The Anarchists Ep. 2: "Jesus Was An Anarchist Who Only Got Violent With Central Bankers" (preview)
This week author and anarchist expert Andy from The Antifada joins us to discuss the incredible second episode of the HBO series The Anarchists 2017 sees Anarchapulco focus on bitcoin to some of the more activist-minded Anarchists' chagrin, and when it surges in value, the gang of anarcho-capitalists suddenly discovers class consciousness. Also, we're introduced to the MVP of the series, a military veteran with PTSD who narrates his own life-or-death mission to bring the world's first bitcoin ATM to Anarchapulco. "I never harbored any illusion that i would survive until the end." Support the show for only $3.11/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a weekly bonus episode right in your podcast app or browser, as well as instant access to hundreds of previously published bonus episodes.
The episode starts off with a bang because it starts off introducing a new character who I think should have been the main character this whole time.
We have Paul Propert.
A military veteran with PTSD who is transporting the world's first Bitcoin ATM from Pennsylvania to Acapulco.
And just, again, obviously the MVP of this series.
Yeah, yeah.
Not only is he doing this, he's apparently, and I mean I have no indication otherwise, he's apparently doing his own narration throughout.
And I just want to play the first bit of self-narration we get from Paul Propert.
My adventure began on the land who was already trained as life energy by the parasitical empire.
Forced to seek a better reality, a journey far.
Searching for people worth calling my tribe.
This quest was never about my comfort or well-being.
I fully understand I am the broken and damaged beyond repair traveler, sent to protect those with a fighting chance.
I'm a beast born in the violence of a dead paradigm.
I'm the obsolete tool of a world that must give way for the new.
And I never harbored any illusion of surviving until the end.
I never harbored any illusion of surviving until the end, i.e.
I'm probably going to kill myself.
So remember, what this guy is doing is he has a converted bus, one of those half buses that he drives around in and kind of lives in.
He has an ATM in the back of this, a Bitcoin ATM in the back of this, and it's transporting to Acapulco.
That's what he's doing.
If you listen to this, you'd think that he was like Constantine.
And like had like save the world from demons and like you know was willing to like give everything he had to do it but no he's just transferring a an ATM from point A to point B which is still pretty dicey but um yeah you can tell his brand definitely makes it a bit bit dicier Well, he's talking like he's Clive Owen in Children of Men.
There it is, yeah.
And it makes sense when you think about what Bitcoin is and the possibilities that Bitcoin represents to the world.
Kind of like the first child being born after a decade of stagnancy within fiat currency.
It's like, this is the miracle that happened and it needs to be protected at all costs.
And again, it's a Bitcoin ATM.
All these cash ATMs, they've been stagnant and barren, but this is finally making life Through the baby that is Bitcoin.
There's a nice contrast between him and I think it's Nathan, like one of the main AnarchoPolko conference leaders who I think early in the episode says like, you know, a big thing of what we're trying to do here is make everybody rich because everybody wants to be rich.
So they're going to like our politics more if they're rich.
And so they're attracting a lot of increasingly more crypto people, more Bitcoin people.
But they're also attracting people who are like, have a screw loose and get attracted to this stuff because they're, you know, they've fallen out of society in some way.
In Paul's case, it seems like he has PTSD from being in the army.
And so he becomes like this foot soldier, like transporting the Bitcoin ATM to them, like thinking that it's just like his hero's journey.
But when he gets there, everybody kind of like doesn't want anything to do with him because he's too fucked up and he's not like a, you know, a rich day trader.
Yeah, he's not a good poster child for what they're trying to do in Anarcopoco, which is, again, like, make as much money as possible.
We said this on the last episode, but, yeah, you're totally right.
It attracts these, like, grifters and businessmen and, like, crypto guys and Silicon Valley guys.
