“Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies, all that is a sign that we’re not civilized yet. Kids will ask their parents… ‘Didn’t you see the necessity of machines? Dad, couldn’t you see that war was inevitable when you produce scarcity? Isn’t it obvious?’ Of course the kid will understand that you were pinheads raised merely to serve the established institutions.
We’re such an abominable, sick society that we won’t make the history books. They’ll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations, used force and violence. You’ll get history talked about as corrupt behavior all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world. That’s when all the nations work together.
World unification, working toward common good for all human beings and without anyone being subservient to anyone else. Without social stratification whether it be technical elitism or any other kind of elitism, eradicated from the face of the earth. The ‘state’ does nothing because there is no ‘state’.
The system I advocate, a resource based global economy is not perfect, it’s just a lot better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection.”
The social values of our society, which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic socially indifferent profit oriented ruling class; is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality. The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.
The emergent nature of reality is that all systems; whether it is knowledge, society, technology, philosophy, or any other creation; will, when uninhibited, undergo fluid perpetual change.
What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times. Likewise, the future will contain technologies, realizations, and social structures that we cannot even fathom in the present.
We have gone from alchemy to chemistry, from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric, from believing that demons were the cause of illness to modern medicine. This development shows no sign of ending, and it is this awareness that aligns us and leads us on a continuous path to growth and progress.
Static empirical knowledge does not exist, rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems we must recognize. This means we must be open to new information at all times, even if it threatens our current belief system, and hence, identities. Sadly society today has failed to recognize this, and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth by preserving outdated social structures.
Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change. For their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension. For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated. It is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed, or irradiated.
And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intelectual materialism. The monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by it’s self-preserving structures, but also throught the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures, therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo. Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them. For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.
This tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions for the sake of identity, comfort, power and profit is completely unsustainable; and will only produce further imbalance, fragmentation, distortion, and very invariably destruction.
It’s time to change.
From hunters and gatherers, to the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolution, the pattern is clear. It is time for a new social system which reflects the understandings we have today.
The monetary system is a product of a period of time when scarcity was a reality. Now with the age of technology it is no longer relevant to society. Gone with the aberrant behavior it manifests.
Likewise, dominant world views such as theistic religion operate with the same social irrelevancy. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and all of the others exist as barriers to personal and social growth. For each group perpetuates a closed world view. And this finite understanding that they acknowledge is simply not possible in an emergent universe.
Yet religion has succeeded in shutting down the awareness of this emergence by instilling the psychological distortion of faith upon it’s followers. Where logic and new information is rejected in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs.
“The concept of god, is really a method of accounting for the nature of things. In the early days people didn’t know enough about how things formed, how nature worked. So they invented their own little stories, and the made god in their own image.
A guy that get’s angry when people don’t behave right. He creates floods, and earthquakes, and they say it’s and act of god.”
A cursory glance at the suppressed history of religion reveals that even the foundational myths themselves are emergent culminations developed through influence over time. For example a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith is the death and resurrection of Christ. This notion is so important that the Bible itself states ‘And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain’ Yet it is very difficult to take this account literally, for not only is there no primary source denoting this supernatural event in secular history, awareness of the enormous number of pre-Christian saviors who also died and were resurrected immediately puts this story in mythological territory by association.
Early church figures such as Tortullian went to great lengths to break these associations, even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur. Stating in the second century ‘The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins… he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copied certain things of those that be Divine.’
What is truly sad however, is that when we cease the idea that the stories from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and all the others are literal history, and accept them for what they really are, which are purely allegorical expressions derived from many faiths, we see that all religions share a common thread. And it is this unifying imperative that needs to be recognized and appreciated.
Religious belief has caused more fragmentation and conflict than any other ideology. Christianity alone has over 34,000 different subgroups.[/Peter Joseph]
“The Bible is subject to interpretation. When you read it, you say ‘I think Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that. Oh No! He meant this.’ So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic, and a church divided is no church at all.”[/Jacque Fresco]
[Peter Joseph]And this point on division, which is a trademark on all theistic religions brings us to our second failure of awareness. The false assumption of separation through the rejection of the symbiotic relationship of life.
Apart from the understanding that all natural systems are emergent, where all notions of reality will be constantly developed, altered, and even eradicated; we must also understand that all systems are in fact invented fragments merely for sake of conversation. For there is no such thing as independence in nature. The whole of nature is a unified system of interdependent variables, each a cause and a reaction, existing only as a concentrated whole.
“You don’t see the plug to connect to the environment, so it looks like we’re free… wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.”
“We really must take into account the totality. This isn’t just a human experience on this planet, this is a total experience. And we know we can’t survive without plants and animals. We know we can’t survive without the four elements, ya know? And so, when are we really going to start taking that into account? That’s what it is to be successful. Success depends on how well we relate to everything around us.
I’m very aware of the fact that my grandson cannot possible hope to inherit a sustainable, peaceful, stable, socially just world unless every child today growing up today in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in Israel also has that same expectation.
You gotta take care of the whole community or you’re gonna have serious problems. And now we have to see that the whole world is the community. And we must all take care of each other that way. And it’s not just a community of human beings, it’s a community of plants and animals and elements. And we really need to understand that. That’s what’s gonna bring us joy too, and pleasure. That’s what’s missing in our lives right now.
We can call it spirituality, but the fact of the matter is joy comes from that bliss of connectedness. That’s our god spirit. That’s that side of ourselves that really feels it, and you can feel it deep inside you. It’s this amazing wonderful feeling, and you know it when you get it. You don’t get it from money, you get it from connection.”
“Now if that isn’t a hazard to this country. How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean? What’s gonna happen to the arms industry, when we realize we’re all one? It’s gonna fuck up the economy. The economy that’s fake anyway. Which would be a real bummer. You can see why the government’s crackin’ down… on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.” – Bill Hicks
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1929-1968
Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences are completely dependent on the integrity of everything else in our world, we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love.
For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you and you as everything can have no conditionalities, for in fact, we are all everything at once
“If it’s true that we’re all from the center of a star, every atom on each of us from the center of a star, then we’re all the same thing. Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in buffalo is made out of atoms that came from a star. They’ve all been recycled thousands of times, as have you and I. And therefore, it’s only me out there. So what is there to be afraid of? What is there that needs solace seeking? Nothing. There’s nothing to be afraid of because it’s all us.
The trouble is we have been separated by being born and given a name and an identity and being individuated. We’ve been separated from the oneness, and that’s what religion exploits. That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again. So they exploit that. They call it god, they say he has rules, and I think it’s cruel. I think you can do it absent religion.” – George Carlin, 1937-2008
“…an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities…Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars…We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work…And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we have begun at least to wonder about our origins — star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth…Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring!We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.” – “Who Speaks for Earth?” Carl Sagan, 1934-1996
It’s time to claim the unity our outmoded social systems have broken apart, and work together to create a sustainable global society where everyone is taken care of and everyone is truly free.
Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be are meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life. Every human being was born naked, needing warmth, food, water, shelter. Everything else is auxiliary. Therefore, the most important issue at hand is the intelligent management of the Earth’s resources. This can never be accomplished in a monetary system, for the pursuit of profit is the persuit of self interest and therefore imbalance is inherent.
Simultaneously, politicians are useless. For our true problems in life are technical not political. Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity such as religion need strong reflection in the community in regards to it’s value, purpose and social relevancy. Hopefully through time religion will loose it’s materialism and basis in superstition and move into the useful field of philosophy.
The fact is, society today is backwards, with politicians constantly talking about protection and security rather than creation, unity and progress. The US alone now spends about $500 billions dollars anually on defense. That is enough to send every high school senior in America to a four year college.
In the 1940's the Manhattan Project produced the first true weapon of mass destruction. This program employed 130,000 people, at an extreme financial cost. Imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists, instead of working on a way of killing people, worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world. Life today would be very very different if that was their goal.
Instead of weapons of mass destruction, it is time to unleash something much more powerful. Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs).
Our true divinity is in our ability to create. And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life, while being guided by the emergent nature of reality, there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish. Of course, we face strong barriers in the form of established power structures that refuse to change.
At the heart of these structures is the monetary system. As explained earlier, the fractional reserve system is a form of slavery through debt, where it is literally impossible for society to be free. In turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade, uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers. Apart from these obvious amoralities, the system itself is based on competition, which immediately destroys the possibility of large scale collaborations for the common good. Hence paralyzing any attempt at true global sustainability.
These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete, and they must be outgrown. Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that the business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea for they will lose power and control. Therefore, peaceful and highly strategic action must be taken. The most powerful course of action is simple. We have to alter our behavior to force the power structure to the will of the people.
WE MUST STOP SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM.
The only way the establishment will change is by our refusal to participate while continuously acknowledging it’s endless flaws and corruptions.
