Burning Man has become a meme.  A fast moving, rapidly expanding, global meme.

That was my take away from being at Burning Man this year.  It has moved beyond the San Francisco Bay area word of mouth organic growth of the 1990s and the 2000s and blown up into a phenomenon.

I first became aware of the Burning Man gathering about 10 years ago.  I was struck by the unique and amazingly creative images I saw in the media.  As a non-camper I was impressed that thousands of people would journey to a dusty Indian reservation in the northwest corner of Nevada …

Thomas Jefferson and Banks

Thomas Jefferson was one of the greatest Presidents of the United States. He helped shape the ideal of a citizen’s democracy for America.  He was a visionary and evidently a futurist.  Here is what he said in 1802 about banking institutions:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up …