RE: To Buy Or Sell Bitcoin Cash... That Is The Question
Thanks for this comment.
It can be difficult for observers after the fact to parse events from reports of involved parties, and I have but noted the controversies and my own inability to know what really may have happened. Clearly your aversion to ad homina has enabled @lasseehlers to gain perspective, and I reckon we all profit from good information on a murky issue.
I have been startled by the rationality of the statements of Jeff Berwick, but have long been dismayed by various parties whose rhetoric is merely propaganda. I have been less and less able to fit @dollarvigilante into that category, and find your analysis compelling.
While I refuse to have faith in anyone or anything, I must acknowledge that evidence of any intent to do wrong on Berwick's part seems completely lacking, or tainted by bias. I dearly hope to continue to benefit from sound advice regarding anarchy and liberty that Jeff continually provides.
I feel this is a good thing.
We have left the time of the guru. Everybody believed Walter Kronkite. You looked up to your heroes, and they were without flaw. (Hollywood made sure of that)
So, two things have happened, the internet has let us see into people's lives at a very fast pace. And there is a movement, a motion, a universal push, to become your own guru.
The end result, is this feeling of wanting to follow the guru/hero (feelings of nostalgia, or feelings of it is the way it should be, because of your past) and now knowing that we have to choose our own path and dissect for ourselves, our own information, and validate our own knowledge.
Its a hard transition. Keep a discerning eye out.
A lot of Jeff's statements are almost as "rational" as David Icke's.
I haven't heard any references to Reptilian overlords from @dollarvigilante, although I am less than convinced cryptos have any potential to overthrow the world order. However, they may well provide a basis for a new economic structure if they are filling a vacuum, or merely one leg of a multi-pronged strategy.
The way things are looking presently is that they are just being retrofit into the extant fractional reserve banking system, which leaves them but another form of fiat, although easier of global transfer and accounting than paper notes.
It may not be of much practical use to consider the philosophy of liberty while the current system appears to thrive, unassailable in it's formidable power, but there are systemic problems and new technology challenging obsolete paradigms that impact the current order behind the veil of money.
While the Anarcho-Syndicalists were overwhelmed by the Bolsheviks, the embryo of freedom was but pushed aside. Just as Voline and his compatriots were imprisoned and slaughtered by the 'Communists' (Terrorists) a century ago, Ross Ulbricht has been today, and Berwick remains yet actively proclaiming liberty.
What seems impractical at present may still become inevitable as the fluidity of extant circumstances continues to threaten dominant paradigms, particularly as the human spirit continues, always, to dream of flying free.
It is not unreasonable to consider where to go from here, and no one has all the answers, so some consternation is to be expected of any philosopher groping for answers in the darkness of our present overcast of propaganda and coercive governance.
Come the dawn, the light of reason may look different than we expect from our current view.
Jeff doesn't just talk about cryptocurrencies, he talks about all kinds of conspiracy theory shit such as the moon landings being faked, CIA controlling peoples minds, etc. I like Jeff as I find him amusing and entertaining but rational wouldn't be a word I'd use to describe him.