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Sep 1·edited Sep 1Liked by Sang Shin

I agree with your analysis. In the end, especially since Bretton Woods, the financial system has taken on fideistic characteristics, a bit like faith in God (faith without tangible evidence and a belief-based system). It is not for nothing that American banknotes say ‘In God we trust’. But we live in an era in which atheism and agnosticism are increasingly widespread, and it is not for nothing that gold continues to break records, driven by central bank purchases, starting with the Chinese one. I'm on the same page as you: such a financial matrix based on nothingness, together with a driven consumerism is bound to implode sooner or later, sparing no one. It is difficult to predict the impact of the historical moment when humanity will become aware that ‘God is dead’, and whether we will be victims of nihilism or whether we will be able to build new values.

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Once the Fourth Turning completed, we shall have a new paradigm and system - the question is, who gets to decide the design: there are major players jockeying for position as I type.

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Any clue?

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One would think a direct war between BRICs and NATO shall decide, but given the weaponry available it is not infeasible for a scorched earth outcome from which a new global order emerges from

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highly likely

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