You beat me to the quote Tante--and yes I think you should be scared. 3rd rule of warfare--Never underestimate the enemy. When looked at from this perspective, DRK's chance of long-term survival,
as it stands is 0,
and anyone who does not see this is indeed underestimatiing the enemy. I am counting on Evan and the Dev. team to up the odds by changing the "
as it stands."
Every coin of DRK which I manage to aquire is testament to the fact that I think Evan and the Devs have a chance of success. But consider the implications of the following article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/asia/nsa-tapped-into-north-korean-networks-before-sony-attack-officials-say.html. While the battle lines are not exactly the same, there is much overlap. Basically we are betting that the DRK devs are working on a par with the top national security agencies in the world. This may sound bleak, and it is--but it is not hopless. Evan's recent hint that the masternode network needs to be living on top-of-the-line secure hardware, shows me that he at least has an inkling of what he is up agains.
My suggestion on DCT that the foundation invest in large ins. policies has been pooh-hooed, but it is not fearmongering, It is a stealy-eyed evaluation of what is to come... or have none of you followed the Snowden Saga?
What I take as positive from this discussion is that it's now visceral: we are the enemy of our adversarial government(s) only because we want our rights, like privacy, our "unalienable rights to be free". Herein the struggle will take place, in the human consciousness - are Googles, Apples and Facebooks of this world, helped by the industrial-spying-military-complex they helped grow - going to take away our humanness or not depends only on us.
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Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed -- be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable."
Václav Havel, Czech President
Addressing the U.S. Congress in February 1990.
Very appropriately, the change of human consciousness does not seem to be coming from dewy-eyed oming and other mantras, but from the cyberspace (damn, does anyone uses that term anymore) and the lunatic fringes, fringes that are so beautifully displayed in the development of this community. I made my choice - I want my Darkcoin investment to grow in the future, but my investment is primarily my statement. If they mange to shut us all up (unlikely) and we end up "loving the Big Brother" and all my fiat would be gone with the alt-currencies demise, at least I will have made a statement: I choose Darkcoin because I want to be free.
Nice quote. It's always been the "lunatic fringe" that have made all the changes for the better. Study Martin Luther King Jr. and he's really on the nose and had the perfect way to attack the problem. He was called everything under the sun, ie, crazy, unreasonable, etc... but now he's our hero. Or a man with a vision, and the energy can also turn toward evil, as Hitler did. Why? Because most people don't care about anything but their own immediate life, until one day they wake up and their lives are uncomfortably squeezed in ways they don't want. But then it's too late.
I can't talk to my family about any of this stuff. It hurts them to think deeper than the surface. It takes people like you, all of you here, to guard the world, people willing to go to jail for the freedoms of people who don't care until it's too late. And if we can affect a change, a change for the better, then it will keep our world a decent place to live for those that come after us and hopefully they will be thankful, as I am thankful that Martin Luther King had a vision of peaceful acceptance and dignity and his lovely dream speech.
So be proud to be on the lunatic fringe!
