Bitcoiners eat steak and shun seed oils because one is real, the other abstracted from reality. What’s more real than biting into animal flesh? And more fake than industrial seed oil sludge? Steak is hard money: primal, tangible. Seed oils? Soft currency of a synthetic age.
Fiat central banking literally steals value. Cantillionaires print the money you labour for, breeding demoralization and the anxious grind of the ‘rat race.’ It strip-mines real goods and work, leaving you stuck as quality erodes, always lagging behind endless money printing.
Seed oils are fiat’s inevitable spawn. As currency debases, those far from the money printer must chase cheaper substitutes. Industrial byproducts repackaged as food, seed oils embody fiat’s logic: cheapening everything while dragging us further from reality’s tangible core.
Money printing doesn’t just mean plastic replaces wood or jobs move offshore—it frays our ties to the real, pulling us into abstraction. This decontextualization hollows out culture, stripping it of meaning. We drift, untethered, in a world unmoored from reality
The idea that ‘we live in a simulation’ only arises in a world untethered from reality. No one said that on a gold standard. It’s the derealization wrought by money printing that makes the notion plausible, as the fabric of reality frays with every abstraction.
This is why bitcoiners eat steak: it’s real, and so it’s healthy. As nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak says, “Only meat makes you full enough to not desire fiat food.” Steak roots you in the Real—our reality and that of our ancestors. It’s the ultimate low-time-preference act, a pure expression of humanity.
This is the irony of Cypher’s scene in The Matrix: he’ll return to the simulacrum as long as he can enjoy steak. He accepts the fake world, the Matrix, because it offers a taste of the ultimate reality—something the hollow, desolate human world of his time no longer provides.
By comparison we’re pretty lucky we can escape the proverbial matrix by just watching a few videos, reading some great Bitcoin books, and still make real steak for dinner. Bon appetit frens
