I love this point. Indeed. To take it a step further, the more time that passes, the more I realize that what we consider to be the absurdity is itself a very deep question. The enculturation of certain absurdities runs so deep that we never consider them as grist for reflection at all -- most things are probably like this, the unexamined strata of our cultural legacies, whatever those are. But then every so often something pokes its nose out of the hole, and people ask, en-masse: does that actually make sense?

I don't like to bring everything back to btc, but the parallels are un-missable. You start digging into money, and you wind up in weird corners where most of your friends and family have no idea wtf you're talking about, or why you're obsessed with those things. The popular success of btc has somehow made this worse and not better, at least in my own small neighborhood.