“Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars.”
It's been estimated that there are 2 trillion galaxies in the universe (some have proposed 10 trillion galaxies), with an average galaxy containing about 100 billion stars. With improving observation capability, such as the recently launched James Webb telescope, our estimates of the size and complexity of the universe seem to keep growing (much in the way that fiat currency base money supply keeps growing).
The universe is pretty big. It seems like there should be other life outside of our solar system — but what if the answer to “where are all the aliens?” is that there is no other life? That there never was other life? That there will never be other life?
What if our existence is so unlikely an event that life on a Pale Blue Dot is singularly unique in the vast sprawl of the universe? A one-off event?
“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
Whether there is a central creator, or we are merely products of tremendously improbable random combinations of chemical reactions, which have evolved over billions of years to create order in defiance of the second law of thermodynamics, our existence appears to be highly unlikely. There is clearly a low life-to-universe ratio. Life is scarce. We should try not to waste it.
We have heard the expression “life goes on” when we pass. What does that mean? Is our soul immortal? Do we become force ghosts? Does our family line continue? Does humanity survive indefinitely? Is there life outside of our solar system? Is the answer really 42?
Similar to life, bitcoin’s origins are mysterious. There is the legend of a central designer. There are theories about a group of designers. Bitcoin is such an anomaly that some have even speculated about alien designers.
Bitcoin is a monetary truth machine. It simply tells all participants the truth about money, time, and energy. It manages to mold the chaotic entropy of information into useful order. Some have speculated that bitcoin is an evolving organism, and its ability to resist entropy is a supportive argument for this.
Regardless of origin stories, both life and bitcoin are results of extremely rare, if not singular events. The momentous event of creating sound money is sneaking up in our primitive monkey brains, to emerge as a unique occurrence. It appears unlikely that other sound monies can be created, as it is impossible to replicate bitcoin’s Immaculate Conception with proof of work systems — and proof of stake systems are fiat systems. Similar to life itself, bitcoin’s creation may have been a one-off event.
The types of people who saw THE problem, and then saw enough value in a bitcoin sound monetary system to become innovators and early adopters of that system, have had more than a decade to become orange-pilled, and are most likely already bitcoiners.
Many fraudsters have pivoted their ethos 180 degrees and claimed to have found the next bitcoin. They either made a fortune, or they were in too deep with gambling, hookers, and cocaine. Who knows? They have said that bitcoin is flawed and must be replaced (usually they proceed to get dumb haircuts and generally make asses of themselves), before quickly exit scamming and disappearing from the scene. In the pleb journey these repeated instances are predictable — like sunrises and sunsets. Stumbling across these scammers and morons in the “crypto” space is unfortunately most peoples’ introduction to bitcoin.
People new to “crypto” tend to dig into the money rabbit hole- and the technical, social, and political rabbit holes — asking, “What is the next bitcoin?”. When we reach the bitcoin event horizon, there is an inevitable shocking, beautiful, and scary conclusion that bitcoin is the only sound money. Bitcoin enlightenment is reached.
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. How can I dare to guess about humans in the far future? It is, I think, only a matter of natural selection. If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.”
In the fiat world, most people are net victims of time theft. Most successful people don’t even realize how much wealthier they should be. Fiat currency disrespects private property and enables debt slavery. Fiat steals from the productive and uses stolen wealth to fund immoral activities on the largest scale. The fiat system allows for perpetual war and provably kills en masse. Fiat incentivizes short-term thinking. So much wealth is stolen and so much future uncertainty is created that people cannot afford to be long-term thinkers.
The Great Filter is the suggested point at which intelligent societies all manage to destroy themselves. Fiat monetary systems cause so much destruction that alien fiat monetary systems might be the leading suspects when asking, “Where have all the aliens gone?”.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
We should probably not continue to use a monetary system that enslaves most people and uses stolen wealth to fund perpetual war, that otherwise would not be fiscally possible.
The alternative to self-induced fiat damage is bitcoin, and bitcoin only. Bitcoin is a time stable coin that respects humans’ strictly scarce lifespans. It can stop systemic time theft by facilitating private property. It can end debt slavery. This would free up our limited time to observe and think. Maybe we could solve problems and ponder mysteries such as the nature of the universe and the meaning of life. Bitcoin can massively improve physical and mental wellness. (I’m not sure if you have looked around lately, but the world could benefit from some improved physical and mental wellness.)
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning.”
Bitcoin’s mere existence is evidence for an advanced central planner. A central planner might say, “Hey humans — it would be awesome if you could stop destroying yourselves and look around at all the cool stuff I put in the universe. I worked hard on it — and you dummies are ruining everything. I gave you fire, and you still managed to trash civilization. OK, here is perfect money. This should at least select for some intelligent people to survive and reproduce. Wait — you think that aliens created bitcoin — and smart people reproducing is an example of Darwinism? Jesus Christ. I can’t win.”
Perhaps the only strictly scarce things are time, life, and bitcoin.
We have not and may not discover other life.
We have not and may not discover other sound money.
It would not surprise me if we discover other life before we discover other sound money.
To date, time remains undefeated.
It seems wise to choose a money that respects our most scarce and therefore most valuable assets. Sound money will protect our time, reduce rent-seeking middlemen, enhance human productivity, improve health, and emancipate our minds.
Maybe we can spend more time with our loved ones. Maybe we will finally be able to stop arguing about all of the petty things that are being used to divide us — simply because our framing will start from healthier positions. If I’m happy and you’re happy, then it’s probably OK if we don’t agree on everything.
Sound money might even help humanity avoid the Great Filter. Perhaps there is hope for the scarce anomalies that inhabit The Pale Blue Dot. 
Frito2x is a toxic pleb who is also a double board-certified American physician. He is hoping to share his fiat medicine experience to help people make more educated healthcare decisions and career decisions. He is the host of Children Of The Corn Plebcast.