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"I don't believe any one company should own the public conversation which is why I believe in protocols such as nostr. I believe Twitter would benefit greatly by building on top of nostr because it takes a lot away a lot of liability... a company can be a part of [the public conversation] and it can be built on top of it. [these companies] own the storage, the presentation/discovery layer, and the distribution all in one stack... I don't think that's right for humanity."
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"My biggest fear for me [or Bitcoin] is becoming irrelevant."
Jack talks about Bitcoin in a relatable and religious sense. It’s a “beyond me” mission and that dynamic is one way Jack talks about technology.
As a Christian, I’m part of a communal system that transcends myself and self-heals/evolves across generations. It’s an interesting parallel to reflect on.
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“The further from nature they go, the worse humans get.” - Jack Dorsey
As Jack says, America has a problem. But he’s not going deep enough into its cause accepting symptomatic elements (military industrial complex, fiat system, etc…) instead. These elements exist because of something deeper.
When it comes to the financial system, Jack sees things in critically helpful ways but what he seems to be missing is how his own pursuit of human autonomy could end up contributing to the problem in similar but different ways.
The American pursuit of autonomy is an underlying ideology/narrative that drives symptoms he’s pinning on American expansionism. We are expansionist and enforcing of these values because of,in part, our pursuit of autonomy. If we don’t recognize and address the root drivers, we’ll simply become expansionist in other areas. If we don’t admit past mistakes we’ll keep making them.
Humans aren’t autonomous. To relentlessly pursue autonomy is to flee our human nature.
