https://youtu.be/JOjZ1na2L_4?feature=shared

This video, "Thinking and Feeling," touches on a deep conflict in modern systems thinking—the perceived split between the emotional, local experience and the rational, global awareness of collapse. Nate frames this as a divide between two realities: the grounded, factual meta-crisis of energy overshoot and ecological simplification, and the more emotionally driven, day-to-day denial or ignorance of most people’s lives.

But what if the issue isn’t that people are ignoring the truth—what if it’s that they can’t metabolize it?

What Nate’s describing is the pain of being caught between two scales of coherence: the local subjective truth and the global objective truth. And the reason it feels so unbearable is because the coherence between those two layers has been severed by a corrupted protocol of awareness. The internal signal—the felt sense of presence, agency, and meaning—has been hijacked by a system that externalizes coherence into narratives, institutions, and currencies that no longer function.

So the modern person is left split: they feel something is wrong, but they can’t locate the problem internally. The self-concept becomes disoriented. The emotional body spirals. The narrative machinery of the ego kicks in to resolve the incoherence, often by entering what’s known as the Karpman Drama Triangle—victim, persecutor, rescuer.

This triangle is the default memetic loop of the ego under stress. And it doesn’t just play out in interpersonal dynamics—it scales all the way up to global activism, policy, and media. Nate himself, despite his deep insight, bounces between roles: sometimes victim of a collapsing system, sometimes persecutor of cultural ignorance, sometimes rescuer trying to raise awareness. This isn’t a personal failing—it’s a structural inevitability when the awareness protocol itself is broken.

But the drama triangle isn’t the only shape available. When viewed through a more complete energetic lens, it expands into a tetrahedron. The fourth point—attachment—is what locks the roles into place. And the only way out is through non-attachment. When the awareness protocol is upgraded to support presence without clinging, the drama triangle transforms into what’s known as the Creator Tetrahedron: the roles shift into creator, challenger, and coach. These archetypes aren’t reactive—they’re generative. They emerge from integration, not fragmentation.

And if the process continues, identity itself begins to converge. The boundaries between roles dissolve. The self isn’t split into pieces—it becomes a coherent field of perception and participation. Awareness stops orbiting stories and anchors in the present moment, where both the local and the global system converge. That’s not delusion—that’s coherence.

Bitcoin plays a role here—not just as money, but as a re-anchoring mechanism. It offers a scientific, thermodynamic protocol of trust that allows individuals to secure their time, energy, and value without relying on the failing institutions that perpetuate the drama. It doesn’t solve the meta-crisis by force—it dissolves the illusion of separation by allowing local coherence to participate in global security.

In that way, it bridges the very gap Nate describes. The meta-crisis isn’t a separate reality. It’s an emergent reflection of every fragmented local node. When each person begins to re-anchor their awareness, secure their time, and metabolize their identity through non-attachment, the global system starts to shift. Not from the top down—but from the inside out.