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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (29631)	5/8/2005 11:21:51 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Elroy many people in the past have valued gold and killed for it. But there have been many people who did not value it. It flowed like water in the aztec nation right? I remember some guy last century found a well down there where people would throw gold trinkets into the well - he started excavating tons of gold and gold items from this well - I saw the special on discovery channel. If they valued gold as a monetary exchange unit why did they throw so much of it down into the well? Lets go back to one of the OLDEST stories written down - the iliad - they went to war to control trade routes right? or was it really over one womans wet stinky hole? Nowhere did I read it was about gold. A lot of wars in the bible, were they about gold? Just today I watched a war special on PBS about the parliamentary army versus the royal army in the 1600's england - it was not about gold but control. As for its industrial use - this goes against the very definition of what greenspan 66 said about COMMODITY no? That it must have a USE to have VALUE beyond just being an exchange unit. I will follow this message up with more specifics. None of these cultures which used something other than gold, to represent wealth, had access to gold. I don't know that I agree with that, I don't have your grasp of history but I believe I have read that indeed several cultures that did have access to gold used something else for thier monetary store of value. Humans find something intrinsically valuable about gold which I cannot explain, but is easy to document. Some humans do, me and my niece don't, many others through history did not and many did, I think it is very important to understand what memes and thought processes happen in those that do intrinsically value it and those that don't. Greenspan didn't really cover it and you are right, some mysteries remain hidden, but this a nut that is possible to crack perhaps, but not if we keep walking away from it. I remember reading a story in school called THE PEARL - these islanders found this HUGE pearl, and these evil western men came and killed thier child to try and get it, so they threw the pearl back into the ocean because it had too much greed associated with it. In the cartoons the Jetsons - did elroy like his robot dog or do you think he valued some shiny coins? What was VALUABLE to them - I watched that cartoon a lot - I never remember gold being important. I understand in the past it was for certain reasons of rarity and portability - why will those same reasons apply in the George Jetson future? There are just too many examples in history where people got along just fine without gold for me to understand why puplava and mogambo constantly rant day after day buy more gold.