After a week at BitBlockBoom, Thank God for Bitcoin, and the Bitcoin Ministry Summit, Paul read Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles in one travel day, on the advice of Lawrence Lepard, author of The Big Print. He argues that stories of families living through currency collapse teach sound money better than charts or white papers.
He links the novel's echoes of Weimar Germany to Corrie ten Boom's The Hiding Place, the true account of a Haarlem watchmaker's family who hid Jews and were betrayed in 1944. His point is that when money breaks, the deeper story is about the people caught inside and the character that surfaces.
Paul Weaver published this essay on his Substack on April 14, 2026. He is part of the Brilliance Labs network and has given us permission to share his work. This summary is ours; the essay is his.