enochroot on Nostr: Fiat Mythology: Death, Scarcity, and Dominance In fiat economies, scarcity is ...
Fiat Mythology: Death, Scarcity, and Dominance
In fiat economies, scarcity is artificially manufactured through inflation, rent-seeking, and monopolization. This creates a worldview where hoarding, conquest, and zero-sum competition are seen as necessary for survival. The idea that “only the strong survive” becomes embedded in culture because, under fiat, those who do not dominate by force are systematically drained out of existence.
With an economic system that punishes saving and depletes wealth over time, the future always appears worse than the past. People subconsciously align with mythologies where death, apocalypse, and collapse are the final destination. This manifests in everything from religious end-times narratives to cultural obsessions with dystopia and archetypes of destruction.
Skulls, crossbones, the reaper, and bulging, hulking, displays of muscle, motor, and power are not just cultural artifacts; they emerge as psychological adaptations to an economic system that makes failure, exploitation, and conflict seem inescapable.
Bitcoin Mythology: Life, Abundance, and Creation
A Bitcoin-based economy, by contrast, is fundamentally non-extractive and non-depleting. This would shift the underlying cultural myths toward creation, cooperation, and abundance, as Bitcoin aligns incentives with life rather than entropy.
When money appreciates in value rather than depreciates, the future becomes something to invest in rather than something to fear. This fosters mythologies of growth, generational wealth, and the long arc of progress.
Because Bitcoin rewards productive value creation, mythologies shift from war and conquest to builders, innovators, and artisans. In a world where wealth isn’t siphoned away by inflation, cooperation and decentralized networks become the dominant survival strategy.
Bitcoin removes the need for centralized control over money, which dissolves fiat-era myths of the “necessary ruler” or the “benevolent overlord.” Instead, new myths emerge around self-reliance, peer-to-peer networks, and decentralized wisdom.
The Shift: From Thanatos to Eros
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud spoke about the Thanatos (death drive) vs. Eros (life force). Fiat economies force societies into Thanatos-driven mythologies: war, destruction, domination, and eventual collapse. Bitcoin, by aligning incentives with long-term value creation and cooperation, enables an Eros-driven mythos: one of creation, renewal, and generational wealth.
A civilization that moves from fiat to Bitcoin isn’t just changing its money—it’s rewriting its entire cultural and existential narrative.
#bitcoin #bullish
In fiat economies, scarcity is artificially manufactured through inflation, rent-seeking, and monopolization. This creates a worldview where hoarding, conquest, and zero-sum competition are seen as necessary for survival. The idea that “only the strong survive” becomes embedded in culture because, under fiat, those who do not dominate by force are systematically drained out of existence.
With an economic system that punishes saving and depletes wealth over time, the future always appears worse than the past. People subconsciously align with mythologies where death, apocalypse, and collapse are the final destination. This manifests in everything from religious end-times narratives to cultural obsessions with dystopia and archetypes of destruction.
Skulls, crossbones, the reaper, and bulging, hulking, displays of muscle, motor, and power are not just cultural artifacts; they emerge as psychological adaptations to an economic system that makes failure, exploitation, and conflict seem inescapable.
Bitcoin Mythology: Life, Abundance, and Creation
A Bitcoin-based economy, by contrast, is fundamentally non-extractive and non-depleting. This would shift the underlying cultural myths toward creation, cooperation, and abundance, as Bitcoin aligns incentives with life rather than entropy.
When money appreciates in value rather than depreciates, the future becomes something to invest in rather than something to fear. This fosters mythologies of growth, generational wealth, and the long arc of progress.
Because Bitcoin rewards productive value creation, mythologies shift from war and conquest to builders, innovators, and artisans. In a world where wealth isn’t siphoned away by inflation, cooperation and decentralized networks become the dominant survival strategy.
Bitcoin removes the need for centralized control over money, which dissolves fiat-era myths of the “necessary ruler” or the “benevolent overlord.” Instead, new myths emerge around self-reliance, peer-to-peer networks, and decentralized wisdom.
The Shift: From Thanatos to Eros
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud spoke about the Thanatos (death drive) vs. Eros (life force). Fiat economies force societies into Thanatos-driven mythologies: war, destruction, domination, and eventual collapse. Bitcoin, by aligning incentives with long-term value creation and cooperation, enables an Eros-driven mythos: one of creation, renewal, and generational wealth.
A civilization that moves from fiat to Bitcoin isn’t just changing its money—it’s rewriting its entire cultural and existential narrative.
#bitcoin #bullish