Money is debt, created by government bonds, and/or fractional reserve banking, essentially the same thing. since decoupling from the gold Standard money is fiat the value ascribed an indication of the confidence of the market in the medium of exchange To goal being to siphon a proportion. Due the 'inventor' of the investment opportunity. Converting… Continue reading A fractional reserve
Category: Poetry
Ask the people
#militaryindustrialcomplex Not great is it
Numbers (1)
We are betting our entire future. Pensionan oil funds, on bargain hunts for capital growth The numbers tell us, we haven't yet encountered any energetic limits. The market democracy does not make (formal) plans, for a liquid fuel supply deficit And so it fails, to plan for the future. And so it fails.
Truth (2)
Numbers remain as they were invented with no ulterior motive. I know and I like them. They do not post on Facebook telling me life could be better. Nor comment on my virtual friends Numbers have nothing to sell The result of ergo cogito sum They tell us one truth
On the News
Today we were told the news As it happened And when more happened They told us the news again At the current rate of news the energy runs out quite soon A quick flash in the Pan of concern replaced by a few murders Car accidents consumed the next day And traffic troubles when Quite… Continue reading On the News
Das ding an sich
We make things And then more things That make more things Of every thing We make from every thing The market for A new thing From any thing Since every thing already exists We are really changing Our values #Dasdingansich #consumptionisentropy
In the event of war 2
They create fear and sell you their tale, that more weapons protect you from fears You buy the story, Yet fear the war that protects you from peace
Rumours
I have started to hear the consequences of my consumption In broad daylight my armoire accuses me of killing an Amazonian frog to create it My iPad, calls to me at night, asking how many acres of habitat were disrupted, in order to mine its contents My batteries cry themselves to sleep, and dream of… Continue reading Rumours
Trying
I am trying to consume as speedily as possible I was told that my consumption, fuels the economy Which might otherwise run out I continue to believe Everything is infinitely fine Because if I stop the Economy dies taking everything else with it Sustainability becomes a belief that assuages all fault, Because, after all, if… Continue reading Trying
To the corporate mind
Saudi Arabia is virtuous those with all the money tell the others what to do buy bombs and guns from the military industrial complex to keep the status quo With enough surplus in bombs and guns to create another war or two To the corporate mind profit Justifies war