Hi.
For me it began about four weeks ago, when I read some replies on a board of an Austrian newspaper. There was a link to a movie called "Money as Debt". I watched it and couldn't believe it. So I went on looking for other proof for or against the statements of this movie. And I found till today nothing that proves the opposite. I watched "Fabian - Give me the world plus 5%" and "Zeitgeist Addendum", I searched the internet for "cash generation" (I hope it's the right English term) and found only confirmation. I was devastated and tried to find some consolation and hope. I found it in Bernd Senf, Wörgl's Monetary Experiment of 1932 (http://alt-money.tribe.net/thread/70e5eb29-853d-44ca-9faa-b789d1757037 ) and others. But in my surrounding there is no knowledge about this money creating process and the worst part isn't that nobody knows where the money comes from, but that nobody asks the question and nobody seems to want to know. But I think everybody needs to know this. So I tried different ways to make the people around me aware of this, with mostly bad results. Some think I am crazy, some feel I am intrusive, some worry about me. So what can I do? First I think I have to take a step back and try to relax, and I absolutely agree with GonoManiax ("but I think we first must create massive consciousness about what's happening and how it's affecting our lives"). First we have to plant the questions "Where does the money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how much money exists?" in the heads of our neighbors, friends and family. And then the awareness can and will grow.
What makes me crazy is that it is so simple to solve the "commercial crises", "economic crisis", "economy crisis", "market crisis", "global economy crisis", whatever you want to call it. It's so simple.
For everyone who knows Alan Moore the writer of "Watchmen" I want to give you one of my favorite scenes in comic-history I know of:
"Top 10" #8
Kapela is dying, and guides the attention to the night sky:
Kapela: Just look above you. Do you see? That is called the immense board of lights. And there is the great black... And, strewn across it, small and surrounded and vulnerable and brave... [refers to the stars] There is the great white.
Nebula: Oh. Oh, yeah. Of course. Hah. You know, that's perfect. That's really perfect. And the great white... I mean, there's so much black . A-are we losing?
Kapela: No. Once there was only black. We are winning. All is right. We can go.
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