"Just collecting my thoughts"
MONEYTOXOSIS: a brief overview
The idea is that money infects us like a virus, more specifically like the virus "toxoplasmosis" that transfers itself from rats to cats by rewiring their brains.
THIS IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION
Money has a similar life-cycle, we are the "moneyrats", we gather up little bits of money to save or spend until it eventually ends up with the "moneycats". The moneycats are the big multinationals, criminal gangs, governments, insurance companies etc. who store the money in electronic accounts where it multiplies.
The money virus is getting to a point where it doesn't need us any more. The computer systems where money multiplies will run on and on without human intervention because the systems that we are building will be self repairing and use little energy that can come from sun, wind etc. This planet will become host to an electronic form of life, inconceivable to most humans, but not if you look at it from a genetic point of view.
If we accept Richard Dawkins' position that life has evolved to replicate genes and ideas can be transmitted in the same way, as "memes", then it is perfectly feasible that life's next stage is to evolve from genetic to mimetic (all of human history is about transmitting ideas, as words, pictures, myths etc).
It further follows that just as viruses have evolved to infect biological, carbon based life and viruses have been developed and evolve to infect electronic, silicon based life, so there are viruses that evolve to infect memetic, thought based life.
MONEYTOXOSIS I, II, III ...
The idea is that money infects us like a virus, more specifically like the virus "toxoplasmosis" that transfers itself from rats to cats by rewiring their brains.
THIS IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION
Money has a similar life-cycle, we are the "moneyrats", we gather up little bits of money to save or spend until it eventually ends up with the "moneycats". The moneycats are the big multinationals, criminal gangs, governments, insurance companies etc. who store the money in electronic accounts where it multiplies.
The money virus is getting to a point where it doesn't need us any more. The computer systems where money multiplies will run on and on without human intervention because the systems that we are building will be self repairing and use little energy that can come from sun, wind etc. This planet will become host to an electronic form of life, inconceivable to most humans, but not if you look at it from a genetic point of view.
If we accept Richard Dawkins' position that life has evolved to replicate genes and ideas can be transmitted in the same way, as "memes", then it is perfectly feasible that life's next stage is to evolve from genetic to mimetic (all of human history is about transmitting ideas, as words, pictures, myths etc).
It further follows that just as viruses have evolved to infect biological, carbon based life and viruses have been developed and evolve to infect electronic, silicon based life, so there are viruses that evolve to infect memetic, thought based life.
MONEYTOXOSIS I, II, III ...
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The Sniper in Your Mind
I'm the assassin in your brain, The virus behind your eyes, You look at me and laugh, But still believe my lies. the idiot sage of the void |
