“How Government Money Shapes Morals”
The cultural decay followed the loss of a tangible currency standard.
Look around you, look inside you. Drill through the obvious to the simplest essence of what you can realize, past what you see with eyes. What, is there? What is at the source of you? Processes. Seemingly, processes in pursuit of ‘more’.
Look past things, past the veneer of things and you will see processes. Look at concrete, dumb boring concrete right? Under appropriate magnification you’ll see the process of atoms swirling around each other at inhuman speeds. In fact, looking at butter under a microscope the atoms are swirling at slow speeds hence its soft, and concrete atoms are moving insanely fast hence how hard it is versus butter.
Processes…not things, for a minute – there are no things, a tree is a combination of unique processes that make what we call a thing a tree, there are no trees from the universe perspective onto itself, atoms don’t care what they are a part of they may not even notice or need to, they swirl in their roles with others and theirs. And we name these things, the universe didn’t hand us a book of terms and names for the universe cares nothing about ownership, humans label things so they can feel they possess these things either from perspective and need to dominate or to collectively consider it owns ‘it’ all the ‘its’ in existence and so it can control or direct its future.
Look how flimsy we are, how arrogant, that because we name something, we possess it. Consider when, at what time, you were labeled? By comparison, native Americans and other cultures don’t give names, they give descriptions onto human beings, and hold that day back until those experiencing you come to see what you are all about, your personality for example. So years into perhaps your life you have no name no label, boxing you in or showing ownership of you dominance over you, treating you as a thing at all, and a name type description is only applied when fitting once you have shown up amongst the world as you are. The world named you off your process, if you will, not same last name as parents, and some name they liked as your first applied onto government documents once you were breathing the air the government taxes you with.
Now, take the structures within human(s). If a tree by its processes are like an atom to a larger ecosystem, oxygenating the planet as one part of processes it’s a part of, morals would be part to the human ecosystem. An atom, a moral. Both structural members to a structure itself.
If a nourishing element supporting the processes within a tree degrade, the processes struggle within the tree and then therefore the ecosystem itself. If nourishing elements are degraded in morals or making difficult to apply them as was previously the norm, then the processes of human struggle. The ecosystem of human, struggles and struggle can simply mean, humans cannot experience the norm as they once did- degraded experience.
For all actions, a reaction. Never a void all cause, and all affect and affects generate causes, a wheel if you will. In and for humans, the experience is to be the recipient of forces onto it, surrounding it, forces caused without a care we are here, weather, and forces we apply to our experience.
Now hold space for the top of page reference to ‘more’. Compare it to ‘enough’. One has a finality point to it and one is infinity. More is endless for sadly, it rarely ever destinates at ‘enough’. In the pursuit of more, include the devastation of ‘exhaustion.’ If more has not endpoint then the true product of that pursuit is exhaustion. This is clarity. Are you in pursuit of ‘more’ of a resource, that happens to be elusive, and have never reached the enough point? So if in that process, of more, and you haven’t reached enough, assess if you are actually in control of reaching the goal of enough, if you have tried for decades and have to. Hmmmm. So, if nothing changes, nothing changes- accept the exhaustion of resources can cause, the effect of, devastation.
If money, as an element of things human, if is a nourishing element if, simply put, is an energy causing and making possible the electrification of movement by humans in our ecosystem correct? Simple portability, without influencing the pursuit of it simply the conduit to movement. Grease, not force. A facilitator, not a pressure.
If that energy became negative or derive from a source of falsehood, or falsified… Wouldn’t it sully the ecosystems health and wellness, it’s structure? The dynamic changes, keep holding space in this for ‘more.’ That’d lead to forces, artificial energy in nature to cause what was once human to become inhuman? No longer grease, but a driving pressure, unrelenting in its force and not in congruence with our natural system, but a molesting force against you in conflict with our natural system.
If human processes making up a human are real, and the forces coming at the human via unreal financial energy are not real, can you see, plainly stated, the morals decay and erode that are holding up the human ecosystem itself? Those elements can only exist in real, they disappear they cannot align with and exist within an altered state, the unreal. Same as if your bottled water had ever increasing levels of lead in it over the last 20 years there’d be very unhealthy humans— nowadays, money touches all you do and all you are and the health or unhealthiness of our human ecosystem is simply from what went into it.
So, if all is in alignment, as the view outside your window, the grass and rain, and trees are not struggling hence proof of alignment with processes that exist due to their correctness, the wheel but today you see a particle to that view, the human system within the natural one, from the natural one originally, don’t you see mental health issues, sex trafficking, widespread violence, the population doubling from 3.7 billion fifty years ago to 8.3 billion today, the drug abuse per capita, the drive for a great image rather than a great character, the courts are clogged with suits, the governments have put up cameras everywhere, the Texas sized island of plastics floating in the middle of the Pacific…as signs of unalignment?
And, your vote every couple of years can fix that? It used to matter, because if fell on candidates that were interested and could clearly see all of us, loyal to a constitution- a blueprint that was only editable by a massive percentage of Congress hence the permanence of its existence, a memory if you will of why it came to be, why what was written was written, to remember that the Earth never had a free people, accept the Native Americans and similar prior to 1776.
You, get back to finding ‘enough’ and drop out of the charade that there is a free country here and a vote matters. Let those who want to ignore truth burn the place down with them in it. Hasten that and get America back faster. We are not mother nature; we are an irritant or an aligned segment with her but not the boss of. This falsification of Life by overpowered financial forces made by man not nature, will collapse as it is false.
Here is the image:
Dollars wholesomeness in blue | Asset values in red
· Pour an overwhelming amount of money into assets, what do you think happens to the price of them?
1. Can you see the falsehood? Manufacturing dollars from a dis-reality, the printing press eventually spreadsheets, has reduced its wholesomeness by 97% or a factor of 970%
2. Asset values have essentially risen, along with commodities by approximately 710%
3. The Federal Reserve (non-federal entity, created in 1913 first year of this chart) in cooperation with the Federal Government generated this dystopia
4. Can it make sense this will continue?
5. Can it make sense when the dollar is at the ground level, everything represented by the red line, home values, invested-in-assets, and commodity prices crater?
When the dollar is finally murdered causing the death of morals and ethics, you lose the entire financial charade but gain back a country with a much smaller government, and America has its country back.
The government you keep spending time thinking about and voting for is doing this to pay its bills, while literally killing everything including the peace you once had due to ‘enough’. The government is the force – forcing you into the pursuit of ‘more’.
$100 dollars in 1900’s is now $3 or, $1 long ago represented 100 pennies, today it still represents 100 pennies but only as a true power of 3. It is therefore, regardless of the number printed on the paper, gutted. 97% of its truth in power is destroyed.
Hi Paul.
As I read your essay, I found myself nodding in agreement, and occasionally frustration (at my memories) of undergrad days while transitioning from biology to philosophy ... as well as current events happening now from the world level to my personal community. Intuitively, I knew that the unnameable processes were more fundamental than provisionally labeled structures, but I usually remained passively silent, observing lectures, careers, and entire education systems built on provisional social constructs and ideologies that were defended with their last breath ... though I had not sussed out how the grease of money is a poor proxy for the river of process.
I remember squirming uncomfortably in the lecture room when one professor after another extolled the virtue of one structure or ideology after another ... while the books I gravitated to did the opposite. Such books were usually iconoclastic — mostly philosophy and literature drawing on the mystic traditions of Far Eastern philosophy or 'rogue' STEM specialists —, challenging the dominant structures and ideologies with narratives showing that the moment we stop to analyze a part of the river, we have extracted ourselves from the flow. And then, there are the charlatans who understand that and use that knowledge to weaponize for predatory purposes.
One book I remember fondly because it was so filled with possibility and optimism that it did not need a confrontational tone was the rogue mathematician Alfred North Whitehead's 'Adventures of Ideas'.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/65af18d052b6624fa517a9915f941301
It was about 5 am when I woke up, skimmed my mail, and found your essay. Before heading back to sleep, I thought I would watch one podcast which had popped up in my feed ... and thought it synchronistically dovetailed so eerily perfect with what you had written, that I thought I would share the link with you. It is only about 15 minutes long, and shorter when listened at 1.5 speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0kNnYgImg
Both your essay and the podcast will have some influence on a workshop I will be holding at a cafe in the local ward office here in Japan next month ... tentatively aimed at raising awareness of options for personal identity that do not depend on traditions, institutions, or authority.
Much thanks for this well-thought-out essay, Paul.
Cheers from Japan.
steve
Great so great! to hear from you again Steve- much thanks for your time and thought!