These are the three most significant properties attributed to the power of
money, in addition to its basic function as a medium of exchange. But we can
attribute several less significant properties, although similarly important, to
the power of money. They include:
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Money separates people of the
same nation into classes, divisions and groups.
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The pursuit of money and
wealth can turn man against man, son against father, family against family
and nation against nation.
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Money's devaluation of natural
values makes nature the object of buying and selling.
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The ability of man to perform
labor by placing a price on his head allows one man, or group of men, to
enslave another individual or group of individuals.
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The ability of money to
corrupt tends to change man's personality from social being to self-oriented
individual.
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The power of money drives people to produce
services in order to pursue everyday life. This inflicts stress upon people,
leading to a spiritual breakdown manifested in acts of crime and in mental
illnesses.
Amazingly enough, not many people in modern society are aware of the source
of the power of money, including businessmen such as bankers, money market
brokers and financiers, who consider themselves money experts.
Perhaps one of the reasons the origin of money's power is one of the least
discussed subjects among academics is the non-existence of prehistoric written
records. The second reason is historians' failure to unveil when and how
currency converted from an ordinary medium of exchange into the dominant value
of society by expanding its usage to include compensation for labor rendered.
Also uncertain are when and what societal changes elevated the abstract value of
currency into an absolute ruling power over humans, including all natural values
and treasuries of the Earth.
The blank page left by the theory of early civilization about the invention
and rise of money invited independent thinkers to develop their own theories.
The records indicate that this enigma is hidden in the formation of the first
state and government. Reforms enacted almost 4,000 years ago led to the breakup
of the original communal society, creating conditions that enabled different
classes of people to pursue independent ways of life.
Regulating all natural values and treasuries, including human labor, through
money, one individual was able to declare himself the king, and establish
absolute ruling power over society by entrapping people within guarded walls.
This historic event advanced the abstract value of money from the ordinary
medium of exchange to an absolute ruling power unparalleled in the real world.
Some ancient spiritual leaders expressed a serious concern about the prudence of
the proposed reforms. They warned that the enactment of these reforms would void
the God-given dominant role of natural values within society at the expense of
the abstract value of money. This would subsequently interrupt the relationship
between man and nature and change the original role of man upon the Earth from
the guardian of nature to the biggest annihilator of nature.
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But the followers of the philosophical doctrine of man's uniqueness
compared with other species dismissed such warnings. Promoting man's
spiritual virtue of freedom to make his own norms and laws instead
of following the law of nature, they were delighted by the proposed
reforms.
Ever since, the corruption, exploitation of one man over another
and class warfare became the norms of the New World Order
leadership. The comparatively recent freedom movements that led to
the French and Bolshevik revolutions failed to liberate people from
the chains of money's absolute power. Despite that, the idea of
freedom lives on in people's minds, inspiring liberators to wonder
why the formation of a communist state failed to succeed.
The liberators failed to realize that the institution of state
and government is the foundation that, by providing the conditions
for money currency to function, imposes absolute ruling power over
society. This means that the institution of state and government is
not a suitable foundation for the establishment of a free, classless
society.
The only way to liberate society from the absolute power of money
is to return to the system of farming communities and abolish money
currency, which would ultimately lead to dismantling the
institutions of state and government.
However, taking into account that man is biologically a mortal
relative entity incapable of resisting temptation offered by the
absolute power of money, the prospect for the abolition of money is
not practically realistic.
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Michael Vladimirovich Trisho is the author of the novel "How Did
Humanity Become Enslaved to Money?" (http://tinyurl.com/lwh4yzb.)
Born in Panchevo, currently part of Serbia, Trisho's tendency to
inquire about the mysteries of the world using reason and logic were
evident at an early age. All his life, he wondered how humankind
became entrapped by money and why people believe a money-based
society is best. After immigrating to the United States, he
continued to examine early history in search of answers about the
monetary system and its relation to the institution of state.
Examining archeological fossils and excavations focuses only on a
narrow part of early human experience and does not reveal important
events that played a critical role in society's development. Trisho
created his own reconstruction of events, the product of which is
his debut novel.
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