Money: Cult of Cults
By: Mark Stair
Tags: Eosio, Eos, Money, Cult, Us Dollar

Our family was watching “Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults” when my daughter asked if we would ever join a cult. After thinking about it for a minute, I told her that we are already a member of several “cults”.

Cults in our family include Seattle Seahawks, eosio and the US dollar. Of course my daughter and spouse vehemently disagreed that these are cults because they equate cults as extremely bad. Not all cults end in mass suicide so my view is that cults have both bad and good aspects just like anything in the world.

Let’s first look at the definition of a cult with the removal of “religion” since religion is just a set of beliefs so it can apply to anything. Also, the back of every US Dollar includes “IN GOD WE TRUST” so if you don’t believe the dollar is a religion you would need to first explain why that statement is on every dollar even though there is supposed to be a separation of church and state.

Here are all the cult definitions mapped to Seahawks, eosio, and Money:

a particular system of worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. Examples: Seahawks: weekly games, cheering over touchdowns and praying for wins. eosio: review of the EOS price every hour, watching youtubes, praying for the price to go up, and building out tipit.io. Money: going to work, payroll, wishing/praying for more money an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers. Seahwaks team along with Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson. eosio with Block.one’s Daniel Larimer, Brendan Blumer plus Everything EOS. Money the object of such devotion. The Seahawks team, the EOS token with Daniel Larimer, and the US Dollar has special veneration for “rich” people like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian, and many, many others. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. Seahawks players and fans, eosio token holders and B1 leaders for eosio, and everyone using US dollars. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.

Seahawks cult logo

EOS cult logo

US Dollar cult symbol

Money and the US dollar is a very interesting “cult” as it allows for a good life if you have a good standing with lots of money. If you have a bad standing in the cult of money you could starve, freeze to death through homelessness and lose relationships with loved ones. Money is either the number one or two cause of divorce along with infidelity. So if you have a bad relationship in the cult of money, it can lead to divorce from your loved one.

Cults are often associated with mass suicides'. One of the biggest cult suicides is the People’s Temple with Jim Jones where 909 people died. However, over 800,000 people commit suicide per year with the largest contributors being financial trouble and lack of access to health care which could also be related to money. Looking at it this way, Money causes 100’s of times more suicides every year than even the worse religious cults.

It’s easy to condemn religious cults after they have inflicted pain to their members. If we can recognize that money is the biggest cult and that it causes great amounts of pain and suffering, maybe we can design future systems that provide better results for everyone. And NO, I’m not a communist, socialist, or any other ‘ist, I just believe that Humans can do better than our current money and financial systems…and hopefully the eosio cult can lead the change as we move from analog money to digital tokens & money (dtm).