Sacred Economics

Instead of working less hard to meet existing needs more easily, we have constantly created new needs to meet

It would be a money that, like bread, becomes less valuable over time. It would be money, in other words, that decays—money that is subject to a negative interest rate, also known as a demurrage charge.1

cooperation, abundance, and community?

It is no accident that the first highly monetized society, ancient Greece, was also the birthplace of the modern concept of the individual.

We have attached an exponentially growing money to a self and world that are neither exponential nor even linear, but cyclic.

There are puppet-masters, but they are systems and ideologies, not people.

a credit-based, interest-driven system that arises from the ancient, rising tide of separation; that generates competition, polarization, and greed; that compels endless exponential growth;

The true culprit, the true puppet-master that manipulates our elites from behind the scenes, is the money system itself

Unfortunately, as numerous revolutionaries have discovered when they topple the oligarchs, our hatred is misplaced.

but if you’ll allow a moment’s indulgence in metaphysics, I think ultimately what is happening is that our deep ideologies and belief systems, and their unconscious shadows, generate a matrix of synchronicities that looks very much like a conspiracy. It is in fact a conspiracy with no conspirators.