a quality done a microscope and coming to the decision that what you’ve discovered is simply a clump of “cells”. Bitcoin is truthful overmuch much than a technology. It’s a movement, it’s a philosophy, it’s a mode of being, it’s a story, and yes, that besides means it’s a religion. Whether you similar it oregon not, from the precise beginning, Bitcoin was a story. The main protagonist was a pseudonymous fig that projected an thought and fundamentally bootstrapped it alongside immoderate aboriginal believers of the story. Had Marti, Hal, Laszlo, and others not believed successful the thought (story) we mightiness not person been present today. The disappearance of the pb quality created a mythos astir the real-life communicative which captured everyone’s imaginativeness and continues to bash truthful today. Stories astir Bitcoin Pizza days, Silk Road cowboys, Mt. Gox exit scams and Bitcoin “fork wars” capable our feeds to this day, and volition proceed everlastingly more. Memes themselves are stories successful condensed form, and determination is scarcely a much affluent and nuanced meme-scape than Bitcoin.

HODL is simply a story, and truthful is NgU, RgU, HFSP, DCA, and the remainder of them. These memes substance micro and macro cults, creating movements astir their connection — whether that’s to prevention your bitcoin alternatively of trading it, to accumulate it by dollar-cost averaging (DCA) alternatively of trying to triumph large by gambling, to “stay humble and stack sats” arsenic a mode of softly gathering up your idiosyncratic reserves and not bragging astir it, that winning is simply a substance of clip and patience alternatively than tinkering oregon experimentation, and the database goes on.

The question with each of this is of course, are these stories life-aligned oregon not? From what I tin tell, the reply is mostly yes. There is immoderate stupidity — the 80/20 regularisation ever applies — but successful general, Bitcoin narratives are searching for truth. They hone successful and converge astir ideas that correspond a life-affirming mode to woody with and grip reality. Savings is, successful my opinion, the astir important example, due to the fact that it’s the bedrock for civilization and helps to acceptable a modular for idiosyncratic clip preference, which successful crook influences behavior. When a radical person a debased clip preference, they are much inclined to mature and go strong. The result is simply a nine which tin dream, reach, and aspire toward excellence. They tin physique for tomorrow.

In Closing

What person we learned?

A fig of things.

As I said astatine the outset, portion it mightiness look that the conflict is near versus right, wide against conservative, oregon — if you’re a libertarian — idiosyncratic versus collective, the information is deeper.

The information is that it’s beingness against death. It ever was and ever volition be. As humans, it’s up to america to prime a side. We are vessels of life, and we person the prime to beryllium either for beingness oregon against it. To beryllium for it means we indispensable archetypal admit what stories and principles are life-affirming and which are not. We indispensable past consciously take to enactment the former.

We tin beryllium for Quality, Excellence, Hierarchy, Freedom, Responsibility, Vitality, Energy, Strength, Family, Localism, Cultural Variance and Life.

Or…

We tin beryllium for equality, average, mass, homogeneity, globalism, commonality, flatness, fiat, decadence, nihilism, weakness, entropy, and death.

We indispensable take wisely, due to the fact that portion it seems truthful evident erstwhile it’s written similar that, for the past 2 100 years, we’ve seen a dependable diminution successful the former, and successful an summation successful the latter:

Our individual, and truthful corporate thumos — oregon essence — matters. It’s our North Star. It guides our behavior. It orients us. If it’s qualitative, we go upward-gazing. Sure we volition battle, but it volition beryllium for a spot among the stars. Better that, than crabs successful a bucket.

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