If you understand the evolution of money and tulip investing, it all makes sense.
Because however he analyzes it, Bitcoin cannot convince his old mind that it is a sound investment, or even a sound money. He does not see value in it. Well, he sees value with fiat, on the contrary. That means there is something wrong with his mind, perhaps too much traditional? The numbers that Bitcoin has shown as proof that it has appreciated so much is simply foreign to him. Let him be.