I've said this elsewhere but it bears repeating. I have a theory that bitcoiners "suffer" from something I can only call underdog mentality. Because bitcoin IS heterodoxical it attracts many with non-traditional views. These folks (me included) have lived as the folks with the out of the norm or "wacky" views. Underdogs that suddenly find a place where they are not the minority will tend to be very loud and opinionated. I remember seeing this as a Mac user back before Apple was cool in pop culture. Mac people would act like they were still the underdog when they aren't.

The inverse of this is the alpha group thrust into a group where they aren't in the majority. They tend to really have an issue with it and lash out. You see this on the Internet outside of bitcoin in different communities when the "normal" views are in the minority within the group. There is probably some sociologist that could explain this better but this helps me understand where both sides are coming from and why I may react the way I do.