One day, historians may say, "In ancient America, people exchanged goods and services for symbolic tokens rendered in paper and metal called Mo-Ney; as technology improved, hard Mo-Ney was transformed by the introduction of by immaterial signifiers in place of physical materials, and primitive Americans gradually accepted the ethereal IDEA of a representational-value system as the foundation of their national and international economies. While this type of magical thinking seems laughable to us, this reliance upon hypothetical-value placeholders was the foundation of human life and social interaction."

It's funny, how we believe that a piece of paper or a cheap zinc coin--or promises from banks and governments that they are holding onto our paper and metal for us--has the power to buy health, success, or goods. I check my account balance and tell myself, "I have such and such level of security," but any security that is based on digital promises like that is fundamentally artificial.

My cousin posted this on facebook and i absolutely love it. I've thought about this concept but could never form the words right. Silly humans.