on money (in the abstract)

[Joseph Tracy]

Nowhere did I say that "there is an ongoing war between
the rich and powerful and the poor and powerless" . That is simply inaccurate. I agree that there is a dialog of kinds between the monopolizers and those they injure and OWS is one face of that dispute. I am not against money. It's convenient and very useful as a medium of exchange. I'm trying to think and talk about how it seems to work.

As for your hard to parse final sentences,   I think my personal answers are yes yes and so what, but I've never understood most of what you write.
On Nov 24, 2011, at 8:47 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Right. ...the first sentence is dotted to the post that I replied to.
> In that post the author claimed that there is an ongoing war between
> the rich and powerful and the poor and powerless. I said it is not
> war, but human evolution sped up by technology.
> 
> 
>> 
>>> 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.