tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378568575885387942.post379214415617826628..comments2024-02-18T18:59:06.164+00:00Comments on Econosophy and other musings: Money is a Door to SpiritTobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258136994278139356noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378568575885387942.post-76156410636357208342010-02-11T07:29:12.056+00:002010-02-11T07:29:12.056+00:00Universality is not something I seek out, not on p...Universality is not something I seek out, not on purpose anyway. There are commonalities between humans and other earthlings which are useful to recognise, as it is to recognise our common dependence upon things like clean air and water. This need not however lead to some overarching prescription on how to live right down to the last detail.<br /><br />But, if I figure out in my little brain that one consequence of a moneyless world would be totalitarianism, I will drop my interest in the idea like a hot potato. Diversity is the spice of life. We are the only animal on Earth which uses a medium of exchange like money to do our thing. There is plenty of diversity and wonder throughout nature, without totalitarianism, without money, and with plenty of universality. Energy is exchanged, yes, but not controlled by a central authority which seeks to make profit out of that control.Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16258136994278139356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378568575885387942.post-57132474676915398632010-02-11T02:30:41.721+00:002010-02-11T02:30:41.721+00:00And by the way, I am a universalist as well ;-)And by the way, I am a universalist as well ;-)Thaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378568575885387942.post-54190362360911334142010-02-11T02:29:32.820+00:002010-02-11T02:29:32.820+00:00Universality is another word for totalitarianism, ...Universality is another word for totalitarianism, nothing more. I know we see it differently but that is the way I see it.Thaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378568575885387942.post-28660433589744054272010-02-10T15:34:54.169+00:002010-02-10T15:34:54.169+00:00Hi Martin,
thanks for commenting. Yeah, the blank...Hi Martin,<br /><br />thanks for commenting. Yeah, the blank stare you describe is one of the most common reactions, along with wry-smiles-of-knowing, or outright you-idiot! looks. Money, though a tool we humans invented for particular reasons, is seen as essential as air, and there's the rub. Theoretically high civilisation without a medium of exchange is possible by pursuing a program of abundance, common ownership and automation. Whether or not sufficient numbers of us want to take on a challenge of this sort only time will show. Right now the interest in the idea percolates only among people like me, way out there in the wilderness, our voices (mostly) lost in the wind.<br /><br />There, a little cliched poetry for you. ;-)Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16258136994278139356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378568575885387942.post-51970903959085143952010-02-10T00:29:42.751+00:002010-02-10T00:29:42.751+00:00I was imagining the complete absence of money too ...I was imagining the complete absence of money too a while back. It was in reaction to something that Niall Ferguson said in an interview, although I don't think he was implying this thought. It's almost like trying to imagine the end of the universe. Trying to explain it is more like trying to explain a feeling rather than something which seems like a such an obviously possible fact. Heh, it ends up coming out more like poetry, and the response more often than not is a blank stare.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16978800704842429609noreply@blogger.com