One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.
To limit money is to limit political power.
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.
No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power.
Spiritual means religion without any rules. It’s all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.
To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher’s bill of war.
The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
There’s great peace in surrendering to principles.
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
We can only avoid the traps we can see.