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Originally Posted by doodah
The thing I keep remembering about this global collapse, is that it is the collapse of nothing. Nothing. Cyber wealth. Digits. Ones and zeroes on computers. We exchange that Nothing for real stuff like food and cars. We pay back our credit card Nothing with pieces of paper that we "earn" at our jobs, or maybe we pay back the Nothing with more Nothing (direct deposit into our banks). It's quite funny if you step outside of it a little bit.
Some communities are creating their own paper money. And why not? Paper money used to be a promise to pay in gold or silver. You could take paper money to the bank and demand real physical metal in return. Then they took away the gold and silver. Now it's a promise to pay in what? Nothing.  So the collapse of this system is really funny because nobody is really losing anything except all their Nothing.
How bizarre!
If we go to a grocery store and don't have any more Nothing left in our bank account or on our credit card, we can't get food. That is we don't have any Nothing to exchange for Something. This whole system has been a mass hypnosis, a mass illusion. Let it fall and none too soon. |
I agree, and hope more people realise this. I wonder how the ones, to whom money was the be all and end all, will cope. It's going to be a great leveller of ego for us all.