Tom Ellis
May 29, 2023

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Brilliant and truthful assessment! Thank you for sharing this. The ONLY way I know of breaking away from the stranglehold of corporate cyborgs over our bodies and minds is by freeing ourselves from dependence on their lifeblood--money--which is actually only arithmetic--a virtual reality.

Not an easy task, to be sure, but all other animals, even social animals, manage without money. So can we, if we do so incrementally--by growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness, and cultivating the positive-sum forms of capital available to us: biological capital (propagating and sharing plants, animals, and fungi); social capital (making friends); intellectual capital (learning and teaching concepts and propositions), experiential capital (learning and teaching skills and procedures), and spiritual/cultural capital (healing and creating, in accordance with the gifts transmitted from our own and others' cultural heritage).

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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