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It’s Martin Luther King day, so here’s a THREAD on NONVIOLENT PROTEST:
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1) War is a kind of negotiation, not an alternative to it.
The goal in war is not to kill all enemy soldiers, but to *convince enemy leadership to surrender.*
Victory is thus a matter of persuasion.
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1) War is a kind of negotiation, not an alternative to it.
The goal in war is not to kill all enemy soldiers, but to *convince enemy leadership to surrender.*
Victory is thus a matter of persuasion.
2) Nonviolent protest works without the threat of violence.
A common misconception is that it’s still violence that secretly does the trick. This is false.
Nonviolent protest works by changing the incentives of the “oppressor.”
A common misconception is that it’s still violence that secretly does the trick. This is false.
Nonviolent protest works by changing the incentives of the “oppressor.”
3. Nonviolent protest reverses the “moral laundering” process.
Moral laundering is self-deception whereby acts of injustice are made to seem just.
An oppressor must launder his moral revulsion to make oppressing others palatable to himself.
Moral laundering is self-deception whereby acts of injustice are made to seem just.
An oppressor must launder his moral revulsion to make oppressing others palatable to himself.
4) Nonviolent protest works by making oppression again unpalatable to the oppressor.
5) Nonviolent protest requires enormous discipline on the part of *protesters*.
Protesters cannot succeed without rigorous self-examination to make sure they are not committing injustice, or in any way justifying the violent reactions they provoke.
Protesters cannot succeed without rigorous self-examination to make sure they are not committing injustice, or in any way justifying the violent reactions they provoke.
6) Nonviolent protests must be provocative. If nobody cares, nobody will respond.
7) Nonviolent protesters must be prepared to suffer.
Watch this speech from the movie Gandhi:
“It will hurt, like all fighting hurts. You will not deal blows, but you will receive them.”
Watch this speech from the movie Gandhi:
“It will hurt, like all fighting hurts. You will not deal blows, but you will receive them.”
8) Nonviolent protests must be admirable.
Protesters demand respect by demonstrating respectability.
The courage to be harmed repeatedly while offering no retaliation is one of the few actions that can make an oppressor reconsider a false sense of superiority.
Protesters demand respect by demonstrating respectability.
The courage to be harmed repeatedly while offering no retaliation is one of the few actions that can make an oppressor reconsider a false sense of superiority.
9) Nonviolent protest is unstoppable because, practiced properly, it cannot fail to change the incentives of the oppressor.
10) Bitcoin represents a new kind of nonviolent protest — one written in code.
Bitcoin changes the incentives of central banks, which today exploit the public by abusing their absolute financial power:
Bitcoin changes the incentives of central banks, which today exploit the public by abusing their absolute financial power:
11) Bitcoin changes the incentives of central banks by changing the incentives of the public — incentivizing the discipline requires of nonviolent protesters.
12) With a public disciplined by bitcoin, central banks will have to change their behavior or disappear:
13) Nonviolent protest in code, like bitcoin, is a brand new kind.
Read more about it here: https://medium.com/@harmonylion1/how-to-code-unstoppable-nonviolent-revolutions-3f8eab3916be
Read more about it here: https://medium.com/@harmonylion1/how-to-code-unstoppable-nonviolent-revolutions-3f8eab3916be
14) Happy Martin Luther King day, and thanks for reading. 
Keep in mind governments have no reason to tell you the truth about Nonviolent protest — because it works.
Keep in mind governments have no reason to tell you the truth about Nonviolent protest — because it works.
Bitcoin is "money via horcruxes."
Nobody owns the network, so nobody can stop you from using it.
Nobody controls it, so nobody can create more and cause inflation.
It doesn't rely on banks, so it will remain if banks fail.
Nobody owns the network, so nobody can stop you from using it.
Nobody controls it, so nobody can create more and cause inflation.
It doesn't rely on banks, so it will remain if banks fail.
Ethereum is a framework for building software that runs on a blockchain.
This is important because it allows you to build:
1. Unkillable
2. Software
3. That moves money in ways you program into it
This is important because it allows you to build:
1. Unkillable
2. Software
3. That moves money in ways you program into it
This is absolutely mind-blowing, because it means you can create companies with no CEO, essentially. You can create incentive mechanisms that span the whole world, treat every customer the same, can’t be stopped by governments, and pay people automatically.
Ethereum enables a programmer to create a permanent institution that shapes how the world works, what the public relies on. You can get disparate groups of people to cooperate without needing to trust each other, because un-alterable software executes every piece of the process.
Imagine if your town suddenly had a mountain.
Someone would build a ski resort and lodges. Rainwater would run off and create drinking water and/or generate electric power. There would be a totally new ecosystem in play.
Put a new, permanent thing in the world, and it changes.
Someone would build a ski resort and lodges. Rainwater would run off and create drinking water and/or generate electric power. There would be a totally new ecosystem in play.
Put a new, permanent thing in the world, and it changes.
If suddenly your town had a river, there would be interstate trade on boats.
If it had a coastline, there would be beaches and surfing and ports of trade.
Ethereum allows us to do this with software.
POOF!
A new permanent, public, useful thing.
If it had a coastline, there would be beaches and surfing and ports of trade.
Ethereum allows us to do this with software.
POOF!
A new permanent, public, useful thing.
Here's more on Bitcoin as nonviolent protest, by @nic__carter
(published a week after mine https://medium.com/@harmonylion1/how-to-code-unstoppable-nonviolent-revolutions-3f8eab3916be)
"A Most Peaceful Revolution" by @nic__carter https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-most-peaceful-revolution-8b63b64c203e
(published a week after mine https://medium.com/@harmonylion1/how-to-code-unstoppable-nonviolent-revolutions-3f8eab3916be)
"A Most Peaceful Revolution" by @nic__carter https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-most-peaceful-revolution-8b63b64c203e
