from slavery to freedom
The book of Exodus is the story of God liberating the oppressed Israelites from Egypt and forging a special relationship with them.
What made the situation in Egypt unbearable was not only the slavery but also its extreme harshness. The Egyptian masters worked the Israelites ruthlessly and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage Exodus 1:14. As a result, Israel languished in misery and suffering and a broken spirit.
The Pharaoh’s oppression of Israelites can be segmented into 2 phases:
- Forced servitude (coercion)
- An attempt at genocide (Exodus 1:16)
The Israelites are Bitcoiners, the Pharaoh and his minions represent the state.
However, there is always HOPE (1)
And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land … Exodus 3:7–8
Pharaoh and Israelites parallel with the modern world
Slavery can be defined in simple terms: if you don’t own the fruits of your labor and your body, then you are a slave.
We are all forced to pay taxes to the state. The fruits of our labor are all the Pharaoh’s, and we are allowed to keep an arbitrary amount that Pharaoh decides. That’s not enough, what remains in our hands, our purchasing power is also being devalued through inflation (money printing).
Many people get thrown in cages because of arbitrary laws. Is there a crime without a victim? The Pharaoh surely thinks so! Furthermore, if you try to avoid being extorted by the Pharaoh then he might throw you out of your own house in the streets or throw you in a cage.
Here are the hard truths that few of us see:
- we don’t own the fruits of our labor, we work hard all our lives just to give more than 50% as a tribute to the Pharaoh, and what we save is also stolen through inflation by him. This is a form of modern bondage.
- we are persecuted for victimless crimes
- we are thrown out of our homes (see civil forfeiture and eminent domain), we are imprisoned if we don’t bow down to Pharaoh’s will
- we don’t seem to own our bodies as we are coerced into getting jabs
And that’s not enough for the Pharaoh, he’s preparing a centrally controlled monetary system for us: Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDCs) that will be connected to our central ID and a social score system. Total oversight and control is their wish, a dark and evil panopticon is being engineered, and many of us are oblivious.
However, there is always HOPE (2)
[We can] gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own. — Satoshi
Many of us are exiting the Pharaoh’s system of slavery, we are moving our savings, our money, our life energy into a freedom-based system that’s securing the fruits of our labor for eternity in a cyberspace citadel of immutable force: Bitcoin.
In the Bitcoin land of sovereignty, there is no inflation, no one can steal your value, no one can force you to do anything. We can trade and interact in a permissionless, voluntary way without a third party that extracts value in a coercive manner.
Exodus parallels with the modern world
What follows is not an attempt to see Bitcoin as God, but to emphasize the similarities between Bitcoin and God’s actions.
In Egypt, Israelites had no hope: enslavement was their only option, they could not escape their bondage until God intervened. Before Bitcoin, any wealth parking asset could be seized, taxed, and inflated. Bitcoin is the first and only unconfiscatable asset with no inflation.
Israelites didn’t fix Egypt, they didn’t change the Pharaoh, they moved to a new land, they formed a new society. Many Bitcoiners understand that we can’t fix a fundamentally broken and evil system, instead, we are moving to a new land in cyberspace, a land based on freedom where we are building our permissionless infrastructure and society.
Pharaoh’s attack on the fleeing Israelites was his undoing: his army was swollen by the closing sea and drowned. Every attack on Bitcoin only makes Bitcoin stronger. Tyranny, theft, lies, extortion, regulations, and inflation will bring the state to inevitable demise. The state’s terror and coercion can’t touch Bitcoiners for they are protected by the unstoppable immovable pure force of freedom that is Bitcoin.
The Pharaoh’s land was ruled by evil, it was a land of slavery, parasites, and liars. God freed the most oppressed, the poorest, those most in need. Bitcoin emerged as hope and was adopted by the plebs, the most thirsty for freedom among us, freeing them from the state’s tentacles and breaking the shackles of slavery, making them sovereign.
Final words
The Biblical Exodus is a bigger story, and our modern exodus is in the writing. Some of us are currently fleeing the beast system and following Bitcoin’s lead in a new, decentralized, permissionless, freedom-based land. It’s slavery or Bitcoin, all of us will have to make this choice.
