Is Money A Deadly Weapon Of War?
Is money good or bad? Whether it’s right or wrong—we use it to survive, but do we need it to thrive?
What is money anyway? Why is it so desired and its lack feared?
Money is the medium of exchange for goods and services. Seems simple enough right? Well let’s explain it using a garden.
What is a good or service in a garden? Perhaps we can think of a garden as a business entity. We trade our resources—water, fertilizer and time—for its goods—fruits and vegetables. But the garden also trades with its environment.
Plants consume light, water and carbon dioxide, and produce sugar. That sugar is exuded into the soil where fungi exchange it for macro and micro-nutrients with the plant. It might sound a little unusual, but our gardens form their own little economies, and we become a chief trading partner that exchanges our services for its goods.
There is a common theme in the garden though. Energy. The life blood of a garden’s economy is energy. Whether that be directly from the sun, the capillary effects of water, stored energy in carbohydrates or even our time in the garden. Energy cannot be created or destroyed—only transferred. The transfer, divisibility and storage of energy is the true essence of money.
How silly would it be to try to control every energy transaction in the garden? How well would it grow? Do we know better than the plants and organisms that—by definition—know what they need to survive and thrive?
This is what is promised by a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). A centralized digital system that uses an electronic ledger to monitor and control all personal and business transactions. Who is buying what? Who is selling what? Who should be able to buy and sell? The issuing authority knows, and with the click of a mouse too.
Why would any organism give that much control to an entity? The fundamental flow of energy in a human economy. Control. Absolute control. Money poisons the mind. Corrupts the soul. How easy is it to bribe and blackmail using the shiny Golden Bull?
Some realize this and have advocated for historical money—commodity money. The most marketable commodity being precious metals. Historical units of wealth that survived the rise and fall of countless empires. Some call gold the money of God.
Is gold the money of God? Gold is the money of the banker. Silver is the money of the worker. Food is the money of the beast. Hate is the money of the tyrant. Debt is the money of the slave.
The money of God is love, charity and faith. Is there not an infinite demand for love, for charity, for faith? Its value is immeasurable.
However—you can’t care for others without first caring for yourself. Love yourself. Be charitable to yourself. Have faith in yourself. Then you will realize that those in the outside world are just reflections of yourself.
What you hate in the world is what you hate in yourself. What you desire in the world is what you desire in yourself. Give love to the world and give love to yourself. Take from the world—more than you need—and you take from yourself—more than you can bear.
If you want so much control of the world—try controlling yourself. Cast the money handlers out from the temple—the mind.
Do not fall victim to the illusory power of the weapons in the Invisible War.
A good beginning