Money

By having a physical material object people tend to think of money as a real thing. As with time or an alphabet for a language, humans are so familiar with the imbued meaning of the symbols or concept that are meant as a simplified representation of a more complex system, that they see things instead on just that superficial level. With the depth and reasoning forgotten one does not acknowledge the history of these objects because they cannot see beyond the symbol. This view takes away an understanding of the real purpose and function for these devices.
Upon learning the back-story to the current money symbol we understand that it was previously a representation for the wealth that was deemed to shiny objects such as gold and jewels. In order to have a certain amount of paper in circulation the treasury would be requited to have equal quantity in what was considered actual wealth. So, even though the meaning and value projected upon the minerals and stones were just as false there was at least a regulatory system in place to balance out the production of the inked paper good. At our current position in time we no longer have such a dynamic in operation resulting in the frivolous production, the meaninglessness and falsified value of the American dollar.
We still allow, “[m]oney” to give to us, “a pan a play of possible futures”, (film: The Zahir), but this is because the citizen mistake nothing for something. I see this as a problem for many things in this nation. As reason gets thrown to the wayside for want, instinct, and reactionary, and fanciful thoughts we lose meaning to ourselves and to the world. In the near future this will become more available to see with point systems as the new illusionary fund. With computers and credit/debit transactions as reserves, this new electronic forum also promotes debt as a way to show your value. People’s absorption of information as well as the information (propaganda) should be challenged. They do not yet see that this transference from one system to the next is not only encouraging of debt, but that this debt is the new slavery. Education, not only the spoon fed kind, but research and critical thinking and the application of terms through a well thought and logically justified means is our only hope. Lets encourage depth and breadth of ideas, so that we wake up and can find our way out, before we venture to far in.