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I don't know, am I?
Paranoid Puppet Master,
If you don't know, who does?
I don't, that is why I asked.
You wrote this:
So throughout history people were using electricity as sound money? I'm shocked!
I didn't write that, you did.
You make a statement, and add a question mark to the end of the statement. Why?
Why did you do that?
Your statement is false, as if someone, not you, but someone wrote that false statement.
Who wrote that false statement?
You, or someone else but you?
As far as I know you are the only one who wrote that false statement, and as far as I know you are the only one who chose to put a question mark at the end of the false statement that you alone wrote.
Do you intend to connect me, somehow, with the false statement that you wrote, as if to suggest that I wrote the false statement that you alone wrote? I don't know. I ask.
I know why I write the things I write, and all you have to do is ask, and I'll tell you why I choose the words I choose. If you ask me I won't answer with "I don't know", since I do know why I choose the words I choose. I won't then ask you to tell me why I choose the words I choose, since you can't know, since I write the things I write, not you.
You highlight with bold text some of the words I choose:
Gold bugs have been around for a long time
Here is a reference:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=labadie;cc=labadie;rgn=full%20text;idno=2916966.0001.001;didno=2916966.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000001
That is a reference to the statement I made, and that is a supporting reference to the statement that you quoted in bold text. That is a reference concerning the group of people who are known by what they think, and known by what they do, as being in the group known as Gold Bugs. There is a quote in that reference that I will choose to republish right here, right now, because it is relevant to the message I intend to report to whomever has an interest in these facts.
Title:
OF INTEREST TO GOLD BUGS.
by Stephen Pearl Andrews
Date of the republication is 1881
Benjamin R. Tucker Publisher (Black Market Press in those days, competing against the monopoly mass media press of those days)
A field which has no fence upon one of its sides is not fenced in, no matter how high and strong its fences may be on the other sides. So the volume of the currency is not, in any true sense, limited by prohibitions of free banking, by a return to specie basis, or by any other means, so long as negotiable paper can be freely issued by individuals; and this free issue of negotiable paper is too useful, and too well intrenched in necessity, ever hereafter to be interfered with. Commerce can be hindered and trammeled to some extent-it may even, for a time, be seriously disturbed-by statute arrangements claiming to regulate the currency, whether by restrictive measures, or by flooding the community with over-issues; but the volume of the currency can no longer be adjusted by such means.
Now you, or anyone, can begin to understand the full measure of what I am reporting as I choose the words I choose to report what I can, as I can, within my power to do so, and that source, that Mr. Andrews, is not just some crack head in history. You can know more, or you can choose to remain ignorant of your own motives, and you can choose to rely upon other people to tell you what you mean, if that is your choice.
Today there is even less of a fence that can overpower the need for a more accurate currency, or power to purchase, as can be illustrated with such things as:
PayPal
E-Gold
Liberty Dollar
City run legal currency experiments of which I can link examples
Private Stocks
Private Bonds
Government stocks
Government bonds
Personal Checking accounts
Electricity
Algae based fuel
Cooking oil based fuel
Fuel made through the process of electrolysis by which sewage is fed into a device and hydrogen is produced.
and
now
Electricity
All of which are forms of currency, open parts of the fence, black market competitors, or even legal competitors, until the monopoly powers exert monopoly power to crush so fatal a spirit as legal competition.
Those are my word choices. Those are not your versions of my word choices. I choose those words for reasons that I know, and I don't have to ask anyone to tell me why I choose those words.
I don't know, am I?
You are at one time claiming to speak for me, and in the next moment you don't even know why you publish those supposed versions of my words?
Are you serious?