Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?

It feels like all of us in crypto are on a hero’s journey, with us being precisely at the midpoint, the abyss. We feel a sense of doom bc along with adoption we are confronted by nihilism and the temptation to allow tradfi, the system we want to replace, to envelope us, making us feel a certain cognitive dissonance about why we are here. However, from what I can see, our cypherpunk visionary builders and my DeFi brethren are hard at it working to keep crypto based.

When I remember my “why”, I find the conviction to fight on and for what I believe in.