Satire is dangerous these days. We have been lied to so much by institutions and media that nobody trusts anything anymore. When you spend years peeling back layers of narrative, your instinct is to treat every single headline like a psyop.
Especially in the Bitcoin and Nostr crowd. We are hyper vigilant by default.
But if you lose the ability to laugh, the cynicism wins. Satire used to be how free men pointed out that the emperor was naked. We need to be able to laugh at the absurdity of the machine without taking every joke as a threat vector or a serious proposal.
Loosen up a little. Laughing at the circus does not mean you buy into it.
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