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Religion, politics, sex and money.
Taboos are being broken down .. every day. Things we didn’t discuss before.. we’re discussing now.
Concepts we couldn’t question… we’re questioning now.
There was a time you couldn’t question God - or even the idea of God. Today people are free to think and worship whatever God they choose.
There was a time when you couldn’t question the political leader, the King, or the president. In a majority of human societies that’s gone.
What’s next? Sex? Are any sexual taboos still around today? Maybe, but they are being dismantled all the time.
There’s something different about money. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. So I decided to have a chat with Tim.
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This conversation with Tim helped me refine my question.
And here is the question:
If a taboo is defined as something prohibited or restricted by social custom - should money be treated as a taboo?
At some point in history, humans decided that gold was intrinsically valuable. And ever since then its symbolism has grown in culture to a point where the actual word 'gold' became shorthand for 'something really valuable.'
The goose that lays golden eggs.
The man who turned everything he...
Published 09/26/21
The Limits to Growth is a study first published in 1972 based on what a research team at MIT discovered - basically saying that we have been doing nothing but growing.. and that growth is not sustainable.
The team prediced that if this growth continues there will be some kind of societal...
Published 08/27/21