Hello Cryptogang welcome to another lambolife
video.
Let me start by asking a deeply personal question.
What is it that you desire?
Now let me destroy your human rights.
Your privacy, your freedom to express yourself.
I’ll take that away.
What now?
Anarchism at its heart is the desire for freedom.
Our goal is to one day live in a stateless
society that is self-governed
If you’re an anarchist and you haven’t
seen the documentary called Deep Web, what
the hell have you been doing all this time?
I highly recommend you watch it.
It tells the story of a young man named Ross
Ulbricht who was allegedly running a web service
that facilitated the sale of illegal drugs.
Straddling on the deepest trenches of the
internet called the deepweb, was an online
market called Silk Road.
But Silk Road was by no means just an online
illegal drugs market.
Despite how the American media has twisted
its story, Silk Road was built with positive
intentions.
The ineffective war on drugs had killed thousands
in the US.
But Silk Road took it out of their alleys
and their dangerous neighbourhoods and brought
it online, where they made it a safer business
transaction, complete with a review process
for drug dealers.
I wanna share a parallel situation that’s
going on in my home country the Philippines.
Ever since our president Rodgrigo Duterte
took office, we’ve had a significant change
in our drug policy.
He wanted to fight fire with fire, as the
drug syndicates were already causing a lot
of deaths in the country, so he took things
into his own hands and ordered the neutralization
of illegal drug personalities nationwide.
When Duterte was running for president, he
wasn’t my number 1 choice but I did support
him.
I liked his no BS approach to his political
campaign.
At that time he promised to utterly end the
drug infestation of our country by forced
bloodshed.
I realized that his ambition was unfortunately
unattainable and his methods too extreme.
As it turns out, deliberate assassinations
of drug dealers and users only had short term
effects.
Eventually others will fill the gap in the
market and take their place.
With that in mind, the drug war can never
end with just killing people.
It’s been 2 years and seven months since
Duterte’s presidency and to this day, the
killings haven’t stop, the bodies are piling
up, and the drugs, they’re still here.
In fact, probably more than ever.
So maybe Silk Road wasn’t such a bad idea,
maybe we need it here to stop the killings
and drug-related deaths.
Maybe open source technology is the future
of our civilizations governance.
Maybe anarchists all over the globe, should
in some way do their part to contribute to
Bitcoin’s ongoing development.
Bitcoin is the currency of the internet.
It was built solely for the purpose of severing
our bonds from the financial overlords of
state.
But now it can be our gateway to a free society.
It may start out as money or store value,
but what it could be is up to us.
We could embed it deeply in our community,
enough to remove the unnecessary abuses of
human rights.
Governments tell us what we should do or not
do as if they know us better than we know
ourselves.
They strip us from our creative freedom, from
our freedom to express ourselves.
We are enslaved by the system while they pretend
they are serving us.
This has to stop at some point and that’s
our mission.
Bitcoin is doing really well today.
Its on-going development is being run by some
of the best cryptographers in the world as
well as hundreds of independent developers.
And we have backup cryptocurrencies in the
unlikely event that Bitcoin fails.
We are not taking anything lightly.
Don’t listen to what the media says, pay
more attention to the community direcly involved
in this project and you will see that we are
a force to be reckoned with.
This is not about money anymore.
This is about our fundamental human right.
The right of privacy and the right of freedom.
If you’re an anarchist or just an ordinary
internet citizen, I ask you to consider joining
us in our goal to decentralize the world.
Now I’m not saying Bitcoin will save us.
Bitcoin is a tool.
Only we can save ourselves.
That’s I’m asking you, as a citizen of
the internet, to join us in our revolution.
