on money (in the abstract)

[Bekah]

On Nov 24, 2011, at 4:39 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> This is not a war. 

>>> snipped

> This is war.


I don't think the dots connected there between the first sentence and the last. 

Bekah
probably too sleepy from turkey - 




On Nov 24, 2011, at 4:39 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> This is not a war. It is human adaptation, co-evolution, if you
> prefer,  or simply response to opportunities Those who can monopolize,
> regardless of the waste they produce and how much damage they do, are
> the fittest. But, with the revolution in communications technologies,
> those who were exploited because they were unaware of how the fittest
> came to monopolize, are now more aware. And, because they now sense
> that they need to defend themselves, they are doing so. We adapt by
> culture, by attitude, with technology. We copy certain patterns in
> evolution and then speed them up. So we have rockets instead of
> Plastic Man arms that can stretch across continents.
> 
> Money will survive. So will the banks, the investment houses, the
> political systems. So will, in the short term, an impoverished world
> for those who now call themselves the 99% or whatever percent, who
> are, for the most part, folks who are better off than most and only
> now realizing that this is not their birthright and that they need to
> fight to keep this position in the world. This is war.
> 
> Can you live without it? Are you fit for that? I doubt it.