Message 76/88
Date: 23-Sep-04 @ 06:43 AM -
RE: russia
anyone could say a banana is worth FAR less than x's studio.
but given the right conditions......
it's conceivable that x's studio might be worth less than a banana......(and nature is often violently fickle and arbitrary in this sense....say if electrical power were to become scarce......
as well as food).
then the banana is worth much MORE since you can't eat x's nord lead....and you can eat a banana.
the price we put on things is determined by people.
.....and people are not infallible in their judgments...collective or otherwise.
people can trade sheep for oranges...that's a good thing.
but we're so far beyond that at this point.
there's too many people involved to have the very few horde what it can at the
detriment of the larger global cell-structure.
money is simply the articulation of that system's value judgments imposed upon the
many.
not everything can or should be equal but a balance must be achieved...
and we're not even close to that.
in fact.....what we have is exactly the opposite of that.
i can be on the internet and find works by peter bardens and suzanne ciani and steve hillage for 2.00....sometimes 99 cents.... and people won't even be looking at the stuff....
and yet
britney spears cds WILL sell for ten times that.
people would rather a big-screen than a library full of books.
they'd war rather peace and a commercial to tell them why.....where and how long.
the list of crap is long and ugly.
the list of wonderful things is long and beautiful too.....
but you gotta want to find it.
and you gotta know where to look.
and that place ain't in your wallet......unless it is.....
then you're just comfortably lost.