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A Bitcoin standard classifieds website built on Nostr and lightning called Satisfieds would be cool and a circular bitcoin economy. 👀🟣🟠

Another day, another court filing to work on 🤷‍♂️

Running on squats, eggs and steak, so gonna crush it. 💪

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The Antidote to Nihilistic Narcissism

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“He’ll have a long life as long as he doesn’t know himself.”

In Greek mythology, this was the prophecy concerning Narcissus. Narcissus is better known for how the myth ends. He falls in love with his own reflection, which is where we get the word narcissistic. The ending refers back to the initial prophecy. When he saw his own reflection, he didn’t recognize it because he didn’t know himself.

In the middle of the myth is Narcissus rejecting the love of everyone else. The order matters. Narcissus only fell in love with himself after rejecting everyone. He didn’t reject everyone because he was in love with himself, but rather he fell in love with himself because he rejected everyone. His only target for love was himself.

I bring up this myth because this is the intellectual path that so many people take. They cynically reject belief systems one by one until they are left with nothing else. Lacking anything else to believe in, they turn to themselves and become completely self-centered. They become nihilistic narcissists.

Bad Parenting

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Look at the prophecy again. Narcissus will have a long life as long as he doesn’t know himself. Presumably, his parents made sure he didn’t know himself because Narcissus didn’t even recognize his own reflection. They did this with the best of intentions, to ensure he had a long life, yet clearly, a life staring into your own reflection is not exactly meaningful.

Think about what we tell our kids: “You can be anything you want to be.” “Go find what you’re passionate about.”

These platitudes specifically avoid giving children an identity. More subtly, not giving them an identity makes it harder for them to get attacked. We do this with the best of intentions, yet is this really what parents should be doing? To define yourself is an enormous burden, especially for children.

Nihilism as Default

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Think about the myth again. Narcissus rejected all would-be lovers.

Why?

He didn’t know himself. He didn’t have any basis by which he could even evaluate their fit. How could he since he had no self-awareness or self-understanding? He couldn’t solve for love because he didn’t know half the equation.

Identity is the basis of evaluating everything. Without grounding, nothing can be built. Without identity, belief is impossible and nihilism becomes the default.

The Appeal of Narcissism

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Nihilistic narcissism is a safe position. Because you never have to stand for anything and never take a risk, you can preserve your own ego, preserve your intellectual life as in the prophecy. The appeal is in preserving what you have, your own self, however empty and senseless you become.

But nihilistic narcissism completely strips meaning from life. You may live a long life staring into your own reflection, but it’s not a very fulfilling one. Lacking any sort of external north star, you are left with an internal north star, which if you follow, becomes navel-gazing. Ironically, narcissism is the end state of not knowing yourself.

Such a place is one of profound despair. There is no meaning and all you have to live for is yourself. Is it any wonder so many people are depressed?

Parents, give your kids the gift of identity. Your job is to help them know who they are. This should be natural, since the kids come from you. By knowing you, they learn to know themselves. By showing them who you are, you are really showing them who they are. By participating with them in community you are showing them who they are. By telling them your family history you are showing them who they are. Tether them to your identity so they can find meaning. Give them the solid foundation of knowing themselves.

Because identity is necessary to a meaningful life.

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Since Nostr is written in permanent ink I just want to say unequivocally that Craig wright is a fraud.

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Bitcoin accelerates the brinkmanship between all people everywhere against all governments everywhere for the power of the purse, which in our age, is the quintessential Event of human history. This Event can also be understood as ‘the end of times’ in an eschatological sense.

This escalation leads to the eschatological moment where the state of emergency becomes the norm, and the law itself represents lawless authoritarian force.

In this emergency, the state will fuse with AI surveillance tools, which will initiate the removal of The Katechon; i.e. “one who withholds" a biblical concept of that which holds back the Anti-Christ.

The only counter to this state of emergency that becomes the apocalypse itself is to blind the apparatus and deprive it the power of The Gaze, which allows for it to rule entirely through surveillance. Cryptography is what allows us to blind this machine of hate and fear that will seek to destroy anything that does not comply with it.

Once the leviathan is sufficiently blind, it will starve because it can no longer see its children who it must eat to maintain its power.

This final battle will end with two possibles:

Humanity is defeated, all people will be technologically enslaved with no possibility of freedom.

Or

People will rise us and use the pedagogical empower of what cryptography is, and how bitcoin specifically deprives the state and its surveillance anti-Christ of its evil extortionist ways, while also opening us up to the solidarity of a single global form of wealth that no single person, organization, or government forever.