From the department of falling asleep thoughts: Many Bitcoiners dream of finding their Galt’s Gulch: a fictional place in Rand’s Atlas Shrugged where society’s most productive and innovative individuals retreat to escape an outside world that seems to make less and less sense and feel more and more constricting.
Myself too: I’m selling up in Berlin and actively looking for my idealised utopia. I’ve been evaluating future places based on tax codes, education level, government style, weather, food… But just maybe the suffocating system we are escaping from and to isn’t a place: Maybe the panacea of Galt’s Gulch is less a place and more the individual opting out of the current system and into the Bitcoin standard.
Bitcoin is the escape from a centralised financial system driven by government intervention. Bitcoin’s rejection of centralised control parallels the characters opting out to live sovereign lives beyond the reach of central authority. It’s a Galt’s Gulch without needing to move somewhere else.
Indeed Bitcoin mirrors a lot of Rand’s objectivist system and advocates for reason as the primary means of understanding reality. Bitcoiners seem to reject faith, mysticism, and arbitrary beliefs. And when adopting “faith” do so more for the structure rather than mysticism. Bitcoiners also seem to strive for free markets, limited government and individual rights: all beliefs one would expect to find in Galt’s Gulch.
All this said, my quest to find a physical Galt’s Gulch continues: outdoorsy nature, beauty (Berlin skips this part), smart people & privacy.
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