Bitcoin represents the breakdown in trust. Trust in institutions, trust in government, trust in the financial system, trust in currency, and trust in fellow humans.
One of the great goals of the Internet was to shed a light on all the forms of corruption and abuse that people in power were perpetuating. Back in our naivete of the late 90s and early 00s, we thought that meant that people would then fix those problems. Instead, many of the problems have been largely unfixable. People in power tend to hold on to power pretty tightly, and once thwarted a half dozen times or so, people tend to declare the whole system rotten to the core and unredeemable. (All except the winners, who are often the most blind to the threat to the system itself.)
Couple that with many of the Internet giants adopting business models involving psychological manipulation and a wholesale attack on the idea of a shared reality itself, and instead of people taking targeted action to fix the problems of corruption and abuse of power, they choose to opt out of the system itself. Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies are the ultimate in "exit" strategies - if you feel like you will never get a fair cut of wealth in the current fiat economy, well, start a whole new economy where you hold all the tokens. Bitcoin proponents correctly point out that if Bitcoin is a scam, so is money itself, but then miss the part where money is a useful scam, one which has allowed people to trade peacefully for millenia.
It's unlikely that the result will be a new crypto-utopia. Already we see the same problems with corruption and abuse of power showing up in most coin ecosystems, but worse than with mainstream institutions, which at least have developed checks & balances to catch the worst abuses. Instead, we're likely to see extreme fragmentation and conflict, more like a dystopian sci-fi novel than a utopia.