Communities, including crypto, have long began to foster a sense of unity based on surface-level signals without sharing values or purpose. Something

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2024-12-25 05:00:01

Communities, including crypto, have long began to foster a sense of unity based on surface-level signals without sharing values or purpose.

Something that used to be a localized crypto cancer have spread to the outer society and now we must pronounce it to be terminal.

I find it so distasteful when people blindly share behavioral traits to express belonging. The hollow substitutes for genuine bonds.

Without giving this behaviour too many props, the subconscious desire behind it is surprisingly simple: to commodify everything. Even belonging.

The crypto space offers a perfect case study in cultural decay. What began as a revolution built on principles of security, decentralization, and resistance to corporate control - has devolved into an echo chamber of manufactured authenticity.

Crypto is no longer a community; it is but a desperate attempt to construct an identity in a world increasingly devoid of meaning. The more layers of abstraction we go through, the more ironic this claim becomes.