The Idiocracy of Our Time

The United States just shut down parts of its government. Not because the farmers stopped farming. Not because the engineers forgot how to build. Not because the doctors ran out of knowledge.

But because two groups of politicians couldn’t agree on numbers in a spreadsheet.

750,000 people furloughed. Families in limbo. Services halted. The world’s “biggest economy” brought to its knees by idiotic accounting games.

Money as Oxygen

This is the Idiocracy of our time: we treat money as if it were oxygen. We act as if society cannot breathe without it. Yet money produces nothing. It grows no food, builds no homes, heals no bodies. It is only the token system we invented and forgot was fiction. Time to call it a day?

History shows us that human societies have not always been shackled to money:

• Indigenous cultures across the Americas and Australia sustained themselves for millennia through direct sharing of food, tools, and shelter — no coins, no ledgers.

• Medieval villages in Europe often relied on collective effort and community support, where needs were met without currency.

• Disaster relief today shows the same principle: when hurricanes, earthquakes, or floods strike, people don’t wait for budgets to be approved. Neighbors help neighbors, resources flow, and life continues.

What if instead of shutting down when the tokens run out, we simply looked at what is real..?

• Resources

• Skills

• Needs

• Collaboration

The things that actually make life work

Imagine a world where monetary budgets don’t exist, but abundance does. Where we don’t ask, “Can we afford it?” but rather, “Do the resources exist, and does it serve life?”

That’s not a fantasy. It’s the next step for humanity. Because as long as we play by the rules of monopoly money, we’ll keep watching governments collapse over nothing.

Time to step out of the Idiocracy — and into a world that works for all

We could create such a world if we really wanted to, as long as enough people become aware of the possibility. And that is exactly what the book,Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, is about. Making people aware through story.

Are you curious?

If you want to glimpse what such a future might look like, step into the story of Waking Up. Follow Benjamin Michaels, a former billionaire who opens his eyes 100 years in his future in a world where money has been abandoned — where access, cooperation, and abundance have replaced scarcity and competition. No more fight over budgets. No more polarization. Humanity has realized we have to work together to keep living on this planet. Ben’s  journey is a window into what life could be like beyond the illusion of money and scarcity.

👉 Read the novel Waking Up — a journey towards a new dawn for humanity:

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