The more the assets value is predicated upon on some kind of, i don't have a great word for this, but hypothetical r to put it in very reductive terms, not predicated on solid cash flow, the more the asset is subject to frenzy. What i notice about companies that are basely cryptic and aim to hold a dollar peg is that those who claim they'r going to make money easily go bust. And what i eventually want to get to is a very nacent theory that i'm still thinking through these days, about what assets are subject to this sort of metic frenzy and what aren't. I'll give you another one. Tize in nicely with the assets
Johnathan Bi started out getting trained in Mathematics, and then eventually went on to study Philosophy and Computer Science at Columbia. He hosts a lecture series on René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and is also a founding member of Lonsdale Investment Technology. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Becoming pessimistic with age
- Humiliation always comes back to bite you
- How Jonathan got introduced to Buddhism and Girard
- Why Jonathan left academia
- The driving human emotion
- Has modernity ignored the “spirit”?
- Girard’s apocalyptic predictions
- Wild, wild west of capitalism
- The mystery with the discovery of the skull
- What does eugenics say about science?
- Science becoming dictatorial
- Buddhism figuring out the inner telescope
- Physical vs. metaphysical desires
- Mimesis in asset valuation
- Price to magic ratio
- Nietzsche's will of power
- Is delusion bad?
- Can internet lead to greater violence?
- “The Buddhist Solution”
- Girard—A rescuer of spirit
- And MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- The Struggle for Recognition; by Axel Honneth
- Sapiens; by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
- The Origin of Species; Charles Darwin
- Untimely Meditations; by Friedrich Nietzsche