THE 3 ages EVOLUTION OF MONEY.

Money evolved as a digital language of Metal-information, till becoming the dominant language on Earth, which today substitutes the verbal, ethic, temporal languages of man; and has made submissive the language of weapons. Yet the victory of Go(l)d had a high toll in the form of war and Holocaust cycles that extinct millions of humans and menace today with the extinction of life, and the lost of human freedom, as it has corrupted democracies put to the service of companies.

We will now consider the temporal opposition between the 2 informative languages of History Vs Economics: The world built by money and the world that verbal, ethic masters, prophets and social, democratic politicians tried to build with the ethics of love, which money has aborted with the globalisation of the economic ecosystem.Since the opposition between ‘Spatial art Vs war technology’ has its homology in time in the opposition of ‘prophetic thought Vs Go(l)d’ in the past and ‘social democracies Vs Free Markets’, in the present age. Money is a digital language that has constantly evolved its form toward pure information, through evolutionary radiations of species, from metal to coins, to paper, till becoming 'electronic money': informative values in the mind of computers. During that evolution money multiplied its quantic numbers, reproducing in smaller pieces of lesser weight, easier to replicate and move, hence increasing its TxE force as a language able to value more and more ‘objects’, till substituting words as the language of valuation of reality.
Those evolutionary arrows of money are natural to all information languages, since they make the language better for its purpose: to inform about reality. Thus an evolutionary language becomes more efficient when it diminishes its spatial size and increases paradoxically its number of informative quanta or ‘pixels’ able to value reality (max. T=min. E). According to these tendencies, money has evolved from metal bars, to coins, to notes, to stocks, to electronic money, increasing constantly the number of ‘objects prized’ with money and hence establishing the ‘values of metal’ instead of the values of ethic words, as the ‘standard’ values of our societies.
Thus the evolution of money follows the same 3±1 horizons of any Quantic Spaces-Times system:

-1: The Age of Bartering
In the beginning of history most trade was done through bartering or by exchanging metal-bars, which implied the dominance of verbal values over monetary values. Bartering is the ideal form of ‘human trade’: it is against any standardized form of industrial reproduction and it encourages friendship, dialog and social behavior, imposing the natural, verbal value of the object, not its price or monetary value. Bartering is still common in agricultural societies. And it was the standard form of trade in the Neolithic Age, the maturity of history, when men were in harmony with nature. Yet it is a slow system that minimizes the number of quantic trade exchanges… So it soon evolved into monetary trade when the first precious stones and metals appeared. Then people hypnotized by the 'brightness' of gold, which seems like a little sun, desired to have those little suns so much that rare metals, silver, gold and copper became money. It happened in the Middle East and it created the first Gold Rushes: Trade stopped being a way to travel and knowing other lands. Levantine tribes, mainly Phoenician and Jewish, who lived in the knot of communication of 3 continents, soon specialized in trade and traveled now around the world looking for rare metals in their boats and caravans to increase their quantity of money, their new language of power. The Go(l)d culture started then. They changed metal for useless products (glass beans), debasing the art of bartering and the ethic truths of words as a ‘sacred language’ that reflects accurately the values of things, to ‘cheat’ people and get ‘cheap’ metal, as most natives did not know the value of ‘gold’ as money. The black legend of anti-Semitism has grown parallel to that behavior, with tragic consequences for history... We find already in Egyptian and Greek texts anti-Phoenician damnations in the I millennium B.C. Money and war spread now in the Fertile Crescent, as money made weapons, by the law of affinity, the most expensive and common product of trade, replacing bartering in human goods. Rings were very effective to buy women who loved to look pretty with them. So women’s slaves were put rings on their ears. As cyclical, still beings they stayed with their captors. Energetic men however liked spatial freedom and ran away. So they had to be enslaved with heavy iron rings, called chains. Slavery spread all over the Middle East. Since people now would sell other people to obtain Go(l)d. Thus metal trade ended the age of bartering as a mean to communicate positively human cultures. The true goal of the new age of trade will be clear to all: ‘Take the money and run’ in your caravan or sea boat. Because if you stay behind, when the warrior tribe finds the glass bean is worth nothing, he will take the sword and run behind you. Ever since, Semites have been the biggest world slave bankers and masters on the game of trade, ‘speculating’ on the value of things to trade to their advantage and accumulate quantic pieces of their ‘Go(l)d’, which they believed had ‘protective properties’, when in fact it would be the reason why all other cultures hated them, as wor(l)d prophets have told them. The Holocaust cycle had started. The ‘Hapiru’=Hebrew, the ‘wanderers’ in the Sumerian language, the Errand Jews in the Western Antisemite chronicles, have been wondering ever since why they wander so much. Many settled down and became ethic, but those who could not avoid greed and gold hypnotism built a series of myths about the evilness of the rest of mankind, who envied their go(l)d’s chosen symbols. Victimism also was born then. But it did not help. Warriors enjoy murder, especially when they have a good excuse for it… So the people from the warrior mountains of Assur went down to the Go(l)d temples of Babylon and Levant every time they needed Go(l)d and Diaspora expanded the Levantine Empire. As Arnold Toynbee, a Go(l)d historian would put it XXX centuries latter, the high stakes of survival spread ‘civilization’. Since the British still hold that ‘Trade is civilization’. After all they worked a similar scheme called Piracy that made Mr. Drake, Sir Drake and accumulated enough Go(l)d to start the Industrial R=evolution of machines. Of course, when a warrior Spaniard got an English banker in the high seas, he too had a good excuse to practice his own branch of linguistic arrogance, murdering him. The Indian, animist, Gaia believers saw the eviL of both, but could do nothing except dying at the hands of those banker and warrior cultures. So they became extinct. But let us return to my wandering ancestors.

Max. E: Coin Age

An animetal, economic culture is inverse to a Word civilization, acting between the limits of those civilizations, in which it preys as a Non-AE organism with 3 zones:
- E: The membranes are the borders of the civilization, from where warriors and bankers obtain their free energy as privileged castes.
-E=T:The living ST field are its cyclic routes: the warrior’s steppes, the sea&caravan routes – T: The singularity is the capital of the Empire, which changes as the cycles of holocausts and wars displace the warrior or banker culture to new places. In the graph, the Cananean Trading Empire.

 

If we consider the structure of the Go(l)d culture in space, we differentiate 3 Non-AE regions that expanded its trade networks, departing from Canaan, till including the whole planet:
- Max. I; the informative singularity is money, in the past Gold, the informative language that the human symbiotic banker accumulated and offered to the Temple-Banks of Jerusalem and Tyros. Those 2 capitals and their castes of banker-priests became the informative elite of the ancient world. They were the Phoenician dynasty of kings that controlled the sea routes and the high priests of Israel, descendants of Aaron, the ‘Cohens’, which controlled the caravan routes. Then they became money-lenders with exclusive rights to usury in the Middle Ages. Finally one Cohen, became the first CEO of the 1st company, VOC, starting the transition from go(l)d banks to ‘paper-money’.
- E=T; the intermediate region is the sea and desert routes through which caravaneers and sea bankers move in cyclical routes that return to their origin, after ‘exchanging energy goods for informative gold’. Today they are the reproductive companies that create machines & weapons.
- Max E; The invisible, energetic limits of the Empire are the ‘coastal regions’ and Fertile Civilizations where bankers obtained their energetic & informative goods by trade, looting or piracy. Now those ‘Wor(l)d’ cultures are called the 3rd World.
As Semites wandered they took their damnation with them and gold hypnotism expanded. Soon everybody wanted to accumulate and reproduce bars of Gold. But metal-bars were too heavy, scarce and difficult to handle as units of information. So bankers quantized them into cyclical, informative rings to buy women and coins to buy everything else. Their wor(l)d masters said in Genesis that women loved first those golden apples and men offered them to buy their favours. Prostitution became sacred in the temples to Baal. Since now coins created an inflation of the 'monetary language' that was hyper-abundant and could value more beings as ‘objects’ with a price. Monetary values started to displace ethic values. Bartering ended. Trade was now a game of valuing things with coins and buying people with money (slaves, mercenaries, whores, employees). As time went by all those trades became respectable. After all, as Jerry Garcia, a XX C. wor(l)d artist, would say, ‘bankers, whores and bad architecture get respectable with age’. Soon weapons became also respectable and by the law of affinity, as metal likes metal, the most expensive items. And those nations who had both, money and weapons, acquired an ‘extra’ TxE, informative and energetic metal-power that made them ‘rulers of the world’. In the jungles of Germany, Animist druids wrote the Sage of Sigfrid corrupted by the ring of the Go(l)ds as EviL Gods spread North. In Greece, money was multiplied by the inflationary use of coins and alloys, backed by the military power of a 'Caudillo,' Alexander 'The Great', who put his face on the coin, after looting the Bank of Tyros. He killed all the Phoenicians that didn’t want to make him God. Now money represented also the arrogant, military animetal... who killed you if you did not want his money, as today nations kill and make economic wars against those who do not pay their 'debts' in paper money. In this manner, mainly through murder, money became the valuator of all things, monopolized by warrior castes of kings and go(l)d bankers that serviced them.
As much as iron weapons did, coins established in the ancient world the power of the Greeks and Romans over the previous Go(l)d Top Predators, Phoenicians and Jews, which still used metal bars. Their fight to control sea trade in the Mediterranean went through 2 war cycles: Greece Vs Phoenicia that ended with the conquest of Tyros by Alexander. And Rome Vs Cartage+Israel - the son cultures of Greece and Phoenicia, which ended with the destruction of Cartage ('Carthago delenda est') and Jerusalem. The superiority of iron weapons and the capacity of coins to pay mercenary armies tilted the balance in favour of the Europeans. Since iron was harder than bronze and coins multiplied the ‘informative bits of money’. Hence the Max. T., monetary orders given to Max. E, iron soldiers, increased the quantic, Max. TxE, actions of Roman Legions. Yet European control of money ended as the Roman Empire declined. Soon the Jewish people became also the main minters of the Roman and Sassanide Empires and acquired again in the Middle Ages the monopoly on the reproduction and loaning of money, they had during the Bronze Age, hand in hand with the now extinct Phoenicians. Ever since Jewish People would become the ‘financial caste’ of the Western World, in a dual relationship of symbiosis and predation with the warrior castes of Christianity and Islam.
The Coin Age lasted from 500 BC till 1608 AD. The dominant civilization of that age was the Greek-Latin culture, where coins became the fundamental tool of power. In the Middle Ages the Greek culture declined, dominated by the Ethic Wor(l)ds of Christianity and the banking power of the Jewish Community. Yet with Renaissance coins became again the symbol of worldly power. In Greece each city put its God or ruler on the coin; now the cities of Renaissance put their ‘condottiero’ leaders on them, as coins paid mercenary armies that crashed the ethic power of the Pope. Then Spaniards took over Go(l)d power and in 1527 the 'Sacco di Rome' ended the temporal power of the Church. The animetal culture rose again to the summit of human power with their stick and carrot power strategy. The carrot is money; the stick is the gun. People who obey are rewarded with money. People who disobey are punished with weapons. It was how Semite and Germanic tribes exploited their animals, using the reward and punishment, food and pain strategy. To monopolize and multiply money and its most valued products, weapons, will become ever since lethal for ethic, democratic, historic societies; and the key element to increase the power of the new animetal elites that substituted the rule of the Law and the ethic values of words by the rule of violence and greed. Now, unlike priests who cared for their people, animetals will become a caste of ‘cattlers’ that used humans as an inferior species, susceptible to be killed, maimed, bought & enslaved, subject to the Go(l)d values of the new era.

E=T: The stockrats: paper money and companies rise to power.
Yet since animetals obtain power through money and the weapons they bought with it, the question they have always tried to answer is: How do I reproduce money in bigger quantities?
Gold money imposed itself based in its hypnotic power that attracts the eye of man with its solar brightness and causes gold fevers. But gold is scarce. So once all mines were dig, the Spaniards, the last Great Empire that searched for gold coins all over the world, entered into a crisis of growth. They had no more money to pay their mercenary armies, so they couldn’t finish their conquest of the World. Indeed, before paper-money arrived, the only way to increase the quantity of money was to reduce the amount of gold in coins. So the Spaniards tried to pass bad coins for good coins, imposing them with mercenary armies. But they played too much to deceive with alloys the gold and silver content of their coins. So the world lost confidence in their money. The limit of growth in metallic money had been reached. It was then required another substance easier to reproduce than gold; and at the same time find a way by which people could accept the new money with the same enthusiasm they accepted gold. However people only hypnotize themselves with gold. So how to convince people that your type of money is as good as gold money is? To do this you need power. Here is where weapons enter. If you have weapons, you can convince others very easily through the use of force that what you call 'money' has intrinsic value or else kill those who do not accept it. Thus, when Alexander put his face on a coin and obliged everybody to accept it, a fundamental synergy proper of all economic ecosystems between money and weapons was born, enhancing the total TxE power of animetal cultures. A rough calculus shows that 2/3rds of the monetary economy of the pre-industrial age circulated in the military world. Thus war has always been the monetary wealth of nations . Since, indeed the affinity between metal-information and metal-energy, money and weapons, made both part of an ecosystem quite different from the ecosystem of human natural goods and the ethics of common people who exchanged his goods through bartering. Yet when gold became scarce ‘animetal castes’ decided to call money printed-paper a new product easy to reproduce at low cost. And they killed those who rejected it. The 1st man to do so was Kublai Khan in China, where the press was invented. He created the first notes and also issued a simple law: those who did not accept his paper-money as money with the same value than gold would be killed.
 The 1st stock companies were gunboat companies from Holland, where they had a monopoly of political and military power. So gunboat companies convinced Dutch people that paper-stocks were money… by creating laws imposed by the force of their weapons, as Alexander imposed his Head in coins with his iron infantry and Kublai Khan his notes with his Mongolian cavalry. We could call that synergy between weapons and money ‘black magic’, far more effective than the mythic philosopher’s stone. Since once you have established the equality between both species of money, metal and paper-money, you have duplicated the amount of money in the Market and you have become rich: your money now will exchange part by part with the total metallic money hold by your society and it will acquire the same properties of gold: to be so desirable that it can be changed by all ‘things’. Thus, the increase of monetary power paper money brought to those gunboat companies, soon converted the Dutch in the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. When the Dutch started to win sea battles against them, their paper money became accepted all over Europe and gunboat companies spread all over the world.
The true massive reproduction of money begins then. Marco Polo had talked about paper money in Venice and the Italians had invented the check that was well known among bankers. Since Venice was the model in which the Venice of the North, Amsterdam, had tailored itself, soon its political and economical structures were also copied by the Dutch: Venice was mass producing gunboats in its famous arsenal and Holland copied and improved also those methods of mass production. Venetian bankers were using paper-money for loans; so Holland imitated and improved the process, inventing companies that emitted paper-money, ‘shares’ that represented a piece of the total value of those weapons companies. Patriots who backed the company’s war against the Spanish king flocked to buy those shares. Indeed, without that first radiation of paper money, Dutch companies could have not defeated the Spanish armies and motivated Dutch citizens and mercenaries to fight and construct more gunboats. Soon stock shares were exchanged across Europe by real gold and the owners of VOC, the Dutch gunboat company, became rich. In the middle of the XVII C. the Dutch had more than half of the European gold reserves. As always greed, the ‘invisible force’ of the black hole of history, money, and the goal of Dutch Companies, was covered with rhetoric nationalism and press-propaganda against the Spaniards (black legend), the Pope and the king. Yet without money, the Dutch would have not rebelled so easily against those 2 Middle Ages’ worshipped icons. The press facilitated the process, creating not only money but also books specialized in ‘financial propaganda’, hidden under nationalistic war rhetoric, to convince people of the goodness of companies’ money. From then on, wars will be manufactured and the ‘bewildered herd’ of citizens, will follow; starting a process of alliance between political lobbyism, industrial & financial profits and mass-media information that has become the backbone of all ‘Free Market systems’ on control of societies.
But paper money was so easy to reproduce that soon stock companies reproduced too much paper money, as Kublai Khan already did with their notes. So there was inflation and the first stock-paper crashes happened. Then Companies, to justify their value, like banks were already doing, gave for each share an annual interest, according to their benefit. In this manner they had only to have a minimal percentage of the money they invented, around 4% each year, to give it to the shareholder as an interest for their money, while invention of paper money continued. The result was an over-valuation of companies, which could raise unlimited quantities of money based in ‘futureprofits’, while the common people had to pay taxes to the government and had minimal access to credit.
Since gunboat companies made mainly weapons, now the sales of weapons became the sustain of their shares values and so the use of weapons against men (slavery, piracy, colonization and war) became the basic instrument of modern profits. Companies continued in this manner the old relationship between war and money, establishing both, modern slavery and the modern cycle of industrial wars, whichaccelerated the old cycle of 800 years wars to a mere 72 years period, as companies evolved professionally war machines. Thus the pyramid of animetal power shifted, as now in ‘Free Market’ democracies, gunboat companies substituted on top of societies warrior kings, establishing the power of Go(l)d over weapons, first in Holland, then in England and America, and finally in the world at large. Now North European nations ruled by politicians lobbying for companies have a single goal: to increase their company’s profits, entering colonial wars, slave traffic and piracy against the declining Iberian Empires. Industrial slavery was however very different from classic slavery; since now greed, the need for profits, made the exploitation of slaves harsher. Then, when the Industrial R=evolution started, the worker became the ‘white slave’ whose life-time was bought even cheaper, only part-time through a misery salary.

Max. T: Electronic Money. The American Empire.
Money crossed its 3rd, informative, evolutionary discontinuum in America with the invention of computers. After 1973 with the arrival of chips, money became truly a pure form of digital information, even easier to reproduce than paper money; as it was merely a data number in the mind of a computer, whose value could be raised artificially through speculative programs that bought and sold shares constantly. It was the great boom of monetary creation that through the 70s and 90s multiplied Wall Street values by 10 (from 1000 to 10.000) and then doubled it, as paper money did with Gold money, by inventing a parallel, new e-money stock-market called NASDAQ that reached NYSE value in 1999. Thus Americans created 20 times the quantity of money they had in the 70s thanks to digital e-money speculation, attracting worldwide capitals that are financing the present Global expansion of the American Empire.

+1: The age of the global economic ecosystem. The Metal-Earth:
Yet as e-money globalizes the economy, the Jewish-American Empire declines. Now money is becoming a global flow of financial information - the mind of a collective economic organism, whose brain is the stock market. So all cultural values disappear and money flows in search of bigger returns into Asia. Speculators select today companies that reproduce more machines and have more profits selling them, according to its productivity that is to its capacity to fire workers and put robots that multiply the ratio capital/labor. In the futurethe same companies will evolve and reproduce machines with digital programs guided by productivity, without the need of speculators under a collective brain, the stock market, supported by a global network of satellites. So software programs are translating into ‘economic equations’ the mandate of reproduction and evolution of machines proper of all company-mothers. It is the Metal-Earth, a World where machines not men will become the species that perform the energy and information actions-reactions of the planet.