Q&@
FOR
ALTHOUGH MONEY
BUILDS UNIVERSAL TRUST
BETWEEN STRANGERS, THIS TRUST
IS INVESTED NOT IN HUMANS, COMMUNITIES
OR SACRED VALUES, BUT IN MONEY ITSELF ÀND ÌN THE IMPERSONAL SYSTEMS THAT BACK IT?!
WE DO NOT TRUST THE STRANGER, OR THE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOUR - WE TRUST THE PRECIOUS
COIN THEY HOLD! Ìf they run out of coins, we run out of trust! As money brings down the dams of
community, religion & state, the world is in danger of becoming one big & rather Heartless Marketplace.
Hence the economic history of humankind is a delicate dance? People rely on money to facilitate coope-
ration with strangers, but they're afraid it will corrupt human values & intimate relations. With one hand
people willingly destroy the communal dams that held at bay the movement of money & commerce for só
lòng. Yet with the other hand they build new dams to protect society, religion and the environment from
enslavement to market forces. Begin jaren '60 v/d vorige eeuw was 't minimumjeugdloon ongeveer zo'n
600 gulden in de maand? Je kon jarenlang leven voor minder dan 1000 gulden per jaar heen & weer
liftend tussen Vale Ouwe, Vledder, Erica & Junne bij Ommen, Elat/Be'ersjeva, Elji/Petra, Ararat &
all over India, Yamagishikai & Toyosato, Birobeidjan, Moscow, Odessa & Istanbul... Ook nu zou
de ouwe Mòr weer weigeren om op bevel op mensen te schieten, bureaucratie te vereren & 't
Oppergezag koste wat kost te gehoren à la Arabia, Belorussia, China, de ergerlijks Ameri-
kanen, cowboys, yankees, vietnamoorlogen, exkoloniale slavenparadijzen & Saddamns.
Asih heeft 't niet zo op 't economistisch 'vrijemarkt' commercialisme,
concurrentie-strijd, corrupte sporten & hun ontelbare
horden gladiatorenspelen voor bloed, brood &
tranen: sportgektes, hordelopers,
drugsverkopers &
Hermandads.