Debt Ch.12

It was very interesting how in the very beginning of chapter 12, Graeber discussed 9/11. He brought about all the conspiracy theories that arose based upon the money and gold and whether that was the real aim of the attackers. There is, I believe, a sense of moral discomfort in this paragraph where he discusses such claims and that another theory was that to destroy the towers to watch the dollar crash and the value of gold skyrocket because the federal gold reserves are stored two blocks from the Twin Towers. This moral discomfort that money has societal influence to put a monetary value on human life. Let's see how many people can be killed to raise the value of gold, then once the value raises, that's the monetary value of human life to increase wealth. It also was intriguing that he brought about the paranoia's of the Freemasons or Illuminati that ensues when discussing money. Because those indeed stick out today as I still walk down the street hearing people discuss the Illuminati in correlation with monetary value of money and they disrupt markets or make them complete again.