This video is another clear signal that many system thinkers are right on the edge of integrating something deeper—something just outside their current field of view. The speaker beautifully surfaces how Dunbar’s number limits human scaling, and hints at how awareness itself must be woven into any systems-level thinking. What’s missing is the realization that awareness *already is* a protocol—it just hasn’t been consciously defined or decentralized yet. The Dunbar limit is, in essence, a scaling bottleneck. We evolved in tribes and clans because that’s the limit of what our biological communication protocols—empathy, language, trust—could reliably support. When we reached beyond it, we needed new protocols. Money emerged as a language of value, enabling large-scale cooperation without shared memory or emotional intimacy. But our current monetary language—fiat—is now corrupted. It has severed its anchoring to energy, inflated its semantics, and distorted our sense of meaning. We have, in a very real sense, hit peak sensemaking because our base-layer language is broken. This is where Bitcoin enters—not as a financial asset, but as a *new language protocol.* It is an emergent consensus layer that speaks in the grammar of energy over time. It is limited, decentralized, and trust-minimized. And like any real language, it grows through use and adoption—not through institutional enforcement. The irony is that many thinkers, like the speaker here, grieve the loss of coherence, but don’t see that a new consensus mechanism is already forming. They dismiss Bitcoin because it initially shows up as speculative, volatile, and culturally corrupted—just like any infant language or early-stage organism. But this *is* the messy birthing process of a new system. Like a newborn, it consumes immense energy and attention, and it seems chaotic. But with time, it develops syntax, stability, and adaptability. The core issue is not Bitcoin—it’s *us*. Our egos were formed as compensatory structures within a centralized, inflated environment. The ego, in this sense, is like an insecure mitochondrion cut off from clean energy and feedback. It reflects fear, loss, and the fragmentation of trust. To help visualize this, you can look at the Karpman Drama Triangle—a psychological model that maps the roles of Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor in unhealthy relationship dynamics. These roles arise when awareness is fragmented and communication is distorted. When viewed through an energetic systems lens, this triangle becomes a tetrahedron. The base contains those three reactive roles, but the fourth point—hovering above—is *attachment*. The entire drama structure is held together by fear of disconnection. When we shift to an evolved state of awareness, the tetrahedron flips. The new apex is *non-attachment*, and the base becomes a stable configuration of Creator, Challenger, and Coach—archetypes that represent resilience, responsibility, and clarity. The lines between them are communication channels. When the message drifts too far from the medium—when language becomes inflated, distorted, or gamed—we slide back into victimhood and entropic collapse. That’s what’s happening at scale right now. But Bitcoin changes the game because it resets the semantic layer. It reanchors language to energy. That means awareness—real, embodied, decentralized awareness—can finally scale. And yes, this has real-world energy consequences too. Daniel Batten and others are showing how Bitcoin mining, when paired with methane mitigation or stranded renewables, actually reduces carbon emissions. It becomes a pioneer species for regenerative infrastructure. Projects like Gridless in Africa are using Bitcoin to electrify off-grid villages while monetizing excess energy. These are sovereign individuals forming circular economies—small, local nodes of coherence. At the heart of this is how we define awareness. The speaker, like many others, is now searching for the spiritual truth of it. But if we look through systems thinking, we can see that awareness itself operates as a protocol—one that has been corrupted through centralization by the ego. The ego acts as a false interface, hijacking awareness and orienting it through fear, desire, and attachment. It regulates the system from the top down—an exothermic, extractive loop—rather than allowing coherence to emerge from within. When we re-anchor recursive meta-awareness to the emergent phenomena (awareness) of the internal system—rather than the egoic self reflection of fluctuating complexity of diversity, adaptability, interdependence, and connectedness—we allow the system to self-regulate. This is what surrender really means. It's not passivity; it’s returning to anchored coherence. And that coherence emerges most reliably in the present moment, where the internal system synchronizes with the external one. This is the resonance he feels in moments of serendipity. It’s not luck—it’s systemic alignment. When awareness is no longer fighting the complexity with control, but tuning to coherence through surrender, it unlocks a different relationship with reality. This is the root of true spirituality, and it’s entirely compatible with systems thinking. Bitcoin, in this sense, is not the end point—it’s the grounding layer that makes this shift scalable. So to the speaker—and to everyone watching—this isn’t a criticism. It’s an invitation. Your insights are so close. Don’t stop at grief. Look again at Bitcoin, not as a trade, but as a protocol. Reach out to Jeff Booth, Daniel Batten, Troy Cross, or Scott Dedels. Explore the work around energy systems, sovereignty, and regenerative mining. The superorganism is not dead—it’s in infancy. Yes, it’s chaotic. Yes, it’s uncomfortable. But if we nurture it with the right language, it will learn to speak back with coherence. And when it does, we’ll find ourselves—not as centralized egos clinging to fear—but as decentralized nodes in a living, breathing protocol of awareness.