Sound the Alarm
*An opinion piece* One look at the trend the US dollar is taking is enough to make you question why exactly we still use it. As many of the world's largest economies push to rid the dollar of it reserve currency status, I would like to consider three questions on the topic for this article. Is currency something that only the government is allowed to create and regulate? Is it a necessity to our living on this planet? What is currency really? Is it merely a game we have created that everyone agrees to play by? Bitcoin has defeated the idea that only government or government appointed agencies can create money, and is worth a staggering $496.13 as i type this article. Its creator is still a mystery, but one thing that we know is that it wasn't created by one of the Worlds governments. Bitcoin is obviously far too volatile to use as a backup currency, but it does raise the question, why is it worth so much more than any other currency, and why is it worth anything at all? The answer is quite simple, we, together, as a planet, agree that bitcoin is a currency. There are many of us here on this planet that want to own bitcoin, but there aren't hundreds of billions of them in existence, because of the large amount of faith in the currency compared to the amount that exists, it is worth a large sum of money. Do we need currency? Hunter gatherer societies thrived without currency, and merely traded for what they wanted or needed, but in a world as big as the one we have today it is hard to say that a system like that would work without a form of currency to boost trading incentives. Imagine for a second that you supply coconuts, and you want some chickens from a neighboring farmer who happens to have no interest in coconut. This means he will either have to suck it up and take the coconut (which isn't likely to happen) or you will have to trade for something he does like and then trade this new item for the chicken, where as both of you could probably agree on trading a currency, that others will also want, for the chicken. So is currency merely a game that we all agree to play by? Yes, it definitely is, and that isn't necessarily wrong but let me ask you this; If you and i were to play a game of Monopoly but i started out with 90% of all of the resources in the game, how much fun would it be for the rest of the players? That is what we are dealing with in the US, a game of Monopoly we all agree to play together, in which there are multiple bankers who get ridiculous handicaps. This could of course be compared to a game of Monopoly in which we all shared the role of banker, and no players were given any handicaps. Much more fun, eh? All that currency is, at the end of the day, is an incentive. That is why we use currency, to provide incentives for people to do what we want for each other; or to put it on a broad scale, it is how governments and banks provide incentive for us to do what they want. What i am here to say is that it does not have to be that way. On November 27, 1989 a two hour general strike was held by all members of Czechoslovakia which prompted the entire top leadership of the Communist rule to resign. This is the power we hold in numbers, America. If we as a country, and when i say as a country i mean all or at least most of us, protest the continued use of the US dollar, and simultaneously use a currency of our own creation amongst each other, you would be amazed what we could accomplish. This does of course mean that all farmers and small business owners have to be on board, it wouldn't be easy but it would be achievable. In closing i will say only this; we stand at the brink of an awakening, more and more people are beginning to question what is going on around them, but we are still only at the brink. This is our role, those of us that see already what is going on, our mission is to continue to educate those around us no matter how they choose to accept or deny the news. Our mission is to not feel disheartened by what we are saying because it makes people sad. Our mission is to understand that people must be forced to look outside of their current ideological state, and that what they see will be hard for them to take in. Our mission is education. Education really is the first step to revolution, but sometimes that same education may hurt those around us, but i am here to tell you IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Props to those of you already strong in the info war: Apathy Apocalypse Awaken the mind. Global Awakening Occupy the Federal Reserve Americans Against the Republican and Democratic Parties The War On Ignorance and many many more!! (for some reason i couldn't tag a few of you) |