Have you ever stopped and asked yourself (or anybody else), "Just what is money? Not the pieces of paper and metal we use every day, but money itself?" I didn't think so. It's amazing, really, how little we know - how little we're taught - about the true nature of money. Those little pieces of green paper don't have any value, really; they're only valuable because we all agree they're valuable. Lose that, and you have ... well, little pieces of green paper.
So what is money, then? To find out, watch this 47-minute YouTube video by Paul Grignon. It's a short course in the nature of money, but I warn you: you won't like it - one bit. Watching this movie is one of those red pills from which there's no going back. Once you've learned the real nature of money, you'll never be able to look at banking or commerce in the same way again.
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I've been asked, "But why do all those bankers, CEOs, investors, and so on want so much money? Surely they have more than they - and everyone they know - can spend in a lifetime!" That's true, but there's one other factor involved: power. Money is the marker in the game of power - like that little shoe is the marker in the game of Monopoly. Remember what Henry Kissinger once said: "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." In other words, these men who can't let go of the eternal quest for more and more money are really looking for a way to get women to notice them, because they're scared that nothing they actually have or are will do that. It would be sad if it weren't so dangerous. |
Now that you've watched the movie, we have to ask:
what do we do about it - or is the problem so huge we
can't do anything about it?
At the individual level, what we can do is adopt the Green
principles of:
* Reduce
* Reuse
* Recycle
* Restore
In other words, adopt a simpler life-style, and get rid
of our enormous personal debts.
Just as one example, the average house today is 2,350
square feet - more than
twice the average size
of a house in the 1950s.
At the national level, the first step is to get rid of the Monster from Jeckyll Island, the Federal Reserve. What do we replace it with? That's a question that's going to need a lot of study and a lot of creative thought. Whatever replaces it, though, we need to make sure that never again do we place absolute control of this nation's money in the hands of private individuals whose goals are not the welfare of the people, but the wealth-fare of themselves and their buddies.