@head1 Page ## John Zube, 7 Oxley St., Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia 19 Jan. 90 Piet Bouter, Abbekesdoel 44, 2971 VB Bleskensgkaaf, Netherlands Dear Piet, thanks for your letter, probably postmarked 6 Jan. 90. ( You see, you still trust the authorities too much by imagining that they would legibly date your letters.) Your enthusiasm is for crushed and dusted rocks is obvious and overwhelming in a negative sense, rather like a dust storm, advancing sand dune or rock and mud slide. Some enthusiasm is infective. Exessive enthusiasm, waxing lyrical about something, is often rather a deterrent than being attractive. As I know from my own bitter experience, it is all too easy to be classed as a "crackpot" or mere "schemer", "dreamer" and "idealist". In your 6 page response, with two pages marked 8 & 9, you did not respond to my doubts and queries. But then you may never have received them. What is nature's daily output in new rock dust, via storm, water, sunshine and frost action and daily output of its distribution scheme for this new dust, over the flatter and arable land, compared with all the output of the rockdust factories so far? Is it really more cost and energy efficient to mine and grind rock in a few factories than to mine e.g. from up to 600 m deep deposits of it in some areas of China and to to distribute them from there? Any attempts to shrink the value of money to something like its former value has usually led to even wors monetary catastrophies - and quite inevitably so, if you come to think about it. A devalued unit can either be stabilized at its presnt value or replaced by another one. That is possible, fast, and without causing further disturbances. But people should even be free to continue making monetary mistakes - as long as they do so only at their own expense. That also applies to any manipulation or abolition attempts regarding the interest rate. Why argue and try to dominate dissenters - when you are free to practise your beliefs at your own expense and risk? Those people complaining about dust bowls and soil erosion through wind and rain, are in effect complaining that too much of the earth's surface consists out of too easily movable rock dust! Towards inspirations from rock, the music or the dust, I am as immovable and impenetrable as a rock. You can't crush me in this way. If rockdust is an economic gardening and farming means - help to offer it on a free market and let it prove its case there, in free competition with all natural and organic gardening methods. Who is STIMILEAN? Bill Rafti wrote to me, c/o Stimilean, Babylon, N.Y., in a similar hand-writing, and unnumbered pages, with a fiche he had produced. Your letters did get mixed up in my files. Sorry about that. I hope to have them properly separated by now. You had asked me for 4 fiche and anarchist titles and a bill. I sent you these 4 and my literature list on PP 868, asking for $ 4 in cash and for you to make a choice from the ca. 39 pages listing of anarchist titles in PP 868. I do not usually send out bills and do not remember having received from you $ 4. But it may have happened. My record keeping is less than perfect. Anyhow, you have sent me some information, so forget about this. Next time, when you order x fiche just enclose x dollars in cash. Has Arnold Keyserling also written, like Don Werkheiser, about autonomous voluntary associations and some or the other form of monetary freedom? Has he made distinctions, as Don has, e.g. between single and mutual convenience relationships, to get away from the old and often misunderstood terminology? I like Don's writings of this kind, even when I do not fully agree with them. So far I have obtained and filmed some of them and seek more, also for filming. When private and competitive money is no more monopolistic and hoardable than theatre and cinema tickets are or book shop gift vouchers, and anyone could easily replace missing exchange media by issuing his own, if only he has some wanted goods and services to offer, then hoarding plays no significant role any longer. Gesellians have also paid too little attention to Professor Edgard Milhaud's suggestion of giving clearing house certificates, purchasing vouchers and goods and service warrants only a limited validity period for circulation, during the first part of which the vast majority would already normally return and after which they would suffer not a 1-5% depreciation but a 100% one. Why should money, apart from rare value coins, remain lastingly in circulation, if it merely represents goods and services. One redemption in them should be enough. They should then be withdrawn from circulation and replace by new and likewise based issues. In case my letter of 13 Dec. with some replies to you, went wrongly to Bill Rafti rather than to you, I enclose a photocopy of it. Also a duplicate of the fiche he got produced and has sponsored me to distribute to those free who order fiche from me. I never had such a letter mix up before. I hope it won't happen again. PIOT, John. Encl. Copy of my letter Piet1312.89 of 12 Dec. 89 & Rafti's "Aids & Cancer Cured!..