Please help me understand. I don't get how it can be that, with their prosperity and liberty (such as it may be) visibly crumbling around them, the various people of the world cannot bring themselves to realize that as long as they allow their governments to borrow into existence the only legal medium of exchange they are allowed to use (central bank debt as "money") not only can they never get out of debt, they must also inexorably go ever further in the hole.

It seems to me that at some level, they all understand that they are being scammed, robbed, and ultimately enslaved, to pay a debt that can never get smaller, and absolutely must grow with every passing day. I get the impression that most people have already decided to accept chains and razor wire, in preference to studying long enough, and thinking hard enough to get a handle on the impending foreclosure of their lives.

Why? I know they're not all geniuses, certainly not even all high school graduates. But it doesn't take brilliance to realize that if the "money" to pay the interest on the debt wasn't created when the "money" of the debt was created, then there can't be enough to repay that debt with interest when it falls due. Are they hoping to stick someone else with the interest charges, or counting on the "lender" to be a nice guy and forgive it? Nothing in most people's life experiences would make either seem realistic.

Yet I can't quite wrap my mind around, "Get out of the house today? Nah -- come back tomorrow, Sheriff. I'm watching 'Oprah,' right now." How can anyone be nonchalant about the prospect of being put out on the street? Of going without food and water? Of being jacked up and groped by uniformed thugs for a trip to the market?

Are they crazy? Or am I?

(Got a reply) First you dumb down the sheeple -- then you shear them.
--Henrietta


Okay, I get that. But most of the people with whom I work (for example) while mostly not geniuses, aren't especially challenged by the necessity to read, write, or do simple arithmetic. They're apparently bright enough to comprehend the truth, if not to figure it out all by themselves. They appear to either willfully refrain from researching or thinking, or to consider it unnecessary.

I guess it's the lasting effect of the Public Fool System: their "authorities" have convinced them that (a) it's too hard for ordinary people like themselves to understand, (b) their efforts would be better directed to devising a truly effective rearrangement of the deck chairs on this particular Titanic, and, (c) even if they were to perversely persist, and come to their own understanding, they would have thereby violated some unwritten protocol. placing themselves beyond the bounds of polite society.

Oh well ....