What if the currencies of the great, economically powerful nations collapsed? By conventional thinking we'd all be doomed. But how ridiculous! Products, services, and labor clearly all have value? Could a society exist without a currency? How could it function? How would our minds and hearts have to change for it to be possible?
I began this bit of speculation as a book, but I'm going to put it all on this blog in order to open the topic for discussion. I don't think that it's particularly useful to get into "it-won't-work-because..." discussions, which usually focus on so-called "human nature". It's becoming more and more clear that there is no such thing as "human nature": there are only conditioned behaviors, customs which have been around so long that everyone assumes that that's the way it has to be. Nothing could be further from the truth. A cursory study of anthropology shows that almost behavior that one can think of is or was practiced as a custom by some society.
