That sensibility is captured well by Jenny Holzer's statement, "Protect me from what I want", which neglects responsibility and puts it on other people whether

That sensibility is captured well by Jenny Holzer's statement, "Protect me from what I want", which neglects responsibility and puts it on other people whether they want it or not. It's a human personality anti-pattern we generally just tolerate. Cryptocurrencies represent a respite from the logic of that idea and allow for mutual tolerance, presumably as an alternative to organizing and fighting. It's not so much a nanny state as a mad aunt in the attic state. (e.g. MMT) Nanny state is an oddly gendered trope, but it's meant to represent not just oversight, but Animus. My argument is essentially that most anti-crypto articles I've read are an expression of ideas that originate from a neurotic animus and an affected condescention that the rest of us just don't buy.