money and writing

I am concerned about the direction our country is headed. Not for fear of socialism, or want of conspiracy. I believe the truth is much more gradual and bleak.

Two examples; cash and cursive.

First cash, no one carries it. I myself am guilty. But if the power went out, or banks closed their doors, I would have no ability to transfer funds, or have any way to purchase goods. Does this concern anyone else? The suits have my money, and it scares me.


Second cursive, and not just cursive all writing. Handwriting, keeping journals, actually composing a sentence. People now can hardly read. When they do read or write it's in an abbreviated short hand. LOL, BRB, FML and so on ad nauseam. Libraries and newspapers are disappearing, what access (and I don't mean Internet) will future generations have to the incites of those who passed before? How will we preserve our culture? How can we survive past our short lives?


Now don't get carried away, it's not practical to keep all your wealth in cash on you, or in your mattress. However, use some currency. Don't always write in calligraphy, or in Elizabethan English, but abandon shorthand, and expand your vocabulary. How could it hurt?