This is why I started hiking and summiting mountains. I mean, not literally why, but it’s chasing that new and novel high.

I’m reminded of this article from a couple of days ago in the Globe and Mail, specifically as a response to Musk’s anti-empathy comments: Empathy is not a Weakness, it’s a Strength

I see your point but I don’t think you’re describing empathy as much as fear in your examples.

The shift of 'the internet is the greatest tool for knowledge, to what it is now, some cancerous corpo bloated bullshit

Spot on.

The worst part is that anyone who wasn’t around for the first 10ish years of the web has never seen how real and optimistic and grass roots and delightfully human it was.

We really lost a lot.

As decentralized money it’s great.

I think you mean, it’d be great if it took off… as money. Right now it’s an investment barely more useful for buying things than corn futures.

A slightly different example of the wonky-ness of time is that 2016 was… Almost 10 years ago.