How do we educate the masses? (with Cole Walmsley)
Ideas to take with you.
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Symptom awareness is now widespread – people feel that something is wrong – but problem awareness is rare, and closing that gap is the actual educational work.
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Complexity in the financial system is not incidental; jargon and acronyms accumulate crisis by crisis as patchwork over a structural leak, and their function is to keep observers from looking beneath.
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Money is one of several 'pendulums' that survive on attention and participation, which means starving one and feeding the other is itself a form of change, not merely a personal choice.
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Leading with pain rather than with the word Bitcoin meets people inside their own lived experience, where resistance is lowest and the mechanism beneath the pain can actually be named.
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Historical transitions look sudden in retrospect but are preceded by long, invisible buildup; Luther's 95 theses took roughly two decades to reshape the settlement between church and state.
