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.