Back in 2000 - 2001 with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan, opium poppy production was nearly eradicated. It was such a sudden phenomenon that it took the world by surprise:
The chairman of the Central Asia Institute at Johns Hopkins, Frederick Starr, said the West, especially Europe, had been inexplicably slow in recognizing developments in [...]

I have two quotations that go a good long way toward answering the question.
First, from Robert Anton Wilson - he probably stole it from someone else; that’s what great artists do: “If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. If not voting could change the system, it would be illegal.”
Next, allegedly from Iosip [...]

We’re talking about all of the FRNs her… although “a” dollar of course refers to the one with a picture of George Washington and the words “One Dollar”.
So far as I can tell, such a piece of paper “is” not a dollar. It “is” a promise to PAY a dollar, sort of… but it’s not [...]

This may seem like an idle question.
It is not.
Let me elucidate.
You are a human being - man or woman. Let’s ignore the question of age and not slip into dichotomy of child and adult… whether you are ten years old, twenty years old, thirty years old, older or younger than those - matters not: you [...]