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RE: What is your Currency?
You've inspired me to expand on this concept with this article! You really gave me some great tasty food for thought!! Thank you @wwf! <3
You've inspired me to expand on this concept with this article! You really gave me some great tasty food for thought!! Thank you @wwf! <3
Beautiful response. Welcome to my blog. For me, I look forward to the day where we don't need currency any more as we no longer need to keep score. Our wealth comes from how we feel when we help others as the spiritual rewards are felt. Life is all about relationships and keeping score never works in a relationship. When I did that in the past, I win and my wife lost. Not good for morale or marriage. So no more keeping score for us. It is hard helping other people as we automatically feel indebted. It will be tough to remove this brainwashing that the colonial education system taught us. But when we do then we would feel much better and enjoy the process of giving and receiving. Gratitude and appreciation become the new currency. Peace to you.
Hi @wwf! Thank you for your kind words, and let me clarify my thinking!
Don't get me wrong, I look forward to this day too! I am as much of an eternal idealist and optimist as you are. And I'm not at all saying it's a myth or a utopia or anything like that either... I've studied post-scarcity anarchy and I do believe that a natural spontaneous order could emerge when we had advanced not only materialistically, technologically, scientifically, etc... in order to create material abundance and plenty for all people all on Earth, but especially spiritually enough so that a radical redefining of the "ego" (using it this time not as the Freudian construct but rather as the "seat" of the conscious decision-maker in the mind; which is what neuroscience is revealing is the only thing with any relevance or import in our subjective "perceptions" of reality)
You're so correct in your thinking, but for many people (including myself if I can be honest!) this is an enormous mountain to climb, or a gigantic elephant to eat. So I like to imagine all of this happening in "steps". Now I know these steps don't really exist, they're more illusory than concrete; but nevertheless, I think it's helpful to conceive of a way of transitioning to this view of life, the world and society that you describe in pristine, pure empowering words, by taking what we already had, what we have now, and using it to create the new. (That famous Fibonacci Sequence!)
Of course I believe in our personal relationships, even in our immediate communities, this is always possible... My question is how do I relate with people on the other side of the planet from me...
I do believe in living locally, but also thinking globally. As such, I would love to spend my life fostering the systems that will make the transition easier... Not everyone wakes up to the nature of reality at the same time, but when enough people are doing it, and they are leaving breadcrumbs behind them, and creating good examples for others to follow, it makes the whole shift that much swifter and smoother!
Anyways, I won't take up more of your time on this post, but safe to say I am looking forward to the next! Thank you @wwf :)