Agree! It is almost as if a sort of american aristocracy is emerging via this administration. Truly different from the last Trump run which was more of an "anti-establishment" project.

Perhaps this is a sign of the times, as Bitcoin is now in a sort of transitional phase. The global goal of the Satoshi era — building the pillars to an alternative to fiat — has been technically achieved, but the inner movement now splits and focuses on local (rather than global) emphasis: one path leads to a Bitcoin-native business ecosystem (as per your explanation), the other back to cypherpunk ideals. Meanwhile, institutions now adopt Bitcoin without roots in its original culture. The pioneers have faded into the background — perhaps only temporarily — before the future wave of global hyperbitcoinization.

The reason the playbook works is because it’s wired into us. Identity itself is arguably a similar defense mechanism — a story (solution) we invent to resolve the dissonance (fear) between ‘self’ and ‘not-self’ (enemy).

Nostr has yet to explain what the ”Big Mario” *actually* is. Nostr is still experimenting with different products in its ”Small Mario” phase. But once the ”Big Mario” emerges organically, it will become evident that it is not just a new social media which happens to be decentralized.

If Jesus truly is God, not separate from God, like the Church have always claimed through the doctrine of the trinity, his moral character must be consistent across time. The same God who commanded war in the Old Testament cannot suddenly declare all warfare inherently evil without violating His own nature. That would render God internally contradictory.

Thus, it makes much more sense to interpret the peace oriented teachings of Jesus to be directed to individuals rather than the collective/organisations. His message is about peace among individual human beings, not about political pacifism.

This is precisely how Augustine framed it in the just war tradition. Ultimately an approach to warfare which forms the ethical framework in all of modern warfare.

The way we perceive the entire concept of ”war” is very different today from how it was perceived only 200 years ago, nonetheless 1000 or 2000 years ago. War today is generally condemned, but throughout history, it was a place of virtues like honor, strength and courage. The old testament is full of it — God not only tolerates war, but commands it. Jesus said he came not to abolish the law, but to fulfil it. Not once did he condemn war as a concept. His messages of peace and love were always about the individual, never about the collective. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34)

Authors of fiction literature need to separate the underlying fabula from the written sujet. The former lives in the head of the author (and reader), the latter exists on paper. Frankly, the written text is really only a means to an end — to communicate the underlying fabula. Authors who internalize this subtle difference can be less attached to their texts and edit aggressively. Essentially being able to focus on the core task — delivering texts that engage and leverage the imaginative capabilities of the readers.

There is a point in putting in the work and actually reading and/or writing long texts. Often the summaries lack the content and key details that truly matter.

Anarcho-communism could be organized in a fedimint or cashu federation. Anarcho-capitalism is more aligned with being fully sovereign, having your own nodes, your own wallets, self custody and so on.

Language is probably the best example of all protocols that anarchy can fill, and already fills a place, in a functional society

A fractal, nice

Physical robots and non-physical AI-agents having some degree of autonomy (centered around a nostr accounts and a stack of bitcoin oriented BTC/LN/ordinals/bitvm/fedimint/etc. wallets and keys?) yet also being synced and owned by a master key controlled by their human owner/operator?

Nostr giving agents and robots a "soul" or "personality" while the rest is more of logistics -- being able to leverage external AI-clusters for reasoning etc.