the meme, "bitcoin fixes this" is often thoughtlessly repeated, in lieu of thoughtful reflections like the one above. does it take 1, 10 or 100 years for a depraved culture drunk on remakes to wake up, no one can really tell. like you, i believe/hope something better than we have will start to take hold.

I appreciate how Nathan demonstrates the rhapsodic weaving of cultural artifacts with rhetoric, yet I find myself ever more captivated by the written word, often obsessively scouring web archives of old blogs, in ways that I never really do on YT. theres certainly something about interacting with text, the spontaneous and infinitesimal meaning making that happens therein, that is missing for me in video essays.

certainly, the intersection of meaning, context creation and livelihood thru novel tech like p2p micropayments, like you pointed out, is the most underappreciated and interesting cultural phenomenon that has yet to be fully realized.