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David Sweatt's avatar

Sanity?

It is out of fashion!!!!!

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Nice to get some clues to your past. I was born, a caboose child, in the mid 1960's, my house was near the mall, 14 miles from Detroit. Very little about me seemed to fit into the world I was born into, and all the adults seemed terminally sad. I did my best to cheer them up at the time. I am strangely grateful now, to see the breadth and depth to which we have been throttled, so many fat thumbs on the scales. What a strange gift, to see this genocide for what it is, how it has so easily decimated us, with our trusting and tacit cooperation. No more.

1,500,000,000,000 debt / 360,000,000 people = $4,166.66 It can't be that simple, can it?

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Stegiel's avatar

Ellul in Money and Power writes-work, propaganda, fear-to prevent them from giving free rein to their

wicked lust for money which would derail the wonderful Marxist

economic mechanism designed for the greatest good of humanity.

Who knows? If capitalism had used the same method, if it had

created an enormous dictatorship in 182o, coercing people in every way,

it might have succeeded in creating a stable system, giving to each

according to his needs and eventually producing a satisfactory human

nature.

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.

Some

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