Time is a method of calculating the distance between sequences of events. It is a measurement, nothing more, nothing less. The concept of time has been debated by theologians, philosophers and scientists for countless years and no one can agree on it. Time is a method, a tool to measure a dimension – that dimension being relative space between two or more events. All that aside, time is something we have grown to use as a means of understanding part of our relationship with shared reality. We use time to govern our interaction with the outside world. We use it to allocate ourselves to certain tasks, we use it manage ourselves. Due to us placing such great emphasis on time for this task, we have made it one of the most important elements of our shared reality. This has lead to the exposure of one particular kind of problem that faces us all. In a world now dominated by money, we have quite appropriately coined a term which holds more weight than many give it credit for…
Time = Money
In this day and age this is just as rhetorical as “Is the Pope a Catholic?”. Time equals money, and no doubt the first thing that enters many peoples minds is “Yeah but what about when I am not working, my time is my own then”. Well, that’s great, if it where true. Your “own” time is often governed with how you spend the money earned using your time. From here we need to consider looking at time as a currency, which is what it has become. We all have our allotted 24 hour bag of currency, and we take this bag with us everywhere we go and spend it as we are able. Time being used as currency has lead to the creation of one of societies darkest entities.
Vampires of time.
These are people, groups, companies, corporations or combinations of all that seek to further expand their bag of currency by taking as much as they can from someone else. This of course would be seen as work for which we are paid, so what is the problem? Well, ask yourself…what is your time worth? Apparently our bag of currency has its own exchange rate. We increase the value of our currency dependant on how useful our time is. The education system is seemingly the place where we increase our currency’s exchange rate. This “rat race” has lead to a saturation and subsequent diminishing of the education systems ability to further increase your currencies value. Have we forgotten that primarily education is there to educate ourselves, not increase our value to someone else.
We are pressured to work more, sleep less and in those times in between reinvest our currency by converting its value back into time so that we can work more. Consider this…
(Time) generates (Money) generates (Consumption) generates (Less Money) which generates the need for more (Time) to generate more (Money) generating more (Consumption)…..
Lets look more at the concept of a God of Money. He has but one Gospel, the gospel according the divine creature Me-Dia, [Me] A Sumerian divine decree governing relationship between the divine and humanity, [Dia] Latin for Goddess, denoting divinity. Within this Gospel we can find prophecy, insight into how the God of Money will impact on our lives, these prophecies are not always obvious, rarely direct and seek to deepen our understanding of this God through the language of Laicremmoc Gnisitrevda, but as is often the case with prophecy words can become reflections of their true meaning.
This Gods priests are multiple and manifest in this world. They are the vampires of time, who spread forth amongst us and cultivate what they can from our little bags of currency. They are the leech, the pickpockets of our assets, stripping us of what they can, devaluing our time at every opportunity and ensuring the God of Money is perpetually satiated.
Much like the pagans of the past during the dominating periods of Christianity we are doomed to fall into line and conform or hide our outcast lifestyles away from the masses. Problem is they chopped down all the trees, where are we going to hide?
Tags: Gods, money, occult, time
Stop blogging so damn fast man, I can’t keep up!
Anyway – and probably for the first time ever – I agree with you completely. This is why I believe in and advocate two attempts at solution:
1. The Basic Income or National Dividend system.
I’m not economically educated enough to go into any real details – I’ll leave that to the experts – but the basic premise is very simple. Everyone gets an allowance slightly above the cost of living. If they want more, they can go out and earn it. If they don’t, then fine!
It would lead to pointless, highly-paid jobs (financial planner for instance) becoming no more than hobbies, while necessary work (bin man, cleaner, farm labourer) becoming paid at the rate that they’re really worth.
There’s a lot more to the system than this taster, but it’s worth research.
2. Self-education in marketing methods.
The reason people work so much is that (particularly in the US and Britain) we’ve swapped greater work effiency for consumption instead of leisure. Certain extremely clever and cynical people used highly efficient methods to persuade us to consume more (and so spend their time to work more).
People need TO SEE THE FNORDS!
Once people have broken the chains that tie them to consumerism their bag of temporal currency will belong to them rather than the people they promised it to. They will have the leisure to think, act, create for themselves if they want to. They could spend all that time watching porn and drinking whiskey if they wanted to, what would it matter?
Control of our time is control of our minds. Consider how many of our most creative and successful heroes spent long periods “languishing on the dole”.
Note also how our PM, Mr Brown is pushing the “Full Employment” agenda again. Why – because a population too busy working and buying things is a population too busy to think.
Who’s cynical?
Love,
Seán
I like the sound of point 1 – I will look more into that.
Very nice blog Daniel. Thanks for inviting me. This article hits too close to home. it has become almost impossible to be an artist any more unless you strive for fame just to make enough money to be able to do it. Sean’s #1 ideas is wonderful but in USA it smacks of the dreaded socialism — of course THAT is the entitlement of the rich!
Another thing you can take a loo is the Zeitgeist movement and the proposed shift to a resource based economy. As an artist I imagine this concept would strike a note with you. The pursuit of creative expansion within society being one of it’s ultimate goals
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
and thanks for taking the time to come visit my blog. I look forward to your input.
Blessings
Daniel
Maybe the world sat too long thinking is lacking the urge to work and spend.
The economy is stretched by those who have cap in hand. They claim. The total Income Tax paid by the workers does not cover the cost for those on Benefit. If you are on benefit and are able to contribute then you should do so, for if I (tax-payer) became you and all of us did, then we, together with you, will have an empty cap… wheres the money gonna come from!????????
I very much agree that the economy cannot manage the current level of benefit that is being passed out. The problem in that area is a full understanding of the benefit system and a rethinking of defining those who are in need, and those who are in receipt of a ‘benefit’ taking it in its literal term. For example, there are a whole host of people who are in genuine need of help – those with a physical or mental disability, the elderly and infirm and those who are also actively seeking employment. The drain on the system is not these people – the drain on the benefit system is in fact those who you claim are the ones suffering from it and therein lies the irony.
Child benefit is claimed by every single parent in the country for each child they have up to the maximum of 3 children, after that there is no more. Now because the government all those years ago in its wisdom thought that poorer families would not take the benefit for fear of being stigmatised they made it available to everyone – it is the most ludicrous attempt at poverty alleviation this government has every attempted. Some may think that the amount given in child benefit is nominal but in fact it eqautes to over half the income of one person on job seekers allowance. If you have two children you get more than a person on jobseekers allowance and with three children even more. Right there is the true drain on the system – everyone from breadline families to multi millionaires are in receipt of it. The output of child benefit is 417% that of all other benefits and yet this issue continues unabated.
There are also many other benefit drains on the system – such as pensioners who still receive their winter fuel allowance when they are living in their second home in spain, fathers receiving working families tax credit up to 6 months after the breaking of a home are but of a few of the others.
In the end I agree completely, those with cap in hand are a drain on the system, but those who have their cap filled for them even without needing it are killing the system.