Gold standard -(Was Nixonian currency)

[David Morris]

That's mostly because the far-right doesn't like things that aren't
simple and obvious.  Stupid is far easier.  They really fight having
to think.

In many ways, money is a collective delusion.  What was gold really
"worth" anyway.  You can't eat it.  It's too soft to built with unless
it's diluted.  It's just pretty and rare, good for ostentatious
decoration, and it's only "ostentatious" because it's "worth" so much.

281—The basic characteristic of sublimation is the desexualization of
sexual energy by its
redirection toward new objects. But as we have seen, desexualization
means disembodiment.
New objects must substitute for the human body, and there is no
sublimation without the
projection of the human body into things; the dehumanization of man is
his alienation of his
own body. He thus acquires a soul (the higher spirituality of
sublimation), but the soul is
located in things. Money is “the world’s soul.”

Norman O. Brown, "Life Against Death"

http://www.psych-culture.com/docs/brown-life_against_death.pdf

David Morris

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gold standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>
> It has always bothered me that it is mostly the far right that wants the Gold Standard, modern version, back.