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Thank you for putting your energy into alternative systems.

The psyops will continue until the currency improves

If the system can continue to exist for my lifespan, what good is it that I might know the ultimate truth? Unless you think a collapse is imminent, how do I plan my future other than participating in that system?

And that much of what you thought you knew of history was also part of that.

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It really amazing, how much of what people believe is a psyop, and how difficult it is to talk to people who genuinely have no truths

So in other words, indefinitely

Exactly When money controls the narrative, Bitcoin is the antidote, transparent, permissionless, and immune to psyops.

Even how they measure their corruption is disingenuous. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq5zj9nlvttv0kshxsn6uzyj7a6zff8vhytdv5mh8y97d5zah54sqqqsdedxcx6e3ewgm683jhw0rgyx8dm3ms9w83v6kjr5m3m8kqr4as4shjtcfy

I've been thinking quite a bit about this in relation to Bitcoin culture. The ability to see orders of relations enough to consider how legacy finance/power structures affects everything is a rare form of analysis and attention. It isn't all just socio-economic-political, either, as Bitcoin folks deal with energy, materials, and tech supply chain issues as well. True, the analysis kind of stops there, like they have found the grail. I think it runs deeper, wider, and goes much further than just this millennium, but digging at that, finding it, and holding up a truth within a culture that is mostly under sway of what you are calling a psyop* is what binds me to some Bitcoin outliers in culture. *I'm not so sure I'd call it a psyop, as a psyop involves intention. I think there is more of a self-replicating machine-like cultural organism roughly 6,000 years old that propagates through seemingly banal things like written language coupled with embedded cultural fallacies and inability to agree on maps/rulesets. But, the difference between psyop in the context of the Bitcoin world-view and mine when looked at from legacy culture is not significant, strangely. Now, I also have a filter, in that I am unabashedly "don't give a fuck about high tech financial platforms, including Bitcoin", so this filters out zealots. I can deal with your relatively excellent high orders of relations if you can tolerate it that I don't accept you have found the grail. One of the features of our "scream like a zealot for a bit then mute" social media culture, is that eventually I run mostly silent, and that is OK.

You are an excellent writer and analyzer of systems and concepts. I think your presence here adds a lot, even if you're not on board with Bitcoin. And fwiw, I don't think bitcoin is the definitive holy grail... I just think it fixes enough to be worth treating like its the holy grail. Ultimately it will be corrupted, as humans corrupt everything. That's no reason not to go pedal to the metal on this thing which can buy us some more time and some more humanity, and I phrase it that way because I think civilization's current course is anti-human and leading straight into several possible disasters. A change is needed, but it can't be the kind of change we've seen so far in history - I can't think of one instance in history where an intentional change didn't actually make things worse. Its only that bitcoin doesn't force anything that it has a chance to actually resolve ongoing problems. I see it as a new ruleset in the same way that ecology is a ruleset - all the wonderful complexity in nature is made possible by the rules, not in spite of them, so the discovery of new rules of nature (in this case, math is nature) is like an island of stability in atomics or a new trophic level in ecology, or a new engine design that appears to magically (from the perspective of what was impossible before) convert more potential into useful work, and so there's simply no telling what fascinating new things will be possible due to it and its second order effects. But we will corrupt it. Its what people do. But then we can try again. Maybe we get a thousand years, maybe just a couple hundred. Doesn't matter.

Love your take except for imho, Bitcoin is not a high tech platform - it is a protocol bounded by energy outside of high tech platforms - That distinction is critical because if it is what you believe it is - it will be co-opted. If instead, it is what I think and it stays decentralized and secure - it imposes a change to the roughly 6000 year old system you talk about. That change is also us. We are not only observers but active participants of the choice and there are many Bitcoiners who have taken it far deeper than you might imagine.

This might be helpful too - https://www.jeffbooth.ca/post/finding-signal-in-a-noisy-world

How much is your lake house worth in the new decentralised system vs 2 months ago ?

My guess is a lot more sats

I agree but we do have some kind of baseline when talking about “good” money. Gold was a “good” money for a large portion of history. That being said, extrapolating societal adaptations or predicting social structures around bitcoin is not flying blind. IMO

Do you have any books to help me see the psyops and how to think better? Or plan better?

Creature from Jekyll Island, confessions of an economic hitman, and one nation under blackmail are good starts. The bigger picture is that it is hard to check all priors and do deep research on both sides of issues (especially when you believe something is true - and you discount the other side). That’s why I start with the natural state of the free market is deflation because almost everything else is connected to that one big truth. It means we don’t and never have lived in an economic or political system that was honest. (And we should expect coercion, control and pyops everywhere)

I’m definitely going to check these books out thank you. I sound like a nutjob when I talk to people about the problems with the current system. I sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist… but I think that is what you mean when you say instead of yelling at the system making it stronger to just move energy to the other system.

Exactly - you are just early in seeing it and people don’t want to challenge their view of the world because if that were true, most of the other things they believe in would also fall apart. We spend so much time defending our part of “reality” that phase transitions like this create massive fear of unknown and people retreat to perceived safety of an imagined past. So, most people will do nothing or defend their reality. Pushing against that harder rarely works - because for them —it’s too big and just can’t be true. Asking questions so they come to the conclusion in their own time has been a far better strategy for me?

🙏 bullish for the future Jeff! Thanks

Having lived and worked in Africa for 18 years now, I find really discomforting how a book like Confessions of an economic hitman has never brought more scrutiny to the actions of western countries in Africa! Nobody really cares! What happen then, happens now at a bigger scale and with several players doing it!

Confessions of an economic hitman, absolutely blew my mind. The corruption of monetary policy is beyond comprehension. Calling it "broken money" does not offer a full picture. Money is not only broken, but it also has been hijacked by terrorists!

Thats cool he replied to you. Coincidentally his book price of tomorrow orange pilled me. Or at least planted the seed. Later, I heard him on a podcast talking about btc and it clicked for me. Its all about planting a seed. 🧡👊🏻🍻

This! This all day long!

100% correct sir