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This was predicted in the 90s in the book the Sovereign Individual, it just took a a couple decades for the Information Age to have the information easily available. The printing press was the last time we had huge changes in easy access to education/knowledge. The church lost so much power ever since the printing press was invented, the internet and information age has further damaged the perceived infallibility of large organizations that acquired power long ago.
With a $20 phone people can now learn and communicate information at a rate that we never thought possible.
They predicted things like cyber money and nationalism itself crumbling while politicians increase the big brother attempts. Its playing out remarkably accurate for a book written so long ago.
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Yep! People who've never researched bitcoin don't realize how far-reaching the implications of this technology are. Bitcoin makes things possible that just aren't possible without it. It will change reddit, and the entire world. We are building a better economy.
Read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418255980&sr=8-1&keywords=the+sovereign+individual
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His father William co-wrote it, not him.
Christ.
Next he's going to say "And that Sovereign Individual over there, yes, Jeremy Corbyn - that disaster capitalist! Total hypocrite! Under Corbyn, blood will be running in the streets!"
Its all the same Mafia, the US pedo super rich need the UK taxavoiding and moneylaudering infrastructure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBPZxbO7OLM&t=1s
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/
https://medium.com/@bernstein1985/trump-russia-9-11-our-president-is-a-longtime-money-launderer-who-remains-beholden-to-the-efdc38110653
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
https://theschpiel.com/world/ehud-barak-went-into-epstein-mansion-with-face-covered/
Boris Johnson, Mogg, Farage are in the same Group of soziopaths as the billionaers around Epstein and Trump. And Russian Soziopath Oligarchs wanne fuck with the old circles. Its better than any movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Hoover Institution senior fellow John B. Dunlop stated that "the impact of this intended 'Eurasianist' textbook on key Russian elites testifies to the worrisome rise of fascist ideas and sentiments during the late Yeltsin and the Putin period".[1]
Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia's gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[9]
The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.[9]
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9] The Eurasian Project could be expanded to South and Central America.[9]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/#55e91fe24104
https://i.redd.it/rtkgeknpljl21.jpg This is from the father of the guy that leads the ERG https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/brexiteer-mps-allegedly-call-themselves-14185548 the shithole that invented Brexit. Why don't people understand that people like JRM, Farage, Murdoch (I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. “That’s easy,” he replied. “When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.” https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/anthony-hilton-stay-or-go-the-lack-of-solid-facts-means-it-s-all-a-leap-of-faith-a3189151.html), and Trump are narcissists or straight psychopath. I still don't get it why people don't see their dead eyes. They are a real danger, they orgenize via internet, and behind closed doors and want to rule the world, and its sadly no joke or conspirecy. What do you think Putin is doing? Read whats above and you know what he does. Trump is a wannebe part of this network like McConnell and Tucker. Putin, the Arabfamilies, UK elites, US big Money work together.
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[–]KittyGrewAMoustache It's insane to me that people don't see this, I mean, it's not even hidden. You look at the books Rees-Mogg wrote, then you look at what's happening in the world right now and it's obvious - these people aren't trying to liberate the people from some oppressive 'liberal' new world order, they're trying to liberate rich criminals and kleptocrats from national and international laws so that they can basically use their wealth to crush democracy and run countries and exploit workers for their own benefit. And it's so obvious. And yet all these people have been totally brainwashed into thinking Trump and Brexit are some kind of blow for the elites, or a fight back against neoliberalism or something, when actually they've been duped into supporting neofeudalism. "Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand" by Mark O'Connell https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand It is O'Connell's pithy summary of Rees-Mogg's book.
Another fashist is aaron Banks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6q6qinW95M
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/arron-banks-andy-wigmore-brexit-supporters-trump-guests-mar-a-lago
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/09/brexiters-put-money-offshore-tax-haven
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/us-billionaire-mercer-helped-back-brexit
Putin has a used a biker gang called the Night Wolves to quell anti-kremlin dissidents in Russian. They are associated with a Russian biker club operating out of Florida called Spetsnaz M.C. One of the founders of Spetsnaz has had some very sketchy real estate deals with Donald Trump and another is a former russian intelligence operative. So, it is possible that Russian Intelligence may have had a hand in the formation of Bikers for Trump. But the tale of Igor Zorin offers a 21st-century twist with all the weirdness modern Miami has to offer: Russian cash, a motorcycle club named after Russia’s powerful special forces and a condo tower branded by Donald Trump. Zorin is a Russian government official who has spent nearly $8 million on waterfront South Florida homes, hardly financially prudent given his bureaucrat’s salary of $75,000 per year. He runs a state-owned broadcasting company that, among other duties, operates sound systems for the annual military parade that sends columns of soldiers and tanks rumbling through Moscow’s Red Square. Zorin has other Miami connections, too: His local business associate, Svyatoslav Mangushev, a Russian intelligence officer turned Miami real-estate investor, helped found a biker club called Spetsnaz M.C. Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving South Florida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six. Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia’s biggest biker gang, the Night Wolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia’s security services.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article157640179.html
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55879/russian-bikers-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/russian-biker-gang-in-ukraine-night-wolves-putin https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/putins-angels-inside-russias-most-infamous-motorcycle-club-56360/
Fugitive Malaysian financier in multibillion-dollar scandal building army of foreign agents in the U.S.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/jho-low-building-army-of-foreign-agents/#utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r%2F_jho-low-army-of-foreign-agents-032018
Russia behind the Texas Seccession movement.
2015 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/vladimir-putin-texas-secession-119288 2017 https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2017/12/4/russia-texas-secession-facebook-page-heart-of-texas 2018 https://thinkprogress.org/russia-texas-california-separatism-9809aca9f61d/ 2019 https://thinkprogress.org/this-former-daily-caller-editor-is-trying-to-get-texas-to-secede-with-help-from-russia-9b8d276cb64e/
Child Sexual Abuse and Narcissism is another dimension of the Problem.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-legacy-distorted-love/201103/child-sexual-abuse-and-narcissism https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/jeffrey-epstein-trump-lawsuit-sex-trafficking-237983 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/trump-bob-kraft-visit-1230492
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3632847/Farage-s-UKIP-party-aide-30-predatory-dangerous-paedophile.html
This book convinced me that governments will be ineffective against cryptocurrencies in the long run.
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https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
Good read. May change your view.
It is David vs Goliath.
Wow! Thanks. I'd love to be a leader, but I'm too lazy. I think I'm just channeling a little DPR/Ross Ulbricht. He's a real visionary. A book that I think covers this sort of thing that I'm looking forward to reading is The Sovereign Individual. It was recommended by Peter Thiel.
Another thing I'm super interested in is Ethereum (/r/ethereum). It's a platform for building distributed, blockchain-based software. It has the potential to eliminate the middleman in everything. I think it will disempower corporations to the same extent that cryptography can disempower governments.
Thanks again for your kind words. I'm open to discussing anything with anyone.
The authors of “The Sovereign Individual” wrote it in 1999 and many of the things they wrote about are happening right now.
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The first chapter of this book is free and it's a great read (up until the Y2Kbug part)!
I've found 'The Sovereign Individual' to be more prescient even though it was written in 1997.
Predicting the rise of wealth inequality, tax avoidance by the wealthy and increased immigration as the fuel for a nationalist resurgence in most countries with calls for increasing wealth redistribution and stronger national borders.
It will be interesting though to see if the predictions continue with reduced government power as more SEZs and potentially 'free cities' develop and whether we will see a rise in secessionist movements.
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> https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
Thank you. I will add that book to my reading list.
So would you prefer sovereign individuals or an AI God?
Actually William Rees Mogg predicted the rise of sovereign individuals more than 20 years ago
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Musk and people like him will become sovereign individuals, answerable to nobody. Yes, these elite class will become godlike, and will really become gods thru transhumanistic methods.
Here's another great read that mentions crypto-currency.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sovereign-Individual-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
>Amit Aujla: What’s the most important or influential book you’ve read?
>[Thiel:]The Sovereign Individual (Touchstone, 1997), by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, is an unusual book that I read at a singular moment, just before starting PayPal. A lot of thinking about technology oscillates between two extremes: It’s either a big historical force acting over the long term or it’s a matter of short-term trends to bet on. The Sovereign Individual is different because it takes foresight seriously: If you think hard, you can understand and make plans for a future lasting 10, 20 years or more–and that’s how you have to think to be successful.
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>The plotline sounds like a science fiction novel. Early in the 21st century, the cybereconomy produced by the Information Age liberates sovereign individuals as economic transactions occur outside government regulatory confines via such means as computer-generated electronic money (e-cash).
Add Sovereign Individual to that list.
https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
It's a long book but it's so prophetic it gives goosebumps.
And then they each personally make a lot of money. See the Rees-Mogg book The Sovereign Individual.
Reading the Sovereign Individual after it came up on Peter Thiel's list of favourite books.
Very interesting book. Each paragraph will give you a new insight or has the wow factor. And I say this after reading plenty of non-fiction books
The Sovereign Individual explores this concept quite interestingly.
Here is the post for archival purposes:
Author: Mangizz
Content:
>Hello guys, I've decided to express myself after reading this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7csoxe/confessions_of_a_core_supporter
before "leaving" bitcoin community for a little while and take care a bit more of my family :D
>I've almost the same story of this guy beside I've invested in Bitcoin sub 80$ before Mtgox crash, then I've experimented the bear market, and bought more around 250-500$ not rich enough at the time to be VERY rich right now, but more money this year that I would never expect to have in my life: Life changing money ;-)
>Like this guys, I remember how this community fascinated me, it was the first time in my life I was confronted to libertarian ideas, I'm French and it's not something you can really find on TV or in a random FR discussion at the time.
>But those ideas really expressed something I've always felt, I've always has been a rebel, always hated how gov, school treated me, and how banks and fiat system is keeping poor people, poor. Also always felt how the world working right now is simply outdated by internet and even more by Bitcoin.
>I've been fascinated by Satoshi nakamoto, long night thinking about who is him or what organization. By Amir Taaki, By Andreas, by Roger Ver also and by many people that were posting on /r/bitcoin at the time, fresh and revolutionnary ideas.
>I've so fascinated that I've decided to dig even more and started to read libertarien books, this one changed my life and convinced me crypto is the future: https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
>Of course I've invested in Bitcoin to make money if there was 0 money to be made my story could have be different, and that's why I taught that it was impossible for BTC to fail. When you create something right, and you give incentive to make it works, it can't fail.
>But I've invested in Bitcoin by ideology more than something else. It took me a while to switch from French ideology communist to libertarian. I'm making this intro to show you where I'm standing and if you think like me back in the day we have probably more points in commun than anything else. Bitcoin has been my life for years now. Almost doing only this.
>I will probably leave crypto for 2018, Ive cashed out some Bitcoin, and I will just keep some with other things and hodl for my entiere life. But I will try to not read forum, reddit, or twitter anymore: I'm tired.
>I miss the pre and post Mtgox crash when we were a family Crypto against the world. After Ethereum the situation became more complex it was Bitcoin against Ethereum. Why not... But I don't accept the Bitcoin vs Bitcoin war and I don't want to be part of it anymore.
>Bitcoin / Bitcoin cash, 1, 2, 4mo blocks I DON'T CARE.
>The situtation we've created is insane, the manipulation is insane you put bitcoin at risk as a whole.
>Our ennemies are watching us and they could be right: Bitcoin is not good, only Blockchain technology is interesting, this is the risk we are taking right now.
>I don't care about 2mo blocks, and I regret that Bitcoin didn't respect NY agreement (it should have been signed by many more people, and by both communities: I was OK with the compromise, and a lot of you too I bet).
>I don't think Bitcoin cash replacing Bitcoin can be a good thing. Maybe for your portfolio guys, OK. But if Bitcoin cash replace Bitcoin how will you explain that Bitcoin is a store of value, a commodity, a fucking encrypted swiss bank accounts to evade their fiat ponzi scam.
>How will you explain the "misinformed" guys that invested in Bitcoin post fork will lose everything.
>I follow Roger ver on many things especially what he said about the network effect: Let's make Bitcoin cheap and useful for anyone, when everybody will use it, it will be too late to be stopped.
>I totally agree with that, but we totally had another option: Let's bank play with it and growth the value of Bitcoin, let's everyone hodl a bit of Bitcoin becoming a new asset class, and it would produce the exact same effect.
>If Bitcoin cash replace Bitcoin this will never happen, if Bitcoin cash replace bitcoin is not 2, 4 or 8mo block that will change ANYTHING if you want the world to own bitcoin and transacts on it, you need layers. Andreas explain it very well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecPrwqjbGw&t=1s
>I know the situation is way more complex than that. But I don't want to go too deep into technical details, this post is just to tell you that regrets Bitcoin family back in the day, mistakes have been made on both side. I don't know how it will ends, I don't see a world where Bitcoin cash replace Bitcoin is a good thing not after a few year bear market where we lose confidence of a lot of persons.
>I also don't see how it's possible to resolve this conflict. I think it's just part of human nature when money start to becomes too important. Like a family small business becoming an international firm. Pretty sure the family will split and hate will replace everything at the end. Sad.
>I don't know how you will receive this message i never post on /r/btc I'm just sharing how disapointed I'm, by bitcoin in general.
FTFY the link https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720/ref=cm_wl_huc_item
I bought a book called The Sovereign Individual which is a kind of manual for how to adapt from the industrial age we live in to the upcoming information age we are entering, and how the free flow of information will render central governments useless in the future.
Is there a similar book that talks about future automation that makes predictions on how it will change society?
I'm a web developer, so of course I know what an API is.
Bitcoin isn't going anywhere. Bitcoin handlers are already integrated into browsers. In fact it's part of the HTML5 spec.
Are you familar with email:[email protected] ?
You can also do
bitcoin:someaddress
This will automatically open your wallet and prefill a few fields.
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/78127728420/support-for-bitcoin-payment-urls
Coinbase just implemented it for their wallet. Any wallet can do the same, because this is how open source protocols work. Your bitcoin wallet is gonna be just like your email app today. You can run a bitcoin client on your desktop, phone, or in the cloud if you trust those people with your money. The choice is yours. The risk is on you.
The browser that you're using right now already supports bitcoin. So it's already part of the internet whether you like it or not. There are going to be websites that require you to have bitcoin. Games and paywalls are gonna use crypto currencies because it's easier than Paypal or any other 3rd party system. This is because the developer/website gets their money instantly regardless of the country they live. A 12 year old can create an app anywhere in the world and get paid directly. This is unprecedented.
Why don't we have paypal: or visa:? Because those systems are closed source, proprietary, have non standard APIs, are restrictive depending on the country, and are a central authority.
Bitcoin is an open source protocol that anyone can investigate and learn the inner workings of. It will continue to get better as technical issues arise, because there are thousands of smart developers out there who love this shit. Bitcoin is the future of money on the internet and I can say that with absolute confidence because I know developers and we are personally making it happen. We are innovating faster than ever before and now that global payments are essentially solved, we're gonna see another leap in what the internet can provide.
If you want some insight into where we're headed, read this book.
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It talks about crypto-currency to the T and it was written in 1997.
More disruption! AKA innovation.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z8n4n/i_dont_get_angry_when_i_see_a_layman_ridicule_and/
Given that I'm someone who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy, I'll answer this one.
Basically I believe that the American government (and Western governments in general) are ruled by a particular group of psychopaths. When 9/11 happened, we were getting closer to a point where people started realising that they don't actually need government, for most aspects of their lives. This is predicted and explained in detail, in a book called The Sovereign Individual which came out at roughly the same time.
So this coalition of psychopaths, ordered 9/11, in order to start a period which would be dominated by the "War on Terror," which would cause people to become fearful and dependent, and to believe that they needed government again. This in turn gave governments the pretext to start bringing in a lot of repressive, and extremely controlling laws; which politicians want, because they are almost always evil people, who are primarily motivated by a desire for complete control of the majority, purely for said control's own sake.
In terms of how 9/11 was actually carried out, I believe it was done via controlled demolition with nano-thermite. This video offers an experimental reproduction of thermite cutting steel beams, and it also demonstrates that the characteristics of thermite explosions, (the noises and visual signature, etc) also match the eyewitness testimony which was given by people at the site, when it happened.