I START WITH TIME. Time is the only existential commodity available to man, and

I START WITH TIME.

Time is the only existential commodity available to man, and all our divisions of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, negotiation, and advocacy serve to produce and distribute calories in various states in ever shorter time. I try to teach people to think in terms of time, where money serves as a store of accumulated time, and debt, promised time. Ergo, we are not wealthier than cave men, we have just made everything infinitely cheaper to acquire with our time. So I start from the basics of time, acquisitionism, cooperation, and competition, and build up from the problem of using memory and reason to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance.