News from the Galaxy
Hugo Salinas Price - a parable for our times, concerning hard money, and the humanoids, "who do not appear to be intelligent, as we humans are, but rather sub-human in their reasoning faculties," who deny its importance. [gsc]
These humanoids are at present quite busy building large structures such as bridges and tall buildings with concrete, which they invented many years ago, but without the use of reinforcing bars, or rebars, as we call them.
Of course, since we are intelligent, we know what has to be the result of their efforts: continual collapses which cause these poor humanoids great grief and disappointment.
It appears that in the remote past these creatures did use rebars in concrete constructions, but an influential politician whose name is recorded in their history as "Nicson" finally decided that concrete did not require rebars to give it tensile strength, and therefore banned their use.
