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If we understand that every time we pay for something, that's energy.
Money represents energy, in one form or another.
And where did that energy come from?
What's driving the energy behind our culture today?
Unfortunately the answer right now is war
and paper
and greed.
Extreme materialism.
And to really understand each time we pay that off
that that's what we're supporting
to have that consciousness
It's always interested me that we call a dollar a "buck."
and the reason we do is because
not too long ago
one of those pieces of paper with a "1" and a dollar sign on it
was worth a deer.
So if I went out in the woods of New Hampshire and shot a deer
I could take that to a butcher and he'd give me a "buck"
for my buck.
And if you think about that, the life of a deer
is what went into that piece of paper.
And I could take that buck and I could go buy
a sack of grain
or
whatever I needed, a carriage, I don't know what I could buy with it
but that's how I used it.
But I would be very aware that I had to kill an animal, a beautiful animal,
in order to get that buck and i think it made me
back in those days much more conscious of what money was worth or wasn't worth.
Today we don't have that association with it but we ought to.
We ought to recognize that if we own a clothing store
that if the clothes we're selling in that store were made in a sweatshop
that's like killing a deer.
That's blood money.
If on the other hand,
we buy our clothes from people that are really doing it organically and with a tremendous
social consciousness, and they're a lot of people out there making clothes that way now
trying very hard, I don't think anybody is perfect, but they're trying
very hard
if we support those people,
it's a very different feeling
and there are opportunities here for us to do that.
Regardless of what our business or occupation is we can always make those choices.
It doesn't matter what you do or how you do it
but there's always a lot of choices and if we keep moving in that direction
of buying things when we need to buy them and only when we need to buy them
that are created with a social and environmental consciousness
then we'll be headed in the right direction.
We'll be saving the bucks of the world.