MDB on Nostr: I’m tired of watching people fall for the same trap over and over. Anything that ...

I’m tired of watching people fall for the same trap over and over.

Anything that instantly turns a complex problem into a clean “us vs them” story is usually a psyop,

the moment people stop thinking in incentives, tradeoffs, and systems, and start thinking in tribes, their judgment collapses.

The easiest way to control people is to make them emotionally identify with a side.

Because once that happens:

truth becomes secondary to team loyalty

nuance gets framed as weakness

bad actors get protected if they wear the right jersey

good criticism gets rejected without examination
people become easier to predict, manipulate, and monetize

This matters in Bitcoin too.

Not every critic is an enemy.

If you divide the world into saints and villains, you stop doing analysis and start doing theater.

A person who updates their beliefs with evidence might be right 6 times out of 10.

A person who defends their tribe no matter what can be wrong 9 times out of 10 and still feel righteous every single time.

That is how propaganda scales.

My rule is simple

the more a message pressures you to hate, simplify, or instantly pick a side, the more aggressively you should slow down and inspect the incentives behind it.

Bitcoin taught me that truth usually survives scrutiny.

The people who win are the ones who can think clearly while everyone else is being emotionally drafted into a fake war.