@aviationdoctor.eth

“If you want to build a church, don’t build it in a casino” This is but a small aside in @rev-morwen.eth’s long sermon, but it’s also a useful extension of @cdixon.eth’s computer-and-casino parable from Read Write Own. There are plenty of Web3 builders here on Farcaster striving to build parts of the onchain world computer’s rails (including Merkle themselves; let’s render unto Caesar regardless of their recent pivot toward the casino philistines). But only a subset of them holds the various connected tenets of trustlessness / permissionlessness / decentralization / credible neutrality / privacy / ossification / subtraction / FOSS as near-religiously axiomatic. This includes the original orthodoxy (broadly, the Ethereum preachers @vitalik.eth, @tim, @chaskin.eth, @marissaposner, etc. and their flock) as well as the later reformation movement shipping orthopractic alternatives (e.g., @cassie’s Q). They all aspire to welcome us into their heavenly infinite garden. TL;DR: I’ve updated my mental model to be Church <-> Computer <-> Casino. And what is true for builders is true for users; they are, respectively: the devout and zealots, the hackers and power users, and the gamblers and degens. As above, so below. Ramen.

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