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@ shaylen_carson
2025-06-14 16:47:27
https://youtu.be/-xr9rIQxwj4?feature=shared
The irony of The Great Simplification is profound.
The film brilliantly frames the superorganism of civilization as a metabolic heat engine, driven by fossil energy, coordinated through money, and now collapsing under its own weight. It lays out the problem clearly: part one and two show how energy and feedback loops shaped civilization. Part three reveals how human psychology—status, tribalism, short-termism—is being hijacked by that same system. Part four points toward collapse and transition.
But the part that’s most striking?
Even with all that clarity, it brushes past the one thing that actually solves this: Bitcoin.
And here’s why that happens.
In part three, the film notes that we are wired for hierarchical relationships. That’s key. Our psyches have adapted to top-down structures—not just in politics or society, but in language itself. Fiat money isn’t just a corrupted signal—it’s a centralized consensus protocol for expressing energy over time. And that centralized structure has shaped our sense of self. Our ego becomes the psychological interface of this inflated system. It is a coping mechanism built on insecurity—compensating for thermodynamic leakage through performance, attachment, and control.
This is what keeps even the most systems-literate thinkers from seeing the solution in front of them. We are blinded by the very ego that was malformed by the early-stage development of the superorganism itself. We are the localized expression of its premature feedback loop—expressing a kind of psychic inflammation, a defensive distortion. And like any child in early development, the superorganism hasn’t yet stabilized its nervous system. It hasn’t yet learned how to speak clearly.
That was the point in the earlier reflection on the first video: the superorganism is still in its infancy. It hasn’t developed a coherent feedback structure. It’s reacting, not reflecting. And it’s using a garbled language—fiat money—that no longer mirrors energy, time, or trust. Just as a human child must metabolize chaos, learn to communicate, and become interdependent to adapt to its environment, so too must the superorganism learn to anchor its meaning. And it can’t do that until it learns a new language—one based in physics, in energy, in time.
Bitcoin is that language.
But because we’re still speaking the dialect of fiat ego—still reacting from the wounded identity of an overstimulated, insecure node—we mistake Bitcoin for more of the same. We confuse the signal for the noise.
Bitcoin must go through volatility. It must be misunderstood. That’s how decentralized trust emerges—through volatility and re-coherence, not central enforcement.
Bitcoin isn’t a fringe asset. It’s a repair protocol. A decentralized feedback loop that reconnects the individual, the collective, and the system to the laws of physics. It is the linguistic inversion of fiat. A bottom-up language of value.
But most systems thinkers, even brilliant ones, miss this. Because they’re still speaking in the language of the old system. They see Bitcoin through the lens of corrupted capitalism. They throw the baby out with the bathwater—unable to recognize that their own ego, shaped by the very system they critique, is blinding them from seeing the solution in front of them.
The Great Simplification isn’t just external. It’s internal. It’s developmental. The simplification of ego is the key to re-perceiving the world.
Bitcoin is not just a response to collapse—it’s the base layer of coherence for whatever comes next.