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Description: In this reflective episode of Occupy the Land, Ernie shares the deep motivations behind our Arizona desert homestead project. From the Ron Paul Revolution and silver education to the Love Bus Liberty tour during COVID lockdowns, the journey has always been about preparing Generation Next for a broken system through decentralization and self-reliance. We discuss the critical pillars—private communication (mesh networks & Starlink), secure commerce (Zano crypto), and true property rights—as practical solutions to surveillance, coercion, and inevitable collapse. With stunning desert scenery as backdrop, Ernie explains how retaining water greens the land, why privacy-focused technology matters, and how occupying your own land is the most peaceful, moral way to reclaim liberty and live above the grid. A powerful “why we do this” update for anyone seeking real-world freedom. Peace.
Transcript:
Welcome to occupy the land. Occupy the land, dawg. We’re going to have a conversation. I’ll show you. You know, a little bit of evidence from graphics, a little video, kind of get an idea of what we’re doing out here. The main thing is, is that a lot of us, liberty, community, anarcho capitalist, anarchist, voluntary is, you know, we have a understanding that most don’t is that the system’s broken and it’s not there for generation next and it’s going to break.
And it was inevitable. And a lot of us that paid attention to, what was going on knew it. So what do we do? You know, as everybody has a channel, an evaluation, how bad it is, you know, why it’s going to go and it. Yeah. Got it. Now what? Well, this is the. Now what what we’ve done is over the years, I’ll start in about, you know, during the Ron Paul revolution.
Now, the Ron Paul revolution, what that was all about was how long we could keep Doctor Paul up on the podium. That was my goal for creating the Ron Paul Revolution logo, and we promoted it around the country and wound up being around the world, and it was for general public opinion. If you don’t get the public behind you, even if you get elected, you sneak in, you run as or whatever, it’s not going to stick because they damn those, man.
They’re coming for everything. So we wanted to make sure that people got an education. Ron was really good for that. So we were all in on that and cured a lot of people’s apathy. So I wanted to, take every opportunity to get generation next to understand what this was all about. The philosophy of liberty. Ken Schooland and James Court and I just did a show.
We’re going to relaunch the Philosophy of Liberty video that’s already put into 50 languages, and it’s a worldwide thing. We will talk a lot about that, but it’s along the same lines of why we do the kind of activism that we do. Then we had the Love Bus Liberty tour, we took an MCI bus. We went around the country going up against mandatory shots, vaccinations.
You have to use, you cancel lockdowns, supply chain stuff. So it was just, you know, a continuation of opportunities for us to educate the people on. It’s broke and it’s not going to get better until it gets better. And one of the solutions was we realized that we needed to promote decentralization. Fortunately, you know, as we really hammered on that, it became, you know, a thing and it’s, repeated often in the news.
You can’t swing a dead cat without some politician telling you how libertarian they are. But, are they really? I mean, do we know they’re not? And certainly, if you’re going to have the Federal Reserve, it’s inevitable. What’s coming. So they’re spending like.
They’re running up the credit card before they declare bankruptcy. And what we had done is we started promoting silver at the end of the revolution in oh eight. During oh nine and ten, you may remember silver dime cards. Well, that was an education. When they say things like, you know, a dime for a gallon of gas, if it’s a silver dime and you have to understand that, then you go a dime a dozen, dime a dozen, what’s a dime a dozen?
A dozen eggs. And that was one thing that we realized when we had a lot of chickens. All our friends and family, you know, a lot of times we give them away. But anybody that wanted to support, they would come by with a silver dime and get a dozen eggs, because now the dimes worth, I don’t know what about $5 or something?
Now, you know, in the high fours and it’s, no, it’s not 63 now. $63 it’d be. Yeah, it’s close to $6 now. Wow. Yep. Inflation. So what we do is we’re street activist. There’s a lot of people that we’ve helped in their street activism, providing resources and a news hub on Freeman’s phoenix.com. We promote them on Declare Your Independence with Ernest hancock.com.
And then but we needed to have a site that emphasized what was possible now new technologies. So I knew that I could be out in the desert on the edge of there not coming. And what we did is we found an open range area in west of Phoenix, about 70 miles. We’re about an hour and a half from, you know, a big box store and so on.
And it had cowboy trails and it was private property that we bought 18 acres, and we knew that we were going to have to, you know, source our own water. We’re going to grow our own food. Now, if we were younger, we’d be educating our own kids. We had to understand that it’s not just off the grid, it’s above the grid.
And one of the things the first category was always communication. Communication, communicating prices, communicating I have, I want, I buy, I sell, I trade, I barter, you know, and we knew that we were going to be popular because we got a backhoe and you got a lot of homesteaders out here. And that’s one of the things I, I been to a lot of places and so on, an enormous amount of work and certainly younger people that were, wheelbarrows and shovels.
And you had to have a lot of respect for them. I was like, man, you guys are the man and woman. So what we decided initially is that we had to wait until we could afford to get us a tractor and a lot of the supplies and equipment, but you don’t really. I mean, we wound up with the reason we had 18 acres, we have four children, and we had a two acre property where we had been experimented a lot on food production, communication, power and so on.
And we were ready in early 20 right when Covid started getting go. We made the decision to 19 after doing vaccine, our second vaccine education summit, and it became clear what was coming. Now, I didn’t know I was going to get that bad, but I knew, yeah, here it comes. So we decided to liquidate everything, give it to our children, bought an MCI bus 1980 and, fixed it up, painted it, put the studio in, and we went on the road for years back and forth across the United States promoting freedom.
Leave me alone, ism, and don’t take the shot. It’s amazing. About 15% of the people didn’t. And that’s what’s sad. I doubt you know that they’ll do it again, but they’re trying again. Here. It comes. Covid porn. Be a start. And so we understood that it was general public opinion and just people being informed and understand what their options were.
What do they do. You can’t work here anymore. You can’t travel. You can’t get on a plane. You got to have a DNA sample and, you know, anal probes and whatever you got to do to be able to, you know, live a normal life or what used to be normal. Now we’re in the abnormal. So in after the evolution, we decided that we were going to focus on what Doctor Paul had made an issue.
The Federal Reserve became a presidential national issue. That never happened before. As a libertarian activist and candidate and all that, we you know, it’s not federal, it’s not reserve. And the all that kind of stuff just plays over people, you know, Modern Monetary Theory, Kinsey and whatever the heck. So what we did is we wanted to promote silver.
How we did it was with dime cards, and that was on the back of it. It had the information of where, you know, how much it was worth at what spot value and so on. Mainly we had the first silver calculator apps that were being able to use at festivals. If you want to trade in silver, buy and sell, and the vendor you know would need to know what it was worth.
So we did the calculator app and that worked out well. And things were, you know, a snap and, and but then crypto came with a promise. The promise was anonymity, privacy, security, speed, cheap transactions, no third party risk. Nobody can say you can’t or have to or not allowed. And we understood that. Yeah. As a whole. That’s the way to go.
Now we have been focus on the opportunity to have a go back currency for a long time, but we’re not going to expect the government’s going to go back to that anytime soon. But in competition it maybe the the BRICs unit, you know they’ll do it than the petrodollars done. But what our goal was was to make sure people understood that the technology had come to where we could be able to get all the traits that we were promised.
Now, Bitcoin really penetrated the liberty community through a lot of the, radio shows such as ours and different networks. And, you know, the Free State project was a big part of that. And we understood, Candy, if they dam those, that won’t leave us alone. T3 from here on, if they understood that they could use this technology to program it to make sure that you you know how the velocity of my how fast she had to use it, what you could use it for, what was approved not and then tracked and surveilled.
Well, if that technology existed and they go, well, they’d have to get 51% or they have to get all this money every day. Well, then they’ll do it. So this is what our concern was from the beginning. And even though we were, you know, I just I was I knew it was going to evolve into Goldman sachs.gov coin.
So we needed to have people and developers that had liberty as the goal. Privacy freedom. Oh man. It’s beautiful out here. Well we’re going to go ahead and you know walk it and you can enjoy the scenery as I share with you. The main thing was is that the anonymity part they were going well, it’s anonymous. Now as we press on you know how it works and so on.
Well it’s pseudo anonymous and I had to look up pseudo and it means not so was you. So a lot of people were not. They abandoned the idea of digital cash. It was a store of value. It’s like gold is your idea. And then when they had the forking with, Bitcoin Cash and it was like I paid $36 for a transaction one time and by accident and, it was, very clear that you get up to $60 for some of these transactions to get it, you know, put through the system faster.
So I saw that this was this was being manipulated x like silver. And when you start putting ETFs in Bitcoin and you have exchanges that are approved by the man and all this side, it’s the same thing. You know here we go. So what we wanted to do is to make sure that we had the ability to have an aggregate market to be able to buy, sell, trade, maintain a livelihood and, you know, in association with our values.
And we wanted to, you know, not be coerced or controlled or what we couldn’t, couldn’t do during Covid. When the lockdown happened, supply chains started go on and food started getting scarce. And, you know, grandma and grandpa, my kids, when we were moving, they go up into the attic like, oh, we found all the toilet paper. So it’s, those of us that were just preparing, you know, getting all crazy about it, but you got enough food, you got enough paper products, you got enough.
Enough to last you a little bit. You know, you’re a lot more comfortable. Well, this is now a lesson that people had gotten a lot of people are homesteading, moving on to the land, making sure that they, are not as inconvenienced as they went through with that. But I don’t know, time will pass and they’ll forget. But what is the real goal?
Quit delegating authority to someone else to fix it for you. You know, it’s always you’re going to have Uncle Sam raise your children. You’re going to have Uncle Sam, you know, in charge of the, you know, the power grid and what power can be done, what can be built and where. It’s just we’ve delegated our authority as free human beings to somebody else to fix it for us.
Well, that stops. It’s going to ahead. It’s going to have to it’s going to happen anyway regardless. But, what we did is we decided when we did Pirates Without borders.com that we would emphasize the power, the mindset, the thought process behind decentralization. And the first category. We have like eight categories communication, energy, shelter, food, water, transportation, automation, education.
These are things health. And these are things that we thought if you could decentralize this and the individual could produce their own power, grow their own food, you know, with new technology, you wouldn’t reduce any standard of living and you’d be free. So that was what we were emphasizing. It’s been ten, 15 years that we’ve been doing that.
And it was culminated in us actually doing it. Now that the Love Bus Liberty tour was over and we wanted to, you know, buy land. Well, we loved the desert. You know, Donna’s my wife is from Pennsylvania. And she was like, no, no, damn it. Well, there’s a lot of beautiful area, wooded areas and so on in Arizona, northeastern Arizona.
It’s like burns on the ground. Might as well be the Pacific Northwest. You got, you know, high dry areas. You got low desert. You got you got you got. Well, we wanted to be within an hour and a half of grandkids soccer games. We have four children, 12 grandchildren. So you know Arizona is where it’s going to be.
Fortunately, you know, my wife loves the desert. She much rather had the heat than the cold. And it’s only a couple of months that you’re like eight, nine weeks that it’s oh my God. And if you prepare for that and you got enough energy and so on, you’re fine. You know, we’ve been I’ve been living in Arizona since the early 70s and, we our family came from Florida, Central Florida.
We moved to Arizona, where my mother’s family was from. So I’m familiar with the desert, where I go to spend a lot of time on how we’re doing, what we’re building. You know, even really where other is out in the desert. We have one neighbor within five miles. Then the next neighbor is about, I don’t know, another five miles.
So we are very remote. And it was intentional because there’s no, you know, there’s no inspection, there’s no road maintenance. There’s no that it’s, you know, who build the roads. Well, homie, right here, that’s who. And that’s why we needed the tractor to be able to get our, bus back here to live in while we do construction.
But the goal from the beginning was always that we be able to have communication while we were on the LA bus. Liberty tour is when, Starlink came out and this was like, okay, here we go. Now, we have been covering all kinds of news on different promises of, worldwide internet and all that kind of stuff. So we were paying attention.
But when that came, we didn’t have to, you know, run around getting Wi-Fi from your McDonald’s and Starbucks anymore to do a show and that kind of stuff. So Starlink checked off a big box and we were preparing for that. We knew eventually it was coming. So what we did is we go, all right, if we got communication, that’s cool, but it’s not private.
And we wanted just like with cryptos, you know, that said, you know, you’re on it. You got to get above the grid. So what happened was we found this land. It was very remote. It’s, now that we worked the roads, it’s easy to get out here. It just takes a while. But the, main thing was, can you have commerce?
Can you have communication with your neighbors? I mean, they’re sparse, you know, but there’s. And these couple of valleys that are out here know there’s thousands of people, but it’s over, like, you know, 4 or 500mi². But the, it is important to me to have people understand how powerful and how useful and how essential communication is. It’s why a lot of times you have communities that are small and they’re around each other, and oftentimes even communal living.
Now, all of us poverty here, and they don’t have the resources. They’re always looking, you know, we’ll all just come together and we’ll live on a piece of land and share this and share that, and share and collectivism doesn’t work even with, you know, the Anarchist Day on it. So, we were all about not intentional communities, but unintentional communities.
That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be a community. You know, we’re definitely, you know, part of the community. But what we wanted to do is be able to make sure that we could have a private property. This is mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, not yours, mine. And, you had the freedom to do whatever you wanted to do.
Well, you still need communication with your neighbors. We, you know, make our tractor available to anyone that knows this out here. Hey, you got a little project. You know, when I’m free and do it within a week or so, a few hours, save you a bunch of time, dig your septic, scrape your road, help with the flood damage, that kind of thing.
So, yeah, part of the community. And we can expect help and have gotten, you know, from, you know, a lot of the community out here help with this. I get, you know, fence post out a good deal, I get this I get that, I get some help on stuff. So it’s a community and we’re still focusing on community.
It’s just not community ownership. And that was kind of what America was based on is that yeah, there’s definitely property rights, you know. But like a good neighbor Ernie and Don is there. And rule one, I tell you what rule one is, don’t be a dick. That’s it. Be respectful of your neighbors and what’s going on there. But, definitely advocate for your own freedoms and your own property.
But we were looking for communication. Now Starlink and any other communication is going to have, you know, a digital trail. And what we did is last March, you know, in 25, a good friend of mine, John Snyder, the economic truth, he’s out of Winnipeg, and he, started the thing called Outernet. He was really, you know, embraced the idea that we were going to need private communication encrypted, you know, non surveilled, local meshed.
So we were talking about it. And I’m going, man, this is what we’re doing. We got a use case for it. Let’s do it. So we put in relays on mountains out here to get us coverage over these valleys. And the technology is such now that with 120 degree antenna, we put a $70 dish on our bus, which now I got to move, you know, to its own pole, because walking around the bus kind of breaks the signal.
But, what we did is it works and it’s 200 down and 100 up at 13 miles. So what we did. Yeah, I can show you here.
That mountain on the top of that mountain, there is a relay, and we have a dish that points to that relay. And then it covers where we have friends that live on the other side of that mountain, because we couldn’t get direct line of sight, so we needed a relay. So that’s what we did and it works. So now with the, Starlink so that we can get, now we’ll just stand in the shade here and you can see, you know, the the desert greens up.
It rained about a month ago. And man, especially if you can stop the water, which is what we’re doing on our property and it’s going to be you’re going to do a drone shot and look down in a year and you go, damn, what it already do. But it was part of being off above the grid. Even a well, we had the opportunity to do well.
It’s expensive, you know, it’d be 50, $70,000. You know, it’s you know, that’s a lot. And this is doable. But, we have an agricultural well that we, you know, pay $500 a year and get all we want, and that’s fine, you know, so we’re we’re we’re doing okay until we start doing a lot of fruit trees and so on.
Well, that is going to require more. So we’ve done all the drainage and retain all that water on our land. So it’s working. We have one good wrangle. Yep. There we go. So we’re going to have enough for agriculture the way we set it up. So will you go to occupy the land. And you can kind of see what we’re doing.
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But it was the communication and the commerce and the aggregate market that wasn’t the most important to me, because I understood that you’re not going to have a community, you’re not going to have the back up, you’re not going to have the information without having communication between the residents. Normally, people would be much closer together. This is more like literally the Wild West and where you gotta, you know, ride for a few hours on your horse to go visit your neighbor kind of thing.
So we’re not that remote. We have, you know, modern transportation, but we also have modern communication. We have the mesh network that is off grid. It can interface with our Starlink and have links between communities. But the biggest part with Outernet, when they came out and they were first starting this, I got all I need is text. I need to be able to put an IPFs file link.
You can go watch a video, put up a link to a Jpeg, put up a link to, you know, whatever and a little bit of text. The British are coming in a, you know, link to a video or something. I mean, you know, that’s all I needed just to be able to have comment. You can direct them to another website, you know, more traditional, have communication, whatever.
When it came out and I don’t think they were familiar with how flat and how far you can go in Arizona from a mountain top where they go, whoa. So they got all excited. So now there’s time that we can do live video security feeds of whatever on their system that just goes to, you know, a small bot, you know, Raspberry Pi type thing.
And it becomes a hub of all the conversations and interplanetary file sharing that we do all our videos on and everything, so that they don’t go away. There’s no deplatforming, there’s no sensing a censoring, editing, eliminating. You know, I know I’m so sick of that. And what we’re going to do is emphasize the communication part of this. But we need a crypto.
We need a crypto that has as its goal privacy as its goal, that it doesn’t have all of the surveillance and all the other stuff with it. I’ve learned over the decades, you know, interviewing people and talk to it all comes down to why they’re in the freedom movement, why they do this, why they care, why, why, why, why, why, why.
And a lot of times it just seems like it goes back to a full best understanding of what philosophy of liberty is. It’s about self ownership. So we’re gonna resurrect that, old video and push that. Because when I talk to people. Well, I read Road to Serfdom and, you know, economics in one lesson or some Rothbard thing or Ayn Rand stuff.
Yeah, but why why, why did you read that? What? Uncle? What? Mom? Dad? Grandparent, teacher, coach, employee or something? Somebody, you know, prompted you to say something? Now, where did that come from? And the philosophy of liberty keeps coming up, and it’s because it’s a moral tale. It’s why we do this. Why nobody asks why anymore. So we’re going to resurrect that.
But it was very apparent to me that we needed to have commerce that was buy, sell, share that. That’s what’s important. Now, over a decade ago, we did, Freedom’s Phoenix magazine. Each one of the magazines was about off grid living. It was about when the plant, it was about commerce, use of silver. A lot of, you know, a lot of the, great writers and a lot of the heroes in the Liberty community were authors of this, have, you know, participated in it.
And so on. I want to show you, you know, some of the magazine covers, you kind of see the focus that we were focusing on. It was self written, self reliability, individual liberty, self-responsibility. Don’t delegate your authority to some something or somebody else. And certainly this Federal Reserve thing and being able to use sound and real money.
Now we’re still I advocate heavily silver, silver, silver, silver, silver silver all of a sudden, you know, now you never profit in your own land. But fortunately, my children took it seriously. And then, you know, it’s it’s up now. So now. Oh, wow. How did you know? How did you not know? What were you paying attention to? The news.
The government, you know, the banks, you know. So as time has gone on, all of the voluntarios all of a sudden, man, you guys are so smart.
Yeah, it was just a principle thing. We understood what was going to happen. The inevitability of putting you know, shiny badges on people that had only their interest in mind. And you create all this power to do things. Well, who’s attracted to that kind of power? The sociopaths, the people with our empathy, love, compassion. They don’t care. They’ll do any and everything to maintain, enhance and expand their intrusiveness over you as an individual.
Your rights, your property to their advantage because there’s no moral hurdle for these people to get over. Oh, they wouldn’t do election fraud or, you know, spin us into 38. It’s really a hell of a lot more by the way. You know, in debt, you know, they wouldn’t do that. That’d be wrong. Right? Well, what if we knew that?
What would you do? This is what we’re doing. And each one of those categories, different building materials outside of, you know, permits and permission slips from the Crown, you know, transportation, you know, we’re going to have our own, you know, flying car. You know, I have a runway. And the reason for that was really I used to fly ultralight, and I want to have one to explore out here because it’s awesome.
These mountains back here, there’s gold mines in there. And this is now a preserve. The only supposed to be able to, you know, hike it or horseback. And, so we’re going to be exploring a lot of this out here just for fun. Grins. Giggles. Because I can because I love the desert. This is our solution. It may not be yours.
It may not be. You know what you’d prefer? You know a lot of my show. They they want wooded, green, grassy areas. And I know as an adult that. Yeah, but what about the bugs? You know, here there’s not that many bugs you got to. Yeah. Scorpions. I mean, you just kind of sidestep them in the snakes, but the,
It’s really nice out here, but it is all about a currency, all about trade, all about sustaining yourself, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And part of that is keeping my property. So life is just it’s it’s so clear that you’re healthier out here. I feel better, I’m losing a lot of weight. I’m, trying to be an example, an inspiration to my family and to others because a lot of times it’s just.
Yeah, now what? What’s the solution? The solution is getting above the grid. And it’s important that we have communication, that we have a crypto that does it. There’s Zano project that we’re working with Aaron Day and, and, you know, by the time you see this is not going to be a secret, you know, Roger ver. And, these guys really put in the effort to have a understanding of what the developers code for.
I’ve had to develop the co-founders of Zano on. We’ve talked at length. I want to get to know who we’re dealing with and why. People out of respect are promoting this project. It’s for all the reasons that we’ve promoted bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, crypto blockchain. There’s all the promises that, you know, they then those kind of jump in front of our parade and take a lot of these features away from us.
So we’re using Zeno as a platform for us to be able to have private communications, you know, in the form of commerce. But we need a de mesh network for us to be able to just be totally free of, you know, the control grid and turn it off and you’re not allowed anymore. So I wanted to have an example out here so that you guys could see that it not only does it work, but it can thrive.
And you’re insulated from all of the crap that is coming. There wouldn’t be locked down. They wouldn’t be able to do that. They did. They wouldn’t be able to mandate. You have to have an ID, you have to be able to travel. They get your bank accounts, kind of your money, but you can’t have it now. They are.
Food will always be on the shelves. It wasn’t. So this is, our solution. Now I’m partnering up with a lot of people on doing this and advocating for it, but I wanted to make sure you guys understood. We went from education on silver and sound money and a proper role of government when it comes to that. And, you know, building shelter a few years.
I have some people we’ve gone all over the country visiting different building techniques and, you know, communities and so on. And I’ll tell you, it’s time and pressure. You got a wheelbarrow, a tin can for, you know, fill in stuff with soil and earth bags and whatever, and a shovel you can make it happen. Just takes time. I wasn’t willing to do that.
So we got the tractor. But it is amazing to me that if I’d known what I know now as a couple in our 20s having small children, we would have done this. We would have had a complex, we would have had a lot of buildings for our children to stay or go or help build and, you know, live here or not.
And, a community that supported them and they probably find a spouse of wanting to do the same thing. Sounds like old America, doesn’t it? What is it that makes people that do this kind of thing happy and happy when they go? The pursuit of happiness that comes from I think it’s a Norse word hap that’s, you know, by chance or what what it was meant when they said the pursuit of happiness.
It was about your circumstances, you know, the pursuit of, you know, your happenstance to create the circumstances, like occupying the land to where you benefit yourself. That was the pursuit of changing my happy happenstance to where I’m more comfortable, I’m more free. I’m more self-sufficient. Stay out of my way. No permit. So, you know, I, I bring that up because there was a league in Cities and Towns convention that I was covering and yeah, there’s collectivism there.
And it was University of Arizona professor that did the keynote on the opening. And he said, you know, the pursuit of happiness is the government’s job to make the people happy. Whoa, man. Had them on a couple times on the show discussing this, because this was like really, you know, so that is a total misunderstanding of what this is all about, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of rights and so on.
I can see that they probably doing the best that they could and still have a government. But yeah, bad guys always get in charge. They pursue the shiny badge of authority and we rule. You kind of think, okay, we have a good government, but we’re going to govern. So this is where voluntary voluntarios, anarchist or anarcho capitalist, what do you call us understand fundamentally what’s going to happen?
What’s the solution? We have to be self-sufficient. We have to advocate for decentralized solutions. And it’s happening. You’re starting. You can’t go anywhere without somebody talking about decentralization. But you have to give a use case. You have to demonstrate it can be done. You have to demonstrate how important it is and the joy you get, the health you get the insulating from.
I’m out here, you know, I mean, this is you’re not going to the gym. What do I care? I mean, you know, it is going to be so isolated from whatever’s going on, and we know what’s going on. I published Freedom’s Phoenix. I see all the, you know, the news and what’s going on. It just doesn’t affect us now, as if you’re watching this or you’re going to be attending to Naka Poco in 26 and you’re have means, you have resources.
What are you using them for? You know, are you supporting people that are advocating for what you what are you, putting your money into something other than just, oh, it’s a store of value and I’m just going to buy a bunch and hopefully it goes up and doesn’t crash if they can make it, which they can do and they’re doing.
But, invest in freedom, invest in generation. Next, invest in the concept of decentralization. Be an advocate for the philosophy of liberty to your, you know, favorite collectivist and have them understand the basics. That’s what it’s going to be. It’s going to be morality. It’s the mirror. It’s the morality of freedom, of liberty. And when you say freedom, I’m free.
You know, I’m not in shackles. I’m not in a cage. I don’t have, you know, handcuffs on. I can use my hands to fashion raw material and build stuff, and it’s mine, and that’s my property. And sustains my life with shelter and food and so on. But are you in a state of liberty? So if I had the freedom right now, I wake up free and I do whatever I want.
But do I have the liberty to? Are you at liberty to do that? No. There’s always somebody who’s got a shiny badge and a form for you to fill out. So that is the difference between liberty and freedom. We’re trying to create a state, a mindset of liberty. We’re free. We just don’t know it, you know? So I’m just I want to make sure that you understand the motivation for what we’re doing.
And we really needed a private, secure, cheap to use, anonymous crypto. And we’re working with the Zano project. You will more hear more about at a Norco Poco in February. And, as a use case for that, we’ve been working on that for a while and using Zeno and getting, you know, helping people. I come tractor room, you know, a conditioner you download, you know, crypto wallet and put some Zano on.
I’m going to give you, you know, that that’s how you get it started. That’s how Bitcoin was started. That’s what we did for years. You know I got I don’t have any bitcoin but I got $100,000 hoodies. So this was what was more important to me was to be able to educate people on what it took to be free.
And it’s going to be privacy, commerce, communications. This is why we’re doing this. And, you know, I’m I’m rich. I wake up with, you know, batteries still got charge fully charged by about 9:00 in the morning. I have, you know, food that’s growing, loving wife that’s on the same page with me. And, you know, lots of friends and contacts that are of the same mindset.
I don’t know the definition of. Well, maybe you like to travel. You know, how we travel. You know, quite a bit. A lot of times, friends will, you know, invite us to go different. We’ve been to a lot of places, done a lot of things, but this is the most important. And I wanted to share it with you.
The progression of how we got to here and how communication with satellites and mesh networks and cryptocurrencies have, with the right focus of being private, of being off above the grid and how that’s going to change the world. And we’re going to try and be an example piece.
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