The greatest magic act of all – the unrecognized king of all sigils – was the creation of the dollar itself. We support the reality of this symbol whether we’re going after dollars or complaining about lack of opportunity to accumulate them. By taking the very real values of wealth and prosperity and assigning them to the symbol of money, we dissociated our labor from the real. Sure, if we had some authority over that symbol we might be in business, but we don’t; it’s the most protected and inaccessible set of mythology around. No cut and paste permitted, William.
Douglas Rushkoff, Reality as Subversion, LSD Magazine #8 (via nec-plus-ultra)