Most technologies go through the old system and not around it. As the masses adopt the new innovation, they initially drag its' potential back down to their existing expectations. The innovators/idealists capitulate their "peak of inflated expectations" in order to realize the adoption process.
The idealists first project their knowledge/paradigm onto the masses (trying to "re-educate the world") instead of adapting the interfaces to accommodate the complexity and allow for backwards compatibility. They eventually compromise on their ideals and go through "the trough of disillusionment".
The masses adopt the innovation as an extension of their existing paradigms (new tech on old clunky rails). Many idealists remove themselves from the adoption cycle and move on to the next new "ideal" thing while their dream gets "highjacked" by the incumbent system.
I wonder if we are currently in the trough of disillusionment right now with Bitcoin:
Hardware wallets and custody interfaces are being questioned, tested, updated. Idealists, innovators, OGs moving on, to the next frontiers. Bitcoin moving onto old clunky financial rails.
Maybe the speed of disruption is limited by humanity's average ability to integrate paradigms collectively.🤔

I think it’s ironic that bitcoiners can see how AI companies project fear onto the world to push their technological paradigm, but often can't see themselves doing the same thing. Desire and fear emerge from the creative destruction process, depending on whether you identify with the creation or destruction respectively.
It seems that life is a continous process of error correcting patterns that humans experience as grief, learning, or disruption.

The concept is not the thing. The map is not the territory.

Universal ₿asic High Inflation

"When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure"

How can we expect the world to appreciate one another if the common medium through which we express our appreciation is designed to depreciate?

Expression > depression

The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it.