JANUARY-MARCH '10
Sherlock Holmes knows no more than you do, my dear Reader, but he may (or may not) be more adept at putting the clues together.
(Full disclosure: I had the basic elements of this play in mind long ago. I can’t say what triggered putting these elements in a Sherlock Holmes context except that I’ve always harbored a kinship with his character. In any case, when I started this project in early October, I was entirely unaware that a new Sherlock Holmes movie was forthcoming.)
The Church of St. Ayn Deconsecratedword count: 2,116
The two faces of Ayn Rand critiqued. One found attractive. The other less so.
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A note of appreciation to a conscientious hacker who dove deep enough into the bowels of the Internet to grace my humble, obscure site.
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Much to his surprise, David Stelzer finds himself on the way to Planet Luxenben.
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The reasons fissures keep occurring in the economy is the same reason cracks keep appearing in the walls of some houses. The problem in both cases is that they’re sitting on a shaky foundation. Plastering over the cracks doesn’t help for long; the next tremors from below dislocate things all over again.
The question “what’s wrong with our economic system?” thus ineluctably leads to the question, “what’s wrong with money?”
Money Redefined, Part IIWord count: 1404
A citizen’s financial life is centered on his account at the National Bank–the privately-held institution that has been granted the authority to handle consumer transactions for the entire population. Everyone is issued an account at birth and keeps it for life. All his transactions–deposits and deductions–flow through this one account for there can be no other account or other means of exchange: no paper currency, no coinage.