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What can I do about the debt thing?
Apr. 27th, 2011 10:26 pmThis question was asked.
What I can do about it is what I am trying, against what seems like all the opposition in the world, to do right here--spread the signal. Every cause was lost at the start. I'm sure there were those who said that slavery would never be abolished, because too many people had vested interests in it, that that was a lost cause. Brave and uncompromising people did that. I know there were people who said a black man would never occupy the White House, that that cause was lost. My American friends did that. One day a government will claim back for itself the power to create all the currency (and I'm glad we've finally managed to establish that they don't have it right now--see, that's a step forward already) and I hope to be there having voted for that government (or, if necessary, having helped plan the bloodless revolution that put it in place, though I hope not). I'll have been part of the group that did that.
EDIT TO CLARIFY: of course I do not regard myself as on a par with the people who died to abolish slavery, though I think I could be there with the people who voted for Obama. I do, however, believe that a change such as Michael Rowbotham is advocating is as far-reaching, as beneficial, and as necessary, as the abolition of slavery was in its time. In a way, it is the abolition of a different, non-race-based form of slavery, that has all of us in its grip, a grip which tightens day by day. Literally, in fact, a Grip Of Death.
So I'm doing it. Here, in my small way, with all the powers I possess, I am doing my part to make things better. Not just for me, by not voluntarily going into bank debt, though that's also something I've had to do from sheer necessity. For everyone.
The further the signal spreads, the more power it will gain. The more people look at things and think "hmm, maybe he's right, maybe there is something out of whack here," the more chance there is that things will change.
Some may call it a lost cause if they like (some have), and try to shut me up or ridicule me into shamed silence (some have). That's a sure way to be right, if being right about that is what they want. It's always possible to stop the signal, whatever Mr Universe might say. But I'd really rather they didn't. (Paragraph edited for nastiness--I was tired and careless)
What I can do about it is what I am trying, against what seems like all the opposition in the world, to do right here--spread the signal. Every cause was lost at the start. I'm sure there were those who said that slavery would never be abolished, because too many people had vested interests in it, that that was a lost cause. Brave and uncompromising people did that. I know there were people who said a black man would never occupy the White House, that that cause was lost. My American friends did that. One day a government will claim back for itself the power to create all the currency (and I'm glad we've finally managed to establish that they don't have it right now--see, that's a step forward already) and I hope to be there having voted for that government (or, if necessary, having helped plan the bloodless revolution that put it in place, though I hope not). I'll have been part of the group that did that.
EDIT TO CLARIFY: of course I do not regard myself as on a par with the people who died to abolish slavery, though I think I could be there with the people who voted for Obama. I do, however, believe that a change such as Michael Rowbotham is advocating is as far-reaching, as beneficial, and as necessary, as the abolition of slavery was in its time. In a way, it is the abolition of a different, non-race-based form of slavery, that has all of us in its grip, a grip which tightens day by day. Literally, in fact, a Grip Of Death.
So I'm doing it. Here, in my small way, with all the powers I possess, I am doing my part to make things better. Not just for me, by not voluntarily going into bank debt, though that's also something I've had to do from sheer necessity. For everyone.
The further the signal spreads, the more power it will gain. The more people look at things and think "hmm, maybe he's right, maybe there is something out of whack here," the more chance there is that things will change.
Some may call it a lost cause if they like (some have), and try to shut me up or ridicule me into shamed silence (some have). That's a sure way to be right, if being right about that is what they want. It's always possible to stop the signal, whatever Mr Universe might say. But I'd really rather they didn't. (Paragraph edited for nastiness--I was tired and careless)