GOLD - The Price of Gold

Winter, 2010 Poetry & Philosophy
Guest Author: 2009 National Geographic

GOLD – A GOOD LETTER The Price of Gold Gold simply teaches that humans are enslaved by their imagination. Practical need and necessity drive the imagination less than wholly subjective values – trust and faith in the metaphysical. In the interest of owning gold, humans will rain ruin on life, limb, and property, destroy cultures and the environment, and wreck peace only to hold a substance of limited utility. Less that 13 percent of gold is used for industrial and dental purposes, while the remaining 87 percent is for jewelry, retail investment, and exchange-traded funds. Stuart N. Luttich, Geneva, Nebraska (Letter in the May, 2009 National Geographic, following on article on Gold in the January issue.)

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