III. Terms and Presuppositions

“The Market is not benevolent.” ~ Anonymous “The market is not benevolent,” a friend of mine quips whenever I complain about this or that. He means that the market doesn’t owe you a living, and being insensate, doesn’t wish you good or ill. Like a chainsaw, it’s a great tool but dangerous to the ignorant…

“This is the end of Western civilization.” ~ Lewis Douglas (U.S. Budget Director), remark to James P. Warburg after  President Roosevelt announced that the U.S. was going off the gold standard, April 18, 1933 Lewis Douglas was wrong, of course. The end of Western civilization had already come 60 years earlier, when the United States…

Endnotes 1. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 246. 2. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 160, as amended by the Act of February 12, 1873, Statutes at Large, Vol. XVII, p. 424. 3. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. V., p. 136. 4. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. V., p. 136. 5. U.S….

“Tell me about God. I’ve almost forgotten.” ~ Four-year-old boy addressing his newborn baby brother (from Metanoia interview with Reverend John Gregory Toews) By Catherine Austin Fitts The campaign to ensure that each of us resonates in a trance with our smartphone and the local Wi-Fi—instead of with the divine intelligence as it weaves throughout…