Since the dawn of civilization human is already enchanted with this sparkling yellow metal named GOLD. This precious metal became a human obsession since its economical value is only comparable with the quest and efforts to find it. Human willing to explore the new world and done thousands miles of journey to the new world and to the unknown wilderness to get it. GOLD also created conflicts of interest between human which led to the war, human exploitation and nature devastation.
GOLD is the reason why western civilization make a journey to the new world. Their spirit of adventure and conquest is based on three elements: GOLD, GLORY, and GOSPEL. Nor Glory or gospel came first bur GOLD. Glory and Gospel is the secondary goal, the primary is to get as much gold as they can. GOLD also as tools to attract the immigrants to go to the new place to get a better life. Even though the situation is completely different in the new place, exploitation, torture, misery, or death is haunting them. We know how some Americans make a propaganda to the Chinese in 19th century to "invite" them to come to the wonderland called America, where every inch of soil you step on is containing GOLD. But after they arrive in America they're worked as hard labor for rail track laying, mining, and others muscle work.
GOLD also created mystery and legend. This legend and mystery also make some curious men that most of them motivated not to get knowledge nor adventure but GOLD's economics value. We learn how Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro or simply famous with Hernán Cortés overthrew the Aztec empire successfully and get his gold. Or the legend told by survivors of the failed Narváez expedition about Cibola - the seven city of GOLD - which led countless of waste-efforts expeditions to find it. The fascinated and eluded legend about "Lost City of Gold" or El Dorado that attracts the fortune hunter even until today since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors. Gold also force people known as the tomb raiders to disturb the dead by breach their sacred eternal resting place and loot the precious GOLD. This also done by the modern tomb raiders who called them selves archeologist. One of the famous modern mystery about gold perhaps about Fort Knox, how much gold saved there and why it is become "one of the safest place on earth".
The story of gold is never end, even in the new world order where people is more confident to keep and use paper with the number on it which called bank note or money, Gold will always become the human obsession even for centuries more.
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