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I just watched an interview with Simon Dixon that really put a lot of current events into perspective. I’ll link it below, but I want to highlight one core idea that feels especially relevant right now.
What many people experience as “chaos” – political polarization, culture wars, endless outrage cycles – isn’t accidental. It’s predictable. Systems built on debt, power concentration, and control require distraction and division to keep running.
This has nothing to do with left vs right, Republicans vs Democrats, or race, culture, or ideology. Those labels are tools. When we’re busy fighting each other inside those boxes, we’re not looking at the structure itself. If you’re constantly pulled into political arguments, outrage threads, or tribal debates, you’re not “engaged” – you’re being diverted.
That distraction is the real win condition.
Simon explains how financial and political power has consolidated over decades, regardless of who is “in charge.” The faces change, the incentives don’t. And no one at the top is optimizing for your long-term wellbeing. If they were, the system wouldn’t look like this.
So what’s the response?
First: slow down. Step out of the emotional noise. Stop playing a game that was designed without you in mind.
Second: focus on things that actually increase your sovereignty.
Bitcoin is a powerful tool for opting out of parts of this system. Hard money matters. Self-custody matters. But Bitcoin alone is not enough if every transaction is transparent forever. Financial sovereignty without privacy is incomplete.
This is where PIVX stands out.
PIVX has stayed unwavering in its commitment to decentralization and privacy, even when those values were unpopular, inconvenient, or ignored. Private, optional, on-chain transactions are not a “nice to have” – they are essential if individuals are going to retain agency in an increasingly surveilled world.
If you believe the current chaos is just bad luck, you’ll keep reacting.
If you recognize patterns, you start choosing differently.
Interview with Simon Dixon (highly recommended):
Not financial advice. Just an invitation to zoom out, think clearly, and stop letting distraction do the work for those who benefit from it.
What many people experience as “chaos” – political polarization, culture wars, endless outrage cycles – isn’t accidental. It’s predictable. Systems built on debt, power concentration, and control require distraction and division to keep running.
This has nothing to do with left vs right, Republicans vs Democrats, or race, culture, or ideology. Those labels are tools. When we’re busy fighting each other inside those boxes, we’re not looking at the structure itself. If you’re constantly pulled into political arguments, outrage threads, or tribal debates, you’re not “engaged” – you’re being diverted.
That distraction is the real win condition.
Simon explains how financial and political power has consolidated over decades, regardless of who is “in charge.” The faces change, the incentives don’t. And no one at the top is optimizing for your long-term wellbeing. If they were, the system wouldn’t look like this.
So what’s the response?
First: slow down. Step out of the emotional noise. Stop playing a game that was designed without you in mind.
Second: focus on things that actually increase your sovereignty.
Bitcoin is a powerful tool for opting out of parts of this system. Hard money matters. Self-custody matters. But Bitcoin alone is not enough if every transaction is transparent forever. Financial sovereignty without privacy is incomplete.
This is where PIVX stands out.
PIVX has stayed unwavering in its commitment to decentralization and privacy, even when those values were unpopular, inconvenient, or ignored. Private, optional, on-chain transactions are not a “nice to have” – they are essential if individuals are going to retain agency in an increasingly surveilled world.
If you believe the current chaos is just bad luck, you’ll keep reacting.
If you recognize patterns, you start choosing differently.
Interview with Simon Dixon (highly recommended):
Not financial advice. Just an invitation to zoom out, think clearly, and stop letting distraction do the work for those who benefit from it.