‘Bitcoin’ is an interesting example of the future of money. Bitcoin is a non-asset backed and non-state controlled money. With the Fed destroying the value of our money it comes as no surprise that we should start to see such experiments as these. I tend to be skeptical of such non-asset backed currencies, but it […]
Systemic racism, inequity, and rampant prejudice exist in America? Yes, absolutely! But it’s not caused by the reasons you may think. Want to actually fix the problem vs white-washing the symptoms? Here’s how: 1) Abolish All Racist Drug Laws 20+ million black Americans have been arrested for non-violent drug-related crimes. Whether or not they were […]
T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Sean Dempsey’s America, 2023 both confront the spiritual and moral decay of civilization, but they do so from opposite emotional poles. Eliot’s poem is elegiac: a whispered lament for a world hollowed out by inertia and disillusionment. His “stuffed men” drift without agency, trapped in the shadow between […]
