Azi:

Money is now what humanity values most. Money is power. Money is success. Money is prestige. Money is status. Money is influence. Money is sexy. Money is sex.

Everyone wants money. Everyone worships money. Everyone wants MORE money, even those who already have more than they know what to do with. Everyone lusts after money. They desire it above all other things because it’s the gateway to all other things. Money is the supreme gateway drug – the gateway to everything – and that makes it the Ultimate Drug.

In the Islamic world, religious faith is still prized more highly than money. Muslims would die for their faith. It’s unthinkable that Christians would die for theirs. Christians would, however, die fighting to protect their property and wealth, thus showing who their real God is (and it isn’t Christ!).

Money is the supreme drug, the ultimate crack, the bluest meth, the divine junk. It delivers the highest highs of all.

When you have a world that values itself according to something whose only value lies in acquisition, possessions, and consumption then, in fact, you have a world with no values at all. That’s why psychopaths rule the world. They have no values and they have no interest in values. They are interested in power, manipulation, intimidation and exploitation, and nothing is a great enabler of those than money.

Maine:

Imagine a world that, instead, valued intellect, reason, spirituality, artistry and creativity. It would be a totally different world. Bankers and CEOs would not be respected, and would have no power or influence. Nor would they be rich.

All attempts to change the world will fail unless what the world values most changes. While money reigns, we will never get rid of the kind of people in charge right now. They are the best money-makers, the best at theft, deception, intimidation, of tossing scruples away, of screwing over the opposition, of trampling over bodies to get to the top. And if you have people like that in charge, what can you expect except a shallow, lowest-common-denominator, dumbed down, amoral society of junk and trash?

It would be miraculous if amoral and immoral leaders – totally out for themselves, totally into self-service rather than public service – created a moral society.

It would be miraculous if greedy, selfish leaders gave rise to generous, selfless, altruistic philanthropists.

It would be miraculous if leaders completely ignorant of science, mathematics, engineering and technology presided over a technocratic, technological wonderland.

It would be miraculous if leaders without an artistic, creative bone in their bodies produced an artistic, creative society.

It would be miraculous if anti-intellectual, irrational leaders generated societies full of geniuses ready to solve the problems of the world.

Azi:

There’s no mystery about the world. Psychopaths are in charge and they have created a world ideal for them to rule and exploit. They have created a world of pathetic slaves and submissives – human dogs – that love their masters and will do anything for them.

Maine:

The last thing that psychopaths want is a world full of smart, strong, talented, creative, competitive people who stand up for themselves and instantly retaliate against wrongdoers in their midst.

Azi:

Psychopaths require sheep in order to fleece them. YOUR purpose is to be a sheep. Your place in society is as a docile, sedated zombie, too lazy, too pathetic to do anything, too dumb to know what’s happening to you, too in thrall to celebrities, popes, queens, princes, princesses, presidents, prime ministers, the super rich, too mired in consumerism, too addicted to bread, circuses, video games and gadgets, too uncreative to imagine a better world.

We’ve got your number. And so have the psychopaths.

In a world that values money more than anything else, then, quite literally, rich people are more valuable than the poor. So, how can you complain when the rich walk right over you? That’s the world you chose. That’s the value-system you chose: one that makes you a second-class citizen in a two-tier society, one that makes you a less worthy and valuable person, one that makes you INFERIOR. And you know you ARE inferior, don’t you? That’s why you go along with a system that inherently degrades you.

This is a rich man’s world, but you aren’t rich. You worship money, but you don’t have any. No one is worshipping you. You’re the one doing the worshipping.

Maine

Only a New World Order can save the world from itself. We need a Revaluation of all Values. We need a Revolution. We need a New Enlightenment. We need a New Age of Reason. We need a Post Money World where a wholly different value system prevails: that of merit, intelligence, creativity, and the desire to transform humanity into a divine race.

Mike Hockney