Worthless, Valueless Money.

Reading "Cultural Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping the Empire of Signs" made me realize people don't care about "real" things anymore. It seems that work, power and money are the only things that hold any substance or value in our culture, and the saddest part about this is that when we die, those are the only things that don't mean anything. But television blinds us into thinking that these things are so important, so vital. When in reality, what is money, really? Humans made up money, its paper for God sakes; and if you really think about it, money doesn't even exist. "Money" whizzes through electric wires, through our debit and credit cards... we don't even have to see it or touch it, and yet it runs our lives. And because of this imaginary thing we are beginning to loose ties to our family values. We loose touch with what reality is. We live to work. Live to make money. Is that the purpose of why we're here? Were we created so that we could wonder around in a money hungry daze? But this is what the media tells us is important. Success to the media is wealth and fortune, the media glamorizes the rich and spits on the poor. Having money equals power.
I realize this is not what the article was about per say, but this article made me realize how much value we put into meaningless things. It also made me realize how much the media controls our lives. Popular culture tells us what is right and what is "normal" and we begin to depend our lives on things that don't actually exist just because that is how our culture evolved and thats what the media deems as important. We need this paper that we call currency for everything. We need it to live. But the only reason it holds any value at all is because humans pretend that it does. We have the resources we need right here, made for us by the earth and yet we are too greedy to divide it fairly, we need "money" to control everything we were given for free. Really it's a shame. I not talking about communism, but when cavemen roamed the earth we didn't need money because everyone took what was theres. They could get anything they needed to live by their animal instincts. But now we can't do anything without money, if you left a human being out in the wilderness with absolutely no tools, they would be screwed. They wouldn't know how to live.
Really it comes down to us wasting our lives trying to obtain money. I find that so funny because in the end, when your lying on your death bed, would you rather be surrounded by people who actually give a shit, or by your worthless valueless money?