11 sats \ 1 reply \ @guyfawkes 27 Feb 2022 \ parent \ on: What to do with Putin and the ignorant bitcoin
One of the most important Marxist ideas is that humans aren't individually rational, so the collective good (often, then, defined by a few elites) is the "greater good."
This approach appears to be adopted by the west based on how we approached COVID and more recently in Canada with the freedom convoy. The Canadian government has put property rights to the side and frozen people's Bank accounts. I can't see this limited to Canada. Western countries will implement this in due course.
As a result, it's two pigs arguing over the trough and the only choice us plebs have is which lipstick do we prefer?
Thank God for bitcoin. The more of us that withdraw our labour from the fiat system, the more power the individual will have over the collective, be it a nation state or an alliance
Indeed, totally agree with you. Hence the intense pushback from citizens all over the world. And yeah, thanks for Bitcoin.
Regarding hog cosmetics: The difference between the US/Canada/EU and Russia is that in the West we celebrate criticism, we have a Tradition of Criticism--which goes all the way back to people like Galileo, Copernicus, Martin Luther and, hell, Mark Twain. There's no method of criticism in Russia (or China, or North Korea) that isn't intermediated. If a solider asks questions, they get killed, if they defect, their family gets killed (or silenced in some way). Bitcoin, again, is a digital extension of that Tradition of Criticism where all Western progress derives from.
I agree with the negative points about centralized governance, but I also see more reasons to be optimistic than ever.
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