[MD] From each... to each

[Heather Perella]

Hello,


> >"Money is paper (inorganic ink and organic wood
> pulp)".
> Money comes into being only at the societal level. 
> So too with government, despite government buildings
> being made of inorganic concrete and organic wood &
> filled with reams of organic paper.

     Yeap, that's what I said due to the value we put
into it.

> >We are isolated due to our behaviors of leaving the
> house to go to work and >travel far to find the $ to
> get food on the table.
> Economic activity/exchange need not isolate us. 

     Then why does mother and father need to work more
and more in this culture, and Day Care is more and
more a need.

> Also, think how far we would have to go to get
> everything that is in our house, without the
> existence of $ & stores.

     What if we were more independent in the way that
we could subsist without things from the stores.  Yet,
the balance this country tries to strike between the
Amerindian local subsistence and European take it and
get it from others subsistence is a rocky balance and
has been throughout its' Manifest Destiny and now
current oil and clothing history.  Gandhi advocated
India by making clothing in India and the local house,
not to depend on the clothing shipped from Great
Britain.
     The biggest hurdle that I have ever advocated
even on the MOQ in the past is the population of this
culture depends on foreign goods due to the high
consumerism of buy, buy, buy, and the more local we
would become the harder it would be to have the land
to do such things as plant your own garden and depend
locally - imagine New York City doing this.  I can't. 
Urban regions bring a whole new weight upon a society
in which the city has to expand and depend further
upon 'things' from a distance.  This distance grows
and grows as the city grows and grows and the stomach
doesn't fill.  Soon the weight of New York City is
felt as far away as India as the demand increases and
the forests are knocked down to increase the
agricultural fields to feed the workers in Delhi that
increasingly populates as the jobs increase as New
York City has the increasing value of dependency grow
upon $ being the answer to solve its' needs. 

> >$ is seen as the savior, the bringer of all these
> things...
> We work to obtain our subsistence; any surplus above
> that we store as $.

     Don't forgot the $ we need to obtain our
subsistence.
   
  It is this surplus that helps
> us to solve problems & satisfy values.  (Though $ is
> not always necessary.)

     Name one instance when $ is not necessary.  I say
the woods or the walk to the woods, yet, as Platt
noted earlier I need $ to get to the woods even if it
is the shoes I have to buy from China to get me there.
 I could walk out into the woods naked and try to
cross the road without anybody noticing me.  Now
wouldn't that be daring!  All for a meditation that
doesn't have $ creep into my mind and the value of it
so I can get to these places to sit down.  
      Without the sarcastic overtone, I can experience
those moments that I mentioned in an earlier post that
$ is not involved and the world that the value of $
rigidly adheres to, occupies, and involves itself with
such as petting my dog or looking at the stars.  But
someday somebody somewhere might find a way to get $
wedged in-between these activities, too.  

SA 

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