Situation Clarification C

 

OK, so given that we have reached this realisation that we are being manipulated by a narrative that does not represent the true state of affairs, what can be done? I feel very little, because the most interesting observation, simple though it may be, is that the people who control the money supply also control the narrative. That's a very freeing recognition in one sense, it's a getting down to brass tacks. Money-control is people-control, pure and simple. Suddenly all those who make desperate efforts to 'remain in government', and fight like billio over control of their companies and markets and so on, are doing so for very clear reasons. But it's very unfreeing also, because their doing so means that our society becomes progressively more and more starved and decayed. That neoliberal paradigm, despite not being true at all, in completely overt evidence that we can all see, is the one which is adhered to by those in power. I don't know how we have got to here - I'm assuming that there are enough intelligent people out there who are consistently registering the illogic of this position that there has to be another reason why nothing progresses. It's there in black and white: we claim a system which prioritises efficiency, and have a system starved and decayed and inefficient. We seem caught in a lock. Do those in power get asked questions this simple? I can't say I've heard it happening. But maybe I'm not in the right loops? What I am used to is spin, so I am able to imagine your classic 'politician-speak' which simpers around the edges of the issues, and presents only certain shards of information, so as not to address the basic conflict in truth which emerges here. 

I do have a few ideas of things we can do, though I haven't tested them with anyone for devil's advocacy, and they'll need that. One of the main ones in the short term would be to create a second currency, directly alongside the pound. Let's call it the shilling. This second currency would have to be mandated right to the very top, legally, and potentially (?) be pegged to the value of the pound: what you can buy for 20 pounds, you can buy for 20 shillings. Everywhere pounds are accepted, so must shillings be. You can pay your tax in it, you can charge someone else in it etc etc. But there are a few key differences. Shillings would be, for lack of a better term, a "people's currency". Preferring it would be a political move, so you might say to your bank, even if you are paid in pounds, "please denominate all my funds in shillings", and they would be legally bound to do so. But the key thing would be that shillings would have to have some protections attached, the main one being that you may not speculate with shillings, and they will never appear on currency markets - they are a strictly UK-only affair, unlike the pound. If you want to do that stuff, you're free to, but you'll need to denominate in pounds to do so. And there would probably need to be some other protections attached which would mitigate against any speculatory or world-market oriented changes in the value of the pound - perhaps a point at which value would divorce, so that ordinary people denominating in shillings would never lose the ability to obtain food or necessaries because of stupidities in the market for pounds. Would this work as a means of exiting ourselves from the control via money spoken of above? I need the devil's advocacy to know, but I like the idea as a starting point. "Leave the pound and all its market craziness and control-mania to those who like that kind of thing; we'll ensure our safety and peace and freedom through a currency alongside, but not intimately connected, and with key separations." I say at the head of this paragraph 'short-term' because I like the idea that it will become the pound that will undergo a starving process, and that, before long, the shilling might just win out, or can be mandated to through natural gravity, and we can thus exit all the nonsense that goes with internationally floated currencies. The "currency market" does seem particularly superfluous in terms of the value in ordinary people's lives.