The Hidden Hand Of...?

A quick note on the comments posting facility: this was somehow disabled without my knowledge but has now been re-enabled - due to the alerting of a friend who reads here. Thanks to Bill - for that heads up. 

...It was 'almost as if a hidden hand had -,' et cetera.

Now moving on from previous posts, and particularly for those who are living in the United States, which is presently experiencing some marginal increases in domestic monetray circulation velocity, and some consequent pick-up in official rates of employment combined with the stock market holding its values close to all-time highs - something that needs to be watched very closely is 'economic diversity.' If this is not evidenced inside the domestic economy then there are extremely bad consequences later on down the track. 

The old Porsche style

You see it's the diversity that allows for broadening of monetary flows, and not just simple velocity increases down the same old paths - because there are upper limits to efficiency in any vertically-integrated channel, as there also are with horizontal channels if these are not part of a growing 'dendritic pattern.'

The whole thing about decadence and final collapse is that everything 'thriving' is bloated; functionless but sucking up ever larger amounts of capital. And then like all giants, they are top-heavy and can be made to keel over quite easily.

As investors we have to face the reality that somehow, the hidden hand of some occult intent, drew off the cash money supply by over-emphasis firstly of 'credit cards' and then 'debit or cash cards' and the abandoning of 'wage packets,' and next so-called 'cash reporting' requirements - and this has resulted in the total destruction of all kinds of economic activities inside the usual domestic economy: from sandwich bars and tea rooms, to milk shake bars and Avon(!)... ...all kinds of activities which largely used small amounts of cash as the medium of exchange, but which when multiplied out across the whole national economy, provided huge business opportunities and employment opportunities to many.

Effectively, modern politicians have actually destroyed the Western domestic economies of the world and replaced them with nothing at all.

Just A Conversation

The way I approach these blog-posts is that they are 'just a conversation between friends' or hypothetical friends, anyway. Some people I know personally, don't necessarily leave comments here and I speak with them regularly.

But even for those of you who neither leave comments or email and so on, the general intent of what I am saying is not supposed to be something set in stone and that 'no one can disagree with ever!' On the whole though, I'm sure you yourself have found that virtually every 'luxury channel' will refrain from open or outright criticism of any of the brands or subject matter of their content - and that is because they are, clearly, operating from the position of in some way acting for the brand or brands; promoting and marketing them in some respect.

These are just bottles you can buy - they are
'etched apothecary bottles' with clever words on them!

The trouble with this kind of myopia though, from the brand houses and their commercial supporters, is that regularly they literally bury themselves by digging heedlessly in some errant direction - they can and often have ruined their own brand franchise by their own bloody-mindedness to enforce some kind of change in style or standard of the brand and its product.

My own experience of people has been that ordinary normal people all have a very good sense of what 'high quality' is - they don't particularly need advice as such, probably only key information if it happens to be scant on that front.

I suppose one of the saddest things is that a significant brand or branded product has built up its strength over time, and the power in its value can last a long time, even when it is assailed by lessening standards or miscreant owners and managers. And the underlying presumption in this 'sad thing' is that it is all too often the case that whatever mentality is in management control of something often gets to that position in the first place entirely without genuine merit - and even institutions can be subverted silently over time and what is automatically taken on the outside as 'merit-based' is in fact a fallacious assumption to be indulging in by some observer.

You do not need me to tell you what 'things' you ought to buy!   

But how do 'the wrong kinds' get into power and control - of material things and organizations and human institutions of influence? Because everything that has a good or great reputation is desired after widely - and lusted after also by the most devious and miscreant. And they have no boundaries of ethics or morality. 

A lot of other, bottles...

The amazing thing about this universe, is that scattered in the dust, among the detritus and the rocks and flints, are things of staggering import and value and desirability - and that are undetected and unseen by the unworthy; and if they but knew, they would kill and stand over heads and bodies clambering to grasp.

I personally have no need to 'see' aliens arriving to hand over all this precious 'technology' they are presumed to possess  - and surely will possess, if indeed they had to 'get here' from some extreme distance away through space...

I do need to know where there are a half a dozen interesting, worthy, intelligent human or human-like individuals whose personality and character provide a suitable template - an example - we might use to guide our own thinking and style and styles of behavior.

Some Straight Talk

You know, what happens with these truly huge high end manufacturers and their marketing people, is that more often than not - and certainly in the Western part of the world - at some point they start to believe that 'they' (the current managers) are in control right now, and that therefore they are the sole reason for the brand's success...

And that would be just fine and dandy if they kept to the formula of whatever it was they were making - but no, they suddenly get this idea that any decision they make, and usually guided by what they imagine is rational economics, must be the right thing and no discussion about it is to be had. 

Another nicely-composed shot of the Aston 'Q'

Get them to change their mind about anything? Impossible. One of the most outstandingly absurd items ever to go into all the wrong places in high quality luxury vehicles - for example - is composite carbon fiber laminate. 

Now if you sit in modern examples of any of the great automotive marques - Jaguar, Aston Martin, even Bentley - the first thing you will notice and often even before the engine starts and the wheels roll, is the squeaking and creaking from the carbon fiber used structurally inside the cabin. The whole idea of carbon fiber in vehicles is that it combines incredible strength with lightness... Once again that is fine; except when you start to believe there is a limitless curve for vehicle weight, and that such a trajectory is in any case a permanently fixed objective - you end up with a racing yachting skiff for a road car, instead of a car at all, really, with all of the attendant rattles and squeaks.

Okay, you put up with the noises; I don't mind. But don't try to sell me on the carbon fiber 'cross-hatched' fake wood, or 'para-wood!!'

And you pay the money and you can go flying around streets and corners without due consideration for the consequences and risks of accident at high speed. Yeah, yeah, vorsprung durch technik has taken care of it... Not. Ordinary common *'ing whiplash will kill you or make your life terminally miserable. 

This is actually a new DB11 V8

Carbon fiber is rubbish when it comes to some 'ultimate material.' Like anything it has its own limitations - a LOT of them, in this case in fact.

So no, I won't be buying your Aston Martin today, Mr 'Q.'

And that there, about 'Q' - is me being about as straight as I could possibly ever be. Nod nod wink wink.

Secrets Of Carotene Degradation

Huh? What?

Yep.

1. What you are about to read are secrets.

A rose in the night...

And 2., because not a whole lot of people read this blogspot, they will likely remain secrets to the greater public for a while at least.

...But you know, huge big commercial operations at the very top understand some of these things that you are about to read here:

Do you know why people generally like the scent of roses? I'll tell you why - the chemicals that make for the threshold perception value (which happens to be very low, less than 1 part per Olympic-sized swimming pool) spur the body to make melatonin - which in turn increases the human brain's sensitivity to a vast range of positive sensations.

The actual chemical molecules that provide the characteristic scents (there are many of them all in a category broadly called Damascones, or Damascenones), are derived from the break-down of carotenoids. What also falls on the spectrum of these types of 'rose ketones' or rose scents, includes what makes tea pleasant - this chemical is also a Damascone molecule.

Now why is this important at all?

Well, now, the real secrets go beyond the simplistic kind of thing you are likely to read elsewhere. 

As you probably know, the most expensive and very difficult to acquire discontinued thing called 'Nombre Noir,' contains these Damscone molecules in abundance, and it also has some other clever compounds in its contruction that produce some effects in a person's perception - but you have to look at the art of the man who made the thing in the first place: he committed suicide when the major brand house of 'Shiseido' not only discontinued the line, but tried to re-call and buy-up/buy-back all the stock that was still out there unsold.

Art includes ways to trick the mind...

And 'the art' that I was referring to? Well, just look at the name itself; this man knew more than he said in any kind of open detail... The time that the human body produces the most natural melatonin is during the so-called true 'witching hour' between 3 and 4 a.m. Some people think the witching hour is just after midnight, but it is in fact just before 4 a.m. The reason people believe sunlight 'produces' melatonin is because increased levels of light raise the threshold of dark at which melatonin starts to be produced.

So yeah, Nombre Noir. It's about the night, about the dark.

Nothing Happened

The 4th of July hasn't ended yet, and it's barely begun in the US, so this is a bit premature but I'm not expecting anything to happen. Nothing has ever happened 'on schedule' or 'on cue' ever in the past as far as this type of thing is concerned, so I don't expect much will change now.

Okno space surveillance system in Tajikistan

...And certainly not just because I commented that there was traffic about some 'event' or 'incident' of an unusual nature going to take place on the 4th of July this year, 2018.

All the same, it's worthwhile noting that the famed 'Roswell UFO incident' is commemorated on the 4th of July - because William Brazel, a homestead foreman, retrieved materials from the supposed crash site on the 4th of July 1947, even though the actual crash was meant to have happened a week or so earlier. And I suppose this (4, July) is the important date because facts and hard evidence are the really significant things, aren't they - picking up some actual debris from the crash of whatever the thing was, was the most valuable thing.

Today, when there are so many cameras readily available to the hands of so many people just, well, everywhere - people can't get away with simply making verbal claims about something they saw: pics or it didn't happen!

And the next fact that requires to be taken into consideration is that there are hundreds of space surveillance installations - radar and radio frequency sensor arrays as well as sophisticated optical telescopes - all over the world run by governments.

Today, if anything turns up for real - we'll see it and get decent pictures too.