Great comment. Outside the esoteric, I can tell you there's something very intoxicating about the field of economics, especially as one approaches an initiate level of comprehension. I left the field right at the Moment of Truth, so to speak, but in hindsight it IS very akin to Math Magic. And I could see, if one stumbled into a coven of high level practitioners bent on world domination, how one could be seduced before one knew what was even happening. At that point it's momentum.

Just a morning coffee theory / epiphany. But even thinking about how close I came to this happening to me (a couple of times) is weirding me out.

Thank God 🙏