Annual Evaluation (aka I've Got Mine Jack)

Here in the good old U.S. of A., and really throughout the most powerful nations of the world, we find that the people control the formal if not efffective power to pretty much set things up any way they want to. So the question arises: How come so few people really control the effective power of shaping global destiny? Why do the rich stay rich, when the poor have been handed the power, through representation, to essentially legislate them out of existence?

Well, that's an awfully big question. A major part of the answer lies in a fundamental failure of distinction. Politics in ameriCo are defined by a deceptive process of misinformation, and it all starts with three words which are used interchangably within the rhetoric of the power structure as a method ob obsfucation. These words are Money, Wealth, and Value.

The first step to turning the useless formal power we posess merely by virtue of citizenship, age and a relatively clean legal record into the effective power to actually shape society through the collective agency of our will is to grasp one essential fact: of these three terms, only one represents something actual. That is value. Of course, the actual thing the concept represents is not a concrete object that can be held in the hand, the way money SEEMS to be. And yet anyone who has ever made a dificult decision understands the concept of value.

Money, by contrast, we think of as very concrete: doesn't that word represent that great green paper that gives us access to Products and Services? Sure, but that green paper is just a symbol, and what that symbol represents is a system. What the system represents is a method of transforming an acceptably defined item of value (be it a gold bar or a blowjob) into a fungible (buy a damn dictionary) transactible artifact. So money is really a subsidiary of value. The secret of money is that, provided that the system it represents is accepted, it has the magical abilities first to render anonymity to a previously value-defined item, and second that what it then represents has NO DEFINED VALUE. You define the value of the money you get by how much of your valuable time or pride or erudition or socked away gold bars you trade for a given amount, but after that point the average user has no control over the defined value of that same money. It is controlled by the money system. So the word money is a symbol that represents a symbol that represents a system.

The money system, naturally, are controlled by the Wealthy, or possibly by their Wealth itself (I'm beginning to have an awfully hard time figuring out where these distinctions are drawn). Now, the tendency of the average person is to Think of wealth as a special case of money. Wealth is just a whole lotta money, right? Nothing could be further from the truth. The mere accumulation of money does not lead reliably to wealth, neither does an accumulation of money represent wealth. Wealth is something else entirely. What it actually is has everything to do with the reason the money symbol exists, and why there is such an overwhelming force at work seeing to it that people mistake money for value.

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