16. Standard is the thing

Susan Wu at Techcrunch writes that

virtual objects are nothing more than a series of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhere in the ether³ . What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard earned cash on ‘objects’ that have no tangible substance?

This is a very good example of how much Newtonist doctrine of atomic materialism has become the official perception of the world for humans.

A commenter objects to Wu’s materialism:

First, one has to understand that money isn’t “real,” isn’t “tangible.” Then it starts to make sense.

So, Wu is thinking that one representation or instance of money, a piece of paper or metal, is money. But money is not that, money is simply a standard.

All objects are standards. All objects are conventional.

Standard is the thing.

When we give up the Newtonian occult atomic materialism this makes sense. There are no discontinuities in nature. Matter, or as Newton called it, mass, does not exist except as Newtonian propaganda.

The fundamental concept of nature is density continuum. There are no discontinuities. There are no absolute “building blocks of matter” as Newtonian priests have been claiming.