Humble Values
Mar. 8th, 2022 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiteinspaceWhat is money? It's an agreement between people that something is worth the same as something else. (rei: a representation of contribution, a pwomise that you will make yoruself useful in the bastract.) It's a statement of trust that a task will be done in the future. It's chains that bind you to promises. It's the power to make people do something.
(this is why I was never good with money, because rather than being concrete like people try and present it, it's a representation of a social concept, which have always been difficult for me to understand)
[rei: when I think about that I think of the pentacles suit in tarot, & like how that's a hyper concentrated version of the "earth element" in tarot, & that quadrant represents material resources & the work those resources require]
[rei: yeah exactly. bc of that I think that people who have a lot of money/assets don't actually *have* all of that like you wouldn't be able to be rich without being involved with a shitload of ppl]
Right like I have no idea how Elon Musk lives but essentially he can wave his hand and make ppl do things for him him right? but he wants to live like a regular guy he doesn't have the attention span for like... solving complex society problems. He wants to focus on tech gadgets so all of that power is going toward making ppl divert attention away from social issues and on how to make cool things. that's why there's no funding for essential things.
Because you're using your power to say stop paying attention thingsl ike taking care of your elderly father, or how to find happiness in life, use it to make cheap food so lots and lots of people can crunch numbers on a computer to make sure something something etc.
I've been living according to my childhood values which include living a humble life and paying little attention to money. But it's a little number (like a follower count) in the corner of your screen and they keep changing the game re: how you can spend those points because reality is constantly changing.
[rei: same here dude T__T I saw this thing recently that was like "if you're disgusted by money you'll never amass it" & I was like :( ]
[rei: like I would love to be wealthy & not have to worry about my material needs]
If I wanted to live a simple life, I could ignore it. But I don't, I wanna be a rockstar! I wanna shake things up in this dump of a world. So I need to use those little points.
There's no way to stay still right now in this world, at least as an urbanite I guess. You can't hold a small piece of land peacefully and grow it. There is a war and resources are constantly being taken from you. When you're under siege, you can't just be a simple humble farmer. You pick up your pitchfork. But they're not coming with pitchforks - A farmer can have a shotgun, too. Their weapons aren't fire or guns, they're an armored squad that will politely put you in a cage, unless you give them your property so they can bulldoze it, destroy everything you have, and con somebody into buying the land for inordinate amounts of money. And the public will do nothing because they agree that it was fair for them to have done so. The weapons were mana to psychically paralyze the people using leylines of magic - money, and logic.
(this is why I was never good with money, because rather than being concrete like people try and present it, it's a representation of a social concept, which have always been difficult for me to understand)
[rei: when I think about that I think of the pentacles suit in tarot, & like how that's a hyper concentrated version of the "earth element" in tarot, & that quadrant represents material resources & the work those resources require]
[rei: yeah exactly. bc of that I think that people who have a lot of money/assets don't actually *have* all of that like you wouldn't be able to be rich without being involved with a shitload of ppl]
Right like I have no idea how Elon Musk lives but essentially he can wave his hand and make ppl do things for him him right? but he wants to live like a regular guy he doesn't have the attention span for like... solving complex society problems. He wants to focus on tech gadgets so all of that power is going toward making ppl divert attention away from social issues and on how to make cool things. that's why there's no funding for essential things.
Because you're using your power to say stop paying attention thingsl ike taking care of your elderly father, or how to find happiness in life, use it to make cheap food so lots and lots of people can crunch numbers on a computer to make sure something something etc.
I've been living according to my childhood values which include living a humble life and paying little attention to money. But it's a little number (like a follower count) in the corner of your screen and they keep changing the game re: how you can spend those points because reality is constantly changing.
[rei: same here dude T__T I saw this thing recently that was like "if you're disgusted by money you'll never amass it" & I was like :( ]
[rei: like I would love to be wealthy & not have to worry about my material needs]
If I wanted to live a simple life, I could ignore it. But I don't, I wanna be a rockstar! I wanna shake things up in this dump of a world. So I need to use those little points.
There's no way to stay still right now in this world, at least as an urbanite I guess. You can't hold a small piece of land peacefully and grow it. There is a war and resources are constantly being taken from you. When you're under siege, you can't just be a simple humble farmer. You pick up your pitchfork. But they're not coming with pitchforks - A farmer can have a shotgun, too. Their weapons aren't fire or guns, they're an armored squad that will politely put you in a cage, unless you give them your property so they can bulldoze it, destroy everything you have, and con somebody into buying the land for inordinate amounts of money. And the public will do nothing because they agree that it was fair for them to have done so. The weapons were mana to psychically paralyze the people using leylines of magic - money, and logic.
