Minion Death Cult - The Anarchists Ep. 2: "Jesus Was An Anarchist Who Only Got Violent With Central Bankers" (preview)
Aired: 2022-08-15
Duration: 04:21


=== I Never Harbored Any Illusion (02:03) ===

[00:00:00]  Alright, let's get into the episode, okay?
[00:00:03]  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.
[00:00:13]  We have Paul Propert.
[00:00:15]  A military veteran with PTSD who is transporting the world's first Bitcoin ATM from Pennsylvania to Acapulco.
[00:00:27]  And just, again, obviously the MVP of this series.
[00:00:30]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:32]  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.
[00:00:42]  And I just want to play the first bit of self-narration we get from Paul Propert.
[00:00:51]  My adventure began on the land who was already trained as life energy by the parasitical empire.
[00:00:58]  Forced to seek a better reality, a journey far.
[00:01:01]  Searching for people worth calling my tribe.
[00:01:05]  This quest was never about my comfort or well-being.
[00:01:09]  I fully understand I am the broken and damaged beyond repair traveler, sent to protect those with a fighting chance.
[00:01:16]  I'm a beast born in the violence of a dead paradigm.
[00:01:22]  I'm the obsolete tool of a world that must give way for the new.
[00:01:28]  And I never harbored any illusion of surviving until the end.
[00:01:36]  I never harbored any illusion of surviving until the end, i.e.
[00:01:39]  I'm probably going to kill myself.
[00:01:42]  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.

=== Bitcoin's Foot Soldier (02:32) ===

[00:01:51]  He has an ATM in the back of this, a Bitcoin ATM in the back of this, and it's transporting to Acapulco.
[00:01:57]  That's what he's doing.
[00:01:59]  If you listen to this, you'd think that he was like Constantine.
[00:02:04]  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.
[00:02:28]  There it is, yeah.
[00:02:29]  And it makes sense when you think about what Bitcoin is and the possibilities that Bitcoin represents to the world.
[00:02:38]  Kind of like the first child being born after a decade of stagnancy within fiat currency.
[00:02:45]  It's like, this is the miracle that happened and it needs to be protected at all costs.
[00:02:51]  And again, it's a Bitcoin ATM.
[00:02:52]  All these cash ATMs, they've been stagnant and barren, but this is finally making life Through the baby that is Bitcoin.
[00:03:01]  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.
[00:03:19]  So they're going to like our politics more if they're rich.
[00:03:22]  And so they're attracting a lot of increasingly more crypto people, more Bitcoin people.
[00:03:28]  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.
[00:03:37]  In Paul's case, it seems like he has PTSD from being in the army.
[00:03:41]  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.
[00:03:51]  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.
[00:04:00]  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.
[00:04:09]  We said this on the last episode, but, yeah, you're totally right.
[00:04:14]  It attracts these, like, grifters and businessmen and, like, crypto guys and Silicon Valley guys.