Fiat Mythology: Death, Scarcity, and Dominance
In fiat economies, scarcity is artificially manufactured through inflation, rent-seeking, and monopolization. This creates a worldview where hoarding, conquest, and zero-sum competition are seen as necessary for survival. The idea that “only the strong survive” becomes embedded in culture because, under fiat, those who do not dominate by force are systematically drained out of existence.
With an economic system that punishes saving and depletes wealth over time, the future always appears worse than the past. People subconsciously align with mythologies where death, apocalypse, and collapse are the final destination. This manifests in everything from religious end-times narratives to cultural obsessions with dystopia and archetypes of destruction.
Skulls, crossbones, the reaper, and bulging, hulking, displays of muscle, motor, and power are not just cultural artifacts; they emerge as psychological adaptations to an economic system that makes failure, exploitation, and conflict seem inescapable.
Bitcoin Mythology: Life, Abundance, and Creation
A Bitcoin-based economy, by contrast, is fundamentally non-extractive and non-depleting. This would shift the underlying cultural myths toward creation, cooperation, and abundance, as Bitcoin aligns incentives with life rather than entropy.
When money appreciates in value rather than depreciates, the future becomes something to invest in rather than something to fear. This fosters mythologies of growth, generational wealth, and the long arc of progress.
Because Bitcoin rewards productive value creation, mythologies shift from war and conquest to builders, innovators, and artisans. In a world where wealth isn’t siphoned away by inflation, cooperation and decentralized networks become the dominant survival strategy.
Bitcoin removes the need for centralized control over money, which dissolves fiat-era myths of the “necessary ruler” or the “benevolent overlord.” Instead, new myths emerge around self-reliance, peer-to-peer networks, and decentralized wisdom.
The Shift: From Thanatos to Eros
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud spoke about the Thanatos (death drive) vs. Eros (life force). Fiat economies force societies into Thanatos-driven mythologies: war, destruction, domination, and eventual collapse. Bitcoin, by aligning incentives with long-term value creation and cooperation, enables an Eros-driven mythos: one of creation, renewal, and generational wealth.
A civilization that moves from fiat to Bitcoin isn’t just changing its money—it’s rewriting its entire cultural and existential narrative.
#bitcoin #bullish
History bends not to the will of rulers, but to the imagination of those who refuse to be ruled. We are not here to tweak the system; we are here to outgrow it, to make it irrelevant. And we do that by embodying the freedom we seek—by living it, by building it, and by extending our hands in good faith to those who are ready to break free.
#bitcoin #freedom #buildthefuture #creative
Yes. The paradox of helping people gain perspective is that they must first want to see. But most do not—either because of fear, inertia, or because their existing narrative structure provides them with a functional, if limited, frame of meaning.
A mind expands only when it chooses to, and that choice is often driven by necessity—some force that pressures it to stretch beyond its prior boundaries. The explorers, pioneers, and builders you speak of are those who must expand their perspectives to survive and thrive. They are compelled forward by an internal tension, a hunger to know and to become.
The Markov blanket is a useful metaphor here—it defines the boundary of perception and action, the edge of what an entity can model. Most people live within this cognitive enclosure without questioning it. But those who sense there is something beyond inevitably push against its edges.
Trying to explain the larger system to those who do not yet see it is often an act of futility—until they have a crack in their enclosure, a moment of rupture, a question that destabilizes them. Until then, any discussion of “higher worlds” is met with dismissal or hostility, because it threatens their narrative stability.
So, is there any helping people? Perhaps only in showing them their own capacity to choose—to recognize their own agency in constructing reality. This is why Bitcoin is a philosopher’s stone: it is an ontological rupture, a fundamental reorientation of economic and social order. It introduces choice where before there was none. And once a person sees they have a choice, they can never fully unsee it.
The question then becomes: how do you create the conditions where people willingly look beyond their enclosure? How do you plant the seeds of curiosity without triggering the defenses of fear?
#bitcoin #alchemy
The future belongs to those who reclaim their sovereignty—not just in wealth, but in mind, culture, and cooperation. We stand at the precipice of a new kind of society, where self-sovereign individuals form a murmuration of integrity, free from coercion, bound only by goodwill and aligned incentives. Bitcoin is the first proof-of-concept for this model, but it is just the beginning. The real revolution is in how we organize ourselves beyond the old hierarchies—toward a dynamic, cybernetic network of free people.
#bitcoin #hayek #weiner
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4581/Cybernetics-or-Control-and-Communication-in-the
https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/hayek_-_the_use_of_knowledge_in_society.pdf
most things these days seem that way. you can literally see the value draining out of everything.
Bitcoin is money that naturally evolves toward perfection.
John Nash envisioned “ideal money” as a decentralized, self-correcting medium which emerges from the market. He argued that money should be efficient, transparent, and free from central control—fostering trust and fair value exchange. His concept of asymptotically ideal money means that as more participants adopt equilibrium strategies and the network scales, the system progressively perfects itself, aligning individual incentives with collective stability.
Imagine what this means for society.
You are not bullish enough.
LFG.
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#JohnNash #IdealMoney #Decentralization #EconomicEquilibrium #bitcoin
"The triumph of despotism is to force the slaves to declare themselves free. It may need no force; the slaves may proclaim their freedom quite sincerely: but they are none the less slaves."
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Berlin/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf
#bitcoin #freedom #philosophy
Isaiah Berlin outlined two forms of freedom:
Negative Freedom → “Freedom from” external constraints. The ability to act without interference (e.g., no government oppression, no censorship).
Positive Freedom → “Freedom to” control one’s own destiny. The ability to self-govern, develop, and shape one’s life (e.g., education, participation in democracy).
Negative freedom is about removing barriers, while positive freedom is about empowerment and self-mastery. A balanced society needs both.
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Berlin/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf
#bitcoin #freedom #philosophy
Berlin’s negative and positive freedom are two sides of the same equation—a give and take, a void and fill, like thermodynamics. Freedom from (negative) removes barriers, creating space; freedom to (positive) fills that space with action and self-determination.
Bitcoin’s fixed supply enforces this balance:
• Freedom from inflation, seizure, and control—no interference.
• Freedom to save, transact, and build—economic sovereignty.
By conserving value like energy in a closed system, Bitcoin ensures that gains in one freedom don’t come at the cost of another.
Isaiah Berlin outlined two forms of freedom:
Negative Freedom → “Freedom from” external constraints. The ability to act without interference (e.g., no government oppression, no censorship).
Positive Freedom → “Freedom to” control one’s own destiny. The ability to self-govern, develop, and shape one’s life (e.g., education, participation in democracy).
Negative freedom is about removing barriers, while positive freedom is about empowerment and self-mastery. A balanced society needs both.
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Philosophers/Berlin/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf
#bitcoin #freedom #philosophy
Today, the feeling of scarcity and constraint is rooted in the systems we’ve built—fiat systems that, while they have enabled unprecedented economic complexity and quality of life, have also allowed flawed men to impose their will upon others, distorting the natural balance of life. These systems have brought us heights of prosperity, yet they’ve also exposed us to the depths and depravity of human frailty—greed, power, and control.
For centuries, the cycles of history have shown a cyclical pattern of flourishing followed by exploitation, oppression, collapse, and rebirth. Now, however, we stand at a unique moment in history. The globalization of our socioeconomic infrastructure means that while oppressive forces can now operate on a planetary scale, so too can the forces of freedom and truth.
The scarcity we feel as a tide going out is the prelude to a great transformation. The coming flood will sweep away the corrupt edifices we’ve built, but it will also lay the groundwork for a return to a more natural state—a world where freedom and truth are no longer suppressed, but can flourish on a global, human scale.
In the end, just as the Great Flood cleansed the earth and brought a new dawn, this modern flood will pave the way for a new era of abundance—abundance in freedom, prosperity, and in the opportunity to transcend our history.
What does your minimum viable sovereign network consist of? What minimum resources and standards do you require to subsist happily and what do you imagine are the necessary exports and imports of your sovereign network?
The opportunity to live in peace and engage in free trade is not equally afforded due to monopolies, both geographic and currency-based, on economic networks and the general ignorance of what is technologically and subsequently sociologically possible (freer, more equitable, higher quality of living, more sustainable societies). Monopolies are anachronistic manifestations of fear based on a zero-sum world view.
Perhaps more interestingly, what are you willing to live without in order to increase overall freedom? The challenge here seems to be that some of our contemporary dependencies and preferences are built on long-standing monopolized and exploitative networks.
I just returned from a short family vacation at the edge of the grid, a mountain cabin just beyond cell service and a 40 minute drive to the nearest grocery store. We packed all our food in for about a week. We found rivers, natural springs, and large wild game. Arable land, forests, quarries. Cattle ranches, fish hatcheries. We neither hunted nor fished but observed the opportunity to acquire long lost knowledge of the land, build cooperative networks, and increase freedom.
We encountered a couple situations where it became abundantly clear we were well outside our current network of economic standards, yet the apparent increase in freedom was palpable and seemingly quite worth the apparent compromise in standards.
The basics seem simple: food, shelter, hygiene, healthcare, electricity, internet (enabling education, information economy, etc), transportation. Turns out however we are far more dependent and interconnected than we might realize. Modern supply chains are deceivingly complex. There are surely parts of the global socioeconomic infrastructure that cannot be simply or cleanly unwound.
We also observed instances of what some might describe as poverty, squalor. Made me wonder how that is measured. Poverty of standard of living or poverty of freedom? What is it that we really need in order to live a ‘good life’? To each their own, but all should have the freedom to choose and contribute.
The beauty of nature, friends, and family, and the pursuit of knowledge, freedom, and spirit seem to do it for me.
How might a community escrow be used to compensate devs for accepted code?
This is not the way its supposed to be
Theres a total lack of love and livity
in this here society
theres too much vanity
well I would love to see more peace and harmony
but there’s too many with a slack mentality
Beware of impropriety
and I will not go quietly
so be careful in this time
following your leader
its like the blind leading the blind
when you’re following your leader
your dirty tricks aren’t above the law
we want equal rights and justice for all
well o well o well hey
you time is up no more tipping the scales hey
we’ve got your scent and now we’re on your trail hey
now your wicked ways will not prevail
mad props Arise Roots
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#awaken
#powertothepeople
#newcivilization
#damus
#nostrich
#ariseroots
#music
#reggae
#patiencewillprevail
This is not the way its supposed to be
Theres a total lack of love and livity
in this here society
theres too much vanity
well I would love to see more peace and harmony
but there’s too many with a slack mentality
Beware of impropriety
and I will not go quietly
so be careful in this time
following your leader
its like the blind leading the blind
when you’re following your leader
your dirty tricks aren’t above the law
we want equal rights and justice for all
well o well o well hey
you time is up no more tipping the scales hey
we’ve got your scent and now we’re on your trail hey
now your wicked ways will not prevail
mad props Arise Roots
🌅🤙🏽🌊⚡️🟠
#awaken
#powertothepeople
#newcivilization
#damus
#nostrich
#ariseroots
#music
#reggae
#patiencewillprevail
