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MONEY! This is a topic that evokes a wide variety of thoughts and emotions. This site will contain a lot of information and discussion about money as time goes by. There is a lot to know and understand about it. A survey shows that most people are not very informed about money. There are many books available about it ranging from history to the future, and despite the immediacy of and the profound influence of money in the lives of the people, the vast majority of the people have invested little time in its study. We know what it looks like, in its many forms, and we know what we can do with it, but this is not enough. Something that has become the overwhelming driving force of the world warrants more. The people would help themselves greatly by taking the time to study the literature available about money. The information found there is indispensable, but there are some things about money that seem to be missing from the literature, vital things.

A fundamental fact about money that demands understanding seems obvious, but is mostly overlooked is the fact that money is what we use to access the products of society, and regardless of the form, money is a means to limit your access to the products of society. If there were no limits to your access, there would be no reason to have money at all. If you think this sounds like everything would be free in such a case, you are simply making a mistake, an understandable one, but still a profound mistake.

“Free,” like “freedom,“is something that has little or no meaning when analyzed deeply. There is no such thing as “free,” nor, as has already been written about on this site, “freedom.” These are just words that represent no physical object and as mental abstracts have only relative meaning within certain contexts. Nothing is all that is free. No object of human production is truly free since it must be “paid for” with time and energy/effort. The air you breathe in comes at the cost of time and effort inhaling. When the universe is considered, devoid of life, everything in it is a product of time and energy, and, therefore, not free. This train of thought has no end. The products of society that we currently buy with some form of money are certainly never free. They all require time and effort to produce. So, even if there were no limit to your access to the products, nothing would be free. The amount of time and energy required to produce the products and to gain unlimited access would be the cost, but money would have no place. You invest time and effort; in return you get access to all the products of society. You will not be given anything. You will have to purchase what you get by contributing to society. What makes this so desirable is the fact that your pay for your effort is everything you want as long as you live. That is pretty good pay, don’t you think?

Yes, your money will disappear. You will have to give up money entirely. There will be no money and there will be no need for money. There will be no savings, no stock market or stock, no banks, no financial institutions, no artificial value, and there will be virtually no need for lawyers. All these things exist only because we use money to conduct the operations of our society. Of course, such a system serves some, and very well.

In terms of everything that is produced in the USA, including services, the financial industry (a name it does not deserve) comprises nearly half. Things that are being done in the management and manipulation of money have become a huge portion of the total work people do. It also pays very well. In fact, it appears that the financial jobs are among the top paying in the country.

Banking is something that we all see. But do you realize that every penny that goes into the banking system is a needless expense for society. It is like paying someone to follow you around holding your money and taking care of your payments, but much worse. It is simply an unnecessary expense, and it is an expense that has taken the top tier in the pay scale. Can you see that if everyone worked in the financial sector there would be nothing to eat? Can you see that the more we spend dealing with the onerous burden of money the poorer we become? It is imperative that society use its time and effort wisely. Our work must help us as much as it possibly can, and the cost of money is too high and totally unnecessary.

Nothing we need and want requires money. We have just become so inured to it that we don’t understand what is happening. If you want to build a house or a factory, you can’t build it out of money. You build it out of tangible building materials. Money doesn’t fertilize crops. It doesn’t fix your leaky pipes. When you need building materials, go get them. In a society that pays you unlimited access to the products of society as compensation for your work, that is all you have to do; just go get the stuff you need. It seems insane to first have to convince someone that you are worthy of the money required to get the stuff you need. How did this happen? Open minded study easily answers that question, if you can get to that condition. It is not easy, perhaps even unlikely. Try it after reading this article. You may find it more likely.

There is a lot to fathom about money and how it has transformed the very essence of life in society. Consider crime. Money is the motive nearly every time. Show a hungry animal food and them put it out of reach. You will see the animal behave in ways similar to the way people behave after they become aware of what is available in the world that they are unable to obtain. Food is a prime example even amongst humans. Just look at the starvation statistics. The food is out there, but many cannot gain access to it; they don’t have the money. Who can be confused now about the frequency of crime? It is a natural occurrence in a society that limits access to it products.

It has already been suggested that there is not enough for unlimited access for everyone. This is an old response and it has no substance. It comes from the psychology created by the system that has dominated life on Earth as long as history is available. This system cannot abide abundance. This system requires for its very existence shortage, scarcity, and deprivation. We have been subjected to this so long we have unconsciously accepted it as a natural condition of life. Nothing could be further from the truth. The waste that goes on in the world today is essential to this inhumane inane system.

Here is the next fundamental fact about money that beats you down every day all the time and still goes unnoticed. Somehow, at some point in time, it became accepted by the people that their time and effort does not deserve as much as that of another. You get paid more or less than someone else. The people have accepted the judgments that value their contributions to society at different levels. These value judgments and their enforcement have become such that the most essential work of society are the least valued. The people who work to build and maintain everything are granted the least access to the products of the society they build, while those who contribute things that we could easily do without are granted the most access; movie stars, high end athletes, and those who deal in money and laws, though the list is longer still. Only a very few, percentage wise, have unlimited access and, guess what, those few have virtually unlimited access to you as well.

If you and I get stranded on a deserted tropical island and I quickly gather all the coconuts and put them where you cannot get them, I can get you to do things for me that you might not otherwise be willing to do in exchange for coconuts. I would have access to you. The hungrier you become the greater my power over you becomes. My behavior in that case would certainly be subject to criticism, but such things are going on every day all over the world while the people idly accept it. You see it all around you, but you may be unaware of it.

Society is overflowing with products and services. Production is a staggering abundance. Even food has become a commodity that is bought and sold, rather than something personally grown, hunted, or gathered. It is a product of society and to get access to it money must be obtained. Again, the person with the money has power over you. If you want something besides food, the same situation exists. In the world today, your desires for things other than food are being created by some of the greatest human effort ever done, which is another topic, but you will see what I mean by considering advertising, marketing, and invention, the last of which creates desires that previously did not exist, like laptop computers. Then there is medical care.

Medical care has become big business. You can get your heart replaced. Well, you can get it replaced if you have the money; otherwise you are likely to just perish. Medical services are not provided to those who have no money. Sure there are charities and some medical service provided to those who have no money, but people are suffering and dying all over the world, even in the USA, because they don’t have enough money to get available medical help. Now, how does this compare to the coconut story above? You might do many things for someone to relieve your hunger, but when you are in the grips of excruciating pain, or your body is badly broken, you are likely to be even more motivated. What a wonderful way to make money! Just refuse to grant access to a product of society known as “medical care” unless money is provided. In a system that bases price on the strength of demand, how could you ask for a better means to set prices high? “Does it hurt bad? We can fix it for the right price.” It sounds very much like the story of coconuts. All this is going on today, and worse, while the least amount of notice and effort reveals that medical care as we have it today is only because so many have contributed to society so long.

The cost of education is not just books and tuition. What university exists solely as an island in society? They all use the roads and every other system that society provides. Without the vast amounts of time and effort supplied by the people, there would be no hospital or medical equipment, and no university. People would not be able to devote their time to the study necessary to become medical professionals. No doctor acquired the requisite knowledge to be a doctor without vast help from society. What would a person eat while spending the necessary time in study if there were no people making food available? The more one goes to school, the more one owes society. Ah, but that is backwards. The more one goes to school the more one deserves more money. This current attitude is devoid of reason, and absolutely oozing the worst form of discrimination.

Somehow you have accepted that you are not worth as much as someone else. That is the cold hard fact of the matter. You have accepted this lie, this delusion. If this is not your attitude, why then do you accept the limited access you have to the products of society? Even the highest paid doctors are getting less than some. Even they have accepted that they are worth less than someone else, if not consciously then by behavior. We have, nearly every one of us, accepted the delusion that some are worth more than others. The proof is in your pay, your profit, your returns. While you work away, even contentedly, you accept that you are not going to get full access to the products of society when there is no physical organic reason for it. It is discrimination.

You are being judged. Your value is being determined. The quality of your life is being set upon you through the instrument of money. You contribute to society and your contribution is compensated with some amount of money, which is, again, simply your access to the products of society. You are granted some level of access, but limited access, as represented by your money. Your value is being set for you.

You live on a planet that has had humans working incredibly hard on it for centuries. Humans have been very busy. The amount of work that has been done is beyond comprehension. We see remnants from thousands of years ago in the form of pyramids and such of the work that has been going on continuously for all these thousands of years. Everyone alive has inherited the products of the work done by the ancestors. In the USA there are few roads left to build. Lakes have been created. The list goes on and on. Surely you can understand this. A lot has already been done. We have inherited a lot of stuff, and the new born even more. Yet the work must go on. We must be ever productive, more and more all the time. It gets harder and harder to do enough work to satisfy our survival needs. Many perish because they cannot keep up the pace, or they cannot get back into the pace after the system has let them fall out of sync. Where does it all go? When is it enough?

In the USA, and the world at large for the most part, the people are required to work all their lives to provide for themselves. You must have a job and work at it to get money to buy the things you want and need, because you are not going to get access to the products of society unless you have money. There is retirement, sure there is. For most of you it is after you are so old and worn out that you don’t even have long left to live, and your retirement is an austerity demonstration. The exceptions to this are too few to make the situation acceptable. The exceptions, of course, are the wealthy, and in truth they only have it a little better than the rest of the people. In fact, there are ample reasons to claim that they do not have it any better, but worse. They only have access to the products of society and to the people. They don’t have greater access to peace, happiness, fulfillment, or any of the products that humans can create in a better world. The wealthy also have the burden of responsibility for the prevention of the fulfillment of Life on Earth.

When I get all the coconuts and prevent you from gaining access to them on the desert island, I am holding you down, back, and out. Money is no different. If I get all the money and prevent you from accessing it, I hold you down in much the same way. One source stated that corporations in the USA are sitting on nearly two trillion dollars, the exact number being unnecessary, and the the exact form being equally unnecessary. This number is above and beyond what they call “illiquid assets,” like buildings, real estate, machinery, and such. It also does not include the inherited work already done by humans. Those corporations use the roads, the utilities, and everything else. They hold enough money to eliminate hunger here, to provide medical care to those without access, and so much more. But they have no intention of any such actions. They hold their money while they claim they need more confidence that any use they apply the money to will result in even more money coming back to them, a return. They are held in high esteem. They are successful. They are seen as paradigms of the hope we all have. There is no hint, other than from this writer that they are hording the coconuts.

There is only so much money. If money is a “store of value,” as they put it, it must represent tangible products or services. People who have wealth are keeping you from getting better access to the products of society and they are using you to do their bidding, which is all the essential work and the work of increasing and protecting their wealth. They know that people desire better access to the products of society, so they must be ever vigilant against the people. You may have noticed the law enforcement and military expense in today’s world. If you think they are there to protect you, consider the nuclear bomb. The wealthy have plenty of protection against the nuclear threat. Do you? Do you think the military of another country would invade to get more people? In this densely populated world more people means more mouths to feed. Invaders are after land and wealth, usually. Furthermore, would you require a military if everyone had unlimited access to the products of society? A society that successful would be the inspiration of rapid duplication around the globe. The kicker is; such a society is not only possible, but great effort is being applied to prevent its inevitable manifestation by completely natural organic means.

There was a man named Thomas Robert Malthus who wrote some books in the late seventeen hundreds that spun a bit of sophistry about over-population and scarcity that have been invaluable tools in the suppression of the human spirit ever since. Today the world is in apoplexy over the growing population and the depleting resources. Malthus was a reverend in the Christian faith and a philosopher economist. He studied societies both present and past, and then postulated their extensions. He went against many well know persons who postulated quite the opposite of his views believing that humans could and would perfect society even unto utopia. The fact that Malthus worked solely within the parameters of society that operates in the usual manner was a great flaw in his thinking. His views assumed that there would always be money regulating access to the products of society. He saw how prosperity caused more births until there was less prosperity that slowed the birth rate. It was a fine bit of sophistry, ingenious. It was totally devoid of any true vision and comprehensive comprehension of society. It appears to be just a way to protect the wealth of the wealthy and to continue the perpetration of a terrible social system, the one that has a king at the top and peasants below.

People began to dislike the idea of Kings and Queens and the social system was modified so that those royals could have their positions without causing the people to revolt again. It was a clever move, and it has everything to do with your money. They merely stepped out of the spot light and temporarily increased the people’s access to the products of society while they devised ways to control the people. For the people was their only threat.

A person was no threat to the wealthy. Killing a person was easy. Killing or imprisoning a lot of people, though more difficult, was easy enough. The real threat has always been The People. Large numbers of people united in a cause stormed the palaces and executed the royals many times in history. This fact was not lost on the wealthy or the royals and they have been at great endeavors to use their wealth to get people to devise ways to prevent such things. Yes, they got the people they wanted to control to devise the means to do so.

Today the people are so outgunned it is ridiculous. The wealthy can bring to bear the unimaginable force of the world’s military might in defense of their wealth. Or maybe you think the military is not at the disposal of the wealthy, like they want you to think. Are those in power wealthy? I rest my case. If you are unable to see that the wealthy can bring to bear the might of the armed, just try to do anything against their wishes. You can end up in prison even if you have lots of money if you go against the greater wealth, or you can end up dead. It has happened many times, whether you are aware of it or not.

It stands as fact that money can get people to do things that a sentient being would find unimaginably horrible. We all know this. There is only one reason this condition exists; access to the products of society is limited. Discrimination is being done that shows the people that there are some who get more and this keeps a false hope alive in the hearts of the people, the hope to rise up to a similar level. The wealthy realized early that hope was essential to the maintenance of a strong and peaceful population of servants, though now they feel crowded by too many servants; yet another topic for later.

People who can get everything they want and need are difficult to manage into doing horrible things. Theft is a rare occurrence in a society that provides unlimited access to the products of society in return for a short term of service. The very character of the people in such a society is something altogether different than that of people in society as it is today, worldwide. When basic needs are met and access to the means of attaining personal fulfillment are readily available, beautiful people occur. In such a society the products of society become beautiful things, works of art, utility, and durability. People become productive in pursuit of their own personal dreams, health, well-being, and community/family desires. A society that is that successful generates generations of ever greater quality and beauty. Vistas become visible that have been shrouded in darkness, invisible to the minds that struggle for survival. The vastness of outer space becomes a beckoning frontier, and that frontier is likely limitless, as are its resources.

On Earth today, resources are being used to operate society. The world over societies, together comprising the super family of our species, operate in such a state of inefficiency that people like Reverend Malthus seem lucid. But the availability of resources and space are only a concern within the systems that operate society as it is today, and there is no reason to continue to operate society as it is today. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence that the super family of man is headed to its own destruction if the current systems are allowed to continue. Now, do you think you might like to break your mind free of its limits and at least try to envision a better way? Perhaps you could just consider the one you are reading about right now with a mind free of brainwashing that life has done to you since you came into this life.

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This article is testing the waters, so to speak. I have quite a bit of fear around presenting it to the world. Change frightens some. Some would like to see thing continue as they are. So, if I suddenly commit suicide, I really didn’t. Some things are worth dying for, as some things are worth living for. I fear those who oppose egalitarian altruism. I fear those who argue against utopia. The psychology of those people is hard to fathom. The “it can’t be done” crowd, don’t remember Edison and many others. That something doesn’t seem possible to you is not proof of your opinion. Opinions are limited to the scope of the consciousness of the opinion holder. They see reasons why something can’t be done instead of the obstacles that must be surmounted to reach the goal, or they have darker more sinister psychology. I fear there are those who have very sinister desires and who do such things. That is a subject for another time. I do fear that though. I do not fear to fear. Fear is a good thing. It helps me survive.

Anyway, I debated this article for some time. I wrote it quite a while back. The fact that you are reading it tells you what I finally decided. I want world peace, but I want even more. I want everyone to be fulfilled, provided their fulfillment doesn’t require sinister stuff. I want to live in a world of people who love everyone and everything, of happy people who are enjoying the adventure. I want to live in a world of people united in Truth. I am sick of the multitude of arguments on every subject of any importance. I want to live in a world of infinite diversity and possibilities. I do, actually. It just needs to be unfettered.

The Power Of The People

The Power Of The People

Saving the world and making it utopia at last

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It is said that Samson was powerful. The comic character Superman was quite powerful, even if a product of the imagination. The strongest man in the world is often determined in international competition and the winner is certainly powerful. Power is not reserved for the males of the species either. These days many women are more powerful than the average male. If the power of an individual was all the power that could be mustered, there would be no wars, virtually no oppression, no transportation and communications systems, and no transformation of the planet’s surface into human constructs. The power of an individual is not enough to make the world as we know it. Only through organized togetherness can such things be. When people work together power is created beyond what an individual can create. The power of the person is individual power. When people work together toward a common goal the power of the people is created. It is the Power of the People that is the greatest power.

The greatest power of the people is the power that the entire population can bring to bear when joined in common purpose. It appears that such an occurrence has yet to occur. Countless groups gather for common purpose, but apparently the entire population has never organized its effort into a unit. Instead, groups of various numbers come and go and these often stand in opposition to each other to more or lesser degrees. This is a readily available observation, and the evidence argues that this has been the case throughout human history. Though humans are more alike than different, and though the aggregate results of humans working together demonstrates many characteristics suggestive of common purpose, a unified effort remains a theory. Discord prevails and progress toward the satisfaction of the common human needs moves forward and backward over time with only slow general advancement. The billions of people of Earth working together in an organized and optimized manner is an imaginably powerful force.

Humans have the ability of work together. This is obvious, sure. Anyone can see that people work together, but inquiries of individuals reveals many claims that people can’t work together. Opinions range widely, but there is an overwhelming contention that people are antagonistic of each other and that they can’t work together; that they can’t even live together in peace. In the clear sight of proof that people do and have worked together the people demonstrate the opinion that people are basically antagonistic of one another. This opinion is well justified considering our history, but still uninformed.

It seems strange to me that who, how, and why can be such a clear set of important answers and go so uninvestigated when it comes to the causes of history and human behavior. If the opinion is that people are basically antagonistic of one another, why do we not ask “why” are they that way? Do we think that people are the way they are and that nothing can change it? Some do, I know, but I disagree. I think people are very malleable. I think that people have had trouble living together because the societies they have had made them that way for the most part. People do not steal when they have free access to the satisfaction of their needs and desires. Aberrations of the human condition can occur, but not on the scale of our historical propensity for theft in all its manifestations.

The power of the people is the instrument of war since two people violently opposing one another is a fight, not a war. The organization of some of the people into groups with common cause is the result of the understanding that power is greater when people combine their individual power. The result is a world of powerful groups of various sizes too often in opposition. They range from couples to nations and the greater the population the greater the potential for this form of segregation, and perhaps the greater the challenge becomes to achieve global unity of the people. Perhaps the largest groups are religious groups, and those may have experienced the greatest longevity.

Little reasoning or research is required to reveal the fact that the combined power of the individuals is and has been directed by individuals. Throughout the course of history the direction of the power created by the people working together has been an object of desire. This object desired is not real. It is only a theoretical object. It can’t be touched or seen. It has no physical form or substance. But it can be desired and it can be obtained. Terms such as “leader” have been used in connection with the intangible object that is so desired unimaginable horrors have been perpetrated in pursuit of its acquisition. Other terms apply to individuals or groups who have acquired the power to direct groups of people; terms such as king, emperor, dictator, senate, committee, and so on. History preserves many names familiar to most of those who lead at different times. Just a small amount of additional reasoning reveals that the direction set by those familiar characters was and is influenced heavily by their own personal ideology, psychology, and everything that makes a person an individual.

While it may appear to be beneficial to have some individual or group of individuals determine what is to be done with the power of the people, such determinations, or guidance, is unlikely to be objective since human existence is purely a subjective existence. Knowing this, the people have had numerous occasions to rely on a person who is relying on deity for guidance. Religions are replete with such leaders. By now the power of the people has been directed by various individual or groups of individuals for a very long time and virtually unimaginable work and unconscionable violence has been done, all by the people, and all directed by some of the people; even if deity is involved the human factor is the last word. Even when the deity guides, a person is the actuary.

Today there are fantastically powerful groups throughout the world. Some have long histories and the actions they have taken are so vast and so complex it may be impossible to account for them or to be aware of them all. To know the truth may be just as impossible. So what! Why even care, much less bother? Sure, history is interesting, but tomorrow is more important. History is said to be important because it can shape tomorrow, but even then, tomorrow is the primary import. All have the past, but all are inexorably bound to face tomorrow. When the past is too complex to know and when the truth of the past is indeterminable, it can become a burden of today and tomorrow. The expenditure of energy, time, and resources in determining what has already happened prevents those same things from being used to improve today and tomorrow. It is a fine line to discern when it is helpful to determine history and when it is a detriment or even a waste. It is not difficult to see how great the human expenditure has already been. A person who knows all the history of the human race seems very unlikely, but the battles between groups and individual historians have raged forever and show no sign of diminishing. It is as if today and tomorrow are of little importance.

As a person of the twenty-first century one is heir to a long history. There is plenty of evidence to prove this to be a fact. The controversy over what exactly our history is in no way eliminates the fact that humans have one. There is adequate tangible proof one can easily access that demonstrates a history of the human species, but it should never be forgotten that one has in actuality only one’s own history to rely on and even that is subject to error. The history of the world with all its humans and other species is really a mystery fraught with controversy and unreliability accentuated and exacerbated by the simple fact that even one’s own personal past is not an area of clear understanding or even clear memory. The thought that one knows one’s own past must never omit the subjective nature of experience. So, when one examines the evidence of history one is constrained to understand that little or nothing is certain. However, the effort to know history is a worthy one when done prudently,  and even it is subject to the combined effort of the people working together; again at the direction of individuals, though perhaps less so than much of the other human collective activity.

Bearing this in mind, human history is overflowing with the results of humans working together at the direction of one or more individuals. If the violence of the past is even only partially represented accurately by history as it is handed down to us, there is good reason to fear the power of the people. Unspeakable horrors have been committed throughout our past, both by individuals and by individuals working together. War is individuals working together toward a common purpose, and such horrors are much varied and innumerable.

The great works of the past that have endured time to exist as our legacy are in many cases the works of the power of the individual human, but there are many more that could only have come into existence by the combined power of  individuals working together with a common purpose. The evidence is powerful. Humans work together. They combine their individual power to accomplish wonderful things and horrible things. It seems it has always been so.

Over the long haul of history the fact that the greatest human power is that power derived from numbers of humans doing things together has not gone unnoticed by those who desire more power than that which they can derive from themselves. The lure of power is irresistible to some. What are these people like? Are they the ones we will trust with the very quality of our lives? Are they the ones for whom we are willing to suffer, die, and kill? If the power of the people is to be transferred to one or a few, these questions seem very important. The question being unasked is: should the power of the people be transferred to one or to a few.

The line of reasoning around who will lead is old and tired. It is difficult to think of any new possibilities. What has not been tried already? Of course, the question has been negated many times when the leadership role has been taken, not given. What has not already been used and done to take power? Again, it seems there is nothing new to try. Repetition is the modus operandi of history, especially when it comes to directing the power of the people. Even ideology has been used to acquire power. In other words, new ideas have come along that have been the source of great power for one or a few; religion, economics, government, invention, philosophy, and more. It always comes down to the same common denominator: the people work together to create power far greater than any individual is capable of and that power gets directed by one or some. Where is the thought that maybe this power being created should not be created?

Why do we combine our power? Obvious answers are a fool’s game. Of course we must work together to build a skyscraper. It is a waste of time and a diversion to contend that the power of the people is useful. It is like saying; Look at these great things that have been done but don’t pay any attention to the horrors or the “little man behind the curtain.” Will we permit vast interminable horrors if it gives us some things we like? Again, the old diatribe rears its ugly head contending that the good and the bad come together. Convincing the people of this blatant lie was a great accomplishment and has become so deeply engrained in the consciousness of the people it will be difficult to near impossible to remove, but it is a cold blooded lie. That yin and yang, good and bad, or any other opposites are theoretically possible does in no way imply that one or the other cannot be all that we create for ourselves. Who would want you to believe that you have to have the good with the bad? Manifestation is the issue. Good can be manifested exclusively. That bad would still exist in theory is irrelevant. There is no real reason to combine the power of people to create good and bad. It is a sophistry to say the good and the bad come together. Take the time to consider who would perpetrate such a myth and why they would. You will get back to the point being presented here that power attracts certain types of people and those people are just as rooted in their psychology as is anyone else. How can anyone be trusted with such power?

The population of humans on Earth is so great that power is being focused in countless ways, places, and to countless purposes. The power of the people is at work constantly. Much of it is being turned against its source in a cannibalistic feeding frenzy that implies deep far reaching human error. Leaders of nations direct their own people to destroy themselves. Insane destruction spills from beings that have more in common with demons than with humans. The entire planet is being destroyed and the power of destruction is the only thing that is growing. Nightmares dare the daylight as the horrors mount. We plunge ahead toward the brink of destruction powered by our own energy without even looking up to see that we are manifesting the bad more than the good. It goes on and on. It seems irreversible, but it is not.

The power of the people is in the hands of the people. It has always been in the hands of the people and it can never be anywhere else. A king without people is just a person. A government without people cannot exist. An army without people is impossible, even one of drones. A nation is a group of people. Rich people would have nothing without the people. The people are the power. It cannot be said too often. It needs to be said louder and with greater urgency. The people can throw on the brakes.

If the people stop creating the power, the world’s systems will come crashing down. This is not to be allowed. The catastrophe would be too great. The people have already done so much the switch cannot be flipped. Transition is the only way.

To actualize an idea the idea must come first. The people can devise an idea based on need. Self-interest can be the primary goal. Maybe many hate to admit it, but we have a lot in common. We all have biological needs that are very similar, if not identical. Here then is the common ground. The people can combine their individual power to meet the biological needs of the people. In today’s world, the meeting of biological needs is an easy task.

Modern technology and the products of our ancestors have made the satisfaction of biological needs a small task for an efficient and well-designed system. So little would be required of each individual there would be a lifetime to work on other things. The communications and transportations systems of these modern times make it possible to conduct the power of the people by the combined will of the people.

It is the purpose of this site to bring to light the will of the people and to set into motion the power of the people to manifest that will. As a team we can rise to greater personal fulfillment. Together we can decide what we want to do and how we want to do it. We need not trust someone to take care of us and to work toward our personal fulfillment. We need not be led to slaughter and destruction by the whims, insanity, or genius of an individual or some group of individuals. There is no reason to rely on the special abilities of the more capable among us for leadership. The past is behind us. What worked in the past is not necessarily what will work today. Today we can realize the combined will of the human race; even of all life. We can have peace and prosperity. We can have abundance and adventure. We can be safe and healthy. We can be united in common purpose while individualized in personal achievement and fulfillment. We can rise to the condition that those who have not tried very hard to see would call Utopia, but the only real Utopia is one that changes with the times. Infinite diversity in infinite possibilities is a phrase from television that means we can make things wonderful but we cannot exhaust the potential or the possibilities.