apple vs. Apple
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The story of the apple appears at the beginning and the end. In the beginning, the apple was a bad thing, a symbol of man’s fall. At the end, however, AAPL symbolizes the highest valuation. What capitalist society values most. In these fallen days, we worship the fall.
The apple
The tree of knowledge is the foundation of modern civilization; reason, science, and capitalism all grow from the root of basic knowledge. Yet knowledge is the one forbidden fruit! The Torah tells the story of this tree being cursed, the Bible retells it, and the Quran retells it times three. It’s obviously important. YHWH has given us three major software updates, all imparting the same lesson. As Allah told us in the Holy Quran,
We cautioned, “O Adam! Live with your wife in Paradise and eat as freely as you please, but do not approach this tree, or else you will be wrongdoers. But Satan deceived them — leading to their fall from the ˹blissful˺ state they were in,
In the Bible, the serpent said, “when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” And as Hawwa (Eve) thought at the time, “the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also…
