Content Over Container - Peter McCormacks failed wardrobe case
Hi guys, I wanted to talk about this since but I’ve had more important matters to pay attention to. A lot of people know Peter McCormack as a popular crypto-Twitter personality and big proponent of Bitcoin, he’s especially known for being a Bitcoin maximalist.
A little bit over a week ago, Peter was invited by President of El Salvador, Presidente Nayib Bukele to the Presidential palace to discuss Bitcoin.
However, Peters choice of clothing seemed to cause a ruffle among most of Crypto-Twitter as a lot of people thought he was inappropriately dressed for such meeting. Some thought it was disrespectful and he misrepresented the Bitcoin community by presenting himself to the world as a homeless person or fraudster by wearing torn pants and a faded Metallica top.
In my opinion, I see nothing wrong with how Peter dressed, I think judging people based on how they look or their clothing is toxic and a people problem as someone else noted. I understand that majority of people condemning his choice of clothing do so based on the fact that they don’t want to give the general populace a bad impression about Bitcoiners. So most would have preferred him to wear a suit and tie.
The irony of this is that people think fraudsters don’t wear suit and tie too. In fact a fraudster is more likely to wear a suit and tie to meet with a Head of State than not. These are the types of hypocritical caricatures drawn from erroneous societal dogmas we need to get rid off.
We all say fraudsters use Bitcoin doesn’t make Bitcoin a bad technology, it’s the people who use it for bad stuff that are bad. I think it’s the same here, I certainly won’t dress like this to a wedding, I don’t want to look socially awkward and I won’t be wearing a ripped pants to meet the president either, I wasn’t raised to express that level of freedom as much as I’d have loved to, it’ll make me totally uncomfortable.
But that’s just me, in Peters case, all I see is a person expressing his freedom by wearing what he’s comfortable in, which doesn’t mean he’s incompetent. The world needs to realize that it is content over container. Does Peter know his bits? Definitely! Did he deliver? Absolutely! Aren’t these what matter the most? What if he wore suit and tie and said trash to the President? Will that make Bitcoiners look better?
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe we don’t really deserve the type of freedom we clamor for, or maybe the society is right, you know, words like a picture says a thousand words matter over what actually happened in the picture, maybe we do need to conform to some certain societal constructs to please other peoples perspectives, maybe we should put the container first...
What are your thoughts?
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