It's not a negative that physical metals as money are NOT CONDUCIVE to globalization, it's A FEATURE - a positive one.  Globalization creates overspecialization and lack of local redundancy, which then results in complete system collapse with the side effect of 90% of civilization having no reason to exist.  See Joseph Tantor et al.  Oh, you want to be able to buy everything on the planet from Amazon while every other store on earth goes out of business?  Too bad.  Local economies have to exist with redundant systems to the next state or country over.  If you're not doing things redundantly to the country next to you, you're not a country in the first place and are just a defacto, global, feudalist govt cog.

No, we do not need a "collective delusion".  Delusion is just a synonym for scam.  The further you abstract from barter, the bigger a scam you have.  The closest thing to barter without actually using barter is trading non-perishable physical commodities or resources.  Anything that's not a resource or commodity is just an artificial scarcity Keynesian scam.  Yes, digital shitcoin scammers are Keynesians while pretending not to be.  Whether you believe the universe was created by some sort of God or it created itself, the only way you're getting out of Keynesian scams is by using the tools the universe gave you for economics instead of pretending to play God yourself.  I have zero interest in participating in some moron's attempt to play God when the universe itself has created far superior systems.