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How to Catch Wild Pigs with Bitcoin
If you wanted to introduce a digital currency, how would you do it? The carrot is always better than the stick.
Carrots come in groups of seven. And they are deadly. But they’re not carrots, they’re sins. The best sin for luring all the little piggies into the trap of a digital currency would be to convince them that they’ve outwitted the farmer. Pride is the Devil’s favourite sin because it works every time.
I know a bit about digital currencies. I reported on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency for years, covering all types of angles and people. It was a fascinating sector. I never put a single dollar into these systems because I couldn’t figure out what it was for. Don’t get me wrong, I understood the technology. But I wasn’t convinced it had a use case.
And then I noticed the prison bars.
At this point in history, it no longer matters where Bitcoin came from. I suspect it was created by US intelligence, specifically the NSA, a bit like the search browser TOR (which was created by the US Navy to assist dissidents in foreign countries). After all, there is no such thing as online anonymity, yet Satoshi Nakamoto remains anonymous to this day. And despite Fort Meade having the greatest concentration of mathematical geniuses in the world, they can’t figure out how to control Bitcoin? Go on, pull the other leg.
But Bitcoin doesn’t have to be a US intelligence operation for it to have the desired effect of luring and then trapping people into adopting a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The blockchain is not the key driving mechanism of Bitcoin. Pride is the driving mechanism.
Let me explain with a lesson on how to capture wild pigs.
The first thing a farmer should do is a bit of market research to see which crop the pigs like best: is it peanuts or corn? Once the farmer knows what will lure the pigs, the next step is to condition the pigs to trust the bait site (corral enclosure) as their daily food source. When the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke after the election of Donald Trump, people were shocked that private companies were using their Facebook data. But then the “QAnon” phenomenon appeared and hooked the attention of many of those shocked people.
In my estimation, QAnon was a cleverly designed trap matrix that operated on a process called behavioural grooming. It was a great example of the farmers of men using the data of 50 million Americans to discover shared common traits like hating Hollywood and Hillary Clinton and wanting to protect children. The Bolsheviks used a similar tactic called “Operation Trust” to expose counter-revolutionary forces. Why wouldn’t the same movement use this tactic once again?
When laying out the free peanuts, it’s important that the farmer wears rubber boots. You don’t want the pigs catching the scent of a human. That might make them suspicious. Corporations taking positions in Bitcoin, or even entire nation states adopting it as currency, are the rubber boots. After all, if Tesla is buying crypto, then it must be legitimate, right?
The farmer must spread the peanuts both on the inside and outside of the enclosure because it takes time to condition pigs to the idea of walking into a trap. The goal is to get the adventurous juveniles excited about the free food. Research into pig trapping suggests it is easier to convince adult pigs to enter an enclosure when there are multiple juveniles within the group.
Cartoons and pop music are conditioning. For example, Scooby Dooby Do should have been a red flag for anyone paying attention. Really? Scooby Dooby Do? Scooby doing a dooby? Scooby wants to do marijuana. Your kids won’t know what a “dooby” is, but what’s your excuse? Maybe you think I see too many patterns in noise. That’s fine, but I’m not the one walking into the trap.
After the young pigs, the next group to enter the trap will be the “sub-adults,” the immature hogs that aren’t quite big enough to get what they want in the wild. They see the free food as a great way to avoid competition with the bigger hogs. Their sin is lust, not pride. They want more calories so they can get sex with the female pigs. Social losers love anything that promises to get them ahead of the competition.
Pig trappers must be patient. You can’t spring the trap too early. The rise of crypto must feel organic. The pigs must think they’ve found something that offers them – personally – a sneaky way around the status quo. They must be convinced that Big Brother not only is not watching but that Big Brother couldn’t do anything about Bitcoin even if he was watching. You’ve outsmarted them.
When the pigs enter the enclosure the first couple of times, it’s important that nothing happens to them. This builds rapport and trust, and soon the pigs forget about the fences. Then one day the farmer will put the peanuts only in the back of the enclosure, not around the outside. Today, since it’s possible to switch between Bitcoin and the US dollar, there must be no problem with crypto.
But the farmers won’t trip the wire until all the pigs are inside the fence. Behavioural grooming is a highly vulnerable process. If the alarm is tripped too early and only half the hogs are caught, then the remainder will know not to go into the trap, and the game will be over. Patience is key.
Most of the hogs will eventually enter the enclosure to follow their hunger. But hunger isn’t the real motivation because there was food all around them in the forest. If the farmer had removed all the food in the forest to force the pigs to eat the free peanuts, then that would be a different situation involving the stick. The downfall of the pigs was their desire for free food. The deadly sin of greed.
At just the right time, the farmer will slam shut the enclosure gate. Then it will be obvious why the vertical stakes were driven two meters into the ground and wrapped in sturdy chain-link fencing wire. Dust everywhere, the pigs race from one end of the enclosure to the other, desperately searching for a way out. But they are trapped.
After testing all 360 degrees of the fence, the hogs calm down. Some even start to believe the new enclosure is not so bad after all, which is exactly what the farmers want the hogs to think. Unlike the pigs, the farmers of man are not looking to kill other humans. They want us to spend our energy, but only in the required direction. They are good at maths. You are not so good at maths.
If you were good at maths, you would see that while getting upset about vaccine mandates is one thing, the spent energy is useless if you aren’t also building your own new communities that don’t rely on the government. New Zealanders love to get angry at the Australian banks ‘taking Kiwis’ money overseas’. But The Warehouse gets almost all its goods from China, so guess where all that money is going? The Warehouse is best thought of as Chinese government territory; you just can’t see it.
Because you get everything from The Warehouse and don’t know any local Kiwi manufacturers, the farmers of men are perfectly placed to one day hit a button to slam the gate shut. A digital currency will make it impossible for you to buy things that aren’t from The Warehouse, or other approved stores. Do you see?
They don’t need to regulate Bitcoin. Its entire purpose is to convince you over time that digital currencies aren’t a scary thing. The trap is central bank digital currencies. And it will work because all the little piggies want their free peanuts. They were proud to have discovered a way to bamboozle farmers of men who are two standard deviations smarter than them. Their wrath towards older generations blinded them to the pig trap.
When I look back over the brief and hilarious history of Bitcoin, I can understand why they call us cattle. Most of us went directly into the enclosure without thinking. We collectively abandoned our morality and beliefs and jettisoned all our ancestors’ knowledge – along with the warnings against the farmers of men – just to snort up a bunch of free peanuts. Of course, if people never succumbed to the seven deadly sins, then maybe the farmers wouldn’t need the pig trap.
The solution to all this is never to be the kind of person that compels the farmers to want to control you. Think twice the next time you spot free peanuts on the ground.
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