Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Monetary Reform



Those of you who know me know that I've discussed this topic many times before, sometimes at the risk of sounding insane, silly, or mistaken. But lack of discussion on the subject to any rational person would seem to be a sign of madness, as it seems to me. Madness however is the world that we live in, and therefore, rational thought is either rightfully labeled as genius or mistakenly as insanity. The fact of the matter is that a discussion of money and monetary reform is of critical importance, worthy of every check and balance to ensure a just system is in place at every interval and era of human existence so long as the welfare of society is concerned. That is the purpose of such a discussion for it is through money and its representative systems, (call them "economies") that man's greater systems of ethics, values, and morals are reflected on the societal level. We as humans will always endorse our beliefs; being that they are sacred to us, they reflect what is of real and ultimate value to us. We therefore endorse these values and beliefs with other valuables and commodities. Just as money was once backed up by gold, we defend our ideas and beliefs with the seduction of commodities that backed them up. Illustrated simply through such things as donating to a cause, a purchase. Trading our sacred ideologies with the resources in our possession in order to spread our views. But every trade is an endorsement and every endorsement itself is a viewpoint. One can argue that the ultimate motive behind trade itself is the exchange of ideas. Power for power, value for value - its the Golden Rule.

Indeed, the question of value is an age-old one and one that will always be asked and answered, re-invented and re-interpreted to suit the times. But if we ask ourselves, what is of real value to us? What will be our answer? Are the ethics we wish to ingrain in our fellow man more important to us or the profits which we gain from "trade?" Do we spread those beliefs of ethics for our own safety or for our own personal good? Is it self-motivated, other-motivated or both? Do we teach these values to ourselves and our children to establish justice and a fair objective system to govern ourselves by or just for fancy? In short, what is the ultimate motive of trade? Are we exchanging ideas or resources? Can it be both? Which is the more prominent? When examining this question further we see the answer becoming more obscure, leading us to perhaps an even more profound question: what is profit? Surely the profit wagered in Matthew 16:26 is not of a material kind nor is the profit analyzed in Forbes magazine of the nature as the former, and yet somehow the two "profits" are connected in some way. With each purchase and trade we make, what profit did we gain? What profit do we give to our fellow man and woman? Is our profit really in gaining or is it in losing? The answers to these questions will vary profoundly based on where one's point of view lies on the spectrum of materialism and spirituality.


Money is the central issue of human function at the macro-level. In other words, society itself (and by extension our world) is run by money which acts as the energy in our world to make things run just as the function of ATP and the Krebs Cycle explain how the cells in our body function and work. Money is the blood that flows through the veins of society, without it society would die. The modern concept of money was originally created to facilitate trade of commodities but the question needs to be asked, what ultimate good has money really served us except crime, slavery (in the form of debt,) and war? Is it worth its own mess? And yet rarely, is the investigation of money taken seriously beyond the recognition of its surface value that it feeds us, clothes us, shelters us, buys comforts and luxuries for us, etc. For this factor alone we are ready and willing to kill our fellow man, war with him, rob him of what was once in his possession, rape our women of their honor and flesh, abandon our parents in pursuit of it, and train our children to follow this path, all for a green sheet of acknowledgment reassuring us that we made some "profit" by our actions. Worse yet, is that this worshipped god was created by our own hands. If ever was there a living cellular tissue within money and drugs, they would claim their rightful place as the rulers of this planet - the dominant species - but being unable to speak on their own, man has time-and-again proven their dominance over him and shown the supremacy of the forces that control him by putting these two on a pedestal at the cost of his own enslavement to them. As fearsome as these two forces may be their commonality is one - they both alter reality and pervert the natural course and they accomplish this by subjugating man to their will. Indeed, they have no will of their own, they are but a green light for man to explore the innermost dark recesses of his ego and the ugly pleasures of his greed, lust, and gluttony. Money and drugs have given the green light, and the traffic of humanity is traveling on the highway to Hell. That is, unless we take a detour.

The video below has shown the clarity of our enslavement to the design of our own hands - money. It explains quite thoroughly how we are all in debt and that this system is self-perpetuating debt, slavery, and misery for everyone except a privileged few. Anyone who questions this as conspiracy needs to ask the simple question: is there more money in the world, or more debt? The current formula of interest-money sees to it that there is more debt than money. And if there is more debt than money, then which part of humanity possesses the money and which part possesses the debt? And you get the answer I gave earlier - the rich and powerful few on the one hand, and the poor, and weak masses on the other. After a few cracks of the whip, the slave no longer feels the sting, the pain, nor hears the barking of the master nor his own panting....

I've also included a few links for more information.

http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/problems.html
http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/monetarysystem.html
http://www.monetary.org/
http://www.dollardaze.org/blog/
http://www.moneyreformparty.org.uk/
http://www.comer.org/
http://www.prosperityuk.com/prosperity/prosperity.html


2 comments:

Me said...

Oh, my lovely S. I never thought I'd see the day when I had a friend who writes longer entries than I do or gets serious quite as frequently, but you've delightfully proven me wrong lol *hug*

Ruhudeen Ali said...

oh yea I get serious and a half..you know how I do! lol. Thanks for taking out the time to appreciate what I write :)

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