Bill Smooshfoot: Recent stocking market isolations, gyrations, and other manifestations. Have me, Bill Smooshfoot, Just Reflectin. I am ready. When you think about money in a historical sense, it has a calming effect on one's nerves. I have been thinking a lot about monetary systems lately. The strange nature of it. Well, think about the actual thing itself, the money, the dollar. What does dollar mean? Do you know?
It made me think of the Roman soldiers. Of course the roman soldiers were paid in salt which led of course to the phrase worth your salt, probably. Why they didn't fight very well in the rain? Salt seems to me to be an odd way to payment.
But there, they would go, those legends shoulder-to-shoulder, and that doesn't make a better sense, that they would overtake the known world for seasonings. I don't understand it. How on our earth there are most fundamental transactions between one another as human beings somehow become abstracted. Wouldn't it be nice to go into a sandwich shop and be able to give to that man a fine length of hickory wood. That's what a Salome man wants, something for his fireplace, that he and wife perhaps a small virtual rain, like I never had.
Male Speaker: How do we get all that?
Bill Smooshfoot: Of course you have heard me talk many times about the native American cultures, and of course a beautiful system of warm that they had. What could be more elegant? Gathering by the seaside, beautiful shells colored purple by the incoming waves. Myself, of course I have never actually seen the ocean, and I have my second wife which lived on a shore town and therefore I hate the ocean.
There is somebody here that's in charge of keeping me on the script and when I get off the script, somebody has got to say, hey Bill, you are talking about your divorce again. Damn it.
I sometimes thank to that first man coin maker, who from the rough materials, he mined from the earth and created the first coin. Who knows what inspired that first coin maker, but I would love to get a hold of it.
If I walked into a shop, see a fine, older perhaps middle-aged woman busty who had in her own lap fashioned certain dolls from available natural materials. You find her beautiful, and you're going to hand her some, something abstract, something that is not from you. What kind of culture is that.
Wouldn't it make better sense to draw from your pocket something enormously personal? Why are the interns laughing? Something that you have made yourself to barter with this bust woman. And perhaps you could give her a large hickory laugh. These are kind of personal economies that we have to find. We need to get away from these abstract concepts.
Imagine a more personal transaction, one in which as the sun goes down, you emerge from your domicile, and walk down a humble sidewalk to your neighbor. You smell coming from the house beautiful cooking aromas that she is fashioning, her famous home made tortillas.
You knock on the door. She answers, a more robust middle-aged woman and you accept her warm tortillas. In exchange, you give her a humbly fashioned pillow. These are the kind of smaller transactions that can still save this country. As you go about your busy day in this great and grand materialistic society, take a little time to make something and to treat it with someone else. I am Bill Smooshfoot, and I am just reflected.
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