i am also skeptical of the centralization of power hypothesis it comes from Lewis Mumford in 1964 who argued: "from late Neolithic times in the Near East, right down to our own day, two technologies have recurrently existed side by side: one authoritarian, the other democratic, the first system-centered, immensely powerful, but inherently unstable, the other man-centered, relatively weak, but resourceful and durable." this echoes around the valley. peter thiel said in 2018, "crypto is…