This bear looks stoned.
Granted, it was in a natural history museum, but I think the taxidermist might have been under the influence when setting the pose, and their mindset spilled into their art. Is taxidermy an art? I guess so, as it takes knowledge and skill, and I guess there is creativity required to get the poses to look natural, even if stoned. But when stoned, time is no longer as linear as we are accustomed to.
Much like the experience of waiting for crypto markets.
My friend sent this last night into a chat.
Funny isn't it? Yeah, "alt season" hasn't really begun in the way it might have in the past, but perhaps this is it now for a while. The other thing is, people get accustomed to the conditions very fast, where Bitcoin is sitting at about 105K, only a couple percent off of an all time high, but no one really cares. A 10 or 20 percent swing in the global markets is a catastrophe - in crypto, it just another day. The volatility makes us insensitive.
Have we missed it?
I don't think so and "hope" not, but it might be a bit calmer for a few months now.
Perhaps if I say that enough, the markets will market to prove me wrong like normal.
But, as I was saying above about the time, I think that even not in crypto, we are far more impatient than we were earlier as a society. Even though we know that success is helped by delaying gratification, we have set up our environment to encourage impatience. Everything is on-demand and available immediately, especially if willing to pay for it. And, everything is open all the time. There is very little we need to wait for.
Not only this, much of what we want also has a short lifecycle, which makes it disposable, so we don't have to commit to it for very long. We can make a bad decision, but we don't have to live with it. Just throw it away and buy another. This includes swiping for people matches too. Cars and televisions that used to last decades now get replaced in a couple years. Clothes that would get handed down, don't make it past a season. We can blame the quality, but the quality is driven by demand, and our demand is driven by quarterly trends. They don't need to build to last, because we aren't going to keep it anyway.
The companies don't mind.
It is like that story of the guy who got the job at J&J by showing how they can increase their profits by 10% instantly, and just added 10% more holes to the top of their baby powder containers. We consume more, demand less from the product, and they make more money. It makes a mockery of the environmental laws, doesn't it? If we are actually looking to save resources, more would be done to curb demand.
Impatience is killing our society.
The rush to get there means that we are wasting opportunity and resources along the way. But not only this, it means that we are going more "all in" on something that probably isn't going to work. Rather than spreading our development around, experimenting with different approaches, the world is increasingly centralising, even though what it is collecting into is known not to work.
One of the problems crypto faces is the impatience that people bring in with them, because it makes it feel like the industry is so far behind, without recognising that it is a new industry, looking to do things that haven't been done before, in a way that has never been organised at scale before. Look at how only a couple years ago, the prospect of 100K Bitcoin was ridiculed and mocked, yet here we are. Look at not long before that, El Salvador were ridiculed for buying Bitcoin - they now hold about 6000 at an average buy price around 45K - a 105% ROI.
A few years.
But even a few years is far too long for most people these days. A few months is too long.
"Summer?! That is six months away - fuck that shit, I quit!".
I am impatient too. At least, I am far more impatient than I was even a few years ago. I think that I am just getting tired of it all in some way. Not just crypto, but life in general. Grinding is only possible for so long before the energy gets depleted. Without significant successes along the way, frustration sets in. Combine this with the frustrations of daily life, as well as a few out of the ordinary events, and I think it is understandable to get impatient for a better result.
Understandable, but not acceptable.
Gotta keep holding on, right?
If only I could get some of what that bear has had, passing the time might be more pleasant.
Taraz
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