Oddbean

I appreciate people across the political spectrum, and have friends in multiple worldview camps. Especially since they are often from different countries with different contexts. My friends do tend to cluster in certain areas due to our shared interests (i.e. I am freedom-oriented in general), but there are people who consider themselves to be anarcho-capitalists and others that consider themselves to be aware progressives, for whom I would invite them to my home and stay in our guest area. But I have a visceral disgust toward people who I perceive to be playing a role or being consciously fake. I'm not against people playing an actual obvious caricature for satire of course. But in the modern era, there is a tremendous amount of audience capture, gaslighting, fake social media influence that is meant to come off as genuine, and influencers and politicians treating their audience as though they are literally retarded. Once I perceive someone as fundamentally fake and consciously playing a false role that they pretend is real to their audience, they're done to me. This behavior has been on an enormous uptrend in the past few years, much to my provocation. It's an acceleration of cynicism. Those that do this are intelligent but cynical toward their audience, manipulating them either for personal gain or for their political purpose. Be aware of this trend.

Wow I thought I was the only one noticing this. I also absolutely cannot stand it. And yet these people garner huge followings. If I listen to someone speak and I cannot tell if they are lying, joking or telling the truth, I'm outta there.

Bitcoin fixes cynicism. I think that many people become cynical because they realize that things are not going well whilst they feel powerless to change anything about it. It’s like a negative cope or defense mechanism. I‘ve seen this in myself before I got into Bitcoin…

Yeah its full on deliberate intentional. It has an uneasy nasty feel to it, yet they do it anyway. I think the only explanation is that they can't feel what we feel. Or don't feel it. If they felt what we felt, then it isn't possible to behave in such a way. They wouldn't do it. That's my only explanation that makes even the slightest sense. You could argue that they do it to achieve a certain goal no matter what the cost. But whatever way you look at it, it's a form of detachment, emotional disconnection. Nasty way to live 🥺

It’s a form of psychopathy, play acting or performing without actually feeling those emotions. Outwardly being something, purely to extract attention and reward. Too many simps go along with it though, which is almost worse

Hey Lyn, did you ever think about making content in egyptian? When I was there last week, I asked couple of people how they protect themselves against inflation. Most hold USD or EUR, one buys gold, but Bitcoin is too novel for them, it doesn't feel real to them. Seems like a lot of lost potential for such a huge & young populus

I don't appreciate those who support armed robbery by third party... I'd have more time for bushrangers, at least they don't follow everyone around for their entire lives & they are taking the risk themselves. 😂

There is a famous bitcoiner who popularized the term "bum bum check". He left the mother of his daughter for a onlyfans wannabe pornstar. They took pizza pictures together as if his audience wouldn't notice that the girl in this picture was different.... He now peddles alpha male bitcoin meetups. You will have to dig up the bitcoin drama on Twitter to find out the drama that ensued.