For as long as humans have existed they have worshipped the sun. Justifiably so. The sun is the source of all life, without it, reality as we know it would cease to exist. The sun acts as an intermediary between all knowable matter, it creates distinction between light and dark as well as hot and cold. The sun marked the beginning of the great symphony that we call life.
Without the sun, nothing would be intelligible, the earth never would have formed, but would rather be mere floating bits of mass throughout space. There would be nothing to be seen, and nobody to do the seeing. Paradoxically, the sun acts as the fundamental cause of distinction, and the fundamental cause that binds everything together. Clearly, we can see how humans would have considered the sun to be God.
Plato, in The Republic uses the sun to illustrate one of the greatest ideas philosophy has ever come across. The Good.
The Good is the fundamental reality of the universe, it is the great cause, the force that binds, and the force that disintegrates. It is the law behind all laws, the first mover and the unmovable. Necessarily so, it is impossible to describe wholly what The Good is with words, for any attempt to box something that is all encompassing into a narrow definition provided by words is an act of futility. It is like trying to fit all the ocean into one bucket of water.
Plato however, comes as close as we likely will ever see to an accurate description of The Good. And of course, he uses metaphor. Plato likens The Good to the sun, or the light given off by the sun. The sun is the first cause of the world as we know it today. It is the ultimate good or life force that drives the waltz of humanity onward. Without it, there would be nothing to see, nor would there be anything to do the seeing. Accordingly this creates distinction between perceiver and perceived, up and down, Man and Woman, and even right and wrong.
The sun provides the medium in which all existence may exist and the force of which all existence strives towards.
Money serves a similar function as the sun. People, for thousands of years have funneled their thinking into a monetary lense, they understand and make value judgements largely according to the amount of money something is worth. Money guides human behavior, and is the medium with which people perceive and express value. The sun gives man the ability to perceive, and money gives man the ability to perceive value. We constantly think about what our actions are going to cost or yield for us in monetary terms. We make decisions in accordance to this cost, and we only understand these costs as accurately as we do because of the phenomenon of Money.
As a result, prices act as an aggregation of all human action, values, and natural law.
In other words, Just as the sun aggregates and makes all matter relate to another, Money aggregates and makes all value relate to another.
Prices allow us to understand the collective economic valuation of all the world into one single price point. With money, every single choice made by every single individual boils down into a price.
Humans have stumbled across a way of channeling all human knowledge into a couple of numbers labeled on a gallon of milk, yet for the past 100 years this foundational tenet of human existence and flourishing has been under attack.
On a particularly foggy day you are unable to see far ahead of you, the things you are able to perceive greatly diminish. This is because the power of the sun has been interrupted by water particles in the air. You can still see, but it limits your perception.
During the rapid and incessant money printing of 2020, a jpeg of a monkey was valued and sold for millions of dollars. Of course when the money printing stops people come to their senses and realize that the monkey jpeg is worth about 3 dollars instead of 3 million. Here is the lesson: When sunlight is distorted by water droplets we can no longer perceive clearly the world around us. When money is distorted by inflation, regulation, and taxation, we can no longer clearly determine what is valuable and invaluable.
If the laws of physics were constantly changing how light operates human flourishing would grind to a halt, it is because of the predictability of the rising and setting of the sun, as well as the behavior of light that humans can make sense of the world.
If the laws of money are constantly changing (which they are) it becomes increasingly difficult for humans to make accurate value judgements and to plan for the future. The manipulation of money directly manipulates the human psyche. This why we see such levels of violence and unhappiness in economies undergoing a hyperinflationary period. It would be criminal to force somebody to go about their day in tanning goggles or a welding mask, yet monetary manipulation is the status quo for society and it is the equivalent of making someone sail across the ocean with a gaping hole in their boat. Even a small leak will sink a great ship.
Monetary manipulation is a direct attack on the human soul. The Federal Reserve and Central Banks are the perpetrators.
If we wish to see clearly, the air must be clear to allow light to do its job.
If we want to act and evaluate clearly, money must be clear of corruption and impurities in order to allow money to do its job.
It is no wonder the world has become as degenerate as it is today. People are genuinely debating whether it is right or wrong to murder babies in their mothers wombs or mutilate the genitalia of a young school child. People no longer are able to distinguish what is right from wrong, valuable from invaluable. The venomous poison of money printing and cheap debt has percolated its way down into the most sacred and fundamental realities of human nature.
If we want people to be moral again, to make good value judgements, and live prosperous fulfilling lives, the medium through which humans make decisions (money) must be absolute, unchanging, and sound.
Fix the money, fix the world.