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The rest of this book is designed to explore the financial and economic structure of the world within this boundary condition. This structure must be understood in order that a better choice might be made by humanity in determining its future.
The Great Denial.
This modern age is not the first in history when people deny the reality before their very eyes, because what they behold challenges the axioms of their traditions and all the structures built thereon.
Such a situation is not an easy one to be dealt with with. Shakespeare understood this difficulty, Schiller understood it, all the great writers who wrote tragedies understood it, thus they endeavored to focus onto the difficulties involved in order to enable their audience to deal with the great imperatives that traditional means and concepts cannot address.
In the tragedy the heroes die. They are slaughtered because of their inability to act against traditions, against established sets of beliefs. They cannot act according to those higher demands that have never been made on them before, but which cannot not be avoided. The structure of the tragedy reveals that the hero knows deep in the hearts what the right action is, regardless of mortal danger - still the hero cannot act. The hero is not a coward in battle, or afraid to die. The difficulty lies in facing the unknown, in going against the conventional. By this the hero is doomed.
The hero in a tragedy dies so that the audience can be saved when tradition and fundamental principles are contrary to each other. In Shakespeare's "Hamlet" the hero could have saved the honor of the kingdom and the welfare of the nation of Denmark. He was thrust in a position of leadership. His own future and the fate of the nation depended on his leadership, but he failed. He simply could not do what was necessary. Thus, he perished by the very same force he had failed to deal with, and the nation suffered a loss, because of it.
In real life, however, the fate of a nation rests not with its leaders, but with itself. Its own axioms determine the political, financial, and economic climate. The values it upholds, the ideals it cherishes, the goals it strifes for, determine the quality of leadership the society seeks or tolerates. The effects that are coming to light today on the whole front of world-politics, finance, and economics indicate that the traditions on which society has depended on the whole front of its existence are dangerously wrong. People should have flocked to the lifeboats the moment the ship began sinking. The opposite is the case. But why? Why can't society act?
It is the purpose of this book to present an exploration into the background of mankind's greatest challenge to date; a challenge greater than war, pestilence, and famine combined; a challenge so severe that it will shape its future for centuries to come; a challenge that will alter the face of morality, science, technology, even the very image of man.
Future historian may refer to our present time as the great disintegration of the world-financial system of the twentieth century. Others may simply call it: The Crash of 96, or 97, or whatever the case may be. Or they may call it the great turnabout in world-history. When these phrases are heard in future times, whatever they may be, they will inevitably sum up in the minds of people the peculiarities of an era that has determined the direction of humanity for centuries to come, like World War II had, or NASA's Appolo mission to the moon, or a nuclear war might have.
What the specifics will be, of what they seen, remains yet to be determined.
The end of an era.
Future historian may see our present epoch as a great catastrophe. Few people, today, would agree. The reality is, that a phase shift has occurred that marks the end of the present area. Actually this phase shift had already begun as far back as 650 years ago, at the very beginning of the era that is about to end. The greatest shift, however, occurred some 25 years ago around the time when financial thrift was cast out of the window and the U.S. dollar was cut loose from its backing in gold to become an instrument for speculation. Out of this background erupted the biggest financial gambling frenzy and debt bubble of all times, which is about to pop.
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