#117 SPOILER: It's About More Than Money !!

Good Morning Everyone,

Imagine you’ve been living in a small dark room your entire life, and within this room it has been pitch black the whole time. You’ve been living in this room and all the while due to the nature of it, you’ve never seen a single thing. Almost as if there is no such thing as sight altogether, and the very concept of vision and your visual field where everything appears is a foreign and completely alien-like notion.

Then one day, you stumble across a switch on the wall that you have never felt before. You run your fingers across the plastic wall panel, and you feel the positioning of the switch in its place, and also that the switch has a range in which it feels like it can move, like something that can move between being active and inactive. On or off. You flick this switch to its opposing side, and all of a sudden the space in which you have spent your entire existence is instantly illuminated for the very first time. Almost like the feeling of waking up from a dream.

It now becomes apparent to you the very nature of your vision and your visual field. Colour and shadow rush in and it is made explicitly clear to you the depth and complexity that has always existed within this space, but has been in many ways hidden from you, until now.

This is very similar to the experience one often goes through when they discover bitcoin, and really grasp it for the first time. All of a sudden the nature of the world and our predicament is illuminated in a completely new way, and despite it being all around you from a point of your experience it is as if it has been hidden from you all along in plain sight.

Finding this light switch or an experience that facilitates something similar to this is not an easy one. We are often so deeply embedded within this space, or system, that we have become attached to it in a strange kind of way, and there is often a resistance or a lacking of openness that prevents us from seeing what is right in front of us, and all around us. This quote from Morpheus in the matrix very accurately describes the scenario i’m attempting to articulate:

“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inurred, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it“

This is one of the reasons that the Numba-Go-Up technology of bitcoin is so important. Many come for NgU and stay for Freedom Go Up, and at the end of the day, this is what it is all about. Atleast this is what it is about for me, and many others like me.

Years gone by prior to the internet, and everything the internet has enabled, we didn’t have to worry when we took a photo who’s servers it was stored on, because there were no servers. We didn’t have mobile phone devices capable of tracking our every move, and being able to observe or hear our most intimate conversations, let alone devices tracking our biometric data like heart rate, our sleep timing and cycles and other very specific bodily information. Life was obviously far simpler.

Since things have now changed we have lost a lot of the fundamental rights and privileges that were once basic and fundamental, and obviously this dynamic extends pervasively to money and thus our spending habits, movements and preferences as well as our social networks and community interactions.

As you can imagine, a tyrannical, authoritarian state actor loves these new capabilities. Like they’re some kind of super power. Very kid in a candy store-eque. And given our current societal construct is very much a hierarchical one enabled by central banks and political monies this poses extreme dangers to us all, as should be abundantly clear having lived through a pandemic of propaganda, lies and coercion for the past 2 years at the hand of these corrupt and destructive regimes.

So while the probability of the most verifiably scarce asset in history appreciating in value over time is very high in my opinion, as more people begin to find this light switch and illuminate the dark room of their lives, the reality is, that what bitcoin is offering us is so far beyond monetary gain, to even focus on this almost seems somewhat trivial.

Onward.

Hope you have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

AK

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