Modern civilization’s attempts to escape arduous work (Gen. 3: | Глазьев для думающих людей

Modern civilization’s attempts to escape arduous work (Gen. 3:19) by the sweat of the brow (healthy exercise) has led to the loss of the beautiful bucolic world of pasturage and farming where families had many healthy children and strong rugged men.

The average modern man is in hock for his home mortgage, car loan, and consumer loan and worries that his good paying job with a one-month vacation will be wiped out by imports or immigrants. He must worry that his frustrated children may develop passions for degenerate movies or disreputable rock stars that represent our new culture, but really serve as distractions to meaningless lives. The financiers are happy if we don’t recognize their sordid system, as they promote this moral disintegration.

It was not always so. Peter Jon Simpson in a pamphlet entitled Life Without Usury quotes from Thorold Rogers, Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University in the middle of the nineteenth century that “at that time (in the Middle Ages) a labourer could provide all the necessities for his family for a year by working 14 weeks.” For this the bankers had him fired.

Werner Sombart in his study of agricultural conditions in Central Europe in the fourteenth century “found hundreds of communities which averaged from 160 to 180 holidays a year.” Here was old “Merrye Englande.” That free time was used to build beautiful Gothic cathedrals.

Their crowds didn’t sit before the television watching insulting vulgarity but went a different way.

And specially from every shrines end
Of Englande to Canterbury they wende
The holy blissful martyr for to seeke
Them that hath holpen when that they were seeke.24

Who is really superstitious? The modern man who believes that paper money or bank credit has value when it has no intrinsic value, or these noble English folk who had half a year off to build Gothic cathedrals or go to shrines to venerate saints who resisted temptation? (Our movies glorify whores.) Their money was gold and silver, or agrarian goods. Real goods.

The incessant propaganda of the financially controlled media would have us believe this bucolic world never existed – and that medieval farmers were lazy, loafing dolts. But our world isn’t even a debased copy of theirs.
If we had adhered to the Biblical prohibitions against usury, our world would not have been ruined by the fangs of international finance capital. They have brought ruin to our world in two world wars and are setting the stage for another collapse outlined in “Deficit Without Tears”. We must return to God and His Bible25 and take back our Western civilization from the international financiers. The good book, dear reader, is still good.26
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2. Federal Reserve Bulletin, November 1996, Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System, Wash., DC
3. Works of Lord Byron, London: John Murray, Albermarle street, 1833, Vol. 17, Don Juan.
4. Confessions of The Old Wizard, by Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1956.
5. Tragedy And Hope, Carroll Quigley, 1966, The Macmillan Co., N.Y., (President Clinton’s favorite professor at Georgetown University).
6. Modern Money Mechanics, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago., Feb 1994
7. Settlement Risk In Foreign Exchange Transactions, Bank For International Settlements, Basle March, 1996
8. Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange And Derivative Market Activity, Bank for International Settlements, Basle, May, 1996.
9. Politics, Aristotle, Loeb Classical Library, translated by H. Rackman, Reprinted 1990. Book 1,3,23, Loeb page 51.
10. The Tragedy of Faust, by J. W. von Goethe, translated by Sir Theodore Martin, Boston, Francis A. Niccolls and Co., Publishers, 1902.