I recently watched a lecture of economist and all around intriguing guy Charles Eisenstein entitled
'Money and the Turning of the Age'. Click here for
part two.
Perhaps this man is more rooted in the 'spiritual' side of things than, say Alan Greenspan. For those of whom talk of 'Spirit' and the like make you clamp your hands over your ears and say 'la la la', or just prevent you from taking a person as seriously as a fundamentalist atheist: bear with me! (And with Eisenstein, if you choose to watch the videos). There's some really potent seeds at work here.
One particular idea that struck a chord with me - especially in regard to Permaculture - is in part two at 32:44. The basic premise is about backing up money with land that is allowed to return to nature, as well as land with human input encouraging/mimicking natural systems - RATHER than backing money up with, say, gold.
Within such a system there would be economic incentive to be good stewards to the land. People have arbitrarily(? What do you think?) assigned certain values to metals such as gold. With economies working for healthy ecosystems instead I believe that this would set events in motion, revealing currently unseen benefits.
Next step: implementation! He has a bit to say about that, essentially that dissolving the current systems in place (by going off the grid, for example - CHOOSING NOT TO FEED 'THE MONSTER') may naturally give rise to a system such as this one.
For those wondering what the name of the monster is - or defenders of capitalism - stick around? I'm confident that some good food for thought may come of this thread. For the record, my stance on capitalism is that it holds ideals of infinite growth, thus unsustainable. We live on a planet with finite resources.
Is this thread in the right forum? A little bird told me that Paul likes the philosophical stuff here.
Thanks y'all! Look forward to hearing from you.
