"Usurists conjure fiat out of thin air, and we are convinced to value it to our great, and presently apparent, detriment."

Yeah, it is sad really - also how banks can lend on debt, and how out of control it is. It's crazy. It just spirals and everyone thinks that it's normal for everything to increase in cost year after year until you are paying $10 for a loaf of bread - meanwhile, wages don't increase when you take into account standard of living etc., but of course, that is why they do it - just like breaking up the family units in order to push children into the hands of the state education system etc.,

"We don't have to do that. We can arrange for exchanges between ourselves without involving fiat, by offering value for value. "

I agree, and I have done this myself - swaps, etc. for things - less common as I got older sadly though, or since I moved out of the country

"We are no less free than that bird. We are not subjects nor possessions of psychopathic banksters forced to value their fraudulent traps as money."

It's the greatest tick they have pulled, making people think that someone else owns them. To be free, is really what it is about. Never have been so cut up and sold as we are today - data and flesh. Out minds a jumble of propaganda.

"Left to their own devices, they will languish and become completely irrelevant to civil society."

You are right about that. They produce nothing, excluding suffering of course. It is strange if you think about it - since small groups of people sharing or trading is the natural order and like you said out of the hands of the government - which shows you how twisted modern society is from the natural world.

BTW - Here in New Zealand we have something called "Trade Me" - which I think started as a way to trade services without money entering the equation - but of course, it is just an eBay now -

"Centralization has been shown to be a temporary phase society has endured while technology advanced from the Stone Age to the Space Age."

Yes, I agree about centralization alright. Of course, that is the pyramid model, top-down control - and whatever mind control used to hold it together - I cannot wait until something more humane comes along - something that is in line with our spirit and soul - something that when we are a part of it feels good - the system we are in right now, just feels evil. There is no other word for it I can think of, it really does feel like Evil from a horror movie or something.

Thanks for the comment! Interesting read as always!