LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Some of you MUST stand back now and then, and sift out what you hear
on your air. What you read in your papers. Must perceive that most of it
is flimflam, that is, stuff poured out to get your mind off the fact, and to
KEEP you from reflecting on the facts, and keep you from thinking at all
of a sane order. There are plenty of flights of what Lenin called
derisively “revolutionary inventiveness.” Meaning schemes detached
from reality and possibility. Plans divorced for [from] true data.
All right. Where have we got to? You don’t know. Perhaps no one does
know. But at any rate in the debating club, the international, mondial
world wide, etc. academy of the air, certain points have been made. In
fact nearly all the points I have been arguing these past few years HAVE
BEEN made. And made so thoroughly that your official world just has to
pretend they aren’t there. Just as the press always did ignore certain facts
for as long as possible.
Your parliament does discuss points that were smothered for decades.
Gold for example. Even Monty Skinnergue Norman knew that the value
of gold is not stable. It fluctuates. Tables of its fluctuations were printed.
A few bright lads deplored a gold standard simply because it did not
recognize the mutable value of gold. Didn’t let it rise and fall on the
market according to the law of supply and demand.
Irving Fisher’s arguments about its fluctuability were, I suppose, used to
help in the greatest gold brick swindle (I suppose it was about the
greatest of all time). Gold fluctuates, Its price today is as never before a
fancy price. It has gone out of use, it is not necessary as is oil or wheat.
Nations can live for years without it. They could live without it
altogether IF they were not attacked from outside. Its price is a fancy
price. Not a fancy price such as is paid for a Rembrandt; not a fancy
price as is paid for an old painting by a great master. Say there are only a
dozen or ½ dozen Giorgiones, mostly in museums, national property,
and, if there is one for sale and you can get six or eight millionaires all to
think that they want it, you run up a fancy price. But gold is not even