The Canada we remembered and thought we lived in is over and it is never coming back.
No amount of talking to people at bars, starting your own political parties, forming secret militias to plan out rebellions you never act on will change anything.
What we're seeing happening is the natural conclusion of what happens when organized government has much more power than average citizens. I don't mean power as determined by law but I mean hard power as determined by men and technologies of war.
We actually began to see this shift during the industrial revolution as weapons of war become far more advanced and outside the reach of average people to acquire; however, it wasn't a large disparity until really the second industrial revolution and it has been ever increasing since then, not just in weapons but in communication (satellites), etc... with this new age giving the power of instant control and ideology shifting through the mechanisms of information dissemination (internet, social media, mainstream news etc...).
What we have no is an extreme imbalance in power between average citizens and governments. This always leads to one conclusion which is the continued path toward absolute control in everything.
You are here because you have Traditional Western Values from the 1800s era that have been passed down generation to generation. You believe in individualism, in liberalism (the classical kind) and have an inherent believe that less government is good. You are a dying breed and you will cease to exist soon enough. The government now has control over the culture and you can see it in each new generation who aligns more and more with the government's perspective.
The biggest problem you have is that you understand that the government is not using its power to benefit the people but rather is using its power to benefit itself. The people who accept what the government is doing do not understand how the government does not truly have their interest at heart. In this manner, these people who obey the government are your enemies but they ought not to be if only they understand the situation. They don't however, so you are forced to treat them as enemies and who wants to live in a country full of your enemies?
You are probably wondering, what can you do? There are only truly 3 solutions. You're probably not going to like any of them but they are the only real solutions.
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Develop new military technology that is cheap, easy to construct, easy to use without training and can be made widely available that reduces the disparity between government and average people's power.
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Develop some new technology or social structure that changes the way in which wealth is created by improving production so significantly that it changes the very makeup of society altogether. Examples of this in history would be the industrial revolution or using animals instead of human slaves.
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Ride the Tiger of Modernity. Basically, accept that this is the way things are and you can't change them so don't even try. Just stick to what you believe is right and adapt to society so you can get along and be happy without constantly struggling to combat this situation. The metaphor is that the only place you're safe from a tiger is on its back. You can't control which way the tiger goes but because you've opted not to fight it but to ride it, you will come out unharmed even if you have no control over the direction it takes you.
There is technically a 4th option of get conquered by another civilization but that's maybe not optimal.
It's not about acquiring power through organization like a "terrorist" org but rather it's about acquiring power that is undeniable for governments. An example would be say someone figured out how to 3D print a nuclear bomb. It costs people like $3000 to do it all in and you can buy the supplies at your local grocery store. No matter what they government did, they wouldn't be able to deny this power.
I think cryptocurrencies are overvalued and hyped up too much for what they are. My education is finance and my profession is banking. I absolutely hate banks. If I thought crypto could destroy the establishment, I would be all in but I don't see how it can truly have a significant change.
I don't believe you'll ever win on mere discussions alone. The control of the government is too great. You may redpill the occasional person but for every 1 you redpill, the system bluepills a new generation. And if you redpill enough people, what then? Eventually, there's a conflict and if you don't have the weapons technology you need, you likely lose that conflict. All the people with funding will be funding your enemies, not you.
I got into crypto early this year because I wanted to learn how to trade while paying the lowest commision fees possible, I never thought crypto would amount to anything aside from a stepping stone to become a stock daytrader.
That said, once I started to go down the rabbit hole of researching defi, smart contracts and and the potential of blockchain technologies, the more I've come to realize that crypto is more dangerous to the current power dynamic than 3000 dollar nukes could hope to be.
This technology has the potential to render corporations, governments, and most importantly, bankers, completly obsolete. And I don't think they have any time left to stop what's happening.
My background is science and I can assure you that with proper implementations, we can be certain that no one could touch our lovely moneys where it's sitting (or trace us). Like paying cash, but without having to use a filmed booth to access what's yours. But I mean, maybe you're up to some knowledge regarding regulations and other things I'm not aware of.
That's the problem with the left, they don't want any power. They want the government to provide that for them. The left is pushing for guns registers, or bans on guns, and that does the job telling you that. And at this point we should be scared if they figure out a way to print a 3D gun for 5$ cuz that's the moment white people will be shot down in the street by minorities everyday.
No being able to touch our money doesn't really do much for us. What's the use in that? I want to understand cryptos but I've never had anyone explain to me how they can be useful. I've heard many people say "cryptos are the future and will bring down central banks" but I don't see it and no one can explain it in detail. That's worrying to me and keeps me skeptical. It could be complex sure but I'd hope if it were real, I'd have an answer. Googling it doesn't have any written explanations either.
The left doesn't want power because the left has made a choice (whether conscious or not) to submit and obey the superior power of the government so the left acts as protectors and enforcers of the government. You won't convince these people with words but these people would respond to a superior authority.
The issue with trying to tell people the truth and explain how things would be better if they had more liberty is the same issue of trying to explain what it's like to skydive to someone who has never done it. Or try describing what chicken tastes like to someone who has never ate chicken. They won't get it until they've experienced it. The government has cutoff people from this through each consecutive generation. The only way to get these people back on your side is to give them freedom again so they know what it was they were missing and how their lives would be better in this regard. This only happens by disrupting the power of the government through options 1 and 2 I listed. Just talking to people won't ever work.
Valid points. I can't say I'd lead a revolution but I wouldn't mind joining one if there was the possibility of it not being a rock thrown in the ocean.
Regarding crypto, it's a complex subject but it can be boiled down to a few things. It is based on the principles of encryption, which are in practice unbreakable, to ensure transactions are safe. You own a virtual wallet somewhere on a block of text and encryption does its job to ensure that you own the exact amount you claim. Nobody monitors transactions, and nobody creates money out of nowhere (shitcoins aside). It's inflation-proof, the government can't tax you like it does through money creation. It's decentralized, everyone can work on it, or even branch their own version of the code to make their own version of it. It's anonymous, and you can create a wallet and fill it with money without having your name tied to it. Banks can't know you bought a pepsi, and neither does the government. There are plenty of good youtube videos explaining the basics but in my humble opinion it's a strong weapon against central authorities as it strips their ressources (money) of its value.
Let's imagine best case scenario on crypto.
In effect, you can do everything in crypto.
Where your wrong is how you said nobody creates money out of no where. That's actually a fail. Banks will create money and simply use crypto. You think when we had gold, banks didn't "create money out of no where"? Haha....
The banks will offer to pay you interest if you give them your bitcoins. Perhaps you're a huge rebel so you're like, I don't need 1% return on my cyrpto... so the banks offer 2% or 3% and at this point someone has decided to give their cryptos to the banks. Man sends his crypto to bank wallet. Bank shows the man that he has $X in crypto stored at the bank. Then from here you get exactly the same sort of banking structure as you have now except you have crypto currencies instead of fiat currency. Nothing changes.
There is the aspect of inflation/deflation given that in such a scenario you remove the governments ability to control the money supply. I'd have to really think about this one to understand the impacts but I doubt there would be any major impacts that would change the very nature of society. It might simply lead to a little better quality of life for some people or perhaps worse but I don't foresee it doing more than that.