Tragedy and Hope 101: the illusion of justice, freedom and democracy by Josef Plummer
Chapter 04
"Money: The Ultimate Instrument
“Antiquity presents everywhere…the spectacle of a few men molding mankind according to their whims, thanks to the prestige of force and fraud.” —Frederic Bastiat
Hopefully by now we’ve established the fact that a small, powerful, and secretive group can alter the course of world history. Additionally, we’ve established that this form of coercive power (hidden, dishonest, and dangerous) is nothing new. It existed thousands of years ago, it existed hundreds of years ago, and it exists today. Only the names, sophistication, and reach of the “instruments” have changed. Since this form of power is inherently illegitimate, we need no further justification to free ourselves from it.
As noted, a handful of individuals have played such an important role in the creation of our current system that their names must be mentioned. However, targeting individuals within the system isn’t going to solve our problems. Even if only one out of one thousand people are genius-level sociopaths (the percentage is
probably much higher), that equals seven million potential recruits for the Network to draw from. In other words, there will always be an inexhaustible pool of replacements available to fill the tiny number of key policy-making posts within the system. For this reason, the predatory system itself must be destroyed.
Fortunately for us, there is a vital target for us to strike; one foundational element that the entire system is built on and cannot stand without: the Network’s control of money. This is their primary weapon, and it is well within our power to take it from them.
The vast majority of people—people like you and me—don’t think of money as a weapon. For us, it’s simply something that we earn and then use to purchase products and services. The Network, on the other hand, has a much, much deeper understanding of what money is and how to wield its power. For them, money isn’t about acquiring more material goods or services; it’s about acquiring more control over the resources and instruments that govern human behavior. When viewed in this light, their seemingly insatiable desire to accumulate and control money makes more sense.
Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean that personal ownership of money is the Network’s most effective monetary weapon. In fact, we could take away the personal fortunes of all of its members and, if that’s all we did, their power would remain undisturbed, and they would rebuild their fortunes in no time. This is because the Network knows something that most of us do not: control of money, not actual “ownership,” is what truly matters. Where you and I cannot imagine having the ability to control money that doesn’t belong to us, the Network cannot imagine having it any other way.
In this chapter, we’ll cover the three primary mechanisms that the Network uses to perpetuate its monetary power. These mechanisms are: (1) the ability to combine and control the earnings of others, (2) the ability to directly confiscate the earnings of others, and (3) the ability to create money out of thin air."
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