epsql on Nostr: A great book overall! It also caught my attention as I read it, but it became even ...

A great book overall! It also caught my attention as I read it, but it became even more interesting when I stumbled upon the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson around the same time:

"When simplicity of character and the sovereignty
of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of
riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, — and duplicity and falsehood
take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of
the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words
are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed,
when there is no bullion in the vaults."