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While rarely discussed in the mainstream media, an awakening is currently underway: More and more people are coming to realize that what we use as money is not some natural force or omnipotent being, but a magic spell. This spell is maintained by the oracles and high priests of finance from their well-guarded temples -- the banks and treasuries -- where they alchemically transmute little bits of paper or blips of data into valuable artifacts, using occult symbol, incantation, and numerical abracadabra. Indeed, what the financial sorcerers fear more than anything is a collective loss of faith in the abstruse and arcane instruments they use to bind the great human mob in invisible chains of debt, servitude, and scarcity.

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As the design scientist Buckminster Fuller noted, most of the work that our society creates produces no real benefit for the earth, and in fact subtracts from it. Most of the work we do requires pointless expenditures of energy and makes more waste. Rather than having people drive to jobs and use up endless Styrofoam containers and toner cartridges, it would be cheaper -- in the real terms of the vitality and thrive-ability of the earth -- to subsidize them to remain in their home communities, support them to grow their own food, foster permaculture projects to increase biodiversity, and encourage them to educate themselves and their children, to make art and perform ritual if they felt so inclined, and to generally celebrate the sacred mystery of being with a minimum of interference.

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While rarely discussed in the mainstream media, an awakening is currently underway: More and more people are coming to realize that what we use as money is not some natural force or omnipotent being, but a magic spell. This spell is maintained by the oracles and high priests of finance from their well-guarded temples -- the banks and treasuries -- where they alchemically transmute little bits of paper or blips of data into valuable artifacts, using occult symbol, incantation, and numerical abracadabra. Indeed, what the financial sorcerers fear more than anything is a collective loss of faith in the abstruse and arcane instruments they use to bind the great human mob in invisible chains of debt, servitude, and scarcity.

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Excerpt from the intro of a new book. Here is the full introduction here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/impossible_alternative

What do you all think? Personally I feel the survival of our species depends on us moving away from the current capitalist-money as debt model. Let the ideas reverberate through the noosphere.

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No species survives.

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birdland said:
There's some pretty old species still around though. Not endangered or anything.

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They won't last.

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While rarely discussed in the mainstream media, an awakening is currently underway: More and more people are coming to realize that what we use as money is not some natural force or omnipotent being, but a magic spell. This spell is maintained by the oracles and high priests of finance from their well-guarded temples -- the banks and treasuries -- where they alchemically transmute little bits of paper or blips of data into valuable artifacts, using occult symbol, incantation, and numerical abracadabra. Indeed, what the financial sorcerers fear more than anything is a collective loss of faith in the abstruse and arcane instruments they use to bind the great human mob in invisible chains of debt, servitude, and scarcity.

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Excerpt from the intro of a new book. Here is the full introduction here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/impossible_alternative

What do you all think? Personally I feel the survival of our species depends on us moving away from the current capitalist-money as debt model. Let the ideas reverberate through the noosphere.

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I have no idea if that's what's going on or not. I don't believe in money as a force but I do believe in survival as a force embodied in the symbol of money. If money is no longer the symbol, something else will be. And when that happens people will collect massive amounts of the symbol under the misguided notion that the more symbolic survival they have, the more likely they are to survive

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guruu said:
capitalism being run on debt is really the same thing as being run on death.

Why? It denies the infinite possibility of the moment in a very fundamental way.

Your time is not your own.  You are in debt.  Your power is not your own.

I don't personally have any debts, but I'm still in debt.  I'm going to school, my parents have a mortgage, I'm still chained to society and my time cannot fully flow according to my own being.

Luckily, the route away from all this is here right now. Who you are is outside all of it

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guruu said:
capitalism being run on debt is really the same thing as being run on death.

Why? It denies the infinite possibility of the moment in a very fundamental way.

Your time is not your own.  You are in debt.  Your power is not your own.

I don't personally have any debts, but I'm still in debt.  I'm going to school, my parents have a mortgage, I'm still chained to society and my time cannot fully flow according to my own being.

Luckily, the route away from all this is here right now. Who you are is outside all of it

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Do you really think it's ever been different?  Even in a wild primitive state?

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