Lol yeah I see it quite a bit being a contrarian for contrarians sake, it's a mental shortcut really and shows you didn't do the work you're just looking to parrot the other side of the argument.

Sometimes the majority/consensus is the right way, sometimes the answer is naunced

I know a few Qanon peeps that are like this too, okay cool bro you called covid/lockdowns, but now you're really losing it with these other talking points

Yes. Agree. But by extension, this is a common trope, and it applies to many different groups, subcultures or persuasions, that could be simply, a nationality, sex, or even as simple as age. Often the demographic bleeds in to the subculture.

If you took Bitcoin as the subculture. That would encompass free-market libetarian ideals, austrian economics and technologists who are concerned with privacy and the ethical advantages of cryptography, and probably more.

Biases and binary polarities I see in my life are usually connected to a rejection of all kinds of things as inferior arguments. Here's an example (loosly drawn from my life.)

I grew up and in my formative years started listening to rock music, alternative independent music from the sixties through to the nineties. One of the most influencial bands on my life was the Beatles. John Lennon and Yoko Ono advocated for peace, and a world without borders, money etc. So, I tend to lean into things which provide solutions, this could be'renewable energy' or socialist-leaning principles. Things like capitalism (even the need for capital) seem to be axiomatically or diametrically oppossed, and therefore I identify the failings of societies to bring peace and the continuation of money as the problem. I tend to like acoustic or live-recorded, singer/songwriter bands and musicians, impressionist or evocative art, paint and figurative sculpture, but would reject other kinds of artistic expression as abstract, trashy or inferior.

I think this has a lot to do with culture, nationality and age. But commonalities would exist in all cultures just different ones. It may be that mostly we agree on a lot of the underpinnings, but it just brings out differences like flavors, and a lot has to do with limitations of knowledge, or acceptance that one has limitations in their knowledge.

I've never travelled to Africa, or Americas, I only can formulate in my mind through media, conversations, articles and books, what it must be like today. So, I conjure up in my mind all kinds of fanciful things which take the place of those gaps in my knowledge.

reminds me of this brilliant skit for some reason

I think people throw around the term cult too casually. When I got into bitcoin, nobody disowned me. I wasn't removed as a member of my family. Some people disagree with me.

Vastly different from a cult.

I see the inverse more. If a person is anti-bitcoin, too broadly pro-crypto, or merely absentmindedly too broadly pro-crypto, every thought they hold is considered invalid. I see this with bitcoin founders where I'll be like "this person has a lot of good advice for founders" or "this person built the fiat version of your business, I'd study them" and the reaction will be "they said that anti-bitcoin thing" or "they supported XYZ shitcoin."

People have a hard time grading others by their parts.

Also, thanks for holding our feet to the fire. We lost some of that energy over the last year.

All you have to do is hang around long enough and you'll see bitcoiners who are wrong and deluded about lots of things. It's important to think critically and be willing to change your view based on all of the information. That being said I like to give people the benefit of the doubt until they repeatedly show their intellectual fallibility. It's fun.

Recently I saw it appear on Infowars in a 5min documentary against Bitcoin. If Tucker Carlson interviewed Roger Ver then it must be true. It is pure group-think, but as you said, we all have this flaw. So I forgive but it is saddening to see yet again people criticizing Bitcoin for nothing.

I saw it in Japan also with what is I think Chinese propaganda against the US. Not that I am in favor of US military bases, I am rather against, but the reasoning against military bases in Okinawa felt not so much rational but rather anger against Americans. And in my mind, anger = emotions = likely from propaganda.

In my case I try to focus on positive things, try to remain open to all ideas and above all, avoid social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Particularly with social networks I think people get very polarized, almost like a frenzy sometimes.