Doctor doctor, what is wrong with me?
This supermarket life, is getting long
What is the heart life of a color TV?
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen?
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Hey I escaped from that culture (perhaps to something different only in superficial appearances?) in my 20s. I remember getting annoyed in my girl friend's apartment because she and her roommates where watching some sitcom that was treating us like we had an IQ of 90. After that, I think I rarely watched TV again, perhaps just only sporting events.
You will never change the fact that the center of the bell curve has the propensity to be sheep.
The only thing we can truly accomplish is to push the power to the ends of the social+technology network, so that the sheep can't cause centralized contagion.
If you succeed to accomplish a complete wipeout of technology (e.g. NSA power derives from your support of environmentalism) and resource dispersion (e.g. your religious battle against carbon), you will get instead a horrific outcome w.r.t. to the human species.
P.S. I edited my prior post.
The risk you are failing to attribute to gold is that you won't be able to find any where to sell it.
The government will close down all black markets when they move us to electronic money.
Black markets can only exist where the mainstream money is not trackable. Ponder that.
Your only chance to not lose all your wealth will be an anonymous crypto-currency. Remember I warned you and you didn't listen.
Why would someone who has anonymous crypto-currency want to trade it for gold wherein they risk their anonymity in a sting operation. Duh.