The Cult of the Green God — Worshipping What Isn’t Real
We’ve built an empire around something that doesn’t actually exist — not in any tangible, survivable sense. Our currency, the almighty dollar, is a human invention with no intrinsic value, no caloric energy, no sheltering power. You can’t eat it, you can’t heat your home with it, and it doesn’t grow in the soil — yet people live and die by it.
Once, money was tied to something real — gold, silver, land, grain — the kind of wealth you could hold, plant, or store. But when we severed the dollar from anything of substance, we replaced value with belief. The modern economy is a faith-based system, and the Federal Reserve is its high priesthood. As long as people believe, the illusion holds. When belief falters, civilizations collapse.
Look at history — Rome debased its denarius with tin and lead until bread cost a week’s wages. We printed trillions during COVID as if nothing mattered, and the crowd cheered — because free money feels good until the bill comes due. Now inflation quietly steals what taxation can’t.
And for what? A piece of paper or digital entry that represents nothing. It’s not backed by gold, oil, or labor — only debt and faith. Yet men will rob, cheat, murder, and destroy families over it. We’ve replaced the natural order — where food, skill, and land meant survival — with a synthetic god of numbers and credit scores.
This is what happens when a people forget how to sustain themselves and instead cling to symbols of wealth. When the lights go out and the grid goes dark, dollars won’t save anyone. Food, water, shelter, and faith — those are the real currencies.