The United Kingdom’s got this funny little problem with the Enlightenment. They like to parade it around as if it was all English tea and Oxford halls, but when you scratch the surface, it wasn’t English at all. Hume? Scottish. Adam Smith? Scottish. Engineering genius like James Watt? Scottish too. The big brains behind the greatest parts of the Enlightenment weren’t sipping tea in London—they were up in Scotland, far from the cushioned chairs of Oxbridge.
And that’s the thing. They’ve taken these figures, these ideas, and twisted them into something they weren’t. The Empire loves to claim it all, wrap it in the Union Jack, but the truth? The brilliance came from the edges, the places they looked down on. Just like now.
Bitcoin? Same story. The real advancements, the grit, the vision—it’s not coming from the old guard. It’s coming from places they don’t want to admit matter. From Australia, from the colonies, from people they’d rather dismiss. Especially the Oxbridge types, with their smug grins and stiff upper lips, pretending it’s all beneath them.
But here’s the rub: the best ideas, the ones that shake the world, they rarely come from the centre. They come from the edges, from the misfits, from the ones who don’t fit their mould. That’s the history they don’t like to tell. And that’s the truth they can’t ignore.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 11, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1878081217851253197?t=rMZGazUKFUv11ma1N31a7A&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2551
And that’s the thing. They’ve taken these figures, these ideas, and twisted them into something they weren’t. The Empire loves to claim it all, wrap it in the Union Jack, but the truth? The brilliance came from the edges, the places they looked down on. Just like now.
Bitcoin? Same story. The real advancements, the grit, the vision—it’s not coming from the old guard. It’s coming from places they don’t want to admit matter. From Australia, from the colonies, from people they’d rather dismiss. Especially the Oxbridge types, with their smug grins and stiff upper lips, pretending it’s all beneath them.
But here’s the rub: the best ideas, the ones that shake the world, they rarely come from the centre. They come from the edges, from the misfits, from the ones who don’t fit their mould. That’s the history they don’t like to tell. And that’s the truth they can’t ignore.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 11, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1878081217851253197?t=rMZGazUKFUv11ma1N31a7A&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2551
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