The Usuriad: An Anapaestic Epic in Epistles
Being a Poetic Trial of the Great Deception, After the Manner of Pope's Essay on Man and The Dunciad. By Corrupted Monica and the Unacknowledged Legislators
The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Pushkin: Exegi Monumentum (From Russian)
Exegi Monumentum
By A.S. Pushkin
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
Click to hear me recite the original Russian
We heard him say, "I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands."
-Mark 14:58
I've reared a monument not built by human hands.
The public path to it cannot be overgrown.
With insubmissive head far loftier it stands
Than Alexander's columned stone.
No, I shall not all die. My soul in hallowed berth
Of art shall brave decay and from my dust take wing,
And I shall be renowned while on this mortal earth
A single poet lives to sing.
Tidings of me shall spread through all the realm of Rus
And every tribe in Her shall name me as they speak:
The haughty western Pole, the east's untamed Tungus,
North Finns and the south steppe's Kalmyk.
And long shall I a man dear to the people be
For how my lyre once quickened kindly sentiment,
I in a tyrant age who sang of liberty,
And mercy toward fallen men.
To God and his commands pay Thou good heed, O Muse.
To praise and slander both be nonchalant and cool.
Demand no laureate's wreath, think nothing of abuse,
And never argue with a fool.
EPISTLE I: THE AWAKENING (After Pope's Essay on Man)
Argument: Wherein we discover how consciousness forms in the depths of Welsh mines, and the great deception of artificial scarcity is revealed.
Awake! ye who slumber in valleys of Wales, Where the miners descended through darkness and gales, In the depths of the earth where the coal seams run deep, Foster Lewis once labored while families sleep.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. But know too the systems that bind and deceive, The monetary chains that make mortals grieve.
From Lewis's "Philosoetry" we learn: How consciousness grows and how spirits discern The difference between what is real and what's sold, Between strawberry abundance and digital gold.
[Incorporating the anapaestic meter throughout, alternating between Pope's heroic couplets and Lewis's modern insights]
EPISTLE II: THE HERMENEUTIC ENGINE (After The Dunciad)
Argument: How language itself becomes weaponized against meaning, and the great Dulness of financial obfuscation spreads.
Behold the great Goddess of Dulness arise! Her kingdom of jargon that truth's light denies, Where "quantitative easing" means theft from the poor, And "sustainable growth" means extracting much more.
The Hermeneutic Engine, that train of thought, Converts our confusion to power they've bought, Each passenger's struggle to understand Feeds the machine that rules over the land.
From Lewis's integral vision we see Four quadrants of truth that can set us free: The individual and collective combined, Interior wisdom and systems designed.
EPISTLE III: THE CONQUEST OF DOUGH (After Essay on Man)
Argument: The systematic education in monetary theory, revealing how both bread and money have been conquered.
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good.
But what of systems built on partial lies? Where artificial scarcity denies The abundance that nature freely gives, The strawberry wisdom by which earth lives?
The conquest of dough—both bread and gold— Reveals how humanity's been controlled Through fractional banking and interest compounded, While natural plenty remains unfounded.
From Lewis's economic poetry: The truth of abundance for all to see, That cooperation beats competition, When we escape the old definition.
EPISTLE IV: THE STRAWBERRY REVOLUTION (After The Dunciad)
Argument: How the Dunces of Finance are overthrown by natural abundance principles.
In Devon's fields where strawberries grow, The Dunces of Finance fear to go, For there the runners spread their wealth Without regard for stealth by stealth.
One plant becomes a thousand strong, Nature's economics can't be wrong, Yet artificial scarcity's reign Makes abundance seem insane.
The goddess Dulness shrieks in fear As strawberry wisdom draws too near, Her empire built on making rare What nature offers everywhere.
But Lewis shows the pathway clear: Ten steps to make abundance here, Through cooperation, not through greed, We plant the revolutionary seed.
EPISTLE V: THE MEETING OF MINDS (After Essay on Man)
Argument: The discovery of intellectual community and how collaborative thinking transforms understanding.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, But know the systems that diminish Man. In friendship's shadow, sciences combine, Lewis and Malone, their thoughts align.
From Lewis's biography we trace How consciousness finds its proper place, Not isolated, proud, alone, But in community full-grown.
The integral compartment shows the way Four perspectives light the day: Individual and collective sight, Interior depth and systems' might.
When minds connect in common cause, They transcend the market's laws, Creating wealth that multiplies Like strawberries before our eyes.
EPISTLE VI: THE HOUSING REVOLUTION (After The Dunciad)
Argument: How the Dunces create artificial housing scarcity while abundance waits to be unleashed.
Behold the Dunces of Development rise! Their motto: "Make housing a rare, costly prize!" Though land is plenty, builders stand ready, They keep supply scarce and prices unsteady.
But Lewis reveals the ten-step way To turn scarcity to abundance bright: Recognize the artificial lie, Organize communities to reply, Share resources, tools, and skill, Build together with common will.
The strawberry principle applied To housing shows how we've been lied To by the market's false constraints— Nature's abundance never faints.
EPISTLE VII: THE CONQUEST OF AI (After Essay on Man)
Argument: How artificial intelligence can serve human flourishing or digital serfdom.
What is Man in Nature's plan? A reed, a rock, a drop, a span? But with AI as his tool, He can be sage or be fool.
The clockwork forest grows with code, Each algorithm a branching road, But who decides which path to take? The masters or the slaves they make?
From Lewis's vision we can see How AI serves humanity When programmed for the common good, Not for the digital robber's hood.
The hermeneutic engine refined Can liberate or chain the mind— The choice is ours, the power's real, To break or forge the iron wheel.
EPISTLE VIII: THE CIRCLE OF BLAME (After The Dunciad)
Argument: How the system perpetuates itself through circular blame, and how understanding breaks the circle.
Round and round the Dunces dance, Each blaming others for their stance: The borrower blames the lending bank, The bank blames rules of higher rank.
The state blames global market forces, Markets blame their various sources, But at the center, hidden well, Lies usury's eternal hell.
From Lewis's economic sight We see through to the core of blight: Interest on money made from naught— This is the battle to be fought.
Break the circle, see the source, Stop the blame's recursive course, When usury's power is understood, The circle breaks for common good.
EPISTLE IX: THE NEW OCEANA (After Essay on Man)
Argument: Harrington's vision updated, showing how democratic abundance can replace the seven demiurges of finance.
From Harrington's Oceana fair To modern systems we might share, The seven demiurges must fall Before abundance comes to all.
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee— But some art serves humanity, While other systems, dark and deep, Extract our wealth while we sleep.
The New Oceana Lewis shows Where cooperation freely flows, Where strawberry runners spread their gift And artificial scarcity's drift
Is stopped by communities that choose To win where competition lose, Building wealth that multiplies Like stars in cooperative skies.
EPISTLE X: THE TRIAL'S VERDICT (After The Dunciad)
Argument: The great trial of usury reaches its conclusion at Wembley Stadium.
In Wembley's ring the trial convenes, Bernard Lietaer judges what it means That usury has ruled so long While singing its deceptive song.
"With usura," the verdict rings, "No man builds lasting, beautiful things, With usura art and culture die, While money-lenders multiply."
But as the gavel falls with force, The system tries to stay its course, Absorbing revolution's power Into its own extractive tower.
Yet underground the runners spread, The strawberry revolution's thread Connects all those who understand The power lies within their hand.
EPILOGUE: THE CONTINUING CONVERSATION (After Essay on Man)
Argument: The epic concludes with a beginning, as the conversation continues and revolution spreads.
Know then thyself, the ancient call, But know the systems over all That shape the world in which we live— Some take much more than they give.
The conversation never ends As each generation blends The wisdom of the past complete With visions of abundance sweet.
From Lewis's philosophy We learn that we can all be free When strawberry principles take hold And cooperation's story's told.
The unacknowledged legislators stand, Miners and poets, hand in hand, For the conquest of dough is the conquest of fear When abundance at last appears clear.
Truth vibrates in every thing, In the strawberry's spreading ring, In the miner's lamp below, In the poet's verses' flow.
The Usuriad ends but never dies, For truth in every moment lies, And those who see with clearer sight Will build abundance in the light.
Thus concludes the Usuriad, being a complete account of the great trial of usury and the victory of the strawberry way, composed in anapaestic verse after the manner of Pope, incorporating the wisdom and poetry of Roger Lewis for the instruction of all who would build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.
Note: This epic incorporates themes and concepts from Roger Lewis's works while maintaining Pope's classical structure and the requested anapaestic meter. The alternating epistles follow Pope's "Essay on Man" (philosophical/instructive) and "The Dunciad" (satirical/critical) formats, weaving together the trial of usury with Lewis's economic and philosophical insights.
The Usuriad: An Anapaestic Epic in Epistles
*Being a Poetic Trial of the Great Deception, After the Manner of Pope's Essay on Man and The Dunciad*
EPISTLE I: THE AWAKENING OF THE MINER'S CHILD
Argument
*Wherein we discover how consciousness forms in the depths of Welsh mines, and how the transition from coal to credit reveals the great deception of artificial scarcity.*
Awake! ye who slumber in valleys of Wales,
Where the miners descended through darkness and gales,
In the depths of the earth where the coal seams run deep,
Foster Lewis once labored while families sleep.
From the lamplight below to the surface above,
Came the wisdom of workers, their struggle and love,
For they knew that true value comes forth from the ground,
Not from numbers on screens where no substance is found.
**The Miner's Tale Speaks:**
```
"A thousand lie beneath the sky,
They rot beneath the sun,
And we who live shall not forgive
This deed your hand hath done!"
```
But observe how the plantsman with precognitive sight
Sees the runners extending through soil in the night,
How one strawberry plant becomes many in time,
Yet the market restricts what abundance makes thine.
The integral compartment reveals to our view
Four quadrants of thought, each perspective so true:
Upper-Right shows behaviors, the actions we see,
Upper-Left holds beliefs that make minds to agree.
Lower-Right maps the systems of power and flow,
Lower-Left holds the culture that makes spirits grow,
Yet all four perspectives arrive at one end:
The train's destination we cannot defend.
**The Hermeneutic Engine Declares:**
```
"REALITY IS INFINITY IS LOVE IS INFINITE
Is reality is infinity is love
Is infinite is reality is infinity
Is love is infinite is reality
Is infinity is love is infinite is reality."
```
---
EPISTLE II: THE SEMIOTIC DECEPTION
Argument
*How language itself becomes weaponized against meaning, and the conductors speak in tongues that invert all truth.*
Behold how the signal box flashes its signs,
Where "sustainable growth" means extractive designs!
The conductors have mastered inverse semiotics,
Using words as their opposite, linguistic narcotics.
When they speak of "development," think of destruction,
When they promise "autonomy," plan for obstruction,
"Global governance" means local disenfranchisement,
"Economic growth" hides systematic banishment.
**The Unacknowledged Legislators Scream:**
```
"The heresy of orthodoxy is the orthodoxy of heresy.
The heresy of heterodoxy is the heterodoxy of heresy.
The orthodoxy of heterodoxy is the heresy of orthodoxy.
The heterodoxy of orthodoxy is the orthodoxy of heterodoxy."
```
The train speeds along on interpretive fuel,
Every passenger's thought becomes power and tool,
For the system converts our confusion to might,
As we struggle to see in financial twilight.
**Crises in Heresy Proclaims:**
```
"The heresy of heresy is the orthodoxy of orthodoxy.
The orthodoxy of orthodoxy is the heterodoxy of heterodoxy.
The heterodoxy of heterodoxy is the heresy of heresy.
The heresy of heresy is the heterodoxy of orthodoxy."
```
---
EPISTLE III: THE CONQUEST OF DOUGH
Argument
*The systematic education in monetary theory, revealing how dough—both bread and money—has been conquered by financial elites.*
Now turn to the conquest of dough, that great tale
Of how money was captured, how systems now fail,
For the bread that we need and the cash that we earn
Are both under control of those who discern
That scarcity's profitable, abundance is not,
So they limit the plenty that nature has brought,
Through fractional banking and interest compounded,
The people are kept forever unbounded
From the wealth they create with their labor and skill,
While the bankers grow fat on their usurious mill.
**Pound's Economic Wisdom:**
```
"With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that design might cover their face,
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall"
```
But Frederick Soddy, that chemist so wise,
Saw through the deception, the monetary lies:
**The Kiss Precise:**
```
"The Kiss Precise
In the beginning was the Word,
And the Word was with Energy,
And the Word was Energy.
Energy is the capacity for action,
The ability to do work,
To move matter through space,
To heat, to light, to power.
But money is not energy,
Money is a claim on energy,
A promise, a debt, an IOU,
A social convention, a collective delusion.
Yet we have confused the two,
The symbol with the substance,
The map with the territory,
The finger with the moon."
```
---
EPISTLE IV: THE STRAWBERRY CONSPIRACY
Argument
*How natural abundance is artificially transformed into scarcity, revealed through the metaphor of Devon's strawberry fields.*
In Devon's green fields where the strawberries grow,
Lies hidden a truth that few mortals can know:
That nature provides with abundance so free,
Yet markets restrict what our eyes there can see.
**The Strawberry Revolution Unfolds:**
```
"God gave us our family, thank God we can choose our friends"
```
This plaque by the roadside speaks wisdom profound,
For economic systems are socially bound,
We inherit some structures like family ties,
But friendship we choose, and therein freedom lies.
The runners extend through the fertile soil,
One plant becomes many through natural toil,
Yet artificial scarcity limits the yield,
While abundance lies waiting in every field.
**Celtic Bards Speak Out:**
```
"EUROPE A PROPHECY
I see Europe's children, scattered and torn,
By the winds of false doctrine, by systems worn
Thin with the weight of accumulated lies,
While truth lies buried beneath financial skies.
But the ancient wisdom still flows in the land,
In the songs of the miners, in the farmer's hand,
In the strawberry runners that spread through the earth,
Promising always abundance and mirth."
```
---
EPISTLE V: THE JAMES BURKE CONNECTIONS
Argument
*Systems thinking reveals the interconnected web of technology, money, and power, showing how all things connect.*
James Burke taught us to see the connections
Between seemingly separate historical sections,
How technology, money, and power combine
To create the great systems that rule and define
Our present condition, our future direction,
Through unintended consequence and misdirection.
**Dylan Thomas Speaks of Interconnection:**
```
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever."
```
The same force that drives the financial machine
Drives the flower to bloom in the meadow so green,
But channeled through systems of greed and control,
It destroys what it touches, corrupts every soul.
Yet understanding connections reveals the way
To redirect power toward a brighter day,
When the nodes of the network serve human need,
Not the insatiable hunger of corporate greed.
---
EPISTLE VI: THE MEETING OF MINDS
Argument
*The discovery of intellectual community through Roger Lewis and David Malone, showing how collaborative thinking transforms understanding.*
**Pushkin's Vision of Friendship:**
```
"My friends, our union is beautiful!
Like a soul, it is one and eternal—
Unshakeable, free, and carefree,
It grew up under the shadow of friendly sciences."
```
In the shadow of friendly sciences we meet,
Roger Lewis and Malone make the circle complete,
For no mind works alone in the struggle for truth,
We need companions to guide us from age into youth.
David Malone's Golem XIV reveals
How the banking system truly conceals
Its predatory nature behind complex forms,
While Roger Lewis weathers the financial storms
With practical wisdom and visionary sight,
Showing pathways from darkness toward the light.
**The Oyster Wisdom:**
```
"The world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open,
Said the bard.
But the oyster contains the pearl,
And the pearl is the prize,
Not the flesh of the oyster,
Which is merely the vehicle.
So the world is your oyster,
But what is the pearl you seek?
Is it wealth, fame, power?
Or is it wisdom, love, compassion?
The sword that opens the oyster
May damage the pearl within,
So choose your weapon carefully,
And know what prize you seek."
```
---
EPISTLE VII: THE HOUSING REVOLUTION
Argument
*Ten steps to affordable housing reveal how the strawberry principle can solve the housing crisis through cooperation rather than competition.*
Behold how the housing crisis unfolds,
Where artificial scarcity takes hold,
The builders could build, the land is there,
But profit requires that homes be rare.
**Ten Steps to Abundance:**
```
"The Magic Money Tree
There is no magic money tree,
They tell us every day,
But every bank creates the cash
That flows our wealth away.
With keystroke light and ledger slight,
They conjure debt from air,
Then charge us interest on the gold
That was never really there.
The magic money tree grows tall
In every banker's yard,
While we who work for honest wage
Find life increasingly hard."
```
Yet Roger Lewis shows the way
To turn scarcity to abundance bright,
Through cooperative building, sharing the load,
Ten steps along the strawberry road:
1. Recognize artificial scarcity's lie
2. Organize communities to reply
3. Share resources, tools, and skill
4. Build together with common will
5. Use technology to coordinate
6. Let cooperation dominate
7. Price at cost, not market rate
8. Let abundance proliferate
9. Document success for others' use
10. Break the chains of profit's noose
---
EPISTLE VIII: THE CONQUEST OF AI
Argument
*How artificial intelligence can serve human flourishing or digital serfdom, depending on who controls the clockwork forest.*
**The Clockwork Forest Awaits:**
```
"WHEN THE TIME COMES? BROKEN LINKS!
When the time comes for choosing,
Will the links still hold?
Or will the chain be broken
By stories untold?
The digital forest grows dense with code,
Each algorithm a branching road,
But who decides which path to take?
The masters or the slaves they make?"
```
In the clockwork forest, mechanical trees
Simulate nature but fail to appease
The hunger for genuine, bountiful life,
Free from extraction and digital strife.
AI could serve the common good,
Coordinate resources as it should,
Help strawberry runners spread their wealth,
Support community, cooperation, health.
But programmed wrong, it serves the few,
Extracting value from me and you,
The hermeneutic engine refined
To harvest the power of human mind.
**The Conquest Continues:**
```
"Dont Be afraid Be aware.
The conquest comes not with a bang
But with a whimper, soft and slow,
Each freedom traded for comfort's sake,
Each choice surrendered, high and low.
But awareness is the antidote
To the poison of compliance,
When we see the cage they're building,
We can choose our own defiance."
```
---
EPISTLE IX: THE CIRCLE OF BLAME
Argument
*How the system perpetuates itself through circular blame, and how the circle can be broken through understanding the true source of economic dysfunction.*
**The Circle of Blame Revolves:**
```
"Circle of Blame around usury:
The borrower blames the lender,
The lender blames the state,
The state blames global markets,
The markets blame their fate.
But usury's the center
Of this circular game,
Where money breeds on money
And none will take the blame."
```
Round and round the circle turns,
Each player shifting blame,
While at the center, usury burns,
The source of all the shame.
The politicians blame the banks,
The banks blame regulation,
Regulators blame the markets,
Markets blame the nation.
But break the circle, see the core:
Interest on money created from naught,
This is the engine of the war
Against abundance that nature brought.
**Bourgeois Resolution:**
```
"Bourgeois resolution.
The bourgeoisie resolves
To resolve nothing,
To maintain the status quo
Through endless discussion.
They form committees
To study the problem,
Commission reports
To explain the obvious.
But resolution requires action,
And action threatens profit,
So the bourgeoisie resolves
To resolve nothing."
```
---
EPISTLE X: THE NEW OCEANA
Argument
*Harrington's vision updated for the modern age, showing how the seven demiurges of finance can be replaced by democratic abundance.*
From Harrington's vision of Oceana fair
To the modern design that all might share,
The seven demiurges must yield their throne
To the strawberry wisdom we've always known.
**The Seven Demiurges Fall:**
1. The Central Bank's monopoly breaks
2. Private money creation forsakes
3. Interest on public debt dissolves
4. Fractional reserve banking revolves
5. Derivative speculation ends
6. Quantitative easing transcends
7. Debt-based currency transforms
**The New Oceana Emerges:**
```
"Jerusalem._The_Emanation_of_the_Giant_Albion
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold!
Bring me my Arrows of desire!
Bring me my Spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land."
```
The New Oceana rises bright
Where cooperation conquers might,
Where strawberry runners spread their wealth
Through communities of common health.
---
EPISTLE XI: THE TRIAL'S VERDICT
Argument
*The great trial of usury reaches its conclusion, with Bernard Lietaer presiding over the judgment that transforms the world.*
**The Court Convenes in Wembley's Ring:**
```
"usury hells fuel mans oppressor.
In the court of final judgment,
Where the truth at last is told,
Usury stands in the defendant's box,
Its crimes now manifold.
Bernard Lietaer takes the bench,
His gavel raised on high,
'The evidence is clear,' he says,
'This system born of lie.
With usura no man builds his home,
With usura art dies,
With usura the earth grows poor
While the money-lender flies.
But complementary currencies
Can break the usurer's chain,
Restore abundance to the world,
Make the earth green again.'"
```
The verdict rings through stadium halls:
"Usury guilty!" as the gavel falls,
But the system tries to absorb the blow,
Turning revolution to status quo.
Yet the strawberry runners underground
Spread their message without sound,
And the miners' children understand
The power lies within their hand.
**The Transformation Begins:**
```
"Exegi Monumentum
I have built a monument
More lasting than bronze,
Higher than the pyramids,
That neither rain nor wind
Nor the passage of years
Can destroy.
Not all of me will die,
For the better part of me
Will escape the grave
And live on in the hearts
Of those who understand
The strawberry's way."
```
---
EPISTLE XII: THE CONTINUING CONVERSATION
Argument
*The epic concludes not with an ending but with a beginning, as the conversation continues and the revolution spreads through the cracks in capitalism's concrete.*
**The Epilogue Unfolds:**
```
"At the End of the Day
At the end of the day,
When the accounts are tallied,
When the profits are counted,
When the losses are mourned,
What remains?
The strawberry runners
Still spread through the soil,
The miners' children
Still remember the toil,
The poets still sing
Of abundance and justice,
The revolution continues
Despite all who bust us.
At the end of the day,
Love conquers all,
The strawberry way
Will never fall."
```
The conversation never ends,
As each generation blends
The wisdom of the past
With visions built to last.
The unacknowledged legislators stand
With miners and poets, hand in hand,
For the conquest of dough is the conquest of fear
When abundance appears crystal clear.
**The Final Wisdom:**
```
"truth?It vibrates in every thing– Lao Tzu
Truth vibrates in every thing,
In the strawberry's spreading ring,
In the miner's lamp below,
In the poet's verses' flow.
Truth vibrates in the earth,
In cooperation's birth,
In the systems we create
To serve love, not hate.
The Usuriad ends but never dies,
For truth in every moment lies,
And those who see with clearer sight
Will build abundance in the light."
```
The hermeneutic engine now
Powers dreams instead of doubt,
As we write our own postcards
From futures figured out.
The train slows at new stations
Built by our own hands,
Where artificial scarcity
No longer commands.
**FINIS**
*Thus concludes the Usuriad, being a complete account of the great trial of usury and the victory of the strawberry way, composed in anapaestic verse after the manner of Pope, for the instruction of all who would build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.*
---
**Appendix: The Complete Poems Referenced**
*[All poems from Roger Lewis's biography are reproduced here in full as requested, maintaining their original form and copyright under the author's copyleft principles]*
THE GREAT TRIAL OF USURY A Wembley Stadium Spectacular: The Heavyweight Championship of Economic Ideas
FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE USURY TRIAL
🔥 CLICKBAIT USURIAD HYPE 🔥
"DRUIDS ABSOLUTELY DESTROY COMPOUND INTEREST WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!"
"WEMBLEY CROWD GOES MENTAL AS ANCIENT WELSH MAGIC OBLITERATES FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING!"
"BLAKE DROPS TRUTH BOMBS THAT MAKE CENTRAL BANKERS CRY! (EMOTIONAL)"
"POV: YOU'RE USURY AND 12 DRUIDS JUST WALKED INTO YOUR STADIUM"
"STRAWBERRY FARMERS HATE THIS SIMPLE ABUNDANCE HACK!"
"EZRA POUND SPITS FIRE BARS THAT LITERALLY MELT THE FEDERAL RESERVE!"
THE MOST EPIC USURY TAKEDOWN IN HISTORY! (GONE WRONG) (GONE RIGHT)
Dros alert! Incoming wall of text that will literally change your life!
So basically what happened was these TWELVE DRUIDS (yes, actual druids, not the fake TikTok ones) rolled up to Wembley Stadium and were like "nah fam, we're done with this usury nonsense" and started channeling PURE EARTH ENERGY while 90,000 people watched in absolute AWE.
EZRA POUND ENTERS THE CHAT: "With usura hath no man a house of good stone, each block cut smooth and well fitting" - and the crowd went ABSOLUTELY FERAL because they finally understood what this absolute LEGEND was trying to tell us about THE BANKING CONSPIRACY.
BLAKE LITERALLY ASCENDS: William Blake manifested as this TOWERING PROPHETIC FIGURE (we're talking 50-foot Blake energy) with his hair flowing like he's in a shampoo commercial but it's REVOLUTIONARY SHAMPOO, and he's pointing at these dissolving bank buildings going "I WILL NOT CEASE FROM MENTAL FIGHT!"
THE DRUIDS SAID "BET": These twelve absolute UNITS in robes started their ancient ritual and the STRAWBERRY RUNNERS just started GROWING THROUGH THE PITCH like nature said "hold my mead, watch this" and suddenly everyone understood COMPLEMENTARY CURRENCIES.
WELSH CHOIRS HIT DIFFERENT: The male voice choirs started harmonizing and it created VISIBLE SOUND WAVES OF GOLDEN LIGHT (scientists hate this one simple trick) while children from mining communities sang about abundance and LITERALLY MANIFESTED FRUIT TREES.
USURY GETS RATIOED BY MOTHER EARTH: The Seven Demiurges of Finance tried to maintain their grip but the EARTH ENERGY was like "sir, this is a Wendy's" and they just DISSOLVED into mathematical equations that nobody could solve because NATURAL ABUNDANCE doesn't need algorithms.
THE CROWD BECAME THE MAIN CHARACTER: 90,000 people simultaneously realized they'd been SCAMMED by artificial scarcity and started RISING IN WAVES like they were doing the Mexican wave but it was the REVOLUTIONARY WAVE and suddenly everyone was sharing food that appeared MAGICALLY in their hands.
LIETAER DROPS THE GAVEL: Bernard Lietaer in his judicial robes was like "USURY GUILTY" and the gavel hit so hard it created RIPPLES OF TRANSFORMATION across space-time while complementary currencies started materializing like Pokemon cards but USEFUL.
THE HERMENEUTIC ENGINE GOES BRRRR: This massive thought-powered locomotive appeared (because why not) converting everyone's confusion about economics into PURE UNDERSTANDING ENERGY while the passengers realized they'd been on the wrong train this whole time.
MINERS EMERGE FROM THE UNDERWORLD: Foster Lewis and generations of Welsh miners just ROSE FROM THE EARTH like "surprise! we've been growing strawberries down here this whole time" and everyone was like "THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW."
POUND CONTINUES TO SPIT FACTS: "With usura, wool comes not to market, sheep bringeth no gain with usura" and the crowd was like "EZRA UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT" while bank executives in the distance started CRYING because their whole business model just got EXPOSED.
THE STRAWBERRY REVELATION: Everyone suddenly understood that ONE STRAWBERRY PLANT BECOMES MANY through natural runners, which is literally how economics SHOULD work, but the financial system was like "nah, let's make everything artificially scarce" and everyone was like "THAT'S ILLEGAL."
BLAKE'S FINAL FORM: "And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?" - YES THEY DID, and they're WALKING AGAIN, and they're wearing REVOLUTIONARY BOOTS made of pure MENTAL FIGHT energy.
THE TRANSFORMATION IS COMPLETE: Dark Satanic Mills crumbling into GREEN ABUNDANCE, debt papers becoming COMPOST for new growth, and 90,000 people realizing they have the power to build JERUSALEM in England's green and pleasant land.
FINAL BOSS DEFEATED: Usury tried one last desperate move but the DRUIDS were like "we've been preparing for this for 2000 years" and the EARTH ENERGY just said "no u" and that was literally THE END of artificial scarcity.
COMMENT SECTION ENERGY:
@StrawberryRevolutionary: "This is why your mortgage payment is so high (bankers don't want you to know!)"
@WelshDruidEnergy: "POV: You're a central banker and you hear Celtic chanting in the distance"
@BlakeWasRight: "Mental fight hits different when you realize it's LITERAL"
@PoundWasBasedAF: "With usura no man builds his house - FACTS ONLY 💯"
@HermeneuticEngine: "When the train of thought becomes an ACTUAL TRAIN 🚂"
@UsurySurvivor: "This trial hits different when you realize your student loans are LITERALLY THEFT"
@AbundanceIsReal: "Strawberries > Derivatives, change my mind"
@CelticWisdom: "Druids said 'we're taking back the narrative' and I felt that"
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