This is the Known Way. It is now quite worn out. It is rough and broken and no longer safe for use. This way causes many unwarranted accidents and sufferings for the Human Race. This Known Way is the way of Free Enterprise and Big Business. It carries our Life Traveller along the rocky road of Competitive Capitalism down to the sea of Rampant Consumerism, where the once beautiful shores are now piled high with pollution-forming trash and garbage. Here, the traveller meets the ever-present struggle to survive the destructive waves of recurring Wars and Insidious Terrorism, which are vainly being countered by the ages-old, fallacious policy of rendering, An eye for an eye. Finally, when we come to the end of the road, we see there are no more Eyes to give. The result is Total Blackout! -- The hay stubble is the part of the plant left in the field after the crop has been taken off, either by modern mowing machinery or by the more primitive method employing the two-handed scythe. Although this stubble may, to some casual observer appear quite useless, it is either ploughed under to provide mulch for other crops, or just left to lie dormant to become next seasons hay crop.
For example: I have noticed that our Sciences and our Technologies, controlled and manipulated, as they seem to be, solely by Business Interests, both large and small, have very radically changed our way of life - yours and mine.
The results of some of these changes seem to be for the better, especially for a certain privileged minority. Those folks who were fortunate to have started off with plenty were enabled to obtain what seemed to be even more than their share. However, on the other hand, those who had very little to start with, often lost all that they had struggled a lifetime of uncertainty to achieve. Now just take Peter Brown. His place has just been taken over by the bank. It seems that he got behind in his mortgage payment. The banking authorities foreclosed and took over his farm without thought for the wellbeing of him or his family.
Following the Great Depression of the Thirties, which was one of the economic side-effects resulting from the First World War, we all experienced that devastating scourge of the Second World War, which as you recall, was Adolph Hitlers arrogant, though vain, attempt to rule the world. This crisis provided the rest of the world with a second chance to put an end to all future wars. What a foolish thought it was to think that Peace could be won as a prize for the mass killing of other human beings, as well as causing the destruction of vast amounts of natural and man-made products!
In spite of the sincere efforts of certain well-meaning organizations, (including the League of Nations, followed by the United Nations, as well as many others), to obtain lasting peace for all people, it is seen that these attempts brought only temporary relief from our economic and social distress.
As of now, there is no assurance of ever obtaining world peace by following the way of the Status Quo, supported as it seems necessary, by military might - the way of the sword. -- Industries paired with and controlled by Businesses are encouraged to make profit and production, their goal. We of the general public also, are carefully taught to believe that it is quite all right to make as much profit from as much production as possible on every transaction. The devastating results of all this is the over-use and waste of our natural re-sources, whether they are renewable or not. As a result, this produces an increase in the disastrous, noxious, life-destroying world pollution of many types. Now our civilized world has all but conquered Nature and has bid her to bend and sway to this seductive tune of Greed and Profit.
Well as I have said, we have just emerged from the 20th century and are starting the 3rd millennium. Many religious leaders as well as Business and Banking Institutions, using the tools of Technology and installed Industries are making many and varied predictions regarding this New Era. Be assured my friend, these predictions, will in no small way affect our Ecology and our Social life as well as the Health and wellbeing of each of us. For this reason we must be very careful for what we are asking! -- Todays democracy is based on a Party System of government, functioning in a competitive, Free Enterprise society. On the other hand, Vi-Tocracy, would for the first time ever, allow all of the people to exercise control of all aspects of their physical lives, having due consideration and respect for each other, as well as for those other thousands of members of our environment.
In a Vi-Tocracy, Industries, not Businesses or Party Politics, would speak for the people, supplying their many needs, compatible with the elements and the forces of Nature. All Industries, whether producing Services or producing Goods, would be managed either by qualified Engineers, Technicians, Designers, crafts people or other specialists in that particular field. Each of these industries of what-ever nature would be controlled and operated by those qualifying individuals within that Industry.
The ideal arrangement would be for these Industries to be located geographically where best suited to their particular type of production and distribution, to the consuming public, as well as to the environment.
This type of government would be a distinct and viable alternative to our present-day method of Party Politics Democracy. In this new arrangement, the Share Card would represent the Voice of the People, without the use of the now, ineffective and unreliable Party politics, Business-oriented system which controls our world today. The various governing bodies of this New Society would be completely different from what we have today. Technologists, Health Scientists, Educationalists and Environmentalists would re-place the Business Economists and Political Scientists in to-days Government organizations.
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