humanity.
Let’s cut to the chase. We can make and
keep promises of value given and value
received. Unfortunately, we’ve hybridized many of the core principles of such
enough excess income to buy what I want an ecosystem out of our common considthem to have. The more I can reinforce the eration and our language. I’ve frequently
encountered apologists for money who are
perception of scarcity or the illusiveness
incapable of considering a system in which
of my offering, the more I can appeal to
value is absolutely relative rather than
the aspirational identification that inspires
relatively normative. And let’s be real - the
indebted consumption. In the best of all
next time you swipe your credit card and
worlds, I can price my product just beexchange a digital file for whatever you’re
yond the transactional cost that would be
consuming - are you more or less relative
deemed “affordable” so that I can charge
additional rent (in the form of financing) to than an explicit agreement between willing
transacting parties? A consensus does not
actually extract greater than market value
reality make. In contrast, an explicit agreein the form of interest.
ment binding on mutual interests forms the
We are told of laws of supply and demand very basis of reality.
only so that we don’t question the dynamic
or the promoters of managed scarcity. We What does it take to have a monetary
system that works?
are told to be patriotic and fight and die
in the “national interest” which is a cover
First, we are invited to understand that the
story for the ultimate bloody illusion. By
shedding the blood of soldier and innocent “stuff” of life - matter and energy - exist
alike, we are constantly reminded that we in perpetual phases and states which are
need the State to insure access to the mat- ever in transition. Myths of entropic predilections merely evidence a perspectival
ter and energy we’re told we need. Our
enemy is merely the projected illusion on a myopia which fail to see entropy and order
group or community that fails to acquiesce as cyclical and pulsatile. We are, in every
to our managed scarcity mandate. And so moment, stewards of the matter and enerthey must die and some of us must die too. gy in our fields and the contexts we define around its recognition. Hydrogen and
Bloody sacrifice to perpetuate our lust for
separation is paid for - you guessed it - by oxygen don’t require our assent to flow as
water. Sunlight and leaves don’t require
our money and our complicit use thereof.
our understanding to relentlessly produce
Those who extol the virtues of modern ex- glucose. The presumption that human
pressions of money as an efficient utility of effort is the agency through which value
commerce do so in callous ignorance of the is perceived is a falsehood perpetrated
price we pay for the perpetual indenture of by an industrial catechism which requires