Wally Wrote: > >i am a prisoner now. i am living in cuba, for all i > know > > >every new day that i can still be online is a > miracle. when our money is > >finally converted into the new useless currency, > most companies will leave > >the country. internet will be a memory. we will > regress 30 years. > >inexorably, i too will disappear. i will be fenced > in by poverty. > > >i want to leave a record of these last days, not > because i think that i > >deserve to be remembered but because i believe that > telling my story until > >the last minute is a way of fighting. i will be > engulfed by oblivion, it > >can't be helped. but i will talking to you when i > go. > > >wally > > Steve replied: > Hi Wally, > You are one hell of a man, Wally. You have so > much conviction and inner > strength that > I know you will persevere through this tough time. > I'm here for you, so if you > need to talk, please write. > If there is anything I can do, please let me know. > Sending you love and light,
Wally, you are not going to disappear. Ever. I saw pictures of this in today's morning paper. Scary stuff. I don't get it, not at all. I'm not political and I don't know much about Argentina (unless there's something like this going on, so it always seems to be about coups, and wars). When this is all over, can you please explain to me what this is all about? How does this stuff happen? It can't just happen overnight, so what are the warning signs? It worries me because every country (that I know of) has huge debts to other countries and deficits and so on. Canada has these too and yet, we continue to lend to other countries. I don't understand how we can lend money to other people when we're already in debt to someone else (where does the money we're lending to someone else come from if we apparently don't have any?) And our Canadian dollar keeps dropping too (compared to US$ - why does the currency of one country depend on the currency of another? Why isn't there an international standard that isn't related to any country at all? One day, whoever we owe all this money to (for all we know, it could be bin Laden!) is going to foreclose and just take us over - that's the way it seems. The value of currency is all related to people's emotional state - if I worry that the dollar is going to go down, I will panic and try to get rid of all my money and get something more stable before everyone else thinks of it - and then, my worst fears come true because of fear? It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when, no matter how advanced and civilized we believe we've become, we're still ruled by basic instinct, fear being the primary driver of it all. So much for evolution. ______________________________________________________ Send your holiday cheer with http://greetings.yahoo.ca
