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While scrolling through my timeline, I noticed a guy who said I gave him an orange pill a while ago. At that time he was doing drugs and gambling. He heard me preach about Bitcoin and he jumped into it with almost religious fervor.
Then, under the influence of microdosing Orange-Pill Truth, some natural sunshine, bitter reality, and the sweet high of Orange Enlightenment, his life changed. He overcame his drug and gambling addictions and became a Bitcoin maximalist.
This makes perfect sense – and it speaks to Bitcoin’s larger role in society than just being Perfect Money.
Here’s the guy’s tweet: I’ve highlighted the relevant bits and by all means follow him:
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@BitcoinUndisc
“Who or what gave me an orange pill?” It was a combination of gambling, @maxkeiser and drugs. Let me explain.
First it was gaming. I was a professional online poker player. The US government took this away from me in 2011 by banning it. Shortly afterwards, on the 2+2 poker forum, there was talk of a new uncensored currency that could circumvent the ban on gambling in the United States.
Enter @MaxKeiser circa 2013. He was on a podcast called London Reel when Bitcoin was only $100 that I was watching.
Max is out of the fucking park. He presented the case for Bitcoin in the most eloquent way.
Silk Road has integrated a critical mass of Bitcoiners.
It’s the same for all new technologies: drugs, gambling and pornography are doors to the future. The video cassette, for example, owes its first success to porn. Likewise, early adoption of personal computers. I remember in France, when I lived there in the early 90s, they had Minitel, the world’s first major online portal, before America took over with the World Wide Web.
Minitel was launched in 1980. So what happened? Why didn’t France kill him with that thing? Another French idea that has withered because their capital markets are rotten cheese; they have no equivalent on the NASDAQ.
The Minitel, however, received its first boost from the sex trade. I remember stickers stuck on telephone boxes with the Minitel numbers of sex workers. The prostitutes of Rue Saint-Denis and Pigalle initially felt whiplash at the sudden influx of amateur competitions, but they quickly adopted the new technology.
Hell, even the Bible has a naughty story about naked Adam getting turned on by a naked Eve with an apple.
FLASH CUT: Steve Jobs and his Apple smartphone and the rise of mobile internet.
FLASH CUT: Pornhub eats up a huge percentage of internet traffic.
We are now seeing the seemingly unstoppable rise of AI and deepfake porn which requires a LOT of energy.
This is why Bitcoin’s hashrate is so high: it fights AI and pornography in the global rush for energy.
Look, the top three vices – gambling, drugs and pornography – are guaranteed sources of income and all have huge market capitalizations on global stock markets as publicly traded companies. New apps that mix and match faces with naked bodies are going to make a ton of money. Do you still fantasize about your kindergarten teacher? Well, now, thanks to AI, you can find old elementary school yearbook photos and start a steamy, pretend date on your tricycle and a $0.05 carton of chocolate milk.
I think AI is the Devil Dog, RingDings, Twinkies, and Yodels of childhood intimacy fantasies. This will eradicate the scourge of INCELS. Maybe it will even put an end to all these mass shootings carried out by frustrated incels, at least that’s what these idiots think.
In the other corner we have Bitcoin, the hero.
It’s a battle between AI and Bitcoin for energy dominance. This is why Bitcoin’s hashrate is so high. We must win the energy race with AI and fappers.
I have confidence that we will win. We see the best of ourselves reflected in Bitcoin and it inspires us to become better people. This is what Satoshi wants.
Unless you were born irredeemably evil, in which case looking at Bitcoin’s protocol brings out your worst traits. Like the witch in Snow White who looked in the mirror and asked who was the fairest of them all, and the mirror said, “It’s not you.”
The witch goes crazy and tries to kill the hottie wandering in the forest in a tight skirt. This backfires and karma kicks his ass.
That’s what Bitcoin does: it kicks the ass of karmically misaligned people.
The spirit of Bitcoin. The spirit of Karma.
Bitcoin looks at us from a perfect and divine angle. Not a mirror image, but something deeper, sharper. Like a surgeon’s scalpel to the soul.
A few years ago, I was walking through a museum in Mexico City with Stacy. There was an exhibition going on in the lobby of the central bank and I came across an installation that I would say was the best, most sunken piece of art I have ever seen in a museum. For me anyway: I had a personal revelation.
What I saw were figurines perched on steps that descended below ground level.
Facing the figurines was a mirror. The figures started on the top step, facing one way, and as they moved down – or were pulled down – they morphed into objects. Sometimes crazy things.
An ordinary figure on the top step could transform into a pineapple. We could change into a bow tie while wearing ycterope.
What happened? My interpretation is that during life, and then after death, we – the figurines on the steps – come closer to being and seeing who we really are. Who we really have been all this time. The act of becoming without end. Each of our total 60,000 daily decisions carries over into our postnatal existence.
The journey of life begins and we are strangers to ourselves. Life goes on. We are starting to get to know each other. This can be painful, so we adopt personas to hide who we are. But the characters are like a layer of paint that fades. We put on different masks. We get rid of earmarks. We face life with courage just as we are. But it’s still painful. We call this wisdom.
Then death. And the journey of self continues. We are on a continuum. The illusion of life and death disappears. The artifice of time is discarded in favor of BEING THERE. We see the circular nature of things, the fractalization of everything.
William Blake includes:
“See a world in a grain of sand
And a paradise in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
While TS Eliot is a bit of a buzzkill:
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
Bitcoin is like that. This accelerates the process of self-awareness to the Bitcoin singularity on an individual basis. The collective societal epiphany comes right after.
You can be like William Blake and be relentlessly optimistic, as Stacy Herbert says. Or you can be dripping wet, like a Brit, dealing in a nowhere county pub, cursing Man United all day. By the way, Brits will never get Bitcoin.
For Sam Bankman-Fried, Bitcoin accelerates his life of sordid, not-so-‘snappy’ sex and financial crimes, and an entire career of theft and self-debasement occurs in just a few years.
In the case of a person morally aligned with the cosmos, Bitcoin can give them the feeling of instant nirvana. Michael Saylor is someone who has searched throughout his long career for Bitcoin to come along to fulfill his dreams of designing a better future, and then it happened.
The guy on my timeline, the one I oranged, walks down those steps in front of the mirror and becomes his true self. A process that continues after life.
Orange pilling has never been more important as the world goes up in flames.
We call it GIABO – Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation.
It started during Occupy Wall Street and now in Argentina we have Javier Milei – a supporter of Bitcoin, a follower of Hayek and a lover of the Austrian school of economics. This is the political reaction we need against the central bankers, and GIABO is gaining strength. I saw a vigil held at the Argentine central bank during Milei’s inauguration. He is in the process of euthanizing him.
We are on the threshold of a Renaissance 2.0.
This will be inaugurated with Bitcoin.
Look in the mirror and you’ll see what I mean.
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