11 June 2002
 

"Now, if you think it over, you realize that money is the attention unit of society. That's about all it is. They scatter these attention units around, and society does the astonishing, the marvelous, the fantastic trick of actually taking pieces of paper — not any longer silver and certainly not gold, (that would be too nice for everybody to have, so they don't issue that anymore) — and they take this stuff and they actually can convert it. You take a whole stack of these pieces of paper, you know, and you go bing, and you got an automobile. That's a magic of some sort or another, and it is so magicful that people become criminals and acquire the automobile without making the money go boomp. That's what's known as criminality.

"But on the upper band, the impossibly high band from our standpoint at this time, an individual theoretically could be sufficiently able not to make the money go boomp, but to simply say, 'Automobile — zing.' And you'd have an automobile. See, that's an impossible height.

"But by the introduction of a via called money into every transaction, then a group can monitor the individual of the group by giving him, on rations, just so much of this stuff which is convertible, whoomp, into automobiles and food.

"So, by introducing this via, you put in a barrier; a barrier to acquisition, a barrier to havingness. It's not a bad barrier. Did you ever play an old game, years and years and years ago, called Monopoly? That's a fantastic game. People sit up all night long, converting these little houses and little pieces of paper just as though that wasn't what they were doing all day long, too. That wasn't a game, that was a dramatization."

— L. Ron Hubbard
Communication, Freedom & Ability Lectures

 
 

From "Games"

Communication was the theme of the congress — not only in terms of people talking to each other, but also as regards the individual’s communication with himself, his body, the physical universe and the traps and pitfalls thereof. In these lectures, you will learn why the physical universe persists, the mechanics of games and entrapment, how a thetan creates time, how problems persist, and many more datums essential to successful existence. This is a vital lecture series to listen to as it tells you WHAT MAKES AUDITING WORK!

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