F$C$ Pandemic

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Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Weggie's World 7

This report has come to our attention, and we feel that you might be

interested

 

 

The F$c$ Pandemic (Satire Or truth?)

 

At first, there was no money.

 

Then gold, silver, and precious metals were made into coins, for

convenience.

 

Then somebody came up with a " get-rich-quick " scheme, and invented

paper money, because precious metals (henceforth called gold) were too

heavy and inconvenient.

 

Of course, there was no limit to the supply of paper money, other than

the speed at which trees could be turned into paper. So in order to

convince people that this was a good scheme, a deal was struck whereby

a piece of paper was said to be exchangeable for an equivalent amount

in gold, and in order to keep things sensible, there had to be enough

gold to match the paper issued. This at least saved a few trees for a

while.

 

 

But then, carrying all that paper around became inconvenient, and

accounting for and storing the gold became cumbersome.

 

With the advances in technology, it became possible to represent the

paper money by numbers in computers which in turn removed the

necessity for digging up all the gold, and destroying the environment

in the process. This, thankfully, saved a few more trees, and mountains.

 

Then people became confused by the manipulation of numbers in

computers. There became a need for number manipulators (accountants,

and corporate planners), and because they didn't always agree, a need

for arbitration, so many jobs for lawyers, judges, and law courts.

 

 

Incredible schemes were created or enhanced, based on these numbers in

computers. These schemes included government budgets, the stock

exchange, foreign exchange - (the biggest joke of them all - where we

carefully distinguish between an American number in a computer, and a

New Zealand number in a computer), and then create a whole scenario

whereby people can become emotionally involved with these numbers in

computers. (F$C$ - the medical term for a mental disease created by an

Attachment To Numbers In Computers (atnic), otherwise known as the

Financial Crisis).

 

The Wunch* are particularly susceptible to F$C$.

 

All of this number manipulation, along with the associated

manipulators, bankers, insurance companies, credit companies,

advertising agencies, lawyers and other " service' industries, have

caused our cities to expand so significantly, that much of the earth's

previously productive land is now covered with concrete, and useless

for food production. It is usually valued at a higher number than food

producing land, yet it is land that produces nothing except pollution

and waste. All of this to satisfy the citizen's greed for numbers in

computers!

 

 

Many people cannot imagine a world without money.

 

Well, such a huge leap of the imagination is no longer necessary. All

you have to do is to imagine a life that is a natural life, and not

based on some numbers in computers.

 

Just try to think about life without money. Don't say " impossible! " .

You know already that if there is a power cut there is no money, so

it's not too difficult to imagine a power cut that lasts long enough

for people to find an alternative way of survival.

 

Of course, there will be serious problems, created primarily by those

people who have become emotionally attached to these numbers in computers.

 

 

So we must take a careful look at the likely scenario of the easiest

way of getting round this emotional attachment to numbers in

computers, otherwise known as " The Financial Crisis " , or F$C$.

 

Most of the people who wield power are included amongst the group

suffering from this attachment disorder. This creates a very dangerous

situation. We now know that those to whom we have delegated

responsibility for our livelihoods, and lives, are emotionally

unbalanced by the pandemic of F$C$, and as a result, so is much of the

world's citizenry.

 

In fact, so much of the citizenry supports the unbalanced leaders, and

this support, maintained by the equally-unbalanced mass media, that

F$C$ has created the environmental mayhem that all of us are now

experiencing. Don't forget, money is the root of ALL evil.

 

 

We must be gentle with these unbalanced people, because there are so

many of them. We must create a support system for them, maybe

something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, so that they can slowly

wean themselves from their irrational emotional attachment to numbers

in computers.

 

Perhaps this could be done by arranging for power-cuts of ever

increasing length and frequency. Living without power is perhaps one

of the easiest ways of helping people to become realigned with

reality, or nature as it is sometimes called.

 

Suddenly, in the absence of this attachment-to-numbers-in-computers

syndrome (F$C$), recovering patients have been known to think

different thoughts, adopt different lifestyles, and experience true

freedom and happiness for the first time in their lives.

 

Surely it is incumbent on every person who is a lert (the world needs

more lerts) to help their brethren who are suffering from F$C$, so

could you please forward this to all your alert friends, and ask them

to do the same.

 

 

For peace in our time

 

Will Scarlet

 

 

* a Wunch is a collective noun for a group of bankers,

as in a wunch of bankers.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term_L-Z)

 

 

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