3 Minute Gold News – September 5, 2025

This isn’t just a rebooting of the financial system, or the evolving of a mechanical dog or flying drone.

This is the change of civilization, from warfare to economy, from thought and communication, to the transfer of value and ideas, and of power.

It’s not just how you see money or pay for your coffee, it’s how we group together and interact as cultures, how ideas are developed or supressed.

It’s not just how we envision the future, but how we can envision anything.

How we handle artificial intelligence and how it handles us.

Gold and silver are at all time highs because trust in the system and its leaders is at all time lows.

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Our journey as a human society swings on a pendulum as all systems do.

And for a brief moment when the voyage in one direction has almost exhausted its energy, it takes a pause, before returning back with a force that releases the energy concentrated until the tension can no longer contain it.

We had such a time when the medieval corporate world crossed to the individualism of the Renaissance.

See, the oral world is dynamic in that both parts, the speaking and listening/understanding are happening in real time. The audience is part of the creation because the instant reaction fuels the creation.

In the written world, the message goes from one-to-many in one direction, and the citizen’s mind is trained to absorb alone, to quietly decode the letters in order into words, sentences, phrases and messages.

The last swing of the pendulum saw the oral and written social organization mingled and pushed, causing a tension for the medieval person similar to what we are feeling today.

Humans have been the tool maker through time, creating extension of themselves, according to Claude Bernard, with a goal to disturb and disrupt the current way of doing things in order to shift an experience in their favour.

But, while rushing toward the new technology they are not able to act together for the best interest of every human. That is not nature’s way.

Nature moves in cycles and humans can make a rise higher or a fall more painful, but they cannot change the cycle.

Humans in a crowd and large group do similar things. The invisible force of a group pushes the people together, makes them do things they would not do alone, and then the tension is so great it must disperse.

But an individual does not have to move with a crowd. An individual is not predictable in the way a crowd is.

And that is the theme of everything I do.

What is the pattern and cycle, and how can I see a wider scope to position myself for a higher experience?

A closed system must nurture itself to survive. A family, a community, a nation, a civilization.
History shows that humans have moved from disruption to disruption, technology to technology, until it eventually leads to a society so complex that it cannot stay cohesive enough, and then blows itself apart.

Disruptive technologies create the rubble of the last one.

Here is an example of what is happening to us as humans on a grand scale.

We are not just passing through the change from physical to digital value and communication, from letters to email, from theatres to handheld device, from the movie screen hero to a plethora of tin cup gurus with their own loyal pennies.

No, no, we are experiencing that discomfort of the journey from one form of thinking to another.

Exploring a new land with strangers.

And strangers are unpredictable.

We are sentimental and look back to bring symbols of who we are forward in time. But we see it all at once now, in the electric light, off then on, all angles are seen, as Picasso painted.

Those who arrive first will have advantages unseen in history. Using automation, AI, instant transfer of value and knowledge without the troll on the bridge exacting a fee.

There may not be a remedy for those minds that stay in the mechanical mode. They will, most likely, just move to a new leader, not seeing their own expansive opportunities in this shift.

Some are set in their ways, some are winning in the current structure, and some have lost their reasoning skills.

Gutenberg technology had power in the uniform and repeatable process of many fragmented pieces working together as one.

The printing press took the processes and broke them into uniform and repeatable pieces,, which took the message of the writer from an oral one-to-one event, dynamic and changing as the listener validated or needed clarification.

And the message came to the citizen by phonetic repeated press. One copy of many. An internal process in the mind of the listener, of many listeners, countless ears and minds.

Receiving a message from an authority, who had the capital to create a book, became an internal and personal event, of quietly reading and decoding the words and phrases, and coming to an understanding of the message alone.

People themselves became uniform and repeatable. Their clothing choices became their uniform, signalling in the way printed words were decoded. And the assembly line was thus applied to all aspects of work and living.

We wear a ‘uniform’ to communicate which part of this larger system we function in.

We, the electric humans, are each developing what role we play in our societies, as the medieval citizen did.

While the mechanical human has a job – and wears a uniform – a separation and segmentation of function which serves the larger system.

Serves. Does not participate in creation.

And that. Is. the. difference.

Electricity, as Marshall McLuhan said, is biological and organic.

Electricity changes a state in an instant, while a mechanical process sees one part push upon the next until the desired result is met.

The electric society and mind sees a frame holding many things at once. It creates insight and ideas in an instant by pulling in other ideas from other places.

Not necessarily sequential.

Status can be obtained by an insight that delivers value to many, and not necessarily by a mechanical step-by-step climb up a ladder. And this infuriates a soul who has devoted their years to the drudgery of the rungs.

Science and academia is like this. They’re having a hard time making the leap.

But with people, history, repeating cycles, we see a larger cycle taking place.

The assembly line is one kind of strength. The process itself becomes a mechanism and each step gives up its individualism to become a part of a whole. It is necessary that one piece does not step out and try something new. The whole line would break.

McLuhan said in The Gutenberg Galaxy, that today’s electric age seems to render individualism obsolete and corporate interdependence mandatory.

What we are in is the confusion of living inside two contrasting forms of society and experience at the same time.

Medieval times was a corporate experience.

And then arrived the Renaissance, with a swing into modern individualism.

And the Elizabethans felt the swing from one to another.

Just as we are feeling it.

I feel it in the way I read academic literature, corporate literature and centralized financial literature with a mechanical mind in order to decode the value.

And yet, quietly in my mind I decode and learn. And at the same time I take that mechanically transported message and write a song, which takes the understanding and codes it in symbols. Transports it in words, metaphor, satire, and to make a point of empathy or understanding.

Hieroglyphs were written on many levels at once, with each layer of understanding speaking a truth or understanding, without taking from other. A reader’s understanding level spoke to them where they stood, without taking from those with more or less overall understanding.

I have been in the in between. I have won and lost fortunes, trusted and seen betrayal on repeat, until the wide eyed wonder at the world and its beauty and innocence was tempered out of a need to learn the lesson of a multi-layered experience.

That the world is fractal.

That the metaphor of a red flag, and the desire to not address it instantly because of the shiny green light leads to an unfortunate results.

Not just for me, but in fractal form to see the pattern for the larger whole.

A difference between a religion and a cult, is that you can leave a religion. A cult sees you as an enemy if you leave, and everything inside them seeks to destroy you in all ways, to prove that they were right. The fanatic denies their fanaticism because they reframe it as passion. But it uses the force of persuasion, the fear of rejection, to form a follower into a part of the mechanism. They use deception, withholding information you trusted them to carry and look after, and all is weaponized against you to destroy you. That is a cult.

The lesson?

To manage and track information in a transparent fashion. To manage and curate that which you are responsible for, and that which you will be on the receiving end of repercussions.

You must get faster at seeing the flags and either addressing or moving on.

It comes in the form of a religion, a relationship, a family, a business, a mentorship, and sometimes a nation.

All forms. You adhere to the mechanism, to the leader and their vision, and you give your resources to that goal. If you deviate or question you are now an embarrassment, and beaten down socially with accusations that are not investigated, or ignored and excommunicated. There is no fairness or fulfilling of delayed promises. You were not faithful to the end of their goal and you must be removed. A reason to not investigate an allegation is that the result could question the leader or the inner group. And so, the accusation must be magnificent in size, horrific in context, and unquestionable in the instant need to confiscate and obliterate. Your resources are absconded, and your contributions are attributed to another who is more faithful.

This is the cult group.

And it is fractal in nature.

Once inside, usually after a love bombing, validation and bonding, the member cannot now negotiate and loses their individuality. You are no longer a human, you are part of the mechanism, and your contribution is added to their goal, a mutual goal that somehow benefits the insiders and sprinkles to the mass followers in promises. And now you are withdrawing your wide eyed support.

So the fanatic is angry and more, they are embarrassed, and they are fearful that it will lead others away.

The human is driven by status. Either the desire to gain it or the fear of seeing it disappear.

The goal is options. Options come from power, and there’s more power in a group, the group as a mechanism needs all parts and a leader, and that comes from status.

The human will deprive themself of needs physical, emotional and social, if they believe they will attain status in whatever form they see as their society. The religious will deny their own benefit for a reward in the future, or the firm belief that to sacrifice for the good of all will bring them benefit.

The naive will trade for promises, if they see that what they hold isn’t enough for a fair trade of that on offer.

The abuse of power comes with the testing that each rising member experiences.

This is also fractal.

As in, how a person treats someone with no ability to give them something, is how they will treat you when you don’t have something they want. For the bad power manager, each transaction is a trade, a barter for power in the instant, and they cannot see that building an organic system is to their benefit if they cannot control the outcome.

If that person is sugar sweet to one who is new and offering their resources for the good of the vision, yet turns on a dime to one who asks a question or wants a transparent proof, then you have a red flag. Run. You will not get back what you invested without a fight to a metaphoric death. And they have more to lose.

Human nature and cycles control the society’s outcome.

We are just a part inside that wheel. You can subjugate a single naive cog, a single penny in a cup, but it can only go so far.

And so.

Back again to the theme of this little writing.

We are in the in-between moving from Gutenberg tech and life as a mechanism towards the next swing.

The next swing moves back to oral tradition, with a new twist, where the society creates as it listens, where ideas and value flow many-to-many instead of one-to-many, and the human does not just receive information like a hypodermic needle. It is as the scribes, who were writing and thinking and creating as they are copied.

And so we have the meme.

Understood symbolically and owned by no one and everyone.

The tension we feel geopolitically, financially, emotionally, relationally is all about this.

Those with power are positioning themselves to stay at an advantage in a world moving away from the drive toward globalism and centralized command, and is preparing (in some ways already beginning) for a decentralized world with many leaders, many different ways intertwined.

There’s a very small window if those who want to crush the individual will succeed in delaying, or else gain their own tiny tyrannical empire inside the next shift.

You see, mechanization is done by segmentation of each part of an action into a series of uniform, repeatable and moveable parts.

The piece of type. The soldier. The corporate system where humans are numbers and jobs are interchangeable.

But.

Here is the advancement in social development without the dehumanization of the citizens:

Automation.

Automation is the opposite of mechanization.

Automation is the P wave, as in an earthquake, instantly felt at great distance, without the S wave, which pushes one individual component against the next, but is upheaval along the way.

Automation is the center of the wheel where we are going.

Freedom to get onto new things.

Elaine~

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Edward T. Hall “The Silent Language” – “Money is a way of extending and storing labor.”