Up next for #bookstr is Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler. A bit of a strange read 100 years on, Adler was to Freud as Hayek was to Keynes in their days. That he was considered heterodox seems strange when you look around and see Devouring Mother Karen archetypes trying to destroy the West - he predicts women overcompensating for an inferiority complex and that’s certainly played out. Where his critique is found lacking is his desire for the removal of the Chesterton’s Fence around traditional femininity and masculinity which he sees as purely a status thing. Just look around, it’s clear it wasn’t purely status but was a functional pillar that kept an equilibrium in society which whilst not perfect, did allow it to progress and grow. To me, that left a cloud over his work. I can’t say the world would have been better off if Adler had been the dominant force in his field instead of Freud, like I confidently could say about Hayek over Keynes. Hayek was more aware of limitations whereas Adler doesn’t pay so much mind to them. But then again, I’m not as deep into the theory there as with economics. Wouldn’t recommend this one, it will feel too obvious just from life experience for this to be of real value to anyone today.

I think I’ve got a solution to a bunch of the Western World’s problems, hear me out.. What if we just nuked Davos right now? #asknostr

Want to piss off a pedant? Call him a pendant. And when he corrects you, say he’s being pendantic.

It could well happen in your lifetime. I’m confident that the ruling elite isn’t far from losing its will to power behind the current worldview. But hoping that the world will spontaneously re-organise around you because you have morals/righteousness/philosophy/hard money/whatever on your side; that’s just not how the world works. It requires organisation. Even if the system collapses #Bitcoin could still go to millions per coin but that doesn’t necessarily mean hyperbitcoinisation - that just means Bitcoiners would be rich in a system ruled by a new set of elites who aren’t going to give up the money printers because they’ll want to use them for THEIR new ruling ideology. That would be Bitcoin failing in my view and I see that path currently as FAR more likely than true hyperbitcoinisation the way Bitcoiners consider it where it’s the basis of the global economy and people are no longer enslaved by monetary debasement - that path requires an organised minority with will to power who put reality ahead of ideology.

There’s something both incredibly satisfying, and incredibly sad about this graph. It’s how I imagine XRP will look like eventually.

In Vietnamese, the months are literally named “Month One”, “Month Two” etc. which is easy. And the days are similar, except Sunday which is the first day of the week so Monday is “Day Two”, Wednesday is “Day Three” I have to do math in my head to work out what day of the week it is.

This is hopium. > - Sovereigns and institutions fall back to gold because of familiarity and a liquidity profile that can handle larger flows compared to bitcoin Yep, happening right now. - Bitcoin is adopted by smaller players (individuals, corporations, funds) until sovereigns recognize that bitcoin is the ultimate store of value asset in the Digital Age Sure, happening right now. - The bitcoin standard rises from the ashes of fiat debasement and analog store of value assets Ok you just skipped the bit where Sovereigns and Institutions wake up, realise the error of their ways, and go all in on #Bitcoin because others did - why would they give up their fiat power WHEN THE ENTIRE SYSTEM RELIES UPON IT?! Revolutions happen when the incumbent elite lose the will to power, when they lose faith in their ideology and guiding philosophy. Unless Bitcoiners are ready to step in with their own Institutions, their own ideology and guiding philosophy and a vision which others can buy into, nothing happens and we reset the fiat game for another 80-100 year cycle. Study #EliteTheory people. If the purpose of a system is what it does; you best understand the system of power else you’re just deluding yourselves with hopium like this.

The Eurohags and the Brits are desperate for war. They both need the economic stimulus and want to get their angry young men who are pissed that they’ve had their economic futures destroyed and been flooded by immigrants, to direct their ire outside the country rather than at the system which has fukt them and would rather see them thrown into a meat grinder. It’s a bold move, let’s see how it plays out.

Imagine they find some 14 year olds posts and want to charge him for it - then they have to reconcile how he is now banned from social media by the U16s social media ban, but they’re retroactively applying hate speech laws to him with potentially 5 years in prison.. The absurdity of this government is off the charts.

> I don't even know what it's for anymore. The energy is there but shitcoining and crypto has died off. It needs a new outlet, a real one. Coming soon™️