"Very weird people doing very crazy things. I am starting to believe in a collective insanity of some sort. At least the employee's had some sense of reality and ethics. There's hope. Appreciate the read. Peace and goodwill." This was something mentioned on one of my posts by @windrockswater and I know most of the people who are already intelligent+fortunate enough to be on STEEM blockchain and read my articles understand that the world is on a path of descent. This is actually more true regarding western developed nations + Australian continent.

When the Gods deal defeat to a person, they first take his mind away, so that he sees things wrongly. .............. Time does not raise a stick and clobber a man's head; the power of Time is just this upended view of things.

• Dhrtarastra (Mahabharata: The Book of the Assembly Hall)

There are many people who are fighting these mad SJW leftist/socialist advances and there are initiatives like @informationwar which I respect for their efforts. But I respect things like The Mises Institute even more. Before we get to that, here is another clip of madness:

The world’s oldest central bank Sveriges Riksbank celebrates its 350th disgraceful anniversary

The reason I respect Mises Institute more is that it goes far beyond just pointing flaws. even the alt-right types are pointing flaws in current collectivist madness. Just knowing faults and dangers are not enough.

During the Cold War, people from East Germany started to cross the border into West Germany, the reasons are many, but those people were constantly voting with their feet against socialism.
When the Germans came out of the East, they did not vote for capitalism, little could the East Germans know about capitalism, they had gone from living from the Kaiser's empire to the short and failed Weimar Republic, to then reach National Socialism, finally, they had been caught in the grip of Soviet socialism, so the inhabitants of East Germany never in their lives had lived in something slightly similar to capitalism. East Germans voted with their feet when they left, not by capitalism over socialism, but rather that anything, any system, any government, was better than what they were living. Even the capitalism they were unaware of was much better than the misery they were going through.

• @viera - https://steemit.com/life/@vieira/voting-with-our-the-actions-choosing-our-future

Just avoiding terrible things doesn't necessarily make you embrace the optimal. We know what kind of a baseless madness this fiat monetary system is. But if you are simply trying to avoid it, you may end up with something like BTC or ETH. During the times of network congestion, it was not only cheaper but also faster to just FedEx the private keys instead of transacting on chain. I've been checking out http://www.blocktivity.info ad ETH seems to be having about 30K unconfirmed Tx while STEEM is barely using 0.15% of the blockckchain capacity.

One thing I've clearly noticed is that these people who are worried about the future, collectivism, politics, feminism etc are just normal average human beings. They are getting censored and even sued under hate speech laws while scams multi billion dollar like Theranos become media darlings while truly revolutionary world changing projects like Arise Bank get raided because it was a threat to the collectivist government leeches and the following bold but non-strategically delivered memo:

Dear​ ​Charles​ ​G.​ ​Cooper,
Thank you for courteously notifying us of this matter. We refuse to comply with the requests you made in your
motion dated 01-05-2018.
The AriseBank software is neither hosted in a central data center, nor is it under the control of AriseBank. It’s a P2P

(Peer to peer) software, reliant on the mobile devices and personal computers of thousands of our software’s users.

The software was originally created and is maintained as a decentralized software to facilitate the storage of 704

cryptocurrencies for our software’s users. The software cannot be erased nor does the State of Texas have any sort of

regulations that prevent any of our Texas-based users from storing cryptocurrencies on their computers or cellular

devices using the AriseBank platform.
We do not maintain bank “branches” in the State of Texas, nor will AriseBank ever have a branch in the State of

Texas, being that it is a decentralized software. The only real-world interaction with AriseBank that is even possible

in the coming months, will be the use of our ATM network, that is maintained by the people who order them, place

them and utilize them for their own financial gains. These ATMs are operated under registered MTL’s that are

obtained and legally used by our manufacturers and distribution network.
We are not willing to comply or cooperate with removing the word “Bank” as we do not claim to be a financial

institution nor do we handle any financial transactions for our customers. Just like Bitcoin, we are a decentralized

software, where people handle their own financial transactions. We advertise ourselves as a software company in

“Beta”, clearly, nor do we pretend to be a financial institution in any way, shape or form.
Cryptocurrencies have long been available in this same format since 2009. Long before AriseBank was ever created.

The concept of storing, sending, spending, receiving and viewing cryptocurrency balances, holdings and other

related data in correspondence with these cryptocurrencies has long been outside the purview of the State of Texas,

The United States Government or any government entity for that matter.
As far as the FDIC-insured bank that we have agreed to acquire in recent months and are currently finalizing a deal

with at this time, will remain separate from the AriseBank software, until government regulators weigh in on the

ability for these two entities to somehow work together. We understand how this can be misconstrued but I’m glad I

was able to clear the air on this often confused M&A and would be happy to answer any questions that you may

have in regards to it.
We stand by the people that we represent, their rights and our ability to fight for those rights, in every way we

possibly can. When you filed your motion, you wanted people to believe that we were here to fool them into

thinking that we were a legacy bank, when it is absolutely clear we are here to end legacy banking as we know it or

at least make them honest, transparent and able to commingle with the cryptocurrency banks of the future. I
Address:​ ​The world, every country, every region, every city, every community. | Phone:​ 469-71-ARISE | Web:​ arisebank.com
respectfully oppose your mission to enable slavery amongst Texas residents and I will stand with force in regards to

my mission to free Texas residents from the slavery you choose to further. Because it was our mission when we

started Arise, that everyone could have freedom once again and that we would be freed of the chains given to us and

bound to us, by the men and women in positions like yours. We have met with the Arise governance, made up of 13

delegates. Our delegates have voted on our position and back our stance for a fair economy, regulated by a free

market. Unlike most companies, our company is controlled by an open and transparent community who chooses to

vote for what they believe is right. It is the true nature of transparency and the freedom that we represent.

I hope that someday, we can all agree that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is something that all Americans

deserve, in every single context that WE THE PEOPLE believe should be included as such. Because those three

words mean far more to us as people, than their definitions may entail. We thank you for bringing this issue to the

world stage and you have added momentum to these issues coming to the attention of the public, who have long

sought a fair economy, regulated by the free market. We believe the people will decide and that is the ultimate

regulation. WE THE PEOPLE have responded and we would appreciate a response. Thank you for your time.
Respectfully on behalf of the Arise governance,
Jared​ ​Rice​ ​Sr.

Chief Executive Officer

AriseBank.com

Common sense is a beginning; not an end

The greatest tragedy of bad things happening around is that they make our standards for good fall into mediocrity.

If you are just starting to realize things, it's fine. Everybody has to start somewhere. But there is no reason to stop there. The current state of affairs in USSA or even Sweden is better than North Korea. But:

Therefor as long as there is room for improvement, we might strive to bridge that gap between what is possible and where we already are. I've been vocal against these censorship cases: https://steemit.com/politics/@vimukthi/let-s-talk-about-some-ridiculous-youtube-censorship-and-some-bizarre-content-that-had-no-censorship-problems I've also been a supporter of real movements like 120db But I've also talked about spirituality and human progress. I talk about technological developments and when I can, I try to present my own ideas on how to make things better.

But how do we make things better: Occam's Razor

Simplicity is really important. There were touch screen mobile devices before iPhone. I've used some of them and the features were considerable great. I knew some professionals who used them. but Those devices didn't hit the mainstream and price wasn't really the problem. iPhone was just simple, seamless and very user friendly. Look at everything that changed the world. Did the internet change the world? Hell NO! Broadband and 3G changed the world. Here an interview that illustrate my point:

It's about doing less. It's about being efficient. Think about the labor that goes into making a plane. Now compare that with the amount of labor that a plane ride can save. Just think about walking through a continent or swimming across the oceans. Add the opportunity cost to the equation. This is what humanity actually need.

Seeing the problems will make you avoid danger. but what is the worth of a life that is merely spent avoiding danger. Society is falling apart due to collectivism in which everybody is judged and put in place by everybody else in a universal Panopticon on which everybody is taken care of by everybody else until the resources owned by everybody gets depleted where the end of line would be to snuff each other out.

Hence our solutions do not lie in doing the opposite. The solution to collectivist cancer isn't collectivism Lite. It isn't even the Ego. The solution is the simple lack of collectivism. Space is in a constant state of lack of things and in space we can store anything and everything all the while the space itself doesn't become anything.

Stop the lies, Spread the truth And...... Do nothing. Let the Tao Take over

Medicine is there for the sick people. Our society has become sick and ordinary sensible people are fighting against it. What's happening around actually reminds me of the way @rogerkver is struggling to save and protect the "Real Bitcoin" via hard forks and other battles. But here is the thing. A healthy society has no need for medicine. What it actually needs is NOTHING. Dash and PIVX have already moved much further from "Real/Original Bitcoin". It needs no saving or protecting. It is faster, cheaper and private and funds its own activities.

We do not need anything to fight against the current state of the world. What we really need to do is abandon this toxic cancer. It is the best way of "Going Galt". Stupidity destroys itself. Leave it to it ruin and walk away. The simple act of letting go is enough. No need to build new ideologies. Don't try to add sense to a discussion of emotion. Let the emotions devour each other.

"To save a family, abandon a man; to save the village, abandon a family; to save the country, abandon a village; to save the soul, abandon the earth."

• Vidura quoting Kavya (Mahabharata: The Book of the Assembly Hall)