Bitcoin is what’s wrong with our society: An obsession with money over health, community, housing, food, etc. Bitcoin epitomizes our embrace of the new capitalist dystopia.
Allegedly though, according to the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr, societies tend to move in 40 year periods of either community or individualism. Assuming individualism started in 1980, this would have it end in 2020.
These two books sum it up well:
The Cycles of American History https://www.amazon.com/dp/0395957931/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_hYSi...
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393313719/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CXSi...