For most of history, governments have relied on monopolies of force, money, and information to control populations. The printing press challenged the church’s hold on truth. The internet obliterated state-controlled media. Now, 3D printing, cryptocurrency, encryption, and AI are dismantling centralized power structures in ways bureaucrats never imagined. The age-old strategy of regulating, licensing, and banning is failing, because these technologies don’t ask permission—they exist, they spread, and they cannot be stopped. As Jordan Peterson would say, “When you tell people they can’t say something, what they hear is that the thing they can’t say is true.” And when you tell people they can’t own something, they find ways to own it anyway.
Take 3D-printed guns, for example. For centuries, governments kept tight control over weapon production—limiting who could own arms, and in some cases, banning them altogether. But thanks to open-source blueprints like the FCG-9, the government’s ability to regulate weapons is vanishing overnight. You can outlaw gun factories, but how do you outlaw a file? How do you arrest an idea? The Bible makes clear in Luke 22:36 that self-defense is a God-given right: “Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.” Jesus wasn’t promoting violence, but acknowledging a fundamental truth—people have a right to protect themselves, and no government can take that away.
But the revolution goes beyond firearms. Bitcoin and Monero have done to government money what the Gutenberg press did to the Catholic Church—they’ve democratized control. With inflation skyrocketing and fiat currencies crumbling, people are fleeing centralized banking in favor of a system that politicians can’t manipulate. Governments hate this because controlling currency means controlling people. Look at China’s social credit system, where a person’s financial privileges can be revoked for wrongthink. Now imagine a world where they can’t freeze your assets, where every transaction is untraceable. That’s what crypto threatens, and that’s why politicians are panicking.
The same war is happening with speech and information. Governments are cracking down on encrypted messaging, AI-generated content, and decentralized news because these tools break their monopoly on truth. AI models that aren’t censored by Silicon Valley overlords are already challenging mainstream narratives. Encrypted apps like Signal and Session protect free speech from surveillance states. This is why they push internet regulations under the guise of “safety”—because a free society is dangerous to those who crave control. Peterson again: “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” The state’s obsession with censoring speech and knowledge isn’t about protecting the public; it’s about protecting their narrative.
And here’s the kicker: all of these attempts to regulate technology will fail. You cannot legislate human ingenuity. You cannot ban self-reliance. The more you try, the faster innovation moves underground. Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” We are living in a world where wicked rulers fear technological freedom because it threatens their control. But, as Solzhenitsyn put it, “One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.” The truth is this: sovereign technology is here, it’s spreading, and no government will stop it. The only question is how desperate they’ll get before they admit they’ve already lost.
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