theory of goatism
est. august 21 — world goat day
THEORY OF GOATISM
$GOATED
Everything has the potential to be the GOAT.
The trenches spend every day searching for the next GOAT.
Goatism says they've been looking at it wrong.
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The Theory of Goatism
The trenches spend every single day searching for the next GOAT.
- The next GOAT ticker.
- The next GOAT narrative.
- The next GOAT entry.
The one trade that finally retires you from the trenches forever.
But Goatism says we've misunderstood the GOAT.
Everything has the potential to become the GOAT.
Every $20K shitter looks stupid before it becomes the ticker everyone wishes they bought.
Every cult looks delusional before enough people believe.
Every meme looks irrelevant before attention turns it into culture.
Every trader looks regarded before the screenshot.
The GOAT is usually only obvious after it has already become the GOAT.
That is Goatism.
goatism existed before $goated
They literally wrote a philosophy about this.
In 2009, Philosophy Now published:
“Everything is a Goat”
The proposition was absurdly simple:
Everything is a goat.
Then in 2010 came:
“A Kripkean Argument for Goatism”
A philosophical argument attempting to defend Goatism using modal logic.
More than a decade before the trenches started calling everything GOATED, somebody was already writing philosophy about a universe of goats.
Crypto has been trying to tell us.
In the early Dogecoin era, Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer (@ummjackson) created a GitHub repository around the idea:
“Doge + Goat = A Better World”
$ git log --since=2014 --grep=goat
commit ────── archived piece of early Dogecoin lore
message: doge + goat = a better world
Doge became one of the greatest memes crypto ever produced. And somehow, sitting in old crypto history, was a goat.
archived piece of early dogecoin lore
Historical reference only. Jackson Palmer is not affiliated with, endorsing, or involved with $GOATED in any way.
August 21.
World Goat Day.
There could not be a better day to stop searching for the GOAT.
Time to get goated.
Goat > Everything.
Being the GOAT gives you aura.
Having aura doesn't mean you're the GOAT.
goat > auraAura fades.
Motion stops.
Trends die.
The goat remains.
“Even at my worst, I'm goated.”
$GOAT is an animal.
$GOATED is a state of being.
GOAT isn't niche internet slang anymore. You don't have to explain what GOATED means.
- Someone cooks?
- GOATED.
- Someone makes the trade of their life?
- GOATED.
- Someone becomes undeniable?
- GOATED.
The term has escaped sports and become part of everyday internet language.
This isn't about worshipping a goat. It's about becoming one.
You don't become goated when everyone notices.
You were goated before they noticed.
issue 001 · goatism
The Goated Gallery
The trenches have spent their entire lives searching for the next GOAT.
Goatism says everything has the potential to become one.
Time to get $GOATED.
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