I find something very interesting and pitiable about the young man featured in the article, a deep sense that he is looking for answers to big questions in the wrong place.

This is a common thing with "real estate people" it seems to me, whether agents or the whole buzz around the industry, something about the ownership of property does not complete a person and it is revealed in their faces and their words.

Fuck, this is good.

These are the kinds of questions I have been recently trying to explore with The Transformation of Value through the 3 themes of Freedom, Money, and Creativity.

Revolutions and zeitgeists have a visual and literary cultural element intertwined with them that goes beyond simply talking "about the thing" to instead expressing the human experience of that thing and its aspirations in a much more subtle way.

Why did Soviet Constructivism art look the way it did?

What do you think of when you hear 1980s popular music? What made it sound that way? What about the 1990s? Why did Taxi Driver or The French Connection come out in the 1970s and not the 1960s?

Why did the 1920s and 1930s have an art deco style of architecture?

Could Neuromancer or Snow Crash have been written any earlier?

If you think about the cultural artefacts they are always a "product of their time" and that means they feed into whatever changes are taking place.

For us, I think the broader cultural questions of money, sovereignty, freedom, the state, the transition into new political systems etc will begin to emerge not through the representative artwork of "21 million Bitcoins" or "songs about orange" but in subtle nods to a spirit of revolution, of saying "fuck off" to the Government, of opting-out from the system of citizen and government that has dominated for a hundred years.

I look forward to seeing films, architecture, music that is clearly and undoubtedly of the times of Bitcoin, but may never even mention the B word.

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@spiderman I'm planning a trip! Can you please email me? hello@thetransformationofvalue.com

Thanks. I am trying to do more writing these days.

I took the train to Fujisawa while reading The Man Without Qualities and day dreaming. Had lunch at D’s then wandered around the second hand store looking at the junk bins but just couldn't get into the mind of what it all means to have a fetish for objects like this.

What am I doing? Chasing dasein is tough work. I have had to get used to modern comforts. They are not something I grew up with in NZ.

@k00b Shout out to say I love using SN and wanted to see if you might be keen to catchup on The Transformation of Value sometime please?

Well put.

Sketches of unplaces.

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