If something is capable of driving you to a derangement syndrome, almost certainly there's an element to it that strongly attracts you. It's a good idea to identify that element and reflect on your relationship to it.
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Reflecting on the early months of Trump regime when I had a solid case of TDS, it strikes me that in my case, the element was a kind of self-importance-deflating humor characteristic of Trumpism that I also identify with. But once I saw that, it was trivial to break out of it.
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Reflecting on one I observe a lot now -- crypto-derangement syndrome -- strikes me that the element that hooks the CDS-sufferers is that crypto is undeniably *technically* fascinating. You can't be any kind of geek and not find the machinery interesting.
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For me I’m subject to this because I have a long standing interest in decentralization tech particularly for creative collaboration (eg en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-). And I think crypto is setting that field back by sucking up all the attention while focusing on the wrong problems
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Oh I got that. Does it denote that you’re glad crypto’s outcomes include setting back decentralized collaboration tech?
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I don’t agree it does that at all. I’m just glad it’s given you a bit of derangement syndrome. Old-fashioned schadenfreude 😆

