BTZ42Read: it has happened before

[Steven Koteff]

I was just reading in Norman Brown an account of some ideas on the psychology of money. His thrust is essentially that money is unavoidably irrational/sacred in its cultural origins. I think it is Keynes whom he cites as suggesting that gold and silver came to be sacred for the fact that they contain the same qualities as the sun and moon. He cites someone else--Laum?--as noting that the near-constant historical ratio of gold's value to silver's aligns not with supply/demand but with the ratios of the solar and lunar astrological cycles. I note it as interesting, at least. 

Part of civilization's neurosis has been the illusion that society is becoming more secular as the gods are dying--when really we have simply placed our faith elsewhere but have repressed the knowledge that it is faith and not reason. 

All of which is just maybe something I would be interested in keeping in mind as I read (though maybe it's more relevant in AtD). 

But if we, as a society, have placed our faith in capitalism, and treat as sacred a basis for our currency (gold) that is sacred because of its symbolic identification with something else sacred (Sun), then what happens when we have killed the Sun? 

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 4:42 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> In late Summer 1969, Heidegger said:
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> "The moon is not the moon anymore."
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>> On 14.03.2016 23:18, ish mailian wrote:
>> We find it difficult to imagine the
>> sky in a sacred relationship with the Earth and people, but anyone who
>> has stood under the stars and felt the mysterious and sublime power of
>> the sky knows something of the power of of the most high Sky. A
>> screaming comes across the sky and the source of the scream, if it be
>> a man made revelation of power, then the Sky, as Nietzsche says of
>> God, is Dead.
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