Canadian Politics Today

The money you cashed from that cheque is the same money that was in circulation in early Sumeria.  The city-state that came from the invention of money is essentially the same society we have today.

All of the ills that we lament today are rooted in this particular type of social organization: isolation, alienation, wealth disparity were issues that came from this system.  Human history is a history of us inventing things to make things better, then causing a bunch of other problems that need to be solved.  So we got money, wealth, surplus, government, written culture, formal education, mathematics and accounting, laws and religion as artifacts of the problem and the solution.

These tools consolidated and codified elements of human nature in a way that made sense, and provided collective and individual power.  The power of the technology meant that aspects of humanity (eg. conflict, greed, need for power) were now multiplied in their potential scope (eg. large scale war, hoarding of wealth, despotism and control over masses) and required new solutions from the new tools (eg. laws diplomacy, taxation and welfare, politics).

The relationship between the technology that is money and the human spirit is informative as to how we as humans operate: we want to understand and control the universe in ways that make sense to our brains.

For example, accounting, counting and mathematics are often thought of as reality but it is in fact an entirely human philosophy and way of thinking of the world that is only an approximation to reality.  This is why accounting makes more sense (3 apples cost $3) than pure mathematics (pi not being a real number, zero divided by zero making no sense) and than physics (inability to measure things, Newtonian vs. Einsteinian physics)

Now in the digital age, including digital money, we are creating the next step to reject the actual universe and create our own universe that suits us better.  This is the clearest indication of where we want to go, ultimately, but I am getting ahead of myself.