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I'm trying to think of other cases where a tool becomes a religion. Tech evangelism (you gotta try this new thing) isn't quite the same: bitcoin is so much more participatory. And it has a moral element (the fiat system is evil). Even the environmentalists don't have such a cohesive set of religious elements.
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tech didn't change people's worldviews... smartphones e.g., just run their lives, having captured their minds etc. But nobody has a completely altered perspective because of them
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But this is what is so fascinating about the bitcoin-religion comparison: it should be more like smart phones or the internet or something, and yet it's so different. Why does it "completely alter" our perspectives?
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of course.
You're not the first to remark on that.
...and I also don't think it's that weird. It's a similar kind of before/after moment, completely shifting the way you look at things.