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Honestly we’re kind of surprised that no one remixed this and made the UDIOT SONG

It isn't so much that a single specific current narrative is strange/self-contradicting, even though there certainly are some inadequate narratives out there. Let me start by listing some: - Bitcoin is perfect, doesn't need to change. But also everyone should self-custody! (ignores the obvious fact that in order to accommodate everyone onchain, at some point, some change will be needed) - Everything that altcoins do will be done on Bitcoin (but then we get really mad when it happens on Bitcoin even to the slightest degree) - Bitcoin has chosen to not do "everything", because doing "everything" is dangerous, but we should antagonize anyone/anything that tries to pursue "the rest", even though "the rest" was deemed legitimate in the past - Everything that isn't Bitcoin is a scam (by this definition, any attempt at decent non-custodial privacy is a scam) I could go on, however, a bunch of these are going to be only partially held by some maxis, and not held at all by others, so we're heading into a completely useless discussion of "but that doesn't apply to MEEEEE!" if we continue on this path. So let me frame it more correctly: Around 2019 or so, 2 years after the blocksize wars ended, the Bitcoin inner-circle had spent most of the last years building itself up, spinning narratives and stories (mostly on the back of "The Bitcoin Standard"), elevating gospel-like leaders, adopting strange food diets and other bizarrities, and basically turned into a cult-in-formation. It was around this time that S2F started spreading. Surely, a narrative so ridiculous that the price of bitcoin was pre-programmed into the source code itself irrespective of demand would not be adopted by the once illustrious, skeptical, Austrian-schooled Bitcoin community? Well, it was! A list of popular names who shilled S2F: - Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard - Vijay Boyapati, author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin - Pierre Rochard, co-founder of the Nakamoto Institute - Bitstein - Caitlin Long - Preston Pysh - A significant number of Swan advisors, Stephan Livera, Robert Breedlove - Even Adam Back defended PlanB multiple times (ended up losing a tungsten cube to me in Nov 2021 while betting that one of PlanB's price models would stay intact) Bitcoiners today will tell you that S2F was only taken seriously by a tiny subset of bitcoiners, but to everyone who was there, this was not the case. There were only a few voices who spoke up. Nic Carter, Paul Sztorc, Hasu, myself. The few of us who did speak up know how few we were, because most of us started talking more with eachother. We had to seek out Telegram chats to be able to have sensible conversations about Bitcoin at this point. The problem wasn't just that the Bitcoin community accidentally got roped into a bogus Parabolic Trav-like narrative, it was the complete and utter lack of intellectual rigor that made it completely apparent that brain had officially left the Bitcoin building. This lack of intellectual rigor wasn't isolated to S2F. It began to permeate everything. Altcoins are going to get outcompeted by... not drivechains... not zkrollups... but Liquid! (one of the most useless blockchains in existence). By the end of 2019, I took the chance at trying to explain zkrollups (new invention) to the Bitcoin community. Peter Todd took to Twitter and called me out as having become "potentially dangerous" for reading Vitalik's blog. John Carvalho, once famous from the blocksize wars, wrote blogs about how zkrollups were made up hocuspocus. A few days later, a very upset Bitcoin community discovered a forum post by Gregoxy Maxwell where he discussed a related idea (but still very different) and the stance by the Bitcoin community then became to take credit for the zkrollup invention, but made no steps to implement or experiment with it to any degree. Talking about the inadequacies of Lightning became hard. Rusty Russell would sometimes be pretty frank about some of the discrepancies between Lightning narrative and Lightning reality, but these realizations rarely penetrated the broader Bitcoin community, and its ability to navigate and intellectually orient itself around controversial topics dissipated. Rusty himself had to create a Twitter account called "Shit Bitcoiners Say" just to vent (@SayBitcoiners). I don't think it makes sense to point to a specific, current narrative and say "this is why maximalists are stupid" because there will always be disagreements on whether that is a belief universally held by every single maximalist, it's more about studying the continuous, repeated failings of the Bitcoin community to treat an unacceptable number of topics competently and with intellectual honesty.