The Wealthy Have 'Worked Hard' And Deserve To Keep Their Money

[patrice]

72. AW was my first husband's guru. He was a motor-cycle gypsy who worked for big corporations

all of his life. Raised cradle Catholic, schooled by Jesuits at an all boys Catholic high school, but didn't go to church, veteran who just missed Viet Nam, read Alan Watts and used to say that he belonged to the church of the open-sky.

I loved that things AW said about the goal of any true church is to obsolete itself.

I know his point about money from more recent internet stuff about the history of banking and money, but I first understood the concept from the perspective of language, because of undergraduate studies in Absurdist literature that happened to coincide with course work in Chomsky's transformational grammar, which lead me to recognize that, like money, people habitually act as though words are not arbitrary. I am known to remind people that the word(s) they are using and the phenomena that the words ONLY refer to are NOT the same thing, not identical though everyone beats everyone else up all of the time as though they are. To me this often demonstrates a will to power that outranks the phenomenology that goes under the general label of "experience".