Good Morning Everyone,
The act of intentionally persuading people, or influencing them has long been something i’ve been somewhat allergic to. It’s always felt somewhat disingenuous to me and i’ve opted to take a more neutral approach. One where I’m less inclined to convince others or feel compelled to change their mind on a given topic, while being willing to provide the information that has led me to arrive at a certain position if asked.
In thinking more deeply about the current situation we are facing, and how catastrophic the current actions being taken are i’m becoming more open to the idea that there may be a different lens to view persuasion from, and that it may actually be a very necessary strategy, given the fact we currently seem somewhat intent in running ourselves off a metaphorical cliff; where famine is likely to be re-normalised for many if we do not course correct. (No doubt being banished from society throughout the covid hysteria by a tyrannical government and supported by a society of cowards has had an impact as well)
This is another one of the ways were I haven’t changed bitcoin, but bitcoin is changing me. It’s become increasingly apparent that there is a war of ideas underway, and the vast majority of those in normie-land are getting led to slaughter. Even worse than this, what appears to be a large swath of the ignorant sleep walkers are cheering for it.
Fiat money has enabled the concentration of power amongst a small group of pseudo-elites. It has enabled and incentivised endless wars, and the exploitation of less sophisticated cultures around the world. This small group of pseudo-elites have an outsized level of influence on media, industry and government. Those that benefit from this dynamic naturally oppose anything that could destabilise their bounty of power, so naturally they oppose bitcoin - An alien technology that they cannot control, and that will not conform to their ideologies and beliefs. The harnessing of denser and denser energy sources, specifically hydrocarbons, has led to what is widely regarded as the most prosperous society to ever exist in history. It has been said many times, there has simply never been a better time to be alive. This is due to the ingenuity of humans and it should be celebrated - not condemned.
This very small group of ‘haves’ have hijacked the narrative and many unsuspecting minds along with it, and are actively trying to convince everyone that animals (meat) are destroying the earth’s atmosphere, boiling the oceans and are bad. The very thing that has enabled us to flourish is evil, and we need to transition to a far less dense and intermittent energy source in solar and wind, which has lead us to a major energy crisis.
The energy debate is a complex and nuanced one, and one that i cannot put to bed in a paragraph or two but in it’s simplest form, in order to be able to transition away from hydrocarbons (which is a truly insane idea) it would require us to be able to create everything from the alternative. Everything. The fact of the matter is that this is simply not possible at present, and seems unlikely to be in any near future.
Solar and wind specifically require the power that hydrocarbons afford to create the panels and turbines they require to access this energy in the first place, and the power those alternatives generate is insufficient to perform this. So until that were to change, any notion we should remove hydrocarbons is truly the most absurd malware that only someone that has done zero research into and posses an impressive general lack of critical thinking capability could possibly believe. Ie the normie. For which urban dictionary provides a fairly accurate description.
“A person gravitating to social standards, accepted practices, and fads of their own time & geographic grouping without broader cultural perspectives from which they draw.Normies possess a lack of interest in ideas not easily accessible or being outside of their/society's current range of acceptance. A straight. A follower.Most normies adopt a "popularity is the only measure of good or bad" mindset at an early age.Normies typically have a sense of cultural superiority over "counter culture" movements & foreign cultures. They will often try to discredit out cultures or choices falling outside of their majority think claiming those of other dispositions are mentally ill or out of touch with reality.”
So what does this have to do with persuasion? In short, it is abundantly clear that the small group of haves, like those at the World Economic Forum appreciate the importance of persuasion and are actively persuading those in normie-land to career themselves off a cliff by de-industrialising and starving themselves of the necessary materials needed to flourish. This obviously includes us adopting some glorious web3-like CBDC slave coin that would render us hungry and malnourished, compliant serfs with the autonomy of a 16th century peasant.
Thankfully bitcoin fixes this. But i do believe it needs our help. While bitcoin will continue to produce block after block regardless, and will wait for as long as needed for us to shake our current psychosis and embrace it’s magic alien-like powers. To do so sooner, would be far better, and we do this, in part, through persuasion. We do it through education. We do it through building. We do it through communicating and providing clarifying information to counter that of the clown world; and we do it by meeting the normies where they are and helping guide them to water.
As Marty Bent said in one of his recent newsletters:
“Getting quality, digestible information about how bitcoin works and why it is important is the most high leverage thing bitcoiners can do to help spur more adoption.”
More adoption of this alien technology is ultimately how we disable the lunatics that wish to continue to accumulate power at our expense into infinity, and it is how we will achieve energy abundance.
In my opinion, there is not a single thing on earth that can be done that is more meaningful to support the continued development of society and to enables humans to flourish long into the future, and be equipped to combat our future challenges that lie ahead.
I hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.
AK
