Chaotic situations reveal unseen talent. People in West joke about Putin as mid-level KGB stuck in Dresden, w/out realizing in stultified USSR that was about all a competent person could hope to aspire to. When everything collapsed, he had the chops to rise…

…one of the underlying tensions in the West is that it is also a stultified society, where people of wrong race/gender, w/no connections - they quietly hope for collapse - to open up opportunities. The connected are holding on to what they have no matter what…

…so when Hillary Clinton says Bitcoin could destabilize society, what she means is it could make people like herself less important, and people we’ve not heard of could emerge as leaders in any financial turmoil. This is true across all levels of public/private sectors….

…the left/right paradigm cannot capture this. It’s really about who has access to success/power/wealth and who is locked out. The latter will work through Bernie Sanders or Trump or anyone else to disrupt the system and open doors. And frankly that needs to happen.

And if the Putin example seems too toxic - consider Napoleon. If the French Revolution had not occurred he would have been a talented - but largely unknown - artillery officer serving the Bourbon monarchy. We wouldn’t read books about him, debate his character.