The culture is just changing, not decaying. If you think Bitcoin will bring society back towards traditional values then you are in for a rude awakening.
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I don’t agree, but I’m okay with that 🤝
Not if there's only a finite set of sustainable ways a culture can be. Assuming that today's culture is at least partially impacted by the effects of fiat, a sound money should influence culture back to a something more sustainable/ traditional ( has worked historically)
Or maybe Bitcoin will lead to a culture where people are more free to choose to do, like, and love whatever the hell they want, despite what some prudish religious minority thinks.
Yeah, I agree it will definitely lead to a culture where people are more free to choose. I think the culture we see today is an outcome of not being able to choose freely due to inflation out-pricing our freedom to choose. Hence 2 parents in the work place for 1 example. Moms can “girl boss” all they want, but in reality, both parents are in the workplace because it’s really freakin hard to have a family in 2023 on 1 income.
In my experience, when people aren’t worried about money, they typically have 1 spouse working and 1 at home raising the children. And even right now, I have friends doing this where the at-home parent is pursuing their side-gig hobby. This is viewed as very traditionalist from my perspective. This doesn’t mean 1 parent is more important that the other at all, although “progressive”ideology today minimizes the role of a stay-at-home parent.
Also, imo religious is not necessarily synonymous with traditionalist. Either way, I believe it’s human nature to end up worshiping something, whether they think they do or not.
I think you are right about this aspect of the culture. Culture is such a broad term and when people talk about cultural decay I am making a lot of inference as far as what they are referring to, especially when paired with religion. Specifically I think they are referring to transgender and homosexual culture among other things. I did not think you were referring to the family dynamic. I would love to see households be able to sustain on one income because otherwise they have to fall back on the state to help raise their children.
Aside from that, though, I think there are many aspects of culture that will become more liberal when given the freedom to do so.
Yeah I was referring to the nuclear family.
Although there’s multiple examples in history where the population of falling empires become gender obsessed. Greeks, Romans, Weimar Germany, arguably the USA today. It’s an odd phenomenon that i personally think it somehow links to money degradation.
That being said, idgaf what people identify as or who they love. It’s not my business and it’s not the state’s business.
Happens in rats too. Survival pressures might be some kind of signaling mechanism that keeps animals from tail spinning. Or maybe it'd just that the embodied strategies that don't work die. Which keeps the species healthy. I think there's something to the idea that artificial abundance is a poison (fiat)
Yeah you jumped to trans all on your own but I don't think its as simple as writing the ideas off as "prudish religious minority" like its some arbitrary set of rules. I think its more like a set of ideas that survived the test of time. Imperfect as they may be.
I think you could look at itthis way. Things naturally disintegrate. Cause there's more ways that things can be that don't work than work. Entropy. But under a hard money standard theways that don't work tend to die faster. So Fiat might be what let's the degenerated aspects of culture to survive longer than they otherwise could. Something like that
Either way, the trans movement is essentially self sterilization, so in the long run you’re right that it won’t stand the test of time.