Where is our power, what are our resources and how are we wasting them?
Continued from A Beautiful Vision for Re-Architecturing Our World…
The greatest power comes from people, their labor, their intellect, their skills and their love. Currently this massive amount of power is being harnessed and abused by a relatively small number of people. People with money and governmental powers are at the center of this abuse. We know that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So giving too much power to too few people corrupts those people. This abuse of power is an extreme waste of our power. These corrupt people consume and waste too much of our resources. Thus we must stop allowing this to happen. We must distribute the power more fairly and evenly. We must have a way of auditing those who hold the power. Ever wonder why those with power want to watch us? We should be watching them!
People often ask me which candidate I support, who will I vote for? NONE of them! No matter how good the candidates are, the system is flawed and it corrupts them once they are in office! And if they don’t become corrupt, they are powerless in their office. We need a new system. Thus I have proposed some of these ideas for a new form of government in my blog called International World Government . Certainly the fine details need to be fleshed out, but the ideas in that blog are the basis for how we need to proceed.
Power comes in the form of wealth too. If you are wealthy you have the power to choose to work or relax. You have the power to dictate the directions corporations take. You have the power to hire people to work for you and engage in whatever projects you deem worthy. Some people acquire wealth by what seems to be a stroke of luck, but we know karma is at work. Some people acquire wealth by learning skills that make them wealthy. But should these people have the power to move our society in the ways that they currently are with this wealth they poses? Does their wealth make them wise enough to do so?
I do not want to blame the problems of the world on the politicians and the wealthy. We are ALL responsible. Karma, lack of understanding and failure to face the issues have all contributed to this situation we are in…both the good and the bad. For where we have come from, given the atrocities humanity has experienced, we are doing quite well actually. But we can do better…MUCH better than this.
The real power is in the people; not the few who are abusing power, but in the many who provide the real power. We need to harness the power of the masses, but these people are for the most part tired, hopeless, unaware, undereducated, and programmed with habits that keep them enslaved. Thus we must reprogram them, we must educate them, we must make them aware, and we must fill them with hope and relieve their tiredness.
Imagine a world where our children are taught ALL of the important skills they will need in life. Not just the ones our current systems are teaching, but the ones that are so clearly lacking. Like the value of true self-esteem and how to have it, creativity and how our minds create, the true history of the world instead of the myths that control us, how to create real wealth and not an imaginary one that enslaves us, how to get along in peace, how to care for our bodies and the basics of health, the arts, and of course marketable skills that serve the basic needs of our society as well.
Imagine a world where in each job there was a mentor and one or more mentees. Imagine how nice it would be if after you learn a job well enough to teach a few others how to do it, you could move on to learn a new job skill and do a new job until once again you taught a few others how to do it and moved on again. You would have more social interactions with others, a redundancy of labor that would allow you to work less hours and have more free time, a relief from the boredom of doing the same job for way too long, and an ever growing skill set which would give you far greater options in your life.
Imagine what it would be like if these same corporations also brought in experts in essential life skills to train its employees. What if training in mental, physical, and financial health were part of the job requirement of every employee? What if goals were set, mentoring provided and results were produced in all three of these areas for every employee? Would we as a society and the corporations themselves be worse off or better off for having put efforts into these areas as well?
I believe such changes in the focus of our schools and corporate world will turn people into responsible beings who are capable of running the social systems of the world in a loving and humane way. We would be able to vote intelligently, instead of on a whim or out of fear. We would have MUCH less illness and much less of the financial losses that go with illness. We would have clear minded people who worried less, accomplished more, and had more free time to relax and enjoy life.
Imagine a world where the corporations were mostly public, non-profit corporations. Where the incredible wealth generated by the corporate world went into funding public systems, roads and transportation, true education, health care, arts and entertainment, and the needs of all people worldwide. Imagine a world were taxation of the individual was unnecessary, no tax forms to fill out, no loop holes to search for, no money taken from our paychecks.
What would motivate such a shift? Right now the wealth and resources created by the labor of the masses are going into the pockets of only a few individuals, those people who are abusing power are corrupting the directions the powerful corporations are taking to be financially focused rather than focused on serving humanity as a whole. Imagine if this were to reverse how different this world would be for everyone. People who are waking up to the power they hold would make such a shift happen.
Who will run it? We ALL will run it. EACH OF US will take a turn…or at least a far larger percentage of the population than currently does. This mentor mentee relationship will extend even to the jobs of CEOs. Our jobs will evolve from labor to planning and architecting and taking responsibility. As we each learn new skills we each will learn how it all fits together, then many more of us will be capable of running the show. There will be far more experts instead of the relative few we have today. Abuse will be much easier to spot, and far more difficult to get away with, than it is today…and there will be less of a need to abuse the system due to the great life we all will have. There will be many others ready and capable of taking over the helm when we do need to remove a person from a position of power. Committees will be at the head of corporations and governments rather than presidents, prime ministers, kings or dictators.
Imagine a world where you can actually not work if you don’t want to. Currently, the way things are, if you are poor and not working we call you a bludger or homeless or a bum. If you are wealthy and not working we call you retired or lucky or a world traveler. We are already supporting those who do not work! But that seems to be invisible to most people. We are also supporting people who work but are so emotionally unstable that they really make more work for someone else who has to come along and clean up the mess they made. If we were to reorganize how our social systems work, how our education and corporations work, and how our governments work, we could afford to care for, feed, and provide housing and health care for everyone in the world even if they do not work a day in their life.
What then would motivate a person to work? Healthy people want something useful to do with their lives. It is the stress of our modern world that causes us to want to slack off. It is the boredom of doing the same job year after year after boring year that cause us to want to take this job and shove it. People would go to work because they love it. They would feel like they were contributing to the whole. They would have an immense social network that comes from the mentor and mentee system. They would be learning new things that would motivate them to want to get up in the morning and dive into it. And they would have greater financial abundance than a person who does not work and just lives off of the system.
Where will the money come from? From these corporations. Corporate officers decide their own salary or bonuses and get them even if they run the corporation into the ground. Why do we allow that? Look at how much money is stolen from us each day through the gambling that goes on in stock market. Why is this crime seen as acceptable? People gamble with the money that runs corporations which results in a skimming of the profits into their own pockets. It causes corporations to focus on financial rewards as the goal rather than on providing quality goods and services. Foreign exchange money markets are the same. Each financial exchange results in money being skimmed off into the pocket of someone who is basically spending their valuable time and labor resources stealing our money instead of doing something productive that will benefit us all. And the banking corporations too are misleading us and cheating us. We need to establish a public banking system, one where the details and management is public record instead of private and hidden from our view, one where it is easy for anyone to audit the system.
Imagine a world where religions and their ministers were prevented from teaching hatred, judgment, doing harm to others, and bigotry. What if a religion that taught “believe our way or you would suffer some punishment in the afterlife” was required to give an equal amount of time to teaching about all of the other conflicting religions that taught the same sort of thing? What if our schools taught the basic premises of all religions worldwide without giving too much focus or attention to any one of them? What if schools taught the provable concepts common to all religions, such as the rejuvenating and clarifying effects of meditation and contemplation, such as the creative power of the mind, such as we all have the ability to hear God speaking directly to us and that we do not need some sort of mediator between God and us, such as the power of love and wishing good things for others and the self destructive effect of wishing harm or judging another?
Imagine if being held accountable and liable did not mean punishment in the way we now have it with our current justice and prison systems. What if being held accountable meant you needed some extra training and education, perhaps it might mean a restrictive or lock up living situation, but with the resources to grow and change and understand? Of course lock up would be done in a much more humane and respectful way than it is currently done. I have gone much further into this topic in my blog, Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane!
To be continued…
Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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