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

emember that the 'cybersphere' was defined as the ideal space where
the Money Wave will be able to develop fully.
3. The Money Wave
This entire book is about this third wave. This 'Money Wave' has
been chronicled here as the birth of currency systems, which
complement the official national currency system. Our official money
system was shown to be an extreme Yang construct and the
monopoly of such currency has locked our societies into an extreme
Yang value system. What is proposed here in Taoist medical
terminology is 'to calm the Yang and activate the Yin'. Pragmatically,
the Global Reference Currency is a device that would 'calm the Yang',
and the activation of local complementary currencies a means to
'activate the Yin'.
The ongoing money innovations are more compatible with cooperative,
feminine-type interactions. Far from being anecdotal
curiosities, these new money systems turn out to be an integral part
of the broad societal Value- Shift Wave described above. Seen from
this perspective, these currency innovations fit into the general shift
towards Yin priorities highlighted earlier which includes changes in
the paradigms in science to in medicine, politics and gender relations.
I claim that if we make available to people stable currencies in
sufficiency, they will move towards Sustainable Abundance as
predictably as water flows downhill.
How the 'Money Wave' could pragmatically play itself out in a
multiple- level currency system will be described in the next section.
A monetary system for Sustainable Abundance