Beauty In The Midst Of Ruination

I constantly wrestle with whether or not I'm about to be irresponsible here on occasions. Just now I deleted a whole segment that I wrote but that I eventually decided, well hey, it's just not worth talking about any of this stuff. It's all so boring, really.

In short, I may summarize the deleted content by saying: 'you say Vallauris, and I say Puerto Banus...'

Says 'parody Tai Lopez': 'this is my new
Lamborghini - it's fun to drive it in Puerto Banus...'

Put it this way, if you think logically about some stories floated in the media, and by the media, sometimes they just plain don't add up to what they're meant to look like on the surface.

Over the last at least a year I have decided to go down a different path from what most people are treading in open public and even private, but topical, discussions.

To some extent I endorse the innocence of people like Tai Lopez - he's good for kids starting out. 

But I mean, I suppose if there are any readers here who are not that young, and not that naiive any more, they will want some meat and potatoes.

So let's talk gold 'for reals...' There has been a lot written about the matter in recent days, due to the drops in its price from this 'stuck' range of around $1200 - $1,300.

Gold is the physical central point denominator of per unit exchange value for the whole entire economic vista. And that is all it is, or what it is. China quanta of capital values down, the mid-point of all economies also down. 

Gold is not meat and potatoes of 'investment;' it is the cherry on the icing of the dessert.

A woman with substance

Investment is juxtaposition. The picture looks like one thing, and you find a discount on the surface obtaining value and invest there.

Sometimes, the use to an investor - or a buyer - of something, is to yourself alone. Hunter Valley wines are some of the greatest wines in the world today, but not that their prices will suggest it, and nor, necessarily will their future prices show the truth of it in hindsight. No. Propaganda and hype dominate the modern world, and will for some time to come. But substance, the 'meat' so to speak, cannot be the propaganda of anything.

It's an old investor adage - 'buy low, sell high.' But I say 'buy great and hold or use.'

Use is what makes something great.

Yes, power is great in certain contexts, and yes big money gives one power. But power... is force into mechanical balance, and sustained action is the absolute effect, of power.

Sometimes if you don't terminate a small force, which is in perfect mechanical balance, you'll pay a price if you ever need to oppose it later on, once it has cut vast swathes into your cloth.

A friend of mine once opined: 'you can't change it, money and banking and finance are the very fabric of society.' To which I laughed and replied: 'alas that is not the fabric you are looking at, my friend; that is the wing of the moth that has already eaten through the fabric a long time ago!'

And it works all ways. You can cut through the fabric of bankers too...

A prototypical Australian winery/restaurant scene.
King Salman doesn't drink Shiraz.

First you need to know what is great. Bankers have no clue. Neither do politicians, nor does the NSA nor the Israeli government nor even self-radicalized islamists, nor American theatre shooters for that matter...

But you do know what is great. Just don't let other people's hype or propaganda dissuade you from your path. They're all going straight to hell in a hand-basket. They even know it too but what they are doing is addictive. Watch out to step out of their way too. They're all going to be moving around like drunken sailors from here on in.