Shiraz Dindar's Blog

money as debt

Shiraz Dindar — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:25:17 -0700

Someone just created this change, and I thought I would join it and blog about this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

It's a cartoon video which explains in clear, everyday english, how money has become literally, debt -- and shows how banks have engineered this system of oppression. In the end, it's so startlingly simple that it's downright shocking. Basically, banks print money out of thin air*, and then give out loans. People take the loans because they need money, use the money amongst each other, and everyone ends up owing the banks. Banks continue to print money, and money loses its value, hence inflation. So people need more money. It's a never ending cycling, that's downright demonic.

Check the video, it explains it better than I can:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

Shiraz

* the "out of thin air" part is the hard part to believe. You'd think there was some governance to it, and there is, but it's been slowly dissolved over the years due to the efforts of the banks, to the point now where it really is like printing money out of thin air, whereupon the banks run the government, not the other way around. The video explains how this has come to be.

so far so good

Shiraz Dindar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:54:44 -0700

You know, I'm *really* glad I set this intention via the change here on Change Everything, because it comes up often that I feel critical of something my family is doing, but at those times I remember that I wrote this whole community that I want to be more compassionate with my family members, and I catch my tongue just in time. It's been hugely helpful.

It takes some psychological preparation.

Shiraz Dindar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:58:21 -0700

As the days tick by, I'm thinking about all the things I love about my family. My dad's quirkiness, my mom's deep well of kindness, my older sister's all round good vibes, my younger sister's friendly social disposition.