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Dave Thompson <
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RH wrote:
I've read that back in the 40s and 50s, the average CEO made about 10
times more money than he paid his workers - now they make 100 or more
times that. So the situation has clearly worsened. Excessive greed has really gotten out of hand, and screwed things up for the people -
resulting in a major deterioration of the american society. There's
plenty for everyone. The resources of this planet are not meant to be hoarded by a few.
I can see a future where greed is an aspect of the past, where this dysfunctional human family of ours becomes functional, and the
resources are fairly distributed for the greater good of the people.
In the future robots will do most of the labor for us and people will
have much more leisure time. Eventually, our economic system will be replaced with a complex barter system, and man's basic needs (food, housing, healthcare, education) will be guaranteed for everyone in the human family. Also, the politicians will be there to server the
people, and there will be a peace on earth, unlike any ever imagined.
It will be very, very good.
I know it's a bit much for many people, but a few genuinely open minds might be able to imagine it.
http://www.share-international.org
Kum Ba Yah, my Lord. Kum Ba Yah.
I know it's a bit much for most people. It's really not about
religion. As you know religions have caused lots of problems. The
original teachings of all the great spiritual teachers (Jesus, Gautama
Buddh, Krishna, Mohammed) were all distorted/corrupted by Their
followers after they 'departed'. If you boil the teachings from all
the great world religions down - they have much in common and
basically say - be good to each other. Guilt and fear are
non-productive, corrupting influences that were inserted by
un-enlightened church men.
Who gets to decide what is fair distribution of resources? You?
It'll be by consensus. The people in all the countries are basically
good. Most want a reasonable amount of work, a comfortable/decent
shelter, recreation, freedom to chose how they'll spend their time
both at work and at play, good food, good health care, a family and/or
friends, and a sense of belonging. If you're familiar with Maslow's
hierarchy of needs - then you'll recall that he pointed out that
people can't self-actualize until their basic needs are met.
Guaranteeing that this is taken care of for everyone - will allow the
human family to mature immensely, or to 'blossom'.
If you're not familiar with Maslow's hierarchy (and wouldlike to be)
see:
http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm
What is lacking is good leadership, especially in the USA. Our
politicians serve the corporations, the lobbys, NOT the people. They
tell us it's a democracy - but when Bush was appointed by the Supreme
court - some backed down and said 'well actually it's a republic'. Not
too many know that in fact we live under a totalitarian regime - a
small handfull of billionaires control the politics, economics, and
news media - they make the decisions - then fool the people into
thinking that they made the decisions. The wool has been pulled over
the people's eyes.
Who gets to pay for your list of guaranteed basic needs? Me?
We'll all pay for it, but robots will do most of the manual labor.
There's plenty for everyone - the greed of a few screws it up for
everyone. When the human family becomes functional - things will be
much better for everyone. Crime rates will sink, leisure time for
everyone (except for those who insist on being workaholics) will
increase a great deal too. We'll have much more freedom. The
international borders will be wide open, and international travel will
be easily affordable by everyone. Respect for the environment will be
a major consideration that the people will demand, too.
Our economic system is currently a complex barter system. I just
bartered a day's work for food for my family for two weeks. We just
happen to use barter tokens called money.
Right, but it will be vastly improved. Right now a carpenter in San
Antonio Texas might make 15.00 per hour. 200 miles south in Mexico the
same carpenter
would be lucky to earn the same amount in a full day. That doesn't
make sense - we can do much better than that. One of the things that
we'll see is an economic leveling where everyone becomes much more
equal. We've been conditioned since the cradle to compete. All of the
harmful aspects of competition will be replaced with cooperation. In
most forms of competition there are winners and losers. It doesn't
have to be that way. Everyone can be a winner, and nobody should be
made to feel like they are substandard. We've also been conditioned
to beleive that material wealth is a measure of a person's degree of
success - and that it proves that wealthy people are better than
others - that's false and is a form of harmful competition. It's one
of the things that we'll grow out of. We're all family and we can all
have a great time.
Don't worry - the changes will be gradual. Many people - especially
the most wealthy, love the capitalistic system that we have now and
are violently opposed to any changes, but whether they like it or not
- the changes will come. They will be desired/demanded by the vast
majority - the US has never seen a gov't that is truly by and for the
people, with liberty and justice for all - those are dreamy and
unrealized ides. Our gov't has grown more corrupt with time. It's
almost time for the tables to be turned.
The future gov't will be a form of Social democracy where the needs of
the people are given more value than the desires of those who would
purchase influence from the corrupt politicians. People will be better
informed and will participate in the democratic process. Only the
truth will set us free.
Peace on Earth. Good will to men. Let's gather around the camp fire
and share Smores.
Yeh! Peace on earth unlike any you ever dreamed of brother - coming
soon -
to mankind.
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Facts about humanity's beautiful future
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o A new sense of oneness will replace the present sense of separation.
This will demonstrate as brotherhood, justice, and sharing.
o We will enter an era of tranquility and peaceuin exact proportion to
the present discord. The violence and hatred of today will be
transmuted into goodwill.
o A new livingness will characterize our relationships and
institutions; a new freedom and sense of joy will replace the present
fear.
o Contributions by the highest type of artists will lead to a
regeneration of our lives. Everyone will become creative in his or her
living in an altogether new way.
o The family will gain, not lose, importance as the basic unit of
society.
o A new science, the psychology of the soul, will be the basis of all
future educational efforts and will transform life for both the child
and the teacher.
o The media will have a very responsible role to play in education.
o Gradually, the worst areas of slums and decayed buildings in the
major cities will go. They will be replaced by recreational parkland
and by ordinary housing, on a human scale, interspersed with parks and
shopping areas.
o New buildings will be quite different in shape from buildings of the
past. Some of them, by their very shape, will focus and accumulate
particular energies.
o Transportation systems will be devised which will be so silent, so
apparently motionless, that travel fatigue will completely disappear.
o The growing concern for nature and environment will be embodied in legislation, universally accepted, and will lead to a wise husbandry
of nature's gifts.
o There will be a new reverence for all manifestations of life, thus
bringing humanity into better alignment with the animal and other
sub-human kingdoms.
o Most farming will be organically based. This will enhance the
vitality and health of the people.
o A much simpler style of living will distinguish the coming
civilization.
o Humanity will be emancipated from the drudgery of needless work.
Machines will gradually take over the tasks of manufacture.
o Increased leisure will evoke undreamed-of skills and talents, allow
men and women to reach their full potential, and permit close
involvement in community and national life.
o Following a world stock market crash, a complete change in our
economic system will come about. A rational and sustainable economic
structure based on sufficiency will become the norm. Cooperation will
replace competition.
o There will be a phased, gradual transfer of resources from military
to civilian production, which will provide useful work for many.
o The blind following of market forces, whose myopic rule causes such
misery today, will give way to an enlightened and just consideration
for the needs of all.
o A new political/economic structureuDemocratic Socialism or Social Democracyuwill become the norm throughout the world.
o All political groupings will tend to the center. Extremes will be a
thing of the past.
o In the Middle East, governments elected by the people will replace
the present sheiks and emirs as rulers.
o In Latin America, a process of democratic consensus will unfold in
almost every country. The voice of the people will be heard, and land
will be redistributed and given to them.
o National and cultural identities will be maintained, but barriers
will be taken away so that passports will no longer be necessary to
travel from country to country.
o The world's legal matters, which concern global issues such as the exploration of the seabed, will be governed by international law.
o The United Nations will be the central debating, law-giving forum
for the nations of the world.
o As a result of the changed conditions on earthuthe reduction of
tension and fear, greater leisure, the eradication of disease, new
meaning and impetus to lifeuthe health of mankind will improve
enormously and the physical body will take longer to awear out.'
o The alternative medicines of today will take their place beside the
more orthodox methods.
o Healing waters will be discovered, one by one, which will help
cleanse the physical body.
o We will understand that there is no such thing as death, but simply
a shift of consciousness from this to another plane.
o The desire to know better the nature of God and to come into closer relationship with that Divinity will become paramount in the lives of
millions.
o Humanity will be taught the great science of invocation, which will
take the place of worship and prayer as we know it today.
o Methods and technology will be found to demonstrate the fact that
everything is energy.
o By understanding the technology of light, physicists will discover
how to control matter, distance and timeuand how to neutralize toxic
waste and stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
o The fusion process of nuclear powerua cold, safe, wasteless process
using a simple isotope of water, universally availableuwill solve all humanity's future power needs.
o By the end of this century, we will build structures with the
scientific use of sound.
o We will accept the fact that all the planets are inhabited and that
we are all brothers and friends. Gradually, we will take our place in
the cosmic brotherhood.
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