Paul, new to Steemit.

Hi, my name is Paul.
You could describe me as a mellowed hard-core anarchist from way back.
I guess the mellowing came about when I become disillusioned with the anarchist project.
The participants in it were numerically minute when I was in the UK, and then when I returned back to NZ the movement was even smaller.
Sadly, it still is.

Minimalism

Along the way I became a minimalist which for me came to mean that I should do what I can to avoid the capitalist paradigm – work reluctantly, never get in debt, avoid getting caught up in consumerist fads and fashions, throw away the TV, do as much as I could to avoid participation in the social ‘norms’ and expectations as decreed by the intellectual and economic elites.
So even though I understood stocks, shares, bonds etc., I was not prepared to validate through my participation the status quo.

Cryptocurrency

Then cryptocurrency happened.
Now I’m feeling quite optimistic.
Yes, it does pay to do some study on this stuff. But, it’s not all about the coin. Ripple is going up like a rocket. But I won’t put a cent in Ripple as this crypto is all about centralization – by the banks.
That’s right. The very ones that first principles crypto geeks wanted out of the economic equation.

What next for me?

Quit my job – done!

Prepare my old 1976 Bedford bus for the road – nearly done!
Journey up and down country a few times – to do
Along the way educate and agitate for cryptocurrency – already doing!

Why Steemit?

I have my blog which mostly will be NZ referrenced. But do pop in, by all means.
But I want also the opportunity to give back to a wider international community the many stupendous inspirations and ideas I have gained from it in the past.

So Steemit is it!