A little sad, but not very surprised, to report that Saifedean Ammous appears to have lost his marbles. I got as far as p142 of this, but it’s so stupid I don’t think I can go any further. This is probably one of the more idiotic bits, although I guess it’s supposed to be funny somehow. Also, the whole thing about Bleriot and his flying gold transportation company, named BTC (ho ho) is really really dumb. Alternative histories are sometimes fun but for them to work they really need to be believable. This is not, and just reads like the deranged fantasies of someone who has lost his grip on reality. Stick to the economics and antisemitism Saif, at least you’re passably good at that.