Insert Coin

When I was a little boy me and my contemporaries used to go to a game store. “Insert Coin To Play” flashed up from the screens of the videogames. Once I put the coin in my favourite videogame I enjoyed for some minutes that spectacle made of bit.
Paradoxically those flashing letters became a “symbol” to me, more than a “function”. Theoretically, their function was to communicate: ”Pay if you want to play”. Practically it seems to me that it wanted to show the philosophy of the society in which I grew up. The philosophy of the money.
Bateson wrote: “Money too becomes toxic beyond a certain point. In any case, the philosophy of money, the set of presuppositions by which money is supposedly better and better the more you have of it, is totally antibiological.”
Bios equals life; consequently against life. Maybe it is for this reason that human beings turn into machines, that a street-artist stays motionless in front of a shop window and adapting himself to the speed of our world, changes into an organic/genetic videogame. De facto, like in a videogame, once the coin is inserted, he starts with a sympathetic spectacle of genetical bits to entertain us.
Pascal said: ”We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.”
But with consciousness we would be able to build a bridge. Building a bridge costs us time and pain; two old fashioned notions.
In this time of light and velocity we prefer to run towards a collective suicide.