A Summons on the Mount
"To buy gold is to short the dollar. To buy
gold is to conclude that Congress will eventually ruin the
currency. This means that the promises of Congress are not
reliable. Very few Americans can bring themselves to
believe this. So, they remain on the sidelines."
--Gary North, May 4th, 2010
Are we on a de facto gold standard? With gold at near $1,200 per ounce and poised, like a cat ready to leap up on a window sill, to hit $1,500, I wonder if I shouldn't be shorting the dollar, too and spending my hard-earned unemployment compensation on coins (1/4 ouncers and the like).
One thing I know for sure, as toxic tongues of oil begin to lick the shores of Louisiana and Florida, we are all participants in a vast ruination of natural wealth and the material world. Is believing in the dollar like believing in an abstract, immaterial God whose protection is best expressed and most manifest beyond His most sacred and intimate manifestation, the Creation? I think it the most abominable atheism to dematerialize God because it rationalizes our colossal failure of stewardship and confirms the cowardice of our faith in and the failure of our flesh to be incarnation. Capitalism is waging and winning a war of self-hatred against Nature--and its success at doing so poses a far greater threat than nuclear weapons. We are using weapons of economic mass destruction every day and refusing to elevate these acts above the category of misdemeanor. Why are the safety rules for oil rigs not as tough and zealously monitored as those for nuclear facilities? An exploding oil rig is tantamount to an exploding nuclear warhead. Hence it is a war crime and should be as actionable as any attempt to blow up a tourist area.
A HASTILY CONSTRUCTED CREDO OF PRESENT BELIEFS
Here's what Libertarian Dave believes: Every bank bailout decriminalizes corporate mass destruction of habitat. We should adopt a "too big to succeed" yardstick and prevent any institution from amassing the capital means to commit economic or environmental mass destruction.
Here's what Imagist Dave believes: The great glacial meltdown is only a vivid, accurate metaphor for the blind friction and terrifying heat of money changing hands in the Christ-less temple courtyard of Creation.
Here's what Sufi Dave believes: If there is one world that we live in, it is the Incar-Nation. Hence we have no choice but to be the sons of God and no chance for continued existence without sharing this fact and deciding to be so. Our birthright can only be found in preserving our birthplace.
Here's what mad-dog Dave believes: the anti-Christs like Monsanto and Haliburton (which operated BP's oil rig)--all run by God-fearing men--are on the verge of final poisoning of the planet, the only known staging area for mass salvation. Killing 10 million shrimp and every other estuarial life form is tantamount to turning an ocean into a slaughter house and concentration camp. Thus we must ask: Who is guilty of the greater genocide? BP (and its proxies) or the latest dough-faced Pakistani Taliban proxy trying to blow up an SUV in Times Square? Why didn't the FBI abort the takeoffs of every corporate jet belonging to these companies that plot against the Incar-Nation?
Here's what Left-wing, One-World Dave believes: Only when we frame the organized exploitation of nature in kindred contexts of mass destruction and eco-terrorism will we begin to address the calamity that has arrived.
Here's what defrocked atheist Dave believes: The terrifying parallels between our belief in the false infinite wealth of money, rather than the true finite physical wealth represented by gold (sorry, all you believers in "Lord of the Rings"), echos our belief in a God who rules by fiat--a disembodied corporate God with a leadership style akin to Jack Welsh not Jesus Christ. It should be considered both absurd and impossible to believe in a God beyond His creation or separate from it. That distance simply mirrors and projects our own alienation from the Creation and our adamant irresponsibility as a result.
Music, maestro, please--in this case, "The Best Things in Life are Free."
gold is to conclude that Congress will eventually ruin the
currency. This means that the promises of Congress are not
reliable. Very few Americans can bring themselves to
believe this. So, they remain on the sidelines."
--Gary North, May 4th, 2010
Are we on a de facto gold standard? With gold at near $1,200 per ounce and poised, like a cat ready to leap up on a window sill, to hit $1,500, I wonder if I shouldn't be shorting the dollar, too and spending my hard-earned unemployment compensation on coins (1/4 ouncers and the like).
One thing I know for sure, as toxic tongues of oil begin to lick the shores of Louisiana and Florida, we are all participants in a vast ruination of natural wealth and the material world. Is believing in the dollar like believing in an abstract, immaterial God whose protection is best expressed and most manifest beyond His most sacred and intimate manifestation, the Creation? I think it the most abominable atheism to dematerialize God because it rationalizes our colossal failure of stewardship and confirms the cowardice of our faith in and the failure of our flesh to be incarnation. Capitalism is waging and winning a war of self-hatred against Nature--and its success at doing so poses a far greater threat than nuclear weapons. We are using weapons of economic mass destruction every day and refusing to elevate these acts above the category of misdemeanor. Why are the safety rules for oil rigs not as tough and zealously monitored as those for nuclear facilities? An exploding oil rig is tantamount to an exploding nuclear warhead. Hence it is a war crime and should be as actionable as any attempt to blow up a tourist area.
A HASTILY CONSTRUCTED CREDO OF PRESENT BELIEFS
Here's what Libertarian Dave believes: Every bank bailout decriminalizes corporate mass destruction of habitat. We should adopt a "too big to succeed" yardstick and prevent any institution from amassing the capital means to commit economic or environmental mass destruction.
Here's what Imagist Dave believes: The great glacial meltdown is only a vivid, accurate metaphor for the blind friction and terrifying heat of money changing hands in the Christ-less temple courtyard of Creation.
Here's what Sufi Dave believes: If there is one world that we live in, it is the Incar-Nation. Hence we have no choice but to be the sons of God and no chance for continued existence without sharing this fact and deciding to be so. Our birthright can only be found in preserving our birthplace.
Here's what mad-dog Dave believes: the anti-Christs like Monsanto and Haliburton (which operated BP's oil rig)--all run by God-fearing men--are on the verge of final poisoning of the planet, the only known staging area for mass salvation. Killing 10 million shrimp and every other estuarial life form is tantamount to turning an ocean into a slaughter house and concentration camp. Thus we must ask: Who is guilty of the greater genocide? BP (and its proxies) or the latest dough-faced Pakistani Taliban proxy trying to blow up an SUV in Times Square? Why didn't the FBI abort the takeoffs of every corporate jet belonging to these companies that plot against the Incar-Nation?
Here's what Left-wing, One-World Dave believes: Only when we frame the organized exploitation of nature in kindred contexts of mass destruction and eco-terrorism will we begin to address the calamity that has arrived.
Here's what defrocked atheist Dave believes: The terrifying parallels between our belief in the false infinite wealth of money, rather than the true finite physical wealth represented by gold (sorry, all you believers in "Lord of the Rings"), echos our belief in a God who rules by fiat--a disembodied corporate God with a leadership style akin to Jack Welsh not Jesus Christ. It should be considered both absurd and impossible to believe in a God beyond His creation or separate from it. That distance simply mirrors and projects our own alienation from the Creation and our adamant irresponsibility as a result.
Music, maestro, please--in this case, "The Best Things in Life are Free."
posted by David Federman @ 3:30 AM
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