Sometimes you wish you could just leave, take all your possessions and disappear into the nether, far away from so-called "civilization," out-of-reach by telephone, what a novel concept. A world so devoid of genuine human emotion is hard for me to process. Being subjected to immense state propaganda at such a local level is disgusting, the nerve of these people, thinking they have any right to make health decisions for other people. A truly free person does not answer to some un-elected politburo. The CDC, a private corporation that profits off of death and disease, the WHO, a globalist, communist entity that has zero authority to tell Americans, let alone any other national group, what they must or must not do. The same goes to any "government" entity.
We live in a very different world now, things aren't going back to the way they were. With the psychological torture that has been wrought against Americans, their privileges have dwindled. The very thing we have been fighting against all these years has come home to roost. Blow-back will be swift, no opposition will be tolerated by the true puppeteers who pull the strings of politicians.
Domestic terrorism is a buzzword now, now people are being fear-mongered that the terrorism is domestic. That's the point. Terrorism is defined in much the same broad terms as "war crime," a holdover from the outdated and unenforceable Geneva Convention. A piece of paper doesn't govern actions, nor does an "executive order." The mere idea that one person has the right to say or do anything to control another is insane. Authoritarians will always rebuke by insisting security is threatened if you do not comply and give up more privileges. I don't use “rights” because I know better.
There are many things I could explain that have had a detrimental effect on my mental and physical health over the last 16 months, but I won’t go into detail, because it isn’t something that can be solved by anyone else. These things are personal, they don’t extend to anyone else, so it isn’t something worth diving into. What the experience has taught me, though, is that there are some basic things in life that you need in order to start from a good place. First and foremost is shelter from the cold, heat, rain, snow, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, you know, a safe place you can simply exist.
Safe access to clean drinking water is also a must. Depending on a municipal water monopoly to sell you access to life’s most basic requirement is short-sighted and illogical. Water should never truly cost you anything more than digging a well to bring the water up to the surface. Paying $20-$100+ per month for access to drinking water is extortion as far as I’m concerned. Having access to the source of water is also a huge benefit to having a private well that municipal water utilities will never give to anyone. The same applies to electricity, which has become rather difficult to live without in the 21st century. Locally-grown food that isn’t sprayed down with pesticides and insecticides are also really good, since buying them helps support local economies vs the multinational crop conglomerates.
Living in a war zone is harder when you’re the only one in an ocean of people who seems to get it. The war waged by the media has truly helped dumb-down the demographics who still pay them lip-service, it’s apparent that there are many people who are unable to see through the webs of lies spun by those vile arachnids on the tell-u-vision. Living a life free of so-called “mainstream” media is a very good idea that everyone should consider. This concept has been expanded to include “Facebook,” “Twitter,” and “YouTube.”
As I write, the SEC is currently trying to bring immense financial penalties onto the developers and creators at LBRY, for what they claim is an unregistered securities offering. The entire case the SEC has laid out, lays bare a fundamental misunderstanding of what Library Credits are and a misconception of what LBRY is.
Regardless of whom in the SEC is directly prosecuting the case, their entire argument centers around their misconception. To me, it seems pretty obvious that the case was brought because Google and their lapdogs at YouTube, didn’t like how Odysee and LBRY were growing faster than they ever could, but also, that tons of users were permanently leaving YouTube behind entirely.
YouTube has been in business for nearly 20 years, and has yet to ever make a profit. YouTube isn’t a successful business, it blatantly works against the interests of its most financially-profitable content creators. Adpocalypse was only an intro course in what poor decision-making was going to take place over the past several years since. Odysee has improved its platform in a variety of ways since first starting off as LBRY.tv. The recent additions of Playlists & a web browser-based “Watch on Odysee” plugin for YouTube only strengthen Odysee’s use case for me, and I’m sure millions of other users would agree.
Having access to internet is truly a life-changing event, because it enables people all over the world to communicate with each other, buy and sell things on a truly global market, and reach a whole different level of connection. This is what I believe the promise of cryptocurrencies truly is: an entirely trust-less way of being an individual on a global stage. For many years, we had been promised a “global world,” but the truth is, we’ve always lived on the same planet, it’s just governments that interfere in our private business.
Anything someone in Africa wants to sell, should be purchasable by anyone anywhere without any middleman or third party taking a cut off the top, pre-tax. It’s a dirty trick, being a middleman for commerce. You profit off every single transaction, and you never create the product or supply the money to obtain one. It’s become apparent that this is the paradigm within which we all operate.
A world of payments dominated by gate-keeping middle-men like PayPal and Square, joining legacy players like Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. Middlemen always take a percentage before they let you have a dime. I think you should have total control over the value transfer you engage in when you purchase something from a business. That business should also be the only party to the transaction on the opposite side.
DASHPay truly gives me hope that we will all soon have an extremely easy-to-use, easy-to-onboard-new-users-to Payments Cloud that will enable border-less, instant, cheap P2P value transfers without ceding control over your money at any point until your recipient receives it. I eagerly await the roll-out of the mainnet when it is completed, I believe that DASH has the ability to change Payments globally. Adoption has only picked up in Venezuela, Columbia, and Argentina, as their fiat currencies all trend towards zero. Ease of purchase will be something DASH needs to work on, since most ATMs in the region tend to focus heavily on Bitcoin and Ethereum, with DASH being further down the ladder in accessibility.
Recently, I’ve made a new friend, a rarity for me, since it’s very difficult to find trustworthy people these days. With this new friend, have come better opportunities to create and exercise my mind rather than waste my energy on anything else. I’m best when I’m at my creative highs, which tend to ebb and flow over time. The last time I really got in the swing of writing regularly was several months ago. My attention had been focused on moving across the country and finding a new place to live in an entirely different state than I lived the past few years.
I succeeded in that regard, I secured a safe place to live that is within walking distance of nearly everything I could possibly ask for (minus a recreational cannabis dispensary, those are still not allowed to operate here). I’ve changed elevations from 3400 ft above sea level to over 6200 ft above sea level. I have been greatly impacted energy-wise by the nearly twice-as-high elevation. I’m beginning to be more physically active, I like taking walks around the area where I live, it’s relatively peaceful and quiet, there’s hills that aren’t going to be developed into cookie-cutter townhouses, there’s an entirely different energy here, one that I am only beginning to understand.