Any comments?

[John]

In relation to an Op-Ed I posted quoting Nietzsche's "On the genius of the species," one part of this quote states... ( Paraphrased).. "The part of our thinking that arises into consciousness is the smallest, most shallow and the worst part." Well if one stops to collect their thoughts, what is it we worry about most or to be more precise what concerns us the most as adults? Is it not money, the contacts we have or hope to gain in relation to money? Of course health is a concern but this also involves money and did I mention having enough money to maintain our lifestyles?

Money and what it provides:security, education, real estate, automobiles, vacations, electronic devises, food, clothes, health, just about every thing that comes to mind ( the most shallow part), is either directly or indirectly connected to money and how to maintain the income we have or to how to earn more.

This is quite obviously understandable and perhaps the only other aspects of "what comes into our awareness" and is removed from monetary concerns occur either when we are dreaming; monetary concerns can slip symbolically into dreams but do not dominate the whole of dreams ( see Freud) or when something immediately happens to us as if to shock our senses. These more immediate concerns usually belong to suffering or great pleasures.

If one is "struck" by an immediate wound, physical or psychological i.e., (emotional) our most pressing concern is to mitigate or to remove the suffering. If we are "struck" by some great pleasure be it physical or psychological ( emotional) this stimulus also seems to require mitigation or an effort to once again reach homeostasis. ( see "Instincts and their Vicissitudes" -Freud 1915).

An immediate sensory impression does remove us from the mundane, that is, monetary concerns; but we are somehow driven to return to the ordinary, the mundane and familiar "reality" of money. As if money is not only a practical necessity but has also become a psychological necessity.

The aspect of money and all this term implies interests me more in regard to how it is a psychological necessity. That it is a practical necessity is easily understandable as it has become an everyday routine; but the abstract need for this concept, the psychological need for it, is more interesting and more disturbing to me.

Most adults in this society are well aware that money talks and BS walks- this very post obviously walks.
Be that as it may, one will be atonished if they begin to realize how removed from life we are as a species because of this economic tool we call "money."

Now Karl Marx and others wrote brilliantly about this subject and in great detail. I am only attempting to describe this troubling phenomena in my own style.

It appears to me that life would be " much more worth living" if people's perceptions were not obfuscated by monetary concerns- Monetary concerns can be the cause for much pain and fear in this society- and as John Lennon wrote; "Why in the earth are we here, surely not to live in pain and fear." It appears that the only path to genuinely understanding these words by Lennon is when one of those shocking or immediate moments catapult us away from the mundane.

Now if one were able to "sit" with one of these immediate responses that occasion us from time to time, and not be driven back to "homeostasis," much could be gained through this "sitting" because one would be removed from the obfuscation money brings; but this thought I just typed walks as we are all too aware.

People appear to have the need to express that there is much more to life than money, however most people, if they were to be honest would not want less money or have their income inhibited or the path toward higher income inhibited even if it led to more clearity.

Perhaps most people would be better off if they accepted that there is not much to life without money. Since most people live this belief, what would be wrong with fully articulating it. Without money life is not worth living.

WITHOUT MONEY LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING! Now if one has a problem with this statement please respond to this Op-Ed and write how life is woth living without money. Now I am of the belief that life is not worth much as a result of money, but my thoughts and ideas and comments walk as in BS walks. However, people who have ideas, and comments that talk- please enlighten me- instruct me on how life is worth living without money. (Now please do not try a compromise approach, as in one needs money to experience those things that have nothing to do with money or some BS like this.)

If you do decide to answer this question, perhaps it would help if you were in one of those catapulted, shocking moments when your mind has opened up.

Any comments?