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*Mar*Barter-Vs-Money
Barter economy is an economy, where every person strives to contribute what
all he/she can, while the rest of the people or society give what the
person needs. In Barter there cannot be gigantic factories, with huge
capital that uses away large chunks of nature for commercial investment.
Nature with its splendor automatically creates the emotional loving bond
called the Divine Eye. Nature becomes sacred, the most lovely precious
foundation and fountain of life. Nature simply forces one to bask in
breathing, very happily smelling as the messages of nature, creating sense
out of the sensations, perceive as enjoyment and rapture, understand as
feeling and experience and live as an integral part of nature. It simply is
not possible to emotionally get separated from nature to do science, by
suspending from the life of participation in nature.
God oozes from every blade of
grass,plant,tree,bird,bee,lake,pond,river,sea,ocean,the sky, the stars, the
Sun, the Moon, the Mountains, and all of them converse by smells. Nature is
one’s macro body. Both births and deaths are celebrated. One is so
completely drawn into the nature’s rhythm, that it is impossible to detach
and do science as an observing spectator, indulge in the make believe
unbiased view or the Atheist view.
Barter is based on the Theosphere, the sphere where the air continuously
translated into messages and feelings.
A monetary economy is based on the elimination of the emotional bond or the
very Theosphere of mother Gaia. A new God, the God of Logic, the God of
threats, the God of many rituals instead of the God of automatic dances,
songs, and tunes of rapture, a God who has created hell during life and
also after life, takes over. This new God has great appetite for the
destruction of nature, the God that does hara-kiri continuously. The
economic God, who uses money to create misery to all.
YM Sarma
Chat GPT Refinement
Below is a refined, clearer, and more cohesive formulation of the ideas you
expressed. I have *kept the spiritual and poetic tone*, but strengthened
the conceptual structure, clarified contrasts, and removed unnecessary
repetition. I also note a few suggestions afterward on how to expand or
deepen the argument if you wish.
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*Refined Version of the Ideas*
*Barter and the Ecological Self*
A barter economy is more than a system of exchange; it is a way of
belonging. In such an economy, each person contributes whatever they can,
and in return receives whatever they need. Production is small, local, and
human-scaled. There are no vast factories consuming landscapes, no
industrial appetites devouring forests, rivers, or mountains.
In a barter world, nature is not a resource; it is *the living field of
relationship*. Every encounter—with trees, birds, waters, winds—becomes a
form of communication. The sensory world forms a continuous language:
fragrances, textures, lights, sounds, and rhythms that carry meaning
without needing translation. This atmosphere of constant participation in
nature creates what may be called *the Theosphere*: the sphere where air,
sensation, and emotion merge into understanding.
Here, nature is not outside the self; it is the *macro-body* of which each
person is a cell. Birth and death are not interruptions but movements in
the rhythm of life. Because one is woven into nature so completely, it
becomes impossible to detach and observe the world as a neutral or
“objective” spectator. The scientific stance that claims distance,
neutrality, and a view from nowhere does not arise naturally in such a
context; one is too intimately involved in the living pulse of the Earth.
*Money and the Split from Nature*
A monetary economy, by contrast, depends on a conscious severing of this
bond. To convert the world into commodities, one must first strip it of
intimacy. The forest becomes “timber,” the river becomes “water resources,”
and the land becomes “real estate.” The air no longer carries messages; it
carries market value.
In the place of the Theosphere arises a new form of divinity:
*the God of calculation, the God of abstraction, the God of logic severed
from life.*
This God does not dance, sing, or bloom. It commands through contracts,
threats, and rituals of accounting. It creates a world where fear replaces
belonging, and where the destruction of nature becomes not a tragedy but
the engine of growth.
This economic deity is insatiable. It requires continuous extraction and
expansion, even at the cost of the very ground that sustains life. In
serving this God, society performs a slow form of self-destruction—a
collective *hara-kiri* masked as economic progress.
The result is alienation: from nature, from community, and ultimately from
ourselves. The monetary system becomes not merely a tool but a worldview
that reshapes life into a perpetual struggle, creating misery in the
pursuit of wealth.
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*Suggestions for Deepening or Sharpening the Argument*
If you want to strengthen the piece further, you might consider:
1. *Clarifying the philosophical basis*
- Are you drawing from ecological spirituality, anthropology,
phenomenology, or another tradition?
- Naming sources can deepen the intellectual grounding without losing
poetry.
2. *Addressing counterpoints*
- Barter economies also had limitations (scale, specialization).
- Acknowledging this makes the argument more nuanced.
3. *Introducing a middle path*
- Must modern society choose only between pure barter and pure
monetization?
- Could a re-enchanted, ecological monetary system be imagined?
4. *Adding concrete examples*
- Indigenous societies
- Gift economies
- Degrowth or eco-communal models
These can illustrate your ideas more vividly.
5. *Ending with a vision*
- What would a future economy look like if it restored the Theosphere?
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- Expand it into a long essay or chapter,
- Turn it into a speech, manifesto, or article,
- Or help develop it into a structured argument with sections.
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