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Hugh Hendry Eclectica

27 Feb, 12 tweets, 3 min read

Looking back, i constantly bang myself for spening too much time living in the future - what the legendary James Dines referred to as a lower state of being, a dog of doom perhaps? When everyone knows that the greatest wisdom comes from being in the present, the yogi Ohm...right?

Fake Bono...

Better a life spent wrestling with reality, in the here and now, rather than conspiring with an imaginary hypothesis? But then i read Schopenhauer again and as a committed fantasist my spirits soar, for he reminds me that you might call this celebration of NOW a common falsehood

...when such precious moments ceases to exist - POOF! - like a dream - as they must surely do - they're gone forever. Hmm...can a life spent with such transitory sensations really be worth serious effort? Or am I channelling too much Zenos and the art of proof by contradiction?

I'm reminded that the purpose of pursuing paradox, if properly conducted, is to to demonstrate that one's imagined realities, that if they succeed in coming to fruition, that they create situations yet even more absurd...vive la révolution...or beware the revolt?

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So I'm left with mere transitory images of BTC briefly flirting with 60k. With @RaoulGMI committing himself to a life of serfdom - his beloved s-curve fancy - declaring his fealty to his feudal lord that he believes has only just started it's ascendancy to vanquish our fiat world

And what about me and my imagined reality of T's yielding negative rates? Just think of how absurd the world might need to turn to invoke such a reality. I bet you won't be reading much about that world in the financial press for some time. Enjoy the fantasy of the bond vigilante

Talking of which, or not?, I got a new weekly podcast video posted on my Youtube channel "Confessions VIII April/May 2003 - Celtic Football Club and Chase Coleman's $3 billion pay packet" - you want absurd? I'll give you absurd...

But back to the present - to NOW - transitory perhaps, but I'm off to the beach...

I did love Dines though...you know he used to book beautiful models to accompany him to the financial conferences to which he was invited to speak at...such audacity framed against a grey world...I had diner with him once in California but the best hero's are the dead ones...

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