Earth
Earth is the third planet from the sun in an average solar system in a
galaxy called the Milky Way. Nobody is exactly sure why the planet has
a name (Earth), and the galaxy has a name (the Milky Way), but the sun
and solar system don't have a name. Presumably, we just haven't quite gotten
over the habit of looking at ourselves as the center of the universe yet.
Earth is a big ball of dirt floating in space with a bunch of gases stuck
to it. Well, not exactly floating. More like hurtling headlong through
the cosmos, spinning on its axis, rotating around the sun, and moving (along
with the rest of the solar system) around the galactic hub. And the galaxy
is moving in amongst the other galaxies like schools of fish moving through
the black sea of space. All of these entities are moving at incredible
speeds and there's nothing, really, keeping them from smashing into one
another, any more than there's anything keeping a billiard ball from sinking
off the break.
On Earth, there's a whole lot of life. It's stuffed with it. Some of the
life are called plants, others are called animals, and still others have
other names that boil down to the previous two when you really look at
it. Some of the animals eat plants, others eat other animals. But to be
an animal means to exist at the expense of other life. To be a plant (with
rare exceptions) means that, although you may compete with others for the
resources you need, by and large you exist without depriving any other
life of its life at all.
Also, of course, there are all kinds of other things. There's rocks and
water (LOTS of water) and gases and solids and all kind of forms of energy.
But for some reason, what the people who have gotten to the point of development
where they can think of themselves as people (and not just Us, at least
some of the time) think about is little bits of paper, or numbers on a
screen. These numbers are known as money, and they (by design) represent
everything to these people. The stress of meaning everything to everybody
gets to a money after a while, so it should be no surprise to anyone that
the money no longer means anything, because there is nothing that is everything
enough to mean everything except nothing.
So money means nothing, because it has to.
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