I wanted to write a little something on what inspired me to start researching a lot into finance and the levers that control the world around us. I'm probably putting myself on some watch list just by linking this, but I think that what is written in the following article should be required reading for anyone who wants to know how markets and money are moved (and how politics are controled by these movements). I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I've always been a skeptic at heart in the spirit of Nietzsche, Adorno, the Skeptics (duh), Nassim Taleb and I might as well throw Plato in there while I'm at it. What these philosophers have in common is not that they have a pessimistic view of society and the future (I would exclude Plato and the Skeptics that label), but that they reject what douchebag Kant and all the Philosophers before him (and the dipshits after him who are still clinging to Enlightenment/Christian philosophical tradition) would call a priori truth, that vague truth that has been passed down from a higher being who, for his amusement, wants to see if we are dumb enough to follow it.
They reject what others believe as God given truths and look at EVIDENCE to seek truth. This might seems self-evident enough, but one can never underestimate how petty and stubborn the human race is and how concerned people are with being right (and, it should be mentioned, in promoting their own self-interests). Having said all of this, read the following for your own good, and if you're too thick-headed to understand, then I forgive you and will not command your God to smite thee. However, after reading part of the piece you simply skim through it and brush it aside, an eternity of hell where sodomy and fire reign supreme awaits you. ENJOY! (many thanks to Nathan Martin for exposing me to this material)
