Really nice introspective text, Amir. Thnks and keep the music
playing!! ;-)

On 22/12/13 21:59, Amir Taaki wrote:
> Life is tough, and sometimes the odds can seem so overwhelming
> that we can look around us and conclude nothing will change.
>
> But against the backdrop of small voices being shouted down by
> authoritative professionals in charge, like kids we are challenged
> by problems everywhere. Is your way better? How will it pay for
> hospitals or how do XYZ? Nobody has all the solutions. Those who
> claim to, are faking it like lying on a job interview.
>
> The real change won't happen by having a full vision laid out, or
> total consensus among everybody. The communists sold a perfect
> utopia, and then came the killings and murders because that utopia
> is perfect and one small loss today is nothing for one big gain
> tomorrow.
>
> Sometimes we grow up full of hope, then along the way with all the
> trajedies and hopelessness in the news conclude that we're all
> doomed. On a big sinking ship that we will go down together. In
> our youth we maybe become full of optimism and then along the way,
> start to worry for the future and all the risks / problems if
> things don't turn out well.
>
> Some of us meet a girl/boy different from all the others, able to
> feel us on a deep level, and support you as a strong friend. Full
> of passion, your minds become one and the outside world starts to
> close off around you. We depart from our responsibilities because
> of the girl.
>
> I want to say that no matter how tempting it seems to retire from
> a life of swimming upstream, it is and always will be a false
> reality. We need every person to be free. Together we can do a
> lot. Each individual is more strong they realise. But I see it all
> the time. People telling me we have no power. My goal in life is
> to show people that we are incredibly powerful.
>
> Don't think either that by doing nothing, you are not causing harm.
> Everyday we shop at supermarkets, buy from tobacco companies, use
> Apple/Google/Facebook/... products, wear clothes from sweatshop
> labour, big banks, big pharma, watch hollywood movies, pay rent
> money to landlords, support telecoms companies censoring the net,
> eat McDonalds, ... Every action taken is creating more work for
> someone elsewhere trying to undo your harm. Just ignoring the
> problems is making your life worse, and perpetuating the
> injustices.
>
> Bitcoin is not going to bring equality to the world. If anything
> it will bring *more* inequality. But Bitcoin will bring justice
> and merit. It's not about whether unregulated markets blindly
> perform better than 'normal' ones. It's about the tool of power
> that we can use to effect the changes we want to see. And it's a
> very important tool. The economic system is unsustainable, and
> Bitcoin will simply hasten the crisis. We gave adequate precaution.
> If through all this time, with all the global protests, worrying
> destruction of our ecology, mismanagement and wars by governments
> and a growing rise of fascist tendencies through the world... if
> throughout all this, you stuck your fingers in your ears and kept
> doing the same, repeatedly banging your head against the wall, then
> so be it. That's everything wrong in this world.
>
> If however, we start taking the steps now, we will have a future.
> Our friends and children will have a nice niche carved out in the
> future of tomorrow. Who knows, maybe that niche will grow, survive
> and thrive.
>
> The world is not fixed. Society has short periods of intense flux,
> followed by stagnation. A new wave of thought driven by internet
> is rising. With the internet we can now read the bible of
> democracy, its words no longer obscured by political-latin. And
> what we see before us, is not what we were told. The things are
> changing ever faster, and we are rapidly approaching a point of no
> return. If we don't prepare for the future, then we have no
> future.
>
> And the change? That will come from outside. Start looking around
> you. Your supporters are around you.
>
>
>
>
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