Named after the Greek goddess of chaos & discord, ERISunveiled the podcast takes slices of pop culture and weaves them together to form a radically transformative media organism. In each episode we study the chaos & noise & madness of human endeavor to find the signal that rings as clear as day. Each peal of the Bell hammers away at the foundation of our shared sense of reality, culminating in the ultimate revelation of ERIS unveiled.

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Hellooo internet people and welcome to SEASON 2, EPISODE 7 of ERIS unveiled. A production of GLORP Corp.

This is a podcast where we peeeeeel back the raw throbbing nerves of reality to expose a vast cosmic consciousness constantly grasping at warm bodies to assimilate.

This is Monday, October, 3 2022. I am your host, The Rainbow Rose. The first & only Rainbow Rose.

We got a special episode for you today. In this episode we answer the question, “WHY did humans invent money?”

But before all that, we always like to ask the true question of Questions: Did We Get Any Notes? Yes! The demon-angels haunting our dreams tattooed a devastating note on our soul ass. Without getting too deep into the details, let’s just say we’ve been inspired to NOT play with our anxieties. But you know what, it’s like, life is an endless series of teaching & learning moments. And you could argue that is the whole point to this crazy beautiful life. All because Eternity either created or chose us to be its avatar in order to explore this strange realm called Reality.

Yeah... Meditate on that one.

In the meantime, we want to share with you an awesome quote we recently found. It’s credited to the ancient Greeks, and it’s about, who else… ERIS herself. Quote.

“The strife caused by Eris is praised as she stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour. This Strife is wholesome for men.”

This blew our mind because of how perfectly it dovetails with theories we’ve come up with that try to articulate the cause of and solution to our most pervasive societal problems. So here’s the theory. Because we evolved from critters who only survived by skittering out of the way of larger predators, we inherited a dependency on a kind of survival stress. The shorthand of this belief is that we are 'agents of chaos who need constant drama to feel alive.' Remove that constant drama and we die of boredom, but not before going insane. Fortunately, we seem to be deadly adverse to living without drama and willfully accept things like wars & poverty; unfortunately, those things are bad and we need to de better. Fortunately, there are all sorts of different kinds of stress. Euphoria is technically a kind of stress, really! Falling in love is technically a kind of stress. Caring about others and being part of a community is a kind of stress.

Applying that knowledge to broader societal issues gives us a clue on how to address its fatal flaws. So. Imagine a world where people demand that laws exist. Sounds like this world, right? Now imagine a world that rejects the notion we need a separate class of people responsible for creating & enforcing those laws. Funny how that sounds nothing like our world. But here’s the problem. In this world those roles of creating & enforcing laws are filled by people with a pathological need for attention who are rewarded with power over our lives by getting the most attention. The issue here is too much power placed in too few hands, and it’s a problem that can never be solved by us arguing over which handful of attention whores get to have power over us. And to insist IT IS the solution is a fatal flaw in our system.

Given the cause of and solution to our problems we’re saying, explicitly, that normies need to take personal responsibility for this system of law & order. What that means is we need to get rid of elections and replace that process with sortition, a lottery-based selection process. Remember, it’s not elections that make a society democratic, it’s the representation itself. Sortition is just an alternative method of selecting representatives. Not only does a lottery-based solution satisfy our need for stress; it dismantles the downward spiral of radicalization that occurs between politicians and their bases. It also disincentivizes politicians from allowing societal problems to fester so they can get elected on promises to fix those problems. Sortition would also create a system of guaranteed employment for those who choose to participate in it. What else?

Oh right, we were supposed to explain the invention of money. Look. It’s a convenient way to allocate finite resources.

So yeah. There's a more detailed pitch of the version of sortition we envision at ERISunveiled.com/sortition