The Money Spectrum

Young people coming onto the money making scene, do not have as much access to the old hands, that most of us, or maybe, some of us, had when we first entered the gunfight.

For me, it probably began all the way back when I was a juvenile, in the Penang Bazaars. I don't even know what it was, but I was a natural. I had grown up with the locals, totally spoke their languages, fully understood the idiomatic expressions, and was already full to the brim with the 'stories' that in theory I suppose, one acquired around campfires and heard from adults...

I'm not really sure I did get them from listening to adults around any campfires, however -, perhaps a few, and perhaps a few other 'lessons' and stories from listening from behind the sofa in the big lounge where they all took to the Johnnie Walker till late into the evenings.

But I think I had something in me from god-knows-where-or-when.

So anyway, let's forget all that and just go straight to today's lesson - a reading from the Gospel about Money, according to me...

Money forms a spectrum across the society. There are aspects of a continuum about it and we'll see that in a moment.

At one side, at the extreme, money is biggest by quanta and the least mobile - this is the end where property is the main kind of 'business' going on. You can place engaging in wars somewhere near there because there are aspects of the ownership of land and property to all wars.

On the other end of the spectrum is food - this is where the fastest velocity of money transactions, per unit human transactor of exchange, occurs.But this is also where the unit quanta is quite small. One bowl of noodles, 2 bucks times many many bowls (of noodles); whereas for 'super-tall buildings' - a billion squillion dollars per skyscraper, never ever sold to anyone in one chunk, in fact. A decent tall building, just 'falls down of its own accord' and you get to claim a lot of insurance money then.

Shanghai - Oriental Pearl Tower

This is the human race. This is what it does, and how it 'thinks,' or claims that it is thinking, at least. One could argue, that not a lot has changed since Pharaoh (Or Enoch or ET Aliens, whichever you like) constructed the pyramids. An advancing species? Progress? Hmn... Don't think so.

Scratching down one more level deep, one might propose that 'technology' is also a 'money thing,' but here, we run into a difficulty about value and value exchange and actual transactions: because we all suppose that 'knowledge' is freely to be had. Sure Pythagoras was supposed to have these private students to whom he imparted the secrets of his mathematics and geometry, but that is another 'story' lost in the mists of time.

Big tall buildings provide a long slow 'gratification' over a very long time-span. Food, provides a very quick sense gratification, over a quick time-span. So does alcohol. It makes you feel good, in a few seconds - alcohol does. 

What does Xi Jinping feel, when he stands upright, and get driven past rows and rows and long streets of soldiers and deadly weapons arrayed for his inspection?

I don't know. I'm not Xi.

From what we can learn from his speeches, his mind has deluded him into actually believing it is his destiny, to rule the world, and to be the Ruler Under All Heaven.

He feels he is important because he can damage a lot of things and people must respect him.

As far as 'money' is concerned he has an unlimited supply because there is no test of currency value right now, and he can print as much as he wants and he can direct it wherever he will.

South Indian Fish Curry

One 'issue' with the human race is, it has no clearly-agreed and widely-admitted and obvious means to perceive the existential nature of any thing it cannot 'see' with its own material senses. And this means, such things do not exist - to the materially observing scientist.

So today, if I take this one example, and show you what the Wikipedia says very confidently about it (IE it is the matter of the 'squaring of the circle' problem in mathematics), here is what it says in there, and you can easily look it up yourself:

"Squaring the circle: the areas of this square and this circle are both equal to PI. In 1882, it was proven that this figure cannot be constructed in a finite number of steps with an idealized compass and straightedge."

I mean, hey, they are really certain about it, eh? Look at the confidence, the strength of the assertion in the tone of language used.

So, five minutes after someone demonstrates that it can be, however (not that I'm saying it is possible), what does that mean, the thing never existed beforehand; IE, it was existentially non-existent? Or was it just that the human mind never saw it, but it was existent?

I am not personally aware of what the point would be, to be able to construct some 'squaring of the circle' in this simple way. Perhaps if it could be used to make a tall building disappear, or some food appear, then maybe some really clever human would start to display the reality of 'squaring of the circle...'

And by the way, even the statement of the problem itself by Wikipedia is false. The problem is not so much that of 'can you construct from a square a circle with same area,' but that of can you double the surface area of any given circle using a compass and straightedge. 

Who cares, though. Right?

The human race... Something sloppy in their brains.

So economic value in the monetary sense, goes from gross (property) to small (food) and from then, it may even extend further, like to small grains of sand until whatever the material physical thing was at that ultimate phase changed state altogether...

And then, because your senses were not able to 'see' and to register in your material physical brain, what that changed state matter was, it would not exist, right?

You see, this is an epitaph.

For sure, one day Xi will be dead. And then what? At maximum, if you just go by actuarial science, he has at most thirty odd years left.

But you see, there are some of us, who 'don't know or cannot say' just where they got the Penang Bazaar acumen from... If you see what I mean. And I can still kill you today, same as I can do thirty years from today. But you don't believe that because it ain't recorded in Wikipedia, which fell down in the last shower of rain and was not there when whoever built the pyramids built them. ; )

So okay then you geniuses - which movie: