Friday, February 23, 2018

High Finance

If you come to truly believe that something is steadily destroying you or your community, you may become very interested in it and fixated upon it. 

The problems grow with that thing's complexity, or perhaps more accurately, your ability to further penetrate into a thing's bottomless complexity. 

I've personally been studying finance for at least 7 or 8 years, and still every day I read about it I may discover some new level of understanding of it, and become all the more horrified at the intricacy of these processes of looting and accumulation. 

It doesn't help that something like finance is constantly in a violent process of overdevelopment, that it is constantly transforming and progressing far past its own necessity. 

But if I were to truly understand finance, I'd have to become closer in nature to a financial being, so as to appreciate the nature and mechanics of something that is directly acting upon me, and it is simply something I am not capable of. I wouldn't have the will or endurance to constantly engage in financial activity, and to situate within a financial community. 

So what is to be achieved by diving deeper into an understanding of a thing like finance as an outsider? 

If one is comfortable with one's existence as a financial being, then fine. But if not, it probably won't do to understand further the composition of the chips, the rules of the game - or in this case, the mechanics behind the ripping off and looting - or the motivations and relations of the actors involved. In certain cases it may become necessary to simply sweep the pieces off of the table, or simply walk away, in accordance with one's nature.