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Stegiel's avatar

At this point in time looking back they did and no matter what they did they still think that they were correct. Ellul writing some years ago observed unpayable debt could motivate the Capitalist system to murder everyone. For, as soon as such a dictatorship arises, we no longer know

what is causing the change in human nature. Is it the economic system

or the police state? Obviously the economy alone is not sufficient; the

Russian experiment proves this. But in the end, it might be possible for a

dictatorship-one that lasted for a very long time-to crush the human spirit

completely.

Since the U.S.S.R. still has saboteurs, spies, deviants, the

unpatriotic (all accused of acting for money), we must conclude that

neither the power of the economic system nor that of the police force has

thus far succeeded in extinguishing the lust for money or in subordinating

the individual to money. But it is not unthinkable that after three, four,

ten generations of totalitarianism, individuals may indeed be so crushed

that they will have no more interest in money, no more passion of any

sort; they will simply conform to the model society has set for them. We

conclude that if the problem of money is eventually solved, it will have

nothing to do with the excellence of the new economic regime; it will

instead be a result of a dictatorship which finally breaks the human spirit.

A similar but quicker way to solve economic problems and the

problem of money would be to kill everyone! In fact, the massacres

required to maintain capitalism by means of wars or to establish

communism by means of revolutions seem to point in this direction. In

any case, any economic regime assumes the elimination of those who,

by their need or lust for money, threaten to disturb the well-ordered

economy.

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

This is good news, although every batch was different, so the finding obviously applies only to some of them. Hydrogel is used for delivering graphene oxide and other nanoparticles into the body, but I haven't been aware of Cesium-137, and I am not sure if being radioactive is a must.

Could a Geiger-counter show radioactive material in the vials?

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