Saylor and other financial institutions are coordinating their actions. They want to impose Bitcoin as a monetary system backing their products, giving sovereignty, wealth, and power to a few individuals.

Peter Schiff is a gold bug. How should his critique that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme make any sense? What he fears is competition from a better form of money. Hal Finney realized this as well.

Now you just have to get rid of inherited principles and build your own. That is the hard part.

Hard science != Soft science

Napoleon abandoned his soldiers four times on campaign, giving them a pat on the back and saying, “See you soon.” Loyalty is idealism, and idealism is a tool of manipulation.

He is leveraging populism to mobilize dissatisfied and politically disengaged voters.

That’s because social media is increasingly used as a tool to drive destabilizing narratives by paying for visibility, ultimately gaining power.

No, People are becoming more and more unsophisticated; they will likely prefer AI-generated slop much more than real content, because AI lowers the level and people adapt to it, like in a video game.

The transition isn’t complete yet.