"Clearing the debt, settling the accounts, cancelling the payments by the Third
World... Don't even think about it! We only live because of this unbalance, of
the proliferation and the promise of infinity created by the debt. The global or
planetary debt has, of course, no meaning in the classical terms of stock or
credit. But it acts as our true collective credit line, a symbolic credit system
whereby people, corporations, nations are attached to one another by default.
People are tied to each other (this goes for the banks too) by means of their
virtual bankruptcy, just as accomplices are tied by their crime. Everyone is
certain to exist for the other in the shadow of an unamendable and insolvable
debt for, as of today, the total amount of the global debt is much larger than
the total amount of available capital. Thus, the debt no longer has any meaning
but to unite all civilized beings to a same destiny served on credit. A similar
thing takes place with nuclear weapons whose global capacity is much bigger than
what is needed to destroy the entire planet. Yet, it remains as a way of uniting
all of humankind to a same destiny marked by threat and deterrence."
"Information now expands to such an extent that it no longer has anything to do with gaining knowledge. Information's immense potential will never be redeemed and it will never be able to achieve its finality. It's just like the debt. Information is just as insolvable as the debt and we'll never be able to get rid of it. Collecting data, accumulating and transporting information all over the world are the same thing as compiling an unpayable debt."
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