Money

[Sparrisen]

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Since I'm getting kicked out of my current livingspace in 5 days, and that sucks, this lead me thinking about the fragility of things.

MONEY

Back in the day, we did NOT have money. We had goats. Give me one goat, I give you 65 carrots. We also had violence, because sometimes I didn't wanna part with my carrots. It makes sense. You trade shit.

THEN suddenly people started using money, gold and silver. That made sense, because, what if I wanted to sell my fine goat, but I did NOT actually have a need for you carrots. I could start stockpiling shit for the future, and gold   is   valuable. (still is)

Eventually, gold was too heavy, and green notes were flying about. This made sense, they're lighter, and, at the bank you were guaranteed to get a set amount of gold for your buck. (at least in sweden, this was the case.) People tried it, it seemed to work, and now we had bills. made sense.

A little later, the whole "set the currancy in alligment to gold" seemed to fall out of fashion, because the bills were valued on their own. (which is interesting, because a dollar has absolutely NIL usefullness)

Now we're in a time, where money is out of fashion. We have cards. Cards are useful, they can be used at lockpicks, bypassing the lockmechanism all together, and just going straight for the physical metal barrier holding the door in place, if it's the correct type of door. So we're running around with our useless little lockpick cards, throwing imaginary numbers around, and trust that noone cheats.

But there ARE cheating. If all people would try to take their cash out of a bank, they would realize, that a BAND doesn't HAVE their fucking money. IN FACT, a bank has PREMISSION to give out WAAAY more loans than they actually have cash. Kablaam! They trust enough people will not take their savings out in cash, and the govournments agrees.

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Personally, I have a suscpision that, in the future, near or far ahead, people will start to realize that it's all a fucking fraud, you CAN'T eat money, their plastic cards have no value when it's cold, they're hungry, tired, and there's no cash mashines about. That the GREEN serves two possible good functions:

1: It burns
2: You can wipe your ass with it

And then the shit will hit the fan. And my God, people are so good at seeing other people panicking, and then decide it's a good idea to panic themselves. Because most people don't think on their own. They look for someone else to do that for them. If there's panic, let's panic.

So it COULD be
U.S Imploding on itself due to the fat fucking dept that is nearing a stage which is unpayable. Then the numbers will fuck with themselves and multiply at rates that would probably cause a nation saying "Fuck it, we're not paying. It's only numbers anyhow and we got nukes."

It COULD be china getting powerful, sticking the finger up the air towards the world and swarming us all with yellow horney brainwashed fodder.

It COULD be a Fallout-like affair.

It COULD be like in fight-club.

It COULD be a massive disease, rendering the system USELESS.

It COULD be like armageddon.

It COULD be global warming getting out of hand, and creating hell on earth.

It COULD be a lot of SHIIIT, rendering our comafortable little world and our green green values, absolutely fucking OBSOLETE.


These were the thoughts that were running through my head as I did my shopping today. I'm sick, so I'm melodramatic. And I thought "Fuck." -it's amazing that shit haven't ALREADY gotten out of hand.

Then I started thinking about, what it would take for a person to live through that, and prosper. And I got to think about a friend of mine, and what he was telling me about a girl that wouldn't want to have sex with him. Basically he said:
"She's weird. She's SOOO fucked up. Back in the day she would have DIED thanks to her uselessness. I honestly think so. It's just what I think, I think some people just doesn't have it, and if their environment would change, they would DIE OUT. And she's useless like that, meant by nature, to die."

This is said by a dude that I'm 95% that he'd find a way to survive fucking fallout. By the time people would be going "uuh, is it OK to steal food from the abandoned stores?" he would already have loaded everything into an underground bunker-complex, made a steady empire out of people with the right attitude and drive only, and left the rest of the raff outside to die in the ozonlayer free radiated wasteland.

I know that because, it's the way he lives, when there's actually NO disaster about. He's continually in distaster-mode, and does whatever he does to absolutely 100%, and doesn't give a FUCK about anybody or anything. I've seen him go out with 40 degrees celcius fever to pick up chicks, succeeding at it by sheer willpower, because he wanted to practise his social skills. Would you do it, if your life depended on it?

I say MAYBE. ---MABE people would muster the same drive, if their life depended on it, and the rest - would die out.

This naturally got me thinking... Would ***I*** be the one to die out? Am *I* unfit to pass my genes on, because my kids will lack the willpower to pull their dicks off the earth?

I don't know.

[Sparrisen]

I believe, today, if society stopped giving people food 50% would just sit on their ass and eventually die, 45% would panic when they realized it wasn't a reality show and survive PERHAPS a little bit longer than the passive ones, and perhaps 5% would get creative. Maybe.