The New Paradigm, Solutions and Visions Options

[George Hayduke]

I ponder a lot about worldwide enlightened democracy via the internet and what it might look like. This will be the New World Order, a one-world gubbermint system that will be unlike anything preceding it. Your computer will become a voting booth where you vote on everything, all issues, all legislation. There will be no Senators, no Representatives, no Presidents or Kings as we now know them. Only technocrats serving the Will of the People.

Imagine turning on your television and there are no commercials, only lively discussion about current events. And those discussions are constantly interactive, where people can weigh in via the Net or over the phone.

I suspect in this system everything will become intensively localized. This will be because though we can vote on national issues, local activism will yield tangible and instant results, pushing people to engage locally with state and national interests becoming secondary. Thus, no war. You've probably noticed how to have war you have to have a war party on a national level and this party is ineffective at the local level. Since the national level of politics will take a back seat and since folks will be focusing primarily on their own localized communities, war is out.

Education will be the primary function of "culture" and "society." Higher education will be free and everyone will be engaged constantly in the education process. The reason for this is simple. Education is the seed of Democracy. If you want an enlightened democracy, you enlighten the people. If you want a police state, you pump up the military.

We currently overproduce. So much so that there is an island of garbage the size of Texas floating in the Pacific. We'll cut back the length of the average work day to attain full employment; since material wealth will be deprioritized there will be more resources to go around; and with everybody working shorter days there'll be more work to go around; thus full employment.

Since you'll only be working four or so hours per day, your free time you can give to your responsibilities as a citizen, ie doing research to stay abreast of the issues, and in classes, lectures and otherwise being educated. And because education will be so readily available and accessible the chances of you becoming you, or achieving the potential that is your birthright, will increase exponentially.

Because material possessions are de-emphasized there'll be less theft; because education will be functional, not strictly a lesson in conformity, and will become a literal means to self-actuation and thus self-empowerment, there'll be less self-hatred and thus less substance abuse. Because the average man will be empowered there'll be less rape. Because material possessions will be de-emphasized, women will less seek to be objects to be possessed by those most successful at accumulating material things.

What we're looking at here is a return to tribal communities that are interlocked around the world via the Net.

I bring this up because I want you to understand that a new paradigm is possible, that we can free ourselves of the current system and enact one that values people over profits. This can happen. In fact I don't think it can be stopped. This isn't communism. Communism is a materialist system by which the world is treated as a pie, that pie is divided, the majority gets little and a minority gets much. Capitalism, too, is a materialist system by which the world is treated as a pie, that pie is divided, the majority gets little and a minority gets much. What I'm talking about is a non-materialist system.

Thoughts?

Basically we can have one of two worlds in my opinion.

In one, you will live like a slave in total servitude with limited information and a life of toil but you will get to own a few things and a tiny elite will own much. In that world you will have no freedom of expression, which means in effect no freedom of thought or freedom of the mind. You will have little chance of becoming you because education, instead of being a means of mental emancipation or mental expansion, is instead a means of political socialization, a constant lesson in conformity to authority.

This will be a prison planet, per se. How does a prison work where the inmates outnumber the guards 20:1? You dehumanize the inmates by making them dress the same, eat terrible food, and get no privacy. You work the inmates to exhaustion. Then at night you have random beatings, disappearances and other acts of terrorism. So everyone is terrified and tired all the time. In this world you get to pass responsibility for the human condition on to the authorities. That is the uptick of choosing to be a slave (yes, it is a choice the slave makes, to be a slave): The slave seemingly has no responsibility for the reality in which he resides. And in this world, this prison planet, some pre-ordained authority gets foisted as the messiah that saves the world. Sound familiar?

In the other world, you get to own much less, consume much less, have nothing or at least nothing in comparison to what you have now. But you get freedom of thought. You can access any information you want at any time and freedom of expression goes unhindered, unimpeded; and the chance of you becoming you through education is high. Education will be about empowering the self because ultimately you will be the authority. You will know no riches but you will live in abundance and will be the sole captain of your fate. Nobody will have power over you.

This will be a world run by Man of Will. Man will be free and will embrace the responsibility inherent in this freedom. In other words, in this world YOU are the Messiah that saves the world.

Decision time is upon us.



This post has been edited by George Hayduke: Apr 3 2008, 10:56 AM

[grizz]

New Paradigm Words

together community share family sustainability neighbor simplicity truth freewill honesty openness hug love light life fellowship food music art knowledge fairness forgiveness nature water sky stars exploration humility respect introspection peace honor acceptance completion

[lunk]

New Paradigm Words

together community share family sustainability neighbor simplicity truth freewill honesty openness hug love light life fellowship food music art knowledge fairness forgiveness nature water sky stars exploration humility respect introspection peace honor acceptance completion

Drat, I don't see humor in this list.

cheers, lunk

[grizz]

That's just part of the list. Humor is certainly essential. In fact, it's a cornerstone of humanity.

The new paradigm is really just the natural one. Just being the loving cooperative creatures that we are is all we need. Just be who we are.

[lunk]

It's better to control your emotions
than having your emotions, controlling you.

It seems like a wonderful idea to live in a constant ecstatic blissful state of happiness,
but having the full spectrum of emotions, is what makes us conscious sentient beings.

imo, lunk

sorry if this made anyone angry.

[grizz]

I'm not looking for or expecting utopia. I just think that if mankind is to progress we have to downsize, localize. All the unnecessary transport of goods around the world will fade as it becomes too expensive.

Envision a world without money. I'm not sure how it would work, but the old system is collapsing. Global finance is overextended. Money is just a fantasy that we all subscribe to.

Think of a time when people live in small communities again, friendly with their neighbors, and working together to enhance the life of the 'tribe'. I'm not necessarily talking about going back to the stone age, but a simple life is good. Poor people around the world are happy and live their lives with a smile on their face.

Imagine a daily world that is so small that you walk everywhere. There's always a bus or train to get somewhere else. No TV as we know it. No centralized control.

For I believe the empire will collapse and people will be forced to regionalize. In the not too distant future we won't have millions of people flying around in airplanes every day. While the global village will likely thrive electronically, the ease of distant travel for the masses will pass.

A hundred years ago everybody had to walk everywhere. Now we ride in cars. A hundred years from now everybody will be walking again.

Unless, of course, we get free energy and high technology saves our material way of life.

[mrodway]

Nature has worked fine for billions of years without the need for money and has succeeded in producing extremely complex things.
The only currency being energy and mater.
The only form of government being anarchy.
The only laws being the laws of physics.

[painter]

There are global, criminal enterprises and all of these have more local criminal branches under their control. These enterprises work in unison when they perceive it is in their best interest to do so but also compete with one another in contested areas of interest. That appears to be how contemporary human society actually works macro to micro behind the facade of politics and economics.

The most important thing is to have a fairly clear picture of this. From that vantage point we have to access what our role in relation to that is. Ignoring it isn't going to work, guaranteed.

Cultures, societies, whole civilizations do come and go through time. What persists?

[grizz]

What persists is the daily lives of the common man. Regardless of what's going on in the grand scale, people still have to eat and sleep and be here passing the time one way or another, minute by minute, year by year.

I don't suggest exactly ignoring the bad guys. But as long as we focus on trying to bring them down on their terms it distracts us from our true purpose. They will fall on their own if the masses change their approach to life.

This cannot be done on a massive scale though. It must be done individually. Because we are talking about a fundamental shift in human conciousness.

There can really be no plan to accomplish this, because we don't really know what it is. It just has to unfold, with the help of each person, and each group, that understands that we must change.

In that old book The Planetary Connection the author tells us how to make ourselves better by telling ourselves that we are good. By conciously feeding positive energy to our subconcious selves our sub in turns feeds goodness to our conciousness. It's a little loop. He goes on to say that at first it's not easy. It's like balancing a jug of water on our heads. But in time it becomes second nature.

We have to train ourselves to be our higher selves.

[lunk]

A friend of mine once commented, in a state of elevated bliss, a revelation to himself, that human beings are truth discerning devices.

There is so much information out there and a lot of it is just B.S.
Each one of us must find a way of separating the wheat from the chaff.

I think that may be part of the reason that I am here.

of course I may be wrong...
that's why you're here,
to correct me.

Like the leader (not me) of the Fire Pistons once said with regard to his band,

"We were nothing before there was nothing."

I thought it was kind of profound.

cheers, lunk