The World Through Bitcoin’s Orange Tinted Glasses
One of the positive effects that comes along with truly understanding bitcoin is what I’d like to call seeing the world through “orange tinted glasses”.
To fully understand bitcoin one has to learn how our current monetary system works. What we soon discover is a manipulated, corrupted system that is skewed to advantage only those on top. In. turn this helps us see the value of an open, honest, truthful, permanent, transparent store of value, free from the control of any government or corporation. This revelation triggers your mindset to start developing more honest and truthful yardsticks giving one the ability to detect dishonesty and corruption everywhere else. Over time, shrouded, unscrupulous behavior and practices become blatantly obvious via the orange lens.
“Free speech” is not a tool for rebels, not an antiquated boomer concept, is not a left or right point of view. It is a fundamental human right, the most important of all rights as it stands as The First Amendment, a foundational right included in all of free society.
The Supreme Court has over time removed protections for obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, true threats, speech integral to criminal conduct, and child pornography. They removed protections for speech intended to or likely to produce “imminent unlawful activity”, speech that could harm one physically and financially with a direct, immediate consequence. Speech that doesn’t have a real, tangible, quantifiable, negative effect seems to have remained protected over time. That would include speech some people have found to be offensive over the same period of time.
Those who are offended by free speech in large part feel guilty, ashamed, their insecurities triggered or are trying to hide the fact that they participate in the activity or behavior the speech is describing or making reference to. The efforts to suppress the offensive speech is most likely a tactic to publicly distance themselves as participants in the offensive activity. In reality, these people find offense in the fact that the topic is even being discussed, as if directed at them, which illicits guilt and fear in that they will be discovered when in reality they are hypocrites struggling for self preservation. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13:5 love is not easily provoked or offended. So it’s unloving to be easily offended. They will often employ extreme measures, ruin careers, trigger lengthy legal battles, and somewhere along the way just end up exposing themselves. The fix for the offended is an internal one, not external. Speech may be a trigger, its issues around control, expectations, insecurities that cause people to feel offended. When doing research on what makes something offensive many biblical quotes came up and to be offended is seen as a weakness, not a desirable trait.
If you or someone you know is easily offended by free speech its time to look in the mirror and buy some bitcoin.
