Just the other day I heard someone throwing the phrase ‘pain is weakness leaving the body’. the pain we are going through now is dependency, convenience, vulnerability, misdirected energy, undue hierarchical influence, and fiat values leaving my family. What remains is resiliency, security, independence, strength, intelligence, grace, generosity, confidence, authentic knowledge; this isn’t achieved just by holding bitcoin, but by going through the process of stripping your life down to what really matters to you and going all in, seeing and leveraging the results, and then doubling down again, and then again, and again. And when you do that with a network of people who have also gone through the process and know what freedom is built on and use technology to secure the fruits of that cooperative spirit, you realize what freedom is; it IS community, it IS the network you cultivate and contribute to, it is a participatory solution, you are working for each other and your collective freedom. Whoever you choose. the sparse networks of people who are meeting in their communities to discuss how and why to use bitcoin are going to be the leaders of their communities in 10 years because they will have outsized economic resources and the network to keep things civilized, while the rest scramble through the global fiat implosion.