Quote from: LeonardoDiCrypto on February 27, 2018, 06:09:27 PM

All the OP is good, but the last sentence beats all the rest. Because the problem is nore really the money, which is just an instrument. The problem is the control of the narrative. Once you have the control of the (mainstream) narrative, you have the control over reality. And of course it's all a lie, but the lie goes much deeper than the argument of money alone. And as for people awakening from this mega-lie, have no illusions. Only a catastrophe of enough magnitude will be able to act as a wake-up call.

Thank you!

So, to take in the big picture, what happened to the idea of an independent press to hold the government accountable? What happened to academic freedom? Why does it require people like you and me to point out what should be obvious to the experts, economists, and financial journalists?

You would think, any individual of these groups would want to make themselves famous by saying something novel and shock the public ('the system is really rigged -- there is no free market.')

Yet when Peter Schiff went as far as saying the housing bubble was unsustainable, back in 2007/8, he was almost laughed off the stage by his fellow commentators.

So is there a sinister conspiracy that is much better coordinated than we know, or incentives just work a certain way to shape the mainstream narrative into a grotesque version of the truth, when the public is incapable of really understanding money? That would be a good question to think about.