111 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 26 Aug 2023 \ on: Your best friend does not care meta
I liked this because it's all of us with somebody we know. Your friend still won't care when he's using bitcoin but doesn't realize it, so long as how he's using it speaks the language of the masses (tap, swipe, click). A grand cultural awakening to privacy isn't coming on the grounds of liberty, not even with a black swan. We just had one of those with Covid. Several countries are near dystopias with their surveillance, yet their people continue on. If we took the technologies of today, and gave them to the governments and people of yesterday, things would be worse than they are today as a whole. The grand cultural awakening would simply be a system the sheep move to out of necessity, and utility; they couldn't care less what that system actually is. I happen to believe that system is coming for myriad reasons, and I'm happy to be part of its spearhead.