The Bright Orange Future

The War of Art

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Resistance isn’t just in your head.

It’s in your wallet.

It’s in your food.

It’s in the economy.

 

You think you’re lazy.

You’re not.

You’re distracted, overfed and undernourished,

overworked, and financially stressed.

 

Fiat is the enemy behind the enemy.

Sure, the war of art is against resistance,

But resistance has the power of the money printer

working against you.

It steals your time,

raises your blood pressure,

shoves nutrient-free food in your mouth,

then dares you to write something beautiful.

 

You have to earn your money, of course.

But thanks to fiat,

you’ve got to earn it again

just to hold onto it.

You’re a craftsman moonlighting as a fund manager.

 

You wonder why you can’t focus?

Why you feel anxious, tired, short-fused?

It’s not just you.

It’s the system.

And the system is rigged

to keep you from doing your work.

 

Bitcoin is not a hedge.

It’s not a trade.

It’s a weapon.

 

A weapon against Resistance.

A reset button for your mind, your time, your life.

A stable foundation from which to blast off.

 

With sound money,

you don’t have to sprint forever

just to stay in place.

 

With sound money,

you can go deep.

You can slow down.

You can build something that matters.

 

Fiat feeds greed, fear, distraction.

Bitcoin feeds vision, patience, flow.

 

How can you produce your greatest works

while the money you’ve earned loses value?

How will you give the time, care, and attention

to cultivating and expressing your most thoughtful insights

when you can’t get and stay ahead financially?

 

The fiat money printer is firing up your time-preference,

turning you into a jack rabbit

chasing short-term solutions.

 

If you’re ready to discover, develop, and express

your deepest, most personal genius,

Then you better embrace Bitcoin.

Allowing Resistance to use fiat against you -

the cards aren’t stacked in your favor.

Opt out of that game.

Get up, and walk away from that table.

 

The War of Art must be fought day after day.

It is a life long battle.

If you want to win over the long term,

Stack the cards in your favor.

Save in money that won’t be

consistently, inevitably, scandalously debased.

 

And don’t you start thinking this is just about you and Resistance.

 

Bitcoin is our greatest weapon against mediocrity,

not just as individuals, but as society.

 

Think about it.

Without money, we’d barter.

Do you think you would be offering the world

your most personal artistic talents

in a barter society?

Trading your writing to the butcher for meat?

Hell no.

 

An economy that uses money, not barter,

unlocks the potential for specialization and experimentation.

It moves economic value beyond

the immediate satisfaction of needs.

The better the money, the deeper we go.

And Bitcoin is just that - better money.

 

With better money,

you don’t just buy bread—

you buy time.

Time to hone your edge,

to go weird, deep, niche.

But money does more than free the maker—

it frees the buyer too.

When people aren’t scrambling to survive,

and can buy from anyone who accepts money,

they can spend on beauty, insight, soul.

That’s how the world gets poets, luthiers, watchmakers—

and why we lose them

when the money deteriorates.

 

When the world decides to wake up

and build economies on a Bitcoin standard,

You will see a creative explosion

the likes of which you can’t even imagine.

 

This isn’t just investments and economics.

This is your ticket to stop distracting yourself with that shit.

It’s not just “how to get rich”,

It’s how we unleash the world’s creative energy.

This is the War of Art,

And Bitcoin is our Orange Bullet.

Author's Note

This verse is inspired by Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art." An economy built on sound money removes ammunition from Resistance, and opens the door for more niche specialization, thus making more of the world's creative gifts economically viable.