RE: Transparency, or "I Hate Fiat, But Can I Learn to Love The BlockChain Gang?"
Greetings, my friend, and thanks for your encouragement and comprehensive commentary... :D
I am 100% with you on "all things voluntary." I strongly believe that is the fundamental evil of human government as we know it, the pretension to some sort of right to use force and violence to accomplish its ends.
Have you ever read Vernor Vinge's "True Names?" It is an amazing and visionary insight into the cyber world, written way back in the early 1980s. I really need to write a review of that, as it is directly applicable to the issue of privacy v transparency. If you haven't read it, I can't recommend it enough!
"Do our thoughts not belong to ourselves?"
This is a most profound question! I have thought deeply about it in other contexts. It is clear that they do, and yet even there, the Beast is lurking, probing, seeking to get in and learn what we are thinking, and to modify it for its own evil ends.
Thanks again for the dialog! Great to talk with you.