Critiquing Prestige
I'm not talking about Prestige Rum, but as rums go that is a terrible choice. DarkWallet founder and Crypto-Anarchist entrepreneur Amir Taaki hosted the Crypto Show with fellow Crypto-Anarchist entrepreneur, DarkWallet co-founder and head of DefenseDistributed Cody Wilson back in August of this year. They discuss a range of ideas centered around subverting coercively centralized power structures by developing tools for the little man, the poor, the indigent, the marginalized, the other, the oppressed et cetera. Their ideology is not backed by an explicitly Christian metaphysical ethic as far as I can determine. But, that does not mean that it does not implicitly support Christian ethics. Empowering the oppressed is what the Torah is about. It is what the Prophets and the Apostles preached until their last breaths.
There is a part of this interview that reminds me of the Major Prophet Jeremiah. Taaki is criticizing the self-aggrandizing prestige promotion of the so-called Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation. Taaki is a major player in the Bitcoin movement, and does not opine that there can be a Chief Scientist within such a decentralized movement. He decries the Chief Scientist's claim as boasting to recruit establishment funding and stamping of approval. I see the so-called Chief Scientist's boasting as nothing more than man's constant rebellion against the instruction of God. It shows that he has confidence in his own wisdom, or rather the flesh. Jeremiah has a sweet and swift remedy for this ailment.
Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord (Jeremiah 9:23-24).
Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on us sinners, shield us from boasting in our brilliance, strength or earthly currency holdings, help us to only boast in your unending love, justice and righteousness, unto the ages of ages, amayn.
Furthermore, we must love each other.