I buy gold (and silver) for
one reason. That reason is that things are about to change. That was my
conclusion in June of 2000 and I sense the approach of that change growing
ever closer.
I am not just talking about the usual economic
reasons such as the gross debasement of fiat currencies around the world, or
the insane levels of debt created with enthusiastic abandon by our shifty,
self-serving politicians or the equally idiotic levels of private debt;
neither am I talking about the sheer indifference and/or incompetence of our
governing officials and their enthusiastic squandering of the vast taxes
confiscated from the peasants who continue to work and create and produce
despite all inducements to not do so.
I am referring to the fact that Western civilisation
is beset with a stupidity that is so rampant, so widespread and so ingrained
that it cannot continue for much longer. 'Stupidity' is the opposite of
'smart' and both words can only exist in the context of survival in one form
or another. We have drifted so far from survival as a race that we have
placed survival itself at risk.
How is it possible for people to not understand that
rewarding the incompetent by the process of penalising the able will lead to
greater incompetence? How is it possible to believe that punishing producers
to reward non-producers will do anything but eventually and logically cause a
total cessation of production?
We live in a world where the mindless trilling of
politicians and aging pop singers is regarded as the font of all wisdom; a
world where some people really believe that the end is nigh because of global
warming and that the government ought to spend itself billions of dollars
even further into debt doing something about it… as if an organization
that cannot deliver mail properly could save the world from a meteorological
catastrophe. We live in a world where less than 50% of the workforce actually
create wealth and who subsequently then have to support the more than 50% who
do not; where private employers may no longer dictate the terms of employment
to their own employees. A world where general practitioners who are trusted
with nations' health are so ignorant of real causation, let alone healing,
that it is usually safer not to go to them, and where psychiatrists drug
human brains in crazed attempts to solve problems of the mind.
At the same time as our governments have confiscated
most of the financial benefits from the most major technological advance of
the human race ever, they have managed via their daft social engineering
schemes and outright corruption to simultaneously bankrupt western
civilisation in the manner of tin-pot African dictators peeling the skins off
banana republics.
We live in a world where new legislation banning
something or other spews forth every week from our governing elite creating
more and more criminals to the point where nothing, and I do mean NOTHING is
not covered by some incomprehensibly complex piece of government legislation.
The legislation is so obtuse that it is literally not possible to ever comply
fully with any certainty even if one was so inclined.
I was speaking with a policewoman a few years ago
who told me that she tends to only socially mix with other members of the
force. The reason? "Everyone always looks so guilty and uncomfortable
when I tell them that I am a police officer. Everyone has done something that
breaks the law." And that sums up the truth of the matter. Our
governments have made criminals of all of us whilst allowing real criminals
to roam free and easy on the streets.
The constant promises of governments to end
corruption and inequality and monopolies inevitably lead to greater
corruption and greater inequality and greater monopolies and still people
cannot see the obvious which is that government control is the problem, not
the solution. It is as though the spirit of Walt Disney rules the western
world and is producing a vast Road Runner fantasy whereby society can fall
over steep cliffs and then pick itself up, dust itself off and carry on as
though nothing had really happened. Well we are heading over a cliff, but
society will not be able to pick itself up and dust itself off afterwards. Things
are going to change big time when and after we reach the bottom.
Survival is based upon making decisions that result
in actions conducive to survival. Such decisions can only sanely be made at
the level of the individual. Sometimes individuals get it wrong and suffer
the consequences, so be it, but with governments taking over the decision
making role you can be sure that those wrong calls will become
institutionalised; and you can also be sure that there will be an awful lot
of wrong calls. That is what has got us to where we are now.
Heading down the path that we are currently treading
it is a foregone conclusion that both personal and business initiative will
cease to exist and that we will be reduced to the intellectual and economic
level of Cuba or North Korea. In its ever more obsessive pursuit with saving
our bodies our governments are killing our souls and in the process are
reducing people to a level of apathy. Most
people don't like it, but they don't feel that they can change anything. Is
that a definition of apathy, or what leads to apathy? I'm not sure.
Domestic
turkeys don't have a high IQ and over the generations have had responsibility
for their own survival bred out to the point that when born they have to be
trained how to drink water by placing sparkling coloured marbles at the
bottom of the water bowl for them to play with. Without this aid the poults
(young turkeys) die of thirst. There is a similarity between these poults and
the citizens of modern societies who rely on and trust governments to such a
degree that they feel no personal responsibility for their own survival.
To place that
much faith in unaccountable governments is a sure recipe for non-survival.
Because people start with a higher IQ than turkeys the process takes longer,
but the result will eventually be the same. The poults actually have the
advantage in that it is in the interests of the farmer to keep the turkeys
alive… at least until Christmas. No such incentive exists for the
politicians. Why would they really care whether you live or die unless it is
some way affects their electoral standing? The survival traits of the human
race are being bred out by a lazy illusion of permanent prosperity and safety
brought about by wise and benevolent Great Nanny States. It is all madness.
Of course it
will come to an end. Eventually our apathetic tolerance of such foolishness
will give way to anger which will quickly become rage. Change is on the way
because we either change or we cease to exist as a civilisation. Our
civilisation is like a dule of young turkeys who are in danger of losing
their marbles.
One day in the
not too distant future I believe that gold and silver will be great
investments; almost as good as a stockpile of baked beans.
Sam
Mathid
December 26, 2006
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