Exchange

When we can’t help but think of our relationships and interactions as a form of exchange (this for that), we will quickly find that we are reconciling debt. You gave me this; I returned something of equal value. But a problem seems to arise here. What a strange way to organize ourselves. Contrary to popular belief, debts are not solely economic arrangements. While anyone can understand the financial interactions, we are blind to the social and cosmic debts we create. Indeed, we flood our psyche with exchange language, so much so that we forget how to operate any other way. Which, of course, is fiction.