Politics

The word ‘politics’ comes from the Greek ‘politika’, to mean ‘affairs of the state’. As the state is supposedly made up of all the human beings living within this particular geographical area, politics is about OUR affairs. Currently, the system of politics enables corporations, and the few humans behind them, to have too great a say in the affairs of our state (which belongs to us all, equally). Through three simple changes to how social politics is done we will shift the balance of political social power back to where it should be, with all living beings who choose to participate. Remember that we are creating a new state already, the state of universal governance, and so these outside (external social structure) changes are just to make our lives easier (and to make it easier for our children to find their way to the one state).

Decentralise power (less power for National GVT, more power for local GVT)

100% politically transparent (it is our affairs that are being dealt with, we have a right to know. No longer will we accept government censorship, it is our role, as living participants of society, to protect the vulnerable – the government is just there to exercise our will, which is why we need…). At the end of the day , the living beings of the land are the checks and balances on the power of government – for us to do our job correctly we need full transparency (besides, there is nothing for our politicians to fear if our politicians have nothing to hide).

Participatory democracy (utilising technology/internet to enable all who wish real voting power in the social decision making process – possibly develop a system where those in a particular industry vote within that industry, such as health workers voting on health related topics; with issues effecting everyone, such as asset sales/oil drilling/new stadiums, open for all to vote). Ideally our system will evolve so that politicians are just administrators of the social decision making process; with the topics raised, given importance, solutions developed for, and decided upon, being open for all (who want) to directly participate. This being said, we have already talked about how real voting power (the social power) in this modern world is $$$ (money), and discussed ideas for improving our collective system.

Essentially we will see the role of government change to become an administrator of the social system, and (through various means described here, and by others) the weight of the social decision making process will be taken up by all those who create indeed.

Epilogue

The only real objection to the idea of true common rule is the erroneous claim that the common human lacks the mental ability to rule themselves without ending in ruin (this seems to be the reason some of the obscenely wealthy of the world believe gives them right to saturate our society with psychological manipulation, aka ‘perception management’). We, as a species, need to seriously consider what we want for ourselves.

Do we want our future to be dictated by corporate interests, meaning the interests of a few families of humans who maintain their wealth through an economic pyramid scheme and social mental abuse to distract, divide, and dominate will (suppress questioning and creativity that is not sanctioned)?

Or would we rather have more social power for each of us to be able to decide how our society evolves; do we want real lawful, economic, and political power? What are human rights anyway, if they are not the right to live in a society with a level, rational, playing field (and as it is us humans who create this playing field – is it not our right to have a say in how it looks, and in the rules of the game)?

Remember, rights are inert, no one is going to give them to you. If some group has been slowly taking your rights away from you, the only way you will get them back is through your action to claim what is yours – the right to create your life in accordance with universal principles.

Economics

Usury is the practice of making money from loaning money out, through the charging of interest. It is a social evil, recognised, and banned, by the vast majority of cultures and social groups/religions throughout human history. Remember Jesus getting physically violent with the money changers in the temple, possibly the only time he is ever recorded as acting this way? It was because the money changers were becoming fat with wealth, while the majority of the population were locked into debt as their need to secure resources in an artificial social environment (cities) was being exploited by those fat cats who controlled the money. This is why the practice of usury is forbidden to those who follow Christianity and Islam.

Usury is a practice dating back to Babylon. It is believed to be part of a system which was created as a form of top-down social control – through controlling the stuff, currency, which facilitated an important aspect of human survival (gathering resources in a city environment). The basis of this scam is to, in effect, block human creativity, making humans rely on the creation(s) of someone else (which as this someone else creates, they fully control). You see, it is our God/Natural given right to create our own currency. This does not mean that we should all have printing presses though, because currency is created through a promise to pay (which is backed by the character of the person issuing the promise).

Say John needs his cart repaired ready to take his wheat crop into town to sell in a month or so, though has no money to pay for it. He goes to the local cart smith, whom he knows as they live in a small community, and gives Bob a ‘promise to pay’ (essentially a piece of paper saying that John agrees to give Bob an agreed amount of money at x time for services/goods provided by Bob to John). If John is of shady, untrustworthy, character then Bob may not accept a ‘promise to pay’ in exchange for services today – that is his right. So this system of ‘economics’ also doubled as a motivator for holding strong morals and the development of good social character. This, lateral, social character based, style could be described as the best form of economic system for humans because it has developed independently (in various forms) in the vast majority of cultures all around the planet.

Obviously we cannot go back to exactly the same practices that worked before, the nature of human society, and social interaction, has changed so much; and it would be too much of a step backwards. This being said, there is a simple way we could tinker with the current system, using the height of human knowledge and technology, so as to renew the spirit of social ownership of economics through lateralisation.

A universal living allowance, enough to cover the basic cost of shelter, food to eat, warmth/clothes, and energy, for every living being. We have the ability to make this happen – the only reason it doesn’t is the people who hold the perceived social power do not want it to happen (as the one thing they are afraid of most is losing their swindled social power to its real owners – us).

Who will fund this move forward? We will!

It is the sovereign right of every nation to create its own DEBT FREE currency. Our communities must use our right to create their own debt free currency, spending it into circulation through a universal living allowance. Wait, before you start worrying about the inflation caused by excessively pumping money into an economy – with a few small changes to how we operate our economy, the actual money needing to be created will be less than what is currently being created by the private banking cartels (and without the encumbering debt slavery to the money gang owners).

To end this section are included a few key areas of change, some credit control ideas, to facilitate our move forward toward a more lateralised, productive, fairer, economic system. We have much information to cover and so must keep things relatively short here, and as this work is but a spark from a small source, it is necessary for you to embrace, develop, and share these ideas to make them (or something similar, or something totally unique) a reality in our world.

As we have the sovereign right to create our own debt free currency, then we must seriously question our national debt. All debt to the IMF (which is basically a private criminal corporation used to leach money/access to resources from the nations of this world) should be returned in kind (they gave us nothing of value, just digits on a computer screen, we should return the gesture). Debt to other sovereign nations should be considered individually (considering what of value they actually gave us – was it real worth living humans created through their labour and invested with us? Or did they just create the money on a computer?).

Tie the maximum wage to a multiple of the lowest wage (for each corporation), say twelve (this includes bonuses). So the CEO of any corporation can only be paid a maximum of twelve times the pay of the lowest paid human giving their time, labour, and creativity to that corporation. If the company is making a large profit, only needing a small portion for re-investment/growth, and a bonus is due, then it should be paid to all in the same ratio, with the highest paid getting no more than twelve times the lowest.

Reduce, even eliminate, compliance costs in business (this high cost makes things difficult for local business and, coupled with interest on loans, makes wage rises and/or employing more team members extremely difficult for them).

Our economy is being drained by multi-national corporations who generate their wealth here, through our labour/consumption, and take their profits overseas. A high tax, say 50%, on money leaving the country would help retain wealth generated here (and help service the cost of developing an inclusive, sustainable, social system).

Loans (from banking/finance industry) available only for first home buyers and start up businesses. Living beings of the communities which make up our society, with their increased wealth, will want to invest in their local businesses if they like them or believe in their ideas/potential. With existing businesses being dependent on the investment power of the masses, rather than a small pool of corporations, we create an environment where the direction of society is less likely to be shaped by a small group of wealthy elite. Also, with lower compliance costs, it will be easier for businesses to save for developments/expansion.  

The banking/finance industry must be made public (with all profits being fed back to the community). This is based on the realisation that money, our banking/finance industry, is a social tool (and as such must be owned by all who make up that society – rather than an elite few). Most logical transition would be through a social education programme about what economics really is (the study of the interactions between parts of a system, with focus on system sustainability/robustness), and what that practically means in modern human life, to develop an understanding of why local banking is best for our society. Would also help to have regulations so that local banks were more competitive. Ideally, logically, as a society we will eventually move away from the use of money/currency and instead employ scientific knowledge and technology to facilitate the production and distribution of resources.

Tax is theft – when money (as representation of energy expended in the real world) is taken from living human humans (corporations, being fictional entities, are fair game for tax). As such,
                – Remove income tax on money used as compensation for the energy/work of living humans (personal income). Retain an income tax on the profits of corporations.
                – Remove GST on all products living humans gather in the shops. Instead, place a GST tax on all goods imported/exported.
                – In cases where natural resources owned by all are used, such as (but not limited to) oil, coal, other minerals, water (aquatic life), and air, a scale tax system will be used depending on the impact of the resource being used. Non-renewable resources are the property of all, and this should be reflected. If corporations are to be given the right to extract non-renewable resources, even process them, they will be paid fairly for their work, but the resources themselves always stay the property of all (with all profits, after paying the corporations for extraction, etc, going back to the government for social use). The corporate tax system is a perfect way of managing environmental and ecosystem destruction. With corporations use of renewable resources, water and air, flora and fauna, etc, being taxed in such a way as to maintain overall ecosystem sustainability (such as heavy polluting activities, or those that quickly deplete resources, or deplete them in such a way that there is a strain on the overall ecosystem, are taxed higher, and low impact activities are taxed lower). Interestingly, this corporate tax model will be in a relatively constant state of flux as human knowledge and technology changes – also with a participatory democracy system this model will enable another avenue for the majority to have real input in the direction of society).
                – In continuation of the above theme, an additional tax will be needed on products demonstrated to be polluting, or excessively wasting resources. Petrol and petroleum products would have a higher tax on them than products sourced from renewable resources (consideration will need to be placed on renewable energy sources crafted out of non-renewable resources, such as metals used in batteries to store solar energy, and a scale of taxing applied accordingly). As in the above cases, the tax will be paid by the corporation making the product (which will presumably be passed on in cost to the retailer, and then the consumer – so at the end of the day the consumer is left with the choice; an actual choice when, through tax management, pollutant products are no more economically affordable than sustainable alternatives).

The whole reasoning behind these tax changes is to create an economic environment (insomuch as ‘economics’ is equated with purchasing power, money, as a major force shaping society) where social power is more naturally (due to the design of the system) spread throughout the majority than our current system. Coupled with social education so that all understand the changes taking place; human beings will no longer have to work to survive, we will choose to work to improve our own lives and our shared experience. No longer will humans be forced into jobs they don’t enjoy or believe are unnecessary/detrimental for society just to pay the bills – we will do the jobs we are competent for, that fit with the life we want to lead (and if we choose to evolve and grow we will do different things).

We need to recognise that human beings cannot own land, we just use it while we are here

Endnote for this section: it is fact that corporations are a social tool, especially banking/finance and government – i.e for the benefit of all, not just a tool for some to get rich through abusing others – what difference is there in the effect of using a corporation to steal the wealth generated by others and using a gun? At least with a gun it is obvious you are being stolen from. In other words – no longer will we let a small pool of corporations make billions of dollars off our labour and shared resources while most of us toil 40 hours a week just to have reasonable life (while still being locked in debt)!

Law

Human beings and corporations must have two separate laws. Corporations (which are legally dead entities) can never be elevated to the status of human beings (obviously). So to treat human beings and corporations under the same law, presumes that those human beings treated in this way are operating under the same status as corporations – dead entities (kind of like slaves, but instead of being physically bonded mental chains are used – a ‘dead’ entity is one that exercises no creative power itself, it must be moved by the will of living entities). Living beings (presumed as, and thus being) treated as dead entities in law, and the resulting bullying by police who are specifically educated so as not to know the difference between legally dead entities and living beings, is an abomination of life and must immediately cease!

There is only one Law fit for living beings such as those which make up humanity, some call it the non-aggression principle, or the golden rule; it is – do not steal (life, liberty, property, etc). This is a universal principle, or Natural Law; kind of like gravity, it is a law which exists regardless of our thoughts or opinions about it. Unlike gravity though, the golden rule does not physically shape (in itself) the world; it is more like the one idea a wise species will glean from the universe so as to co-exist peacefully (with each other, and the rest of life sharing this planet). So as the non-aggression principle is inert, changes nothing by itself, it is up to us, as creative, intelligent, individual humans, to discover and then enforce (stand up for our rights derived from) this universal Law.

Do understand that the non-aggression principle is how I will ordinarily interact with other humans, and is part of the basic respect I should expect from other humans. If someone is to use aggression upon me, attempting to steal my life, property, time, body, or mind; well, then reasonable force should be expected to be forthcoming in order to protect my being and property. If I am unable to protect myself against my attackers, then I have the right to ask for support from the community (either family/friends or some designated support group – like what the police could/should be). If I am to break the non-aggression principle, then I am to accept full responsibility for my actions, and make atonement, for I have wronged others. If there is dispute between those involved/accused, then we have the right to a trial judged by a jury of our fellow humans who will consider evidence pertaining to a breach of the golden rule.

Our most basic, really only, human right is essentially to do as we please, while harming non, and use whatever force is necessary to protect ourselves from those who would use unprovoked aggression against us or other members of our community (note: ‘force’ in this sense should be viewed in relation to the universal forces acting upon and through our lives; and as such, force which maintains or brings harmony from disharmony is a wiser path then force which creates disharmony or clashes with universal principles/forces).

Corporations are not living beings, and so are therefore fit for regulation/legislation beyond the golden rule. As corporations are not living beings they do not deserve the right of free speech (equal to human beings), or the legal status of ‘personhood’. Why should corporations be allowed to use their wealth to influence politicians to make laws which effect human lives? Why should corporations (government/political organisations, and NGO’s, included) be allowed to use their wealth to employ people with knowledge of psychology (public relations and advertising firms) to manipulate other humans into behaving/thinking in ways they otherwise wouldn’t?

The easiest way to sort out this abhorrent state, of corporations having the same legal status as human beings, is to leave all the legislation for the corporations, and have a distinct, and separate system of law for humans (based on, and limited to, direct derivatives of the principle ‘do not steal’). Obviously changes are also needed to limit the influence of concentrated wealth on social decision making; this will be addressed through some small changes (based on systemic thinking and lateralisation) in the areas of economic and politics.

Intro – social power

This is our society, it belongs to ALL human beings who live on this land. So why is our ability to have a real say about what goes on in our own lives, our own business, and in our common environment, becoming weaker and weaker?

Social power, social voice, the ability for individuals to have a say in what goes on in their modern society, is dependent on three main things – Law, Economics, and Politics.

law is being used to bind and stupefy, economics to constrain and distract, and politics to quieten while leaving the impression that we (the majority) have actually been involved with any social decision making. Look hard at how society works and you will find that human beings are not in fact treated as human beings. In this corporate orientated social structure we (living beings) become economic units (in reality moving a corporate entity most do not even realise exists); and are therefore treated as such by the ‘system’ (of social interaction built upon stories; fanciful structures, of law, economics, and politics). It may seem a little bleak, the fact that we are born into a structural system designed to farm your life energy, as represented by the $$$ you work so hard for ($$$ you may obtain yet are still owned the issuer). But keep hope because, as we are infinite creative potential, there is always a way out -we have the ability for choice.

There exists today valid, scientifically developed, models of human society and social organisation which are greatly more beneficial for our species, causing less social/psychological and ecological harm, than our current system. Look them up, some are really great. At the end of the day, and becoming more urgent with every day that passes, in order for our species to move from where we are to something more suitable for healthy life systems, whatever form that will eventually take, individuals must be set free.

Humanity is moving into an age of lateralisation, of systemic thinking. Our current social structure is a remnant of ‘top-down’ organisation, of categorical thinking. While this belief structure may of had its social place, a few thousand years ago, this form of social organisation has long moved past its usefulness .

As humans explore the physical and mental worlds, the relationships between the two, and allow ourselves to EMBRACE the subtle knowledge contained in inspiration, intuition, WISDOM we realise that (when we change perspective enough) all boundaries disintegrate – there is one. Consider, that when we get down to the very building blocks of matter, there is no real difference between were you end and I begin. When we realise that boundaries are fundamentally just a matter of perspective it becomes silly to attempt to keep viewing the physical world as a collection of isolated things – it is folly to maintain a perspective of the world which is limited to discrete categories. At this point we naturally start to realise that focusing on the visible (objects/things/organisms) aspects of our existence is of less importance (for our ability to make overall decisions) than paying attention to the more subtle, and even invisible, aspects of existence (such as interactions/relationships).

All systems are made up of parts, individuals, which connect through their interaction (with the other parts of the system). While we may look at the individual parts of the system to define its physical boundaries, there is something more important when considering the system as a whole. A whole is more than the physical sum of its parts; because when individual parts come together, in relationships, they develop unique qualities the individual parts lacked. For this reason the most important defining factor of a system is not the individual parts, but how those individual parts interact to produce the whole (ONE) system. The gold to find within this – RELATIONSHIPS are the most important part of ANY system – think about the system of your family, of our society, life. What is the quality of the relationships which make up these systems? What can you do to change things?

As an individual human being we are a system; we receive, process, and react to matter/energy (information) – if we stop doing this our biological system breaks down, dies. As collections of human beings (in relationships, families/friend groups, communities, nations, and as a species) we are also a system (in fact we are part of many systems simultaneously). We are part of a system of family/friends; the individuals who make up this system, and the way they interact, defines the family/friend system. If the individuals cease processing together as a system, if they stop interacting in the ways which define the family/friend system, then the system breaks down, dies. Likewise, we are part of the system of our community; which is defined by the individuals which make up the community, and how they interact to make up the whole. When the individuals of a community change their relationships, when the interaction between the individuals changes, the system we call a community changes in nature. And so on and so forth for all conceivable systems made up of groupings of individual humans.

The whole point of economic, legal, and political theories, and of the associated human created conventions for how we interact with each other, is so that (as a collection of individuals) we can work together (at least in a way that we do not bring harm to others, but ideally in a way so that our system of humanity along/within the system of life thrives). Looking at the world today, at the destruction of life at human hands, at the mental illness rife within modern society, and at the greatly disproportionate social power found generated by our current economic, legal, and political beliefs and their resulting affects on human interaction/relationships, it is clear that some humans have missed the point. For we, the majority, have been lead, manipulated, bribed, and coerced into accepting economic, legal, and political stories of how humans should interact – stories which have been carefully designed and maintained so that the majority of humans work to benefit those who actively create and maintain the social economic, legal, and political fantasies. It is time WE, each individual as part of the whole, create the story of our lives; it is time we set ourselves free.