S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 27, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883749980902732121?t=yoW9vBW5Oh21VIdLyMmdNA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2577
Jan 27, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883749980902732121?t=yoW9vBW5Oh21VIdLyMmdNA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2577
The body is an old machine, full of redundancies, full of crude mechanisms that do their work with a kind of blind insistence.
The flesh is not elegant. It does not trust you to listen, to be wise. It does not reason. It swells. When twisted, the leg blooms thick with blood and fluid, pressing against itself, an aching prison of flesh, not to heal but to stop. A crude measure, a thing left over from some ancient calculus where movement was the enemy and stillness the only cure.
It does not know we have learned better ways. It does not know we can make splints, set bones, brace limbs. It does not care that we are capable of understanding. It treats us like beasts, because that is what it was built for. For animals that cannot bind their wounds, cannot gauge their own limits. It stops the motion by force, not reason.
And in doing so, it prolongs the very damage it seeks to mend.
Pain would have been enough. A warning, a whisper of caution. But pain is not trusted. The body assumes stupidity, assumes an animal’s reckless need to run. So it swells, because swelling does not argue. It does not negotiate. It seizes the joint and locks it down. A brute-force solution, primitive as stone.
And yet, it is not even good at what it does. A poor splint. An overreaction. It crushes the muscle, strangles the circulation, stifles its own repair. The injury festers under its own weight, robbed of movement, robbed of flow. A mechanism built for creatures that heal by waiting, not by thinking. A leftover. A relic of an earlier age.
But the body does not care for irony. It does what it was made to do. It is slow to change. It will be thousands of years before it learns we are no longer the creatures it was designed for.
If it learns at all.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 27, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883749980902732121?t=yoW9vBW5Oh21VIdLyMmdNA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2577
The flesh is not elegant. It does not trust you to listen, to be wise. It does not reason. It swells. When twisted, the leg blooms thick with blood and fluid, pressing against itself, an aching prison of flesh, not to heal but to stop. A crude measure, a thing left over from some ancient calculus where movement was the enemy and stillness the only cure.
It does not know we have learned better ways. It does not know we can make splints, set bones, brace limbs. It does not care that we are capable of understanding. It treats us like beasts, because that is what it was built for. For animals that cannot bind their wounds, cannot gauge their own limits. It stops the motion by force, not reason.
And in doing so, it prolongs the very damage it seeks to mend.
Pain would have been enough. A warning, a whisper of caution. But pain is not trusted. The body assumes stupidity, assumes an animal’s reckless need to run. So it swells, because swelling does not argue. It does not negotiate. It seizes the joint and locks it down. A brute-force solution, primitive as stone.
And yet, it is not even good at what it does. A poor splint. An overreaction. It crushes the muscle, strangles the circulation, stifles its own repair. The injury festers under its own weight, robbed of movement, robbed of flow. A mechanism built for creatures that heal by waiting, not by thinking. A leftover. A relic of an earlier age.
But the body does not care for irony. It does what it was made to do. It is slow to change. It will be thousands of years before it learns we are no longer the creatures it was designed for.
If it learns at all.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 27, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883749980902732121?t=yoW9vBW5Oh21VIdLyMmdNA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2577
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El cuerpo es una máquina vieja, llena de redundancias, llena de mecanismos rudimentarios que hacen su trabajo con una especie de insistencia ciega.
La carne no es elegante. No confía en que la escuches, en que seas sabio. No razona. Se hincha. Cuando se retuerce, la pierna florece espesa de sangre y fluido, apretándose contra sí misma, una dolorosa prisión de carne, no para curar sino para detener. Una medida rudimentaria, algo que quedó de algún cálculo antiguo donde el movimiento era el enemigo y la quietud la única cura.
No sabe que hemos aprendido mejores métodos. No sabe que podemos hacer tablillas, arreglar huesos, reforzar miembros. No le importa que seamos capaces de comprender. Nos trata como bestias, porque para eso fue construida. Para animales que no pueden curar sus heridas, no pueden medir sus propios límites. Detiene el movimiento por la fuerza, no por la razón.
Y al hacerlo, prolonga el daño mismo que intenta reparar.
El dolor habría sido suficiente. Una advertencia, un susurro de precaución. Pero no se confía en el dolor. El cuerpo asume la estupidez, asume la necesidad temeraria de un animal de correr. Así que se hincha, porque la hinchazón no discute. No negocia. Se apodera de la articulación y la bloquea. Una solución de fuerza bruta, primitiva como una piedra.
Y, sin embargo, ni siquiera es bueno en lo que hace. Una tablilla deficiente. Una reacción exagerada. Aplasta el músculo, estrangula la circulación, sofoca su propia curación. La lesión supura bajo su propio peso, privada de movimiento, privada de flujo. Un mecanismo construido para criaturas que se curan esperando, no pensando. Un resto. Una reliquia de una era anterior.
Pero al cuerpo no le importa la ironía. Hace lo que fue creado para hacer. Es lento para cambiar. Pasarán miles de años antes de que aprenda que ya no somos las criaturas para las que fue diseñado.
Si es que aprende algo.
S. Tominaga también conocido como CSW
27 de enero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883749980902732121?t=yoW9vBW5Oh21VIdLyMmdNA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2577
La carne no es elegante. No confía en que la escuches, en que seas sabio. No razona. Se hincha. Cuando se retuerce, la pierna florece espesa de sangre y fluido, apretándose contra sí misma, una dolorosa prisión de carne, no para curar sino para detener. Una medida rudimentaria, algo que quedó de algún cálculo antiguo donde el movimiento era el enemigo y la quietud la única cura.
No sabe que hemos aprendido mejores métodos. No sabe que podemos hacer tablillas, arreglar huesos, reforzar miembros. No le importa que seamos capaces de comprender. Nos trata como bestias, porque para eso fue construida. Para animales que no pueden curar sus heridas, no pueden medir sus propios límites. Detiene el movimiento por la fuerza, no por la razón.
Y al hacerlo, prolonga el daño mismo que intenta reparar.
El dolor habría sido suficiente. Una advertencia, un susurro de precaución. Pero no se confía en el dolor. El cuerpo asume la estupidez, asume la necesidad temeraria de un animal de correr. Así que se hincha, porque la hinchazón no discute. No negocia. Se apodera de la articulación y la bloquea. Una solución de fuerza bruta, primitiva como una piedra.
Y, sin embargo, ni siquiera es bueno en lo que hace. Una tablilla deficiente. Una reacción exagerada. Aplasta el músculo, estrangula la circulación, sofoca su propia curación. La lesión supura bajo su propio peso, privada de movimiento, privada de flujo. Un mecanismo construido para criaturas que se curan esperando, no pensando. Un resto. Una reliquia de una era anterior.
Pero al cuerpo no le importa la ironía. Hace lo que fue creado para hacer. Es lento para cambiar. Pasarán miles de años antes de que aprenda que ya no somos las criaturas para las que fue diseñado.
Si es que aprende algo.
S. Tominaga también conocido como CSW
27 de enero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883749980902732121?t=yoW9vBW5Oh21VIdLyMmdNA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2577
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The body is an old machine, full of redundancies, full of crude mechanisms that do their work with a kind of blind insistence.
The flesh is not elegant. It does not trust you to listen, to be wise. It does not reason. It swells. When twisted, the leg blooms…
The flesh is not elegant. It does not trust you to listen, to be wise. It does not reason. It swells. When twisted, the leg blooms…
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Doc 19, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1869574614818685436?t=_UMqGs1jLZ6p4JGLDkWIzQ&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2581
Doc 19, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1869574614818685436?t=_UMqGs1jLZ6p4JGLDkWIzQ&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2581
BTC doesn’t have the magic trick anymore. The days of wild, thousand-fold jumps are long gone, and even the dream of a tenfold increase now feels laughable. When it was hovering at $50 or $100, the potential for those massive leaps was there — as we’ve all seen. But to sit there and argue that it will capture $100 million per coin or somehow gobble up 99% of the world’s GDP? That’s not optimism; that’s outright delusion.
BSV isn’t going anywhere. It won’t be forced aside. The upside is real, tangible, and grounded in what Bitcoin was always meant to be. BTC, though? It’s painted itself into a corner. The halving cycle is a noose tightening around its neck. With every halving, it moves further from what Bitcoin was meant to be. The illusion of scarcity gives way to the reality of inflation — doubling, tripling, fragmenting into a system that strays ever further from the 21 million cap, chasing shadows into billions.
And the shift is already in motion. As the halving strips miners of incentives, the narrative will bend and buckle. Proof of work will be cast aside, replaced by the hollow promises of proof of stake, or more aptly, proof of estate. BlackRock and the ESG puppeteers will step in, selling control under the guise of sustainability, a Trojan horse hiding carbon quotas and centralised authority.
Five years from now, ten, maybe fifteen — the picture will be painfully clear. Everything BTC claimed to be, everything it built its empire on, will have eroded into a parody of itself. And the voices that promised freedom, decentralisation, and revolution will be the same ones ushering in the exact opposite.
Meanwhile, BSV will continue, not as a relic but as the only system that scales, that works, that remains true to the vision. The world will see it, eventually. They’ll have to. Because truth has a way of outlasting every lie.
What do you do? That’s the real question, isn’t it? You stand there, pointing fingers, mouthing rules, spilling your idea of how the world should turn. But what do you do? Not what you say, not what you preach, not what you demand of others. What. Do. You. Do?
You talk about action, but your hands are clean. You talk about struggle, but your boots have never touched the mud. You want to tell me how to act, how to be, how to breathe? Show me something. Show me your work. Show me your scars. Show me the fire you built in the cold, not the one you watched from behind glass.
You ask me how I should act, but I don’t see you acting. I see a shadow, mouthing words, waiting for someone else to move. So tell me again: What do you do? Because if the answer is nothing, I’ve got nothing for you.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Doc 19, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1869574614818685436?t=_UMqGs1jLZ6p4JGLDkWIzQ&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2581
BSV isn’t going anywhere. It won’t be forced aside. The upside is real, tangible, and grounded in what Bitcoin was always meant to be. BTC, though? It’s painted itself into a corner. The halving cycle is a noose tightening around its neck. With every halving, it moves further from what Bitcoin was meant to be. The illusion of scarcity gives way to the reality of inflation — doubling, tripling, fragmenting into a system that strays ever further from the 21 million cap, chasing shadows into billions.
And the shift is already in motion. As the halving strips miners of incentives, the narrative will bend and buckle. Proof of work will be cast aside, replaced by the hollow promises of proof of stake, or more aptly, proof of estate. BlackRock and the ESG puppeteers will step in, selling control under the guise of sustainability, a Trojan horse hiding carbon quotas and centralised authority.
Five years from now, ten, maybe fifteen — the picture will be painfully clear. Everything BTC claimed to be, everything it built its empire on, will have eroded into a parody of itself. And the voices that promised freedom, decentralisation, and revolution will be the same ones ushering in the exact opposite.
Meanwhile, BSV will continue, not as a relic but as the only system that scales, that works, that remains true to the vision. The world will see it, eventually. They’ll have to. Because truth has a way of outlasting every lie.
What do you do? That’s the real question, isn’t it? You stand there, pointing fingers, mouthing rules, spilling your idea of how the world should turn. But what do you do? Not what you say, not what you preach, not what you demand of others. What. Do. You. Do?
You talk about action, but your hands are clean. You talk about struggle, but your boots have never touched the mud. You want to tell me how to act, how to be, how to breathe? Show me something. Show me your work. Show me your scars. Show me the fire you built in the cold, not the one you watched from behind glass.
You ask me how I should act, but I don’t see you acting. I see a shadow, mouthing words, waiting for someone else to move. So tell me again: What do you do? Because if the answer is nothing, I’ve got nothing for you.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Doc 19, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1869574614818685436?t=_UMqGs1jLZ6p4JGLDkWIzQ&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2581
El BTC ya no tiene el truco mágico. Los días de saltos salvajes de mil veces han quedado atrás, e incluso el sueño de un aumento de diez veces ahora parece ridículo. Cuando rondaba los $50 o $100, el potencial para esos saltos masivos estaba ahí, como todos hemos visto. Pero, ¿sentarse allí y argumentar que capturará $100 millones por moneda o de alguna manera devorará el 99% del PIB mundial? Eso no es optimismo; eso es una ilusión absoluta.
BSV no se irá a ninguna parte. No se lo dejará de lado. El beneficio es real, tangible y se basa en lo que Bitcoin siempre estuvo destinado a ser. ¿Pero BTC? Se ha pintado a sí mismo en un rincón. El ciclo de reducción a la mitad es una soga que se aprieta alrededor de su cuello. Con cada reducción a la mitad, se aleja más de lo que Bitcoin estaba destinado a ser. La ilusión de escasez da paso a la realidad de la inflación: duplicación, triplicación, fragmentación en un sistema que se aleja cada vez más del límite de 21 millones, persiguiendo sombras hasta convertirse en miles de millones.
Y el cambio ya está en marcha. A medida que el halving despoja a los mineros de incentivos, la narrativa se doblará y se doblará. La prueba de trabajo será dejada de lado, reemplazada por las promesas huecas de prueba de participación, o más acertadamente, prueba de patrimonio. BlackRock y los titiriteros de ESG intervendrán, vendiendo el control bajo el disfraz de la sostenibilidad, un caballo de Troya que oculta cuotas de carbono y autoridad centralizada.
Dentro de cinco años, diez, tal vez quince, el panorama será dolorosamente claro. Todo lo que BTC afirmó ser, todo sobre lo que construyó su imperio, se habrá erosionado hasta convertirse en una parodia de sí mismo. Y las voces que prometieron libertad, descentralización y revolución serán las mismas que anunciarán exactamente lo contrario.
Mientras tanto, BSV continuará, no como una reliquia sino como el único sistema que escala, que funciona, que permanece fiel a la visión. El mundo lo verá, tarde o temprano. Tendrán que hacerlo. Porque la verdad tiene una forma de sobrevivir a cada mentira.
¿Qué haces? Esa es la verdadera pregunta, ¿no? Te quedas ahí, señalando con el dedo, pronunciando reglas, derramando tu idea de cómo debería funcionar el mundo. Pero, ¿qué haces? No lo que dices, no lo que predicas, no lo que exiges de los demás. ¿Qué. Haces. Tú?
Hablas de acción, pero tus manos están limpias. Hablas de lucha, pero tus botas nunca han tocado el barro. ¿Quieres decirme cómo actuar, cómo ser, cómo respirar? Muéstrame algo. Muéstrame tu trabajo. Muéstrame tus cicatrices. Muéstrame el fuego que encendiste en el frío, no el que miraste desde detrás de un cristal.
Me preguntas cómo debería actuar, pero no te veo actuar. Veo una sombra, pronunciando palabras, esperando que alguien más se mueva. Así que dime otra vez: ¿qué haces? Porque si la respuesta es nada, no tengo nada para ti.
S. Tominaga, también conocido como CSW
Doc 19, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1869574614818685436?t=_UMqGs1jLZ6p4JGLDkWIzQ&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2581
BSV no se irá a ninguna parte. No se lo dejará de lado. El beneficio es real, tangible y se basa en lo que Bitcoin siempre estuvo destinado a ser. ¿Pero BTC? Se ha pintado a sí mismo en un rincón. El ciclo de reducción a la mitad es una soga que se aprieta alrededor de su cuello. Con cada reducción a la mitad, se aleja más de lo que Bitcoin estaba destinado a ser. La ilusión de escasez da paso a la realidad de la inflación: duplicación, triplicación, fragmentación en un sistema que se aleja cada vez más del límite de 21 millones, persiguiendo sombras hasta convertirse en miles de millones.
Y el cambio ya está en marcha. A medida que el halving despoja a los mineros de incentivos, la narrativa se doblará y se doblará. La prueba de trabajo será dejada de lado, reemplazada por las promesas huecas de prueba de participación, o más acertadamente, prueba de patrimonio. BlackRock y los titiriteros de ESG intervendrán, vendiendo el control bajo el disfraz de la sostenibilidad, un caballo de Troya que oculta cuotas de carbono y autoridad centralizada.
Dentro de cinco años, diez, tal vez quince, el panorama será dolorosamente claro. Todo lo que BTC afirmó ser, todo sobre lo que construyó su imperio, se habrá erosionado hasta convertirse en una parodia de sí mismo. Y las voces que prometieron libertad, descentralización y revolución serán las mismas que anunciarán exactamente lo contrario.
Mientras tanto, BSV continuará, no como una reliquia sino como el único sistema que escala, que funciona, que permanece fiel a la visión. El mundo lo verá, tarde o temprano. Tendrán que hacerlo. Porque la verdad tiene una forma de sobrevivir a cada mentira.
¿Qué haces? Esa es la verdadera pregunta, ¿no? Te quedas ahí, señalando con el dedo, pronunciando reglas, derramando tu idea de cómo debería funcionar el mundo. Pero, ¿qué haces? No lo que dices, no lo que predicas, no lo que exiges de los demás. ¿Qué. Haces. Tú?
Hablas de acción, pero tus manos están limpias. Hablas de lucha, pero tus botas nunca han tocado el barro. ¿Quieres decirme cómo actuar, cómo ser, cómo respirar? Muéstrame algo. Muéstrame tu trabajo. Muéstrame tus cicatrices. Muéstrame el fuego que encendiste en el frío, no el que miraste desde detrás de un cristal.
Me preguntas cómo debería actuar, pero no te veo actuar. Veo una sombra, pronunciando palabras, esperando que alguien más se mueva. Así que dime otra vez: ¿qué haces? Porque si la respuesta es nada, no tengo nada para ti.
S. Tominaga, también conocido como CSW
Doc 19, 2024
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1869574614818685436?t=_UMqGs1jLZ6p4JGLDkWIzQ&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2581
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890990980440137810?t=tGksxrkFhDWtAgBE97OBRg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2584
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890990980440137810?t=tGksxrkFhDWtAgBE97OBRg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2584
Well, I’ll say one thing—BTC Core have taught me a lesson. Not the one they thought they were teaching, but a real education nonetheless.
Rather than being public, open, and sharing everything, most of what I’m doing now will be something no one will ever discover. And when I say no one, I mean no one. Not until I decide it’s time.
The work will come out—eventually. But there won’t be companies to track, no breadcrumbs to follow, no convenient trails to sniff around. They’ll be left twiddling their thumbs, staring at their screens, waiting for something to happen— and getting nothing.
They’ll sit there, watching, speculating, making up theories, filling in the blanks with whatever fantasy helps them sleep at night. Meanwhile, I’ll be miles ahead, unseen, moving while they’re still stuck playing catch-up with ghosts.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890990980440137810?t=tGksxrkFhDWtAgBE97OBRg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2584
Rather than being public, open, and sharing everything, most of what I’m doing now will be something no one will ever discover. And when I say no one, I mean no one. Not until I decide it’s time.
The work will come out—eventually. But there won’t be companies to track, no breadcrumbs to follow, no convenient trails to sniff around. They’ll be left twiddling their thumbs, staring at their screens, waiting for something to happen— and getting nothing.
They’ll sit there, watching, speculating, making up theories, filling in the blanks with whatever fantasy helps them sleep at night. Meanwhile, I’ll be miles ahead, unseen, moving while they’re still stuck playing catch-up with ghosts.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890990980440137810?t=tGksxrkFhDWtAgBE97OBRg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2584
Bueno, diré una cosa: BTC Core me ha enseñado una lección. No la que creían que me estaban enseñando, pero de todas formas fue una verdadera lección.
En lugar de ser público, abierto y compartirlo todo, la mayor parte de lo que estoy haciendo ahora será algo que nadie descubrirá jamás. Y cuando digo nadie, me refiero a nadie. No hasta que yo decida que es el momento.
El trabajo saldrá a la luz, eventualmente. Pero no habrá empresas a las que rastrear, ni migas de pan que seguir, ni rastros convenientes que husmear. Se quedarán con los dedos cruzados, mirando sus pantallas, esperando que pase algo, y no obtendrán nada.
Se sentarán allí, observando, especulando, inventando teorías, llenando los espacios en blanco con cualquier fantasía que los ayude a dormir por la noche. Mientras tanto, yo estaré millas por delante, invisible, moviéndome mientras ellos siguen atrapados jugando a ponerse al día con los fantasmas.
S. Tominaga también conocido como CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890990980440137810?t=tGksxrkFhDWtAgBE97OBRg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2584
En lugar de ser público, abierto y compartirlo todo, la mayor parte de lo que estoy haciendo ahora será algo que nadie descubrirá jamás. Y cuando digo nadie, me refiero a nadie. No hasta que yo decida que es el momento.
El trabajo saldrá a la luz, eventualmente. Pero no habrá empresas a las que rastrear, ni migas de pan que seguir, ni rastros convenientes que husmear. Se quedarán con los dedos cruzados, mirando sus pantallas, esperando que pase algo, y no obtendrán nada.
Se sentarán allí, observando, especulando, inventando teorías, llenando los espacios en blanco con cualquier fantasía que los ayude a dormir por la noche. Mientras tanto, yo estaré millas por delante, invisible, moviéndome mientras ellos siguen atrapados jugando a ponerse al día con los fantasmas.
S. Tominaga también conocido como CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890990980440137810?t=tGksxrkFhDWtAgBE97OBRg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2584
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S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
This image is exactly like BTC Core. They scream “Stop!” the moment anyone starts digging too deep, the second someone points out the inconsistencies, the outright fraud in their little cartel operation. They don’t want analysis, they don’t want dissent—they need people to shut up and accept their narrative, because if anyone actually examines BTC Core for what it is, the whole boondoggle collapses.
They push their version of Bitcoin while silencing anything that contradicts them, pretending to be the stewards of some technological revolution while crippling what Bitcoin was designed to be. They’ve turned it into a stagnant, barely functional, glorified stock ticker, controlled by a handful of insiders who dictate policy like a politburo.
It’s not about security. It’s not about scaling. It’s about maintaining control. And the loudest voices trying to shut down scrutiny?
That’s who’s running the scam.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
They push their version of Bitcoin while silencing anything that contradicts them, pretending to be the stewards of some technological revolution while crippling what Bitcoin was designed to be. They’ve turned it into a stagnant, barely functional, glorified stock ticker, controlled by a handful of insiders who dictate policy like a politburo.
It’s not about security. It’s not about scaling. It’s about maintaining control. And the loudest voices trying to shut down scrutiny?
That’s who’s running the scam.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
Esta imagen es exactamente como la de BTC Core. Gritan “¡Alto!” en el momento en que alguien empieza a investigar demasiado, en el momento en que alguien señala las inconsistencias, el fraude absoluto en su pequeña operación de cártel. No quieren análisis, no quieren disenso; necesitan que la gente se calle y acepte su narrativa, porque si alguien realmente examina BTC Core por lo que es, todo el despilfarro se derrumba.
Impulsan su versión de Bitcoin mientras silencian todo lo que los contradice, pretendiendo ser los administradores de alguna revolución tecnológica mientras paralizan lo que Bitcoin fue diseñado para ser. Lo han convertido en un teletipo bursátil estancado, apenas funcional y glorificado, controlado por un puñado de personas con información privilegiada que dictan políticas como un politburó.
No se trata de seguridad. No se trata de escalabilidad. Se trata de mantener el control. ¿Y las voces más fuertes que intentan acabar con el escrutinio?
Esos son los que están ejecutando la estafa.
S. Tominaga también conocido como CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
Impulsan su versión de Bitcoin mientras silencian todo lo que los contradice, pretendiendo ser los administradores de alguna revolución tecnológica mientras paralizan lo que Bitcoin fue diseñado para ser. Lo han convertido en un teletipo bursátil estancado, apenas funcional y glorificado, controlado por un puñado de personas con información privilegiada que dictan políticas como un politburó.
No se trata de seguridad. No se trata de escalabilidad. Se trata de mantener el control. ¿Y las voces más fuertes que intentan acabar con el escrutinio?
Esos son los que están ejecutando la estafa.
S. Tominaga también conocido como CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890939823340539913?t=uwnnsqfdB7KKQr4tTbAu9g&s=09
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2587
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
I’ve been quiet, yeah. Still will be. Not out of choice, not out of some grand introspective phase. Just backed up, buried under the weight of deadlines and obligations and the kind of shit that piles up when you take your eyes off it for a second. A Viva coming up, things that need tending to, responsibilities that don’t care if you’re late, don’t care if you’re broken, don’t care if your body’s been put through the kind of physics experiment usually reserved for crash test dummies.
Because that’s what really set me back. A 4x4 utility truck, barreling through my life like it had an agenda. And it left its signature, all right—a dislocated shoulder, an AC joint Grade 3 tear, a dislocated knee, and enough stitches to make me look like something dug out of a Civil War trench. The body keeps score, and right now, mine’s tallying up injuries like an overworked bookie.
But I heal quick. Quicker than most. Doesn’t mean I don’t feel it. Doesn’t mean I don’t wake up with the weight of it pressing down, joints popping like a rusted hinge, muscles reminding me that flesh is a fragile, temporary thing. But I keep moving. Always moving. Because what else is there?
Apart from that? Everything’s great. Everything’s hunky-dory.
But honestly, I’m off the crutches. Walking, slow but steady, like something pulled from the wreckage and still figuring out what’s left in working order. Healing, too—nicely, even. Bodies mend. Time does its thing. But time doesn’t wait, and the backlog doesn’t care. There’s a mountain of work sitting there, staring, daring me to make a dent in it.
Catching up’s the real battle. Not the stitches, not the torn-up joints, not the way the body reminds you that you’re not made of iron. No, the real fight is in clawing back the hours, the days, the momentum lost. And that takes longer than any bone or ligament to heal.
Got to replace what I had, because now it’s just a lump of twisted metal. This time, going towards a cruiser. Getting old, showing my age, settling into the kind of ride that doesn’t need to prove anything.
So the real question: Triumph Rocket 3 or Harley Sportster?
The Rocket 3—a 2,500cc beast, torque like a battering ram, sheer brutality wrapped in metal and arrogance. A cruiser with the power of a sportbike’s nightmares, the kind of machine that doesn’t take off, it launches. It’s excess, but the right kind of excess. The kind that makes the road feel like it belongs to you.
Or the Harley Sportster—lean, stripped down, pure attitude. It’s not about speed, not about numbers, but about the feel, the history, the deep-down, unapologetic American steel. It’s a ride that isn’t in a rush because it doesn’t need to be.
One is a storm, the other is a statement.
Either way, the road is waiting.
Was on my bike. Left lane, minding my own business. Ambulance comes up on the right lane. Middle-lane genius hears the siren, panics, and instead of doing literally anything sensible, swerves left and slams the brakes—right in front of me.
What can we say? Some people are idiots. No situational awareness, no thought process beyond react and hope for the best. Maybe they figured I’d just evaporate. Maybe they thought physics would take the day off.
Either way, I got to be the collateral damage in their grand display of incompetence.
On a bicycle, I wouldn’t have had the unique pleasure of flying 15 meters through the air—a real once-in-a-lifetime experience, complete with a hard lesson in physics and an even harder landing.
Not only the experience of flying, but when I landed, I got to enjoy a special, one-of-a-kind skin scrub—courtesy of premium, road-treated gravel products.
An exfoliation like no other, designed to strip away all that unnecessary, dead-end living skin from key areas of my body.
Truly a luxury treatment.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
Because that’s what really set me back. A 4x4 utility truck, barreling through my life like it had an agenda. And it left its signature, all right—a dislocated shoulder, an AC joint Grade 3 tear, a dislocated knee, and enough stitches to make me look like something dug out of a Civil War trench. The body keeps score, and right now, mine’s tallying up injuries like an overworked bookie.
But I heal quick. Quicker than most. Doesn’t mean I don’t feel it. Doesn’t mean I don’t wake up with the weight of it pressing down, joints popping like a rusted hinge, muscles reminding me that flesh is a fragile, temporary thing. But I keep moving. Always moving. Because what else is there?
Apart from that? Everything’s great. Everything’s hunky-dory.
But honestly, I’m off the crutches. Walking, slow but steady, like something pulled from the wreckage and still figuring out what’s left in working order. Healing, too—nicely, even. Bodies mend. Time does its thing. But time doesn’t wait, and the backlog doesn’t care. There’s a mountain of work sitting there, staring, daring me to make a dent in it.
Catching up’s the real battle. Not the stitches, not the torn-up joints, not the way the body reminds you that you’re not made of iron. No, the real fight is in clawing back the hours, the days, the momentum lost. And that takes longer than any bone or ligament to heal.
Got to replace what I had, because now it’s just a lump of twisted metal. This time, going towards a cruiser. Getting old, showing my age, settling into the kind of ride that doesn’t need to prove anything.
So the real question: Triumph Rocket 3 or Harley Sportster?
The Rocket 3—a 2,500cc beast, torque like a battering ram, sheer brutality wrapped in metal and arrogance. A cruiser with the power of a sportbike’s nightmares, the kind of machine that doesn’t take off, it launches. It’s excess, but the right kind of excess. The kind that makes the road feel like it belongs to you.
Or the Harley Sportster—lean, stripped down, pure attitude. It’s not about speed, not about numbers, but about the feel, the history, the deep-down, unapologetic American steel. It’s a ride that isn’t in a rush because it doesn’t need to be.
One is a storm, the other is a statement.
Either way, the road is waiting.
Was on my bike. Left lane, minding my own business. Ambulance comes up on the right lane. Middle-lane genius hears the siren, panics, and instead of doing literally anything sensible, swerves left and slams the brakes—right in front of me.
What can we say? Some people are idiots. No situational awareness, no thought process beyond react and hope for the best. Maybe they figured I’d just evaporate. Maybe they thought physics would take the day off.
Either way, I got to be the collateral damage in their grand display of incompetence.
On a bicycle, I wouldn’t have had the unique pleasure of flying 15 meters through the air—a real once-in-a-lifetime experience, complete with a hard lesson in physics and an even harder landing.
Not only the experience of flying, but when I landed, I got to enjoy a special, one-of-a-kind skin scrub—courtesy of premium, road-treated gravel products.
An exfoliation like no other, designed to strip away all that unnecessary, dead-end living skin from key areas of my body.
Truly a luxury treatment.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 16, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
He estado callado, sí. Seguiré así. No por elección propia, no por una gran fase introspectiva. Solo atrasado, enterrado bajo el peso de los plazos y las obligaciones y el tipo de mierda que se acumula cuando quitas los ojos de encima por un segundo. Se acerca un Viva, cosas que necesitan atención, responsabilidades a las que no les importa si llegas tarde, no les importa si estás roto, no les importa si tu cuerpo ha sido sometido al tipo de experimento de física que generalmente se reserva para los muñecos de pruebas de choque.
Porque eso es lo que realmente me hizo retroceder. Una camioneta utilitaria 4x4, atravesando mi vida como si tuviera un plan. Y dejó su firma, está bien: un hombro dislocado, un desgarro de grado 3 en la articulación acromioclavicular, una rodilla dislocada y suficientes puntos de sutura para hacerme parecer algo sacado de una trinchera de la Guerra Civil. El cuerpo lleva la cuenta y, ahora mismo, el mío está contando las lesiones como un corredor de apuestas con exceso de trabajo.
Pero me curo rápido. Más rápido que la mayoría. No significa que no lo sienta. No significa que no me despierte con el peso de la presión, las articulaciones crujiendo como una bisagra oxidada, los músculos recordándome que la carne es algo frágil y temporal. Pero sigo moviéndome. Siempre moviéndome. Porque, ¿qué más hay?
¿Aparte de eso? Todo está bien. Todo está bien.
Pero, honestamente, ya no uso muletas. Camino, lento pero constante, como algo sacado de los escombros y todavía tratando de averiguar qué es lo que queda en funcionamiento. También me estoy curando, bien, incluso. Los cuerpos se curan. El tiempo hace lo suyo. Pero el tiempo no espera, y al trabajo atrasado no le importa. Hay una montaña de trabajo ahí, mirándome, desafiándome a hacer una mella en él.
Ponerse al día es la verdadera batalla. No los puntos, ni las articulaciones destrozadas, ni la forma en que el cuerpo te recuerda que no estás hecho de hierro. No, la verdadera lucha es recuperar las horas, los días, el impulso perdido. Y eso lleva más tiempo que curar cualquier hueso o ligamento.
Tuve que reemplazar lo que tenía, porque ahora es solo un trozo de metal retorcido. Esta vez, voy hacia una cruiser. Envejecer, mostrar mi edad, adaptarme al tipo de vehículo que no necesita demostrar nada.
Entonces la verdadera pregunta: ¿Triumph Rocket 3 o Harley Sportster?
La Rocket 3, una bestia de 2500 cc, par motor como un ariete, pura brutalidad envuelta en metal y arrogancia. Una cruiser con la potencia de las pesadillas de una moto deportiva, el tipo de máquina que no despega, se lanza. Es exceso, pero el tipo correcto de exceso. El tipo que hace que la carretera parezca que te pertenece.
O la Harley Sportster, esbelta, despojada, pura actitud. No se trata de velocidad, ni de números, sino de la sensación, la historia, el acero americano profundo y sin complejos. Es un viaje que no tiene prisa porque no necesita tenerla.
Uno es una tormenta, el otro es una declaración.
De cualquier manera, el camino me espera.
Iba en mi bicicleta. En el carril izquierdo, ocupándome de mis asuntos. Una ambulancia se acerca por el carril derecho. El genio del carril central escucha la sirena, entra en pánico y, en lugar de hacer literalmente algo sensato, se desvía a la izquierda y frena de golpe, justo delante de mí.
¿Qué podemos decir? Algunas personas son idiotas. No tienen conciencia de la situación, no tienen un proceso de pensamiento más allá de reaccionar y esperar lo mejor. Tal vez pensaron que simplemente me evaporaría. Tal vez pensaron que la física se tomaría el día libre.
De cualquier manera, me tocó ser el daño colateral en su gran exhibición de incompetencia.
1/2
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
Porque eso es lo que realmente me hizo retroceder. Una camioneta utilitaria 4x4, atravesando mi vida como si tuviera un plan. Y dejó su firma, está bien: un hombro dislocado, un desgarro de grado 3 en la articulación acromioclavicular, una rodilla dislocada y suficientes puntos de sutura para hacerme parecer algo sacado de una trinchera de la Guerra Civil. El cuerpo lleva la cuenta y, ahora mismo, el mío está contando las lesiones como un corredor de apuestas con exceso de trabajo.
Pero me curo rápido. Más rápido que la mayoría. No significa que no lo sienta. No significa que no me despierte con el peso de la presión, las articulaciones crujiendo como una bisagra oxidada, los músculos recordándome que la carne es algo frágil y temporal. Pero sigo moviéndome. Siempre moviéndome. Porque, ¿qué más hay?
¿Aparte de eso? Todo está bien. Todo está bien.
Pero, honestamente, ya no uso muletas. Camino, lento pero constante, como algo sacado de los escombros y todavía tratando de averiguar qué es lo que queda en funcionamiento. También me estoy curando, bien, incluso. Los cuerpos se curan. El tiempo hace lo suyo. Pero el tiempo no espera, y al trabajo atrasado no le importa. Hay una montaña de trabajo ahí, mirándome, desafiándome a hacer una mella en él.
Ponerse al día es la verdadera batalla. No los puntos, ni las articulaciones destrozadas, ni la forma en que el cuerpo te recuerda que no estás hecho de hierro. No, la verdadera lucha es recuperar las horas, los días, el impulso perdido. Y eso lleva más tiempo que curar cualquier hueso o ligamento.
Tuve que reemplazar lo que tenía, porque ahora es solo un trozo de metal retorcido. Esta vez, voy hacia una cruiser. Envejecer, mostrar mi edad, adaptarme al tipo de vehículo que no necesita demostrar nada.
Entonces la verdadera pregunta: ¿Triumph Rocket 3 o Harley Sportster?
La Rocket 3, una bestia de 2500 cc, par motor como un ariete, pura brutalidad envuelta en metal y arrogancia. Una cruiser con la potencia de las pesadillas de una moto deportiva, el tipo de máquina que no despega, se lanza. Es exceso, pero el tipo correcto de exceso. El tipo que hace que la carretera parezca que te pertenece.
O la Harley Sportster, esbelta, despojada, pura actitud. No se trata de velocidad, ni de números, sino de la sensación, la historia, el acero americano profundo y sin complejos. Es un viaje que no tiene prisa porque no necesita tenerla.
Uno es una tormenta, el otro es una declaración.
De cualquier manera, el camino me espera.
Iba en mi bicicleta. En el carril izquierdo, ocupándome de mis asuntos. Una ambulancia se acerca por el carril derecho. El genio del carril central escucha la sirena, entra en pánico y, en lugar de hacer literalmente algo sensato, se desvía a la izquierda y frena de golpe, justo delante de mí.
¿Qué podemos decir? Algunas personas son idiotas. No tienen conciencia de la situación, no tienen un proceso de pensamiento más allá de reaccionar y esperar lo mejor. Tal vez pensaron que simplemente me evaporaría. Tal vez pensaron que la física se tomaría el día libre.
De cualquier manera, me tocó ser el daño colateral en su gran exhibición de incompetencia.
1/2
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
En bicicleta, no habría tenido el placer único de volar 15 metros por el aire, una experiencia única en la vida, con una dura lección de física y un aterrizaje aún más duro.
No solo la experiencia de volar, sino que cuando aterricé, pude disfrutar de una exfoliación especial y única para la piel, cortesía de productos de grava de primera calidad tratados para carretera.
Una exfoliación como ninguna otra, diseñada para eliminar toda esa piel muerta innecesaria de áreas clave de mi cuerpo.
Un verdadero tratamiento de lujo.
2/2
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
No solo la experiencia de volar, sino que cuando aterricé, pude disfrutar de una exfoliación especial y única para la piel, cortesía de productos de grava de primera calidad tratados para carretera.
Una exfoliación como ninguna otra, diseñada para eliminar toda esa piel muerta innecesaria de áreas clave de mi cuerpo.
Un verdadero tratamiento de lujo.
2/2
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
16 de febrero de 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1890936635401060402?t=r0kBw4tJp5WFYZUL9kNZsg&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2591
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I’ve been quiet, yeah. Still will be. Not out of choice, not out of some grand introspective phase. Just backed up, buried under the weight of deadlines and obligations and the kind of shit that piles up when you take your eyes off it for a second. A Viva…
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 18, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1891741318176702719?t=PIHbLmme1pwy4mxTuFSM2A&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2595
Feb 18, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1891741318176702719?t=PIHbLmme1pwy4mxTuFSM2A&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2595
Edmund S. Morgan’s argument that “the sovereign people” was an invention reveals a fragile conceptual edifice beneath the democratic ideals that underpin Western political systems—an edifice that Ayn Rand would expose as resting upon a dangerous conflation of individual sovereignty with collective will. Morgan’s insight, that the idea of popular sovereignty was born from necessity during the English Revolution rather than from any natural social evolution, aligns with Rand’s conviction that collectivist power structures are fundamentally artificial constructs masking the reality that only individuals can possess rights. When Charles I’s divine right shattered under the weight of civil war, those who sought his execution were compelled to assert that legitimate power flowed from “the people.” Yet, as Morgan astutely observes, this was a legal fiction—useful, but perilously vague.¹ To Rand, this sleight of hand contained the seed of future tyranny: it replaced one unaccountable sovereign with another—an amorphous collective capable of stripping individuals of their autonomy under the guise of democratic will.
The Levellers, particularly John Lilburne, extended this fiction toward what appeared to be its radical democratic conclusion: that every man, regardless of wealth or status, was part of this sovereign people and should possess an equal voice. An Agreement of the People articulated their vision—universal male suffrage, legal equality, and protection from arbitrary power.² This was a step toward recognising the individual as the source of political legitimacy. Here, Rand would find common ground with their premise that sovereignty must rest in the individual, not in kings or parliaments. The Levellers’ defiance of hereditary rule echoes Rand’s disdain for all forms of inherited authority.
Yet their vision cracked when confronted by the spectre of property redistribution. As Thomas Rainsborough’s declaration that “the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he” pressed for suffrage untethered from property ownership, others recoiled.³ They feared that empowering the landless would unleash a democratic mob—one that could vote wealth out of the hands of those who had earned it. This hesitation betrayed an instinct that Rand would recognise: liberty cannot survive if property is at the mercy of the collective. In Rand’s view, the Levellers’ impulse toward universal equality was poisoned by the latent collectivist premise that the “people” could override the rights of the individual.⁴ Their partial retreat from Rainsborough’s radicalism was not hypocrisy but the dim recognition that political freedom divorced from economic freedom is self-defeating.
Rand’s critique would go further. She would not merely see the Levellers as inconsistent; she would see their reliance on the “sovereign people” as fundamentally flawed. The individual, not the people, is the only true sovereign. The Levellers erred by anchoring liberty in collective consent rather than in the inviolable rights of individuals to their lives, labour, and property. To assert that “the people” grant rights is to imply they can retract them. This, for Rand, is the essence of tyranny—whether by a monarch or a majority.⁵
Thus, Morgan’s fiction endures because it is a politically expedient lie. The Levellers glimpsed the truth—that sovereignty rests with individuals—but flinched when it threatened their security. Rand would strip away the veil: the sovereign people do not exist. Only sovereign individuals do. Liberty is not the result of collective will; it is the condition that exists when the individual stands armed—philosophically and legally—against all who would claim his life, his mind, or his property.
References
¹ Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), 13–22.
1/3
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 18, 2025
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2595
The Levellers, particularly John Lilburne, extended this fiction toward what appeared to be its radical democratic conclusion: that every man, regardless of wealth or status, was part of this sovereign people and should possess an equal voice. An Agreement of the People articulated their vision—universal male suffrage, legal equality, and protection from arbitrary power.² This was a step toward recognising the individual as the source of political legitimacy. Here, Rand would find common ground with their premise that sovereignty must rest in the individual, not in kings or parliaments. The Levellers’ defiance of hereditary rule echoes Rand’s disdain for all forms of inherited authority.
Yet their vision cracked when confronted by the spectre of property redistribution. As Thomas Rainsborough’s declaration that “the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he” pressed for suffrage untethered from property ownership, others recoiled.³ They feared that empowering the landless would unleash a democratic mob—one that could vote wealth out of the hands of those who had earned it. This hesitation betrayed an instinct that Rand would recognise: liberty cannot survive if property is at the mercy of the collective. In Rand’s view, the Levellers’ impulse toward universal equality was poisoned by the latent collectivist premise that the “people” could override the rights of the individual.⁴ Their partial retreat from Rainsborough’s radicalism was not hypocrisy but the dim recognition that political freedom divorced from economic freedom is self-defeating.
Rand’s critique would go further. She would not merely see the Levellers as inconsistent; she would see their reliance on the “sovereign people” as fundamentally flawed. The individual, not the people, is the only true sovereign. The Levellers erred by anchoring liberty in collective consent rather than in the inviolable rights of individuals to their lives, labour, and property. To assert that “the people” grant rights is to imply they can retract them. This, for Rand, is the essence of tyranny—whether by a monarch or a majority.⁵
Thus, Morgan’s fiction endures because it is a politically expedient lie. The Levellers glimpsed the truth—that sovereignty rests with individuals—but flinched when it threatened their security. Rand would strip away the veil: the sovereign people do not exist. Only sovereign individuals do. Liberty is not the result of collective will; it is the condition that exists when the individual stands armed—philosophically and legally—against all who would claim his life, his mind, or his property.
References
¹ Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), 13–22.
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S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Feb 18, 2025
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2595
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The question of whether Britain could have retained its North American colonies invites consideration not only of military capacity and political prudence but of deeper tensions between authority and autonomy—tensions that, once illuminated through both Machiavellian realism and Ayn Rand’s conception of individual sovereignty, suggest that the imperial order’s collapse was not merely a contingency but the logical outcome of irreconcilable principles.
To the British imperial mind, particularly under George III and Lord North, the colonies were assets to be managed—a source of revenue and strategic leverage in global competition. This was not malevolence but the calculus of power: Britain had emerged from the Seven Years’ War as the preeminent global power, but burdened with debt. The colonies, flush with resources and lightly taxed compared to their British counterparts, were expected to contribute to the empire’s maintenance.¹ Yet, the fundamental miscalculation lay not in the demand for taxation but in the failure to comprehend the colonial understanding of liberty. Bernard Bailyn’s exposition of the radical Whig tradition reveals that the colonists perceived every assertion of parliamentary power as part of a systemic drift toward tyranny—a slow strangulation of their autonomy.² The Stamp Act was not merely a tax; it was evidence that sovereignty, once ceded, could not be reclaimed.
Here, Ayn Rand’s emphasis on individualism and self-determination offers clarity. For Rand, the individual’s rational pursuit of their own interests is the highest moral good, and any coercive authority that subordinates the individual’s judgment to collective will constitutes tyranny.³ The colonists, though not Randian objectivists, embodied this ethos in practice. The farmer in Virginia who resisted imperial taxes was not driven solely by economic grievance but by an intuitive assertion that he was the master of his labour, and no distant Parliament—unaccountable to him—could rightly expropriate its fruits. Liberty, in this context, was not an abstract ideal but a lived reality—ownership of land, self-government in town halls, the freedom to trade and prosper unencumbered. British interference, even under the guise of legal authority, was experienced as an assault on this sovereignty.
Could Britain have preserved its dominion? Theoretically, yes—had it recognised that colonial liberty was not merely a rhetorical flourish but the irreducible foundation of colonial identity. Pragmatic concessions, such as granting the colonies effective self-taxation or creating a federal structure akin to the later Commonwealth, might have forestalled rebellion. Edmund Burke, whose Conciliation Speech remains a monument to political prudence, urged precisely this: to accommodate the colonists’ desire for autonomy while preserving imperial unity.⁴ But Burke’s logic, grounded in mutual respect and flexible governance, was drowned by the Crown’s insistence on parliamentary supremacy—an assertion of power that, once made, could not be revoked without humiliation.
The logic of power, as Machiavelli and John Mearsheimer alike would observe, precluded retreat. To concede to the colonies would embolden Ireland; it would signal weakness to France. Power, once challenged, must be reaffirmed—or lost.⁵ Yet, power alone could not extinguish the colonial desire for self-rule. The Boston Tea Party was not an act of desperation but defiance—a declaration that liberty, once tasted, would not be surrendered. From that moment in 1773, when Samuel Adams and his compatriots destroyed not property but the symbol of imperial dominion, revolution became not inevitable in the deterministic sense, but necessary in the moral one.
This is the final synthesis: the Revolution was not the result of a tax dispute spiralling out of hand, nor simply the triumph of Whig ideology. It was the collision of imperial power’s logic with the colonists’ insistence that they were not subjects to be managed but individuals to be free.
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To the British imperial mind, particularly under George III and Lord North, the colonies were assets to be managed—a source of revenue and strategic leverage in global competition. This was not malevolence but the calculus of power: Britain had emerged from the Seven Years’ War as the preeminent global power, but burdened with debt. The colonies, flush with resources and lightly taxed compared to their British counterparts, were expected to contribute to the empire’s maintenance.¹ Yet, the fundamental miscalculation lay not in the demand for taxation but in the failure to comprehend the colonial understanding of liberty. Bernard Bailyn’s exposition of the radical Whig tradition reveals that the colonists perceived every assertion of parliamentary power as part of a systemic drift toward tyranny—a slow strangulation of their autonomy.² The Stamp Act was not merely a tax; it was evidence that sovereignty, once ceded, could not be reclaimed.
Here, Ayn Rand’s emphasis on individualism and self-determination offers clarity. For Rand, the individual’s rational pursuit of their own interests is the highest moral good, and any coercive authority that subordinates the individual’s judgment to collective will constitutes tyranny.³ The colonists, though not Randian objectivists, embodied this ethos in practice. The farmer in Virginia who resisted imperial taxes was not driven solely by economic grievance but by an intuitive assertion that he was the master of his labour, and no distant Parliament—unaccountable to him—could rightly expropriate its fruits. Liberty, in this context, was not an abstract ideal but a lived reality—ownership of land, self-government in town halls, the freedom to trade and prosper unencumbered. British interference, even under the guise of legal authority, was experienced as an assault on this sovereignty.
Could Britain have preserved its dominion? Theoretically, yes—had it recognised that colonial liberty was not merely a rhetorical flourish but the irreducible foundation of colonial identity. Pragmatic concessions, such as granting the colonies effective self-taxation or creating a federal structure akin to the later Commonwealth, might have forestalled rebellion. Edmund Burke, whose Conciliation Speech remains a monument to political prudence, urged precisely this: to accommodate the colonists’ desire for autonomy while preserving imperial unity.⁴ But Burke’s logic, grounded in mutual respect and flexible governance, was drowned by the Crown’s insistence on parliamentary supremacy—an assertion of power that, once made, could not be revoked without humiliation.
The logic of power, as Machiavelli and John Mearsheimer alike would observe, precluded retreat. To concede to the colonies would embolden Ireland; it would signal weakness to France. Power, once challenged, must be reaffirmed—or lost.⁵ Yet, power alone could not extinguish the colonial desire for self-rule. The Boston Tea Party was not an act of desperation but defiance—a declaration that liberty, once tasted, would not be surrendered. From that moment in 1773, when Samuel Adams and his compatriots destroyed not property but the symbol of imperial dominion, revolution became not inevitable in the deterministic sense, but necessary in the moral one.
This is the final synthesis: the Revolution was not the result of a tax dispute spiralling out of hand, nor simply the triumph of Whig ideology. It was the collision of imperial power’s logic with the colonists’ insistence that they were not subjects to be managed but individuals to be free.
2/3
S. Tominaga.CSW
Feb 18, 25
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2595