1980;  poems include:  “All Systems That Tower Must Collapse”

October 8, 2017         It Hurts When Empires Fall

“The Roman emperors mixed more and more lead in the silver coinage (denarius), so that eventually there was almost  no silver left. That was the hyperinflation of the time. Roman citizens no longer wished to fight in the army, so the army became based on mercenaries. The word soldier comes from this. A soldier was someone who received money to fight (solidus – gold coin). In order to pay the soldiers more money had to be minted. The empire’s wars were expensive and the empire was large, so the problem was solved by minting coins that were ever more worthless.”

“US wars in the 21st century are largely financed by selling American government securities to China, in other words on China lending money to the American state.”

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