We all–and I am guilty no doubt myself, often–get sucked into a news cycle of accusation and counter-accusation, event-interpretation-counter interpretation, such that there is so much noise, very little Big Picture, where is this all going sorts of conversations are possible. Certainly, in any event, they don’t happen.
I’ve never seen an honest public discussion of the Fed in my lifetime, not by our Congress or any President. Nor an honest analysis of the effects on our generalized well being of easy money and following inflation. As recently as the early 1970’s the value of sound money was understood. Since we forgot, the amount of money in existence has quadrupled, with most of the wealth going to 5 or 10 banks.
Some amount between $10 and $21 TRILLION remains unaccounted for over the past twenty years or so, which is something between a quarter and half of TOTAL outlays. How is a discussion of this not imperative? You could fund ANYTHING with that much money. Can we not at least audit the DoD? And how about the CIA?
It remains the case that high level, highly intelligent, well connected people have said that our government is in contact with extraterrestrials–people like Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on the moon, and Paul Hellyer, Canadian Minister of Defense. They didn’t benefit from these claims in any way I can see, and thus there was no reason to lie, and neither seems crazy. This was a favorite argument of C.S. Lewis for the sincerity of Christ, but it works equally here.
Think big.