homo ludens

I boka «Money» av Yuval Noah Harari er det noen avsnitt jeg vil ta vare på. Boka inneholder utvalgte deler av bøkene Sapiens (2011) og Homo Deus (2015) som her er sammenfattet. På side 37-38 står det:

… Capitalism´s belief in perpetual economic growth flies in the face of almost everything we know about the universe. A society of wolves would be extremely foolish to believe that the supply of sheep would keep on growing throughout the modern era, thanks only to the fact that scientists come up with another discovery or gadget every few years – such as the continent of America, the internal ccombustion engine, or genetically engineered sheep. Banks and governments print money, but ultimately, it is the scientists who foot the bill.
Over the last few years, banks and governments have frenziedly printing money. Everybody is terrified that the current economic crisis may stop the growth of the economy. So they are creating trillions of dollars, euros and yen out of thin air, pumping cheap credit into the system, and hoping that the scientists, technicians and engineers will manage to come up with something really big, before the bubble bursts. Everything depends on the people in the labs. New discoveries in fields such as biotechnology and nanotechnology could create entire new industries, whose profits could back the trillions of make-believe money that the banks and governments have created since 2008. If the labs do not fullfill these expectations before the bubble bursts, we are heading towards very rough times.

Yuval Noah Harari

Jeg har kommet over en liten bok fra Penguin med tittelen «Why rebel» av Jay Griffiths. Her tror jeg det blir litt som er verdt å sitere, så derfor denne posten. Første begrep ut – som jeg ikke hadde hørt om før – er Deus Invictus på latin.

Denne boka av David Graeber og David Wengrow dukker opp både her og der. Nesten som en ny Harari eller Bregman. Den fulle tittlene er «The Dawn of Everytning – A New History of Humanity». Jeg legger inn noen avsnitt her. Boka er tykk!

… I affirm that what you call money is the devil of devils; the tyrant of the French, the source of all evils; the bane of souls and slaughterhouse of living. To imagine that one can live in the country of money and preserve one´s soul is like imagening on could preserve one´s life at the bottom of a lake. Money is the father or luxury, sasciviousness, intrigues, trickery, lies, betrayal, insincerity, – of all the world´s worst behaviour. Fathers sell their children, husbands their wives, wives betray their husbands, brothers kill each other, friends are false, and all because of money.

Kandiaronk (s. 54-55)

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