Jan Anders Andersson

My name is Jan Anders Andersson. I believe in science, love and reason. I have written a book called "Money and the Art of Losing Control". It is published on Kindle so a lot of people can get a copy and read this book.

’Money and the Art of Losing Control’ is about money, of course! Money is one of the most important issues of today and this text is partly about what happens when someone tries to use it in a smart way. The title ‘Money and the Art of Losing Control’ is also a paraphrase of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ which was written by Robert Pirsig in the early 1970s. In 1991, Pirsig released a sequel to ‘Zen’ called ‘LILA, an Inquiry into Morals’ where he introduced a new metaphysical perspective called the ‘Metaphysics of Quality’ (or ‘MOQ’ for short). The MOQ is also another important part of ’Money and the Art of Losing Control’.”

The MOQ constructs a moral hierarchy based on cosmological evolution. This cosmological order recognises four distinct levels: the inorganic, the biological, the social and the intellectual. The inorganic level is the oldest level and includes the physical and geological processes that created our planet and solar system. The biological level then began where plants and animals developed on Earth that used inorganic matter for their own purposes. As animals evolved, a social level then appeared using the inorganic and biological levels. While reading ’Money and the Art of Losing Control’ keep in mind that money is an example of a social level pattern! The fourth and last level to appear in cosmological history is the intellectual level which consists of concepts and rules and other intellectual stuff that couldn't appear without a sentient being thinking of it.

I had to write this book to find out how the four levels of MOQ can be defined and used practically. I found that the lowest common denominator of these levels is time. Saved time. Time is NOT money. Instead – money is SAVED time.

Tremendous efforts are expended every day, globally, on making money, i.e. saving time for the customer. Much more effort than is spent on the thing that the saved time is intended to be used for. One can meditate for a long period on where this saved time originates from. To engage in that kind of meditation takes a lot of saved time. Saved time that is kept locked up and not used is worse than time wasted on things that don't directly give something back, like art, music, sleeping and dreaming – things that make life worth living.

Saved time is also the ultimate basis for cosmological evolution, as the best way to arrange energy and particles in a vibrating string, atoms and molecules. As the best strategy for survival in competition with other species. As the best way to organize society and as the best way to explain what it's all about.

Any event in our everyday life depends on the four levels of the MOQ and the differences between them. It was very amusing to find out what kind of trouble an uneven couple can get into regarding that.

Deterioration through age is the reason events and individuals don't continue forever. Therefore every species has some kind of reproductive system so that commonly developed strategies can be handed down to fresh new copies of the group.

Among humans, this is called sexual activity. In some retarded social areas, however, erotica and sexuality are banned from being discussed openly by those that are afraid of losing control, those who try to control society for their own benefit. These people do their best to keep you away from reality. They make you scared of it and they do what they can to turn you on with just about anything other than love, reason and your own desire. Don't let them rape your mind. You should not be ashamed to like this book. Pleasure is your real property.