135 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14 Sep 2023 \ on: How bitcoiners should argue big state believers bitcoin
You're right, in a sense it is moral superiority, but I would say it is more due to tribalism than morality.
I'm (blessed/cursed) to interact with many well-educated "elites", or those who think of themselves as elite, and I would say that the most unified reason for why they support the bureaucratic state is because those bureaucratic state leaders come from the same educational background as them.
Thus, they think that the bureaucratic leaders must be smart and worthy of guiding everyone else. Anyone who distrusts them must be a dumb hick and not worthy of listening to. (Either that, or they are demogogues riling up the hicks for selfish profit.) So they don't even listen to what anyone else is saying, and simply trust the bureaucrats based on pedigree.
Really shit-brained thinking if you ask me, but that's what we get from an educational system that markets itself as meritocratic while not training people to actually think critically.
I have a very similar impression, based on lots of interaction with people who work in the bureaucratic state.
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Yes, I was talking more about regular people you meet in daily life. It's probably best not to argue with bureaucrats at all. As the saying goes: 'it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it'. Or the salaries of his peers/friends.
But if you do argue them, arguing on moral grounds is still probably the best way to go.
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