Hello friend,
It's so interesting that my first post here would be a response to this topic: I am a fan, an admirer, a contemplator
of the elements
and metals definitely qualify and represent an economic opportunity for permaculture application
As an element, metal rules wood (paper money), or weakens it, according to the energy discipline of Feng shui and natural systems
Emphasizing a metal based currency will, by the nature of the individual characteristics , hasten the weakening of the paper economy
and become grounded in real tangible goods.
When the story falls away from paper money and it no longer gives it value- what else could we do with it? what are dollar bills good for? Wiping one's butt? Taking snuff? Burning?
But if a metal based currency lost its exchange value in one way, it would retain it in another as the prime ingredient in so many human crafted items.
Only in recent generations did we move from a natural elemental economy
It is not so long ago that we cannot return to that moon time
I think your recommendation is right on, fren.
I got alerted to silver recently with the Gamestop run and then talk of a silver squeeze. I got inordinately excited by the idea of crashing the banking system and did buy some assorted sterling on eBay . Sometimes I need a few reminders to follow through and fully commit to divesting from one system for another.
It makes sense but it can feel a little daunting too to acknowledge that big changes can occur in a very short period of time.
Yet it is our task as practitioners, followers of permaculture , to perceive and acknowledge the characteristics of the different elements in a design, a system. Paper is way more ephemeral, vulnerable than metals.
Poignant to hear you reference coming back before you're too old to start on the land here...
Ive rented for a long time with various others over the years and feel the urge to claim our own land now with my man
Realistically a few months yet. So before converting paper into a house, I might have to convert it to metal first!
Maybe in a future reality we will have evolved so that we won't even need money
but as a transition to that time
I think metals are a wise bet
Thank you for the post.
