Crime Against Humanity: the Ambiguous Money Cycle – Gold Standard Cycle, 13

Survival depends upon production and exchange of survival factors, and the medium of exchange has been destroyed; the fate of any production, of any exchange and of any living entity are suddenly doomed. The problems shift from plans for the future to food and shelter now. Food, health, energy, work, security, mobility, communication, you name it: whatever survival basic, there is no more.

But that’s not all yet. Unfortunately, the pressure of hardship, depressing people down, brings out the worst out of many of them: some are wise and loving enough to strengthen their sense of brotherhood and their drive to help, but alas many are liable to slide along the stages of selfishness from indifference to beastliness. Hence the more starved the people, the more the starving is likely to be further aggravated by an increasing amount of degraded thought and behaviour and of wars among the poor, of brothers set against each other apparently by famine and hardship, fighting over a bone instead of realizing that famine and hardship are not a cause but an effect intended and caused by someone. In other words, the grievous mechanism of dwindling spiral, where each worsening makes further and deeper worsening easier and more likely and any improvement or recovery more difficult and less likely. And since this spiral gnaws at the very heart of the basic drive to survive, that the innate ethics of people at some point does a miracle, stands up and breaks this spiral is not at all a foregone conclusion, as proved by the long list of extinct peoples and civilisations.

So much for the depth of this crime against humanity; the other dimension that qualifies it as such is its breadth. There are always those reluctant to confront it; they claim that’s not true, or subordinately that this time is different. Well, fact is there’s a list of extinct moneys that’s maybe even longer than that of extinct civilisations. And that any ambiguous money enters such list is just a matter of time.

Crime Against Humanity: the Ambiguous Money Cycle – Gold Standard Cycle