By Bitcoin Magazine - 7 months ago - Reading Time: 8 minutes
Bitcoin Kòm yon fondasyon pou bati kominote a
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.
Nan pipo li yo, dife nou an te batay pa ponpye ki soti nan tout lòt peyi Pòtigal. Plis pase mil gason, 400 kamyon ponpye enpè ak 14 avyon evantyèlman domine. Nou te gade gwo lafimen lafimen an e okenn nan nou pa t dòmi anpil pandan kat nwit li te boule yo, lè n t ap gade yon limyè zoranj k ap apwoche limen syèl la. Nan reveye li, kounye a ke ponpye yo te fini travay la ewoyik nan touye dragon an dife, se fòs kominote a ki ap vini nan devan an.
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.”
Yo pa t janm pale pi bon pawòl. Mwen pa panse mwen te janm wè yon kominote glise konsa san pwoblèm nan Kovèti pou anvan. Nan peyi - tankou pifò peyi Ewopeyen yo - kote gouvènman yo toujou ap fonksyone nan omwen yon sèten degre (youn ta ka diskite, sou fonksyone) anpil moun sanble yo te pèdi kontak ak kominote a. Pandan ke yon fwa legliz yo ta bay poto yo pou koneksyon sa a, majorite moun yo pa afilye nan okenn asosyasyon relijye ankò epi si ou mande yo sou kominote yo oswa "tribi" yo, pifò fouye pou yon repons. Yo pale de yon gwoup ki konpoze de kòlèg travay, zanmi espò, zanmi ki pa nesesèman pwòch ak vwazen ak ki moun yo pataje yon kosyon pwoksimite sitou azar. Twal sosyete nou yo kounye a se yon tise ouvè ak anpil moun tou senpleman glise nan li nan izolasyon, kenbe sou pa sèlman kèk fil isit la ak la.
Soti nan yon pèspektiv istorik ak sosyolojik, pèt kominote a se pwofondman mangonmen. Moun pa t fòme kominote pou plezi. Nou pa t 'gwoup ansanm paske li te pi plis plezi yo lachas oswa moun ranpa yo nan chato la ak yon zanmi (byenke li pwobableman te sa tou). Pandan tout listwa lèzòm, kèlkeswa epòk la oswa anviwònman jeyografik la, lèzòm te gwoupe ansanm paske ansanm nou pi an sekirite e nou te toujou pi an sekirite, pi efikas ak plis kapab enfliyanse kontèks nou an nan avantaj nou, kit se konbat yon dife, yon atak lènmi. oswa depase politik. A risk pou son slogan politik, ansanm nou vreman pli for.
Tradisyonèlman, fanm yo jwe yon wòl enpòtan nan kreye ak lyezon kominote yo, sitou paske yo sosyalman ak byolojikman ankouraje yo fè sa - premye pwoteksyon yon fanm pou tèt li ak pitit li yo se nan kou gason li - men pi lwen pase li oswa nan absans li se li. kominote ki se dezyèm liy pwoteksyon li epi li konte sou li pou sekirite ak èd nan moman bezwen. Li ta ka konvenkman diskite ke se dekonpozisyon nan kominote a ki se omwen an pati responsab pou estatistik yo monte nan depresyon ak enkyetid pami fanm ki gen tout laj, men espesyalman pi piti jenerasyon yo nan Nò Ewòp ak Etazini. Medya sosyal parèt pou repwodui yon kominote nan tralye patizan, men kòm yon ranplasman tou senpleman pa koupe li, bay sèlman dejwe dopamine nan plas koneksyon otantik. Soti nan yon pèspektiv sante mantal, pèt nan kominote a se menm dezas kòm li se lè yo wè nan yon lantiy istorik ak sosyolojik.
Li evidan, se pa sèlman fanm ki vilnerab a bès katastwofik sa a. Nan tout sèks yo, estatistik pou sante mantal pòv ki gen ladan izolasyon, depresyon, swisid ak dejwe fè lekti depresyon ak ensidan yo ogmante, malgre ogmante fasilite nan lavi pou pifò moun nan mond lan devlope, menm plis konsa. Se yon mank de kominote ki kite yon vid konsa nan lavi moun, sitou yon mank de yon sans ke yo kontribye nan yon kòz ki pi gwo pase pwòp byennèt pèsonèl yo. Li petèt nayif – men mwen pa ka evite santi ke aktivman fondasyon ak estimile kwasans kominote lokal yo ta ka gen yon potansyèl ekstrèmman restorasyon pou byennèt kolektif nou an.
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.
Men, ki jan yo ale sou re-entwodwi grenn yo ak rasin nan kominote nan lòt kote, kote ak pèt la nan yon lafwa pataje ak relasyon sosyal konpetitif nan tout aspè nan lavi, li te tèlman pèdi, pou lontan? Èske nou ka kòm moun ak fanmi ankouraje kwasans sa a?
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.
Kapab 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 ankò? ”
Sa a se yon pòs envite pa Holly Young. Opinyon yo eksprime yo se antyèman pwòp yo epi yo pa nesesèman reflete sa yo ki nan BTC Inc oswa Bitcoin Magazin.
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