for the good

Sun 7.18.21

      Let’s talk about money.  You’ve read this week about how Nancy and Paul made a few mils on the Stock Exchange lately.  I’m talking about the Pelosi’s.  Apparently, Nancy, from her vantage in the catbird seat is telling Paul where he should place his bets.  We tend to think of this in terms of the money in our billfold.  At some point in the very distant past, that kind of money was important, but now only the little folk think of money in that way.  Money is now zeros and ones that travel via electronica from one institution to another, the zeros and ones, that is,  from one individual to another or to an institution via little electronic cards.

      There are companies that keep tabs on you if you misbehave, do naughty things with your card, like using up more zeros and ones that have been allotted to you.  Some cards, in and of themselves, buy you more 0’s and 1’s for the mere prestige of the card itself.  The impressed will allow you entry into more sumptuous situations.

      It was decided in the very distant past that gold was something precious.  It looked pretty, and there wasn’t much of it.  You had to know how to mine it;  that made it valuable.  Those who had it were able to exchange it for goods.  The drawback?  Carrying big rocks of gold was cumbersome; coins and paper bills were created to represent proportional sums of the gold.  Later it was decided that the gold was not really necessary.  The coins and bills were good enough in and of themselves.  This was followed by the era of funny money.  With nothing to back the coins and bills you could print more and more as you needed.  This led to inflation, deflation, recession, depression, bad times in which you don’t have enough cash. It takes too much money to purchase your needs or you have no money at all and you’re completely locked out of the system. 

Before all that one lived with the earth’s resources, free for the taking.  Wild animals roamed freely to be captured and eaten, there was vegetation, honey, fruits, berries.  Greens were there to be picked, and let us not forget the seas and rivers’ savory offerings. Also medicinal and psychoactive plants to cure and expand one’s consciousness. Whereas the indigenous people valued bravery, needed for the hunt, spirituality, to connect one with intuition and sharpen one’s instinctual traits as worthwhile qualities to possess in communicating with the earth, the card carriers, of necessity, value obedience, duty, servility.

The indigenous way is no longer possible as the earth cannot support all the humans that the fiat currency system produced.  These obedient, servile, dutiful humans have become superfluous, and quite frankly, a menace.  They cannot reason beyond the O’s and 1’s they need in order to survive, and are prepared to destroy whatever and whomever stands in the way.  Even the Mother herself.

We have no answer at present for what will replace the monetary system, which is absolutely bankrupt in every sense of that word, and the world we presently inhabit is in chaos.  The Davos crowd tell us they have the way.  You will own nothing and you will be happy, they tell us.  It’s the you in that sentence that concern’s me.  Why not we?

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