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Podcast: Thorsten Polleit
Episode: Ep. 230 | J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S ‘ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL’: A SINGLE WORLD FIAT MONEY
Description: Tolkien’s Rings of Power embody evil ideas. The nineteen rings represent the idea that the ring bearers should have power over others and rule over them. And the One Ring, to which all other rings are subject, embodies an even darker idea, namely that the bearer of this master ring has power over all other ring bearers and those ruled by them; that he is the sole and absolute ruler of all. The nineteen rings symbolize the idea of establishing and maintaining a state (as we know it today), namely a state understood as a territorial, coercive monopoly with th...