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Poland gets its gold back from London.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/poland-repatriates-100-tons-gold-symbol-strength

Yes, its pretty … many stones are pretty … but what does gold do besides cause problems on a global scale? Yes, it is certainly useful
(I emphasize the word “useful” as in has actual applications) in electronics and as a lubricant in space machinery. Interestingly it also
reflects infrared radiation. But at the end of the day could it be that the “value” (supposed properties) of gold are determined by the
same method that determines the “value” (supposed properties) of the Emperor’s “New Clothes”? (The Method of Authority as a
method for the resolution of doubt)

As far as its use in “backing” currency … it seems a strange argument to claim that we are to believe that our currency has value because
these “stones” have value (certain properties) … and look, see how many of these stones we have and did we tell you how hard it is to get
these stones (particularly difficult these days it seems to get them back from people to whom we gave them for safekeeping).

Isn’t this just the case of using one fiat as proof of the truth of another fiat? Circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works
because … oh well you get the idea.

Closing lines of the episode “The last of four Rip Van Winkles, who all died precisely the way they lived, chasing an idol across the sand to wind up bleached dry in the hot sun as so much desert flotsam, worthless as the gold bullion they built a shrine to. Tonight’s lesson – in The Twilight Zone.”

Speaking of Idols … Francis Bacon – The Four Idols and F. Nietzsche – The Twilight of the Idols

Nietzsche here does in fact act in accordance with the subtitle of this text ( How to Philosophize with a Hammer). In Twilight Nietzsche
comes down hard on philosophers of my particular philosophic stripe (e.g. those who think there is something to the
notion of Platonic Forms). He argues that philosophers are the cause of the belief in a fictionalized apparent world. Philosophers serve
only to produce doubt about that which we claim to come to have knowledge of via the senses, and the result of this is the removing
of the availability of access to the real world by obliterating the concept of the real world.

… of particular interest in this text
How the “True World” Finally Became Fiction … according to Nietzsche …

The wise and pious man dwells in the real world, which he attains through his wisdom (skills in perception warrant a more accurate view
of the real world).
The wise and pious man doesn’t dwell in the real world, but rather it is promised to him, a goal to live for. (ex: to the sinner who repents)
The real world is unattainable and cannot be promised, yet remains a consolation when confronted with the perceived injustices of
the apparent world.
If the real world is not attained, then it is unknown.
Therefore, there is no duty to the real world, and no consolation derived from it.
The idea of a real world has become useless—it provides no consolation or motive. It is therefore cast aside as a useless abstraction.
What world is left? The concept of the real world has been abolished, and with it, the idea of an apparent world follows.