‘Do you need money’?

I stumbled upon an interesting question posted by a group on Facebook called ‘Humble Quote’.

The question:

‘Answer This Question
Without
Saying, Yeah, Yea, Yo, Yes, Yah, Yup, Yap, Yep,
‘DO YOU NEED MONEY?’

I thought it was interesting enough, and did invite me to do some realistic thinking.

I scanned comments from other members, to see how they had reacted, and I didn’t find that much in the way of captivating words to deviate from the prohibited ‘yeah, yea, yea, yah, yup, Yep’ answers.

Fair enough, people managed to tick the fulfilment of not using those words specifically, but my word, did they lack anything further or captivating about them. I found their responses to be lazy as fuck, really.

‘ABSOLUTELY’

‘Of course’

‘Sure’

‘Please’

‘Indeed’

‘Who doesn’t’

‘All the time’

Yeah, I get it. We do need it, and it’s so annoying that we need it so much in our modern political and economic society, that we have lost the will to even try answering with any true enthusiasm.

But I can’t do that. I have to be in a really bad state of depression or C-PTSD related preoccupation, or present day danger right in the here and now, to actually be conservative with my honest words.

This is my response to this question:

‘Do you need money?’ My answer:

‘Only because the capitalist world I live in demands that I use (unfairly distributed and totally unrepresentative) bits of paper to eat, live in a safe and sheltered building, stay warm, travel distances I’m required to go, due to the demands of appointments etc, which are mandatory for my health, and recovery.

Technically, I could start foraging for berries (in summer), and hunt my own food (don’t think I’d be able to carry out the act though, I’d probably end up finding a way to feed the thing I was hunting instead!), I could sit outside and make a wild camping style camp fire somewhere for warmth, but then probably be arrested for arson. Which actually would land me in a place of shelter, warmth and food anyway. So maybe not actually.

But reality is bright buzz kill for optimistic or creative thinking, therefore I can’t simply defy my way out of the true answer.

‘Aye’. I do need at least some. Which is frankly infuriating. It forces me into unavoidable compliance, as it does with many.

I’d try shoplifting, 😂but ultimately, I’d get caught eventually, so at some point I’d be back in the same ‘money requiring’ place.

Heads up: money is actually a negative figure- it’s the legal and most widely accepted form of a ‘lay on’, which even drug dealers have to be in the right mood to do for you.

Money says: ‘I promise to pay the bearer… the numerical value of ‘gold’/ traded real resources, but I don’t have the gold with me right now, so can you give me the goods anyway, and I’ll just give you a bit of paper to promise I’ll pay you for it when I get the gold?’

‘Ahh yeah, that’s fine, must be a trust worthy bit of paper because even though it’s telling me that you don’t have your side of this trade to give today, it’s got the faces of monarchs on it, so I’m sure you won’t let me down. I’ll see you next week when you can bring me that 50 pounds of gold you’ve not brought with you today…’

Fucking idiots. The more bits of paper (money) we have, the more debt we are actually in, and we know full well we ain’t gonna get the gold we promised them anytime soon.

So you’re a millionaire? At some point, you WILL need a different level of debt advice, my friends!’

So ultimately. ‘Money has become ultimately the thing you can’t really be down with. But our culture has enshrined and forced it upon you as a significant deal’

You know what I DO need though!? Start off by getting some much needed needed sleep, so then I stand a chance at finding out odd snippets of truth about what I’ve even got to be doing the next day. I think I even might be able then, to do what needs doing!

Night then all, for I am so tired I can’t even see straight anymore!