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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 102733, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Philosophical Frameworks</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I respect money too much to limit it to governments.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. ... Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/speech.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/speech.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/speech.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone with a checkbook or charge card creates money.&nbsp; Coins and bankotes are more interesting, even beautiful, as are stock certificates, for instance, and many other fiduciary instruments.&nbsp; On the other hand, medals are pure art in the form of coined money.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no money from Germany 1932-1945. A few years back, I found some in a bulk lot I bought and I threw them in the trash.&nbsp; Over Christmas, I organized my postal collections and I found some old stamps from that era and I wadded them up and pitched them in the trash, also.&nbsp; I have exactly one communist coin, a silver rouble from 1922, with the factory worker showing the peasant the new sunrise.&nbsp; I keep that for the bitter irony: the communists never could abandon money, no matter how they tried, any more than they could abandon the law of gravity.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I do have money issued by governments, most of my collection comes from other sources.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Govern-mentality&quot; comes from all of us having gone to public tax-funded schools.&nbsp; We were never taught anything else.&nbsp; Only a handful of original thinkers ever get beyond that.&nbsp; Numismatics limits itself when it sees itself as being in the employ of the Govern-Mint.&nbsp; Government money is just one piece of the puzzle.&nbsp; Kings and princes, democracies and republics have issued interesting coins and paper.&nbsp; So have many other organizations, incorporations, and real persons.&nbsp; In fact, if you understand the origins of tyranny in the 7th century BC, then you understand that the <u>first</u> coins were <u>personal</u> issues. We have fiduciary instruments, clay tablets with cuneiform, that are promissary notes, one person to another, from 3000 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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