Today, my son turned 4 years old, which is a pretty big day for any parent. He will soon be starting school, and he is grasping concepts faster and faster every day. Realizing this got me thinking.
In 25 years, when he is the same age as I am now, I’ll be able tell him all about how anarchists changed the world. I’ll be able to tell him how people laughed at us, while others falsely labeled us—the most non-violent members of society—terrorists. I’ll be able to tell him all about how the agorist tactics of market and crypto anarchists paved the way for the free and voluntary social order he enjoys. I’ll tell him of constantly fending off an onslaught of false accusations from both the left and right of the political spectrum.
I’ll be an old man telling him stories about a world he can’t even comprehend—stories about how the world once was. A world where governments used force and threats of violence to maintain their control over the population. A world where individuals surrendered their autonomy to a handful of men and women whom they did not know and who cared not for what was in society’s best interest. I’ll tell him about our fraudulent election system, political corruption, corporate welfare, the symbiotic relationship between big finance, big business, and big government, and so on. I’ll tell him of the soldiers who lost their lives fighting wars financed and perpetuated by this conglomerate of private and state power that inevitably profited from their sacrifice. I’ll tell him how the fruits of my labor were stolen from me, and how those who claimed to represent me enslaved me through debt. I’ll tell him about our money and how it’s supply was controlled by both state and non-state actors. I’ll tell him of the lack of transparency and accountability across the board. I’ll tell him of the massive corporate monopolies who intentionally slowed innovation, purchased regulations, received subsides from the state, formed barriers to entry for new companies, etc. all in an effort to make profit not produce quality goods or services.
He will look at me like I would look at an older man telling me stories of the Great Depression, or a Soviet expat telling me the horrors of living in Soviet Russia. He will ask me how we couldn’t see it and why it took us so long to do anything about it. I won’t have an answer for him, but I will be able to tell him all about the “rejects” of the world who rose up and stood together. All of the computer nerds, the gamers, the math and science enthusiasts, the philosophy junkies, etc. and how they sparked a silent revolution. I will tell them about how some of the smartest people in the world decided enough was enough and, in response to the financial crisis of 2008, released the first iteration of digital currency to use decentralized distributed ledger technology. I’ll sound like some old man reminiscing about the first time he saw a black and white television. At one time, I had lost all hope, but this highly probable future gives me hope for his. I may not live to see this all play out, but he will.
People drastically underestimate what is actually going on, but the same happened with the internet. Those responsible for what is happening are a carve out of two generations: the latter end of GenX and the first part of the millennial generation. This carve out doesn’t fit into either generation, and by being the bridge between the analog and digital ages, we have the most potential for creating change. All I can say to the boomers is, watch this shit.
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