By Bitcoin Moheni - 7 marama ki muri - Te Wa Panui: 8 meneti
Bitcoin Hei Turanga mo te Hanga Hapori
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.
I tona tihi, ko ta matou ahi kei te patuhia e nga kaipatu ahi mai i nga wahi katoa o Potukara. Neke atu i te kotahi mano nga tane, e 400 nga taraka ahi rereke, me nga waka rererangi 14 i toa. I mataki matou i te nui o te auahi e puhipuhi ana, karekau tetahi o matou i moe nui mo nga po e wha e wera ana, e mataki ana i te karaka karaka e tata ana ki te whakamarama i te rangi. Inaianei kua oti i nga kaipatu ahi te mahi maia o te patu i te tarakona ahi, ko te kaha o te hapori kei te puta ki mua.
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.”
Kare rawa nga kupu pono i korerotia. Ki taku whakaaro kare ano au i kite i tetahi hapori e paheke ana i mua. I nga whenua - penei i te nuinga o nga whenua o Uropi - kei te mahi tonu nga kawanatanga ki te iti rawa (ka tautohetohe tetahi, mo te mahi) he maha nga tangata kua ngaro te hononga ki te hapori. I te wa kua tukuna e nga hahi nga kohatu kokonga mo tenei hononga, ko te nuinga o nga tangata kua kore e hono atu ki tetahi huihuinga whakapono, a ki te patai koe ki a raatau mo o raatau hapori, "iwi" ranei, ko te nuinga o nga tangata ka pohehe mo te whakautu. Ka korero ratou mo tetahi roopu he hoa mahi, he hoa takaro, he hoa kaore i te tino tata me nga hoa noho tata ki a raatau he hononga tata. Ko te papanga o o tatou hapori he raranga tuwhera inaianei, he maha nga tangata ka pahemo noa ki roto, ka mau ki etahi miro noa ki konei, ki tera wahi.
Mai i te tirohanga o mua me te taha-a-iwi, he tino awangawanga te ngaronga o te hapori. Kaore te tangata i hanga hapori mo te ngahau. Kīhai mātou i whakarōpū tahi nā te mea he pai ake te whakangau, te whakahaere ranei i te parepare o te whare rangatira me te hoa (ahakoa ko tera ano pea). I nga wa katoa o te hitori o te tangata, ahakoa he aha te waa me te waahi whenua, kua whakarōpūhia te tangata na te mea kei te noho tahi tatou me te noho haumaru ake, te whai hua me te kaha ake ki te whakaawe i to tatou horopaki hei painga mo tatou, ahakoa he ahi, he whakaeke hoariri. he mahi torangapu ranei. I te tupono o te tangi ano he pepeha torangapu, katahi ka kaha ake taatau.
He nui te mahi a nga wahine ki te hanga me te here i nga hapori, na te mea he tino whakatenatena ratou i te taha hapori me te koiora ki te mahi pera - ko te wahine tuatahi hei tiaki ia ia me ana tamariki ko tana tane - engari kei tua atu i a ia, i tana ngaro ranei, ko ia tonu. hapori ko tana rarangi whakamarumaru tuarua e whakawhirinaki ana ia mo te haumaru me te awhina i nga wa e mate ana. Ka taea te whakapae ko te pakaru o te hapori te take mo te piki haere o nga tatauranga o te pouri me te awangawanga i waenga i nga wahine o nga reanga katoa engari ko nga reanga rangatahi i te Raki o Uropi me te US. Ko te ahua o nga paapori pāpori he rite ki te hapori i roto i nga mano tini o nga akonga, engari na te mea he whakakapinga kaore e tapahia, ka tuku noa i te taapiri dopamine hei whakakapi mo te hononga pono. Mai i te tirohanga hauora hinengaro, he kino te ngaronga o te hapori pera i te wa e kitea ana i roto i te tirohanga o mua me te tirohanga a-iwi.
Ko te tikanga, ehara ko nga wahine anake te hunga whakaraerae ki tenei paheketanga kino. Puta noa i nga ira tangata, ko nga tatauranga mo te ngoikore o te hauora hinengaro tae atu ki te noho mokemoke, te pouri, te whakamomori me te taapiri he mea whakararu te panui me te piki haere o te mahi, ahakoa te ngawari haere o te noho mo te nuinga o nga tangata o te ao whakawhanake, he nui ake. Ko te kore o te hapori e noho korekore ana i roto i te oranga o te tangata, i runga ake i nga mea katoa ko te kore mohio kei te whai waahi ratou ki tetahi kaupapa nui ake i to ratau ake oranga. He poauau pea - engari kare e taea e au te whakaaro ko te kaha ki te whakatuu me te whakaihiihi i te tipu o nga hapori o te rohe ka taea te whakaora i te oranga o te roopu.
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.
Engari me pehea ki te whakahoki ano i nga kakano me nga pakiaka o te hapori i etahi atu waahi, i te ngaro o te whakapono tahi me nga whanaungatanga whakataetae whakataetae i nga waahanga katoa o te ao, kua ngaro, mo te wa roa? E nehenehe anei ta tatou tata'itahi e te utuafare ia aupuru i teie tupuraa?
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.
taea e 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 ano? ”
He panui manuhiri tenei na Holly Young. Ko nga whakaaro kua whakahuahia ko o raatau ake, kaore i te whakaatu i nga mea o BTC Inc ranei Bitcoin Nūpepa.
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