Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06733_Field_TCUM T298.txt

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     Like any other medium, it is a staple, a natural resource.
As an outward and visible form of the urge to change and to
exchange, it is a corporate image, depending on society for its
institutional status. Apart from communal participation,
money is meaningless, as Robinson Crusoe discovered when he
found the coins in the wrecked ship:

          I smiled to myself at the sight of this money. “O
     drug!” said I aloud, “What art thou good for? Thou art
     not worth to me—no, not the taking off the ground: one
     of those knives is worth all this heap: I have no manner of
     use for thee; e’en remain where thou art and, go to the
     bottom, as a creature whose life is not worth saving.”
          However, upon second thoughts, I took it away; and
     wrapping it all in a piece of canvas, I began to think of
     making another raft . . .