Cowboy Bill

they forgot that order is an emergent phenomena. They who fear chaos. I'm convinced that central planners are who they are because they have an unhealthy relationship with chaos.

Yo, quick context: this is my first ever episode of the Sovereign Field Reports, so I’m still dialing in the format and the flow. I used to think the world was saturated with podcasts and there was no point adding another one… then NOSTR rewired and challenged that belief in me. Even if nobody listens, I have found the process of preparing, interviewing, and editing to be immensely valuable for me alone. Not only have I had a lot of fun, but it has forced clarity upon me and helps get the ideas out of my head and into the open. More importantly, I do think it’ll be useful to the right people. A little while back I gave a talk on the Sovereign Stack / Synthetic Stack stuff, and several people who I really respect pushed me to start putting my work out there. One moment that really stuck with me was Max Hillebrand telling me simply that I should start a podcast. That was the nudge I needed to stop overthinking and just hit publish. And to the CMH crew who’s encouraged me immensely along the way. Thank you. Hope you enjoy it. P.S. EP002 on its way very soon. Editing now. View quoted note →

EP001: Money, Work & Family Security — w/The Fridge A veteran HR leader (“The Fridge”) who’s survived layoffs, reorgs, and Chapter 11 lays bare what “security” really means—paychecks, healthcare, unions, family, and the quiet moment she realized nobody at work cared about her more than she did. Then we crack open Bitcoin through her eyes: still “like a stock,” but starting to tug at deeper questions of stability, trust, and what comes next. LISTEN: Tags: #podcast #nostr #bitcoin #sovereignty

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Why myth, symbol, and ritual matters so much Because they are the control layer that turns raw infrastructure into lived, self-reproducing reality across time. Rails (identity, value settlement, dispute settlement, memory, attention, mobility, energy, time) can exist as technical systems, but they do not automatically produce stable coordination; humans must interpret, trust, obey, and repeat. Myth installs the shared world-model and moral physics—what exists, who counts, what causes what, what is sacred/forbidden, what the future is “supposed” to be—so large groups can predict each other without renegotiating reality every moment. Symbols are compressed boundary tokens that label the world and route permissions—inside/outside, trusted/untrusted, legitimate/illegitimate, clean/unclean—functioning as the UI of power that makes sorting fast and enforcement cheap. Ritual is executable procedure that produces state changes and membership proofs—initiation, certification, confession, renewal, public commitment—binding people through costly signals and repeated cadence, converting rules into reflexes and legitimacy into habit. Together they manufacture common knowledge (not just facts, but “everyone knows everyone knows”), create legitimacy (control without constant force), enable fast sorting (who gets access, who gets blocked), internalize enforcement (self-policing via shame/pride/belonging), and—most critically—govern time sovereignty by setting horizons, urgency, and memory (what must be done now, what can wait, what future is imaginable, what past is admissible). When a stack is threatened, it edits this layer first—tightening myths, inflating symbols, intensifying rituals, compressing time—because whoever controls myth/symbol/ritual controls what the rails mean, what actions count, and what reality persists.