This has become my most important mission in life. I’ve spent decades watching as if an outsider wondering why the slow slide into fascism in America could not be averted. I along with a long time friend said this would happen back in the 1980’s pointing to how Reaganism was working on the prejudices of the public. This other person I mention just passed away Dec 2, 2017 and was my long term training partner at Hercules Gym.

(Felix Lorenzo Dix - Lo for short)

Having spent multiple elections trying to figure out who was the “least worst”, few seemed to ask the question why we couldn’t have better. If one is stuck as a slave in the system, as part of the 99%, then it made more sense to vote on the left. Back then Lo used to joke that “a black man voting for Reagan is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders”. Lorenzo was a Navy veteran of the Vietnam war and was retired on full military pension. He was opted in with no chance to get out of the system, though he often talked about just that.

Centralization has created a public mindset of fixing one’s eyes to the top, thinking that if they just vote one way that will change things for the better. The vote has instead become a placebo to mentally distract you from what is wrong. The problem is as old as the byzantine generals problem which is essentially an issue of trust. What most of the public is unaware of, is the problem of trust was solved on Jan 3, 2009.

Suggestions over the years included…

1. If we can just get Reagan out replaced with Dukakis… NO.
2. Clinton is now president, so we can expect things to improve… NO.
3. Nader is running in 1996, any chance? NO.
4. Nader is running again in 2000, any chance? NO. Not only that the democrats used this as a reason to blame him for Gore’s loss while Bush used the court system to steal the election. Then 911 introduced us to theft of social security and multiple bank frauds that both Clinton and Bush are responsible for (the 2008 financial crash).
5. Then yes we can’t got elected. While he did save the economy from tanking, the way in which it was done was just the opposite of what Iceland did in 2008. On the surface was the “feel your pain” language while the legal fine print (as has always been the case since the day I was born) betrayed the public in favor of a small minority.

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The 2020 election will be no different. You are being asked to enjoy the ride to hell while the parasites rape your pensions and other accounts. I really started losing hope in 1996 which is when I first went over to Nader. There were two narratives, what the public seemed to think it knew and what was actually in the legal fine print which was completely different.

Then Obama got elected and his smooth talk was so good, that I had hope for about a week in early 2009. The still small voice inside of me said it won’t last long. NDAA section 1021, Citizens United, FISA Courts, etc all confirmed my worst fears. There never was any chance of fixing this system and I’ve been living in a delusion since the 1980’s.

After the 2004 election, I stopped voting until 2016 realizing that there was no hope whatsoever for change. The 2016 election had no good choices but I practically had a gun to my head forcing me to vote and knowing at the same time it would make no difference. It was a move to keep peace among my circle of friends.

So much for originality…

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Except that something did happen from a completely unexpected corner; a way to “make anarchy great again”. I had looked at voluntarist principles years ago, but viewed them as impractical and unworkable until a few weeks after I read the Satoshi white paper. While I had favored Sanders as a practical matter before that in 2016, I had no real expectation that he would succeed. I figured that Clinton was slightly more likely to win because America wasn’t ready for change yet. But we got Trump, and ironically he may actually fix it by completely breaking it. In any case, this two party system is the equivalent of tying two cats tails together and hoping to get a good result. Violence is the end product that always results.

I have little right to complain though. I haven’t suffered oppression in most obvious ways, unlike Lorenzo who has been through a lot of injustice. I’m white, male and close to social security age, capable of walking up the socio-economic ladder to the top, but my conscience and what I’ve witnessed won’t let me go. All gains done incorrectly are for naught. I have also become a slave of the medical system, partly because of genetics, and partly because I am also to blame for bad eating habits.

Martin Schkreli is the Rule, not the Exception

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Another story that most of you have probably forgotten… This is the guy who bought an anti aids drug that was about $13/pill and jacked it up to $750/pill, then had the temerity to brag about how he was doing the public good by this act. Now he sits in jail. The reality is that the entire medical system has been held hostage to legal fine print that can bankrupt you on the shift of one word. This is how they make billions and get fined millions, which only makes sense to repeat the behavior. Then Obamacare assured that your body can be held hostage to this insanity.

The right blames this on medical socialism and the left blames it on capitalism. Neither is completely correct, and yet both are partially correct. The reality is that those with access capitalize their gains but socialize their losses. We don’t have a pure free market system, nor have we ever had pure socialism.

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In the fall of 2009, on CSPAN late night around 3 am under the darkness of night, lobbyists voted to make it illegal to bargain down rates which is why the USA pays double the rest of the world on average for health care. Without this mass theft, Obama had no chance of getting health care passed. This is just another field that can benefit from blockchain decentralization technology.

Authority has been Cornered by Technology

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This is what most people don’t see yet and the only real hope I’ve had in years. In the early 1970’s we were beginning to hear stories of people being put out of work by computers. It took a while, but that technology finally worked its way to the top and made authority obsolete. They of course haven’t gotten the pink slip yet, but I believe that this move is inevitable.

The conflict is between authority that works with jurisdictional boundaries and the internet which has no controls in decentralization protocols. As I said yesterday, if you have no control, then you can’t be blamed right? The technology that underlies bitcoin has no central point of control and no central point of failure either. This puts authority in the impossible situation of enforcing jurisdictional laws on a network without jurisdictions and without offices to shut down. They have to take the good with the bad, or go back to the stone age.

Eventually the office of president will be vacated and what used to be run by lawyers and politicians will be relegated by witnesses similar to the Steemit blockchain with most of the controls sent back to the people. At the heart of this technology rests the principles of voluntarism. But we also run the danger for a time of creating a digital panopticon (George Orwell on steroids). This scenario should not be long lasting though and will happen only if too many people remain uneducated.

This is why I’m now taking Ivan OnTech’s Blockchain Academy course and hope to leverage my IT skills and finally make a difference.

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