It's part of the communist re-education program to destroy the base layer of civilization: infantilization. Making people believe that only state-run institutions are able to protect You from risks in life. The result is a form of stupidity that grows like cancer.

I see this narrative alot, that people are "lazy and greedy and dumb" to put it simple. But its a projection imo. or its something people tell themselves and others, some are more subtle when they communicate it, and its probably not something they are conscious about, but if they believe that others are lazy and inconsiderate and so on then its ok if they are too. Its kinda heart breaking when i put it into words :) Because its like a decentralized downward spiral where people convince each other that humans are bad? And it can become a self fulfilling prophecy it seems.

The last 20 years in particular seems to have been an anomaly.

Memory has been optional in recent years, in fact it’s been counter productive to remember anything of importance. Inefficient to expend time on it. This is why collectively we have been de-learning and not using critical thinking.

Just like just-in-time manufacturing, the pendulum swung too far in the direction of efficiency and it will now swing back in the opposite direction to incentivise us having redundancy & autonomy.

Make no mistake, there’ll be a renaissance when these platforms we rely on for information become increasingly gated, inaccessible or diluted with more trash content.

Fairly obvious, personal responsibility is making a comeback. People will learn again… but only the hard way.

I had kinda noticed a general "not my fault" ideology seeping it's way into general society. No one wants to take personal responsibility or accountability for their actions anymore. Always looking for someone else to blame.

"I got hacked" probably not, you probably use the same password for all your accounts and it was "leaked" (see also sold) in a data breach.

"I got scammed, they're scammers and they're awful" - yeah sure, but it required you to do something, to believe their story and send them details or money or whatever, you had to make an action. Scammers can't do shit unless you let them.

"The government should step in to stop this" - or you can be more vigilant.

Personal damn accountability. If you blame everyone else, you don't learn from it you just believe it was an unfortunate accident that could have happened to anyone. It happened to you because you let it. Not taking responsibility diminishes any learning you can get, if you didn't do anything wrong there's nothing to learn right? Well if you didn't do something wrong and aren't partially responsible then it wouldn't have happened to you.

Et Fín.

"Anyone trying to make Bitcoin seem "difficult" to use is just trying to psyop you into actually losing your money, they're not protecting you."

Pretty much says it all, really. Yet shitcoiners like udi still seem to attract a huge following, which is a pain in the arse.

I could not agree more. We in the west have had it easy and it has had many negative effects. When I managed devs for a while one thing I observed is how common it is for people to underestimate their own capabilities. Humans are capable of amazing things if we try. But if you dont beleive you can, you won't.

ZIRP happened, over and over.

I think a popular Bitcoiner said ‘personal responsibility is the new counter-culture’

I tried to give Udi the benefit of the doubt because he often made me lol but when I saw Udi use the Luke Dash Jr getting hacked situation to FUD self-custody that was the day I stopped taking seriously anything he said.

I emphatically do not recommend memorizing 12 BIP-39 words as a long term storage solution. Suggestions like that give ammo to provocateurs like Wertheimer.

Those things that people memorize are things that people routinely misremember, if not forget entirely.

It got flushed down the woke toilet.

Bitcoin will make responsibility rewarding again.

Remembering a seed phrase is very difficult and bad practice, which I think is line with your oversimplification of self-custody, particularly with large amounts/percentage of your savings. There are a lot of footguns and gotcha's that I have personally messed up with over the years ("testing" on hot device, taking picture, where to store, on what to store, etc), and I consider myself (now) pretty technically knowledgable.

That being said I also think self custody is the most important part of bitcoin and we should help teach/encourage people to do it properly.

Reminds me about back in college, when I would memorize the phone # to my dorm room immediately with no effort and remember it the entire year, and then completely forget it within 2 days of the school year ending… I thought that was weird back then, but even weirder now

Social recovery is a thing. Like it ot not, not everybody is able to be its own bank. Seed phrases are not a solution for every use case.

It went out the window when people were allowed to sue for spilling coffee on themselves

Real freedom comes from self-responsibility.

I even started to make my clothes with a tailor these days; from picking fabric to choosing designs, now I can make whatever clothes I want instead of being told what is popular each season 👀

Going against all the convenient traps takes practice.

Seed phrase is useless unless you can afford $500 transaction fees on base chain

I wouldn't even worry

The future of BTC is custodial

At least, with current technology.