“Transcendence refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos.
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Without the transcendent and the transpersonal, we get sick, violent, and nihilistic, or else hopeless and apathetic. We need something ‘bigger than we are’ to be awed by and to commit ourselves to in a new, naturalistic, empirical, non-churchly sense, perhaps as Thoreau and Whitman, William James and John Dewey did.
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That is, the greatest attainment of identity, autonomy, or selfhood is itself simultaneously a transcending of itself, a going beyond and above selfhood. The person can then become egoless.”
Self-sovereignty is self-transcendence.
Insofar as belief & investment in #Bitcoin’s network lowers time preference, delays gratification, pushes out the collective horizon, streamlines global energy distribution, safeguards the data commons, cultivates a pragmatic infinite mindset, futureproofs the economy from broken incentives & incentives humanity away from the tragedy of the commons, then to #HODL #BTC is to uphold an open source commonwealth of the people, by the people, for the people.
To #HODL #BTC is a permissionless, supererogatory civil liberty & responsibility. First person autonomy.
To #HODL #BTC is to participate in the distribution of freedom for all.
We are Satoshi.
