Great thoughts, an there are so many things that can be said about all of this!

What you write about actually has been the core of many things that I've been doing for years, and certainly something I have been gearing up for the past couple of years, to get serious and very vocal about it all.

I'll mention a few anecdotes, thoughts and strategies instead of writing a long essay as an answer:

Even back in 99 I ended up totally out of fiat in the middle of Christmas, for a few days I even had no food left, no banks open and so on. Which is when I finally spent the silver coins I'd gotten from drunkards in 87, unfortunately for the nominal value only.

I didn't even remember this until 2020 hit, then it all came back to when I started analyzing everything that had happened since my first real jobs at around 14-15!

Fiat thinking totally obliterated that memory, that is what I see in retrospect...

I've never been going along with the whole system really, and after the GFC I kinda ramped up my rebellious side. Building on reputation I did some stunts in the open source community, on the business side, and its only this year that I finally see how each point of failure was connected to fiat and reputation in some way!

There is a reputation system in open source of course, and although it is separate from fiat it is still connected, and you have to play things the right way to survive. But even around 15 years ago now I see that wokeism was the real culprit, and does not that come from fiat printing?

And does not wokism come from trust between and amongst the banksters and corporatists, along with government only?

Is it not the case that at least on higher levels sane, down to earth businesses are now excluded?

Although I constantly feel that things are moving too slow for me the goal has been to make it into this new, many faceted movement since 2020 happened, and that with at least a shot at surviving outside the whole fiat system.

And for that you really need to build up trust! No problem with that on its own, it actually feels like scaling a mountain, feeling that fresh and cooling breeze and leaving all fiat lies & insane BS behind!

Its what I'm made for, its what I've been doing in hidden ways since the end of the Cold War, its what I'm willing to risk it all for!

But fighting the smart fight, not getting out of the gate as a wild lion & then get pinned down or worse is also necessary... Which is why I've had to wait things out, where I'm at now won't allow dissent, which is fine, it was a good deal at the time.

The world is changing so rapidly, and personal reputation like what we can build here is everything. My plan and strategy therefore the past year or so has been to become Rebel Nomad :-)

I'm good at dodging radars, starting from scratch, navigating a culture while avoiding pitfalls, and hopefully ultimately at buidling the new in defiance. I do hope and expect "freedom oasises" to be a real thing in the near future.

Maybe there will be Bitcoin citadels too, El Salvador for sure is that already, but since I cannot do that and need to move around a bit for personal reasons I'll buidl on the move.

And for that outlets like SN are invaluable... So thanks @koob and the rest for that, it will never be forgotten! Actually its by far the best platform by far for me to get this wild thing going...