I agree that crypto currency is a good idea but who controls cyberspace. It is big corporations like google and the like. Do not forget that there is no motor that runs on atmospheric vacuum. The whole thing could be stopped by shutting off the power. We must find people who can build the tools to prevent them from pulling the plug.

Crypto currencies still require power grids and information grids to run. Gold/silver doesn't. That's why I'm still not sold on them. Except Doge Coin. I know. I'm going to invent one called Sharknado Coin. Who's in?

Interesting read. Much to learn. Thanks for the post.

Hello Gulchers, Long Time Since I Comment or Read

Mr. Global, in my opinion, is doing fine. Especially now that Trump has left the building. Personally, I don't like globalization and I applauded Donald Trump's intention to reclaim and found US Industry. But, as we all know, the president hasn't been behind the wheel for decades now. The permanent government employees and Chief employees are, and they respond to someone's agenda. Having said this, neither Bush senior, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama or Trump have had significant differences in their overall terms. If you don't agree, don't waste your time answering or reading further.

Whatever persons or governing elite drive the USA well, I believe they drive the entirety of the western world as well (including the americas, europe, Africa, the Middle East, and of course Japan and South Korea). So no, globalization is doing fine. Russia, China, North Korea, and few else are run by the Russian Mafis, the Chinese Mafia, the Korean Mafia, and the same elite that runs the western world. So you see, there is a New World Order going on. But it started centuries ago...

This Coronavirus or COVID 19 is no raw bat syndrome if you ask me. It's a Lab Experiment that went haywire or worst, a Chemical Weapon unleashed on the Chinese to eradicate that population bomb and shift the world's economic axis. Whatever the cause and party responsible, they failed. The Chinese Government quickly isolated and contained this outbreak and today are probably the best country in dealing with this issue, second only to Russia.

We'll see what happens during the rest of this third decade of this new millennium. But between global warming, COVID 19 and the world economic crisis it seems there is no time or need for war, and that's a good thing I say.

I like that concept - by shrugging, I am rejecting and by rejecting I am truly rejecting.

The linked blogger has no clue about Atlas Shrugged, which does not mention globalization (of the economy) because it had not been attempted or even planned for in 1950. It does mention, and rightly rejects, a government-run monopoly "science" establishment but that's a different thing entirely.

As far as Galt's Gulch, no, there wasn't any network of that sort of community and it would kind of defeat the purpose of GG, which was small-group self-reliance designed primarily to hide the residents' very existence from government, lest the government force them to go back to work for the corrupt system. (This site is an admirable way to try to help people build something like one, but if anyone posting here tried to go as far as Galt did they'd get investigated and shut down, at least if they were in the US or recruited any citizens.)

As for crypto currency, I don't trust it. It shares fiat money's main disadvantage of having zero intrinsic value, while not even having legal tender status to make up for the lack. All crypto currencies will eventually be worth zero, probably sooner than fiat.

I have had an ongoing conversation with Jeff for a couple of months. He is an interesting character but has a unique outlook for a Canadian. He is based just outside Toronto and has an extreme interest on what goes on in the US.