Stage 8: Liquid Markets
Throughout the drama of the early Twentieth Century, most European nations abandoned the gold standard, simply printing money, which was taken by those with good faith in their victory, but these habits devalued their currencies.
Before the United States entered World War II, also, we sold military supplies to Europe, accepting payments in gold, uncertain which currencies would survive the conflict.
Because so many shelters and factories were in rubble by 1944, then, the United States agreed to provide cheap loans for rebuilding Europe, but these were offered in dollars.
America kept the gold.
The danger of nuclear weapons, we already know, is their ultimate threat to our largest networks of hydrogen bonds: first, our atmosphere; then, our oceans.
The danger of continued carbon emissions, next, is a similar shift in the sacred proportion of hydrogen-bonded molecules on this planet, measured by changes in the temperature and pH of our ocean waters.
Thankfully, we are still evolving.
The profitable proliferation of 5G technology is evidence of an intrinsic value for highly responsive, hydrogen-bonded human networks of energy flow.
The internet operates like the brain of a massive cooperative network of hydrogen-bonded creatures, a new civilization, a fast-twitch society, still in its infancy, with so much yet to learn that we are running into walls, pardon the pun.
