We as humans, at our basic animal level, have evolved to exist in a society of single clans. As a result of this, we are not mentally equipped to live in a society based on currency instead of respect for family and clan leaders.
When ever everyone leaves the house, our family dog will start to howl. He is experincing distress because he thinks his pack has left him. I think this is similar to Humans. We Humans have a basic need to belong. This also explains why conformity is such a problem.
In a society where the Human is raised by, and socially identifies themselves to the system, we find Humans doing the same as they would in a clan. They apply the instincts that drive them to be respected by their clan, to their system, and because most of society correlates respect with money, we find ourselves forever chasing the carrot.
I, for one, find this tragic because we as Human beings in this society are not by default happy. We often find in our pursuit for money that our relationships are neglected. We often find that we have no clan to identify ourselves with. That being said, I think it's extremely unrealistic to go back to a clan based society. We will need to evolve and adapt.
I think our evolution is actually what has caused all this to begin with. We seem to have recently evolved the ability to think in the abstract and use complex symbolic language to share that abstract with others. This ability is very powerful. As a result of this, we find that we are more capable in manipulating our envrironment in a way that is beneficial to us. Consequently, we also find that bigger societies have more ability to manipulate their envrionment which results in more strength which leads to imperialism and soceities too large to coexist based on pure respect and socialism alone. Hence, money.
I guess that means that money isn't the root of evil. It's simply the most simple solution that allows us to co-exist in large soceities. It still stands though that we aren't fully mentally equipeped evolutionarily for this society.
Luna
P.S. I made a reddit post for this too, please like it ^.^
