unfortunately, the US, its various security services and most of the elected officials are less-than-excited about the idea of a _truly_ free society. currently

unfortunately, the US, its various security services and most of the elected officials are less-than-excited about the idea of a _truly_ free society. currently, the 1st world state has an enormous amount of control over the day-to-day lives of its citizens, moreso than at any other point in history, imo. some things are particularly hard for the state to do vs historically, e.g. institute mandatory military service of some sort, but others have become much easier, e.g. wage economic warfare on opposing states, drone strike small groups. bitcoin definitely goes a ways towards fixing some of these problems and i think the author is right to cite it as an epic experiment.