Im writing this based on a tweet of mine from a while back that a friend reminded me of. I dont remember what the exact things in my head were at the time, but I have a pretty good idea of what I meant. I've been watching the crypto space for a while and I see a serious lack of a few qualities across the board.
I constantly see people make self degrading jokes in the community, it has an issue with depression that isn't being addressed; I dont know the best way to solve it but it needs to be solved dynamically at an individual level. Long stroy short, I and the rest of us NEED TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER.
People in this space CONSTANTLY seek a parasocial idol or cult-like community to tell them the happenings and affirm their bag for validation. This is incredibly unhealthy and is likely a symptom of #1. These relationships are often abused to take money from hurt and confused people at their most vulnerable. People need to start making decisions and building trust boundaries themselves. People need to do their own research on what they're buying into and not just follow a flock of bagholding sheep.
People never want to admit when they're wrong, this is just part of being human to a degree. I see in crypto constant blame shifting the second anything goes wrong. I'm reminded of this old ben garrison comic.
Just picture this image but with different coins and NFT projects, the same principal applies. A million feet kicking a billion asses all switching every bull run, and until people look up and see its the same subset of grifter assholes running these rugs (or even worse the fucking DPRK APTs) this will continue. Stop throwing money into a fire/pit and feeding the monsters.
Without people who push for individualistic values leading the space and teaching people how to use tools to fend for themselves we will never mature or grow into anything of actual value.
People getting excited for web2 tools being ported to "web3" with mininal effort is a huge issue, I dont expect people to be tech geniuses but if you're gonna participate it only helps to get atleast a BASIC understanding of the existing client/server architecture web3 is trying to replace and ask yourself if new tool X is really that revolutionary.
I'm sure I could easily list out another 15 of these, but I want to keep this concise and I've identified these as some of the root issues we're facing, the things that turn normal people into PFP shill zombies. Once we figure these things out if its still nasty out there I'll write some more things we can work on as a community.
Thanks for reading