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Talks with the dead. By Hannes Messenger
Reader, O, Reader, I write in rickety rhymes
most of the times
and often some meaning is hidden
in the things I have written
but often, I am afraid
They are just a memno technical aid.
Lordly, O, Lordly, you
who brought to their joy
your people to Canada with the help of Tolstoy
freedom you didn't let them choose
so in the end they had to lose
whatever they could achieve
and for them I grieve
because even the most idealistic man
gets tired of working for the bogeyman
Division of labor is the law of the land
And that is ruled by the law of supply and demand.
Gesell, O, Gesell, it took
nearly hundred a year
for a single guy in all academia the message to hear
you were so ahead of your time
and it is such a crime
that the so-called economists of ivory land
don't know the law of supply and demand
and they brought the world to the brink
It looks like the guys in the think tanks can't think. .
Michael, O, Michael, known
by only a few
with your money, no money you did something new
but in a world that is rotten
you are nearly forgotten
That's why I cry loud
in letters which shout
MICHAEL UNTERGUGGENBERGER is your name
and one day the world will know of your fame.
Ezra, O, Ezra, you who sang
the truth in Pisa
in your grave you must rotate
when you see the sorry state
our world is in and Wörgl more than 60 years ago
and nobody will ever know
What could have happened if they had let it be?
no depression, no World war two with its misery
no Atomic bombs and no Vietnam too
no Alan as the Dompteur in the zoo
no USURA, and the Dompteur would
have the teeth
to keep the world at peace
there would have been no desert storm
The apple would be without a worm.
Wörgl, O, Wörgl
is the little bridge still there, who
Bears the sign: built with FREIGELD in
1932?
Are you dreaming the impossible dream?
Of what could have been?
When 300 were ready to follow the example
And knees were shaking in Mammon's temple.
Now another hope fell into the pit
We have seen the end of SOCIAL CREDIT.
Not that they were ever willing to rock the boat
But who else can keep Gesells idea afloat?
Nobody prevented what they could have done
Using the money but now they are gone.
Ayn, O, Ayn you were so bright
and still couldn't see
that gold is the cause of the misery
mankind is stupid like an ox
they dig the stuff to bury it in Ft.Knox
and their freedom they lose
when as money they put it to use
and it is no mystery
that they did it in all of history
and nobody could understand
The law of supply and demand.
Ivan, O, Ivan you tried for
many a year
to follow the Marxist idea
and all the suffering was in vain
Just like in Cuba or Spain.
And now you opened the gate
for the restoration of the state
That was the cause of it all
Capitalism and you learned nothing at all.
Willy, O, Willy, you who
found Orgon
let me know if it was a Con,
Were you crazy like a fox?
when they put you in the jailer's box
or were you one of the few,
Who suffer when they find something new?
You should have known better
Even cloud busters can't always fight the weather.
And the FDA had the nerve
To kill you off, which you didn't deserve.
Nicola, O, Nicola,
You should have stayed in Croatia,
because you didn't get many thanks
when you lived with the Yanks
They gave the fame to Edison,
who pales in comparison,
to you who gave the city lights to us
to you I lift my hat
You are one of the all-time great.
Victor, O, Victor, we all
should be glad,
that you didn't loosen your disks in a world which is mad
You kept them from being used by the krauts.
And they are better out of the hands of terrorist louts.
And it would cramp my style
with the overpopulated world so mobile
that they all could land very hard
in my very own backyard.
Adam, O, Adam, Smith was your name
and you got a lot of fame
for being the first to see,
that division of labor creates wealth
and that is no mystery,
but if you knew, you never so said,
that without money you couldn't get paid.
And you filled you book
with tales of volunteer army's instead.
Lordly is Peter Veregin,
leader of the doukhobors.
Michael Unterguggenberger
was the mayor of Wörgl at the time of the Experiment.
Usura is the term Ezra
used for usury ( look that up in a dictionary).
Wörgl is a little
town in the Austrian Alps.
Freigeld is the name Silvio
Gesell used for his proposed money.