The interesting thing is I think we might over hype the tulip hype now.
It seems like much of the tulip mania has become the stuff of legend.
From what I have read, it seems closer to baseball card trading than AI or dot com.
You can find baseball and pokemon cards trading for thousands of dollars right now on ebay.
This would seem insane to a culture just valueing the cards as pieces of cardboard.
It would be like hundred of years from now people viewing our society as wanting to buy Mickey Mantle cards instead of houses. It is a very small number of people involved with this. It is not a widespread movement to hold your retirement money in Mickey Mantle cards.
In an interesting way it shows even better though he we are susceptible to these type of mythologies. People don't even question the absurd givens of the narratives of the tulip mania. We just repeat these narratives to each other as if they are historic fact.
It seems like much of the tulip mania has become the stuff of legend.
From what I have read, it seems closer to baseball card trading than AI or dot com.
You can find baseball and pokemon cards trading for thousands of dollars right now on ebay.
This would seem insane to a culture just valueing the cards as pieces of cardboard.
It would be like hundred of years from now people viewing our society as wanting to buy Mickey Mantle cards instead of houses. It is a very small number of people involved with this. It is not a widespread movement to hold your retirement money in Mickey Mantle cards.
In an interesting way it shows even better though he we are susceptible to these type of mythologies. People don't even question the absurd givens of the narratives of the tulip mania. We just repeat these narratives to each other as if they are historic fact.