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Source: Cheng Lingfeng
Why do you say that you are late to achieve great things?
Because he has always attacked and defended all the time and will not take any opportunity.
Because before closing the encirclement, do not attack rashly.
1. Genius Durov
Durov, born in Russia in 1984, is the son of a Roman historian and a genius.
At the age of 11, he created a Tetris spin-off product, and later collaborated with his brother, another genius, to create a strategy game with China as the background.
No matter how the teacher finds a way to lock Durov outside the computer system, he can always go in. Once, the screensaver of the school computer was changed to a teacher’s photo, with the words “must die” next to it.
Some classmates said that it seems that they can never be sure whether Durov said seriously or was mocking someone.
Durov learned the tactics of his grandson and Napoleon, and gradually realized the importance of information control.
The iconic picture is the “paper airplane”.
Durov later successfully started his business and gave a large bonus to a vice president, but he said that the mission is important, not money.Durov said, then you throw all the money on the street, the vice president said, OK.
But Durov wanted to be more exciting. He folded a lot of 5,000 rubles of paper money, about 400 yuan, into a paper plane, and flew to the street, attracting crowds to grab it.
He said it was “one of the most interesting moments in our history.”
In 2006, 22-year-old Durov founded VK with several friends, the Russian version of Facebook, and became the largest social network in the area in one year.
Then, of course, you will encounter various troubles.
Russia’s national security agency FSB pressured VK to shut down seven opposition groups and give information about these people.Durov refused.
The investor Mail.ru Group wants to get more and more shares, but Durov doesn’t do it either.
Because of piracy, it has been criticized by the American Recording Industry Association, making it difficult for VK to list on Western stock exchanges.
So, both the official and the capital are in trouble.
Later, Russian police investigated Durov because he had driven a white Mercedes-Benz and ran over the foot of a traffic supervisor, suspected of hit-and-run.
This seemed to be a flaw and a sign of escalation of conflict. Durov chose to escape. On April 16, 2013, after he left Russia, investigators rushed into VK’s office.
Durov may have realized that he could not always control VK, so he made a new thing, Telegram, which was the time when the mobile Internet was on the rise, that is, the Eastern European version of WhatsApp or WeChat.
Durov did not want to make money with Telegram, but used his own money to pay for the cost.Telegram, which has no advertisements and does not spend money to advertise itself, quickly grew into the largest instant messaging in Eastern Europe.
So in 2014, Durov was relaxed, selling the remaining VK shares, and eventually, Russian internet giant Mail.ru Group, swallowing up the country’s largest social network.
Durov’s pain in VK wanted to make up for it on Telegram.He held high the banner of “freedom” to ensure user privacy and prevented the officials and capital from peeking at these data.
However, there is a side effect. The black market has come to Telegram, which is a paradise. All kinds of deceptive and illegal, including the jihadist organizations, have come here and do it with their arms around.
This intensified the conflict with the official.
Russian police once put pressure on mobile operators to intercept Telegram news.Telegram was later blocked because it denied national security departments access to users’ encrypted information.
Meanwhile, Durov said the FBI bribed his developers to introduce a backdoor.
Putin’s friend Medvedev once asked Durov why he didn’t cooperate with the authorities to deal with those serious crimes?He said, this is my principle.But Medvedev said, then you will have serious trouble in any country.
Durov once told reporters, “I would rather be free than obey anyone’s orders.”
The more this happens, the more users you are attracted, and Telegram costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year.Since Durov does not want to hand over user data, he cannot meet advertisers, so he needs other ways to raise money.
In 2018, Telegram launched the “Telegram Open Network” (TON), a blockchain and virtual currency ecosystem that raised US$1.2 billion through the initial token issuance (ICO).
In 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission determined that TON token financing was illegal.
Durov could only surrender.In the end, Telegram returned 72% of the money to TON investors.But he has spent almost 400 million on research and development.
When the official took action, capital was waiting.
Because Telegram has claimed to be close to 1 billion users, venture capital companies want to buy 5-10% of their shares at a valuation of US$30-40 billion.
But Durov refused because it was capital that snatched VK from him and he would not let this happen again.
So turn to debt.In March 2021, Telegram issued $1 billion in bonds with an annual interest rate of 7-8%.
It seems that Durov has solved the money problem and he can continue to defend a “free” community and block both the official and the capital.
But in August 2024, Durov was arrested by the police in France on charges of “multiple crimes, including terrorism, drugs, conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, receiving stolen goods, child crime content…and there may be more.”
Because he is a French citizen, he will not be extradited to other countries and will most likely be tried in France.
A big man said in his circle of friends that it turns out that the West will also be convicted of freedom of speech, and the West has always had double standards.This is his opinion, and the listed crimes are excuses.
But there is one thing that is true. There are indeed too many black industries on Telegram and too many people are hurt.All the charges accused by the French police are true and everyone knows them.
And in the end, Durov was arrested, a person who wanted to give people freedom, no freedom.Without soul characters, how long can Telegram last, a “free” land?
Someone asked, how valuable will Bitcoin be in the future?”What is the value of human freedom?” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said: “What is the value of human freedom?”
If the value of encryption technology is equal to the value of human freedom, then the sin of encryption technology is equal to the sin of human freedom.
With his personal destiny, Durov wanted to try it out which one is heavier, and which one has the final say.
If Journey to the West is right, then everyone who pursues boundless freedom and does whatever they want will bump into Wuzhishan.
2. Free Utopia
Assange was a freedom fighter. He founded Wikipedia and deciphered many scandals that the United States did, so the United States wanted to mess with him. He hid in the embassy in Ecuador in London for many years, but in the end the United States still caught him.
Ecuador gave up his asylum, and British police went in and caught him. Finally, he pleaded guilty to the United States, violating the US’s Espionage Act, in exchange for freedom and returning to his hometown of Australia.
This is a very humorous thing. Assange made great achievements and became famous for exposing the United States, but he eventually pleaded guilty to the United States.
In the first half, Assange became an anti-American fighter, but these things did not cause substantial harm to the United States, and everyone knows what American virtues are.In the second half, he was surrendered by the United States.
Another person who is similar to Assange is Snowden, who also reveals many scandals in the United States, but he seems to be smarter or have better luck.
He applied for asylum from dozens of countries, but in the end only Russia gave it to him. Later, he became a Russian citizen and married a Russian girl, who is still safe to this day.
Does an anti-American fighter plead guilty and can live freely?This is very important, and Snowden gives people greater hope.
Ecuador is a small country, and in this world it is almost impossible for small countries to remain independent under power.
Not long ago, Ecuadorian police rushed into the Mexican embassy in Ecuador and took away a former vice president, which directly violated international law, and at least, Mexico will cost you.
Small countries are easy to be distorted.It will be sooner or later for a small country to betrayal.
Assange hid in Ecuador’s embassy in the UK, and the UK is an ally of the United States, the best ally.
At the end of 2017, Ecuador approved Assange as a citizen, intending to give him diplomatic status so that he could gain diplomatic privileges and leave the UK legally, but was rejected by the UK.
Britain is going to lock Assange in his territory.Catch turtles in a jar.
So, both options are problematic, Ecuador’s sovereignty and the British territory.
Russia is the country that is least afraid of turning against the Americans in this era, so it is also the only country that provides Snowden asylum.
Snowden’s cleverness, or luck, is that you have to find a bunker, a reliable enough bunker.
On earth, no one can be completely free. If you want to achieve your goal and expose your biggest bully, you must seek the protection of a bunker, although this bunker itself has a lot of bad things.
But Durov seemed to not understand this principle very much, or he was very skilled and brave and wanted to provoke it.It seems like those mountaineering masters who fell to death under Mount Everest.
Durov is going to war with the capital and officials in this world. He does not want to be born in the Russian government, nor does the US government. He does not want to be born in Russia, but he does not want to be born in the Western capital.
He wanted to establish a technically supported, completely free utopia, so his fate was to be arrested in France.
Durov is another Sun Wukong.The next episode of the Heavenly Palace is always Wuzhishan.
Durov has a shadow in another worldview, which is Musk.Their purpose is the same, but their worldviews are different, so their methodology is different.
If you want to do Durov’s thing and create a completely free utopia, is there another way, Musk is.
You see, Durov was arrested by France, but Musk could do the opposite.
Brazil banned X because there were too many rumors on X, but no one cared about it.But Musk can continue to attack the Brazilian government on X, condemning Biden for not putting pressure on Brazil, and even suggesting that Brazil’s “leadership” needs to change.
Snowden found a bunker like Russia to attack the United States, and Musk found a bunker like the United States to attack other countries.
You see, Musk adopts different strategies, he is actively involved in politics and becomes the strong side, and he is extremely agile.
He publicly supported Trump a long time ago, bought Twitter and asked Trump to return.
During the Russian-Ukraine war, Starlink helped Ukraine, and many Russian spokespersons were blocked on Twitter.Many people think that this is almost a declaration of war with Russia.
Musk was on a podcast program in the United States, smoking marijuana openly, dating many women without hesitation, and having many children. When he met foreign officials, he wore T-shirts and held the children, as if he was visiting relatives.
But once the environment changes, it is completely different.
After being attacked by Jews, Musk would publicly apologize and run to Israel to visit the Wailing Wall in body, saying, “I am a Jew,” and saying, Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas.
Musk cooperates with the official and capital, he can cooperate with everything, and everything can become a bunker.
So Musk did what Durov could not do, and built a framework for a free utopia supported by technology, which at least has taken shape.
Mars colonization, starships, starlinks, virtual currencies, all of which will become a new social prototype that is suspended from a specific geographical country and a specific sovereign state.
Assange was cheated by Ecuador and the United Kingdom, Durov was cheated by France, and Snowden was banned from Russia and could not get out.If one day the situation changes sharply and Russia and the United States need to accept the lawsuit, Snowden will be in trouble.
Durov once thought that his biggest problem was that he was in Russia, so he left and wanted to become a “world citizen”, but this “world” is still a problem, and Russia is only part of the world.
So what Musk does is the premise. If your body lives in the existing physical world and your system lives in the existing economic structure, it is impossible to completely rebel.
What makes Musk, Sun Wukong better than the previous few Sun Wukongs is that he knows that all systems in this world have their own logic and inevitability. You can’t completely despise this system first, completely overturn this system, andCan rebuild one, brand new.
You can only understand this system first, adapt to this system, use all the energy of this system to raise yourself.
Only after fully absorbing the energy of the original system and fully adapting to its logic can a new system that can be generated that can actually be run.
Strategy is not about choice, not about being imaginative, without freedom, strategy is a necessity, and there is no second path.
3. The Holy Land of Freedom
But the final question is that Musk is still Sun Wukong, who was in trouble in the Heavenly Palace.
He is just a smarter, stronger, more capable of saving the country in a curve, and more cunning way.But his proposition has not changed, freedom has no boundaries.
After Durov was arrested by France, Musk had supported him several times on Twitter. He sent “freedom” three times in a row, and shot him with a fake shot, saying, “This is Europe in 2030, because people give an expression.Bao Dianzan was executed. “But black industry is black industry, not emoticons.
Therefore, Durov’s experience should enhance Musk’s determination to do it to the end and build a new virtual “freedom holy land” that does not require land, wires, network cables and paper money.
But if Journey to the West is right, then everyone who pursues boundless freedom and does whatever they want will bump into Wuzhishan.
What exactly is Wuzhishan?
In the West, Socrates of ancient Greece and Jesus of ancient Rome were both “sincited for words” and were legally killed.
Socrates was voted to death by a democratic vote.Pilate, the Roman governor at that time, wanted to save Jesus, but the Jews threatened him and said that Jesus said he was the king of the Jews, but we only have one king, Caesar. If you let him go, you will offend Caesar.Pilate had to hand over Jesus to them and crucify them.
Spiritual power and secular power are not united, but separated, which is the result.So the Bible says, let Caesar return to Caesar, let God return to God.
But it’s different in the East.
In ancient India, King Ajatatru of Sakyamuni wanted to kill him, but he failed. Instead, he was influenced by Sakyamuni and eventually became a great protector. After Sakyamuni’s death, he helped assemble Buddhist scriptures.
Confucius in ancient China not only survived, but also served as the Attorney General for a period of time. He killed a man named Shao Zhengmao as soon as he came to power. This man was considered a teacher + media person, but Confucius said that he bewitched people’s hearts and misleads people.Children must kill them.
Shao Zhengmao was actually “indicted for his words”. What Confucius did was to delete posts, not only delete posts, but also arrest people.
Absolute freedom of speech does not exist, and all the history of the East and the West have been guilty of speech.In the West, it is the saint who was killed, and in the East, it is the saint who was killed.
One is a bottom-up system.The saint was killed by the masses, this is a brief history of the West.free.
One is a top-down system.The inner sage and the outer king, the good man with a knife is a brief history of the East.responsibility.
