RE: Book Review - The Bitcoin Standard & The Fiat Standard
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Chicanery -- a new word in my vocabulary! I have to learn it, lol.
a centralisation of power in recent times, the say power corrupts absolutely.
so true.
If you do not watch or read the news, then you are not affected
so-so. nowadays you cannot live in a box, cannot avoid interfering the socium.
controlled ... but by the food supply.
so many ways to control. this is one of them - but not the only one.
why the system is the way it is.
yeah. they key question, of the key ones... 'money > power > corruption' is one of the answers. probably there are more elements of the puzzle.
Scientific psychologists in the 2nd half of the twentieth century conducted many interesting experiments delving into human nature, his psyche, socialization, studying the nature of violence, and so on. the “traditional” society, which preserved its way of life, was destroyed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; a huge layer of enlightened, cultured people, including elites, especially in Europe, was destroyed in the 1st World War. accordingly, after that a new building of the social structure was built - and it turned out as ugly as it is, it was not built from scratch, of course, but taking into account the above. and then it mutates according to the laws of society - taking on more and more uglier features.
I see it apparently like that...
(For me, for example, the key, relevant, most important and hot, and also painful, question is how in Russia, freed from the power of the Communist Party, instead of a democratic society governed by people, there was a return to the dictatorship of violence and the “tsar”. Other countries and parts of Empire - more distantly located from "the heart of the evil” - more or less did not repeat this mistake... )
PS. @OCD a while ago had this nice initiative for rewarding good comments activity on the blockchain, but I doubt any curators will pay attention for our little pleasurable discussion, heh. Lets share a consolative !PIZZA.
It is certainly an interesting period in history and it looks as though some huge change and transition of power occured. I don't know too much about the Russian history though and why it is the way it is. I have a few books further to read from the period and have read about the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which is quite enlightening.
My biggest regret is that I did not complete the Trans Siberian Railway trip, that would have been nice to explore some more. I would particularly like to visit Siberia and some of the northern most parts of Russia.
Me too. that is not a dream, but would be a super cool thing and life experience. I know that David Bowie did it, in late 70-es or maybe early 80-es (as a private person), I dont remember exactly the year... It is not even that hard / impossible / money consuming for a Russian citizen, who has a moderate salary paychecks.
One year ago I stumbled upon a very funny book (tho I doubt it has an EN translation). The title is 'Mishaherisada' by Michael Veller. It is a very cool supposed to be biographical but probably not at all, not sure what % of it is pure fiction ;) but the plot is: young Russian student back in the soviet epoch, late 1960-es, made a bet with friends that during the summer holidays he would travel from St. Petersburg to Kamchatka peninsula (look where it is on the USSR map!) - completely free of charge, without spending money. AND HE DID IT!!! It’s extremely pleasant reading... even if the story is not 100% true. Of course, it’s completely impossible to repeat it now - another time, another era...
!PIZZA