BAILEY'S AFROCENTRIC MONEY MANAGEMENT Volume 85
ABOUT THE BOOK
In African Tradition, Right Life Thinking/Living is not about acquiring Material things, but having a Productive life, featuring dedicated efforts to display a given human’s assigned Divine Plan, orchestrated by ones Talent, to Spiritually Uplift the “ME/WE”. To these ends, one is to pursuejust “Enough” of the best of Things of Value (e.g. Material things giving “creature comforts”) in order to enable pursuing unlimited Things of Worth (e.g. intrinsic, infinite, irreplaceable things of excellence enhancing ones Spirit via “ME/WE” Mission benefits). Yet, together, these “Values,” in proper portions, are necessary for “Good Life Living.” Such is done in the “First Law of Nature” context—involving Physical Human Nature Needs (PHNN) for Survival, Self-Preservation, Self-Protection in realms of the “5Ss”—Safety, Security, Self-Confidence, (Personal Power) Strength, Stability. Included are food, shelter, clothing, avoiding Self-harm/not allowing it, no self-neglect. Primitive Africans handled PHNN by Value Barter. Spiritual Nature Needy Wants were family cared for by continual mutual Love Platter interactions—i.e. the instinct to Love freely; to spread Love; to receive being Loved unconditionally; to be Lovable. Meanwhile, outside Africa, precious metals gained almost complete ascendancy over other commodities used as the Exchange Standard for Values. This was from them combining attributes of portability, divisibility, durability, homogeneity (like-kind), recognizability, stability of value. But when paper was substituted, called “Money,” by itself it had no value. Instead of exchanging things “For” money, the Values transactions for things occurred “through” money. In short, money became a measure of material value. Obviously, there could be no shortage of money, but only a shortage of those values money represented (Amen, Metu Neter II: 172). Then, in the Money system, things of "Value" (objects to which a 'price tag' could be placed) began being viewed by savage minded people for their ability to satisfy their confused opinions of "Worth" (strife, war) inside fake "Values"--e.g. power, prestige, excellence in varied kinds of ‘bigger, better, faster’ material things. Hence, Icon Images of Money was/is falsely promoted to weak-minded greedy people into accepting deceptive “SEEMs” right things they loved because of believing they would make them "Larger than Life," as “little gods” + "Legends in their own minds," rather than Self-Unknown, lacking in “Manhood.” Deceivers will always find those willing themselves to be deceived by playing to their fantasies. They help them hide hating themselves, being Cowards, of wanting to be an ‘authority’ who knows everything about anything—instead of knowing they are profoundly dumb and grossly incompetent. Also, they keep trying to overcome being the Animal Kingdom’s lowest by being Bullies. To make this work, by the GUN, they choose the defenseless to oppress, project their “Dark Side” onto them, shrink Victims’ Self-Esteem, put them in multiple poverties. Then they can pretend they Created, Invented, Discovered, Innovated all the things they stole from their feigned enemies. They are only good at Kill/Take/Destroy. Money worship itself--having no independent "Values" reality--is like eating the menu at a restaurant instead of the food. 'Money Greed' is a substitute for lacking their pretended 'Happy Life's" essential "5Ss" ingredients which can never come from what "Selfish Money" can buy. A rich king dying of thirst would gladly give up his entire fortune for a drink of water. Though "ENOUGH" money is essential to living, obsessing over it propels one far, far away from the magnificent--as one will recognize on ones Death Bed--a recognition not likely to be the facade of 'Money'