A few months back, a friend of mine brought up how the North American economy is founded on debt and how our asses are owned by the Federal Reserve. Today I finally found the video by Paul Grignon that introduces these ideas and makes it all very clear.

It’s an animation explaining how we’ve come to find ourselves within a well-crafted money system floating on fiat currency and fueled only by promise. While this provides context to why we’re always paying and borrowing loans and how strategically managing debt and interest becomes the way to survive within this economic framework, it also turns out that the only way to maintain this system is to continue to increase national debt to no real end. Watch the entire video. It’s pretty fucked up.

Paul Grignon – Money as Debt

Equally engaging was a series of videos made by this other guy, Greg Craven, that I discovered through a Yahoo news article (and rarely do I care about what I read from Yahoo news). He’s just a high school science teacher who decided to take on the topic of global climate destabilization and all the thousands of critical reponses from viewers he received afterwards head-on by himself in pure Man vs. Internet fashion.

This is the original 1st video:

Greg Craven – The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See

He then made some response-to-feedback videos called “Patching Holes (1-3),” but most of what he says seems to be covered in this single sequel video:

Greg Craven – The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See 2

After that, Craven went on to produce an entirely organized and indexed “How It All Ends: Expansion Pack”(the beginning video is, in fact, the “Index”) series that backs up every last point of his arguments originating from “Terrifying Video.” The whole movie collection is more than a little obsessive… maybe even terrifying in it’s own way… but the amount of dedication from one guy with nothing specific to gain for himself is pretty awesome.

Hey, if YouTube has to be all about me staring at your webcammed face, at least have something thoughtful to say.

Or at least be singing Numa Numa…