26 sats \ 3 replies \ @nerd2ninja 17 Jul 2023 \ on: RANT: On the things we need to call out: Extremism and idiocy bitcoin
Yeah I'm all for making it clear that Bitcoin is not related to cast iron pans lol. I think we've seen a little bit of Bitcoin culture fragmentation. You got those Bitcoin twitter weirdos, you got the people on reddit just trying to figure out life, you got the nerds over here on SN. Hell I even know a group with a bunch of communists in it (something about keeping the state honest with the verifiable nature of Bitcoin helping communism work or something I don't know I won't pretend to understand their way of thinking).
Heck, I even have a post meming on the idea of Bitcoin being a religion, but I realized people take that more seriously than I thought and I've been clear to clarify what a social construct is instead.
Yeah, a lot of people think that the way they view Bitcoin is "THE RIGHT ONE" and that couldn't be farther from the truth.
For me Bitcoin is just: A social construct made a reality thanks to a technology that works because of human action.
Bitcoin is whatever one wants it to define it to be, but it does not solve all the problems in the world and much less validates any of the ideas we have about the world or how it should be or work.
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BUT, "a lot of people think that the way they view Bitcoin is 'THE RIGHT ONE'" is exactly how social constructs tend to go don't you think?
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Yeah, defining what a social construct really is, is not easy, it sometimes comes as paradoxical, it becomes a constant reintroduction of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. All you need is too people to interpret something as something else and there you have it, a social construct.
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