2022: #JohnNaughton lays out the well-known propertarian and Hayekian side of crypto evangelism, then this intriguing observation;
"Lots of people will point out that the Satoshi memo, which released the idea for blockchain, more or less coincides with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and... [that] being a token for the corrupt, uncontrollable nature of financial capitalism and it's untrustworthiness."
"... one of the challenges of [deliberative democracy] is to get the mainstream media interested in it. I think they're not interested partly because it's quite technical, and secondly because I actually think they're threatened."
I recently stumbled on the work of David Runciman, whose political analysis I find both unusual and insightful. Just listened to the audio version of his 2024 Guardian piece, looking at the effects of the pandemic on both geopolitics, and domestic politics in a range of countries;