Let’s say, you are somehow lost at sea, or in a jungle, or a distant mountain range and you stumble upon another advanced civilization that, somehow, has never been in contact with our civilization. You stagger up to a house, dying of thirst, and you see a man sitting on the porch with an ice-filled glass of lemonade. “Oh, yeah!” you think. You approach the man and introduce yourself. You indicate that you want to buy his glass of lemonade. You pull out your wallet, confident that you can easily afford the drink and you remove a five dollar bill and offer it to him.
He looks at the piece of paper, takes it and holds it up, examining the markings and the design. “No, thank you,” he says. “I would much rather have my iced lemonade than your interesting piece of paper.”
“But this is five bucks!” you say and in desperation you grab out a twenty, slapping it down along with the five. He examines the twenty but quickly rejects it, preparing to take a sip from his glass. The problem you have is that what you think is money is actually just “coupons to the company store”, so to speak. It has no value outside of the matrix, or the system of the beast, if you will. Because this man does not live in our system he does not recognize the supposed value of your “money”. What you are offering him is called fiat currency and it has no value of it’s own, it has the value, in your mind, of what the controllers of the matrix say it has. That might be a value of one loaf of French bread down at the supermarket, but next week it might only be worth half a loaf.
Luckily for you, he sees the real money on your finger, your simple gold wedding band. Reluctantly you remove the ring and offer it to him. It’s too much, he says and, with a pair of wire cutters, cuts out a quarter of the ring and hands you back the rest. Real money has value anywhere and is recognized anywhere. As long as the controllers keep you earning just “coupons” you can never really save or get ahead. In the early days people did not want to accept these coupons we call dollars so laws were passed forcing businesses to accept them as “legal tender”. They knew, over time the paper currency would overwhelm the real money such as gold, silver, even copper.
I often wonder if people have some sub-conscious understanding of this when they get paid and they go out and spend it all. You might think that they just blew their paycheck and now they are broke, or you might think they just wisely exchanged some worthless paper for things of value, whether it’s a pile of groceries or another month of cable TV. It comes down to what we spend our “money” on, for example, we could buy a fancy computer system of whatever type, but that will begin to lose value as soon as we buy it and it will be obsolete in a few years, or we could buy gold or silver coins and they will always have the value they have because of what they are. It’s hard to discount the entertainment value of the computer, but this is the difference between temporary and permanent when it comes to value.
Poisoned Water 