The Crypto Crash Feels Amazing

Crypto opinions aside, I think this is a gifted author. He captures the experience of 'missing out' quite well.

Ian Bogost was not an author I was expecting at The Atlantic. (edit: hrm, 15m.latter recalling they have I think writtem here before.)

Anyhow. It doesnt feel good to me to feel so about others doing bad. But yes. And Im glad we have some in print testament to how relieving it is to see bullshit collapse. There's a ton of grousing & shit talking, dissent against the would be cryptocurrencies, but Inappreciate having something a little more official, a bit less obviously polemic,& a bit more willing/able to mark what may/may not yet be a sea change.

People were all warned... So many things now are based on "Pump and Dump" culture that social media greases so well. Celebrities themselves, movies, cars, technology, humanitarian aid, mass shootings, and even dead celebrities are all commodities only worth their ability to trend (profitably) now. The more we buy in, the closer we get to that black mirror episode where you can't escape your social stats as a life-worthiness value.

Celebrities, influencers, and the rich gain pop followings they manipulate so easily into these traps where they can then pull the rug out and still play innocent for the next heist... This is the way the world works in our current Globalist Internet Based $ocial Media Celebrity Mining Capitali$tic NFT MLM phase.

If communism was better though, there would be no exotic sportscars in China and Russia though. Really it's vanity and the value we place on it that is most at fault, but the people that said it was a scam from day 1 are the people we should be listening to, not still the people that said "go all in". We also need to de-emphasize social media's strangle hold and have some serious and ugly public discussions on non-denominational morality.