This is the type of thread that puts people off of Bitcoin.
I love how you think that you can speak for "people"
Living in a cushy western country kind of skews your opinion of what is important in the world, don't it?
Let's stop talking about war and government corruption, that "puts people off" - let's just keep talking about greed and money and speculation and the bitcoin cult
Bitcoin is not independent of the world in which it was conceived.The internet is everywhere, computers are everywhere, smartphones are everywhere, food-clothing-shelter is everywhere. One of the points of technology like Bitcoin is that it changes everyone's life, worldwide, in a rapid and apolitical manner.
Political power is based on
1. distribution of wealth
2. tugging at the nostalgic heartstrings
3. threats
Technology wipes out all three of these factors since it provides a bounty to all that none could have imagined even a few decades earlier, it wipes away the past as a completely outdated world that only the old remember at all, and it continuously shakes up threatening technology such that it is next to impossible to be a continuously menacing power for more then a few decades.
Politics and conspiracies are the rotting remains of a past on the verge of erasure, while technology is part of the world to come. Which subject is more relevant to the life of you and your children?