Quote from: shawshankinmate37927 on January 14, 2014, 02:53:41 AM

Quote from: lnternet on January 14, 2014, 12:20:55 AM

My only advice would be to not use derogatory terms for describing the FED, WU etc. Objectively explaining improvements over the established system is enough. Sure you can throw a joke at them but don't call them crooks, imo.

I disagree. There's no reason to sugarcoat anything. We need more people who aren't afraid to "call a spade a spade".

Here's the thing. Andreas killed it in Vegas. Period. My only issue was that he was soo upset by the bullshit, that it showed in his voice. And in response, you can hear the arrogant, condescending, (even chuckling at one point) responses from the other panelists. These guys don't have emotion. It's a proven fact that a large percent of CEO's are sociopaths, and sociopaths lack the ability for empathy. What they do respond to however is solid facts, presented in a ROBOTIC, unemotional manner. Conveying thoughts with even a twinge of irritation in your voice will result in them completely discounting you as a source of reliable information. It sucks, but this is the truth.

When someone says extremely strong phrases and terms with a lot of emotion to guys like that, they tend to disregard the person. Andreas is our voice to these people, and his frustration and outright anger is understandable. I hope that he can somehow mask it a little in the future, and speak the language these idiots speak. They're full of shit, and they hide it well. That's what they do for a living. So Andreas, being a fucking master wordsmith in his own right, hopefully can put on the bullshit mask, and convey the *same* concepts to these people with words, and intonation that they will have to respect. Facts without emotion, but with a calm urgency and even cutting phrases that don't branch off into too much emotion.

I got goosebumps by his comments on the Vegas panel ... but I could tell that certain statements he made were almost laughed at by the idiots on the panel because they were so inflammatory. For example, he commented that Bitcoin is as serious as being pulled out of your house and having your family tortured, in some countries. It was not until a later podcast that I heard Andreas actually explain that statement. When i first heard it, I (and im sure many others on the panel) immediately were like "ok maybe this guy isn't exactly grounded in reality, another libertarian Bitcoin kook" .... But in fact, he had a discussion with someone who said those exact words to him. The person *was* afraid to attend the conference because his family *had* been dragged out by the govt for similar activities.

Had he presented it that way on the panel, I believe the idiots on the panel would have responded very differently. Almost with a sobering respect. He could have made them all look like fools. But due to the way these guys think (unemotional, businessminded, factually based)... Andreas emotional presentation may have seemed "not grounded" in reality, but coming instead from an irrational perspective.

One thing Andreas does not do is "irrational". So i hope he can really hone his presentation of these incredibly important facts, and try to subdue his anger in settings like these.

Andreas you have a way with words that I have almost never seen before. Truly. Please know that every ounce of urgency and emotion and disgust you have inside you, is already being felt by all of us out in the "field". We just need someone who can convey it in a language that sociopathic empathy-less entrepreneurs can understand. If theres some way you can remain cognisant of the often arrogant, heavily business minded (utterly absent of emotion or empathy) audiences you speak to, I think you could literally bury them with factual, unemotional words. You can form sentences like no other.

Please stick around the american conferences. And please don't take offense to this post. Ive actually been mulling over this very issue in my head for several days now, debating whether I should convey it to you, because of the risk of offending you. I can't stress enough how incredibly important your involvement is in all of this. Please don't give up and bail to the other countries if possible.

-BittBurger-