Is there a method?
Is there a method for measuring or monitoring currency flow within an exchange system?
There must be. The currency itself is a essentially a... uh... metric that represents (allegedly) value. Therefore, the currency system itself is what I am looking for. But information is hidden in the currency system. There is great transparency at some points (where it serves the people the system is set up to serve) and bewildering murikiness at other points (for example when corporations "depatriate" and "repatriate" their money). This transparency/opacity is itself a way of making (or destorying) currency out of nothing.
[I typed "destorying" when I meant "destroying" again. It's a slip, but one I feel has a great amount of meaning.]
Currency systems have this way of "eating" everything they come in contact with. Let's say you were alive 800 years ago anywhere in the world. "Work" would be something you did like... breathing, eating or sleeping. It wasn't really connected to any sort of currency system. There was a quasi-currency system of the internal trust-metering social network that we all build in our heads: Francois is a good guy. He gave me the same number of eggs even though he knew that my butter was a little waxy (whatever butter does when it's not quite as good as it should be 800 years ago). Next time, Francois gets first dibs on butter. Stuff like that. The general tally of who we owe, and who owes us. This turns into a general tally of who is "trustworthy" and who is not. It is a kind of currency, but it is not discrete or measurable in any way.
But once "money" infects a society, or an aspect of society, then that game is about money. And we've all watched this happen in our own lives. "Social Media" is an engine... a tally-keeping meter that has hidden parts (almost everything) and visible parts, that is designed to (or rather has evolved to) monetize our French peasants internal, natural trust-tally system.
In all currency systems, there MUST be "flow". This is a largely ignored (except by Economists, I reckon) concept. When currency "freezes" it starts to "rot" in a way. It MUST flow. THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
Since flow is so essential to the functioning of a currency cycle, and the currency cycle is essential to the systems (trust, attention, resources, carbon, oxygen, CO2, etc...) it allegedly monitors. We MUST have or develop a measure of this flow, and where the flow is "blocked" and currency is piling up, and where the flow is starved, and systems are in a state of "rot" or "decay." But I know of no such system. But we see the results in reality of a lack of this system. There is both a lack of awareness and a lack of control.
FOR INSTANCE, there is a battle for "control" of two markets right now, that we are fighting blindly. The one system is our beloved money system. The other system is nature's glorious carbon cycle. Our money system, through ignorance (deliberate or not) thinks of itself as infinite, boundless, powerful. Meanwhile, carbon has been "put out there" in the form of CO2 and the resultant energy of burning fossil fuels. And it MUST BE PUT BACK in the form of "carbon capture." If this does not happen, EVERY CURRENCY SYSTEM that is related to carbon (which is ALL of them), will suffer unintentional blockages to flow. Rot and decay will set in. "Productive" areas of the planet will turn into deserts, and so on. From the perspective of the "money" system, the "carbon problem" is a blockage in and of itself. Because "productive" (in that they serve a class of people who control violence--another currency) relationships will be "disrupted" by the necessity of capturing carbon and storing it so that the atmosphere doesn't... you know... KILL US. This is seen as a "waste" in the money system for some reason.
This is bizarre, because people LITERALLY taking money out of the system and putting it in a big pile and DOING NOTHING with it is somehow NOT seen as a "waste" in the money system. Which is hilarious to me. This is because, I think, the money system and violence system of currency are intertwined and trapped in self-perpetuating loops.
We know where we are going to end up. We are going to end up building solar collectors that power atmospheric collectors that capture CO2, release the oxygen and convert the carbon into a long term storage medium... probably graphite, as it is stable, dense, and cheap, compared to say... diamonds. We MUST do this if we want to have anything close to our current lifestyle. And there is more we must do... in the water cycle and the "wild" cycle, if we are to have any hope at all of a future with billions of people on the planet. We really, literally, DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE in this matter.
And this begins, I think, by making certain people understand that like violence, trust, attention, and productivity, carbon is a system THAT MUST FLOW. That what burns must return. If it does not return then that failure will inevitably cause blockages in other currency systems, and these will not be productive blockages (like pooling wealth, for instance, which serves a function), but rather strangulating, rotting, decaying blockages... like a stroke. We're gearing up for an "eco-stroke" in both senses of the fragment "eco." And the blockage WILL BE the failure to return atmospheric carbon to a stable, solid (as in phase of matter) form of one sort or another. I prefer graphite.
Which is to say... We should be MAKING COAL, not burning it.
There must be. The currency itself is a essentially a... uh... metric that represents (allegedly) value. Therefore, the currency system itself is what I am looking for. But information is hidden in the currency system. There is great transparency at some points (where it serves the people the system is set up to serve) and bewildering murikiness at other points (for example when corporations "depatriate" and "repatriate" their money). This transparency/opacity is itself a way of making (or destorying) currency out of nothing.
[I typed "destorying" when I meant "destroying" again. It's a slip, but one I feel has a great amount of meaning.]
Currency systems have this way of "eating" everything they come in contact with. Let's say you were alive 800 years ago anywhere in the world. "Work" would be something you did like... breathing, eating or sleeping. It wasn't really connected to any sort of currency system. There was a quasi-currency system of the internal trust-metering social network that we all build in our heads: Francois is a good guy. He gave me the same number of eggs even though he knew that my butter was a little waxy (whatever butter does when it's not quite as good as it should be 800 years ago). Next time, Francois gets first dibs on butter. Stuff like that. The general tally of who we owe, and who owes us. This turns into a general tally of who is "trustworthy" and who is not. It is a kind of currency, but it is not discrete or measurable in any way.
But once "money" infects a society, or an aspect of society, then that game is about money. And we've all watched this happen in our own lives. "Social Media" is an engine... a tally-keeping meter that has hidden parts (almost everything) and visible parts, that is designed to (or rather has evolved to) monetize our French peasants internal, natural trust-tally system.
In all currency systems, there MUST be "flow". This is a largely ignored (except by Economists, I reckon) concept. When currency "freezes" it starts to "rot" in a way. It MUST flow. THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
Since flow is so essential to the functioning of a currency cycle, and the currency cycle is essential to the systems (trust, attention, resources, carbon, oxygen, CO2, etc...) it allegedly monitors. We MUST have or develop a measure of this flow, and where the flow is "blocked" and currency is piling up, and where the flow is starved, and systems are in a state of "rot" or "decay." But I know of no such system. But we see the results in reality of a lack of this system. There is both a lack of awareness and a lack of control.
FOR INSTANCE, there is a battle for "control" of two markets right now, that we are fighting blindly. The one system is our beloved money system. The other system is nature's glorious carbon cycle. Our money system, through ignorance (deliberate or not) thinks of itself as infinite, boundless, powerful. Meanwhile, carbon has been "put out there" in the form of CO2 and the resultant energy of burning fossil fuels. And it MUST BE PUT BACK in the form of "carbon capture." If this does not happen, EVERY CURRENCY SYSTEM that is related to carbon (which is ALL of them), will suffer unintentional blockages to flow. Rot and decay will set in. "Productive" areas of the planet will turn into deserts, and so on. From the perspective of the "money" system, the "carbon problem" is a blockage in and of itself. Because "productive" (in that they serve a class of people who control violence--another currency) relationships will be "disrupted" by the necessity of capturing carbon and storing it so that the atmosphere doesn't... you know... KILL US. This is seen as a "waste" in the money system for some reason.
This is bizarre, because people LITERALLY taking money out of the system and putting it in a big pile and DOING NOTHING with it is somehow NOT seen as a "waste" in the money system. Which is hilarious to me. This is because, I think, the money system and violence system of currency are intertwined and trapped in self-perpetuating loops.
We know where we are going to end up. We are going to end up building solar collectors that power atmospheric collectors that capture CO2, release the oxygen and convert the carbon into a long term storage medium... probably graphite, as it is stable, dense, and cheap, compared to say... diamonds. We MUST do this if we want to have anything close to our current lifestyle. And there is more we must do... in the water cycle and the "wild" cycle, if we are to have any hope at all of a future with billions of people on the planet. We really, literally, DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE in this matter.
And this begins, I think, by making certain people understand that like violence, trust, attention, and productivity, carbon is a system THAT MUST FLOW. That what burns must return. If it does not return then that failure will inevitably cause blockages in other currency systems, and these will not be productive blockages (like pooling wealth, for instance, which serves a function), but rather strangulating, rotting, decaying blockages... like a stroke. We're gearing up for an "eco-stroke" in both senses of the fragment "eco." And the blockage WILL BE the failure to return atmospheric carbon to a stable, solid (as in phase of matter) form of one sort or another. I prefer graphite.
Which is to say... We should be MAKING COAL, not burning it.