From Me to You

Where I live there is a unique set of topographical characteristics that resulted in an example of “people’s capacity to work together effectively to promote their common and diverse interests”. Much of the south Canterbury coastline consists of shingle, not sand, formed from river-smoothed stones of a mainly flattened-oval shape and varying in size from […]

I had a carefully crafted rebuttal all-typed out in the “reply box” and made a fatal “mouse click” not realising it had not been saved as a draft. Gone forever, all that stuff about evolution and consciousness -well, no, if I sat here all night I could probably put it all back together like a […]

As Zeddman pointed out (  ) money is used as a means of controlling trade. However, he states this as if it explains something that should be self-evident and unquestioned. I am always suspicious of anything that has implicit under-lying assumptions of objectivity and authority. If trade is a natural expression of human activity, and […]

Funny, how religion and money always gravitate towards each other… Don’t you think? In the beginning, there was no money. People shared what they caught or gathered. As we progressed to symbolic thinking and began to create artifacts and tools, people with skills began to find there was a demand for their products and they […]

I can’t promise you any answers, but here’s some food for thought. Money is a symbol of worth that facilitates trade between people. It allows us to buy the food we eat (or the means to grow our own food), the clothes we wear (or the cloth to make our own), and all of the […]