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2024-06-12 13:33:42Narratives are a way of simplifying a really complicated world. Compelling ones follow story structures that we’re used to seeing: a villain and a hero, a bad developer versus a mother who’s struggling to get her kids through college. These kinds of narratives are compelling because there’s a spark of truth in them, which is that there are power struggles in the world; there are winners and losers. Many narratives stick because they reaffirm our own opinions and views, but that can be really dangerous: Just because something feels true doesn’t mean that it is.
The narratives that don’t stick are usually the ones that are more complicated. There isn’t always a clear-cut good guy and bad guy. Often we’re just existing in systems where a bunch of people act in their own self-interest; some of them are trying to do good, but people have different conceptions of what good is. Trying to describe a world full of that kind of complexity is not as satisfying. -- someone, not me.
we need to remember this when we start believing narratives that we hear in our feedback loops. we need to remember this when we blame other people for how broken shit is. we need to remember this when when we want to believe we are special or in on some secret that no one else knows. we need to remember this when we believe we are the heroes and they are the foes. we need to remember this when we believe someone else will make everything better for us. we need to remember that we are always being given a narrative. bitcoin provides financial sovereignty, but it's nothing without mental sovereignty. a sovereign individual does not fall for the narratives because they don't need permission to think for themselves.
we need to remember
"These kinds of narratives are compelling because there’s a spark of truth in them, which is that there are power struggles in the world; there are winners and losers."
bitcoin is for enemies > bitcoin allows enemies to work together > bitcoin makes us all winners. if you're going to fall for a narrative anyways, it might as well be this one.