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Does anyone else ever find themselves becoming increasingly frustrated that some anons just don't seem to be able to think? We are supposed to be learning to think critically, but there is clearly a subset of people who are just following the herd with no idea of what this movement is really about.
Case in point. Earlier today I found myself in a discussion with a friend. He is a gold absolutist, but he also believes that the deep state has hidden unlimited free energy technologies from us. Neither one of those on its own is an issue for me, but combining them is seriously conflicting, and I tried to explain it to him.
The world's oceans contain 20 million TONS of gold. Not ounces. Tons. The problem is that its so dilute you can't profitably extract it. But, I explained to him, if there really is free energy, then all of that can be extracted. There are processes like this: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.8b09555 that do a pretty efficient job of it. Only problem is the amount of energy required to pump the water around, because you need to pump several million cubes of water just to get 1 ounce of gold.
But if that energy is actually free, then there is no limit on the extraction of gold from the oceans. And it wouldn't be like mining. You wouldn't have to dig up and restore anything. There would be no environmental degradation to speak of. (Nuclear and desalination plants already solve the problem of water intake, and there's no excessive heat or brine on the outflow) The entire ocean surface of the planet becomes a literal gold mine.
The amount of gold that would flood the economy if free energy is real is staggering. The inflation would be so extreme that trying to use gold as a monetary instrument would become impossible.
So, if you truly believe in free energy, how can you think gold as money is a workable idea? I thought I made a pretty obvious case, but it's like his brain turned off or I suddenly started speaking Swahili. These 2 ideas are absolutely cemented in his consciousness. The cognitive dissonance required to ignore reality and hold them simultaneously is astounding to me.
So I ask you. Has Q actually failed in its mission to get people to wake up and think for themselves? Are we just another group of mindless automatons like the Left?
This deserves to be a seperate post.
Do I have permission to turn this post into a separate thread?
Check with u/Monomial first, if they are planning to as well
If he's already a gold bug, and believes the government is covering stuff up, then he's on the right track and more awake than most. Did he know not to take the vax? Now you've made me wonder what would happen to crypto mining if we had free energy.