A call to crypto flippers
Whether or not there is another āalt seasonā, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your lifeās energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/āinvoostingā, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin frontāwe have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.
You see weāre approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that yearsā long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.
I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse controlāI struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.
But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.
Iām just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. Iām here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.
So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one youāve been telling yourself you donāt need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.
Weāre all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.
Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. Youāll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that youād forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of ānot having enoughā head on, youāll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and youāll start to feel happier than youāve ever been.
Help yourself, youāre worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that āmehā¦ā or eye rolling part of you, thatās not all of you, thatās not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you canāt feel it, it doesnāt mean the sun isnāt there for you, but just that thereās clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.
So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!
