We live in an era where political virtue signaling is everywhere, especially in traditional media.

In hindsight, 2022 looks like some kind of peak. While most of society largely forgot what the political class did to its subjects during the so-called pandemic, Hollywood continued barfing out content made by "diverse" directors and screen-writers, filled to the brim with not-so-subtle messaging and contempt for their audiences.

Star Wars and Marvel committed franchicide in this way after Disney took over, and The Lord of the Rings legacy was raped and forever tarnished by left-wing idiocracy too. There is now a female version of every male Avenger. Hugh Jackman, the actor who used to play the leading X-men mutant Wolverine, recently recommended Bill Gates's book about climate change to his social media followers.

Men dressed as women win women's sports championships, and everyone's so afraid of being called a bigot that no one dares to point out the absurdity of a guy beating all the girls. These so-called athletes are labeled "courageous" even though they're anything but.

The fact that there are more men than women in some professions is deemed a problem, but exactly why it is a problem is rarely mentioned. Merit, and actual diversity of opinion, are being slaughtered on the altar of "diversity and inclusion."

Society has reached the point where consumers are becoming suspicious of doctors and lawyers precisely because of the color of their skin, since they suspect that they came to their positions because of it and not because of competence or merit. A mere twenty years ago, the normal gut reaction was the opposite - "Wow, a doctor from a minority group! They must have worked hard to get to where they are today!"

When I grew up, a "racist" was defined as someone who gave a shit about another person's skin color or ethnicity. The same was true for the word sexist — you were a sexist if you took a person's sex into account when judging them.

It felt like the world had come a long way in battling these biases since the atrocities of World War II, and that anyone could have a decent career in any profession if they just put their mind to it and put in the effort. But at some point during the early 2000s, something changed.

Suddenly, words started to mean the opposite of what they originally meant. Suddenly, anyone who didn't give a shit about skin color was a racist. Anyone who didn't care about if the CEO of a big company was a man or a woman was a sexist.

In 2023, some even claim you're a "transphobe" if you're not into performing fellatio on a "female penis" occasionally. The virtue-signaling has indeed run amok, and the media companies love it. They love it because they love anything that fuels the divide between people. The crazier the Clown World(TM) actions, the angrier the reactions from the gullible upset people on the "sensible" side of the political aisle.

The human race tends to operate like a pendulum or a wrecking ball regarding political opinion or "the current thing."

When there are too many blue-haired fat lesbian gluten-intolerant vegan environmentalists around, a wave of skinhead steroid-pumped anti-seed-oil carnivore pick-up truck owners are bound to pop up from somewhere.

For every Hillary Clinton, there's a Donald Trump. For every Greta Thunberg, there's an Andrew Tate. For every CNN reporter, there's an Alex Jones.

There's always a "current thing" narrative to cling to in the bitcoin space, too, albeit often a more masculine idea than the more mainstream "current thing." What few realize is how lazy this kind of thinking is.

Science isn't automatically bad just because "The Science" is.

Just because you've learned that whatever the government says is a lie doesn't automatically make the opposite true. The world is nuanced; most things aren't black and white.

What is true and very black and white is the money - there's bitcoin, and there are shitcoins. Only by giving up the latter for the former can we remove politics from human action and work our way back toward some truth in the base layer of civilization. Bitcoin does not reward rent-seeking or lazy thinking.

The positive aspects of many modern technologies are often overlooked. Even though Clown World(TM) and the ridiculous ideas that follow in its wake are spreading like wildfire, there's a case for unapologetic optimism for the future.

We often hear about the perils of social media and how it damages our kids' brains, but we're rarely reminded of the flip side of that coin. Social media is connecting people on a scale never before accessible to humankind. Everyone on Earth can, at this point, connect with anyone else and start a video call with the click of a button. It's a massively important tool for peace. Pair it with bitcoin, and the bad guys haven't got a chance.

When everyone's connected in this way, it becomes blatantly apparent how absurd it is that we live in states with different laws and regulations. Why do other rule sets apply to my fellow humans on the other side of this pond, this river, this mountain range, or even this imaginary line in the ground?

Every day, more and more people are waking up to the fact that there is only one human right - the right to be left alone.

People increasingly realize that monetary inflation is not a natural phenomenon but a deliberate policy. It is only a matter of time before the old world fades away. As long as we're allowed to communicate, there's hope. The internet has proven that all communication can be boiled down to strings of ones and zeros, and bitcoin has proven that money is nothing but information.