Bitcoin is really blowing some minds out there in the finance industry and economics profession. They are just saying/writing some of the most stupid and childish things ... it's kind of like watching kids at Christmas.
I think you had it right before:
The negativity seems to stem from an inner conflict struggling with issues surrounding the foreign concept of monetary freedom.
It is like you open the cage door on a chimp that has been locked up for decades, basically they go nuts ... they look at the door and their eyes tell them it is open but their brain cannot comprehend it because it has never seen the cage door open. Soon the will poke their noses out of the cage (buy a saotshi or two), run around a little and them run back inside the cage (USD) ... observing it makes for great lolz, the big, bold freedom campaigners confronting a possible freedom they never really believed in, just like to talk about.
Especially considering the sole job of the media is to hide the cage from the audience. Now they are being put in the unenviable position of being this guy:
