thoughts from ~burning woman~ by Sha’Tara

What’s the deal with money, anyway? What’s special about it? Whatever it is, it certainly attracts attention. If you have lots of it, you are rich; if you don’t have any, you are poor and likely to die soon. So money is powerful. Like, that’s news? Sure, money is powerful, but why?

Let’s look at the whole employer-employee-consumer scenario, and see what that’s all about. First, you have some business-minded type who sets up a business duly approved by the authorities, and he hires people to make it work. He pays these people a certain wage, agreed upon or not, and these people use their wages to “pay” for their right to live within the worlds ruled by money. Money is needed to buy everything, even one’s religion. Nothing is “free” and this is increasingly true as a computerized world requires a product code on just about everything sold and bought.

So far I haven’t said anything new, nor shed any light on the question at hand. What makes money powerful? We now know, thanks to the banksters and other greed-lords of the world’s stock exchanges, that it’s not the amount of money one has that creates its power because we are living in worlds so “lacking” in money, we are entombed in trillions of dollars worth of global debt! Like the Force of Star Wars, money has a dark side and a light side. The light side is being “in the black” as it was once called – something very few can boast of these days of credit cards and disproportionately inflated lines of credit. And yes, the dark side of money is credit, or “being in the red” as it was also called. These days we are awash in red – think of it as blood. Whatever it represents, it means stagnation and death: death by debt.

When a boss pays a salary or a wage, he is not giving something good, precious, or even meaningful, away. Why should those who understand money care about how much or little is given out? It’s a meaningless token in itself. But it’s not the number, the piece of paper, that has power, it’s the time (hours and days of an individual life), the hopes, dreams, fears, depression and anger that the amount of $$$ represents that carries power: power to control people's minds.

Trillions of dollars in debt? Who cares! It’s only numbers. Overnight, the money changers can change a trillion dollars to one dollar and on the surface there would be no difference at all. It’s been done by countries where inflation went out of control. A law is enacted, a new “coin” is magically produced and all that old inflated “money” is declared non-legal tender and recalled. Take your truck load of old inflated bills to the bank and receive a $10 bill in exchange. The nightmare is over… or is it?

Never, not as long as people misunderstand money, and accept the gross misrepresentation given them by the money changers. Money is a sponge that absorbs the people’s labour and the planet’s resources which the changers then squeeze out to get that energy for themselves and for those above them. As long as people believe in money and seek it, it will suck out their life’s energy and drain them. Money is nothing less than a type of succubus, a “demonic” force that works on peoples' needs and greeds to suck the life out of them. The System provides endless sites, stations, places, where an individual is picked clean of his “money” or squeezed for not having enough, or not having any.

Businesses of all kinds, including but certainly not limited to, religious establishments, medical enterprises, entertainment centers, gambling casinos, organized sports, "public" education, government or private enforcers, the military: these and a host of others all play the same role: to squeeze the individual of his money or lack thereof. Not for the paper or the promise to pay, but for his life: for his time, his dreams, his hopes, his greatest fears and deepest hatreds. Feed his addictions; entertain him or promise him freedom or jail; tell him he has an implacable enemy he must go and kill – anything to get total control over his life. That is the purpose of money.

Once that is understood, then can man begin the onerous task of extricating himself from his bondage to that global nemesis. Obviously, that requires developed intelligence and self-empowerment.