well i think that people are easily
taken in by the cults of
of uh...
bankers the banking cult and the
cult of what i call price propaganda
there is a uh...
there's an effort lets say in the U.S if you look at the financial press in the U.S
if the markets are going up
that's always a good thing
and that every..
everything should be
attempted, to keep the markets from going down
higher prices, are good
but there's no but that's not true
higher prices
can be very destructive,  if you're 
capitalizing
these companies that are
that are causing huge social harm
that's not a good thing like
for example corrections corps of America is a
private prison operator
stocks trading
at new highs all the time because they're
getting local states in america
to give them
the business of running prisons in
exchange the company's getting the states
to sign contracts that guarantee ninety
percent occupancy of those prisons
so they're building a gulag state
society
so the price of the stock is higher
but you're building a gulag state..
planet earth is a closed
finite system. We dont need infinite growth
right so you have finite resources so
ever higher prices mean eventually you
you're gonna end up
completely ah... without any natural
resources at all, and there's a total collapse
the propaganda is: higher prices
are always good
more money is always good
net worth going higher is always good and
that's just part of the culture
its become part of the
the mindset and especially
in the U.S which is a huge player in the
global economy it's a cult
basically
did you watch
Zeitgeist moving forward yet? I know you were in it..
I promised i would watch it right?
I read the Wikipedia entry does that count?
I think, if i understand it correctly
i had a couple of e-mail exchanges
with the producer director
and uh
i believe you know he is saying
that there's no case to be made for money
you cant have money
an economy based purely on natural resources
and uh... i'm not convinced by that idea
i think money
is a useful
way to exchange
as a medium of exchange
it has to be
adapted so that it
it works sustainably within the context
of
an economy that's going to be growing
in ways that
are not suicidal
he just doesn't see
that as being a possibility he thinks
once you open the door to money
in some way
it's impossible to not head into the
direction of where we are now
so
you know his ideas are
they're somewhat utopian
yes.. its possible to do something like that
i think its more efficient
to just come up with a better money
