(If) Not For Love Nor Money?

Lee Stranahan just got kicked off YouTube. Again. LOL. He was posting facts on the so-called 'protesters' at Charlottesville - about how some of them had been present in the Ukraine doing the 'Euromaidan' so-called 'civil insurgency' there that eventually got rid of that President.

But let's move onto a slightly different theme: money, rather than exclusively power as such.

I look out from my office window, down at the streets below and realize just exactly how intellectually disconnected I am from the world outside. How many people walking by have the single foggiest clue that this old brick building is one of the most stunning examples of Art Deco period architecture in the world? 

So, money...

Money has recently come to have an even more cloudy definition in the minds of many many analysts - including the esteemed 'Rasputin' of Wall Street Bear fame. There is this notion abroad currently along the lines that 'xyz doesn't buy you this, or that and therefore it isn't money.'

Money however, is actually partly a reflection of the society in which we live. If 'xyz' (currency token) does buy for a person in that society, that which he or she wants, and not things they do not want, then it is money. Money is about society and is wrapped up in what a particular society does and what its people are doing at the given time. Money simply does not exist in a vacuum apart from human beings. Sure, of course, human beings still have needs that require to be met, and for these some form of functioning exchange for the needs is absolutely necessary. But there is always a nexus between needs and wants and most importantly, the ways of people. The mechanisms that function in that nexus are what constitute real money - that is, the intrinsic value upon which real money tokens may be based.

I am so disconnected to other people as a whole that if someone wished to buy something from me (I can't imagine what!) it would be senseless for them to try and tender cash money or bank notes - automatically if they did that they would get my second tier game.

William Powell, I think, doing um, Philo Vance...?
Must be. 

I mean just how could you buy an original hand-written set of research notes on the occult by Howard Phillips * (and I need not say his last name). How much could I possibly even consider selling such a thing for?! You know, especially if it were virtually unique in the kinds of things it actually contained within the body of the text.

No. I'm afraid if you were Warren Buffet or George Soros you simply would not have the money - or the kinds of money - to make me part with this kind of treasure voluntarily.