Picking up where I left off nearly two years ago on the much misunderstood topic of 'money' (that commodity, sanctified by god, that you are kept A.) purposefully ignorant of and B.) in perpetual thrall to
What 'new' thing on this nightmarish topic can I share with you? Let's shift our focus for a moment to the 'stated purpose' of 'government' and how things really work.
Given 'A' is 'money' is a 'legal construct', originally intended to 'simplify' barter...but it grew beyond that. The thing to keep in mind is money has evolved with the times. Money didn't start off being what it has evolved into, it didn't start off as an 'instrument of debt.'
But we find ourselves in a world where everything has a price (even if that price is ridiculous) and if you need to survive in the current economic desert (along with 7 billion others) you are, unquestionably, a 'debtor'. Often a debtor living in abject poverty.
Which begs the question 'when does a system stop serving the greater good?'
And I, for one, would opine we passed that point a long time ago...but the self-interested, (the few the system benefits) actively support the 'status quo'.
How unfortunate for the vast majority of us those 'well-off few' have a stranglehold on political power in this nation?
Follow my reasoning, even if you disagree with it (and many, inexplicably, do)
Money is a legal construct that gains it's 'validity' from...government. Controlling 'legal tender' makes debts denominated in money prosecutable in government courts.
Sounds like a no-brainer but it seems the general public fails to consider the causality of this chain of circumstances. It is the backbone of our current debt-driven society.
Now back to my original assertion (which happen to be the facts) All money is 'funny'. Gold isn't money any more than seashells are.
Money serves the purpose of facilitating the 'division of labor' concept, making it possible for us to live in a world where we don't have to do EVERYTHING ourselves.
(Note to self-professed 'job creators', you don't do jack, Mother nature is the one and only job creator! Some don't differentiate between 'spirit in the sky' and Mother Nature and it works out to be the same difference.)
Like Time Travel, it appears we have a bigger problem on our hands than what strikes the eye.
Which is to express another 'unpopular' truth, we live in the perpetual NOW, time (like money) is a human construct. Just because we are aware of the passage of time doesn't make it 'navigable'.
The multiple inconsistencies inherent in the management of our global currency system has caused mammoth mismanagement of our ever more slender resources.
Which is to say, global warming be damned, if we fail to get a handle on population growth we won't be around to worry about environmental degradation!
Once again it is not my purpose/intent to tell you WHAT TO THINK, it is my intention to provide you with something to think about.
Whether you do or not is the difference between ignorance and stupidity...stupid is permanent and ignorance can be fixed.
Thanks for dropping by!
What 'new' thing on this nightmarish topic can I share with you? Let's shift our focus for a moment to the 'stated purpose' of 'government' and how things really work.
Given 'A' is 'money' is a 'legal construct', originally intended to 'simplify' barter...but it grew beyond that. The thing to keep in mind is money has evolved with the times. Money didn't start off being what it has evolved into, it didn't start off as an 'instrument of debt.'
But we find ourselves in a world where everything has a price (even if that price is ridiculous) and if you need to survive in the current economic desert (along with 7 billion others) you are, unquestionably, a 'debtor'. Often a debtor living in abject poverty.
Which begs the question 'when does a system stop serving the greater good?'
And I, for one, would opine we passed that point a long time ago...but the self-interested, (the few the system benefits) actively support the 'status quo'.
How unfortunate for the vast majority of us those 'well-off few' have a stranglehold on political power in this nation?
Follow my reasoning, even if you disagree with it (and many, inexplicably, do)
Money is a legal construct that gains it's 'validity' from...government. Controlling 'legal tender' makes debts denominated in money prosecutable in government courts.
Sounds like a no-brainer but it seems the general public fails to consider the causality of this chain of circumstances. It is the backbone of our current debt-driven society.
Now back to my original assertion (which happen to be the facts) All money is 'funny'. Gold isn't money any more than seashells are.
Money serves the purpose of facilitating the 'division of labor' concept, making it possible for us to live in a world where we don't have to do EVERYTHING ourselves.
(Note to self-professed 'job creators', you don't do jack, Mother nature is the one and only job creator! Some don't differentiate between 'spirit in the sky' and Mother Nature and it works out to be the same difference.)
Like Time Travel, it appears we have a bigger problem on our hands than what strikes the eye.
Which is to express another 'unpopular' truth, we live in the perpetual NOW, time (like money) is a human construct. Just because we are aware of the passage of time doesn't make it 'navigable'.
The multiple inconsistencies inherent in the management of our global currency system has caused mammoth mismanagement of our ever more slender resources.
Which is to say, global warming be damned, if we fail to get a handle on population growth we won't be around to worry about environmental degradation!
Once again it is not my purpose/intent to tell you WHAT TO THINK, it is my intention to provide you with something to think about.
Whether you do or not is the difference between ignorance and stupidity...stupid is permanent and ignorance can be fixed.
Thanks for dropping by!
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