X is the degenerate slums of Babylon
Nostr is a small organic, regenerative farm
Yes, it takes intention and work to cultivate your Nostr feed, but that expense is nothing compared to the psychic toll that X takes on the mind and body, imo
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This rant was a tremendous unlock for me and I recommend everybody here go listen to it.
It simplified the world of the present day for me so clearly: the 80 year Strauss-Howe cycle is above all else the death and rebirth of a shared paradigm. After a crisis, we establish a paradigm for everything - money, the social contract, gender roles, government, social values, expectations of each other and the use of technology, etc. That paradigm holds for 80 years, but accumulates many anomalies - unintended consequences, edge cases, unanticipated challenges - along the way. At a certain point, enough anomalies accumulate for people to begin rejecting the old paradigm and searching for a new one.
The very obvious two camps in the world right now are the people who still accept the paradigm, and the people who have given up on it and are seeking a new one.
This will be a period where a lot of bad proposals are made for new paradigms. We just have to have faith that the ones that actually work will prevail.
It used to be a pet peeve of mine that linguistic drift has led people to use the word “conspiracies” when they mean “conspiracy theories”. But really, it’s very helpful - the sloppy terminology betrays sloppy thinking, so these people disqualify themselves right off the bat.
If someone can’t keep these terms separate, they aren’t prepared to think clearly about the topic at all.
I actually buy the idea that $80k was the bottom. The normies who got in in the past 18 months are all anchored to $100k in their minds. At $126k they were profit-takers, and $80k they are buyers.
In the past, there were many, many people whose only anchor value was $0. I don’t think very many of them still exist, if any.
$80k is still above the previous cycle’s ATH… perhaps we just chopped off the blow off top and the soul-searching crash when we went Wall Street with this thing.
The normies I know were just talking about buying the dip. This might be max pain for us plebs only, because we worship the cycle. We are the ones who religiously believe now is the time to sell.
Max pain is down until February when my next project finally starts and I have dry powder again, then rapid bear trap as those cuckbucks come in, and then down only all year