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Scrolling through my timeline, I noticed a guy who said I put orange pills on him a while ago. He was addicted to drugs and gambling at that time. He heard me preach about Bitcoin and entered into it with near-religious fervor.
Then, under the influence of small doses of Orange-Pill Truth, some natural sunlight, dystopia, and the sweet ecstasy of Orange Enlightenment, his life was turned upside down. He overcame his addiction to drugs and gambling and became a Bitcoin supporter.
This makes perfect sense – and speaks to the larger role Bitcoin plays in society than just being Perfect Money.
Here's the guy's tweet: I've highlighted the relevant parts, and by all means, follow him:
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@BitcoinUndisc
“Who or what locked me in an orange? It was a combination of gambling, @maxkeiser and drugs. Let me explain.
At first it was gambling. I used to be a professional online poker player. The US government took that away from me in 2011 by banning it. Shortly after, on the 2+2 Poker Forum, there was talk of a new uncensored currency that might be able to circumvent the US ban on gambling.
Enter @MaxKeiser circa 2013. He was on a podcast called London Reel when Bitcoin was only $100 that I watched.
Max hit it out of the freakin' park. He presented the case for Bitcoin in the most eloquent way.
Silk Road captured a critical mass of Bitcoin users.
The same is true for all new technologies: drugs, gambling, and pornography are portals to the future. For example, the success of the videotape was initially credited to pornography. Likewise, the home computer was adopted early. I remember in France, when I was living there in the early 90s, they had Minitel, the world's first big web portal before America took over the world wide web.
Minitel was introduced in 1980. So what happened? Why didn't France kill her with this thing? Another French idea that has withered because its capital markets are rotten cheese; They have no equivalent on the NASDAQ.
However, Minitel got its initial support from the sex trade. I remember posters pasted on phone booths bearing the Minitel numbers of sex workers. At first, the prostitutes of Rue Saint-Denis and Pigalle were subjected to a change in their underwear with the sudden influx of amateur competition, but they soon embraced the new technology.
Heck, even the Bible has a salacious story about naked Adam being set on fire by naked Eve with an apple.
Flash Pieces: Steve Jobs, his Apple smartphone, and the rise of the mobile Internet.
Flash Cut: Pornhub takes up a large percentage of internet traffic.
Now we have the unstoppable rise of artificial intelligence and energy-guzzling deep porn.
This is why Bitcoin's hashrate is so high: it's fighting artificial intelligence and pornography in the global scramble for energy.
See, the three primary vices – gambling, drugs, and pornography – are guaranteed money-making businesses, and they all have huge market capitalizations on global stock markets as publicly traded companies. New apps that mix and match faces with naked bodies are set to generate big money. Are you still dreaming of your kindergarten teacher? Well, now with AI, you can find some old elementary school yearbook photos and start a steamy simulation experience on your tricycle and a $0.05 carton of chocolate milk.
I think of AI as the Devil's Dog, and the RingDings, Twinkies, and Yodels of childish intimacy fantasies. It will eliminate the INCELS epidemic. Maybe it will stop all the mass shootings carried out by frustrated people, or so these idiots think.
And in the other corner, we have Bitcoin, the champion.
It's a battle between artificial intelligence and Bitcoin for energy dominance. This is why the Bitcoin hash rate is so high. We must win the energy race using AI and designers.
I have faith that we will win. We see our better selves reflected in Bitcoin and it inspires us to be better people. This is what Satoshi wants.
Unless you were born irredeemably bad, in which case staring at the Bitcoin protocol brings out your worst traits. Like the witch in Snow White who stared into the mirror and asked who was the most beautiful of all, and the mirror replied: “You are not.”
The witch goes crazy and tries to kill the sexy girl wandering in the woods wearing a tight skirt. This backfires, and karma kicks her ass.
This is what Bitcoin does: it hits people who are karmically deviant.
The spirit of Bitcoin. Spirit of karma.
Bitcoin views us from an idealistic, divine perspective. Not a mirror image, but something deeper and more cutting. Like a surgeon's scalpel in the soul.
I was wandering through a museum in Mexico City a few years ago with Stacy. There was an exhibition being held in the lobby of the Central Bank and I found a work of art that I will say was the best art I had ever seen in a museum. For me, anyway: I had a personal revelation.
What I saw were small statues placed on steps leading down to ground level.
The face of the statues was a mirror. The shapes started at the top of the step, heading in one direction, and as they descended – or were pulled down – they transformed into objects. Sometimes crazy stuff.
The normal shape on the top step may turn into a pineapple. One can turn into a tie wearing aardvark.
What was happening? My interpretation is that during life, and then after death, we – the statues on the stairs – come into existence and see who we really are. Who we really were all this time. The act of becoming never ends. Each of our 60,000 daily decisions continues into our existence after birth.
The journey of life begins while we are strangers to ourselves. life goes on. We begin to know ourselves. This can be painful, so we adopt personas to hide our identity. But the characters are like a layer of paint that is fading away. We wear different masks. We get rid of influences. We face life bravely as we are. But it's still painful. We call it wisdom.
Then death. The journey of the self continues. We are on a continuum. The illusion of life and death bleeds away. The trick of time is eliminated in favor of being there. We see the circular nature of things, the breaking of everything.
William Blake gets it:
“To see a world in a grain of sand
A paradise in a wildflower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in one hour.”
While TS Eliot is kind of pretentious:
“I'll show you fear in a handful of dirt.”
Bitcoin is like this. It accelerates the process of self-awareness to the point of uniqueness of Bitcoin on an individual basis. A collective societal epiphany comes immediately afterward.
You can be like William Blake and be relentlessly optimistic, says Stacy Herbert. Or you can be fickle, like the Brit, who hands out food in a Nowheresville bar and curses Manchester United all day. By the way, the British will never have Bitcoin.
For Sam Bankman Fried, Bitcoin accelerates a life of sexual depravity and financial crimes, and an entire career of theft and self-loathing ends in just a few short years.
In the case of a person who is morally in tune with the universe, Bitcoin can give him a feeling of instant peace. Michael Saylor is someone who throughout his long career had been looking for the advent of Bitcoin to fulfill his dreams of engineering a better future, and then it happened.
The man on my timeline, the man I put orange pills on, comes down those stairs, faces the mirror, and becomes his true self. A process that continues after life.
Orange filling has never been more important as the world goes up in flames.
We call it GIABO – the Global Uprising Against Bankers' Occupation.
It started during the Occupy Wall Street movement, and now in Argentina we have Javier Maile – a Bitcoin supporter, Hayek follower, and devotee of the Austrian school of economics. This is the political resistance we need against central bankers, and Jiabo is starting to gain strength. I saw a vigil being held at the Central Bank of Argentina during Miley's inauguration. He performs euthanasia.
We are on the threshold of Renaissance 2.0.
This will be achieved with Bitcoin.
Look in the mirror and you'll see what I mean.
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