The result? We're not producing experts. We're manufacturing political operatives with PhDs, credentialed mercenaries who have learned that survival depends on compliance, that advancement requires ideological obedience, that the path to influence runs through institutional approval. Thousands upon thousands churned out annually, most producing research that will never be read, never be replicated, never contribute anything of lasting value to human understanding.

The result? We're not producing experts. We're manufacturing political operatives with PhDs, credentialed mercenaries who have learned that survival depends on compliance, that advancement requires ideological obedience, that the path to influence runs through institutional approval. Thousands upon thousands churned out annually, most producing research that will never be read, never be replicated, never contribute anything of lasting value to human understanding.

For liberty-minded individuals, Nostr deserves attention not merely as an alternative to Twitter but as a working implementation of principles too often dismissed as theoretical. When government agencies coordinate weekly with platform executives to remove dissenting voices, when financial institutions debank political opponents, when regulatory bodies threaten billion-dollar fines for hosting disfavored content, the need for infrastructure that makes such coordination impossible becomes urgent.

Nostr represents the closest approximation to anarcho-capitalist communication infrastructure ever built. The decentralized protocol embodies nearly every principle Rothbard articulated across his major works, from property rights derived from self-ownership to spontaneous market order emerging without central coordination.

Although a single Banyan relay is powerful on its own, many Banyan instances offer greater benefits still. You trust Alice; Bob trusts Alice; both your relay and Bob's relay contain Alice's content. That overlap provides resilience—if one relay fails, the other maintains access. If you are trusted by many other Banyan relay runners, your notes will appear in their relays, backed up without any explicit coordination. Censorship-resistance emerges from the bottom up and strengthens as more relays come online.