Nocturnal University Night 1: Super-Economic Theory - A Glimpse into the 4th Dimension, Cat's Eyes, and the True Nature of Money (Background Edition)
Looking at the background of how money was born, if we summarize the question 'What is money?',
money is a 'vessel that carries value'.
The content carried by the vessel is the essence and true nature of money,
and that content is the 'value' we feel.
'Value' is the 'uplifted feeling' of joy and the like.
In other words, the true nature of money is 'value', it is an 'uplifted feeling'.
It means that the true nature of money is 'what kind of joy each individual felt'.
In the world as it appears on the surface for now,
I think there is an element of fate in whether you have money, especially currency, or not.
On the other hand, we are free to make the 'depth of joy felt toward something', which is the origin of money, bigger and deeper, right?
I think that might be what expands the size of the vessel that receives money. That's what this cat thinks.
Because I believe that the more you exercise your sensibility, the larger a person's vessel becomes,
and since the vessel, which is freely shaped by one's sensibility and imagination, is equal to the vessel handled by the tool called money—which includes currency—it would be great if those could align.
Even if this is just wishful thinking, giving it shape by talking about it is what 'Super-Economic Theory' is. It is a classroom that goes beyond limits, after all.
Earlier, at the end of the 3rd dimension, I said, 'The value of money fluctuates, right?'
The fluctuation in the size of this vessel is equal to the fluctuation in value.
'The size of a person's vessel is equal to the size of their money vessel.' From a cat's perspective, I think this is a story about 'economy'.
So, I want to take another look at 'What is economy?'
It's still dark and no one can see, but with the power of cat eyes, I will keep talking as it flows, as it comes to me, shining and gleaming. It gets loud when it's quiet, doesn't it...
'Economy' is currently interpreted as 'managing money',
but this feels like 'only the edges of words remained in a game of telephone'.
From the cat's-eye view of the president, that's how it looks...
The original, true meaning of 'economy' is
'the relationship of living and letting live, for people to go on living'.
And it is for that purpose alone that tools like money and currency can be utilized.
In other words, 'managing money' or 'calculating one's own profit and loss' is not equal to economy.
It feels like the means and the ends have been swapped without us realizing it.
The original purpose of economy is to create this 'flow': 'I, who have received a vessel containing the content of value, feel something about that content, put new content into the vessel, and give it to the next person'.
'Acquiring/possessing' or 'how much of what you have' is not a story about a fixed, isolated individual,
but a 'flow' between people who 'repeat receiving and giving'.
'Not stock, Flow!' Like, 'It's not blood, it's blood flow. That is life.'
And once again, 'money' is also a tool born from the hearts of people who seek this 'flow'.
Money is a 'tool born to create flow', a tool created because people wanted to do that.
So, as a convenient function of money, it is true that
it has the convenience of quantifying 'intangible value' or 'movements of the heart that can only be felt at that moment',
and 'reserving' them for a certain period, sometimes forever.
But I think this 'validity period of money's value' should naturally have limits.
I think it is 'the period during which people can revive the emotion felt when the value was born'. Originally.
It means that the emotion that creates value also has freshness.
Since emotion is a vibration, isn't it natural for it to gradually weaken after it is born?
So, perhaps the original money and economy are such that the value, which is originally limited in time, is reflected in the size of the numbers representing money.
The vessel we freely create through 'uplifted feelings' and 'emotion' is linked to money, and by letting it flow as an economy, the vessel deforms and grows even larger; that flow is what the original economy is like.
Therefore, when you look at money again after staring at the true form of the economy,
you think, 'Money wasn't invented to be saved forever in the first place!' That's what I think.
It was originally a 'tool invented by people to create flow'.
So if you stop its original function, well... it will naturally get clogged.
And if it gets clogged, well... it's painful, isn't it? That's why I'm saying let's let it flow.
Why have we focused all our energy on stopping and hoarding things that should naturally flow, saying 'we can't live without money'?
Why have we become so desperate for that impossible challenge? Economy is a 'flow'.
'Possessing a lot just for oneself', 'how to keep it to oneself'
Why did we mistake this 'clogging' for 'happiness'?
If this were constipation, it would be 'a game of twisting your own intestines with your own hands, which is nothing but pain'... why did we keep believing this was happiness?
Did you lose sight of the 'value' of the numbers that were the manifestation of 'upliftment' for you?
Did you lose the 'uplifted feeling' = 'value' that was super abundant when you were born?
'I lost my uplifted feeling, I'm scared.' 'I am worthless and I'm scared.'
This putting the cart before the horse. What did we trip over to fall down?
Let's look at this next.
The darkness seen with naked cat eyes. The next classroom for 'Super-Economic Theory' is here ↓
illustration by NEKO Shiroi
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