Are we the good guys or are we compromised?
- Ungovernable Misfits
Are we the good guys or are we compromised?
“The biggest banks and a cadre of spooky currency speculators have funded and now control most of the infrastructure underlying Bitcoin (energy, chips, ISPs, + general crypto infrastructure), with the openly stated goal of having it be only an asset you don’t and can’t spend. The US government and this small elite faction hold most of the Bitcoin, and once their financial control grid is complete, inflate its price through the roof.
As Catherine Austin Fitts has said of the elite’s plans: “once you steal everything, you want to move to a disflationary system.” These elites, who have a LOT of ties to the Epstein network, hold so much Bitcoin collectively and when currencies implode (which is something the currency speculators who back so much key crypto infrastructure have provably done in the past) pumping gold and silver, etc. instead would make too many other actors (incl other govts like China and Russia) very wealthy, while pumping Bitcoin will make only a specific, largely US-based cabal very wealthy. When they collapse currencies, they will buy up everything they didn’t manage to buy up during Covid and then install their new and beyond Orwellian financial surveillance grid in place, using Bitcoin as a reserve asset.
The US government, Silicon Valley and Wall Street bankers – who have economically and sometimes militarily waged war against much of the world – are using Bitcoin for this and are buying up media influence to manufacture consent. As a consequence of the purchase of Bitcoin media, most bitcoiners, instead of being up in arms about it and putting momentum behind any potential workaround, are spending time shilling Tether and explaining away their overt partnership with the US National Security State, shills for dollarized debt posing as anti-state and anti-bank.
UH’s series The Chain, by myself and @markgoodw_in, has been exploring these issues and more, new installment (and the spiciest thus far) drops tomorrow.”
I believe that it is important to question ourselves and our motives frequently. When we make decisions there are consequences. People who believe what they are doing is morally correct, oftentimes are the ones causing the most damage to others. Horrible crimes against humanity are perpetrated by individuals who believe what they are doing is just, moral, and in the name of a cause greater than themselves.
What’s even scarier is that we all have the capacity to deceive ourselves. If you are reading this, you likely are astonished when you look around at your peers who believe things that appear to you as being transparently based on lies. We all have the capacity of being completely delusional, just like the people we believe are delusional.
“Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
The scale of death and destruction that is caused on a daily basis in the name of championing a higher moral cause is staggering. Almost every war that is fought, is not at the behest of the people fighting the war. It is done because they have been duped to fight for their ruler. There are good guys and bad guys in this world, and lots of pro war spin does not change that truth. Most of the time, war turns the people fighting it into bad guys.
Over the last few months, there has been discussion and criticism of Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb’s work at the publication Unlimited Hangout. They have presented the world view that much of the Bitcoin adjacent industry is being infiltrated and or controlled by unsavory characters who appear to be very opposed to the concepts of freedom, privacy, and censorship resistance.
Instead, this well funded group is seeking to continue to loot, destroy market competition, and pillage regardless of the consequences. Slavery is still slavery even if your masters say more things that you agree with than the other guy. What many seem to mistake their work for saying is that this attempt at using Bitcoin as a vehicle to give individuals the opportunity of experiencing freedom is a lost or wasted cause. I don’t believe they are saying this at all. On multiple interviews, Mark Goodwin has gone as far to state that he is still, “Bullish on Bitcoin,” then going on to explain why.
I’ll be honest, I have not chosen to prioritize going through their work and fact checking everything they have stated, or read their cited sources, I do believe their work confirms a lot of fears that I have. We live in a world where our realities are largely constructed for us. We are subjected to such heavy levels of manipulation, being honest with yourself creates a level of cognitive dissonance that can feel unbearable at times.
Finding some sort of compass is important for being able to understand and navigate the world around you. You have to know what your values are and how different things play into or against them. I don’t think it’s reasonable to believe we will ever be able to figure out who all the players are, and definitely not their intentions.
You have likely experienced something very similar to me over the last few years, of waking up out of a stupor in which you realize that all the institutions you were taught to believe in were corrupted to their core. Bitcoin may have been refreshing because it truly seemed like an alternative to that world you were seeing differently for the first time. You have spent years arguing with nocoiners and shitcoiners about their silly concepts of how the world works. Now it feels that the world is growing increasingly chaotic, afraid, uncertain, and doubtful.
We have to learn how to confront the reality that the wild west world of digital currencies is changing. The people many of us have sought haven from by using encryption and Bitcoin are now targeting us at an alarming rate, trying to define the ways individuals are allowed to use it. The battle for freedom and privacy have been ongoing throughout recorded human history.
When the printing press was invented, the Catholic church attempted to suppress the distribution of information. When cypherpunks attempted to prevent the Orwellian future we find ourselves in, the state attempted to prevent it by classifying code as munitions. Now the state is attempting to attack groups like the Samourai wallet developers and other open source developers in an attempt to regain control.
If you get the chance, watch the documentary Cypherpunks Write Code if you haven’t yet.
It is very reasonable to also believe that there may be individuals attempting to create products centered around surveillance and coercion as a competing alternative, and just purchasing Bitcoin on a KYC exchange, to withdraw onto your Foundation device may not be enough to prevent things from getting really treacherous and scary.
Inaction does not fix this. Complacency does not fix this. Apathy does not fix this. Trusting heroes or authority figures does not fix this. Deferring responsibility does not fix this. Denying reality because it’s inconvenient does not fix this.
I believe Whitney and Mark’s work is important. At worst, it’s an important reality check, and at best it is really exposing that there are shady forces working in and around us. I did not get excited about Bitcoin because I thought it was a vehicle to bail out the US federal government. It might have that unintended consequence, but the future will be determined by the actions or inactions of people.
The important thing to understand about Bitcoin is that there are inherent properties it has. How people interact with it is entirely up to it’s users and how we choose to interact with it is a reflection of humanity. Government and corporations can only do so much as we tolerate.
Prove Uncle Ted Wrong
Good ol Uncle Ted had lost faith in humanity’s ability to engage with technology. He believed that in order for humanity to flourish, technology had to be destroyed, essentially making him an aspiring Amish person. His manifesto “Industrial Society and Its Future” explained his thoughts in detail and is definitely worth a read.
He believed that in order for humanity to be free, technology needed to be eliminated and that much of our mental health issues plaguing our culture resulted from the over reliance on technology. One thing that is clear is that we are evolving incredibly quickly, and the pace that the technology we are using is changing is creating all sorts of consequences that humanity has never dealt with before, according to the way we understand history.
Uncle Ted would have hated Bitcoin and likely wouldn’t have seen the value in it. While I find a lot of what he thought to be valuable, mostly because it’s so different than all the other nonsense we are bombarded with, I don’t think he was correct in his views of technology. I have much higher faith in humanity and believe that individuals will be able to learn how to live with it, and even have the capacity to leverage technology in order to experience freedom.
If that wasn’t the case, maybe living in a cabin the woods would be the best path forward.
Trump Won, He likes Bitcoin
I predict that Trump will not be ushering in the libertarian future that many are expecting. He has become the first super power politician to show any support of Bitcoin, and this may be dangerous. The powers at be have found that they can’t ignore Bitcoin and are now trying to figure out what to do about it. It is obvious they want to convince the population to continue to respect their authority and continue to submit. I see the coming Trump presidency not as a a populist uprising or making any meaningful progress, but instead as a desperate attempt to try and regain the consent of the governed.
Over the past few years, things have gotten rough. Wealth has been siphoned away from the middle class. Young people are finding it hard to live stable lives. These people also have the context of knowing what it is like to live in an environment where there is opportunity and they are pissed off as it is almost impossible to draw a conclusion other than that they are getting screwed by the ruling class.
We all have a question to ask ourselves, “What is our cost to sell out.” It is important to ask that question and many people think they won’t because they haven’t been faced with the opportunity. People sell out because it makes sense to. We all want comfort and security. Many of us became interested in Bitcoin for the first place because of economic incentives.
There is a real daunting issue though which is that if people do nothing, the future will likely be pretty dark. We have the ability to do something about it and ensure that future generations inherit something better than what we’ve been dealing with.
As the price goes up, it will become easier to get lost in it all. You will be tempted to submit and become governable. None of us are above it. That is why it is vital to stay grounded and reflect on our motives, what we are doing, and if we are living true to our values.
