I watched a documentary the other week concerning the monetary system of the United States. It was 2 hours long but extremely intriguing and well-done. Basically, it described how debt and interest were the real powers in the country since they kept everyone under the enslavement of money. The movie described the fascinating process of the creation of money under the Federal Reserve. With every new bill printed, new debt is acquired since all debt is essential represented in the form of money. Money, therefore, is never profit, since someone, somewhere, owes that money to somebody. It highlights the viscious circle wherein all Americans live and how the government idealizes the "American Dream" to encourage people to spend more so that more debt can be acquired, and consequently, the people are further controlled by these gods: money and debt. It seems to me that money is the new god now. It can be represented in the form of bills, but these are almost false representations (idols) of what money actually stands for: debt owed to the goverment or to an institution. People work their whole lives to acquire it and spend their whole lives spending it. We can never escape it, even if we want to. To live on this earth, you need money, or else you will die early and/or live an extremely hard life. It's just a fact of life. How horrible it sounds yet how enslaved we are to it!
It is ironic to me how people believe they are free in the great country of America, or Canada for that matter since every policy Americans create, Canadians follow soon after. We are not free. Freedom is a utopian ideal, created to give people a false sense of confidence in themselves whilst the government and big businesses corrupt and suppress the lives of the common men.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am putting a link to the Zeitgeist documentary (Addendum) I watched. There are several more on here as well and I encourage you to educate yourself about this movement. I am not fully convinced of all their ideas, yet it is still very interesting to watch
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