Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html
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Litewood
@ligerwoods
"internationalism" very nice way of phrasing "globalism".
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I used to identify as globalist but then I was told that "globalism" actually means "wanting a (either de-jure or de-facto) world government". Definitely hard against that, so.... internationalism it is?
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Litewood
@ligerwoods
At the root of that idea ultimately lies a form of "humanism", which leads into that, there is some absolute concept of "morality" or the way world should be - instead of having a multi-polar viewpoint that each region and country have their respective cultures and ways of governing. Humanism has given birth to WEF, Communism and other globalist entities are wildly unpopular and nobody basically voted for. A world can function with states that support and don't support crypto or the internet in its maximalist ways.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Isn't "each region and country should have their respective cultures and ways of governing" itself a viewpoint about "the way the world should be"? eg. it conflicts with "each city should have its respective culture and way of governing" (or "each individual", etc) I don't think you can avoid having views on what "base layer" values the world should run on
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
And I reject the link between "people should care about each other" -> "people have cause to control each other"
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Litewood
@ligerwoods
Let me you a concrete real life example - most European countries have a freedom of religion and they allow religions exist within their nations, but you have fundamentalist muslims who live in these countries who want turn countries 100% Muslim and ban all opposing religions. So in same vein you may a country, which theoretically would be decentralized with regional cultures and laws, but simultaneously one part of the region might be expansionist and wants to conquer the rest and wants impose their culture and laws upon them.
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