Passion excels humanity

While money corrupts it

            Passion is the urge of the human spirit and soul making an individual's passion their purpose in life; money corrupts or blocks this.

            Originally an artist creates to fulfill his desire to express and share himself with others, thus fulfilling his purpose in life. At this point his art is pure/raw emotion and thought. That is until he observes the foundation of society which he discovers is money. Realizing this, he understands that he must sell himself (his art) in order to attain a foothold in society so he may continue to share himself with the rest of humanity. Over time he is moved by money so as to be apart of society making any art he creates at this point impure. He now creates to appease as many people as possible in order to collect as much money as he can obtain. In the music world these are known as sell-outs, they have literally given up themselves for money. When seeing, hearing, or reading art that had the soul intention to make money for the individual at the time of its creation has a fake and unattractive feel to it, thus defeating the purpose of art and ultimately defeating its intent to make money; art that is created for the intention to make money is not real art. The artist has lost themselves to the world of money.

Genuine art is pure and true freedom of the spirit and soul.

            A society which is based on money will always have suffering and unhappiness within it because money cannot come without greed. The greedy see money as power and with power comes freedom, but they are not truly free because money dictates their freedom. A greedy individual has total disregard for others around them and only seeks to take all that others have; creating suffering and discontent in his fellow man.

Another's freedom and happiness is never worth destroying in order to achieve a life of luxury.

            Now imagine a world without money. I am sure most cannot because it is all they know, or they think of communism. The initial intent of communism was utopia, but the flaw in it was that there was a means of total control of the masses through dictatorship, thus restricting an individual's freedom and passion. Now look at our current government, it has the true potential of utopia because we have our basic freedoms. The only flaw is that money governs what we can do; with money we are not truly free. If we were to remove money from society but sustain our current laws society would eventually mature into a utopia and humanity on the whole can attain enlightenment because there would be less in the way of an individual's passion. Granted, if we were to do so, production of materials would come to a crawl because all those that are working jobs that they are unhappy in and are only working to make money would quit because they would be truly free, but all those that are fulfilling their passion(s) would stay where they are at, the only difference being they would no longer be making money. Over time people will only be making and producing products they have a passion for and all these products would be free to all who want them. Theft would be almost non-existent because if someone wants or needs something there is nothing stopping them from getting it at the source. As for things of importance such as a house or car will have a deed or title to them, linking them to the individual. Theft or breaking and entering would still be illegal.

Utopia is up to us.

            The flaw in the ideal society I have loosely outlined is humanity itself. The only way it would not work is if individuals continue to have total disregard for their fellow human beings and their own spirit and soul. If humanity does not see every individual within it as an equal and a vital piece of society then humanity would destroy itself which it would undoubtedly deserve if this were the case. With the subtraction of money humanity's negative qualities have less to feed on; these qualities will only have what resides within the individual to feed on, thus allowing humanity's full potential into fruition or humanity's ultimate destruction.