Whenever an intelligent form of life, such as ours, emerge and form a civilization; money is most likely to emerge as well. The basic fundamental behind money is that our basic needs of survival such as food and fresh water required effort and hard work of farming, hunting, gathering and searching.
Money emerged when the intelligent need to exchange was felt and hence, money became and still is a store of value for such effort and hard work. The history of money complete with its background and details are not the topic of this article. I just want to expose the money system that prevails today.
A simple primitive desire for exchange is not all that, their is to the story. Living in groups and clans, humans were also driven by a tendency to assert, lead, dominate, stand out, become powerful, fuck as many women as possible and all the other types of blood-shed, savagery and barbarism.
Confirming with the modern view of life, these qualities are as natural, as it were then. Though the attacks, confrontations, and vices have taken different forms such that they are indirect, subtle, discreet, complicated, manipulative and deceptive. Such feelings and drives were always present in humans and never left us.
We, the humans want to own and possess more and more wealth, money and power, even when we can enjoy a perfectly happy life with what we have. As you can see now that, money was never supposed to be the obsession it turned out to be. It is the global rules of the society, one has to spend his / her entire life in.
For, money in itself is just a store for value - It works only on the basis of it's function and the collective trust and confidence, people all over, place on it, while transacting, on an everyday basis.
Universe, God, Nature, The First Cause - Call it whatever you want, is the source of infinite supply. I am not saying abundant, when I say infinite, I mean it. Human greed, consumerism, destructive, ruinous, exploitative & dominating ways of thinking and acting is destroying our source on earth. But our source is absolutely powerful, wise and intelligent. Our activities only affect ourselves.
Nature will always balance things in the long-run. Do the right things, be happy and enjoy life on account of the positive results. Do the wrong things & you bring pain to yourself and others on account of the negativity created. We, the humans have problem understanding that we are the authors of our own lives.
Politicians, Governments & Corporates run the lives of the masses only when they give in to mass manipulation, mass deception & mass consent - just by doing nothing, exactly. You don't have any rights until you help yourself. It's not enough to be good. You gotta kill evil people.
I never simply wanted to be '#1' or the 'Best' in any chosen field of endeavor, I believed in the ideals of justice, equality, fair treatment, ethics, morals, peace, etc. But unfortunately, they have remained and turned out to be just that - Ideals. There is no such thing as equality or even equal opportunity.
Ultimately, you want to enjoy a good and a high quality of life; until your death. The amount of money you have, your financial background and/or the wealth you happen to acquire in the future, will have a lot of say in that. Even when the money issue is solved out permanently for good, there will be a lot more problems and issues to work on; you can be rest assured of that.
These challenges relate to natural consequences of being a human, such as disease, aging, loneliness, hopeless-ness, boredom, anxiety, cynicism, sickness and the problems, other human beings globally, bring to the table, directly or indirectly, to add to the rest of that, as if those were not enough !!
But, at the end of it all, I don't see the reason why I should be enjoying extreme wealth when so many people around the world are living in extreme conditions of hunger and poverty.
Your soul lies with your conscience and not the other way round. How can you have a soul when all you can ever seek is your victory over others in terms of pursuit, gain and multiplication / maintenance of extreme wealth ?
It's better to have a purity of soul than these things. Seek contentment that only comes from within, otherwise, you tend to give in to ambition, ego, greed, competitive pressures, society, vanity, visceral revenge, lust, unfulfilled love, dominion / supremacy / assertion, control dynamics, arrogance and forgetfulness of one's mortality.
It is difficult to tread The path of pure and unconditional love / The way of the white swan. But try, you must. Your motto should be - ' The world and my life in it, is temporal.'
A N U J C H U G H
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