DESIRE FOR CHANGE

Before any reform of the monetary system can take place, a desire for reform must be created.

A desire will spring from two sources. First is from the realisation of how much harm is being done by the existing system, pollution of the environment, global warming and death from starvation. Second is from the discovery of the vast improvement in the quality of our lives, which is being denied to us. Most people have first-hand experience of hardship created by enforced economies.

This can range from waiting until it is too late for an operation, to losing your local Post Office, seeing farmer friends driven out of business, your friends in the fishing industry laying up their boats and for all of us old age, if we get there, will be a time of personal poverty.

You can draw up your own list, which if shared amongst us all, will read like a national disaster.

And yet after the longest peace in our history, with the possibility of advanced technology removing all the drudgery of life and freedom for each and every one of us, to turn toil into the joy of creation, we find the rat race harder and harder to run.

It is absurd to have all the resources we need in the form of skill, technology and creativity, along with the limitless bounty of nature and yet be forced to wantonly waste that bounty, whilst we work harder and harder to achieve less and less.

It is even more absurd than you can see, because the real possibilities of a far, far better life are carefully hidden from view.

There is nothing new about all this, I am merely reminding you of what you know already, but what you may not know is the real reason that this civilisation of ours, which could be a golden age, is instead, an age of accelerating decadence.

It is all because our innate desire to help each other with a generous exchange of what we can willingly do, for what we can receive, is thwarted by having no sensible means of exchange. Debt is not a sensible means of exchange and we have no other.  The joy of giving is far greater than that of receiving.

If we had a free Press that was not owned or controlled by those financiers who enslave us with debt, these absurdities would be constantly brought to our attention and the demand for change would be overwhelming.