>>12716927 (pb maybe lb)

the westerners (bankers) made possible wonderful things to every non-western remote civilization if only they would surrender their gold. somehow they convinced everyone (leaders of previously resource-independent and sovereign countries) that the enlightened thing, to prevent the inevitable war due to scarcity of it, was to surrender all the gold. to keep the peace. and rely on technocracy and science and math, damndest thing. those beta sex kittens are very persuasive.