The field of money new Submitted by 3katie3 on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 09:54.

if i might offer this for thought--i wrote it elsewhere to explain why we contin ue to use money. and once we know why it works and how it works, we may be able to devise systems to perform some of those functions with less harm. the dependence and rootedness of corporations within the technology of money is something our economists will soon have to study, as particular forms of money f ail and wink out in particular areas of the global human societies. i think profit-based corporations, though must still have a base of operations, a base of repair and consolidation, a base of strategic planning where money is still in use, and money is still "sound" in order to continue in the form of cor porations as we know them. one of the primary aspects of global corporations is the ability to transmute th e potential for choice (which inheres in money), particularly deferred choice--t o translate this potential to other formats and forms, much like an electrical c ircuit shapes electrical current to its specific need. now money has become more fully developed in the last 100 years, certainly since the rise of central banking and its conquest of the nation state in every place that strives to be connected and competitive. and so aspects of money which may not have been so prominent in the era of land and gold as primary units of stored wealth, are coming into focus. and now it ca n be clearly seen that money as a technology, creates a field, much like a local field of gravity or magnetism. and the field creates potential for specific ac tions and consistent vectored behaviors, and reliable outcomes. DEPENDABILITY. h ow we humans like that (our entire effort is to decrease the anxiety of uncertai nty and chaotic events coming at us.) so money is, or rather creates a field around itself (and this field is created by the jointly held beliefs and agreements among the human objects and actors wi thin the field). and the reason why we keep on creating this field and putting u p with all the terrible side effects of the field, is because the field endows u s with the power of deferring choice through time and through space. now choice is an act of creation, and so we see that money also endows human cre ativity with focus and the ability to gather and maintain the structures and int ellects needed for larger and more complex creations. and naturally, since we ar e ruled by the life principle of growth, we desire this and see it as a great, e ven ultimate good.