Too Long; Didn't Read
'In God We Trust' was the original 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States and was raised to adorn the currency during the height of the U.S. economic power in 1956. It was a strange addition to the currency of the global superpower, strange enough to feel as if it may have been in bad faith. Potentially that the money was the God and there was little behind that but puppets and shadows. Is it coincidence that the sentiment matches the neo-liberalism of the US in the second half of the 20th century, which placed the power of money at the centre of social, cultural and political objectives.