Negative Space: Greece
- Money is worth only what we pretend it is worth (Part II: The Revenge of Greece)
- The definition of bankruptcy can be changed, but the fact of not having any worth is still a fact. Pretend otherwise, and you start pretending that money isn’t worth anything. And since you’re right, your currency will collapse quickly.
- The Temple of Aphaea at Aegina
- On the north coast of Aegina, about 9 miles from the ancient town, there was a sanctuary on a wooded ridge. There, people were by the second millennium already worshipping a nature deity, who in Greek times bore the name Aphaea.
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- Destroying the currency to save it
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“It’s like declaring that corpses aren’t really dead, so therefore the insurance companies don’t have to pay out on any life insurance policies.”
