Money: A Rant

N.B.: money has NO value in and of itself. Any value that it has resides in what it represents in its rôle as a tool for facilitating trade.

And the New Testament is most always dangerously misquoted. It's "the LUSTING AFTER money that is the root of all kinds of evil." Not money!

No surprise, really. These days, most twits couldn't distinguish between the original carven tablets of the Commandments and a meme of them.

Yet there's no reason for despair, because should you feel so inclined, you can imbue money with intrinsic value by, for example, filling a sock with coins to make of it a weapon, or by starting your campfires with Benjamins….

( https://youtu.be/-0kcet4aPpQ :Pink Floyd's original video for their song, "Money," which is probably the most famous modern example of the misquotation of the Biblical phrase referenced in the above four statements.) Notwithstanding the ubiquitous nature of Bibles (due in no small part to the righteous evangelical perspiration of the often spoken of, though never seen, legions of Gideon's Ghosts), especially in the Western World, I find it personally frustrating to the point of hair-tearing that I've not a single recollection of having EVER heard that now-idiotic scrap of idiom quoted as it is written! In other words, CORRECTLY!!!

And why do people make the mistake so often that it has become a cliché? Because they don't really know what money IS!! Anyone with an IQ higher than a mummy's sperm count should be able to grasp the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a manufactured object (which is what any given example of "money" is) to have an intrinsic moral value which, in the case of this messed up quote, suggests that trade tokens are in and of themselves the cause of evil in the world. Wrong! Evil is a concept confined to sentient life forms and their behaviour while interacting amongst themselves. Money is no more "evil" than an ill-fitting SHOE!!