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the parable of money

"with real money"

The term "blind faith" comes to mind when I come in contact with those who are quick to dismiss anything that challenges the hegemony of the dollar or any national bank debt currency for that matter.  Faith because that is all that makes money "real," our own "faith" that others will accept it.  "Blind" because we really don't know or understand that which we are faithful to accept that it gets us stuff that we want and it isn't very fairly distributed.  And we aren't very aware of how the monetary system serves the purpose of industry and militarism at the expense of healthy community and the enviroment.  Money is not too different than religion in that we put "something" where there is in fact no thing--nothing but our own faith, trust and relationship.  We have externalized something that arises only from within.  Local currencies are at least a step to encouraging people to accept the slightly inconvenient, yet necessary work of learning how to develop healthy inter-dependent economic relationships in our immediate community.  

About taxes, i don't get your argument---the same thing is true for cash.  Should we get rid of cash?  If someone is inclined not to pay their taxes, they're not going to pay their taxes.  Don't blame it on the currency.On All the cool kids are using BerkShares posted 2 years, 8 months ago 12 Responses