36 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
36 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
~dusk's ideas for feels
|
|
=======================
|
|
|
|
## 2025-09-06 ismatu gwendolyn: on money and "reality"
|
|
|
|
i stumbled upon this youtube video essay yesterday.
|
|
i'm having trouble describing it now,
|
|
but it's written and presented with incredible lucidity and frankness.
|
|
ismatu published both a written *and* video version,
|
|
but their delivery in the video is too good to miss.
|
|
|
|
ismatu says that "reality" is only that which we participate in.
|
|
the primary vehicle for this idea is their teaching that
|
|
american dollars are purely an imaginary concept,
|
|
supposed to be a clean abstraction from the material world to the economic,
|
|
but which are only so on the very surface.
|
|
the thought that really stuck with me was:
|
|
if money is made-up,
|
|
and falls from the sky where the money-makers live,
|
|
and can be created freely simply by saying so with the right authority...
|
|
why should we ever struggle to hoard it?
|
|
|
|
the "realities" of this world
|
|
are nothing more than the thoughts we all agree to share.
|
|
wake up; do not live to work,
|
|
to fuel the capitalistic death machine
|
|
with your stressors repressed in the name of feeling better.
|
|
wake up; live now.
|
|
|
|
ismatu gwendolyn.
|
|
_on money: the strip club did indeed make me bonkers!_.
|
|
Threadings.
|
|
13 August 2025.
|
|
[text](https://www.threadings.io/the-strip-club-did-indeed-make-me-bonkers/)
|
|
, [video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7cTavTTps).
|