The Frontier

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy administration withheld news of Soviet missiles for a week to prevent panic.

The myth of George Washington's cherry tree is itself a lie invented to promote the virtue of honesty to children.

He contends the 1940s, not the 1970s, is the correct historical analog for the current debt and inflation predicament.

In the 1940s, the Fed and Treasury coordinated to peg the 10-year yield at 2.5% instead of fighting inflation with rates.

The government then managed 1940s inflation with price controls and consumer rationing for a wide variety of goods.

Reported inflation fell to 1% under those controls, then spiked to 15% after their release, allowing debt to be inflated away.

Lepard cites Executive Order 6102, where the US government seized gold directly from bank vaults, as a risk of centralized custody.

Mitra describes the last antibiotic century as a 'bubble,' noting humans lost the war against bacteria for hundreds of thousands of years prior.

History is often steered by a small, empathy-deficient minority on the narcissistic or psychopathic spectrum, says Pitt.

Post-WWI Persia was a chaotic proxy war zone between Britain and the Soviet Union, not a unified nation-state.

The British Empire used southern Persia as a strategic base to fund the anti-Bolshevik White Russian forces.

Britain’s core interest in Persia was maintaining cheap oil for the Royal Navy, not preserving Persian sovereignty.

The central Qajar government under a teenage Shah was powerless, with a national army that evaporated when called to fight.

The Persian Cossack Brigade, a hybrid force of Persian soldiers led by White Russian officers, became the country's only viable military.

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company operated as a state within a state, bypassing Tehran to negotiate directly with local tribal sheikhs.

APOC decentralized Persia by stripping the monarchy of revenue, making deals with local powers who could protect its infrastructure.

By 1921, Britain sought a cheap local strongman to secure oil and block Soviets, as maintaining a permanent garrison was too costly.

This British need for cost-effective control set the stage for a coup to replace the Qajar dynasty with a compliant military dictatorship.

Bill Thompson describes 'rendezvous' culture as a radical, spectrum-based rejection of modern technology that goes beyond historical reenactment.

The culture uses 1840 as a hard cutoff, marking the end of the peak mountain man fur-trapping era.

Brain tanning creates leather by grinding an animal's brain into a water mixture to break down the hide's fibers.

Thompson notes the biological coincidence that every animal contains exactly enough brain matter to tan its own hide.

The resulting brain-tanned leather achieves a softness that modern chemical processes struggle to replicate.

Strict 'juried' events enforce total pre-1840 fidelity, banning modern stitching and inspecting gear for authenticity.

Participants use mules for transport, traditional archery for hunting, and camp names to shed modern identities.

Post-Cold War collapse saw US submarine manufacturing lose 90% of its workforce as production plummeted, creating a generational gap in skilled trades.