A project like this is open to all kinds of interpretation: is it a common space? How the hell one can live without money? Surely this blogger is using some kind of barter system? But what Suelo (the author) describes are fragments of the life of someone who turned his back on the money-based reality in which most people live.
From one day to the next he rejected those pieces of paper, known as bills, and the little metal discs we call coins. He also gave up storing energy, only eating when he was really hungry. And, as if this wasn’t enough, he got rid of his possessions, even those that only had sentimental value, because he believed that those are precisely the ones that tied us most to the past, in a comparable way to how future credit lives off the debtor.
Suelo’s life is not unlike that of a homeless person’s, or someone from a beatnik novel, describing his movements from his native Colorado to the states of California, Oregon, and beyond. But we shouldn’t forget that this blog is written by a Christian hippy, made of flesh and blood, who lives the life of an activist. Suelo lives in a cave and has renounced the use of money for 9 years now. He writes his blog from public libraries. A very honest exercise that’s well worth continuing, even if it’s only updated from time to time.
http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com
