Megan West(erby)

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“People exchanging value with one another directly is the thing that got outlawed 500 years ago and then, over the centuries, got turned into a weird, messy thing that we look down on rather than a wonderful thing that we should look up to.” Over the course of history, he argues, the notion of local production and trade has been erased in favour of a centralised, globalised culture.

“It’s almost that what the church did to sex, government and corporations did to transactions,” he says. “We think of money as dirty, but it’s corporations that are dirty, the whole notion that we need them is dirty.”

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~ Bobbie Johnson meets Douglas Rushkoff, who helped to shape the internet in the early 90s | Books | The Guardian (via jaybushman)

16 June 2009 ·