304 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 17 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: _Broken Money_ book club, part 4 bitcoin
Political narratives seem to be altered more often than they are rewritten. It's easy to alter the right's political narrative to include another abuse of government, abuse of the flexible ledger. The left's political narrative has government as a protagonist - it's something like "the government would be great if it weren't for greed affecting government."
If you stare at them long enough though, the narratives aren't so different. The right wants to remove the government's power so it can't be abused and the left wants to remove the rich so it can't abuse the government's power.
Perhaps we could sell bitcoin better to the political left by altering their narrative rather than rewriting it, eg
When the left was anti-war, military industrial complex capture was a major plot point. As precedent, there were calls to defund the military so that there was nothing for industry to capture ... but even that fell out of favor recently for some reason.
I like that framing a lot -- from a dissonance reduction or cognitive consistency perspective, it's easier to integrate the btc story into the right's ideological edifice than it is the left's. I've never read any of the Progressive bitcoin books, but presumably they take this angle, in a manner that would be maximally compatible with that body of belief?
If the fucking bitcoin philosophers would publish their book already there might be more of these mental constructs to draw from.
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Well they should. We're more than halfway through Broken Money and will need another book to club.
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