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6 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
--"What do you think made gold become money?"- Jeffrey Swann @AgoristView

1) Metal Commodity Money (money proper): scarce, non-perishable, universal signal good(luxury), consistent weight and volume, unitizable, countable, trade-markable (warrantable), ...
2) ... re-trade-markable (melt, re-stamp), standard of weight and measure -THEREFORE STATES CAN PAY SOLDIERS.

And states can construct, defend, tax, and regulate MARKETS.

And POLITIES can increase economic velocity (reduce friction) by converting agricultural goods to money.
3) Gold was valuable but not 'money'. But did not require refinement. And too expensive for use as money. So it was just a commodity. Silver required refinement. The first money was electrum. But any metal will do.
4) The honest question is whether gold, ever in history served as money - and the answer is "no". Gold coins were too expensive, and served as money-like commodities, only liquid in certain conditions, just as they do today, because the value is too high, and liquidity too low.
5) Bitcoin in the Financial Produce Hierarchy

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5. Add P-Law's evolutionary history of man and population groups (adaptation), the evolution of civilizations, the evolution of art, the evolution of technology.
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1. The European Religion: Epicureanism vs Stoicism: All classes have different degrees of agency and resulting differences in responsibility. However, all people require mindfulness within the limits of their agency and responsibility.
2. The Epicurean Program is the west's scientific and verbal analog to the Buddhist unscientific and experiential method of obtaining mindfulness, and the west's lower working and laboring class religions.
3. The stoic program is an analog of the Confucian program, of middle, upper middle and lower upper class people, have greater agency, work in business, politics, or war, and cannot insulate themselves from the struggles of doing so.
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Ukrainian Revolution
1.Mass Assembly in near the govt. bldgs.
2.Barricading the roads with tires, filling them with rubble - bulletproof.
3.Small number of nationalists fight, take buildings. "visit" police, politicians, at home.
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This delegitimization has an immediate effect on military and police, the bureaucracy, formerly neutral population segments, radicalizes sympathizers, and most importantly, the international community - in which the govt immediately loses all soft power and can't function.
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"Gaslighting" means questioning your sanity because of a failure of your sense perception. I does not mean falsifying your ideas or beliefs you depend upon to explain your model of the world, on terms you can understand, with your ability, background, and knowledge.
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1.Western civilization is based not on harmony but on ADVERSARIALISM. Adversarialism allows boys and men to constantly adapt and innovate and discover their value in a hierarchy on a team. Women removed adversarialism for girls, and the state for 'minorities'. That's the problem.
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3. So in pursuit of harmony (not finding the place that you can add value to the hierarchy of the team) we create people who are incompetent, overconfident, destined to fail in the market, and destined to hate the civilization's false promise to them.
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