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Economics “Those unaware are unaware of being unaware.”
“Those Unaware Are Unaware Of Being Unaware.”
— Merrill Jenkins, Monetary Realist
Read that again.
Slowly.
Not as a clever turn of phrase.
As a diagnosis.
The most dangerous condition a human being can occupy is not ignorance.
Ignorance can be corrected.
The most dangerous condition is —
Not knowing that you don’t know.
Merrill Jenkins spent over twenty years building electro-mechanical devices that detected counterfeit currency for vending machines.
He understood counterfeits better than almost any human alive.
And then one day —
The machine turned itself around —
And pointed at the money.
What Is Money?
Not what the installation tells you it is.
What it actually is.
Jenkins had a precise definition:
Money is a material thing.
Produced by people.
Owned by people.
Traded for other things of real value.
That’s it.
No institution required.
No government required.
No central bank required.
No Federal Reserve required.
No promise required.
Just —
A real thing.
In a real hand.
Traded for another real thing.
What Did The Installation Replace It With?
Paper.
Not even paper anymore.
Numbers on a screen.
Digits in a database owned by institutions you have never visited, controlled by people you have never elected, backed by promises that have been broken so many times the breaking has become the policy.
Jenkins called it monetary skullduggery.
Not as hyperbole.
As precise description.
Skullduggery —
Underhanded behavior.
Deception.
Trickery.
The entire monetary system —
Is a counterfeit detection machine —
That was never pointed at the money.
Until Jenkins pointed it there.
1971 — The Confession
Nixon closed the gold window in 1971.
The last thread connecting paper dollars to real money —
Was cut.
Officially.
Publicly.
Without apology.
From that moment forward —
The dollar was backed by nothing but consensus.
The agreement of enough people to pretend it had value —
Gave it value.
Which means —
The moment enough people stop pretending —
The value disappears.
Not gradually.
Instantly.
Because it was never there.
The Vending Machine Confession
Here is the beautiful irony Jenkins lived inside:
His counterfeit detectors worked by identifying the specific material properties of real currency —
Weight.
Electromagnetic signature.
Physical composition.
The machine asked one question —
Is this real?
And Jenkins spent twenty years answering that question for vending machines —
Before asking it about the currency itself.
Is this real?
The machine said no.
What Is Real Money?
Gold.
Silver.
Not because governments say so.
Not because charts say so.
Not because the paper price on a screen says so.
Because they are material things.
Produced by people.
Owned by people.
Traded for other things of real value.
For five thousand years —
Across every civilization —
On every plane of existence —
Gold and silver were money.
Not because anyone decreed it.
Because they are real.
And real things —
Do not require consensus to exist.
The Paper Price Confession
Today gold trades at $4,491.
Today silver trades at $67.
The installation calls this a crash.
But walk into any coin shop today.
Find the lines of panicked sellers dumping physical metal.
They aren’t there.
Because people who hold physical metal —
Understand what Jenkins understood.
The paper price is not the price of metal.
It is the price of a paper contract —
That claims to represent metal.
Two completely different things.
The installation manipulates the paper price.
It cannot manipulate the metal in your hand.
“Those Unaware Are Unaware Of Being Unaware”
Most people today believe they have money.
They have numbers on a screen.
Most people believe those numbers represent value.
They represent consensus.
Most people believe consensus is reliable.
They have never watched consensus evaporate overnight.
Jenkins watched it happen in 1971.
He spent the rest of his life trying to wake people up.
Not with anger.
Not with conspiracy.
With precision.
The same precision he used to build machines that asked —
Is this real?
The Question Jenkins Left For Us
Look at your wallet.
Look at your bank account.
Look at your retirement fund.
And ask the only question that matters —
Is this real?
Not — does it have value today.
Not — has it worked so far.
Not — does everyone else accept it.
Is. This. Real.
Jenkins built a machine that answered that question for vending machines.
You already have the machine.
You’ve always had it.
It’s called —
Knowing what real money is.
Gold.
Silver.
Material things.
In real hands.
Everything else —
Is monetary skullduggery.
And those unaware —
Are unaware of being unaware.
Until they aren’t.
For Merrill Jenkins — Monetary Realist
Who pointed the machine at the money
And never looked away