Scott,

The more we have, the more we have to worry about.

How I balance this relationship of what I’m attached to, versus what I’m simply aware of, is between the heart and the head. Desire and judgement.

Our desires are many, while our judgements are to edit the desires.

It goes to the point I like to make about money, that it amounts to quantized desire, so our entire culture is built up around accumulating it, but the reality is that as it functions as the medium that enables society and economy to function, more has to be added and more inventive ways to store what has been extracted. So now it has metastasized tot eh point the entire world serves the financial system, rather than the financial system enabling human society to function.

The mistake is confusing a medium with a store. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. So we try to store the medium. The air and water we need to exist are a medium. Could we try to store them?

So what we need to recognize is that while we all need the mediums, when we try to possess them, the system starts breaking down.

We desire the medium, like we desire the open road, not stuck in traffic. Then the road becomes a store, a parking lot.

We desire good food, but we also desire not becoming overly fat.

It really is a fairly simple distinction, between medium and store, but one which society has not got around to recognizing.