I remember learning about native americans as a child. They told us that Indians would "will" themselves to death rather than be a slave. In some ways, today, we are natives. Natives from earth at least. Natives from where-ever we come from. We experience a different kind of slavery today. It is psychological at its core and leverages resources for control. Some may say financial. This is what excites me the most about crypto's.
The thought of being free is intoxicating. It is hard to work. It is hard to continue living as before and I find myself wondering if this is it.. is this what will free us all from the slavery? What do you think?
At least it has the potential. But most people don't realize they were born into bondage.
I don't know... I think most people contemplate it at some point whether it is as a child, teen, or adult. We just get beat down by it. Some of us go to jail, some of us play the game, and some fight it for their whole lives but it's just too suffocating for most people and too elusive to pin down.
I meant cryptocurrencies. They have the potential to free the slaves. But since most people don't realize they are slaves, it probably won't work. As I put it:
"BitCoin is much more than just bits and bytes. BitCoin is a declaration of war to the allmighty money scientists from the realm of Fiatland. With a true free market money dawning upon the blood-soaked soil of which they for centuries have harvested their bountiful crop, feeding on the misery of billions, the central bankers will wait at every switch of the way to derail that train to freedom. They will do whatever they can, and they will throw into battle everything they have in order to try and stop it. Their best ally is and will always be the ignorance of the masses. Will David beat Goliath once again? That's up to every single one of us."
It will free the early adopters, that's for sure. If it manages to become our main currency, then it will transform most people's lives. An honest currency is essential to a thriving economy.
Cryptocurrency may set some "free", to a degree, in the sense that they will have more ability to do as they choose if the currencies they invest in have a perceived value greater than the investments of the initial investors. However, like every other form of currency, someone always loses. Someone buys in to push it to its peak and loses out. Some are also too poor financially to even invest in the first place, even if they see the potential. It inherently cannot set us, as a whole, free.
Only one thing can set us all free: truth. Societal understanding of what we are, what the universe is, is the only way we break free. The systems and ways of doing things that we follow are all founded on a lack of knowing that we are all One, that everything is One. When we fundamentally understand that as a society, and only then, can we truly experience freedom in reality. Only when we are all free are any of us free.
Also, being free doesn't necessarily mean not working. On the contrary, freedom takes work. More work than any system built on demanding by necessity that we work can possibly get out of us since we don't want to do slave work and thus that way of doing things faces great resistance. Work in the name of freedom, though, is freely chosen by individuals who are willing to do anything and everything it takes to be free. Freedom is a far greater payment, priceless, than any check we could ever receive for our labors in a system built on enslavement. In this way, there is no greater motivator to have a well-oiled, perfectly efficient, perpetual motion society than true, fundamental freedom.