I've become increasingly disgusted with the political system for decades, but until early 2017 I had no realistic hope that things could change. Strangely enough it was the mathematics of bitcoin and that solution to the byzantine generals problem that made me realize that there is hope. Until last year I was an anarchist at heart only. I believed that it was a temporary state between the collapse of administrations that could not be sustained long term. Now it is possible to opt out of bordered governments and corporations for borderless DApp's that will compete for our "pledges". How can existing land based corrals of human livestock continue to be forced into imaginary lines drawn mostly on maps and not in nature? Violence.

The less we feed that beast, the less dangerous they will become. However, I believe all hell will break loose in the next decade. It's difficult to project the US national debt and the parabolic curve of indebtedness, but current estimates of 25 T in debt in 2022 assume that we don't have another economic crisis like we did in 2008. At some point we will reach 40 T in debt which will further lower our buying power 1/2 from what it is now. This is an assumption I'm making (keeping in mind I don't have a degree in economics). It's just a common sense guess. We know that such graft orchestrated by the banks can't last forever.

While speaking out about these issues is important, I think that economics is the only "persuasion" that will ultimately work. That's why bitcoin is so incredibly important. Without it, there would be no hope of existing outside of the digital panopticon currently being quietly built around us.