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To: Snowshoe who wrote (70696)	11/3/2008 5:08:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Thanks Snow. It's all about the profits of control. The Statist collectivists want to see citizen serfs working for the profit of those in charge. Qi is unique in that the control of the currency and the profits go to the owners of the currency who are those who are holding it at any particular time. It is surprising that democracies deliver citizenry serfdom permanently. It is proof that people do not actually like freedom and self-determination but are always just one goose step away from the bad old ways. Stockholm Syndrome is normal and people LIKE being told what to do. Come to think of it, I like the idea of Google or some cyberspace entity knowing my rules of the road and telling me what to do each day to save me the trouble of figuring it out, making mistakes and forgetting things. It will be a while before It tells me what to do, but already the consultancy services are not far off it. We are building nothing less than a replacement for large parts of our brains just as we built 747s which do a lot better job of propelling us than when we used legs for walking and arms for swimming, neither of which could get us over the English Channel let alone the Pacific Ocean. Last week I was poisoned with atropine, among other anaesthetics, and it was a peculiar feeling to be "me" but not all there with a fragmented mind lacking co-ordination and other essential ingredients to getting along in the exigencies of 3D, red in tooth and claw. It's not clear just how much our consciousness is necessarily attached to our 3D functionality involving eating, mating, fighting, running for it. Would it matter if It [the cyberspace brain] told us what to do? It does anyway. We are increasingly bound by Big Brother and It. With money, we are running up against the definition of what it means to be human, alive, conscious, purposeful, teleological even. Historically, the lower castes have been little more than sheeple to feed the alphas of the tribes who did the breeding and succeeding, little more than sheep to be fleeced and often enough literally eaten. That process has been so rapid and so harshly selective, relentless and merciless that all non-African males derived from some guy who hiked out of Africa about 30,000 years ago. The rest were just grist for the mill for the rest of us. They have all died off, with no descendants. That's still the case in that we all take part in the rat race and contribute to a greater or lesser extent to the overall success, which is celebrated only by those whose descendants survive without ending up down a cul de sac. Like Alan Green$pan's recessions, we know we have succeeded only 1000 years from now when things are still going along okay. Success for 5 years 10 years or even 100 years is not long in the broad swathe of human societies. Something might look successful for a long time while the means of failure develop imperceptibly within. The USA has looked successful for a hundred years and so has the US$. Neither is guaranteed to last. Democracy perhaps has an inbuilt failure mechanism = voting to take OPM and boss other people around. The US$ has got some rather obvious deficiencies though it has been a great success for a century too. The 1000 year Reich started off in a blaze of glory but pretty soon ended in a bunker. How do we know which path we are on? Life is absurdly complex and nobody can figure it all out. That's why it's so ridiculous to have Helen Clark telling us all how to live, what sort of light bulbs to use, how much water we can have in a shower, which trees we are allowed on our property, how we must build our houses and all the other dictates the bureaucratic spivs love so much. Anyway, that decomposing money doesn't look like a 1000 Year currency. It looks more like a hobby for some village folks until something better comes along. The Euro is obviously not it. Mqurice