The other day I installed Bitshares which is a distributed, decentralized currency exchange to see if I could find a way to convert some steem to fiat currency on my own. Through the process I discovered just how complex this arena can be. I started playing with computers over 35 years ago and worked in the industry for over 20 years. I must admit, I really struggle with this new technology. The process is too complex and with too many steps to make it all work for those without specific training or experience. Message to developers; if you want these platforms to be available for the masses, you need to make it much more simple and have it work like a utility.
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A utility is something that is useful for anybody, no matter their background, education or experience. The reason the grid is so successful is that they worked hard to turn everything into a utility. Need power, plug into the wall. Need money, use your card. The end user does not need to know how it worked, all they care about is that it does. Get the point? Trading in cryptocurrencies is not yet a utility. It is complex as hell.
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So what about freedom? Can freedom be turned into a utility? Can we find ways to make it easier for people to find freedom without them knowing all the technical details hidden in the background? If we can, should we do the work to make it available for others or does utility actually create dependency which causes more harm?
I wonder if the founding fathers in the uSA thought that by creating a constitution, they could build a framework to turn freedom into a utility. They could dedicate a few individuals to work on maintaining that freedom while everyone else could focus on life. The downside to that idea is our tendency to surrender the hard stuff to others. Let's face it, we are lazy and we don't like to work. We will do what ever we can to make life easier, to the point where we have built machines, technology, fictional constructs and all sorts of systems to accomplish that goal. But it all got corrupted because people don't comprehend how it all works. Our systems are so complex that only the specialists have a clue, which provided a framework for corruption, greed and power rooted in our dependency on them.
I just had a long hard talk with my wife this morning about where we see life unfolding. We have been working on our journey towards freedom for 15 years and we see no significant shifts happening any time soon. We have lived off grid for 11 years feeling that the big shift is about to happen at any time, yet the world keeps right along with the current slavery agenda. We decided that it is time make plans for the next 20 - 30 years. It appears the world is addicted to utility and convenience, no matter how much dependency and slavery is attached to it.
In the mean time I must admit that when we moved off grid, the learning curve was steep, but manageable. The knowledge and experience that we gained through the experience was actually fairly simple, far less complex than the constructs we created in society. Through this simplification of our life, we found ways to survive. Freedom is found through this simplification process and unplugging from the utility. When we UNGRIP, we are literally unplugging from the utility that the feudal masters have created over time.
The problem is that we are getting tired. Freedom was not meant to be done alone. Freedom is meant to be done with other people, our family, clans, tribes and nations. These constructs have been destroyed through the colonization process because the colonizers recognize the power and influence of these relationships.
The Tawatinaw Initiative for Peace and Independence (TIPI) is an idea that I started working on over two years ago to help with the decolonization process and to bring healing, independence, freedom and peace back to our real communities. To accomplish this goal, the four stewards are working on building a curriculum to help people make the transition, the first stop; healing themselves and building the tribe. In my view, freedom should not be a utility as each individual is intimately responsible for knowing what it means, how it looks, feels and lives.
To learn how to be free requires that each individual fully submerse themselves in freedom to learn how it works, experience how it feels and fully take responsibility for maintaining it at all times. Freedom should never be surrendered to somebody else to look after, which means no work should be done to turn it into a utility! Doing so turns that individual into a feudal serf and perpetuates the violence and coercion of the fictional construct I call 'the state'. If you really want freedom, it requires work, lots and lots of work!
Find somebody to study with as it requires years of apprenticeship to learn how to be free, especially after thousands of years of colonial damage, brainwashing and extortion. Then teach others how to do the same. We owe it to ourselves and each other!
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