[p2p-research] Money is used by people to obstruct far greater fears

[marc fawzi]

Or to put it in more dramatic terms: "he who controls the spice controls the
universe"  (Dune)

In this case, the spice has been adapted by the people as a way to obfuscate
their deeper realities.

Obviously, there is always "more to it..."

But like you said, it doesn't make the conclusion wrong.

There's a complex psychological dependence on money that counters the
intuition that if money was removed or if everyone can get anything they
want at cost then the world will be a better place. It can be, but not until
people become aware of the complexity of their psychological dependence on
money.



On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> The relationship man has with "money" is one where man uses money to
>> obfuscate far deeper fears.
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> Interesting. Clare W Graves (http://clarewgraves.com) theorized that
> money, laws, and other technologies and patterns associated with
> civilization tended to emerge among people who were shifting to a more
> group-centric approach.
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> One can argue that the emotion of fear has roots all the way back to the
> first vertebrates (comparative neuroanatomy recent findings, could provide
> reference if you care). So, all of us vertebrates are evolving ways to
> obfuscate fear. The core of our brains (going all the way back to fish)
> creates the emotion of "fear".
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> Money could be included in "ways to obfuscate fear". So, I am not saying
> you are wrong, but that there is a little more to it, I believe. One other
> factor to consider is what Ross Mayfield calls the "ecosystem of networks"
> http://www.communitywiki.org/EcosystemOfNetworks  that shows that currency
> is a system that is instituted (often from the top down) among larger
> networks of people.
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> I don't know the history of every currency, but I believe that most of them
> do not come about in a democratized way. So, rulers, governments, etc
> thoughout the ages have recognized that a way to mediate their rule in the
> larger networks of 1000's + is via a "broadcast" medium. I contend that
> government issue currency is an early example of such a broadcast medium.
> ("Medium" in this case being used in a "Media Ecology" defined context). So,
> to consolidate rule, governments issue currencies.
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