You Know It Too

It's plainly silly to carry on as if you can't realize or accept that digital 'virtual' currencies are here to stay. They are here, and they are here to stay. Why do we even need to spell out the 'why...'

Paper (actually, literally 'pieces of something') money is strictly a local circulation item; and that is what they always were really, in any case. 

On the one hand the internet is littered with people proclaiming various (frankly all fairly similar) ways to make a lot of money, on the other hand you almost never will see someone explicitly telling you precisely how they actually did it, or demonstrate to you that they are doing it in front of your eyes.

It's sort of a tuxedo, isn't it

For all the years that I have been in the money business, either in government positions early on, and then in private banks, and eventually just in business for myself, I have never seen the exact same way (of making seriously sizable money) duplicated by different people - it's very idiosyncratic, as far as I have been able to observe.

Millionaires - that is, actual self-made ones - are very rare. And what one of them will do is characteristically different to what the next will be inclined to do. Sure, there are obvious basic management tools they pretty much all use, but that is always confused typically by accountants and not-hands-on observers for the generative acts and thinking which actually creates the money in-flow.

It's all about personality.

At least that's what suggests itself to me, having watched a lot of people make money from scratch.

But let me show you one of the reasons for the confusion about what goes on in these cases:

We live in a world absolutely filled with 'substitution' phenomena. It looks like 'it' and so it is it... Not.

It's a modern photograph, but it's still
printed as a 'black & white'

There is no way anyone who grew up knowing what Chanel No 5 originally was, is going to be convinced that what you pay atrocious money for now is really 'Chanel No 5' as it was. You pay for the packaging, the 'official' name on the bottle, but that's all. You're being passed off with a false product in every possible way - and yet it's possible I could get sued for even saying this, regardless of the simple fact that what I'm saying cannot be argued against rationally. There is simply not sufficient raw ingredients in the world to be able to make actual 'Chanel No 5' in the volumes required by today's market - and so the producers make what they convince themselves is an adequate substitute for the real thing.

And as time goes by, fewer and fewer people are around who know what the original version of a thing might have been, with the consequence that Wikipedia, for example, is just a pack of gibberish when it comes down to it in many many instances.

Another stunning example of cultural illiteracy, and yet one that is rather 'modern cultural' is the so-called Ice Cream Sundae. What you get looks like what the thing is imagined to have originally looked like, when the lower classes walked past the huge glass windows in early last Century New York Manhattan district where hotels like the Knickerbocker were (and still are in that case). But apart from that visual rough similitude, there is nothing that is authentic about what you are getting.

As you know (well I hope you do know) Pierre or maybe his son Griswold Lorillard either invented or caused to be invented, the Tuxedo, and its color is blue not black. Black and White photographs give the unguided observer the idea that the thing is 'black.' You might as well say the jacket er, was potentially sepia too, on that basis!

And the Martini, invented by Martini di Arma di Taggia, of the previously-mentioned Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan, is NOT made from dry vermouth and gin. And nor is it made from sweet vermouth and gin either.

It is made from the combination of sweet AND dry vermouths, and the best quality gin. And it was made in 1912 for the tycoon John D. Rockefeller. 

A real Martini - has the same hue as a natural colored chill-filtered
Scotch Malt Whiskey

I mean the whole point of being in a 'higher society' and having the use of great wealth, is that the experiences you can sustain are (are able to be) very sophisticated and even you might say, complicated.

There is no call there for 'substitution racket' tactics because of 'austerity!'

In the same way, I personally have exact and correct knowledge of how a genuine authentic 'Knickerbocker Glory' Ice Cream Sundae is made, what goes in it, and how it is constructed and what the juxtaposed components to it all are. I mean it's not a question of some cream and sugar and a few colored syrups and some nuts.

Let me tell you, the experience is TOTALLY, COMPLETELY other than what you may have been informed that it is, or was, or is supposed to be. And I think, as I look at widely spread information resources, the exact number of people in the whole world today who know what this thing REALLY is, might be critically low to be able to carry forward the actual knowledge in the hands of human society into the future. 

You will read in many places that 'no one recipe for the Knickerbocker Glory exists as far as we understand...' Well that is just complete ignorance. The Knickerbocker Glory is exactly only ONE and a very PRECISE set of ingredients constructed in a very exacting way which allows for warm and freezing elements to be present when the dish is served.

And there are alcoholic and chemical ingredients entailed as well.

It's pretty close, it's not exactly right - which means even
these people don't actually know what they're doing... They
know what it looks like - they don't know what it is.

Just like the genuine chocolate I was a little earlier telling you about, that you can get in Switzerland, there are sensations that result from this 'ice cream sundae' that are very cleverly organised. There are so many 'tricks' and subtleties about high Epicurean arts as they were reset by the French cooks of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries - that all in all they constitute as it were, a book of magic or sorcery with genuine secrets and rites of entrance demanded before anyone can reach the upper levels of what is there. 

I mean, just handing a girl of age or woman a straw with a glass or small bottle of Champagne is meaningless to modern classes - and is very sinister in the hands of the knowledgeable rake.

And so, if we end our epistle on the vulgar subject of money and how to really make it, at last, we ought to be able to accept that in fact money is neither 'vulgar' nor is it in the province of the lower classes, to be able to make. Sure they can seem to have it for a while, and indeed they swim in oceans of it as if they own it and are the gods of the seas. So too with banks and governments.

What a laugh.

Money is a most sophisticated thing. It is entirely outside of the province of governments and bureaucrats to comprehend. They are, by contrast, the victims, of it.

Always this is so. It has been so right throughout human history from as far back as Crassus and even before him. It was so with the Weimar Republic. It was so with the French Revolution. It was so with the Russian Revolution. It was so when the Japanese made 'banana money.'

By victims, I mean they burn and they die. Like actual victims - well in fact that is what I'm saying they authentically are. I mean they authentically burn and they die - and that's including all banks but you won't believe me right now.

Come back and talk to me right here five years from now.