MONEY is by far the most important and versatile form of power, which millions of years of evolution have programmed us - Earth's Greatest Ape, with its prodigious animal intelligence - to acquire and use in the struggle for survival and advantage, originally in the "natural environment", now in the artificial, "socio-economic environment" which has effectively replaced it.

Free-market capitalism has developed and been honed to take full (and thus such effective) advantage of mankind's animal nature, in which our entire socio-economic order is deeply rooted - unsurprisingly, in view of what Charles Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human origins. New Labour is just going with the (evolutionary) flow, which, unfortunately, is taking us towards a precipice.

I wrote the following essay on MONEY, as a candidate for Humanity's Worst Invention: http://www.spaceship-earth.org/PoS/Our_worst_Invention.pdf

My homepage: http://www.spaceship-earth.org