We have talked about how A Cultural System is (1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men (Geertz's academic mysogyny is really dissonant with modern anthropology, and annoys me every time I quote it, but I feel preserving the original text warts and all is important).
Surely I don't have to convince you that in the case of NFTs, crude jpegs of apes established powerful and long-lasting moods and motivations in men (here I use the single gender to highlight crypto's near total inability to appeal to women).
What crypto did with NFTs, and indeed has been doing all along is establishing its own cultural system. That's all well and good, but then their has been a push to impose this cultural system onto already established cultural systems, and that only "works" with: violence (see the fate of the Yapese in The First Crypto Currency), or when the two systems are able to establish trade via symbols that are valued across both cultural systems.
Digital art of questionable quality isn't valued across cultural systems. Whether it should be or not is outside of the scope of this wiki, but the fact that it is not is what collapsed the NFT market, and toxified the idea of tokens being of value so sufficiently that my inclusion of this page on my wiki will likely turn off more people than I gain. But bare with me as there are lessons to be learned.
We are headed to Planet Nine's Second Money Experiment. But first let's talk about how we go about Creating A Cultural System.