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Thanks, I really appreciate thoughtful book recommendations! Sorry that my answer is late, perhaps no one will see it but I will answer anyway.

I don't think you can make a separate currency for the holistic viewpoint (holocoin ^^) my point is more that what we currently value (money) isn't valuable anymore. That's the fault of the institutions that are supposed to provide 'value' (thereby earning money) by making sure that money is correlated to value and not the other way around (finance / banking etc) as well as the institutions that make sure that 'value regulators' don't get delusions of grandeur (governments / police etc).

Basically, if the feedback loop goes: "People -> Institutions -> Government -> People" then everything is fine, that's democracy and the non people part of the equation will see value in cultivating appreciation for skill and knowledge in society. However if the power gets too concentrated you can effectively cut "People" out of the equation so you get a feedback loop of "value regulators" and "regulation regulators" stroking each others backs creating ever more severe conditions for the rest of us till the whole things collapses as people lose faith in the abstractions that were supposed to be meaningful (like money or law) and go berserk, much to everyones' chagrin.

This is obviously a huge oversimplification but basically I feel losing faith in humanity is a self fulfilling prophecy. The whole point of decentralization is to at the same time disarm the powers that be in a fairly orderly manner before the collapse/fascism while giving everyone both the power and the responsibility over their immediate environment. If you've ever seen a child try to handle responsibility then you also know that it is a huge perspective shift for them and a great motivator for trying to actually know yourself what needs to be done rather than knowing who to ask. We need a humanity like that if we want to survive the coming age of superweapons.

tl;dr. religion is good, organised religion is bad.

edit: just realized I'm not really answering you so much as just rambling my point.



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