Carry That Weight

What is it in the DNA of the human eye that sees gold the way it does? No other creature on earth sees gold in the same way. A proof, perhaps, that our vision of heaven is bogus might be that (for some reason) we’ve insisted on painting a picture of gilded columns with winged angels playing celestial music on gilded instruments; and there is actually very little to suggest that God views gold (or anything else in his creation) with special favor. The myth of gold seems to be entirely one of man’s creation. As such, it is subject to collapse, like currency or even, what we might call, ‘civilization’ itself.

Since mankind is given some leeway in these matters, it is understood that we are free to assign ‘value’ to whatever we want. Our assignments in this regard can be totally arbitrary. The trick, as always, is to get others to go along with it. The appropriate illusion is by no means impossible to construct. Recent examples show that it was quite successfully done culminating with our election of Barrack Hussein Obama. ‘Global warming’ is yet another such illusion. These two examples, however also show that illusions of this kind, especially ones that are designed to mask real malfeasance, will at some point blow up and vanish, leaving the perpetrators red-faced and stammering.

Gold, aside from some limited industrial applications, has little or no intrinsic value. It cannot be eaten, grown, or loved. We shall see how far its advocates are willing to carry its weight along the corpse-strewn path to irredeemable ruin.