Ideas as Currency

This is a heavier blog than my normal ones, but a question has surfaced from recent conversations that I want to share.  

We create our own reality, so I find it productive to subject things that we take for granted and expose them to some slow looking to see what they are really made of, and how the reality they represent stand up to scrutiny.  

Everything we take for granted started as an idea, and take a roundabout route to accepted truth. 

Ideas start as a mixture of half-complete notions, images, and associations that coalesce through an insight into being. As soon as they move from the conceptual to the concrete, they become part of the furniture and eventually fade into obscurity as we take them for granted.

Money is one such example. All our currencies, from the Dollar to Bltcoin, are fiat currency. Based on trust, they exist only because we believe they exist and represent our trust in the future worth of the issuing authority. It's an interesting thought in times of uncertainty.

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