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Two and half years ago I was sitting with a friend of mine in a roof-top terrace in Rio while she was telling me about her new start-up that was about to be launched.

As most start-ups go, it all starts with personal dreams about effecting positive change in the world. While many of those plans and dreams may never get the chance to take off,  Susanne’s dream did. 

You see, Susanne is a go-getter. Wherever she sets her mind, her feet are usually not too far away. Even if it’s in war-zones. 

Seriously, war-zones.
 
A few months later, that company she told me about was already taking shape.

In short, Bitnation was a proposed solution to a precise problem. An attempt to replace the current authoritarian system with a new model where all transactions are open-source and registered on the blockchain.  

Would that work? 

I didn’t even think about asking  that question to be honest. 

To me  success is never guaranteed, so instead of dwelling over functionality, we just kept discussing the idea, the plans, and how certain elements would be executed.

It all seemed fascinating that I just kept asking about smart contracts. 

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Before long, their plans were in fact executed as we’ve seen the first marriage to ever be recorded on the blockchain. 

## The Do Something Principal

Instead of (or on addition to) complaining about the current system, some people attempt to create new systems that improve on the old ones, or even make them obsolete. 

Personally, I love those people, whether they fail or succeed. 

But back to the first conversation. There was a moment where Susanne asked me a question I had no answer to. 

*“So what do you think about all this Libertarian in-fighting going on lately?”*

I didn’t have an answer, or maybe I didn’t want to spend a single second thinking about it. 

 I said that that it was sad, and quickly changed the subject and tried not to think about it anymore.

Until a few weeks later when she was at the Max Keiser show in RT,  and Max said  something that made me reflect for long time, that sometimes it seems that if you were to put Libertarians on an island, that it could turn to a *Lord of the Flies* scenario.

Then it dawned on me. 

You see, a few years ago, mainly due to the Ron Paul phenomenon and other factors, many people started gravitating towards a more Libertarian philosophy than ever before. 

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With such growth, a whole new world of conversations started to emerge. Conversation such as: *How would this work?* Or *how would that fit with the non-aggression principal?*...Etc.

There seemed to be no shortage of interesting conversations to go around. 

But also there seemed to be no shortage of blame to go around.

At first the blame was mostly directed towards politicians that were mainly seen as a “parasite class” that without having any experience in managing companies, running businesses, building capital nor creating job opportunities… You'll always find them telling people what to do. 

And more importantly, they will always, always try to engage in some witch-hunt activity to get everyone at everyone’s throat.

It usually goes down like this:
 
First they start directing the pitchfork towards an outsider enemy, and when everyone is on a witch-hunting mode, they quickly turn the focus to all sorts of "inner enemies" to finally get everyone fighting with each other.

But here’s the problem, it is estimated that 4% of the population are sociopaths and as the Libertarian community grew, sociopaths naturally started gravitating there as well. 

Not because their deep love for freedom, but because they are merchants of hate. They saw a common enemy to direct pitchfork towards, in this case it was “the statists”. 

And from there, things went down faster than a one-legged man in butt-kicking competition. 

### That’s what happens when you take the complaining and blame route, there is no other way to go but down. 

Then you know how it goes, when everyone was on a witch-hunting mode, the pitchforks went from an outsider enemy to an “inner enemy”.

## The In-fighting Has Began. 

> *"When the devil asks you to dance you better say never, because a dance with the devil might last you forever"*  **― Immortal Technique.**

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... *To Be Continued.*

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