The power of money

Money runs the world's economy. It determines who rules nations, and it rules lives.These are the three most significant properties attributed to the power of money, in addition to its basic function as a medium of exchange. But we can attribute several less significant properties, although similarly important, to the power of money. They include: 1. Money separates people of the same nation into classes, divisions and groups. 2. The pursuit of money and wealth can turn man against man, son against father, family against family and nation against nation. 3. Money's devaluation of natural values makes Nature the object of buying and selling. 4. The ability of man to perform labor by placing a price on his head allows one man, or group of men, to enslave another individual or group of individuals. 5. The ability of money to corrupt tends to change man's personality from social being to self-oriented individual. 6. The power of money drives people to produce services in order to pursue everyday life. This inflicts stress upon people, leading to a spiritual breakdown manifested in acts of crime and mental illnesses. Amazingly enough, not many people in modern society are aware of the source of the power or money, including businessmen such as bankers, money market brokers and financiers, who consider themselves money experts. Perhaps one of the reasons the origin of money's power is one of the least discussed subjects among academics is the non-existence of prehistoric written records. The second reason is historians' failure to unveil when and how currency converted from an ordinary medium of exchange into the dominant value of society by expanding its usage to include rendered labor compensation. Also, when and what societal changes elevated the abstract value of currency into an absolute ruling power over humans, including all natural values and treasuries of the Earth. The blank page left by the theory of early civilization about the invention and rise of money invited independent thinkers to develop their own theories. The records indicate that this enigma is hidden in the formation of the first state and government. Reforms enacted almost 4,000 years ago led to the breakup of the original communion society, creating conditions that enabled different classes of people to pursue independent ways of life. Regulating all natural values and treasuries, including human labor, through money, one individual was able to declare himself the king, and establish absolute ruling power over society by entrapping people within guarded wall. This historic event advanced the abstract value of money from the ordinary medium of exchange to an absolute ruling power unparalleled in the real world. Some ancient spiritual leaders expressed a serious concern about the prudence of the proposed reforms. They warned that the enactment of these reforms would void the God-given dominant role of natural values within society at the expense of the abstract value of money. This would subsequently interrupt the relationship between man and nature, and change the original role of man upon the Earth from the guardian of nature to the biggest annihilator of nature. But the followers of the philosophical doctrine of man's uniqueness compared to other species dismissed such warnings. Promoting man's spiritual virtue of freedom to make his own norms and laws instead of following the law of nature, they were delighted by the proposed reforms. Ever since, the corruption, exploitation of one man over another and class warfare became the norms of the New World Order leadership. The comparatively recent freedom movements that led to the French and Bolshevik revolutions failed to liberate people from the chains of money's absolute power. Despite that, the idea of freedom lives on in people's minds, inspiring liberators to wonder why the formation of a communist state failed to succeed. The liberators failed to realize that the institution of state and government is the foundation that, by providing the conditions for money currency to function, imposes absolute ruling power over society. This means that the institution of state and government is not a suitable foundation for the establishment of a free, classless society. The only way to liberate society from the absolute power of money is to return to the system of farming communities and declaring abolition of money currency, which would ultimately lead to dismantling the institutions of state and government. However, taking into account that man is biologically a mortal relative entity incapable of resisting temptation offered by the absolute power of money, the prospect for the abolition of money is not practically realistic. Michael Vladimirovich Trisho is the author of "How Did Humanity Become Enslaved to Money?"

********** Published: Nov. 14, 2013 - Volume 12 - Issue 31