Money - A Shared Hallucination

Money. In a way it's a shared hallucination. Or a living dream. We all buy into the reality and importance of money. And we use it as the life-blood of much of our human activity.

The value of money is something we conjure up. We all choose to live by it's codes and rules. But really it is just paper, numbers in a computer. As J.S.G. Boggs has shown you can make up your own money. You can call it art. And trade it for goods. Money is also an act of imagination.

So yes, back to this Greek Crisis. Wouldn't it be great if for once, the money lost? For once the common people won? Wouldn't it be great if it wasn't the bankers, the money folks, the "very serious people" who got bailed out, but just the regular people who were given a break?

Yes, maybe sometimes the little guy wins! Wouldn't it be nice? Someone said, it would set a bad example to bail out the Greeks. I think what they meant is that it would set a "good example!" Maybe we could all affirm that though we believe in the power and glory of the almighty $ sometimes people, and their lives, actually are more valuable, more important than cash.

For once. Real people over cash.