Plug in those Latin quotes....wild stuff. Is that image really from The Fed? Found something about “the emerald tablet of Hermes Trismegistus” when goofling, which seems like it’s own fork on this rabbit hole
It is it's own fork. Some people think Hermes was an ancient atlantean and you can go down a long rabbit hole that is kind of interesting but full of "Nicolas Cage - National Treasure" types who think they are on a treasure hunt for the location of the lost sunken city of Atlantis and that that tablets have alien properties etc. etc.
Maybe, who knows.
From what I've seen, the most probable location for Atlantis based on old descriptions is in Mauritania. That section of the Sahara used to be a giant river delta fed from the Atlas mountains before it dried up. The Eye of the Sahara used to be on a raised island in the middle of the river. It's an odd structure and matches the description of the city.
Some interesting community of "Google Earthers" (I don't know what to call them) who use updated satellite photos of the desert and jungle to find lost cities and archaeological evidence are tracking it if you are interested.
No the image isn't from the Fed, it's an alchemical image representing "As Above, So Below." Essentially the base thievery at the highest levels also presents itself at the lowest levels.
Hermes Trismegistus was a famous magician and sorcerer of ancient times in Egypt. He is sometimes considered to be the god Thoth-Hermes, but also sometimes supposed to have been just a powerful sorcerer. Bizarrely, the first time I heard of him was in a Batman comic book when someone mentions the name to Batman in the middle of a fight and of course Batman knows all about him off the top of his head..
PS - I knew one factory job could support a family of four and own a house and live in comfort 50 years ago, but the stuff about private planes is astonishing. Your own private plane only cost about a year's median salary? That's crazy. How much is the cheapest private plane now? $10 million? $20?
Cessna is basically the only plane manufacturer that survived through the inflationary period of the 70's. As people's income bought less and less many of these companies had to go out of business or shift their businesses to a different market.
The cheapest private plane in 2021 that you could buy was ~$2 million pre-tax.
If you're curious about the collapse in general aviation, you can mainly find it in blogs, quora, or talking to older hobbyist pilots and they'll all tell the same story.
Ultimately, we in the west will often price ourselves out of a good time either through money printing or raising artificial barriers to entry to decrease risk. Both are tragedies IMO.
"A future where crypto is the primary means of exchange."
That's pretty vague. I assume there is only room from one blockchain to fill the roll of 'means of exchange' and 'unit of account' so which one? If it is a project that already exists than my hope is BTC.
In my mind crypto is not the point. The point is true division of money and state. Rules without Rulers.
Can crypto projects like ETH and Cardano promise that?
Interoperability protocols to connect blockchains will make crosschain payments and usage easier and cheaper as time passes. Suggest Re-reading the older Quarterly Crypto Macro posts. This past quarter's crypto macro post is coming, was just delayed due to additional events that occurred last week.
Combined with basic oracle structure, I'd expect we'll see NFT projects mid-2023 that can natively accept onchain payments from several different blockchains without any off-chain servicing through the usage of light clients, and within 2-3 years would expect cross-chain integrations to be built into just about any new project. The concept of 1 winner in this space will be alien to us in only a few years. (which is why interoperability protocols will be the big winner of the next bull market).
Plug in those Latin quotes....wild stuff. Is that image really from The Fed? Found something about “the emerald tablet of Hermes Trismegistus” when goofling, which seems like it’s own fork on this rabbit hole
It is it's own fork. Some people think Hermes was an ancient atlantean and you can go down a long rabbit hole that is kind of interesting but full of "Nicolas Cage - National Treasure" types who think they are on a treasure hunt for the location of the lost sunken city of Atlantis and that that tablets have alien properties etc. etc.
Maybe, who knows.
From what I've seen, the most probable location for Atlantis based on old descriptions is in Mauritania. That section of the Sahara used to be a giant river delta fed from the Atlas mountains before it dried up. The Eye of the Sahara used to be on a raised island in the middle of the river. It's an odd structure and matches the description of the city.
Some interesting community of "Google Earthers" (I don't know what to call them) who use updated satellite photos of the desert and jungle to find lost cities and archaeological evidence are tracking it if you are interested.
https://googleearthcommunity.proboards.com/thread/8406/buried-structures-discovered-richat-structure
No the image isn't from the Fed, it's an alchemical image representing "As Above, So Below." Essentially the base thievery at the highest levels also presents itself at the lowest levels.
Hermes Trismegistus was a famous magician and sorcerer of ancient times in Egypt. He is sometimes considered to be the god Thoth-Hermes, but also sometimes supposed to have been just a powerful sorcerer. Bizarrely, the first time I heard of him was in a Batman comic book when someone mentions the name to Batman in the middle of a fight and of course Batman knows all about him off the top of his head..
PS - I knew one factory job could support a family of four and own a house and live in comfort 50 years ago, but the stuff about private planes is astonishing. Your own private plane only cost about a year's median salary? That's crazy. How much is the cheapest private plane now? $10 million? $20?
Cessna is basically the only plane manufacturer that survived through the inflationary period of the 70's. As people's income bought less and less many of these companies had to go out of business or shift their businesses to a different market.
The cheapest private plane in 2021 that you could buy was ~$2 million pre-tax.
Another powerful reminder of what's lost and how much is still yet to lose if we don't pay attention or pass it on.
This was a wildly eye opening post for me. Love the content! Best 10 bucks a month I've spent
The 3. Paradise Lost really stuck with me, any further readings recommended ?
If you're curious about the collapse in general aviation, you can mainly find it in blogs, quora, or talking to older hobbyist pilots and they'll all tell the same story.
https://www.golfhotelwhiskey.com/the-collapse-of-ga-aviation-at-two-airports-a-warning-for-the-industry/
https://www.quora.com/If-you-believe-that-personal-use-general-aviation-in-the-US-is-in-decline-compared-to-the-1970s-what-would-you-do-to-restore-it-to-its-former-glory
Ultimately, we in the west will often price ourselves out of a good time either through money printing or raising artificial barriers to entry to decrease risk. Both are tragedies IMO.
"A future where crypto is the primary means of exchange."
That's pretty vague. I assume there is only room from one blockchain to fill the roll of 'means of exchange' and 'unit of account' so which one? If it is a project that already exists than my hope is BTC.
In my mind crypto is not the point. The point is true division of money and state. Rules without Rulers.
Can crypto projects like ETH and Cardano promise that?
No that's not the case.
Interoperability protocols to connect blockchains will make crosschain payments and usage easier and cheaper as time passes. Suggest Re-reading the older Quarterly Crypto Macro posts. This past quarter's crypto macro post is coming, was just delayed due to additional events that occurred last week.
https://flirtcheap.substack.com/p/crypto-macro-q2-2022
Combined with basic oracle structure, I'd expect we'll see NFT projects mid-2023 that can natively accept onchain payments from several different blockchains without any off-chain servicing through the usage of light clients, and within 2-3 years would expect cross-chain integrations to be built into just about any new project. The concept of 1 winner in this space will be alien to us in only a few years. (which is why interoperability protocols will be the big winner of the next bull market).