Tuesday, November 20, 2018
1378: Money As Language from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
What you won't hear them say is the
Truth --- "Money is an objectivization of value." It's there so we can
visualize and touch something as intangible as the letter "A".
How many parents here are familiar
with the plastic letter blocks popular in pre-school classrooms? These
are bright colored three dimensional block-like representations of the
letter "A" and "B" and so on.
The children can pick these up and
hold them in their hands and turn them around and come to recognize the
shapes as "meaning" letter "A", and later they learn to associate sounds
from the spoken language with the symbol.....and so, learn to read and
write and communicate using symbols that would otherwise have no meaning
at all.
It's the exact same thing with
money, only we suffered arrested development along the way and didn't
draw the right connections between fact and fantasy, between the three
dimensional thing in our hand (coinage, dollars, etc.) and the symbol on
the bank ledger (dollars, cents, etc. ) and the universal language of
energy that gives the symbols meaning.
Now we have to grow up and make that next connection.
The entire symbolism of money is
about the exchange of energy, whether its exchanging my skill as a
hairstylist for your need for a haircut, or its exchanging the value of
my strawberries for your hunger for strawberry shortcake.
On one side of the transaction you
have a need and on their other side you have a fulfillment of that need.
The person fulfilling the need gets a symbolic reward --- money, for
doing the job, raising the strawberries, and so on.
Money is supposed to be a Good
Conduct Medal, a symbol that you gave more than you got. It's something
that you can hold in your hand and say to someone else, "See there? I
gave more than I got, and there's the proof."
And because you gave more than you
got, you are entitled to come back at a later date when you have some
need and "cash it in" --- say, you break your leg. Now you need help.
The money stands as a symbol that you, specifically, earned help. You
have, by your own efforts, pre-earned the effort of others.
And around and around it goes.
It's all about the exchange of
energy and goodwill, at least, that is what it is supposed to be about.
Ideally, everyone earns enough to meet their own needs and the needs of
their families and everything is just hunky-dory, but we all know that
it doesn't always work out that way.
"For lo, the poor are with you always....even until the end."
The poor don't have enough resources
to trade --- enough energy --- in any form. They don't have
strawberries. They don't know how to cut hair. So they don't have the
means to earn money, either.
When you give to the poor, it's a
one way exchange of their need for your energy credit. Heaven clocks
your reward, but the nuts and bolts world gives you no banana in
exchange.
So the poor are like a heat sink in a
monetary system. They take and they don't give back anything, except
their need. It turns out that in the great scheme of things, their need
is important and a blessing and a gift, because it means that there is
always somewhere for money to go and an opportunity for us to give
without getting a Good Conduct Medal in return.
This is important because it is one
of the few ways that we can gain the necessary insight to grow beyond
money and the need to "objectify" value. By giving to the poor, we may
go from hanging onto to chunky plastic letter "A" and even move beyond
the "A" printed on a ledger, and get to the language of energy and the
true meaning and use of what is being symbolized.
We, yes, even we, might learn to
"read" and "write" in the language of energy, just as we have learned to
read and write spoken languages and music and mathematics. The poor
provide us with a way to end our sentences and make our pauses in this
new language. They provide the commas and the periods when we need one.
Thieves are another proposition.
They steal your energy credit and do things with it that you wouldn't
do. You might put your credit toward needed dental work or painting your
house. The thieves--because they are criminals, after all-- have a
tendency to put it toward building fancy unnecessary dwellings,
luxuries, financing illegal drugs, new porn movies, and bombs.
So the problem with thieves is not a
matter of interfering with the transfer of energy by ending the cycle
of it, but rather a matter of sidetracking or derailing the meaning that
good and decent people intend. They take our Good Conduct Medals and
throw them to the four winds, so instead of our energy credit building
things that are beautiful and needed, the thieves fritter everything
away on vanities and destructive spending that actually impairs the
quality of life for everyone.
Most of us instinctively know that
money ---separated from its meaning in a far larger context---isn't
worth much, if anything, at all. Most of us are intrigued by the power
we ascribe to it. And most people never know that in its essence money
is part of a language that we don't speak.
If you were to take all the
different kinds of money there are and toss an example of each into a
basket and think of them as letters instead of dollars and pounds and
dinar and pesos, you would have a better grasp of the task before us and
what kind of a transition we are being asked to make.
We are to take these symbols and use
them the same way we use letters to form words and make sentences, to
build meaning and convey it to others, only this meaning is about the
deployment of our energy and what we most truly value.
The topic and medium of this language is, always, what do we value: guns or butter? Life or death? Love or hate?
Making our monetary symbols say what
we want them to say is of primal importance to us and to our world. We
must learn to communicate in the language of money just as we
communicate with letters and numbers and musical notes, and as we do
this we must establish a better more universal "grammar" for money, so
that the meaning we intend is not subverted and our Will concerning the
use of our energy is fulfilled.
Many generations of people have
wished for world peace and they have wished to do good by the Earth and
by other people, but because they haven't controlled and combined and
properly applied their monetary symbols, that wish has not been
fulfilled.
In order to manifest our world the way we want it to be, we need to learn how to "speak" using money.
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