The Golden Compass and the Lunar Flux
"The Golden Compass and the Lunar Flux" traces a five-hundred-year fracture line running through Western monetary history — and through the visionary poetry of William Blake.From the 1717 Newton Mint ratio that fixed gold against silver at a rigid, "sleeping" 15.21:1, through the 1797 Bank Restriction, the 1816 turn to a golden "Single Vision," and across the Atlantic to Alexander Hamilton's bimetallic synthesis, the Crime of 1873, and William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" — this book reads bimetallism's two-century collapse as more than economic history. It argues that the slow draining of silver from circulation under Gresham's Law is the same structural pathology Blake dramatized in his prophetic books: the tyranny of Urizen's rigid, atomistic measurement over the living, fourfold multiplicity of value.Weaving monetary history — Flandreau, Redish, Del Mar — together with close readings of Blake's relief-etched cosmology, the book proposes his poetry as both diagnosis and remedy: a vocabulary for resisting the "chimeric measurement" of modern fiat and debt-compounding finance, from the gold standard's collapse through the 2020s resurgence of monetary federalism.A work of interdisciplinary synthesis for readers of monetary history, Blake studies, and the philosophy of value alike.Includes PDF, EPUB, and DOCX formats.Keywords: William Blake, Bimetallism, Gresham's Law, Monetary Ontology, Structural Finance, Alexander Del Mar, Monetary Federalism, Relief Etching, Fourfold Vision, Alchemy of Money, Active Inference, Expected Free Energy
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