"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus."

Ancient religious narratives are hijacking modern day geopolitical policy & statecraft according to Professor Jiang—the Chinese history teacher who thinks Bitcoin is a backdoor CIA operation.

Although his hot take on Bitcoin is woefully & laughably underinformed, I do wonder if he's right to predict that there's an epic clash-of-titans endgame waiting for us all at the end of history.

Real or not, like it or not, ready or not, religious myths have us all vice-gripped by the balls and they're not letting go anytime soon.

Here's his "Law of Eschatological Convergence" explained with cute blob egregores.

"Integrity is the capacity to affirm the value of life in the face of death, to be reconciled with the finite limits of one's own life and the tragic limitations of the human condition, and to accept these realities without despair."

Ding ding ding! @028559d218

Bitcoin is music.
Fiat is Muzak.

Insert apocryphal Steinbeck quote:

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Tetrodotoxin turns you into a “zombie” by slowing the body into a deathlike paralysis while consciousness remains trapped inside.

Fiat does something similar to societies.

Endless debt. Endless consumption. Endless anxiety.

Just enough consciousness to suffer. Not enough sovereignty to escape.

A monetary fugue state.

What stage of the military industrial complex is this?