User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 906: What is This, a Crossover Episode?/@comment-3986064-20180602130528

It's such a nice feeling to see invisible ties becoming real bonds between people. This is definitely a chapter in which Oda's fucked with us in multiple ways. He changed the name of the holy land. He showed how creative destruction does not work in an absolutist world (aka, Vegapunk could automate their travelators so easily). And he dropped the bomb on us - Luffy's strawhat is special. Not only because it belonged to Roger and Shanks, but also because it is connected to the huge secret treasure from Mary Geoise.

The world of One Piece is like an anthropologic bonanza of human history and culture - of social systems and moral platforms. The way that (quasi-)human civilizations emerge, submerge and even float on clouds is amazing and also how techne and the natural world combine.

Very soon we will be given the answers and our speculations will come to fruition. But while we have plenty of pieces of information - the greater question I must ask is - how many things do we not know yet? Crucial bits such as this huge strawhat are making me think that even if we wanted to elucidate the mystery now - we'd still be nowhere near enough.