The origin is very important. Ignoring it and even worse, being proud of it show that people do not want to learn from mistakes in the past, they just go along with words that sound cool because some influencer start using it.

To be a sovereign individual it doesn't mean you just run a fucking node, but a looooot of other things. Ignore what am I saying you and in the future you will get fucked. But it will be too late.