[FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

[Marcus Daniels]

I noticed some but not all of those organizations take Bitcoin.  
Clear thinking sympathetic people shouldn't contribute without employing a tumbler.   Plainly this is just a step or two away from trouble.   Just to show it isn't just the Alex Jones types that would exercise this technology.

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Heh, yeah, I agree.  I'm just poking.  But this goes back to the other thread re: individual intellect vs. the hive mind.  Perhaps these kids _know_ that they are sacrificable, largely homogenous, cells in a large organism?  I know my own tolerance to risk was lowered with my cancer diagnosis.  I am not important.  When I die, few will notice, even fewer will care.  So, I may as well have some fun until that time.  The bad guys can kill 7, or 48, or 3000 of us.  But they can't kill the organism.

Those of us who put a lot of stock in "great people" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory), minds, and contributions of individuals, regardless of how pretty or brilliant, cannot fundamentally believe that we're all sacrificable.  They cannot believe in the collective.

The mythos surrounding the shoe elves that come in the night to help the cobbler is resurging, thanks be to our lord Lucifer.

On 06/05/2017 03:18 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Honestly.  If Bob Dylan were there it would have been even bigger deal.   While May and Trump are acting like scared kids that are having their bully status challenged, the people that organized this concert not only raised money, they also put out a useful message:    Don't close the blinds and hide in your house, go out and have fun and live in spite of these risks.   Can't pretty people do a good thing?   Somewhere in one of those MJ links I saw one of the masked anarchists patching a road before running off into the darkness.   There's something wrong with a world where fixing something for others must be treated with suspicion. 
> 
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> Ugh.  So, now that only pretty people can make music, you're arguing that only pretty people can run the government?  I like the idea of the masks many of the antifa people wear. Along with the bias that we think pretty people are more intelligent, competent, whatever, we have:
> 
>   The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain
>   http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2817%2930538-X
> 
> I want to live in the country ran by people like Bob Dylan, Lyle Lovett, et al.  Or, barring that, one where everyone has to wear a mask.
> 
> On 06/05/2017 02:47 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> I've been teasing the young ones today, but this one<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/arts/music/ariana-grande-one-love-manchester-benefit-concert.html> raised £2.7m for the British red cross with a week of preparation.   She should run for office!  Meanwhile, I’m looking to watch a darker spinoff of Portlandia<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/antifa-movement-anti-trump-politics-nazi>.


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