IN DEBT WE TRU$T

The animation begins with a heavily symbolic scene, depicting the suspension of the gold standard for the U.S. dollar to address problems with inflation and foreign governments redeeming more and more dollars for gold. As a sound clip of Nixon announcing this act to the nation in 1971 plays, we see a presidential figure pressing a “Stimulus” button atop a desk which reads “Real Money is Illegal” and “Print more Monopoly money”.

A figure in a top hat representing private banking interests is perched above a trash can filled with U.S. dollars, symbolizing the U.S. Dollar’s value as a whole, being garbage i.e. in a permanent state of disrepair. The left hand of this figure is directing rays of energy around a pile of gold which appears to be digital and not solid, symbolizing the lack of gold reserves present at the time, and thus insolvency of the United States to meet its debt obligations with foreign interests seeking to redeem their dollars for gold.

As the camera pans back from the opening scene, the motto “In Debt We Trust” sounds off, revealing a dubious hierarchy and representation of the power structure below - private banking cartels on the top layer, industrial interests below - entertainment, food, pharmaceutical, arms dealers, and the prison industrial complex - law enforcement and other extortion themes below - and finally the consumers and wheelers and dealers of a debt-based consumer culture on the bottom layer.

As the full structure is revealed it is slowly transformed into hexadecimal code, representing it all as part of a sort of ‘matrix’, or alternate reality from what meets the eye.