Oh man. This is my kind of note 🤓
Tying the Etymology of Capital to the Cult of the Black Cube is all kinds of interesting…
Capitalism was a perjorative used by the aristocracy at the time of the beginning of the industrial revolution. It relates to the word "entrepreneur" which means "to grasp between", the latin "capito" means to grasp.
It has become ordinary these days but the word "capital" did not used to mean the centre of power. The proper spelling is "Capitol" and the actual root of it, also latin, is "Capitoline":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Hill
Nobody should be surprised to learn that this is where the temple of Satan, I mean Saturn was. Lord of the flies. The symbol of the dove, Columbine, actually, I don't think it was ever dove, but pigeon.
This is just the tip of the iceberg if you want to dig into the linguistic and cultural history of modern words.
I agree, free market is a better word, but even the word free has been poisoned to mean gratis, when it also means liberty, which means, privacy and the right to allocate your resources as you see fit.
The whole point of it can be summed up by Hakek's market information problem. Distributing the decision making puts more brain cells on the task, and always yields a better result than this being done by a two tier society with the owners and the slaves.
Discussion
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My brother is deep into those rabbit holes, and he casually discuss "the 7 blood lines", "Kazarian mafia" and other things all the way back to Sumerian and Babylonian times.
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I like going down these holes. But i am very avoidant of experts and rigid conclusions in these places as both madness and truth lurk there in the dark. if ya know what i mean.
but there are definitely patterns that transcend coincidence.
It goes waaaay way back before Sumer even. Babylon was at least centuries after the time of Adam and it's really worth reading The Book of Enoch (I'm part way through it), the things in there are amazing.
Put it this way, if the individual Adam existed, then he was at least predating the founding of Jericho, just to put a timeline on it. And the archaeology points to about 11000 years ago, which is also after the Dryas, which was caused by meteor strikes that slammed into western europe, the atlantic, north america and the eastern edge of the Pacific. So, since that puts a date for the Flood story to be coincident with the onset of the cold period of the Dryas, Adam must have been at least more than 13000 years ago.
This book, The Book of Enoch, was deliberately hidden and burned and forbidden and the ethiopian orthodox church retained it and from there it returned to us. And then it was found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls as well, and more than a few parts of it are restated in books all through the bible, and many of Jesus' sayings come from it. One I already saw was "the meek shall inherit the earth" and another was the promise after the flood that it would not happen again. (shades of 5th element narrative haha, when they return, so shall we!)...
Anyway, it's more fun to dig it up yourself, but the book The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya stitches together a very interesting story from Enoch, Thoth, Hermes, and of course lots of stuff relating to the Vedas, pointing out how all the myths have more than a few common points that suggests they are derived from original stories far older than is yet recognised.