Thoughts on the collapse of empire and where we are headed
By Crypto
GoldSeek.com
Sunday, 11 January 2015
For hundreds of years the Romans administered a far flung empire with hand written documents. Meanwhile they stamped out billions of coins. So why didn’t they stamp out documents? This should have been trivial and obvious.
Apparently making many uniform copies of documents was not nearly as important as making many uniform copies of coins.
The Romans had plays and poems, histories, biographies, laws, technical books. Documents were valuable possessions, laboriously transcribed by slaves.
The Romans valued status above all. Access to books went with status. Those of high status did not want cheap books. That would have upset the system that maintained their status.
The primary barrier to change has always been the threat that change poses to those who have power in the prevailing system. Moreover, the primary threat to humans at the top has always been and is now, loss of status.
Many may be sacrificed to preserve the status of the powerful; many enslaved to serve the status of the powerful. Today status is fiat currency units, which are an abstraction. There are so many fiat currency units and obligations to pay the same floating around, that all of these currency units could buy the whole world many, many times over.
With virtually unlimited currency units, the elite own the labor of as many humans as they want. The elite can’t deny access to cheap knowledge, so that is no longer the basis of their status. Land, houses, planes are NOT the primary measure of status. In fact there are not enough things to buy with all of the currency units. Status comes from access to the machine that spews forth raw currency units and this will continue to be the case as long as people work like slaves for the currency units.
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