To not be forced into a value system/monetary system - much like religion - that you do not want to be a part of is largely what blockchain technology represents.

Such a perspective may be a fairly foreign concept and hard to grasp - myself included. Just saying/typing the words and thinking about it may create confusion - which isn't surprising and... is expected, naturally.We owe it to ourselves, our family and friends - and our conscientious, reasonable, rational selves - to fight for something like this.We've all been indoctrinated and steeped in the current monetary system - seeing outside of such a thing is very difficult and takes effort and courage. If anything, I think DLT is something like a window - a hatch that gives people the ability and means to see and envision a richer, wider, grander, more egalitarian world.There's a saying around/about religion that goes something like, "Religion is like living in a house and looking out a window - and then claiming the entire world and landscape and animalia is precisely and limited to what you see out that one window. Meanwhile, though, there are multiple other windows in the house with multiple other inhabitants who have different views and landscapes and animalia."I'm sure there are those out there who'd mock this post's sentiment, but I'd argue their point of view and vision to be myopic and unduly dismissive, among other reasons, by way of the role money/value plays in all people's lives - and how money and value transfer often forms personality, brain-physiology, and social circles. Indeed, it's often the very basis of the person we become.When viewed through that perspective, it's both not surprising what we're seeing and is expected in terms of government reaction and "traditionalist sentiment." If someone has time to really dig into the historical ramifications and goings-on related to the church and state in years past, there may be some important and salient things to learn.

Submitted December 25, 2020 at 03:33AM