The perennial paradox of my urge to be the most paranoid, opsec minded, anonymous bitcoiner, contrasted by my urge to spend Bitcoin everywhere that accepts it and therefore publicly identify myself.

Canada is a country with beautiful, vast wilderness and nature, from coast to coast. But most people who live in Canada live in cities and so their reality is gross dirt coloured snowbanks and being overwhelmed by reckless immigration. Elbows up.

I remember 20+ years ago I had a Vice magazine “subscription” (a local magazine stand would hold a free copy for me). I looked forward to it each month. It was edgy and subversive, and then it wasn’t. I wasn’t here for the early days of Bitcoin Magazine, but from seeing back issues, it seems like this is the pretty good parallel. If you’re subversive, you’ll eventually be offered a seat at the institutional table to keep you in check. Humans have yet to find an antidote to comprising their values over flattery and more “power”.

One of my grade 9 teachers made a corner for us retards who always disrupted the class. The deal was, we could fuck off and play with our fingerboards as long as we didn’t bother the students trying to learn. Probably saved my life.

But if it doesn’t like dudes, how can it be gay? 🤔

GM

Do not underestimate the effectiveness of a good shadow boxing home routine for cardio.

Currently reading The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung, and it reads almost like a libertarian text in many ways, to me anyway. The focus on individual sovereignty and the avoidance of becoming simply part of the mass.

I find this quote deeply meaningful, because as a youth I naively viewed God as part of the machine perpetrating the moral blandishments on society. Whether it was politicians weaponizing Christ, or scandals of sexual abuse within the church, it felt like religion, and God, were everything that I detested. But a true relationship with God is not mediated through the state or an institution. It is a decision to cultivate a personal relationship to God. The anti-statist in me confused the weaponization of Christ for Christ himself. As I’ve grown a bit older, I’ve been humbled into understanding this, and stepping forth into faith free of those assumptions.

Aspiration, not destination.

The infantile dream-state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. -Carl Jung

Naturally, yes.

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