Love this, and true. Popularity, power of influence can be +ve but also dangerous and often taps into hope building. The Little Red Book by Chairman Mao beats SW algo hands down - have you read it? I only ready it after watching Mind Your Language and Su Li quoting from it lol but it was insane - goal was to unite peasants, rile them up to take down the royals by creating culture, mutual enemy (which was US even back then). I remember reading Elon’s leaked convo on how easy it was for him to be hero worshiped on Twitter and same – hope building (except that it was all lie). You see this power of influence in leadership, religion and cult. I love inspirations and that little ‘you got this’ hugs and ppl who build ppl up instead of tearing others down, but reality also matters, and solution finding > complaining. It’s like your earlier note on Bitcoin being global currency. I think its great, probably need to know what it takes to get us there and let’s do that. But that little hope in me will always want more :)