My fellow retards,
Phon/ongod will attempt to entertain any sort of idea as an exercise in understanding. This includes everything from flat earth and suicide to strict carnivorism, solipsistic reality, and whether there are useful reasons to somehow segregate society.
To phon/ongod the ideas are acquaintances—You come across a new one on and see how it fits into your life. The ones that don’t fit drift to the margins. Maybe they stay there until you forget them entirely, maybe they show up out of the blue, fit perfect into a new situation and really save your bacon. Maybe then they fade back into the background, or they turn into ones you use all the time and become part of your life as a matter of practice. Hopefully they don’t become a part your identity as a matter of ego.
To the extent that a human can curate their life, it seems obvious to surround themself with good ideas and good people. A less obvious thing is that the two do not just overlap. You have to at least entertain all the weird ideas for long enough to decide if they fit, and all the weird people for long enough to decide if they’re decent but different, or actual dirtbags. In phon/ongod’s experience most people are decent but don’t have the tools to do better or the confidence to risk it, so they default to bad ideas that have filtered down from the dirtbag oligarchs who spend billions of dollars every year on influence.
If you live in a place steeped in influence it is a tough job to convince people that the fiat system is inherently fragile, or that concentrations of power inherently enable corruption—especially if that person has lived through the last 50+ years of fed-managed monetary policy managing to not-fail. Even if you do convince them that a rug exists to be pulled, the answer just pivots to “Not in my lifetime…” as if they possess some unseen force to keep empires from toppling while they’re around…it seems sus, but phon/ongod is not certain enough to completely disregard their apparent confidence in it.
Even the most crypto-literate boomers are 99% in as an investment vehicle. They’ll buy the shitcoin because they believe they will sell it for more dollar in the future. They’ll ignore the goldmine that isn’t hot yet because they aren’t here for the tech or the principles. This is excellent—people who do appreciate the value have time to establish themselves in the new ecosystem, time to set precedent and trends before the space opens up to the world and becomes inundated and shaped by plebs, morons, corporate interests and glowies.
Make no mistake, all effective counter-culture is eventually absorbed by the machine. Before that happens to Phonon, tattoo this on your soul:
Cryptography, Blockchain and Phonon are fundamentally free speech.
Cryptography, Blockchain and Phonon are fundamentally free speech.
Cryptography, Blockchain and Phonon are fundamentally free speech.
This is an understanding that must be central to any constitution the DAO decides. If the value set is correct, if the system is deliberate, if we do the work now, when the mainstream eventually swallows us up, it will be as medicine.
PHONON DAO Discord is ground zero for the movement to save our digital soul.
Don’t forget; $1b marketcap by Q2 2022, $12b by EOY.