Gold standard -(Was Nixonian currency)

[Mark Kohut]

Agreed.  So where do you think 'gold' and the 'gold standard" lay within TRPs vision?  here in IV and elswhere...

--- On Thu, 10/1/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Gold standard -(Was Nixonian currency)
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 1:59 PM
> 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.
> 
>