Bitcoiners have been preparing for this moment for years. It’s happening.

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Self-custody is the way. #Bitcoin

True, everyone is swayed by others and sways others to some degree.

“Existence itself is a highly complex system of interwoven vibrations, and, from infancy, we have inherited the strongest prejudices as to which vibrations are permissible and acceptable and which are not.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

“Many people believe that without anxiety there would be no motivation for a creative life. ‘If I am to be good, someone must beat me.’ But creation is not mere flight from punishment and fear, and no one wants the surgeon to be anxious, with his knife in a trembling hand. The problem is that we are now wielding the incredible surgical instrument of technology with trembling hands, and what concerned Huxley was that such power cannot be handled constructively by anxious and alienated men with a fundamentally hostile attitude to nature.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

Of course, men have allowed this to happen, so it’s hardly the case that women are solely to blame. Adam has taken a bite of the apple just as surely as Eve. Thankfully, there is general awakening taking place among men and women that is inspiring to see.

Women also have stronger nurturing instincts than men, as they should. The problem is these instincts have been re-directed towards the plunderers of civilization from than that which upholds it.

Indeed, women have impressive levels of emotional intelligence, far greater than men. The price for that is lack of rationality relative to men.

“Examining the record of its past, the progressive society reconstructs it as history, that is, as a significant series of events which constitute a destiny, a motion toward specific temporal goals for the society as a whole. The fabricators of such histories easily forget that their selection of ‘significant’ events from the record is subjectively determined—largely by the need to justify the immediate political steps which they have in mind. History exists as a force because it is created or invented here and now.”

— Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman

“The idea that the good can be wrested from the evil, that life can be delivered permanently from death, is the seed-thought of the progressive and historical cultures.”

— Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman

Why are women so much more easily swayed by leftism than men?

Because women score much higher on agreeableness than men, meaning they are more eager to conform to the social consensus than men.

What’s interesting about this trend in 2024, is that the waning influence of the legacy media is shifting what the social consensus is perceived to be.

The pendulum is starting to swing for the first time since 1984.

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In a fiat world, #Bitcoin is inevitable.

“No I haven’t seen the wifejak wojak, or any wojaks. What are they?”

“If I am my organism, I am also my environment. From the ecological and biophysical standpoints every organism goes with its environment transactionally: the one implies the other as buying implies selling and front implies back and the positive pole implies the negative. Thus every living organism implies, not only the conditions of the immediate solar system, but also the entire constellation of galaxies. If a human body could be transported to another universe, careful study by the local scientists would eventually reveal that it came from an environment which included sun, moon, planets, Milky Way, and the nebula in Andromeda. For as the fruit implies the tree, the human organism implies a cosmic energy system which ‘peoples’ in the same way as a plant flowers.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

“Trying to force a lock bends the key, for which reason a truly intelligent man never forces an issue. He resorts instead to judo, the ‘gentle way’ of trimming one’s sails to the wind, of rolling with the punch, and of splitting wood along the grain.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

“So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its innumerable disguises, and the whole universe is a masquerade ball pretending to be a tragedy and then realizing that it’s a ball.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

“Dogen, a Zen master of the thirteenth century, said that spring does not become summer and, in the same way, firewood does not become ashes: there is spring, and then there is summer; there is firewood, and then there are ashes. By the same argument, a living being does not become a corpse, and an unenlightened person does not become a Buddha. Monday does not become Tuesday; one o’clock does not become four o’clock. Thus to try to become a Buddha, to attain enlightenment or liberation or supreme unselfishness, is like trying to wash off blood with blood, or polishing a brick to make a mirror. As Chuang-tzu said, ‘You see your egg and expect it to crow.’”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

“The playing of the Self is therefore like a drama in which the Self is both the actor and the audience. On entering the theater the audience knows that what it is about to see is only a play, but the skillful actor creates a maya, an illusion of reality which gives the audience delight or terror, laughter or tears. It is thus that in the joy and the sorrow of all beings the Self as audience is carried away by itself as actor.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?