End of Times? Or An Entirely New Beginning?
Today, we are in a period of international disaster, nations everywhere are attempting to adjust to their overstretched boundaries, the same old concerns back up, scarcity, unemployment, battle, territorial quarrels.
Exactly how do we remove these needless evils, well, one method is to share the Planet's material sources so that everyone has the fundamental necessities for human self-respect and survival.
The economic system we know has served its purpose, and was effective in many respects, but it is also fatally flawed.
Clearly, we have an Achilles heel, specifically human starvation.
The fragmentary weak point of one cog in the system endangers the whole, so the only clear technique is to address these incessant problems head on, making sure that the demands of all nations are satisfied, at the very least materially.
Can we have a lasting globe, without the use of military, naval force, police, prisons, courts, and so on.
Why not? Bear in mind, these sectors probably will continue, just not at the same magnitude, and with different objectives.
It is not about 'doing away' with existing structures, it is about easing the pressure upon those sectors, and creating a simpler, more sustainable and ultimately tranquil world.
Okay, consider this, suppose people - male and female - from all backgrounds, had ease of access to the basic requirements of life, education, (ancient languages, information technology, science, economics, philosophy, included as standard); supposing everyone, everywhere had food, home, air and water, and modern technology, essential components for modern human fulfillment.
Would this incline us towards loving our next-door neighbors instead of fighting with them? Why not? Surely, contentment leads to relationship, leads to peace.
Without some type of reshuffle of the world's resources, we are visiting terror and danger upon ourselves.
The earth is a rich, rich spot, with more than enough resources, if effectively supported and shared.
Why ought we exist in never ending anxiety, self-doubt, and doubt concerning our personal and worldwide security? A resource-based international economic climate may reprieve the dangers of scarcity.
Criminal circumstances would be less inviting, or necessary.
We already have beneficial structures in place, shared medical knowledge, shared infrastructure, shared spiritual values, or non-spiritual as the case may be, shared understanding of one another, shared languages, day care, schools.
These can be built upon and improved.
Jacque Fresco - global scientist - believes that future cities will differ significantly from those of today.
Ongoing organic modification will be normal.
Cities designed, less for commerce than for shared human necessities, will certainly look and feel much different, perhaps much better also.
Domes instead of housing units, could include lasting garden atmospheres, typical meals areas, agriculture integrated with architecture, a design attempted, checked, and then recreated, a collaboration, involving not just one designer, but many.
Visual appeal would become a crucial factor, balancing functionality.
Human contentment - creative, social and ecological - would be vital.
In a central Dome there would be day care facilities, institutions, and benefits for children, in another; a center for adults, libraries, musical studios, gardens.
When scarcity is thus alleviated, family and community strife would largely evaporate, as would bad health and its components, smoking, tension, drug abuse.
Surrounding the Central Domes, and relocated at a distance, are the economic areas, surrounded by water flows, falls, lakes throughout.
This would enable a component of healthy chi, and healthy decision making, as opposed to the 'concrete jungle' mentality of today.
Undoubtedly, a greener environmental emphasis would influence our thinking, even as business opportunities arise, creating a much more wholehearted, and emotional cooperation.
Monotonous work should be minimized, technology use stretched as far as it can go, lowering the need for tedious 8 or 10 or 12 hr days.
Battle, as we understand it, is not the noble sparring of heroic giants, it is the total personal bankruptcy of political leaders, lack of imaginative ideas, or ideological backgrounds, the insufficiency and weakness of federal governments, the unwillingness to locate solutions to inequality.
Unless people have the purchasing power to sustain it, the capitalist economic design is worthless.
Today, power is vaporizing, being more and more concentrated in the hands of the few.
Our current idealogues, (intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky), supply scant support for new ideas.
The icy air of disinterested intelligence, pointing to the imperfections, yet positing no option, is redundant and unnecessary.
The most pertinent voice is the voice that supplies an option.
Might it be that ultimately we will catch on to the notion of countries merging as one? Despite the doubts from the populaces of the world, a litany of fears;
Obviously this implies a reduction of intense religious beliefs, a bargaining of these and other uncompromising ideals, a change from compartmentalized thinking patterns, abandonment of separate citizenship, of territorial ownership, of elitism such as we understand it today.
Terrifying probably, for numerous people, but could this path, difficult as it may be at first, actually save the human race from extinction, and the earth from destruction.
We are facing that threat today.
All cards on the table please.
Exactly how do we remove these needless evils, well, one method is to share the Planet's material sources so that everyone has the fundamental necessities for human self-respect and survival.
The economic system we know has served its purpose, and was effective in many respects, but it is also fatally flawed.
Clearly, we have an Achilles heel, specifically human starvation.
The fragmentary weak point of one cog in the system endangers the whole, so the only clear technique is to address these incessant problems head on, making sure that the demands of all nations are satisfied, at the very least materially.
Can we have a lasting globe, without the use of military, naval force, police, prisons, courts, and so on.
Why not? Bear in mind, these sectors probably will continue, just not at the same magnitude, and with different objectives.
It is not about 'doing away' with existing structures, it is about easing the pressure upon those sectors, and creating a simpler, more sustainable and ultimately tranquil world.
Okay, consider this, suppose people - male and female - from all backgrounds, had ease of access to the basic requirements of life, education, (ancient languages, information technology, science, economics, philosophy, included as standard); supposing everyone, everywhere had food, home, air and water, and modern technology, essential components for modern human fulfillment.
Would this incline us towards loving our next-door neighbors instead of fighting with them? Why not? Surely, contentment leads to relationship, leads to peace.
Without some type of reshuffle of the world's resources, we are visiting terror and danger upon ourselves.
The earth is a rich, rich spot, with more than enough resources, if effectively supported and shared.
Why ought we exist in never ending anxiety, self-doubt, and doubt concerning our personal and worldwide security? A resource-based international economic climate may reprieve the dangers of scarcity.
Criminal circumstances would be less inviting, or necessary.
We already have beneficial structures in place, shared medical knowledge, shared infrastructure, shared spiritual values, or non-spiritual as the case may be, shared understanding of one another, shared languages, day care, schools.
These can be built upon and improved.
Jacque Fresco - global scientist - believes that future cities will differ significantly from those of today.
Ongoing organic modification will be normal.
Cities designed, less for commerce than for shared human necessities, will certainly look and feel much different, perhaps much better also.
Domes instead of housing units, could include lasting garden atmospheres, typical meals areas, agriculture integrated with architecture, a design attempted, checked, and then recreated, a collaboration, involving not just one designer, but many.
Visual appeal would become a crucial factor, balancing functionality.
Human contentment - creative, social and ecological - would be vital.
In a central Dome there would be day care facilities, institutions, and benefits for children, in another; a center for adults, libraries, musical studios, gardens.
When scarcity is thus alleviated, family and community strife would largely evaporate, as would bad health and its components, smoking, tension, drug abuse.
Surrounding the Central Domes, and relocated at a distance, are the economic areas, surrounded by water flows, falls, lakes throughout.
This would enable a component of healthy chi, and healthy decision making, as opposed to the 'concrete jungle' mentality of today.
Undoubtedly, a greener environmental emphasis would influence our thinking, even as business opportunities arise, creating a much more wholehearted, and emotional cooperation.
Monotonous work should be minimized, technology use stretched as far as it can go, lowering the need for tedious 8 or 10 or 12 hr days.
Battle, as we understand it, is not the noble sparring of heroic giants, it is the total personal bankruptcy of political leaders, lack of imaginative ideas, or ideological backgrounds, the insufficiency and weakness of federal governments, the unwillingness to locate solutions to inequality.
Unless people have the purchasing power to sustain it, the capitalist economic design is worthless.
Today, power is vaporizing, being more and more concentrated in the hands of the few.
Our current idealogues, (intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky), supply scant support for new ideas.
The icy air of disinterested intelligence, pointing to the imperfections, yet positing no option, is redundant and unnecessary.
The most pertinent voice is the voice that supplies an option.
Might it be that ultimately we will catch on to the notion of countries merging as one? Despite the doubts from the populaces of the world, a litany of fears;
- racial distinction dissolving,
- national pride evaporating,
- individual economic and civil liberty being impaired,
- a total merging of individual nations and societies, (a polysemous nightmare for some),
- each society combining in one massive venture for humanity, oh how awful!
Obviously this implies a reduction of intense religious beliefs, a bargaining of these and other uncompromising ideals, a change from compartmentalized thinking patterns, abandonment of separate citizenship, of territorial ownership, of elitism such as we understand it today.
Terrifying probably, for numerous people, but could this path, difficult as it may be at first, actually save the human race from extinction, and the earth from destruction.
We are facing that threat today.
All cards on the table please.