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229 sats \ 0 replies \ @xylos 24 Dec freebie \ on: "The first thing a cult does is tell you everyone is lying to you" meta
Yes. Agree. But by extension, this is a common trope, and it applies to many different groups, subcultures or persuasions, that could be simply, a nationality, sex, or even as simple as age. Often the demographic bleeds in to the subculture.
If you took Bitcoin as the subculture. That would encompass free-market libetarian ideals, austrian economics and technologists who are concerned with privacy and the ethical advantages of cryptography, and probably more.
Biases and binary polarities I see in my life are usually connected to a rejection of all kinds of things as inferior arguments. Here's an example (loosly drawn from my life.)
I grew up and in my formative years started listening to rock music, alternative independent music from the sixties through to the nineties. One of the most influencial bands on my life was the Beatles. John Lennon and Yoko Ono advocated for peace, and a world without borders, money etc. So, I tend to lean into things which provide solutions, this could be'renewable energy' or socialist-leaning principles. Things like capitalism (even the need for capital) seem to be axiomatically or diametrically oppossed, and therefore I identify the failings of societies to bring peace and the continuation of money as the problem. I tend to like acoustic or live-recorded, singer/songwriter bands and musicians, impressionist or evocative art, paint and figurative sculpture, but would reject other kinds of artistic expression as abstract, trashy or inferior.
I think this has a lot to do with culture, nationality and age. But commonalities would exist in all cultures just different ones. It may be that mostly we agree on a lot of the underpinnings, but it just brings out differences like flavors, and a lot has to do with limitations of knowledge, or acceptance that one has limitations in their knowledge.
I've never travelled to Africa, or Americas, I only can formulate in my mind through media, conversations, articles and books, what it must be like today. So, I conjure up in my mind all kinds of fanciful things which take the place of those gaps in my knowledge.
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