The other day, my favourite quote from the French surrealist poem "Les Chants de Maldoror" popped into my head randomly, and I realised that it suddenly made sense to me in terms of the epistemological framework that I'm trying to flesh out in order to better situate myself in this crazy world, and of course it has to do with Bitcoin!
"O mathématiques saintes, pussiez-vous, par votre commerce perpétuelle, me consoler le reste de mes jours, entre le méchanceté de l'homme et l'injustice du Grand Tout"
I think the most straightforward reading of it, the cry into the void full of desire for the objective certainty of mathematics to intervene in the difficult task of reconciling the sublimity of modern rationality and all its ingenuity with the brutality and pettiness of humanity, holds up well, and actually points to Bitcoin being the technology which will answer the still unresolved conundrum of modern life.
Of course there's always the spectre of "quantum" uncertainty in the future, but as it stands today, Bitcoin is the mathematical trading post at the crossroads between humanity's legacy of brutal cruelty and the godhead of universal value. 
