First of all, an interesting detail, especially as a Bitcoiner: The word 'era', which stands for an age or for a period of time, comes from the Latin 'aera', actually 'duration of a currency', originally 'ore' as the basic material for coins. A very telling fact in my opinion.

My drawing is divided into three segments, each symbolic of a monumental period in human history - an era - beginning with the post-medieval period.

First, at the very bottom, I wanted to depict an inventive, explorative, but also power-hungry man - especially from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution (IR): the heyday of modern man.

In the middle I'd like to show the effects of the IR and the beginning of money supply expansion, starting in the 2nd half of the 18th century, which was characterized by exploitation, slavery and child labor, as greed for profit abolished morality altogether.

Lastly, the upper part is dedicated to a real, sustainable solution to numerous, profound problems built up over centuries, as well as grievances in many facets of human existence and coexistence. It is called Bitcoin.

The history of the early modern period covers the time from ~1500 to ~1800. This period is delimited by events and processes that are considered significant for our own present. Let the modern era begin with the invention of book printing by movable type around 1440.

The conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the so-called ‘discovery’ of America in 1492, the reaching of India by sea in 1498 and the beginning of the Reformation in 1517. All of this was of far-reaching historical significance and in some ways continue to shape our lives today.

Among other things, it is these topics that are of particular importance in the study of early modern history. The growth of state power, European expansion to other continents, the increasing separation of church and state,

the media revolution triggered by the printing press, the so-called ‘scientific revolution’ since the 17th century, the juridification of European societies, the emergence of the world economic system, and intellectual/philosophical movements such as the Enlightenment.

Since history is always conducted with the questions of the present in mind, the early modern period thus has much to tell us:

Globalization, the growth of capitalism, the emergence of the modern state system or conflicts between different religious faith groups - the foundations of numerous developments that still concern us today are laid here.

The transition from the early to the later modern era is marked around 1800 by processes such as the Enlightenment, the beginning of the bourgeois era and, of course, the French Revolution and the onset of industrialization.

I once read the following sentences: ‘Without the possibility of money creation by banks, there would have been no industrial revolution. The investments could not have been financed.’ This made me curious and so I looked more closely at this socio-economic change.

In addition to changes in the world of work, the IR also brought a number of social consequences that changed the way people lived together in the long term.

These include rural exodus and urbanization, population growth, advances in medicine, the shift from a demand economy to an outsourcing economy, and growing prosperity but with imbalances.

Even if the IR has brought numerous benefits, the critical aspects must not be overlooked. Not only should the consequences for the environment be considered but also the fact that technical progress has made people increasingly dispensable in production, leading to unemployment.

In the course of the restructuring, many people were forced to give up their own businesses due to complete competitive disadvantages and were forced to work for their fate-bringers - at absolutely inadequate wages and working conditions.

Workers were seen and used exclusively as a means to an end. Time was the core element of any industrial entrepreneur and time was money. Morals had faded in the wake of profit, so much so that children were hired as well, with virtually no pay.

Industrial mass production fundamentally changed the world in the 20th century. In the beginning, it was mainly coal that helped the labor factor an unprecedented level of productivity. Later, oil created the essential conditions for traffic, production and consumption.

But the once cheap fuel continues to exact its price: water shortages and increasing soil pollution from industry and agriculture now threaten the livelihoods of billions upon billions of people. Not to mention geopolitical tensions and wars over oil.

The Industrial Revolution was a matter of time, not an option, but a natural discovery of the evolving and developing human being. Unfortunately, also with the dark sides of being human.

I believe it has been instrumental in shaping our current debt money system, which is characterized by more and more, faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper, all increasingly financed on credit and not real money.

It is my conviction that with Bitcoin not just a next, but the last great era of human socio-economic, social and spiritual thinking as well as acting has dawned. With all the advantages of the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago, but without its disadvantages.

Our mundane space-time structure has been so perfidiously distorted by the fiat system over generations that it is hardly recognizable to man. So distorted that man loses sight of the reason for his existence and unlearns to be a human being. Trusting a matrix.

Even if Bitcoin will certainly not solve all individual problems, it fundamentally - through energy(E) and time(t) - ensures that people ground themselves again, find their way to themselves, recognize reality worth living with an open eye and no longer just trust it, but can also verify it independently.

The drawing measures 29.7 x 42cm / 11.6 x 16.5". Made with many pencils varying in hardness on thick, 290/m² rough drawing cardboard.

Wow that's fucking crazy! What a work!

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