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Most people are profoundly narcissistic.

You can tell because they blame everyone but themselves for anything that happens. They believe that they'd be fine if the world, really specific people, would get their act together. These people are usually fans of books like Catcher in the Rye. They like that book because it tells them what they want to hear. Specifically, that they, too, are geniuses and that it's the world that misidentifies them.

I really hate that book because it tells people that they're really hidden geniuses and that it's society's fault for not recognizing them. No, it's not society that's at fault. It's you. And it's profoundly immature to blame everyone else but yourself. That's what children do, not adults.

Yet if we look at the population, the people that act this way make up a significant percentage. Why is that?

It's because they've never had to grow up. This attitude is characteristic of someone that's never had to deal with adversity. And indeed, we get a lot of people like that under fiat money. Anyone with financial privilege has this potential to be this narcissistic. Honestly, if you constantly got bailed out by your parents or government, you'd never even think of improving.

Fiat money has made things way too comfortable, especially for the class of rent-seekers that don't contribute anything. We'll see a lot more of this as inflation takes its toll.

Thank you! It should be fixed now!

This is Roger he’s my security guard 🦘

~48 hours

Less than 48 Hours Till One Tap - #Zapathon

Side quest. Zap Nostr Accounts who are speaking at Bitcoin Miami while they are on stage. 😀 nostr:note1ezwwqay4wwnv60fad6le45m5jaqlay5msggk94mjgnfggkmnf0hs0rzfnn

Is something happening in Miami?

I’m flying into Miami today. Hugely looking forward to catching up with many bitcoin friends, and, as usual, getting to know new ones! If we’re connected, DM me via the usual channels or in the conference app.

There is a reality beyond the material world. We all instinctively know this, yet in the modern mind, anything beyond the material is considered "unscientific" and cast with a wide net.

That wide net denies everything, putting metaphysical discussion on par with discussions about the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. It's a disingenuous argument and one that any honest person recognizes as flawed. Yet to the midwit mind, it's enough to deny the meta-physical. The beyond that we don't understand very well.

Still, it's hard to live in an existence without anything of the beyond, of the metaphysical. A purely material world is a cold and lonely place. A place of meaninglessness and purposelessness. Yet it's a frame so many people accept readily, much like "scientific consensus" or conventional wisdom.

The reason authorities push a purely material world is because a purely material world means much less justification is necessary for what they are doing. They don't have to answer to any authority beyond their own. They don't have to because in a purely material world, morality is completely subjective.

Ethics is a particularly thorny problem for the materialists. How do you determine whether something is good or evil? To deny that evil exists would be ridiculous on its face. We see it every day and too many people would riot if such a thing were asserted. Even the most compliant sheep would recognize that something is really wrong.

But to assert your own morality! That's the ultimate authority, being able to define good and evil for other people. Indeed, that's the power that authorities now have. To use the wrong pronoun is a grievous evil. As is not getting vaccinated, or not supporting Ukraine, or not supporting unlimited bank bailouts.

It's a subjective morality and it's easily justified in a purely materialist philosophy.

We've been made compliant by the destruction of philosophy.

#[1]​ I’m pretty sure me, #[2]​ & #[3]​ owe you a bounty for #zap splits once you release the generalized version ⚡️

Doing it on the sender side is also a WAY better implementation than the receiver side like initially suggested.

Really cool stuff 👏 nostr:note1ef6xh8xvkg0hrhy0nwxddjyyuymfke5s8rasmuuvdkvku34lwkqspeem4x

Hmm maybe it isn’t truly 1 tap on iPhone? I click it but then it still pops up asking me to choose my wallet?

It just doesn’t make sense. Living in a fiat world just seems asinine now that we have what I believe to be an alternative in Bitcoin.

Again, the patience is the hard part lol

Houses still selling for $30k (10-15%) over asking with multiple offers in a few days.

How can people still afford to pay these prices at triple the interest rates?

Patience and a low time preference can certainly be challenging at times.

I hope so. The Angertainment industry is so toxic to our country.