Name: Zeitgeist:增編(2008年) (Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:59:14.000Z
Duration: 2 h 3 min

The old appeals to racial, sexual or religious chauvinism,

"原有對於種族 性別 宗教沙文主義

to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work.

以及對狂熱民族主義的熱忱開始逐漸消退"

The business of who I am and whether I'm good or bad, or achieving or not,

是成功還是失敗的種種  都是在生活中習得的"

"這一切不過是坐一趟雲霄飛車罷了

我們能隨時改變它  這只是個選擇

It's only the choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money.

沒有所謂的成就 工作 職業 存款"

The game was to find out what I already was.

並據此構建了一個具有類似特徵的社會"

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

不存在可使其痊癒的良藥"  J·克裡希那穆提

今天的社會  是由一系列的體系組成

It is obvious, the profound influence these traditionalized structures have

in shaping our understandings and perspectives.

Yet, of all the social institutions, we are born into,

There seems to be no system as taken for granted,

和洞察力的形成  有著深遠的影響

然而  在所有這些我們生於其間

受其引導  為其所制約的社會體系中

似乎沒有哪個像金融貨幣體系那樣

the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is.

are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population.

In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planets wealth.

金錢從何而來?  受何種法規監管?

In a world where 34.000 children die every single day

and, where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day...

在這樣一個1%的人口  擁有全球40%財富的世界

And, whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of all of our established institutions,

一個全球50%人口  日均可用開銷

Therefore, understanding this institution of monetary policy

is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are.

Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with confusion and boredom.

Endless streams of financial jargon, coupled with intimidating mathematics,

quickly deters people from attempts at understanding it.

因此  理解這種金融貨幣政策的體系

The complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask.

對於理解我們的生活方式十分重要

Designed to conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures,

不幸的是  經濟學總被看作是令人困惑和無聊的學科

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1749-1832

A number of years ago, the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve,

produced a document entitled "Modern Money Mechanics".

This publication detailed the institutionalized practice of money creation

金融體系的複雜性僅僅是個假象

as utilized by the federal reserve and the web of global commercial banks it supports.

其目的是掩飾人類史上所承受過

On the opening page the document states its objective.

The purpose of this booklet is to describe the basic process of money creation

It then precedes to describe this fractional reserve process

A translation of which goes something like this:

美國的中央銀行  即美聯準(美國聯邦準備理事會  亦稱聯準會)

The United States government decides it needs some money.

So it calls up the federal reserve and requests say 10 billion dollars.

The FED replies saying: "sure, we'll buy ten billion in government bonds from you".

So the government takes some pieces of paper,

paints some official looking designs on them, and calls them treasury bonds.

Then it puts a value on these bonds to the sum of 10 billion dollars

In turn the people of the FED drop a bunch of impressive pieces of papers themselves.

Only this time, calling them federal reserve notes.

Also designating a value of ten billion dollars to the set

著重描述了這種部分準備的過程

The FED than takes these notes and trades them for the bonds.

the government than takes the ten billion in federal reserve notes,

And, upon this deposit the paper notes officially become legal tender money.

Adding ten billion to the US money supply.

"沒問題  那我們買100億的政府債券"

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