Lack of Money in the world and solutions:

Lack of Self-Intimacy and Self-Exploration - Lack of Self-Worth and Self Acceptance

Writen by David Tyler Duncan November 2008

The way the world is currently set up is based on and around money. If you have it, you can live a comfortable life - if you don't have it, life is spent desperately attempting to make it through to see another day. But the common point found within both categories is that people's lives all over the earth is consumed by money. The majority of the average person's life in this world is centered around working and discovering ways to earn money simply to survive. Half of the human population is living in poverty. Millions on this earth are forced to work full time (at least 38 hours per week) just to have enough money to live. For most, this means that life is so much revolved around money that they do not even have the chance to look deeper into themselves and life in general. Life is so centered around money and survival that there is little time to think of anything else, as this is the very function of the system – to keep people busy with serving it and thus putting both it and themselves as a product of the system first. Money is so conditioned into humanity's psyche that it is seen as the most valuable thing existent in this world, which causes many to obsess over meaningless, superficial commodities, such as having a nice car and house, which causes one to live a very shallow existence, missing the point of life and themselves completely. It is not easy to slow down and have a look at one’s life if they are so consumed by the simple necessity to survive over all else. How is humanity supposed to learn and explore himself when he is too busy surviving? How can one have the chance to slow down and reflect upon his life when he is so busy working most of his life just to have enough money to pay the bills and put food on the table? What would it mean for the advancement of mankind if he had enough money and thus time to actually be able to see the forest from the trees – to actually have a real look at himself and life in general and see just what is going on here?

With money, survival and fear of loss consuming a person’s life, he has little chance of seeing what he is actually living and doing to himself. These points of money, survival and fear of loss he will define himself to accordingly, and will thus be seen as what life is all about – missing the point of who and what he actually is simply here in the moment of breath. Money is thus placed above all else in this world by humanity, even above life itself. Man is more concerned with having a good job, money in the bank, and nice possessions such as a big house and nice car, than he is with knowing himself. It is because this is what people are raised and encouraged to be by the parents and systems of this world. Children are put into schools to be molded and shaped to become perfect slaves for the Matrix, rather than encouraged and supported to learn more about himself and who and what he and this world actually is, and his self-expression. Instead of self-expression and intimacy being developed, encouraged and brought forth within the being, he is instead taught to fit into and work for the system, which causes the being to literally lose himself within useless knowledge and information, concerns for money and the future related to fear of loss and fear of death, plus definitions of self based on and around money. In our world currently, self has completely been abdicated, with money being seen as more valuable. There is an unending desire and lack of fulfillment within beings because he has defined himself as lacking, though he looks to money and buying things to supposedly fulfill him. Self is completely non-existent, because the being is only taught to want and desire money and how to survive in this world. Beings are encouraged to live out their lives defined as and according to money, the lack thereof, fear of loss, fear of the future, and fear of death. Within all of this is no room for self to be expressed or explored, as the being’s life is so completely consumed by money in all ways. And no one will care or think to explore themselves if they already believe they know who they are, as what the system has told them to be, and as what they define themselves to be according to money.

We define ourselves according to money and our possessions to such an extent that we have literally forgotten about ourselves and our self-expression. So much of us is defined by money and what we have and 'own' because of it, and this causes us to become very lost within illusions and ideas of the mind. We become lost within jealousy, comparison, ego, self-interest and survival, fear of loss, the belief that we need something outside of ourselves to 'complete' and fulfill us, the need for recognition/respect and to move up within society, power, defining and identifying self according to work and money/possessions - and many other points. There is no room for any real self-growth, nor is there room for self-trust to be developed. We rely on our money and place more trust within gratifying our senses with possessions than we rely on and trust ourselves. We fear losing that which has no value, because we are taught to value that which has none. There is no chance for a being to even care or consider himself in self-expression if he is told that he has everything already as what is supplied through money and the system, and has accepted this as the way life is. In actuality, something like self-expression and self-intimacy is likely to be shunned since the system and definitions of what self is based on money is dominant.

If everyone had enough money already, the situation would be very different in this respect. Simply enough, half of the world’s population would have the opportunity to do something else with their life rather than struggling just to make ends meet and survive another day. With more time, and less focus put on simply having to survive, this would give many people the chance to reflect upon their lives and look deeper into themselves and life in general, to actually see and observe more closely what is going on, without having to worry about where their next meal is coming from. People who would normally work 40+ hours a week would have the chance to slow down, get out of the Matrix for a while, and maybe even see the life they are leading, or the lack thereof. Working parents would have the time and opportunity to teach their own children instead of putting them into school because of time and money constraints. All in all, an equal amount of money for all would give all the opportunity to slow down, relax, and reflect upon themselves and life. There is barely any chance for this in the current world system of money and how it is set up, nor is it encouraged. Many seem content to live an empty life based on money, consumerism and survival, though for so many people, unfortunately this is all they know. The way the world is set up promotes the abdication of life, self-enhancement, self-intimacy and self-exploration in favour of consumerism, having beings look to the outside for fulfillment, and having desire and survival the primary motivators. This obviously results in much depression and disillusionment, with people wandering this earth unaware of themselves, as an empty shell.

Equal money for all will give each one the opportunity to look within, explore themselves, and discover what is already here as themselves. With everyone having enough money to eat and live comfortably, money will not be such a sought after thing, and it will not be seen as the most important thing in life.
Within this, people will then have the chance to see what actually matters as his life won’t be so consumed by survival. It would be inevitable that people see that there is more to life and who they are besides surviving, as they will have the opportunity and time to reflect more upon themselves.


What is based on money, consumes people's lives and distracts them from self-exploration and self intimacy?

Fear of Loss/Fear of Death - Constructs and is the basis for all subsequent points. Life defined by that which can be lost, and spent protecting and clinging to material possessions - this causes the being to place value in that which has none, and has him distracted from himself here, where the real value is. Too busy surviving instead of actually living, as living is defined by surviving.
Family/Friends - If parents have to work to survive, they must put their children in daycare or school, though if parents had enough money and did not have to work, they may get to actually raise their children in a way that supports their own expression, rather than have them become just another tool for the system.
Self-Definition – Defining self according to and through money and possessions, getting lost within this. Within this, self is lost within definitions based on illusions – the being is not real.
Manipulation – So obsessed over the apparent value of money that some will manipulate others in order to get more. When they already have all of the money they need, money will not be taken so seriously, thus this sort of behaviour would be unnecessary.
Ego – With everyone having an equal amount of money, there would be no way one could believe himself to be more worthy or better than another who has less, as all would have the same. Within this, another definition of self according to ego related to money will drop away. One less construct to be consumed by.
Inferiority/Superiority – The hierarchies of low/middle/high classes will be wiped out. People will then not be defining themselves as having more or less than another, being more or less fortunate than another, blessed or victimized, etc etc – all of these ideas of self will be wiped out. In the dissolving of self-definition the actual real self has the opportunity to be realized here.
Happiness/Depression - Many people's level of being is dependent on the amount of money they have and the type of job they have. Lots of money may = comfortability. Lack of money may end up in depression.
Comparison and Jealousy – All will have equal amounts of money so comparisons and jealousy based on and around money will disappear.