02-04-2013, 11:45 AM
Gold, silver, wampum, shells, cattle, tobacco (where's Len when you need him eh?) - all and more have been money at some stage. I suppose it's whatever is the current medium of exchange that works.
But all of the foregoing could, theoretically, go under my bed, and thus be used in times of crisis.
With digital money, if there's suddenly no power.... whoosh! All your wonga, wedge, ching and bunga bunga evaporates in the blink of an eye.
And me, I'm looking ahead.
And here's one reason why:
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See a large version [URL="https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/319012518087503872/photo/1"]HERE
Y[/URL]outh (under 25 years of age) unemployment figures for Europe. Almost 60% in Greece and Spain, nearly 40% in Italy - all countries that have a history of fascism. In Greece the Golden Dawn Nazi party is gaining popular support at a scary rate.
I really don't like the smell Europe is taking on.
But all of the foregoing could, theoretically, go under my bed, and thus be used in times of crisis.
With digital money, if there's suddenly no power.... whoosh! All your wonga, wedge, ching and bunga bunga evaporates in the blink of an eye.
And me, I'm looking ahead.
And here's one reason why:
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See a large version [URL="https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/319012518087503872/photo/1"]HERE
Y[/URL]outh (under 25 years of age) unemployment figures for Europe. Almost 60% in Greece and Spain, nearly 40% in Italy - all countries that have a history of fascism. In Greece the Golden Dawn Nazi party is gaining popular support at a scary rate.
I really don't like the smell Europe is taking on.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14