CURRENCY

 

The word currency can have a variety of applications-I haven’t looked up the definition but while the common usage is related to money I think it can be applied in many different ways.

I believe there is a currency based on trust, friendship, love, truth, and integrity among other things- though the currency of these things shouldn’t  be traded upon.

Hard currency, or what I will refer to as money, and it’s value is subject  to such things as inflation, national debt, and manipulation, as China is accused of.

Money is often referred to as clean or dirty, even blood money. Dirty money  can be “laundered” through banks and businesses-it can also be counterfeited.

It’s always seemed a little strange to be that a piece of paper can have a value assigned to it merely by printing a number on it-I understand the concept and the attempt to facilitate, but nonetheless odd to me.

Personally I would favor a barter system, but for a lot of reasons it isn’t feasible on a national or global level.

One thing for sure in this day and age-the lack of it has serious consequences-but I’m inclined to believe the opposite to be true as well. Too much and outlooks, attitudes, and perspectives seem to suffer.

To a large degree money empowers and insulates-and those who have excessive amounts also have a excessive sense of entitlement- one of the consequences.

Modern society places an emphasis on wealth-how much money a person has, and all things are tied to that.

People are inclined to say it takes money to do this or that, and in most instances they are correct-so it becomes a standard, money is required, and that requirement lends itself to manipulation.

Scams and pyramid schemes, abound due to this-often enough when the game is being run it relies on the emotions and compassion of goodhearted people, neither of which have an innate immunity.

Other times the motivation is greed-someone thinks they can make an investment, take a shortcut or two and strike it rich.

Inflation must have struck LPDOC harder than others judging by the ongoing call for donations- it would be nice if they opened their books and explained it all to us, but that isn’t going to happen.

It would be nice to see how those donation and grant monies are spent by AIM, but that isn’t going to happen either.

In an earlier blog  Russell describes how he is financially “supported” by his “people”-even cites an instance where he says an elder thrust a few coins in hands because that’s all he had.

When questioned about the right or wrong of accepting and leaving an elder without a penny Russell immediately launched into a defense that it was tradition, that to refuse would have been an insult.

Uh huh, and if one is to speak of tradition then the tradition of looking out for the welfare of elders should have received equal time-not to mention a common tradition shared among the nations has been that in receiving a gift one is likewise given.

But there’s a lot of bogus “explanations” about tradition and ceremonies now-a lot of bogus calls for donations too-seems fitting then that bogus money should be part of this also-maybe some script AIM or LPDOC could issue to sort of ease the burden.

A big issue was made of the Lakota or RoL  Bank and the fact that it was capitalized with a hundred thousand dollars-so far I haven’t heard of a single person who has benefited from that, or a single loan given- and I’m kind of curious what it’s present status is and how the capitalization was acquired?

If there are any loan recipients or any who have benefited an update would be appreciated.

There’s a well worn adage that advises people not to take any wooden nickles, sound advice-but I’d add to that don’t take any bogus currency regardless of how it is presented or whose face is on it.