Money exchanges between drug deals or grocery store attendants and shoppers or gun runners and dealers, etc., and so on and so forth. So ubiquitous is cash, is a credit card, that we take for granted its prevalence in our lives. We take for granted that there will be taxes and debts.
Hammurabi of Babylonia was the first to codify laws on money, which haven’t changed since. Every historical figure has had to contend with money. George Washington, Stalin, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, your favorite actor or director or writer. Money is, like Adulthood, an Inevitable.
From the Marxist standpoint, you can shake your tribal head at money, but still you have children to be responsible for, or yourself to be responsible for, or your rent. Either way, freedom does not ring true and we have Free Will, but not freedom from the chains of money and power and all the inevitabilities of life. No one can escape the Inevitable, which of course connotes death. But look around! There are inevitabilities all around. You can’t escape. You are in a straightjacket of capitalism and power hierarchy.
The way we escape is through sex, drugs, TV, bars—and if you can make money off of sex, drugs, TV, bars, off the Inevitabilities, so much more power to you, like an owner of a Strip Club. You have your whores sell your TVs or food. It’s funny how the corporate stratosphere has congealed this working model. We call this commercialism.
And Nature is no escape, Peace no altruism. What’s the difference between meditating and jacking off in your room, when the world is jaded from hazmat men cleaning up the mess of our lives? If the apocalypse comes, it will be by our own hand and in that hand will be a credit card.
