April 27, 2024

I didn't want to wear white clothes to go fishing. It doesn't matter because inmates were yelling and woke me up. In my second dream I am in a tiny house with a few researchers and we are looking out the door to a small wooden porch but the entire building is at a high altitude and spinning so that when you look below the porch all you see is blue sky. I stepped out on to the porch but could not see anything but blue sky all around. It was almost impossible to tell we were spinning, except for having the faintest whisps of clouds as a visual reference.

I suspect that my journal is not the best place to exercise thoughts about topics that are not germaine to my personal experience or legal tragedy. Every time I turn on the news I see ecological and economical conflicts. Today I saw a segment on PBS about globalization. In one theory, some people will be prosperous and others won't. The third theory was something like how corporations prosper and people and the planet won't. I don't want to go into how wrong Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and free market economy is not right. People are not led by an invisible hand but by the interest to influence or control other people's actions or resources. Since money, mostly, represents the interest in influencing and controlling other people's actions and resources AND globalization is proven to prioritize corporate prosperity over the well-being of people or the planet, THEN what does money truly represent? I would re-write this much better if I wasn't thinking aloud in pen. It's a blue pen, by the way, although most of you will never see the ink version. What should money represent? This question is at the core of my theory about what system would resolve all of the ecological and economical conflicts. It wouldn't resolve religious disputes and I am of the understanding that people will always make excuses to do or to get away with whatever they really want to do as long as privilege over other individuals is afforded them. But, maybe there is a way to eliminate half of all of the problems in the world. Would you do it? I often think about how to model and test my theory. I haven't been able to convince myself it has an exploitable flaw. Maybe I will explain it to my brother when he visits next.