potlatch

Sun 8.28.22

We are enslaved to the money people.  Every rule, every law is for the benefit of money people who have deep thoughts about ways to make more money.  They don’t call it that unless their system starts to fall apart, as it is presently.  Then all their fine sentiments, their “for the good of humanity” goes out the window. Look at every aspect of society from the roads we travel on, to where we defecate and understand that it .was created, ruled by the money people (MP.)  Every human being is enslaved to the system created by the MP’s.  Without money you die.  True.  If you don’t have any magic in you and no money to counteract MP moves you will be rolled over and become another statistic on the efficacy of some medication, some surgical procedure, or lack there of.  The money changers have been with us since the start of recorded history and undoubtedly before that.  The first laws primarily concern contracts, invoices, money rules, the Hammurabi Code, 1730-40bc.  That’s thousands upon thousands of years of enslavement.  Well, it’s not enslavement if I like what I’m doing, you say.  BS, if money were not involved you probably would not be doing this thing that you like doing, would not have to put up with the indignity you’re subjected to by the MP’s, or maybe if you were truly committed in your heart to doing it, you might with this new freedom of not having to make money bring it to much greater heights.

You’ve heard of the potlatch where Native Americans have for probably as long as the Babylonian king Hammurabi imposed his rules of commerce, created a system wherein it is considered noble to give away one’s most valuable, most cherished possessions, and this is done on a regular basis.  It is said that the purpose of the give-away is sharing. The lessons connected to this ceremony teach us how to release possessions and to let go the ideas of importance connected with those belongings. The more prized the possession and the greater the sense of ownership, the more powerful the lesson.

When first encountering Europeans, Native Americans, tribe after tribe, assessed them as, The People who Beat their Children.  What they did not know was that In order to train their children to do what was against their nature, force was needed to indoctrinate them into slavery.  They  would do what needed to be done to garner money..

Yvon Labbé, who was director of the Franco-American Center at the University of Maine at Orono when I was artist in residence there, held a cultural conference in which he brought together the French people of Maine and the Native people to share their culture.  It was a shocking revelation for me of the caring, respectful attitude they exhibited toward one another compared to my competitive, vain and ruthless folks who were slaves in a system that used them and rolled over them when no longer able to feed the MP’s with their labor.  Think of all the creativity French people have contributed to humankind; think also the price they have paid for it.

When the recession hits full swing and you can’t even afford the product, the service you created for others, think of this.