Best. Onion. Headline. Ever.

By Michael J.W. Stickings

U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

Read the whole thing. It's brilliant. Because, well, because it could very well be true. If only people would wake up and see just what sort of bizarre matrix they're living in.

(I'm looking at you, John Locke, among others. I get why money is necessary, but that doesn't make it any less of an illusion.)