I barely need to add anything, because you and I had such similar experiences.
I will just add that the biggest change to me was the complete dissolution of trust that I used to have in "experts". That label is not nearly sufficient anymore. I need to see PoW, before I'm going to trust someone.
Absolutely i think that was probably a wake up moment for many of us realising that so called experts can be ideologues, indoctrinated, corrupt or just plain wrong. I realised that i needed to verify things for myself, even scientific subjects. Yes to see the proof of work.
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