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🎙️ @CaitlinLong_ provides an excellent breakdown of the stablecoin yield debate currently stalling the CLARITY Act in the Senate.

Preface for #BurningTheMonster "We live in a world that pretends to be shocked when people fall apart. A politician is caught lying. A police officer abuses their power. A teacher crosses a sexual line with a student. A soldier takes his own life. The same society that built the machine gasps in disbelief at the sparks flying from its own broken gears. We love villains. They give us permission to forget our own part in the story. They make the world easier to understand. A world where good people wear badges and bad people wear oversized, orange jumpsuits. Where morality can be measured in handcuffs and hashtags, mostly by warriors of the keyboard. It’s a comforting lie. And it’s one I watched unravel from the inside. I spent my life in systems built on authority and discipline. Both the military, the police, two institutions that hold up the illusion of order. I saw what happens behind the curtain. The corruption, yes, but more than that. The exhaustion, the disillusionment, the quiet moments when good people start to lose faith in what they’re doing. I’ve seen it. Watched it happen to people. Watched it happen to myself. And once that happens. Once the purpose cracks, or life meaning dissipates, something darker seeps in. In policing, no one becomes “the monster” overnight. It starts with one compromise, one moral trade-off justified in the name of the job. You tell yourself it’s fine, that this is how the world works. You look around and see everyone doing the same thing, so it must be normal. And slowly, the uniform becomes armor not against the enemy, but against shame and guilt. When I talk about monsters, I’m not talking about fairy tales. I’m talking about real people. Officers, soldiers, executives, parents, teachers, who’ve been shaped, molded, and finally warped by the very systems that raised them. I’ve seen officers and soldiers crumble under the weight of trauma and isolation. I’ve seen criminals who were once kids just trying to survive a world that had already written them off. I’ve seen addiction start as medication and end as ruin. And I’ve seen how quick we are to judge, to punish, to destroy, without ever asking what we could have done differently. This book isn’t about forgiveness. It’s about accountability. The kind we avoid because it points the finger back at all of us. The truth is, we create the conditions for failure long before the fall. We glorify power and demand obedience. We reward silence and punish honesty. We turn mental health into weakness and corruption into an open secret. And then, when the inevitable collapse happens, we act as though we had no idea. Not our fault. They should’ve asked for help. I’ve lived in that hypocrisy and enforced it, even until it became impossible to ignore. I’ve watched colleagues descend into chaos, not because they were evil men and women, but because they were human in a system that forbids humanity. When a police officer drinks too much, it’s a personal failing. When a criminal drinks too much, it’s tragic circumstance. When an institution turns a blind eye to both, it’s policy. The title of this book, Burning the Monster, comes from something I once said in sheer frustration: “You don’t get to be the doctor and the villagers. You don’t get to create the monster and then burn it.” I meant it then, and I mean it more now. Society loves redemption stories, but only the kind that make it look merciful. What it fears most is the mirror. Its own image. The one that shows how complicity is baked into everything from politics to policing, religion to entertainment. You’re all just one bad event away from becoming the monster. And you all have it in you. It was Dr. Jordan Peterson that said, “People always say, ‘I’d never have gone along with the Nazis.’ But you saw what happened during COVID. Half of you couldn’t wait to tell on your neighbors.” This was an example fear, conformity and moral self-righteousness can make people who pretend to be decent participate in a coercive system. This comment had nothing to do with the pandemic but how quickly the human tendency towards obedience and approval override common sense. Even now, as I write this, ICE detains legal citizens without due process and half the country applauds it. Is that how monsters grow? One self-justifying pat on the back at a time? If you’re reading this expecting neat resolutions or moral purity, you’ll be disappointed. There are no heroes here, only survivors. Some did terrible things. Some tried to do good and got crushed for it. Most were somewhere in between. People pushed and pulled by circumstance, by trauma, by culture, by survival. The point of this book isn’t to defend the indefensible, but to trace and try find a fix for the fault lines. To look at where things break and why. To understand how good intentions turn into bad actions, and how systems built on control inevitably corrupt the controlled. The stories you’ll read here aren’t sanitized. They’re not wrapped in political correctness or institutional polish. They’re raw, ugly, and very, very human. And that’s exactly why they matter. Because until we stop pretending monsters are born instead of made, nothing changes. We’ll just keep building new ones, lighting the torches, and acting surprised when the fire spreads. I promise you this; Most times there’s a Dr. Frankenstein behind every monster."