The Mandibles is an excellent book, but one part it got dead wrong is predicting the US would be less competent than the rest of the world, drifting into obsolescence by clinging to the dollar while everybody else moves on to the bancor system. What we are seeing in reality is the opposite. America is dirty, but it’s the cleanest dirty shirt in the laundry.

“I remember a story about a conversation at a dinner party, where it was in England, and all the people were discussing what they thought was going to happen after death, whether they would simply be extinguished, or whether they'd be reincarnated, or whatever kind of thing. And present at the dinner, there was a very respectable country squire, who was on the vestry of the local church, very pious. And finally, the hostess said to him, ‘Sir Roger, you haven’t said anything in the conversation this evening. What do you think is going to happen to you when you die?’ He said, ‘I'm perfectly sure that I shall go to heaven and enjoy everlasting bliss, but I wish you wouldn't raise such a depressing subject.” — Alan Watts, On GK Chesterton

What I love about sci-fi/fantasy novels is their tendency is to keep asking ‘What next?/What came before?’ until you’ve witnessed the entire creation, destruction, and rebirth of a cosmos.

The great thing about British Common Law is that it is common sense. Most people are fine with obeying the law so long as it is right and just. Problems arise when laws and law enforcement are unjust, as we are seeing today in the modern UK.

#Bitcoin is the way out.

One may interpret the “I” and “me” in this verse to be the inner Self of the World (aka: Brahman) which dwells within each of us. Tat tvam asi. View quoted note →

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” — John 14:6 (KJV)