My fellow retards —
The real red pill is that nobody tells you anything for no reason.
Read that back. Ask why I wrote it. What do I gain when you pass your eyes over this text?
I have a selfish motive. I can’t trust you unless I see you have a selfish motive too. To understand this fact is fundamental to sharing space. To realize that we can, without a single altruistic motivation, cooperate to build systems which serve individual interests, mine and yours—and do it better than the existing system of legacy institutions which seem only to evolve to find new ways to serve their own interests. My motive is to spread this thought because I think it serves me better in the long run than the present way people do things.
I am an elitist. I do not believe most people can comprehend the issue at scale, over time, in the wild. No amount of education or experience can turn this light on for some people, and for most people, time spent in this effort is wasted. We can disagree on this and still be friends. I’m not saying society should treat people differently based on perceived status, I’m just saying that the cream rises to the top.
The cream is rising now. There’s a surge of creative, rebellious energy growing on the back of cryptography, on ideas of distributed systems that evade the human tendency to bend toward self-service.
We live in revolutionary times. The institution of money exists, wrought into being by one trusted creditor or another. Humans being what they are, unchecked institutions of finance inevitably become captured for selfish interest. It is said that human history is the study of demographics over time. I contend that modern history is the study of finance over time. Empires grow along the avenues of wealth transit. Every major reserve currency ever has existed alongside a powerful navy and done its best to monopolize the flow of goods and information. Chicken or egg matters not. This is the way of power.
The churn—the cultural and technological transform of the details of the game—is the driving force of history. Digital avenues of wealth have materialized, and true to form the old systems seek to monopolize these avenues, but math and code are not subject to bribery, coercion or subversion in the way a human-bound institution is. The people who recognize this and leverage it are the cream in this iteration of the game. They will build what they want and the rest of the world will exist in their wake. This is how power has always worked. The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must.
Wisdom, clarity of vision, charisma and control of arable land are all forms of strength. Discipline, organization, cleverness… all strength. A big ole pile of fiat or crypto gainz becomes strength only when correctly applied. Do not forget this once you manifest your bag, or you will just condemn yourself to live the same miseries with extra zeros on your stack.
[Not financial advice – for entertainment purposes only]
phon/ongod out.