Sunday, April 19, 2009

Money

The culture we know is centered around money. Our labour is exchanged for currency, which is in turn exchanged for food, clothes, and shelter. Since we always need these things, our labour is implied as a condition for living. It is what keeps the economy going. Economy is not necessary for individual survival, nor is it necessary for group survival.

The modern world is phasing out actual currency and replacing it with theoretical currency in digital form. This theoretical money only exists as an idea; the idea of debt. Either you owe the bank or the bank owes you.

Banks have the ability to create money based on our implied present labour and expected future labour. The idea of money, then, is the ultimate control. It guarantees submission for everyone that uses it and control for everyone that creates it.

How we view money and the values that we attribute to it only exist in our mind. If one could detach the idea that we need it to survive from our actual instinct to survive, we would take a great weight off our collective conscience.

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