The value of money in any form, what is it? First of all it is a tool, an instrument. Yes like the proverbial hammer. And even seems like the glue that holds us together. So be it with money, and with the felt idea of God. Questions around it definitely evoke the Socrates in me. And the Spinoza. And the Bertrand Russell. And all the super inquisitive talented women scientists of every stripe for all time. Including herbalists.
CBG doesn't hurt either, figuring along with all these ideas and beliefs and habits into some kind of coherence. Coherence is as coherence does, I'm finding. It's more than a gut only feeling though in recognition of what we're finding out about the gut, who knows?
Noticing, the act of taking notice, taking note of any and everything has been with me all my life. And I am not alone in this, at all. It is in fact a human instinct coming very much out of our animal cells. Including birds of course. Yes birds evolved from dinosaurs after the big stuff hit the Earth back there in whatever era and killed the dinosaurs as they were, which had gotten way too big anyway, though to mention quickly I do love whales but they're in the ocean not the land. Anybody taking notice of parallels here.??
While my early schooling included really great teachers especially English teachers and history/civics teachers, It has remained with me because I have used it. They lured and beckoned and encouraged me into good long-time habits of mind and noticing, along with a bigger awareness of everything around me. And that was in the late 40s and into the '50s - Yes the absolutely terrifying uprooting mean times that senator McCarthy brought us, along with all the capitalists who were afraid of losing influence; largely male to male battles. Why on earth are people, males and females, so damn scared of educating themselves, and I'm even talking about educated ones too. Mao Tse Tung shipped all those upper experts out to the fields to work, back there during their cultural revolution, and I don't know how much that worked but it was pretty brutal. Maybe we could start replacing habits with have-its. Self-ownership is not a bitch, self-ownership is an absolute pleasure.
Looks like we have to de-brutalize ourselves over a rather intense period to come, one hopes in intensely beautiful ways. All those deep courageous meaningful creative kind ways that a mixed world population can bring back to the larger world. Namaste.
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Corporate Capitalism. There's nothing much human about it. Don't berate this one, just think about it…. I am moving on as always.