kevin_strom on Nostr: Fun listening. Some pretty wild stuff in the mix there. I do agree that we can and ...

Fun listening. Some pretty wild stuff in the mix there. I do agree that we can and should utilize humor and the power of the fantastic (think fiction, and simplified versions of our ideas for the masses, and perhaps even Tolkeinesque or Olympian myth, among other things) to advance the cause of disempowering the money-creators. However, there are dangers there: 1) actually starting to believe in the myths we made up, however poetic and beautiful they might be; and/or 2) attracting so many followers (who really do literally believe in the magic/simplified stories and understand little else) that they take over our (presently beautifully scientific and factual) movement and make it into one more emotion-laden, irrational religion; and/or 3) becoming yet another cynical cult, in which the leaders know the myths aren't true, but vend them with fake sincerity to millions of followers. In all of these scenarios, the core of what we want and need could be lost.