Reality before a true innovation seems almost unfathomable afterwards.

Yet at the same time, sound money and fiat money rise and fall in a cycle, and some people long ago who lived under a sound money standard actually lived better lives back then than we do today.

But the hope is that with Bitcoin, fiat will have a much harder time beating sound money in the future, gradually breaking the cycle forever. The thousands of years prior to 2009 will really seem bizarre for sure. 

 What's the saying?

A genius is someone who makes something no one thought of before seem obvious in retrospect. 

 It makes planning for the future somewhat ironic, because the likelihood of any one of us being the genius who will lead an innovation we want to see is fairly low.

So the future is literally unimaginable, yet we plan as if it is. As Lowery puts it, the next war will never look like the last war, but we always plan as if it will 🤔