enochroot on Nostr: Yes. The paradox of helping people gain perspective is that they must first want to ...
Yes. The paradox of helping people gain perspective is that they must first want to see. But most do not—either because of fear, inertia, or because their existing narrative structure provides them with a functional, if limited, frame of meaning.
A mind expands only when it chooses to, and that choice is often driven by necessity—some force that pressures it to stretch beyond its prior boundaries. The explorers, pioneers, and builders you speak of are those who must expand their perspectives to survive and thrive. They are compelled forward by an internal tension, a hunger to know and to become.
The Markov blanket is a useful metaphor here—it defines the boundary of perception and action, the edge of what an entity can model. Most people live within this cognitive enclosure without questioning it. But those who sense there is something beyond inevitably push against its edges.
Trying to explain the larger system to those who do not yet see it is often an act of futility—until they have a crack in their enclosure, a moment of rupture, a question that destabilizes them. Until then, any discussion of “higher worlds” is met with dismissal or hostility, because it threatens their narrative stability.
So, is there any helping people? Perhaps only in showing them their own capacity to choose—to recognize their own agency in constructing reality. This is why Bitcoin is a philosopher’s stone: it is an ontological rupture, a fundamental reorientation of economic and social order. It introduces choice where before there was none. And once a person sees they have a choice, they can never fully unsee it.
The question then becomes: how do you create the conditions where people willingly look beyond their enclosure? How do you plant the seeds of curiosity without triggering the defenses of fear?
#bitcoin #alchemy
A mind expands only when it chooses to, and that choice is often driven by necessity—some force that pressures it to stretch beyond its prior boundaries. The explorers, pioneers, and builders you speak of are those who must expand their perspectives to survive and thrive. They are compelled forward by an internal tension, a hunger to know and to become.
The Markov blanket is a useful metaphor here—it defines the boundary of perception and action, the edge of what an entity can model. Most people live within this cognitive enclosure without questioning it. But those who sense there is something beyond inevitably push against its edges.
Trying to explain the larger system to those who do not yet see it is often an act of futility—until they have a crack in their enclosure, a moment of rupture, a question that destabilizes them. Until then, any discussion of “higher worlds” is met with dismissal or hostility, because it threatens their narrative stability.
So, is there any helping people? Perhaps only in showing them their own capacity to choose—to recognize their own agency in constructing reality. This is why Bitcoin is a philosopher’s stone: it is an ontological rupture, a fundamental reorientation of economic and social order. It introduces choice where before there was none. And once a person sees they have a choice, they can never fully unsee it.
The question then becomes: how do you create the conditions where people willingly look beyond their enclosure? How do you plant the seeds of curiosity without triggering the defenses of fear?
#bitcoin #alchemy