Sometimes people that are contrarian (bitcoiners) don’t realize how easy they are to control.

If you’re always contrarian, you’re just as predictable as those who conform. Total resistance is still control because they can steer you by expecting your defiance.

Power lies not in answering every challenge, but in choosing which are worthy.

They want to own you.

Deny them your reactions, and you deny them power over you.

When you master your impulse to react, you master yourself because those who cannot be provoked cannot be controlled.

The strongest response is often no response.

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no action. no reaction. got it. 😕

Is that not the same for principles then? Have principles and also be controlled through them?

True sovereignty requires access to the beginners mind. Connection to the source, like a node syncing with the genesis block

Love to be a Bitcoiner someday

This is essentially what keeps the libertarian party from ever gaining traction.

True

Yes, ‘DO NOT ENGAGE!’ is often the best option.

just don't make new selfs. eradicate them and you are free. 'contrarian' is just a self, a definition, an idea.

are you just and idea?

🤷🤙

Besides, suddenly agreeing with someone you're usually at odds with on some specific issue can be even more satisfying than slamming them with a brilliant counter argument. It's nice on a human level, as well.

Reactionary to "systems."

Bitcoin is also a "system."

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conforming nonconformist

Well said

There is great power in silence.

Ya man. Don't be a spazz and acquire every take or thing. Chill

very true

The civil unrest will still come. There are many more cards in the deck. They want total control. They need unrest.

Be like water my friend

Was this post aimed at Joe Carlasari 🤣

Sometimes you're right. But for some reasons you really can't shut up or you're cowardly and selfish.

Dude yesss!

Todays Bitcoiners are just normies.

Discipline is hard to master for some, impossible for most

or maybe just don't always be reflexively contrarian... that's another way to not be predictable.