Super Money

Posted on June 28, 2007
Filed Under Journal, Society |

Money has long been a super power, but regardless of how super money is - what does it make of us as we scamper around consumed by our daily routines? It surely earns an easy exchange; its currency after all is one of blood and worship. We burn so brightly intoxicated by its allure, we make our lives fast - the easier the better. But is it really all that easy? What do we earn except for a cell, a routine and a mind full of dogma and ritual? In every way that counts - money is a god. Not “God”, but a god. Religions claim sacrifice, whether of the mind, of the body or the spirit - and it is never an even exchange. Isn’t it true that money also requires such sacrifices? People convert themselves in a pursuit of perceived happiness, after all - the rate of exchange - the return is held in faith as being worthwhile. A fantastic investment, resulting in opportunity that is at the outset perceived as utterly self-evident.

Super Money

Money is God

That’s a cliché isn’t it, “Money is a god”. I have a hundred other super clichés here, ready and positioned waiting on the keyboard, just anticipating the sweet caress of my fingers. In fact I have a market full of them, each one ready to be purchased. You can buy one - or many, the currency is merely your time…how long it takes you to read them. Money’s influence is everywhere, all pervasive - it has an innate need, and we follow it endlessly. Its need becomes our own. And it matters only insofar as we may wish to save ourselves from its grasp.

Still reading? Not yet sure if the pay-off for getting to the end of this piece is going to be worthwhile? How many have given up already, flicking back to another online page, browsing a different flow, something that may give a better return on their investment. That’s how we think isn’t it? Is this human nature - or the conditioned response of a cash driven, profit orientated culture? Let me know what you think, I haven’t decided yet.

Money and Egypt

The only sin in this religion is if we don’t partake of it, but how can we not - when to step aside is to earn retribution. It comes in the swift form of expulsion from the community - nothing works without money, whichever spiritual law we may lay claim to, in truth within this physical realm money has found the throne from which to rule. Its power is unassailable, it’s as necessary as water and air. That’s what it thinks - and we have adopted its thought patterns. To be a god, is to be in peoples minds, to guide their actions - to dictate their laws. And in return that god is worshipped. Rituals and dogma are erected in its name; work, economy, markets. Eventually as with all dogma and ritual it infiltrates the mind until that mind begins to believe those rituals to be reality.

Jesus destroys the money god.

Every aspect of such a culture by default, has to contribute towards the expansion of such a system. We all put our own little bit of savings into the collective bank. Education undergoes a metamorphosis, from the learning of life skills and self-sufficiency, into the development and tuition of job related knowledge. A production of worker bees. What were once community aspects such as farms, labour, trade, health - become about profit, expansion and growth. It’s a beast that can’t be defeated, a system that rolls into small ancient countries and devours them, setting up a McDonald’s on every high street, work and jobs for the poor. No culture can resist the temptations and riches such a system can bring. The face of this god is benevolent, and for many that is the only face they ever see.

What would life be like without money? Hard to visualise, so share your thoughts…maybe together we can get a brief glimpse of a world different than our own…