2013 post from 4chan was right on the money for predictions in how things are playing out.
It won't be a sudden event ... well worth reading. 
Discussion
there will be no fucking bitcoin standard in any foreseeable future except amazon book sellers selling their pdf shovels in gold rush era.
it will slow n grinding and usable in few places - "store of value" will only major role.
Cheery 🤔🫠
ok but where is the poem
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption &, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. It was published 2 years before Eliot converted to Anglicanism.
poem here:
Spot on for the collective west. I still have hope for other parts of the world. Hang in there. Knowledge is the first step to improvement. We can change.