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Bitcoin Ako základ pre budovanie komunity
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 vrchole nášho požiaru bojovali hasiči z celého Portugalska. Viac ako tisíc mužov, 400 zvláštnych hasičských áut a 14 lietadiel nakoniec zvíťazilo. Sledovali sme masívny prúd dymu a nikto z nás tie štyri noci, ktoré horel, veľa nespal, pričom sme sledovali blížiacu sa oranžovú žiaru na oblohe. Teraz, keď hasiči dokončili hrdinskú úlohu zabiť ohnivého draka, prichádza do popredia sila komunity.
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.”
Nikdy neboli vyslovené pravdivejšie slová. Nemyslím si, že by som ešte niekedy videl komunitu tak hladko skĺznuť do tempa. Zdá sa, že v krajinách – ako je väčšina európskych krajín – kde vlády aspoň do určitej miery stále fungujú (možno polemizovať o fungovaní), mnohí ľudia stratili kontakt s komunitou. Kým kedysi kostoly poskytovali základné kamene pre toto spojenie, väčšina ľudí už nie je pridružená k žiadnemu náboženskému združeniu a ak sa ich spýtate na ich komunitu alebo „kmeň“, väčšina hľadá odpoveď. Hovoria o skupine voľne zloženej zo spolupracovníkov, športových kamarátov, priateľov, ktorí nie sú nevyhnutne blízko, a susedov, s ktorými ich spája väčšinou náhodné puto blízkosti. Tkanina našich spoločností je teraz otvorenou väzbou a mnohí jednotlivci cez ňu jednoducho prekĺznu do izolácie a tu a tam sa držia len za pár nití.
Z historického a sociologického hľadiska je strata komunity hlboko znepokojujúca. Ľudia nevytvárali komunity pre zábavu. Nezdružovali sme sa, pretože bolo zábavnejšie poľovať alebo obsadzovať hradby s kamošom (aj keď to asi bolo tiež). Počas ľudskej histórie, bez ohľadu na éru alebo geografické prostredie, sa ľudia združovali, pretože spolu sme a vždy sme boli bezpečnejší, efektívnejší a schopnejší ovplyvňovať náš kontext v náš prospech, či už ide o boj s požiarom, útok nepriateľa. alebo politický presah. S rizikom, že to bude znieť ako politický slogan, spolu sme skutočne silnejší.
Ženy tradične zohrávajú kľúčovú úlohu pri vytváraní a spájaní komunít, najmä preto, že sú k tomu sociálne a biologicky veľmi motivované – prvým ochrancom ženy pre seba a svoje deti je samozrejme jej muž – ale mimo neho alebo v jeho neprítomnosti je to ona. komunita, ktorá je jej druhou líniou ochrany a na ktorú sa spolieha, pokiaľ ide o bezpečnosť a pomoc v čase núdze. Dalo by sa presvedčivo tvrdiť, že je to rozpad komunity, ktorý je prinajmenšom čiastočne zodpovedný za prudko stúpajúcu štatistiku depresie a úzkosti u žien všetkých vekových kategórií, ale najmä u mladších generácií v severnej Európe a USA. Zdá sa, že sociálne médiá kopírujú komunitu v hordách sledovateľov, ale ako náhrada to jednoducho nepreruší a namiesto skutočného spojenia poskytujú iba závislosť od dopamínu. Z hľadiska duševného zdravia je strata komunity taká katastrofálna, ako keď sa na ňu pozeráme historickou a sociologickou optikou.
Je zrejmé, že nielen ženy sú zraniteľné voči tomuto katastrofickému poklesu. Naprieč pohlaviami štatistiky o zlom duševnom zdraví vrátane izolácie, depresie, samovrážd a závislosti spôsobujú depresívne čítanie a ich narastajúci výskyt, a to aj napriek tomu, že väčšina ľudí v rozvinutom svete má čoraz jednoduchší život. Je to nedostatok komunity, ktorá zanecháva v živote ľudí také prázdno, predovšetkým nedostatok pocitu, že prispievajú k veci, ktorá je väčšia ako ich vlastné osobné blaho. Možno je to naivné – ale nemôžem sa ubrániť pocitu, že aktívne zakladanie a stimulovanie rastu miestnych komunít by mohlo mať neuveriteľne obnovujúci potenciál pre náš kolektívny blahobyt.
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.
Ako však znovu zaviesť zárodky a korene komunity na iných miestach, kde sa stratou spoločnej viery a konkurenčných sociálnych vzťahov vo všetkých aspektoch života tak dlho strácala? Môžeme ako jednotlivci a rodiny podporovať tento 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.
Moci 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 ešte?"
Toto je príspevok hosťa od Holly Young. Vyjadrené názory sú úplne ich vlastné a nemusia nevyhnutne odrážať názory BTC Inc alebo Bitcoin Magazine.
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