La Plenitude

Here is some Australian music for you:

Well, actually, it is a collaborative effort between the lyricist and (American) singer, and the musical arranger and composer who goes by the commercial name of 'Elypsis' (happens to be a young Australian fellow).

Any American-Australian cultural link-up has the chance of some quite harmonic characteristics: both places are departures from the squandered British Empire, remnants of the types of people and personalities from that modern culture, mixed up with the very ancient and ineffable features of indigenous cultures (Aboriginal in one case, and American Indian in the other). I don't think the end results are 'all mixed up,' but rather they do find unique ways of blending the very old with the recent.

And of course, when we speak of British, we speak of Europe too; of 'Roman Civilization...'

'Plenitude' is the French expression used these days among the Champagne cognoscenti, to describe the three waves of 'fullness' in the aging of Champagne wine - I mean I would personally definitely use the same word for something like the mighty Penfolds Grange (a red wine), which also goes through these phases where the wine is said to be 'closed' and doesn't completely render its fullness of flavor potential.

'P2' - a second plenitude Dom Perignon (about 14 years old)

And I think we might do well to consider cultures such as the American, and the Australian, in a similar light to do with times and phases: we are, in my estimation, at the very beginning of a great Second Age of the post-British Empire 'modern' culture. 

On the one hand, living as an intellectual inside either of the American or the Australian culture is a highly isolated thing - there is a total lack of intelligence and thoughtfulness in both places, among the presumed 'leading edges' of society. There were early shoots in Australia during the time of Don Dunstan and Gough Whitlam and these were vigorously and quickly destroyed by both Left and Right sides of the political spectrum.

Where the 'destroyers' got things wrong - which they inevitably always do when it comes to these huge questions of great historic Epochs, really - is that they never themselves understood or fully grasped what the underlying economics of their cultures were all about. As indeed the modern Chinese will now also soon discover, that they too, are lacking in fundamental wisdom about economics.

And you can see this in recent idiotic remarks by people like Warren Buffet - who for years and years I told everyone I knew, was always but only living on the wisdom donated him by his early mentor, the great Benjamin Graham. Buffett recently called Bitcoins 'rat poison to the tenth power squared...' Or something like that.

In the modern world you have to specialize
in intellectual isolationism

This is just resentment speaking, it's not intelligence. And let me be the first person you ever heard say that Buffett is not now nor was he ever, quite the brilliant genius that everyone else makes him out to be...

The Bitcoin is unquestionably, at least it is in my mind anyway, because of its characteristic revolutionary, walk-away-from-tradition, very Australian vibe - the invention and creation, as indeed the current mythology is - of an Australian, some guy who called himself 'Satoshi' and who has disappeared off the planet. More or less.

The trouble with all those who want to decry digital cryptocurrency is that they fail to examine that it is functioning as money in the most ancient traditional way there is: namely, people use it in accordance with the obtaining technology of the day. And the obtaining technology is not paper, nor roads, nor buildings - it is electronics and iPhones and other similar gadgets.

Spears, boomerangs, woomeras - mollusk shell and paper-bark money. Buildings and vaults -  gold bricks and piles of paper.

iPhones and USB vaults - digital transaction tokens. Period. Bank it. It ain't happening any other way, sorry Warren. All money is rat poison, anyway; that's one of its standard definitions. Warren Buffett is an idiot. It's a waste of time listening to people like him - he's fixated about himself and about the past, which has moved by and gone now. Is he still rich? It simply doesn't matter. He will never be wealthy in tomorrow's world. He will be a constant loser, if he indeed even lives on for a few more years.