Money is not the problem. Money is exactly what it needs to be, an expression of the life force with which products were made and exchanged freely and mutually beneficially.
There is a totally different problem, and the twitter-posters picture and screen name already refer to it.
Wooden horse
The Wooden horse of Troy, did not contain living men. If this idea is new to you, then consider this: what happens over time when men are locked in a wooden box? Yep, they need to fart, sneeze, cough, sweat, pee and poo.
Since, nothing of the kind happened during the days these men were in there,it can easily be posited, the men were dead. But how can dead men conquer a city?
Solution of a riddle
Perhaps the clue is in the Odyssey, where Ulysses meets a blind singer, who graciously, while not knowing it is Ulysses, sings of the smartness and wisdom of him. And the great warrior drops to his knees and weeps like a child while hearing about his greatest victory.
We of course see this happen all the time, of snowflakes. No real battle and victory there. And those soy boys who think they can take on trained riot police ... well .... it will be a crying match because of their greatest defeat.
There is another reason why a warrior would cry like Ullyses did. For shame. For having done something that was dishonorable. And bringing in the plague by means of the wooden horse, was not an act of virtue, but of evil: of cowardice and avarice. If you really want a taste for their morals: read the Illias. These men were enemies. But capable of seeing virtue in each other. And in death there is no separateness. They understood that.
So, yes, Ulysses, the great, smart, witty Ulysses, cried his eyes out for shame, because he had tricked the Troyans to bring something into their city that would destroy them: a disease infectious and deadly, such, it would suck the life out them.
This gives new insight into what a trojan horse is, right? It is a virus, a malicious parasite.
Money & trade
Trade is done everyday. Exchanging real goods and services for a good that is more fluid is a good idea. It provides more choice to both the buyer and seller in the next round.
The problem starts when money, the medium of exchange, is being traded. With a steady value, there is no reason to hedge risk as there are no counter party risk to holding money. Gold and Silver retain their value over time (5000+ years and counting)
It is free money as no debt is attached to it. Obtained in an honest way, it provides the proprietor with a sense of accomplishment and honor. Honest business for honest pay. Honorable. Honor.
Money is made.
Currency trade
Currency however, degrades the moment you think of it. So, not only the future value needs to be taken into account, but also any risk connected to holding it.
Consider that the US dollar has lost 99% of its value since the last time it was equal to 1/35th of a troy ounce of gold. That was 1967. So, holding a dollar for 30 years would have left the power of procurement of less than 1 1967-cent. No bank has compensated anyone sufficiently for such a risk. Nor did the government, who is primarily responsible for the value of currency. Instead, the government requires each of us to pay and pay, and if leaving the plantation is effectuated, an exit tax applies.
It is totally screwed, no doubt. But is it not true that we ourselves have brought this beast into our homes, into our work, into our business, into our commerce? And what has it done for us? Did it pervert our government? Are the politicians not bribed and coerced by currency?
Think of the currency trade. By having sufficient size, one party can influence the price of a currency. If you doubt that, ask George Soros, while you can. It is a well documented event, it were his shorting of the GBP that took the British Pound out of the EMS due to decrease of value.
This futures trade, this derivative trade, this is the sickness at the heart of the matter. Because in essence, a debt note, is being used to shore up another debt, an endless cycle of rehashed debt.
It pays for endless war, endless drugs, endless misery, endless poverty in the land of bounty.
This is a dishonorable situation. Even when honest business is done, the payment is dishonest. And does fail the standard of virtue and integrity. It does not only fail the test, but it is not even a payment. It is a debt extinguishing or rather: debt moving from one place to the next
Worse part:
We did it ourselves. We used it. Our whole lives have been taken by it, and we also lost any sense of real value, as all products and services by inflation have been disconnected from their honor.
So, this is our Trojan horse. This is our lack of virtue, our lack of good habits. This is how we disappear from the stage into the the dust of history.
Stop dooming, its not our fault at all. Its an easy answer to say we did it to ourselves, how could we when we were controlled and manipulated by invisible forces.
As for Troy, have a look at the Greek Myths by Robert Graves.
Dooming? Where is the doom? This is a short and dirty analysis of a phenomenon and a call to change our ways in which we conduct our business.
And, as participant in a process called economic life, you, me, others, we are personally responsible for what we allow to happen. We have always three options:
Say no.
Say yes.
Say nothing.
This is the essence of freedom, of being sovereign. However, there is another dimension. For freedom to reign, virtue is required. See: Farewell Address of George Washington 1793.
And yes, the world is full of bling bling. Yes, we were influenced to consider the bling bling this world has to offer. Who offered it? Those who would deceive, commit fraud.
Accepting the fact of having let that happen, is the first step in remediating the issue. Why? Because you are hurting yourself in the first place by playing along with fraud and deceit. The system would love for us to consider ourselves as an economic being. And true, we do make economic decisions, but it does not mean we are an economic being. Positing you to be an economic being solely, degrades you, dehumanizes you.
Now, you see the nature of the Federal Reserve Note, the question is: would you continue to conduct your business with such dishonest means? How honorable are you?
See, once you stop playing their game, their game is up.
You mentioned a book, that provides a narrative on certain stories. While technically interesting, for the purpose of my post, I am not interested in what this man has to say. The source material in the Homeric Epos: Iliad and Odyssey are of such nature, a thinking man can draw his own conclusions.
If you had read the Iliad, you would have known that the Camp of King Agamemnon was visited time and again with the Plague, whereas the Trojans were spared such a disaster. It is easy to see the persuasion of giving the Trojans a taste.
This dishonesty of Ulysses caused the Odyssey: another 10 years before coming home. On the level of the personal journey of a man, indeed, it may take a long time and a lot of anguish before we come home to our selves.
And this then is also geared towards your first command: STOP dooming. I will mirror your choice of words: STOP acting dishonorably.
I saw though the game decades ago, you are blaming us for our own misfortune and anyone who disagrees with with you has no honour.
You have no idea of how I act at all, either economically, spiritually, sexually or morally, and your assumption that I live in the US is wrong. Your US centric values are just a good example of American po faced hectoring the rest of the world.
American exeptionalism is a fantasy, but american Arrogance isn't. Go and talk down to someone else.
Position
Money is not the problem. Money is exactly what it needs to be, an expression of the life force with which products were made and exchanged freely and mutually beneficially.
There is a totally different problem, and the twitter-posters picture and screen name already refer to it.
Wooden horse
The Wooden horse of Troy, did not contain living men. If this idea is new to you, then consider this: what happens over time when men are locked in a wooden box? Yep, they need to fart, sneeze, cough, sweat, pee and poo.
Since, nothing of the kind happened during the days these men were in there,it can easily be posited, the men were dead. But how can dead men conquer a city?
Solution of a riddle
Perhaps the clue is in the Odyssey, where Ulysses meets a blind singer, who graciously, while not knowing it is Ulysses, sings of the smartness and wisdom of him. And the great warrior drops to his knees and weeps like a child while hearing about his greatest victory.
We of course see this happen all the time, of snowflakes. No real battle and victory there. And those soy boys who think they can take on trained riot police ... well .... it will be a crying match because of their greatest defeat.
There is another reason why a warrior would cry like Ullyses did. For shame. For having done something that was dishonorable. And bringing in the plague by means of the wooden horse, was not an act of virtue, but of evil: of cowardice and avarice. If you really want a taste for their morals: read the Illias. These men were enemies. But capable of seeing virtue in each other. And in death there is no separateness. They understood that.
So, yes, Ulysses, the great, smart, witty Ulysses, cried his eyes out for shame, because he had tricked the Troyans to bring something into their city that would destroy them: a disease infectious and deadly, such, it would suck the life out them.
This gives new insight into what a trojan horse is, right? It is a virus, a malicious parasite.
Money & trade
Trade is done everyday. Exchanging real goods and services for a good that is more fluid is a good idea. It provides more choice to both the buyer and seller in the next round.
The problem starts when money, the medium of exchange, is being traded. With a steady value, there is no reason to hedge risk as there are no counter party risk to holding money. Gold and Silver retain their value over time (5000+ years and counting)
It is free money as no debt is attached to it. Obtained in an honest way, it provides the proprietor with a sense of accomplishment and honor. Honest business for honest pay. Honorable. Honor.
Money is made.
Currency trade
Currency however, degrades the moment you think of it. So, not only the future value needs to be taken into account, but also any risk connected to holding it. Consider that the US dollar has lost 99% of its value since the last time it was equal to 1/35th of a troy ounce of gold. That was 1967. So, holding a dollar for 30 years would have left the power of procurement of less than 1 1967-cent. No bank has compensated anyone sufficiently for such a risk. Nor did the government, who is primarily responsible for the value of currency. Instead, the government requires each of us to pay and pay, and if leaving the plantation is effectuated, an exit tax applies.
It is totally screwed, no doubt. But is it not true that we ourselves have brought this beast into our homes, into our work, into our business, into our commerce? And what has it done for us? Did it pervert our government? Are the politicians not bribed and coerced by currency?
Think of the currency trade. By having sufficient size, one party can influence the price of a currency. If you doubt that, ask George Soros, while you can. It is a well documented event, it were his shorting of the GBP that took the British Pound out of the EMS due to decrease of value.
This futures trade, this derivative trade, this is the sickness at the heart of the matter. Because in essence, a debt note, is being used to shore up another debt, an endless cycle of rehashed debt.
It pays for endless war, endless drugs, endless misery, endless poverty in the land of bounty.
This is a dishonorable situation. Even when honest business is done, the payment is dishonest. And does fail the standard of virtue and integrity. It does not only fail the test, but it is not even a payment. It is a debt extinguishing or rather: debt moving from one place to the next
Worse part:
We did it ourselves. We used it. Our whole lives have been taken by it, and we also lost any sense of real value, as all products and services by inflation have been disconnected from their honor.
So, this is our Trojan horse. This is our lack of virtue, our lack of good habits. This is how we disappear from the stage into the the dust of history.
Stop dooming, its not our fault at all. Its an easy answer to say we did it to ourselves, how could we when we were controlled and manipulated by invisible forces.
As for Troy, have a look at the Greek Myths by Robert Graves.
Dooming? Where is the doom? This is a short and dirty analysis of a phenomenon and a call to change our ways in which we conduct our business.
And, as participant in a process called economic life, you, me, others, we are personally responsible for what we allow to happen. We have always three options:
This is the essence of freedom, of being sovereign. However, there is another dimension. For freedom to reign, virtue is required. See: Farewell Address of George Washington 1793.
And yes, the world is full of bling bling. Yes, we were influenced to consider the bling bling this world has to offer. Who offered it? Those who would deceive, commit fraud.
Accepting the fact of having let that happen, is the first step in remediating the issue. Why? Because you are hurting yourself in the first place by playing along with fraud and deceit. The system would love for us to consider ourselves as an economic being. And true, we do make economic decisions, but it does not mean we are an economic being. Positing you to be an economic being solely, degrades you, dehumanizes you.
Now, you see the nature of the Federal Reserve Note, the question is: would you continue to conduct your business with such dishonest means? How honorable are you?
See, once you stop playing their game, their game is up.
You mentioned a book, that provides a narrative on certain stories. While technically interesting, for the purpose of my post, I am not interested in what this man has to say. The source material in the Homeric Epos: Iliad and Odyssey are of such nature, a thinking man can draw his own conclusions.
If you had read the Iliad, you would have known that the Camp of King Agamemnon was visited time and again with the Plague, whereas the Trojans were spared such a disaster. It is easy to see the persuasion of giving the Trojans a taste.
This dishonesty of Ulysses caused the Odyssey: another 10 years before coming home. On the level of the personal journey of a man, indeed, it may take a long time and a lot of anguish before we come home to our selves.
And this then is also geared towards your first command: STOP dooming. I will mirror your choice of words: STOP acting dishonorably.
I saw though the game decades ago, you are blaming us for our own misfortune and anyone who disagrees with with you has no honour.
You have no idea of how I act at all, either economically, spiritually, sexually or morally, and your assumption that I live in the US is wrong. Your US centric values are just a good example of American po faced hectoring the rest of the world.
American exeptionalism is a fantasy, but american Arrogance isn't. Go and talk down to someone else.