Whatever happened to The Game of Life? Here is a high-society version, where I guess you leave your kids for a couple of weeks, if you happen to live near Madrid. This would work well for American adults. The only problem is, the whole thing is based in “cash.” Does anybody use cash anymore unless they’re buying drugs? I am starting to work this up as a theory for the consumer debt issue; there’s no longer any such thing as money.
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It’s interesting that anger was all on the minds of Western alchemists as a important and positive aspect of the Great Work. Staging-wise, ‘cholia’ cholera, rage, is part of the heat necessary to release the ‘Gold.’
Thing about Gautama Siddhartha is that his daddy was one Pissed Off Dude. In order to show daddy up, GS created a structure that mirrored the structure (military became monastic), but squeezed out the compulsion and rage. Anger was cathected as ‘desire’ and both demonized in his system.
What was I saying? Oh yeah, rhodiola. Which grows in Tibet. Rho is a serious antidepressant by way of an endocrine action that mops up catecholamines (the byproduct of suppressed rage). Very handy herb to have around for a people steeped in conflict.
Prayers are good. Order of operations are important.
I do cash as much as possible. I don’t do e-transfers, I do checks for bills. Keeps me in touch with the local post office.
Cash helps me budget better. There is only so much. Don’t you love those credit card companies who send letters increasing the credit line to like some crazy number like $50,000. I know that seems small in comparison to the numbers that are thrown around in these massive credit maneuvers. But how would I ever pay back that kind of debt?
When I get the uncontrollable bug to buy, I hang out with one of two of the cheapest people I know. They are so anti spending, it balances me out. And there seems to be alot of trading going on. I’m getting rid of this, do you need it, kinduv thing.
We don’t have a thrift store in the village. If the newbie rich who have moved into the area would tolerate such a thing, I am rallying for one here. Now we all haul our excess clutter into nearby towns. Even the community rummage sale for the library will have excess that does not sell.
I am waiting for a building to go bust. If it goes to a bank and if that bank got any bailout that it owes the government, ie us, I think it might be possible for a community to get that building as part of the payback? I need to sit patient on this one, till the time is right. Not my strong suit, patience.
I do not know what is to happen about cash. All I know is I don’t want an embedded chip for transactions. I hope that never even hits the next world.
Yes, they do, here in the extremely poor southwest, of course this is a drug transit capital of immense proportion also. Garage sales are some of the most expensive places to buy goods. Why? Because people understand the value of each item having so little.
Several years ago after Nasdaq crash, I began paying for things with cash as much as possible for the very reason of getting back in touch with money, costs. It’s very different when you are at Whole Foods or Coop paying for your food with cash than your credit card – though debit cards are good as money is taken immediately sans float.
But, I have felt for a long time now, since mid-90’s when e-cash initiative was first tried and some of us were testers, that this move towards credit and beyond is the wave of turning humanity back to basics, to tangibles and away from the abstraction; but more importantly to a system which has a stable global value since we are in the globalization phase.
All the trading upon currency needs to disappear in order to achieve an economic system of fairness, and that extends to how we value EVERYTHING, including pristine coastline.
Because we are constantly evolving the “technium” per Kevin Kelly (Wired editor), there will always be an “abstraction of value” aka money going on, as Neal Stephenson demonstrated a couple of decades ago in his stellar book, Snow Crash (think tv screen static and gated communities and hackers and digital toys galore), and following novels, units of transference holding value seem to be required no matter the technological age.
What money looks like is hidden behind Neptune for future, but not gone, oh, no.