Just for a moment, stop thinking about just the platinum coin and metals, and ask why we are simultaneously discussing the periodic table of the elements, currency operations and national liquidity? To grasp our situation, don't we first need a Periodic Table of Political Developments in order to improve the level of discussion?
Why? Because a curious but predictable collision of "beliefs" is looming. One that requires a table of known and predictable interactions to understand.
Treasury spokesman: Treasury, Fed [believe we shouldn't use the] platinum coin to avoid debt ceiling
Ouch! No, you're not imagining it. Your paycheck just shrunk.
So it's clear that what's more important to increasingly isolated politicians is politics over operational overhead. To them, in their isolation, the frictions of people's real lives will never be as important as political frictions .... until they are. Oh dear. Must we really go through another iteration of the same experiment? Can't we improve situational awarenss and use an informed design-of-experiments to accelerate selection of better outcomes from better experiments on ourselves?
Personally, I sense another cross current coming on. Another one that "no one could have predicted" would happen, at least not any politicians isolated in their own little ideological worlds.
Here's an Open Letter to Beowulf and Ellen Brown, progenitors of the Platinum Coin bypass procedure.
Ellen, Beowulf,
You've uncovered one, unintended platinum option. How about using your new bully pulpit to point out additional options? Citizens could use forgotten or unexpected clauses in their Constitutional rights, start thinking for themselves, and vote 'da bums out?
How about a platinum-grade, open social movement to invalidate the impact of paid-for propaganda ... by simply ignoring it?
Or, moving more to the left :) along both periodic charts, you could scale up from gold to platinum to IRIDIUM - similar conductance but physically tougher and less malleable. :) And just like the scarcity of citizen courage versus paid propaganda, iridium is even more scarce than either gold or platinum. Among the rarest of rare earths.
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Do we even have a Periodic Table of Political Developments? No? then we need one. One that lays out all the Control Fraud scams currently keeping us in the dark about our own options. On that - call it a Periodidiotic Chart - PureIdiom would cap a column among the Mentals - one step short of the unstable isodopes of Delusium. It's operational import follows only because the Mental catalysts can have a strong effect on the bleak minded.
