Watching Gold and Blockchain as the Empires Rise and Fall
The discussion explores the evolution of media, highlighting the transition from oral to print communication, and its impact on individual thought and societal structure. It emphasizes a current shift towards decentralized thinking, showing how trust in traditional systems is declining, resulting in a rise in gold's value. Future technological advancements aim to establish trustless trade.
They're in a pickle of their own fermenting. The BIS is freaking out over being accused of creating the very thing that is used to overthrow the current system that they, the BIS, rules over. Which they did, but it would have happened anyway. Bureaucracy cannot do vision. It couldn't foresee this.
Those with an advantage inside a closed system with a tilt in their favour do not want a level playing field. All players in all games want the higher ground.
BRICS has started their 2024 Summit in Russia. Putin has publicly greeted India's Modi with an overwhelming show of affection, to give the world the impression that they are so close they can be understood without a translator. The angle is that the US has an unfair monopoly, and BRICS has the power to create a new fair order for the whole world. That the US has already lost its power and the new order can come the hard way or the easy way - war or else accepting what the BRICS will put together to create a new order. China "took from the West almost everything it needed in the past decades." says this writer.
Elaine Diane Taylor 