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If you’re going to host workshops, or events / gatherings of any kind, check out @nprofile1q...

Bitcoin-native, Nostr-native events app. Almost as good as Eventbrite, but every event (and by end of month, every user account) comes with a native bitcoin wallet
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This is all true..
Except - it only works in a high trust culture, with a homogenous ethic population that has a high average IQ.

Sans that biological & cultural substrate, it’s not practically possible.

And since the earth is filled with people who mostly do not fit the conditions outlined at the top, then this will always remain a perfectly accurate sound *theory*.
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Storytelling remains king. Yes.
But you need to remember that 90% of people are not main characters. They’re extras in someone else’s movies.

They don’t tell their own stories. They play a part in others.

Therefore, there is no “saving them”

What technology does is give them extra powers to be useless with.

It elevates them & accelerates everything.

Those of us who are main characters AND can intentionally USE technology (as opposed to it using us) have an advantage (as we always have) but there’s no denying that the quantum of noise is higher than it’s ever been and this makes the tide harder to resist
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Nah. Tech transforms us. It accelerates everything and clashes with biological tendencies & modalities (which evolve and adapt over much longer time frames).

Consumerism is of course a huge issue too, and we know why. Fiat money bla bla bla.

But tech has a bigger impact.

People think money printing for example fucked everything up in 1971. Sure. It had an impact.

But you know what had a bigger negative impact on society? The pill. Less than a decade beforehand.

Same in 2010 with the proliferation of the smartphone. And later social media.

Not saying we need to go Amish. But these things have a way bigger impact than simple consumerism (consumerism is an accelerant)
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Or you could just get offline altogether, touch some grass & go live back in the real world.
That’s my resolution.
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The best part is that he’s right.

I’ve been telling people bitcoin is a framework for excellence for alllsg half a decade now.

Fascism is excellence (to the extreme). Perhaps a little too far in that direction at times, but nonetheless, it’s exactly what it is.

News flash though - THIS IS A GOOD THING.

The problem with the world is not fascism or excellence - it’s the LACK of each.

Excellence is diametrically opposed to equality (which is at the core of leftism).

Excellence is RIGHT-coded.

The dumb dumb leftist bitcoiners never understood this.

They all thought bitcoin was all warm and fuzzy and designed to save poor people.

lol.

Welcome to reality.
This is what bitcoin is.

A framework for excellence
A step toward a more ancient, feudal-like human operating system that is more natural, more fair, and yes - also more harsh in some ways (you can no longer force equality on the world).

Eat shit Mike Brock.

@nevent1qqs...
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The best is that he’s right.
I’ve been telling people bitcoin is a framework for excellence for alllsg half a decade now.
Fascism is excellence (to the extreme)
Perhaps a little too far in that direction at times, but nonetheless, it’s exactly what it is.

News flash though - THIS IS A GOOD THING.

The problem with the world is not fascism or excellence - it’s the LACK of each.

Excellence is diametrically opposed to equality (which is at the core of leftism)

The dumb dumb leftist bitcoiners never understood this.

They all thought bitcoin was all warm and fuzzy and designed to save poor people.

lol.

Welcome to reality.
This is what bitcoin is.

A framework for excellence
A step toward a more ancient, feudal-like human operating system that is more natural, more fair, and yes - also more harsh in some ways (you can no longer force equality on the world).

Eat shit Mike Brock.
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No actually they didn’t amplify anything. They made it 10x harder to manage because none of those events are actually published by the host. They are published by OPA’s key, so they are completely separate & distinct events, which the owners of said event don’t know about, and the potential attendees who may register are just flowing in limbo on a registration list nobody is going to check

And even if the events are “claimed” by the host, (a) the Nostr calendar event itself is not assigned to the event host, and (b) even if that was one day solved, it creates another problem which is the host then needs to manage two separate registration lists.

We did this 9mths ago, and deprecated it because of these very reasons.

If we’re gonna do it, we do it right.