The reason Capitalism and G8 have a link is because, without doubt, G8 is one of those centre pieces for the leaders of Capitalism - or at least the political leaders of Capitalism. They go hand in hand with one another.
In the streets of Belfast, London and Fermanagh we see thousands of red flag wavers taking to the streets (alongside some Union Flag protesters in Belfast, but they are so irrelevant it's hilarious) in protest of the G8 summit leaders. This makes me sad that it is dominated by Socialists and Communists. While I admire their commitment to anti-capitalism it makes me depressed that they turn to the left leaning politics in their anti-capitalistic stance - as if Socialism or Communism will make everything better again. It won't.
But that's a debate for another day, comrades. The reasons I am anti-capitalist is because I am anti-money; or at least, I'm anti-money in the ways it seen by the population at large throughout the world. I can't understand the concept of money and how it works these days. Once upon a time it was the weight of precious metals that determined how much your coins were worth - now it's some sort of thing called the 'world economy' that pretty much depends on what the US$ is worth - and I'm screwed if I know how that actually works.
The reasons I say I don't know how it works is because I am honest. You can watch all these 'financial analysts' on BBC, ITN, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and so on, say how the dollar is not worth such and such because of such and such and such and such must happen for such and such to happen to the dollar and how this, for some reason, has to affect me and it might or might not actually be my fault that the dollar isn't worth so much against the Euro but is against the Japanese Yen.
No, I've no idea how it works...and neither do they. I don't actually think anyone does - unless there is some economic god who does understand it and knows how it all works. If that is the case then that person is the one controlling it - this means Alex Jones and David Icke were right all along which would be a serious matter for concern because Jones and Icke CANNOT be right. For any Infowars subscribers out there, I'm not going to debate you on why these two men and their friends are idiots - they just are, ok? OK...
Now...money is the single most important thing in the world - or at least that's what we're told. We go to Primary School and learn the alphabet, numbers and science where we find out if we're in any way smart. Then we go to lower school and get told how every grade matters for our 'careers,' then we go to middle school and do our GCSEs which decide our careers, then we go to college or 6th form and we focus on our careers. Then we might go to university as well and further focus on them. All for those sweet sweet pay cheques at the end of the month. As Neil Diamond says, money talks...
...but it don't sing and dance. Why should, what really makes the world metaphorically go round the sun, be so fucking complicated to a simpleton like me? Money matters more to me and the rest of my low born comrades than most - because we constantly have to worry about it. We constantly have to worry about it because the media keeps telling us to and that's only because the government keeps telling them they're worried to. Why is it that if I have £100 in my bank account it may not be worth a pile of steaming dog shit in a year's time? And what the hell do those feckin' Americans have to do with it all the time? Inflation? Who give's a shit, I want my hundred quid and I want a new set of headphones worth a hundred quid!
American capitalists and even British capitalists should not have anything to do with my money. I earned my money (or actually, I probably took it off the government because I'm a full-time student), and I really don't see any reason why a currency that is used thousands of miles away should have anything to do with me. This is why America is the most powerful nation on earth - that's a bad thing.
I don't have the answers to how the monetary system should work in the world but anyone who thinks this is the end game for the world in terms of how we measure wealth and buy things and shit like that who hasn't made a substantial gain out of it must be a bit insane or very easily influenced by propaganda systems. This is why, for now, I describe myself as a fiscal anarchist. I know that isn't a real thing because I made it up. I simply have no care for money - all I know is that I need it if I want to survive because, as of now, I'm not going out to live in the forest for the rest of my days and there is certainly nothing I can do about it on my own - the value of money is determined by the value that people attribute to it.
At least I won't have to pay tax if I live in the forest...
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