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Freeconomy Blog - January 2010

Fri
22 Jan

Money as Debt

I've got to apologise for the lack of blogging activity over the last week or two; the Honesty Experiment was only meant to run for a week, but due to my own lack of time it became two weeks by default. Which backfired on me, the questions in the first seven days were tame, and it wasn't until last week that the taboo subjects finally came out. That'll teach me.

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Sat
09 Jan

The Honesty Experiment

I love experimenting with life, I think it's a fantastic adventure to be explored to it's fullest, and I want to see how things could be, both personally and socially, if we changed certain aspects of it in all sorts of ways. For example, we all pay lip-service to honesty, and we often suggest that we see it as one of the main characteristics we really admire in others.

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Tue
05 Jan

What are you going to say?

Last night's New Year's Party 2027, was the best one I can remember in years. We all needed it to be honest, the news throughout 2026 was something else. The predictions I heard from scientists back in my late twenties hadn't just come true, they were completely surpassed. So we went out on a big one at the Bar69, a corporate chain bar who now owned 80% of the bars in town. I left my 11 year old child with the babysitter, and drank to forget.

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Sat
02 Jan

New Year's Revolutions

Most of us woke up yesterday morning deciding to give the intestinal tract of 2009 a complete colonic irrigation, using things such as nicotine patches, diet books, gym subscriptions and sworn oaths as the metaphorical enemas to clean out the faecal waste of all that has ever gone before in our lives.

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