Free money
I would like to point out to readers the birth of an initiative in which I have participated since its conception: the blog Denaro Libero , a container of news and comments on the evergreen struggle to reduce or abolish the circulation of cash .
Of this self-styled "battle of civilization" that crosses the themes already dear to this blog of digitization and concentration , I dealt in an article a few years ago defining it as a nightmare, "of the many bad ideas devised by Western civilization to self-destruct … perhaps the craziest and most dangerous ». For the blog Zerohedge it would be, in short, a "direct return to servitude".
Free Money denounces the ways and pretexts of that battle and the danger of exclusively delegating the control of the flows of money, and therefore of people's lives, in the hands of banks and governments.
In the progressive attack on cash, as if it were a vice or a disease to be eradicated, not only a shameless craving for power but also, more seriously, the distortions of those who are subject to that power and tolerate or even hope for hypertrophy . There is an increasingly acclaimed idea that citizens 'freedom is not an asset to which governments' actions must strive and be subjected, but a threat to be compressed. That the many are dangerous and that instead they are not, for some reason, the few to whom the advantages of an arbitrariness without counterweights are given. Above, there is "the conception of a … hostile and punitive power in which the citizens are the enemies, not the instigators" whose oppositions must be weakened and ignored by blows of "unpopular" measures ( myth of the resistance ). And there is the transhumanist hallucination of a technology that no longer serves to satisfy the needs of men but promises to make them, even morally, better. Finally, by joining the dots, there is yet another prostitution of progress in progress, where the innovations do not assert themselves as useful but must be inflicted on those who, for having democratically expressed doubts and fears, are fearful, backward or better a clever "who has something to hide".
In short, the fight against cash is a benchmark of rare clarity in order to grasp the involutions, primarily cultural, of contemporary political sentiment. Denaro Libero intends to provide a commented chronicle focusing on a declination of the transfer of powers at the top which, if carried out, would make irreversible the transfer of the sovereignty of all, and above all, to the lords of money.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Il Pedante at the URL http://ilpedante.org/post/denaro-libero on Wed, 15 May 2019 05:00:00 PDT.