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@ Sachin
2024-10-15 13:28:23Bitcoiners and Libertarians in India are in the minority - ridiculed, dismissed and laughed at as being a bunch of irrelevant nuts being influenced and manipulated by some nonsensical 'western' ideas like natural rights, natural law, economic freedom, individual liberty and financial sovereignty.
This will not always be the case.
A mistake that those who dismiss us make is to think that folks like us are merely influenced by lies, deceit, propaganda and manipulation.
Rather, what we simply did was to search for truth, beauty, morality and goodness. We tried to articulate them and live with the goal of their achievement. Doing this took us down a rabbit hole that went beyond just Bitcoin and Libertarianism as an alternative asset and a political ideology respectively. They slowly turned into a way of life for us as we started improving and educating ourselves individually. We understood what fiat money, statism and collectivism does to our minds, wealth, culture, society and economy. We recognised the subtle lies and deceit that pervades our lives.
A bigger mistake would be to think that ideas of natural rights, natural law, individual liberty, economic freedom and financial sovereignty are nonsensical or 'western' in character.
Natural rights to life, liberty and property derived from the natural law are universal to every human being. They are built on the foundations of reason and logic. They exist even if a coercive or manipulative authority proclaims that they don't, be it a state leader, religious zealot or university intellectual. From this foundation, the push towards individual liberty, economic freedom and financial sovereignty emerges. There is no stronger foundation than that of reason and logic.
The only criticism that can be valid against people like us would be that we are 'irrelevant' or less in number.
But being less in number cannot undermine the kind of impact that people like us can have. For the first time in the subcontinent's long history, individuals who advocate for natural rights and natural law have a chance of becoming financially sovereign and economically free, thanks to Bitcoin and the internet. These tools help us clear a path on which we can pursue our self-interests, aims, needs and goals in a way that is moral and ethical, without relying on the State apparatus, which requires us to lie, cheat, coerce, bribe or manipulate. We can form economic relationships based on trust and voluntary cooperation and make economic decisions based on capital accumulation and low time preference savings and investment.
We have the ability to create what Vaclav Havel would call a 'parallelopolis' - a parallel and moral society with an economy that is outside the realm of State control and regulatory capture. Feasibly so.
We have the ability to create a property base on which we can build our own lives first and then look to build a better society after. It won't be long before people start noticing what we are doing and listening to what we are saying.
The possibility and capability of people like us, less in number as we may be, to create such a property base is the reason we cannot be ridiculed, dismissed or laughed at.