A Bird’s Eye View : Solution? Abolish money!

And the more unemployed humans there are, the more it is possible to have social strife in your countries. We are of the opinion that humanity has sold off all that it owns and that perhaps this is one of the reasons for the current crisis. There seems to be no more social, culture, natural and spiritual capital left to convert into money. Charles Eisenstein, in an article published on the Internet on Oct. 16, titled "Money and the Crisis of Civilization," goes into more detail in the sense of our pondering as he explains the philosophical and practical background of the crisis. Allow us to quote some excerpts."... What constitutes a ’good’ or a ’service’? In economics these terms refer to something that is exchanged for money. If I babysit your children for free, economists do not count it as a service... But if I open a daycare center and charge you money, I have created a ’service.’

Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, rises and according to economists, society has become wealthier... Or if I evict people from their land so they cannot be subsistence farmers and must buy food, clear the land and hire them on a banana plantation... I have made the world richer. We are dependent on strangers, therefore on money, for things few humans paid until recently: food, shelter, clothing, entertainment, child care, cooking. Life itself has become a consumer item."Revolutionary solutionThe solution that is proposed by Eisenstein is in fact revolutionary and allows humanity to rediscover itself. Here is what he proposes, "In the face of impending crisis, people often ask what they can do to protect themselves. ’Buy gold? Stockpile canned goods? Build a fortified compound in remote areas? What should I do?’ I would like to suggest a different kind of question: ’What is the most beautiful thing I can do?’

You see, the gathering crisis presents a tremendous opportunity... However, you can see from the examples that I have given that the creation of money has in many ways impoverished us all. Conversely, the destruction of money has the potential to enrich us...

The time is here, though, for the reverse process to begin in earnest - to remove things from the realm of goods and services, and return them to the realm of gifts, reciprocity, self-sufficiency, and community sharing. Note well: this is going to happen anyway in the wake of a currency collapse, as people lose their jobs or become too poor to buy things.

People will help each other and real communities will emerge. Anything we do to protect some natural or social resource from conversion into money will both hasten the collapse and mitigate its severity.

Any forest you save from development, any road you stop, any cooperative playgroup you establish, anyone you teach to heal themselves, or to build their own house, cook their own food, make their own clothes... anything you render off-limits to the world-devouring machine will help shorten the machine's lifespan...

If you do not depend on money for some portion of life's necessities and pleasures, then the collapse of money will pose much less of a harsh transition for you.

Any network or community or social institution that is not a vehicle for the conversion of life into money will sustain and enrich life after money."

While Eisenstein is correct in many aspects , we birds think that the gradual implementation of what he says may be a way out of the crisis unless the crisis does not allow humanity to gradually implement the abolition of money.Ponder our thoughts dear humans for your benefit.