tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post7897656492034687337..comments2010-10-08T06:59:51.475-07:00Alan Rosenblithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12508818912677197006noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-46653184011783696522010-07-15T02:24:57.504-07:002010-07-15T02:24:57.504-07:00A wonderful account of the challenges we face and the opportunities they afford us! Thank you for your efforts, they chime very nicely with my thinking on all this.<br /><br />I posted on my Econosophy blog yesterday (a very long article) something quite similar to what you have written here, and have written often about money as a linear and coagulating flow that does not come close to matching the elegance and diversity of flows seen elsewhere in nature. For example, in my struggles to understand money from an ecological or systems point of view, I have come to see &#39;profit&#39; as an uneven distribution of money in the economy, or an unhealthy pooling, which exacerbates scarcity, fear of want, and hoarding generally. My attemtps to communicate this perception with folk at Naked Capitalism fell on deaf ears, so it&#39;s very refreshing to find a like-minded thinker here.<br /><br />I notice Nick mentioned The Venus Project. They interest me greatly too, and have inspired my own efforts to understand and transform. I think though that currencies of some form will always be with us, though so different from how we have and use money today as to be barely comparable. The Venus Project&#39;s correlation of money with scarcity is a powerful observation though, such that I fail to see a use for money where we have abundance. Air cannot be monetized, for example. Perhaps we should adopt a similar relationship with things like food, water, shelter and transport etc., as the Venus Project suggests. Maybe, as time goes on, we can remove more and more of life from the need for money in a reversal of all that has happened over the millennia since farming began. (No, I don&#39;t seek a return to primitivism!)Tobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16258136994278139356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-20677338580424541982010-06-23T02:21:27.276-07:002010-06-23T02:21:27.276-07:00Great article, maybe you should check this out:<br /><a rel="nofollow">http://www.thevenusproject.com/</a>Nickhttp://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-30150413435071127432010-01-06T11:50:42.573-08:002010-01-06T11:50:42.573-08:00Magnificent, Alan. A very mature perspective.<br /><br />To participate in the emergence of the information age with appreciation of its ramifications, it helps to see its incipient pathologies and what must emerge to resolve them. Even if that doesn&#39;t happen for centuries after the present passage, such an anticipatory appreciation of the developmental spiral facilitates complete grounding into the historical moment, via full assimilation of the shadow as well as light it casts on the future as well as the past.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14570361476590275072noreply@blogger.com