Democracy and the inevitable welfare state it produces.
Anything if you see it as a prison wall. Nothing if you don't.
when you used blockchain before it got mainstream. (2017 counts)
Wake up at 6am everyday, do the job we don't like in orer to earn money
Our spacetime headset. Not experiencing reality as it really is. Meditating as a way to feel a glimpse outside our spacetime headset. Donald Hoffman
This resonates with me. It is very similar to the concepts of tyranny and The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant. Are you seeing the relevance here?
web2 surveillance capitalist platforms, see related: https://warpcast.com/bias/0x9c9c36b8
Because it's hopeless. Revolutions require cohesion. It's not easy to achieve that today. People want to be enslaved, that's the cold truth.
commmon Financial industry -> those who see the power of Bitcoin to empower us to reach our highest potential better light: lower fees better ventilation: access to capital but Prison Walls: Fiat
Automation and now more so AI (within our current economic paradigm).
The system that produces the work-life imbalance necessary to pursue your passion when it is not your livelihood.
hatred and anger for me, V! I have a lot of ill-will in my heart towards many people!! would love to let it go but people are cruel and the vicissitude of life are rel.
Not things per se but fear of things. Like fear of the unknown or of rejection.
If you take the Buddhist lens: any desire, habit, belief, or self-identity not knowingly opted into.
Expectations and signals overload are the walls. We are getting more signals that change expectations faster than ever and in more quantity and areas of our lives.
Doesn’t resonate too much, but: passports and visas, drug prescriptions, rental leases I’m mostly a conformist. I just try to avoid getting arrested and sent to prisons where that becomes a problem. Eg: being financially precarious enough you’re forced to get a regular job is a kind of “going to prison”
Dynamics from my childhood and upbringing A few specific examples: •Learned shame and guilt rooted largely in 13 years of my Catholic schooling still affects my self-esteem •Being a hyperactive and creative kid often told to sit still or stop talking affects my creative confidence
Living in the USA while it slowly becomes an authoritarian state.
Financial maximization. The belief that we have to help others build things, many of which are to our own detriment, in order to be "successful". Productivity.
This women doesn't see the prison walls but I do... this is what i'm revolutionary about. Gotta help newer generations understand the importance of having complete control of their own privacy and data.
Fear of the unknown keeps people trapped in one paradigm.
Walls: Linux. Primary and secondary storage. Mistaking output for knowledge, rather than the embedding. Underrating the predominance of recursion.
You follow rules as long as your loved ones feel safe, justice prevails most of the time and ppl feel the need to contribute to the society. Once you stop seeing these things, its time to break the wheel.
The prison is status games https://x.com/naval/status/1267179384886095873
Addiction: Addiction to substances or behaviors can be likened to being imprisoned by one's cravings and dependencies. Individuals may feel powerless to break free from the cycle of addiction, despite the negative consequences it brings to their lives.
the road/car dependent nature of life in the states. feel like my father spent most of his life in a car.
The principle of things and the rules we place on ourselves are the prison walls. Because while some conform to norms, and others try to reform for better standards, only those who break rules in search for better ones carry a true revolutionary spirit.
I think for most humans the biggest prison wall is the subconscious desire to be liked, validated, approved by others
Entrenched cultural normatives. Going beyond general conservatism, growing up in a post-communist Bohemia I witness the fear of speaking up against injustice in the generation of my parents (who partly passed this over to my generation) still over 30 years after the democratic state was reestablished. Sturdy wall.
I believe the job is often seen as a prison and that solving for that, in crypto, eth, web3 is the way to onboard the most people. And that also in micro tasks that get rewarded. If that is also meaningful then this could unleash a lot.
A lack of confidence or self-belief can be a self-sustaining prison As well as other beliefs such as religion, by stopping people from expressing otherwise natural behaviours.
I was coding aged 8 and found school very hard and dropped out at 14. It was a top school but fuck me, I hated the kids, the teachers, the rules, the syllabus, the inflexibility, the being misunderstood. They made me see a shrink. I was just smart and busy coding and making electronics, running little businesses.
So many countries rejecting Americans as banking customers because of aggressive international American policing of their tax livestock.
Foucault wrote a whole book on that, “Discipline and punish”. Mentioning schools, jobs, etc.
