FreeYoda on Nostr: The biggest hurdle #Bitcoin faces is a lack of critical thinking that seems to be ...

The biggest hurdle #Bitcoin faces is a lack of critical thinking that seems to be missing in many.

It is like FREEDOM......

Freedom needs maintenance, needs to be fought for to be there.
If it is not maintained it slowly erodes away.
First no one notices and it is hard to see.
Things like fake safety are used to convince people to give up some freedom, same goes for convenience.

At some pointed the lack of freedom is that striking it hits you in the face.
At that same moment you find out that regaining it is VERY HARD.

The same goes for what I call "autonomous critical thinking".
In simple words able to think for your own and being able to decide what is good and what is wrong.
Next step is speaking out those values, followed by creating a small community of like minded, etc.

It sounds simple but IT IS NOT.
That "small community" must be self-sufficient simply because if not it will be very easy for others to abuse that dependency to reduce any freedoms or norms and values just gained..

We have some references to how much effort it takes when freedom was taken away by rulers or dictators etc.
Just look up the history books and if the price paid doesn't give you chivers I think you haven't digged deep enough.

Our modern society is a bit different in that respect.
Lack of freedom is more lack of privacy, our tax burden, the way we are controlled by subtle but astonishing proportions.

Fiat literally is robbing most of us from most of our productive life.
Everyone can check how big the total tax burden is, and putting a few hours into it, by writing down how insane current tax burden actually is will reveal the shocking reality.

Most know this is the case but rather don't want to know it.
Also the Stockholm syndrome seems the work pretty good, and many will start defending that tax burden by what Government realizes with that money.
Right untill you start discussing the efficiency of government, or the wars being fought, the money used to restrict our own freedom, or the money used to actually hurt the population.

By miracle we now have a sound money available that can break us free from fiat. That fiat system is the single biggest method used to enslave mankind and its antidote is #Bitcoin.

But without a required portion of critical thinking, most can only see the small inconveniences Bitcoin gives compared to that fiat system.
The part of the population depending on fiat will only see the burden Bitcoin will bring for them.
They will fight to maintain their situation, fight to defend fiat.

There are great resemblances between a disarmed population trying to fight an armed ruler.
It needs sacrifices to break free.

For most being responsible for their actions, being self supporting, the realization you alone are responsible for your own happiness and indeed freedom, with all responsibilities that come with it, is probably more daunting than picking up arms and fighting some direct enemy.

Nevertheless is #Bitcoin a one off chance to regain some freedom.
A chance to do so without the direct need for violence.

Once you realize all this #Bitcoin becomes one of the few things worth actually fighting for.