I've finished playing the new season of Delta Force these past couple of days. I find the nuclear power plant quite fun—suitable for casual players like me.

For the final player choice, I chose Destruction.

On a solitary island, there grows a giant tree. A group of people gather under the tree, chattering away as they live their days. The tree doesn't listen to people; it only knows how to grow taller and taller, bigger and bigger. Gradually, the harvest from the land dwindles, and the people become increasingly lazy and decadent from relying on the tree.

Then a madman stands up. He picks up an axe. His brother comes over to urge him to calm down.

The brother says, "If you cut down the tree, everyone will be exposed to the scorching sun. People have already gotten used to the tree's shade. If you act rashly now, how many will die because of your recklessness?"

The younger brother says, "Now is the best opportunity to act. While there is still some harvest in the fields, while the people haven't yet become inseparable from the tree. Wait until the tree blocks out the sky, leaving not a single ray of sunlight, until the land cracks and not a single grain of food grows—by then the tree will no longer be something those emaciated people can cut down."

Africa is very much like the real-life Asara.

It has one of the world's largest reserves of unexploited arable land and agricultural potential. The people there will actually eat dirt when they're hungry. Yet even so, they just muddle through eating dirt instead of cultivating and building for tomorrow or the day after. The land is God's blessing to them, and also a curse.

Just like us in the crypto world: after the old narratives and dividends fade away, we must always learn to rise from the ashes ourselves.