The lack of money is the root of all evil. -MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain’s Notebook I was explaining Bitcoin in an econ class the other day, and that drove home an idea that I’ve been thinking about for a while. That is the value of our money is based on a shared delusion. The delusion…
Author: Robert Emond
All That Lives Must Die
Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Hamlet, Act I, scene 2 Death. Americans in the last part of the 20th century feared it more than anything (and we Americans are a very scared group of people). We fight it and hide from it and send all thoughts…
The Spiritual Poverty of the Rich
The 1% are in the news, and everywhere you turn people are talking about them (mostly themselves talking about themselves). The greed and selfishness they exhibit is staggering and disheartening: The latest is the idea that rich should have more say in government than the poor, put forth by a crazed rich white dude, “You…
I Was Your Bitch, Fear, But Now the Tables are Turned
“Fear is the mind-killer“, fear has kept me from writing from my heart and soul for years now. “Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration“, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of no one listening, fear of too much popularity, fear of sounding stupid; has kept me from starting this blog about religion…
