At one point, my cousin mentioned that the government probably invented bitcoin.. He said that he believes that the USA government has a motive in order to have an ever-present backdoor that just sits there but then when I pointed out quite a few reasons why his assertion is likely not to be true, he asserted that he agrees that his idea is a long shot, but still one that he believes and it motivates him to be quite skeptical of bitcoin as an investment that will hold its value.
Is he an Idiot? This statement holds zero logic, if the Gov created it then they will not allow it to lose value and therefore not do what they want it to do so why does he think it will lose value. Those are diametrically opposed views, The guys a lost cause, don't waste your breath.
I have a lot of idiot relatives and friends, maybe even all of them, so I cannot really stop talking to these kinds of people. They are everywhere.
Over the years, I have found that sometimes seeds planted from years back will come to fruition at later dates, and surely some people might not admit that their conversation with you was helpful for their rethinking their previous thoughts, but surely I can recognize that sometimes there are going to be various kinds of changes and even improvements in the ways that they think about certain kinds of topics that seem to somehow relate to my interactions with them.
This is not a one way street either because when I am trying to interact with people of varying perspectives, I frequently am trying to consider if there might be ways that I can have better interactions with them, and of course, sometimes even if the person is talking about really basic stuff and seems to be an idiot in various basics, frequently, there still seem to be things that I can attempt to learn - but also sometimes, it can be quite fruitful and better use of time to avoid certain topics with certain people, too.
With that particular cousin, I had heard him go down a few conspiracy theories previously that also involved the government and aliens, but sometimes I might not be ready, willing or able to follow some of his seemingly stream of conscious paths, so if we are somewhat attempting to talk about bitcoin, even though we did deviate into a few shitcoins (for sure seems to be the first thing that comes out of the mouths of various no coiner (or almost no coiner) normies), then at least we end up being able to have some kind of conversation and maybe even some bonding.. I mean I do have things in common with several of my cousins and I do end running into them quite a bit - even just once every few years.. but could end up being more frequently, too.
Poll
