How Bitcoin and Art Will Free People – Bitcoin Magazine
“And those who were seen dancing were thought mad by those who could not hear the music,” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Bitcoin and art can lead us out of the mechanical stronghold that the predatory, manipulative and exploitative fiat reality imposes on us. Art is individually liberating and inherently disruptive. Bitcoin is the breakthrough technology that does the same. How do we free a people whose monetary base is not free?
“To free the people,” is a powerful statement. We can guess with great certainty from what or who people want to be free. What happens when people are free? If we agree that Bitcoin and art need to free people from the fiat-systemic structures of oppression, we need to be specific about what kind of freedom we want to lead. The power of art to liberate the people was always a threat to any political, military and economic system. As much as that power was suppressed by kings, governments and bureaucrats, that power was also manipulated into leading many revolutions – just think of Europe in the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
“You think you are an individual, but are you really?” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In art, “I” becomes “we”. There is a paradox present in art. An artist communicates the work with the public and thus becomes part of the larger group. In that moment the artist becomes “we”, and we are one with the artist. Something similar is present in the existence of Bitcoin. With each block created and node approval granted, a singular plural-forever is embedded in the blockchain. The “I” in Bitcoin, although seen as a supremely individualistic and pragmatic construct, disappeared from the vocabulary. In Bitcoin it is always “we” as we are not singular but a combination of more than just one node/individual. This is how we discover that “we” are the way to liberate the people.
“Consider your origin: You were not created to live like deer, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” —Dante Alighieri
The Fiat system and culture is predatory and mechanical. If we chose a contemplative and creative culture, the massive civil awakening potentially upon us could be transformed into the movement of creation and renaissance of human consciousness. The basis of it’s good money is bitcoin, and the way to enlighten people is art. It is freedom. To be enlightened and have good money. This is how Bitcoin and art will free the people. Why do we always and repeatedly need to build technology and money for the worst case scenario? We already have new, different technology and means to communicate and adopt the same. We have Bitcoin and art. Unfortunately, we perceive history as a narrative of the past, but we do not understand that history itself is a narrative in perpetual motion. And we learn nothing. Everything is already written in cycles and the nature of progress. To completely transform our reality, we must liberate the people.
“Only after a disaster can we be resurrected. It is only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything evolves, everything falls apart,” – Chuch Palahniuk, “Fight Club”
Art will give us the vocabulary to articulate the science of Bitcoin. Through art we could access the morality of Bitcoin. The people will be free through allegory and symbols. Some might rightly say that allegory itself is nothing more than verbal symbolism. Bitcoin is the symbol of an idea, and that idea is freedom. Bitcoin gives a new identity to freedom born out of contemplation and creativity. The idea of freedom is greater than the response to predatory behavior and mechanical structures of the fiat system and fiat institutions. Bitcoin can free people to create a new reality using the language of art.
Bitcoin needs its own symbolism. That symbolism is the future essence of Bitcoin’s existence.
If we were to extract that symbolism from Bitcoin, we would be left with a lifeless mass of code and cold mathematical calculations. Bitcoin proposes a new definition of not only monetary freedom, but a definition of freedom itself. The proposition is simple: Bitcoin is not issued and not controlled by any government or financial institution. By not being controlled by anyone at all, Bitcoin is closer to the idea of energy. And energy is freedom.
As an uncontrollable entity, Bitcoin suggests a way for us to deal peacefully with each other through mutual agreement. It is freedom. This kind of exchange could only happen between and among free people. The only true connection – even spiritual connection – is between Bitcoin and art.
Freedom in the new renaissance actually exists everywhere at once on every node. Bitcoin and art similarly inspire us to say, “I don’t know,” and that’s the only way to be free. In learning, we open up freedom to be and create. Bitcoin has the idea that all people have the same opportunities to grow. There is freedom and that freedom cannot be achieved without your work and your compassion. That freedom is the key to the new renaissance.
The artistic realm is real. It comes down to us first, in its immateriality. To grasp art we must have consciousness and free will. Consciousness and free will are not illusions.
Art is not an illusion.
Bitcoin is not an illusion.
Freedom is not an illusion.
This is a guest post by Stefan Dzeparoski. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BTC Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine.
