By Bitcoin Časopis - prije 7 mjeseca - Vrijeme čitanja: 8 minute
Bitcoin Kao temelj za izgradnju zajednice
Community is crucial and that never has been clearer to me than it was this last month, as wildfires claimed 10,000 hectares of the area around my home, leaving many people with nothing except the clothes they were wearing when they escaped.
Na vrhuncu našeg požara borili su se vatrogasci iz cijelog Portugala. Više od tisuću ljudi, 400 vatrogasnih vozila i 14 aviona na kraju su pobijedili. Promatrali smo golemi oblak dima i nitko od nas nije puno spavao četiri noći dok je gorio, gledajući sve veći narančasti sjaj kako obasjava nebo. Nakon toga, sada kada su vatrogasci dovršili herojski zadatak ubijanja vatrenog zmaja, snaga zajednice dolazi do izražaja.
Amongst the local small businesses, there is an almost festive atmosphere. Stories of last minute escapes are shared by those affected, damages are compared. Together, we take reckoning of what has been lost and celebrate the small victories over the fire. A home saved here, a family reunited with their livestock and pets there, a house not touched by the flames even though everything around it has burned.
People have poured in from far and wide to volunteer. Donations of food, clothing and household items are piled high against the back wall of a local restaurant and shared out amongst those who need them. Gender roles seem to be falling naturally into place amongst the volunteers, with the men mostly taking the heavy tasks of clearing scorched earth and charred trees to clear the way for people to start rebuilding and the women cooking for the teams of men and the families who have lost their homes. Now, a month on from the fire, the progress is very visible. Fallen roofs have been shovelled up and cleared, structures checked and cleaned in preparation for placing new beams and rebuilding. The melted pipes of irrigation systems have been pulled out of the ground and taken away. Personal possessions have been sifted through and what can be saved has been secured. We have received excellent information sessions on how to go about managing burned land, what to clear, what to leave, how to prevent land erosion and when and how to start replanting. With the first rain of the autumn coming in strong, the first sign of green is already showing again all over the blackened landscape.
A dear friend of mine, herself a dedicated bitcoiner, put it beautifully in a message to me when I told her how overwhelming it is to see people coming together this way. “This is what people do when they govern themselves,” she wrote, “It’s beautiful.”
Nikad istinitije riječi nisu izgovorene. Mislim da nikada prije nisam vidio zajednicu koja je tako glatko ušla u pogon. U zemljama – kao što je većina europskih zemalja – gdje vlade još uvijek funkcioniraju barem do određenog stupnja (moglo bi se tvrditi, pretjerano funkcioniranje) čini se da su mnogi ljudi izgubili kontakt sa zajednicom. Iako su nekada crkve predstavljale kamen temeljac za ovu vezu, većina ljudi više nije povezana ni s jednim vjerskim udruženjem i ako ih pitate o njihovoj zajednici ili "plemenu", većina će petljati tražeći odgovor. Oni govore o grupi koja se labavo sastoji od kolega s posla, sportskih prijatelja, prijatelja koji nisu nužno bliski i susjeda s kojima dijele uglavnom slučajnu vezu bliskosti. Tkivo naših društava sada je otvoreno tkanje i mnogi pojedinci jednostavno skliznu kroz njega u izolaciju, držeći se samo za nekoliko niti tu i tamo.
Iz povijesne i sociološke perspektive, gubitak zajednice duboko je zabrinjavajući. Ljudi nisu formirali zajednice radi zabave. Nismo se grupirali jer je bilo zabavnije loviti ili čuvati bedeme dvorca s prijateljem (iako je vjerojatno i to bilo). Kroz ljudsku povijest, bez obzira na doba ili zemljopisno okruženje, ljudi su se okupljali jer zajedno jesmo i uvijek smo bili sigurniji, učinkovitiji i sposobniji utjecati na naš kontekst u našu korist, bilo da se radi o borbi protiv požara, neprijateljskog napada ili političko nadmudrivanje. Uz rizik da zvuči kao politički slogan, zajedno smo doista jači.
Žene tradicionalno igraju ključnu ulogu u stvaranju i povezivanju zajednica, uglavnom zato što su društveno i biološki vrlo poticajne za to – prvi zaštitnik žene za sebe i svoju djecu je naravno njezin muškarac – ali izvan njega ili u njegovoj odsutnosti to je ona zajednica koja je njezina druga linija zaštite i na koju se oslanja za sigurnost i pomoć u nevolji. Moglo bi se uvjerljivo tvrditi da je raspad zajednice barem djelomično odgovoran za vrtoglavo rastuću statistiku depresije i tjeskobe među ženama svih dobnih skupina, a posebno među mlađim generacijama u sjevernoj Europi i SAD-u. Čini se da društveni mediji kopiraju zajednicu u hordama sljedbenika, ali kao zamjena jednostavno ne uspijevaju, omogućujući samo ovisnost o dopaminu umjesto istinske povezanosti. Iz perspektive mentalnog zdravlja, gubitak zajednice je jednako katastrofalan kao i kada se gleda kroz povijesnu i sociološku leću.
Očito, nisu samo žene ranjive na ovaj katastrofalni pad. Među spolovima, statistički podaci o lošem mentalnom zdravlju, uključujući izolaciju, depresiju, samoubojstvo i ovisnost, čine depresivna čitanja i njihovu sve veću pojavnost, unatoč sve lakšem životu za većinu ljudi u razvijenom svijetu, još više. Nedostatak zajedništva ostavlja takvu prazninu u životima ljudi, prije svega nedostatak osjećaja da doprinose cilju većem od vlastite osobne dobrobiti. Možda je naivno – ali ne mogu se oteti osjećaju da bi aktivno osnivanje i poticanje rasta lokalnih zajednica moglo imati nevjerojatan obnoviteljski potencijal za našu zajedničku dobrobit.
Which is just one of the reasons that it is so incredibly heartening to see a community here in full strength, drawing together to support and provide for one another, each member contributing what they have to offer. For some it’s money, which is being channelled straight into providing emergency relief or donated to the people whose livelihood was dependent upon their home. For others, it’s muscle and machine power, in chainsawing, clearing and cleaning. A few people have dedicated their time to coordinating the influx of volunteers. For those of us who have no idea how to wield a chainsaw and whose lack of muscle power threatens to make us more of a hindrance than a help on the front line of the clear up, it’s kitchen duty, providing food for those working and those in need. That community is vital on all the levels of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs is clearly exemplified in the wake of our fire.
Ali kako krenuti s ponovnim uvođenjem sjemena i korijena zajedništva na drugim mjestima, gdje je s gubitkom zajedničke vjere i konkurentskih društvenih odnosa u svim aspektima života ono bilo toliko izgubljeno, tako dugo? Možemo li kao pojedinci i obitelji poticati taj rast?
As a fellow bitcoiner, I think you know what I would propose. Besides its myriad other aspects, Bitcoin provides a unique foundation for community. We’ve all experienced it if we have attended Bitcoin events; I’d bet my bottom dollar (if either you or I still believed in the value of the dollar) that you had more in common with the person you had a five minute chat with in the queue of the bathroom at the Bitcoin conference than you do with your co-workers, who you have known and worked with for years.
Bitcoin is about shared values and a shared knowledge that the system we are living under just doesn’t work. Its capacity to lay the foundation for community (not to mention the rest of its cornucopia of economic, technical, social and philosophical gifts) is second to none. A community based around Bitcoin is a whole new and unique model which has the potential to fill the void which other failed (fiat) models of community have left.
Those of us who choose to already experience some of this Bitcoin community through Telegram, Twitter and Nostr. Amongst other Bitcoiners, we can, to put it simply, just go ahead and skip the small talk. Mostly, we’re all aware of the role governments, big pharma, mainstream media and the food giants play. Once these issues are no longer a topic of conversation, it’s beautiful to watch what emerges – we’re all pretty much in agreement about what has broadly gone wrong in the past so we tend to focus on the future. These conversations are incredibly valuable. I, for one, love the thought provoking contact and the sense of online community – but there’s the danger that those online communities and the people with whom I socialize and the businesses from whom I buy the goods I need in daily life can feel like two separate worlds. It takes some steps to bring those two worlds together but I do feel that they are very much worth taking. Shared values make for strong bonds and as you build a Bitcoin community around you, you get to experience the luxury of this.
Delivering regular Bitcoin education sessions and watching as businesses around me start to accept Bitcoin is, for me, planting the seeds of a whole extra layer of community. It could be said that we have an obligation – not only to ourselves and our families, but to our communities, to seed and foster the growth of new, Bitcoin based communities. Doing so will bring us huge benefits. Not only will we be able to transact and save in real money amongst ourselves, building parallel economies which are uncensorable and tailor made to fit our own needs (because we are incentivized to orange pill businesses we most want to buy from), we will have access to the social, philosophical and even moral benefits that being part of a true community brings and which most of us have never yet fully experienced.
Moći Bitcoin lead us back to a golden age of community, where all of us can experience these benefits? I think the answer is that it probably can. Some of the green shoots of it can already be seen growing out of the ash left by the collapse of fiat models of community. So if I may be so bold as to offer you some advice – go out there to that shop, restaurant or bar you go to often and say those magic words: “Do you accept Bitcoin još?"
Ovo je gostujuća objava Holly Young. Izražena mišljenja su u potpunosti njihova vlastita i ne odražavaju nužno ona BTC Inc ili Bitcoin Časopis.
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