THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

I think I'll try to take you to Europe, if we can make it work. The
patchwork is still different there. But I'll have to get permission from
the council; even a cosmopolite com has Riles about Europe for kids.
Some coms don't even let adults go there, but those are communities
that don't like to let cosmopolites in either. Sometimes I wonder how
may survive.
OK that’s my last tat: a licensed teacher. I like that one the best -
they're using that new holographic ink for instructor ta1s now. That
closes as many doors as it opens, of course. Teachers bring new ideas,
we're meme-carrier, and cosmopolitan memes scare people. Even
with all of the community protections, with walls around the homes
and minds, identities are fragile. The Nation of Islam com lost almost
half of its citizens last year in a struggle over identity - were they
African, Muslim, American? The remaining NOI community, in
South Cal, isn't letting any outsiders in, not even for bit.
So here we are. Tsutomo is the best tattist in me area. You scared?
Don't be. The first tat is the hardest, but you're getting one to be
proud of. Anyway, me pity tonight will take your mind oft the sting.
You know, I think that boy with the Rainforest tat has his eye on you.
Don't give me that look! Just remember that your community cares
about you. We're all very proud of you.
That is when I woke up - in a cold sweat.
Careful Communities is a modern version of what happened in
Western Europe in the first centuries after the collapse of the Roman
Empire (c. AD 500-800). It was a return to smaller-scale homogeneous
communities, fragmented by the vast and dangerous European
forests, that each had their own local currencies, administration and
in-bred world-views. Of necessity, they had become self-sustaining.
Not everything was negative; for instance, it generated a remarkable
upsurge in spirituality. One of the functions of the Church and