For the second time in what is probably a week, I’ve just seen an article linked about the history of money.
The timing is unlikely to be an accident, given that the money system we have is being rapidly inflated towards a systemic collapse. And that was before the BRICS partners began taking meaningful steps towards the destruction of the Petrodollar and the US Dollar Reserve Currency Status.
It is often said that history is written by the victors of wars. Perhaps it should also be applied to controllers of any monetary system – that is when money or currency has itself taken on a role which means it is valued in such a way that gives power when the system can be controlled.
Money isn’t real. It isn’t a thing. Its true purpose – before that purpose was wilfully misrepresented and manipulated – is to be a medium of exchange for anything and everything that has value.
Money is a tool and nothing more.
Instead, Money has become the ‘thing of value’ itself. Meaning that everything else, whether it’s the effort of a labourer, the time of a professional, the purchase price of a house, or the cost to buy and cook the essential food that everyone needs, no longer holds the real value that it should.
The value of things in life that really do have value, that should be dictating the size, scope and way that economics work, are instead dictated by the technicalities of how a very sick and self-serving monetary system operates.
The history of anything only matters if you intend to make it real or legitimise it or whatever you intend to anchor to it. That’s why so many politically correct and woke people are falling over themselves to rewrite and manipulate history to give ‘truth’ to whatever it really is that they intend to do.
The question is, why do the architects of the coming monetary collapse feel it is so important to focus on the history of money right now?
Adam Tugwell 