2003

When I was a child with the whole world and a whole life ahead of me I never, in all my imagining time, thought that I would end up, at forty-seven, with rotting teeth, a bald and strange head and no money. To find myself on benefits of one sort or another for over fifteen years, living in one rented house after another, and two busted marriages, three children and yet to still to have a dream or two left is surprising.

Born in a first world nation. Schooled in the ways of a first world nation. Lost in a first world nation.

I wanted to be on another planet by now. Literally. I knew this world would have a place for me to work my thinking magic. I didn’t realise that you have to be what this world wants in order to get something material out of it.

I should have chosen my direction to suit my needs of now. How could I though? I then thought that teachers, parents, employers of my future self would have at least some of my needs at heart. I wish I was taught that most people have their own futures to work out and that mine was not something that any of them was interested in; my life was my own to sort. My path was my own to find.

Very rarely on this ‘path’ of mine would I bump into one of society’s ‘real’ people; one of those people who, although part of the web that makes society such a limiting place, tried to help someone different from them to make a place that worked for that different person, in this case, me.

My mother has just phoned me out of the blue. Its her birthday today, she is seventy five years old. She said she walked past a shop the other day and saw her grandmother walking along, a reflection in the window. She realised it was her at seventy-five.

Seventy-five, forty seven. Her alive and sparkling me alive and down at the moment. One life each and both of us have had difficult times for chunks of our own existences.

She had two marriages. One with my father where she sired seven children which lasted for over twenty years and one which lasted a few months before her second husband died trying to find some work so that he could keep her in food, electricity and some form of warmth.

All seven of her children are still alive as far as I know.

How many of us reached our goals? How many of us feel fulfilled? How many of us feel we have lived our lives to the fullest capacity that it is capable of having regarding a life on planet earth?

I feel wasted. Like I have lived so little of what could have been possible.

Watching the airliners fly into the world trade centre towers on September 11th 2001, one of my brothers birthdays, was like watching something happen that I knew had to happen.

Why? Because you can’t keep building a world to suit one group and expect the rest of the world to just keep taking it.

Yet, the World Bank, the United Nations, The World Health Organisation and many other leading organisations seem to be saying that they all want to change things for the better and to change them now rather than later.

Do they really want change now? Isn’t it possible that the change is being forced upon them by the tides of change? Too many people becoming very aware that there is too great a disparity between those with and those without?

Millions die each year because of lack of resources. Millions live limited lives of limited dreams because of limited resources.

Millions spent each year on ‘things’ that waste resources, the dome in London being one easy example. (Or is it wasted?)

Food thrown out by the thousand tonne each week in this country alone; sell-by dates (and the threat of litigation) make skipping this food a better proposition than letting any of it go to the needy and the wanting.

Clothing, furnishing, household effects of all kind buried in landfill sites rather than being moved on to those who would find a use for them.

We live in a country of drugs and drink and serious boredom. TV replaces conversation. Music is loud enough to fill the head and stop the thinking.

When the drugs, drink, and boredom aren’t there then sectarian, biased, myopic thinking, the same that comes with organised religion, seems to be the other offering for those who want something different.

With both of these alternatives there come the lies and sadness.

There is the other side. The side of those that own most of this world. Those who are so right they can never be shown to be wrong without major upset. (Such bitter sounding words!)

The war lobbyists. The fundamentalists. The right-wingers, the left-wingers. So many different, but fundamentally the same, groups. All with power - all needing to keep power for as long as possible.

So the world gets better slower than maybe it could. People die by the millions through lack of millions, people spend millions on ‘things’ rather than on those people who would love to live before they die.

I am dying like everyone else; I have a brain that is, supposedly, a powerful one.

From what I can see, my future is going to be one where I might be allowed to join in and reap some of the benefits of living in a first world, capitalist, materialist society. Alternatively, I am going to carry on getting older and more rickety until, one day I end up dead with little or nothing to show my passing. Or something else.

Why should I blame the society around me and not myself? Why is it not just me alone that has failed to fulfill my own potential? Why can't it be that what I am is my full potential?

Because it doesn’t feel like it by a long shot. I feel the need to add rather than just drift through.

I want the events of my life, the happenings and learnings, to have more than just some simple point to a pointless end of me.

The funny thing is that most of the people I have talked to over the years of my life also want something more than just the little that society allows them. Not out of greed but out of belief that they have more to offer if only they could find out the paths that lead to the better use of who they are.

What a way to run a world full of unique thinking creatures. A creative explosion damped down by the fears of those who do not want to lose their places in a world built on past conquests and power struggles. A world with
a future that is already defined in the minds of those who control.

Time to change things so I can live a fuller end of life than the beginning has been.

Time to add the means-to-live to more people, even if it means that I might die sooner (from fits if nowt else!); because I have pushed myself too far and earned the ending due to those who seem to want change that swims against a tide set in motion by the gravities of those bodies who load the dice in favour of themselves.

? phew!!!!

got that of my chest!

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So, If Money And The Human Condition Aren’t The Problem, What Is?

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Some things just aren’t there when you need them.

Or if they are they are in limited supply when lots of people want the same thing.

So money is there to enable the well off to get those few things for themselves rather than lose out to the others who want these things but don’t have the money.

If you build a system that runs on money it means that commodities that are scarce go up in ‘value’ where as commodities that are plentiful or in over supply lose ‘value’.

Capitalising on commodities, whether these are necessities such as food and water, or items of social value like jewellery or speciality things like art, has a good side in that it allows for the skills of mankind to have an overall beneficial drive towards a better and more fruitful society – that is if you believe that without tools like capitalism the world’s population would remain ignorant savages...

It has a downside in that it devalues too many things too often to allow for a complete system to be in place that works for everyone under its aegis.

It does look as if one power group has build this system in order to maintain control over all the ‘things’ that group needs to the exclusion of a large proportion of the rest of the World’s benefit.

… and the truth is that is exactly what has happened… and is still happening.

The realities of the structure are being changed but the power still remains in the hands of the few over the many.

Non violent pressure from massed groups of people will change the way things are done but only if those people are willing to carry on the social structure that works whilst throwing away that which doesn’t. This way of changing society usually takes far longer than other direct methods because there is usually very little effect on those in power, mainly because whilst they have what they want they find it easy to ignore words – no matter how loud they are. Direct peaceful action which disrupts the economics of a country does tend to have a better effect but getting a country full of people to move their asses is hard work, especially if many of that country’s people
are content with their lot… especially when they view what they have in comparison to many countries not to far from their backyards.

If that country is tightly controlled by the economic set up, the plutocracy is a long standing system, bureaucracy is a group of people who stand between the plutocracy and those without – or are those who want the changes to
come now but still rely on money as a core belief which allows control to be maintained by the plutocracy – then people are malleable… social causes get their ‘dander’ up but real fighting for life is something best left to the professionals… besides which society is trying to make people mellow so that there is less friction … better to send an angry letter.

It seems that only by enacting a complete breakdown of society can any major changes take place otherwise most people are content because ‘now’ always seems better than ‘before’ – all the more so if the country they live in is one where power has had to be struggled and fought for by one group over another for years.

So, over years and centuries a system is built that is an interlocking set of ways that doesn’t allow for a complete breakdown except in the most violent or repressed of incidences.

Yet this system is completely controllable. There need never be a class who have nothing. Never need there be people who die from lack of something that is in supply. Never again those with whilst others die because they
don’t have the money to buy what’s needed.

Imagine calming down the human race whilst turning them on to the joys of being a human being on planet Earth.

A dream.

One of those idealistic futures of mankind where it all works out because it can.

We are starting to see the global meaning of cooperation. Of clarity of word and deed. Of honesty of trading and of purpose.

The equipment and desire is already there regarding a system rebuild – a service pack for Life I. A set of patches that work to update what we have now, the setup of which is inadequate to all our needs, that sorts out thewrinkles made from old material. Don’t throw away everything just because part of the man made operating system of life doesn’t work. But do sort out the bits that don’t work.

It’s likely to happen though – throwing all of it away in order to remove the, perceived or even real, shackles. Using in-depth profiling tools for each person can only go so far in giving them what keeps them quiet. Situations
can be controlled by media output but only if the media wants to, or are forced to, be part of the mechanism for control – and only if the population allows it through compromised standards, apathy or lack of knowledge of
their true rights as defined by the majority of other humans on this planet.

One day has to be planned for. The day of crossover where those ‘with’ cannot keep hold any more. Or where they have to share on an equal footing with rest of mankind… or will the man ‘with’ buy the power to give him ‘all’ whilst everyone else goes without?

No. because it always goes pop, like an erupting spot, except it’s the real lives of, sometimes, millions of people. Let alone the animals and flora that get roasted because the system is inadequate and antiquated. Are the Chinese going to decide that they deserve everything? Are the Americans? The Russians? The Israeli’s? The Europeans?

Or is it really true what The World Bank and others say? Does everyone want freedom and prosperity for every single person? They seem to be saying that’s what they want. Darvo. Non stop talking about trying to get to this point in time.

But, as ‘they’ say ‘slowly slowly catch a monkey’ and, even, ‘don’t rock the boat’.

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The Idealism of a Heart Attack Survivor - If only

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Imagine how many crimes would stop happening if everyone had enough money!

But it won’t stop whilst money is in short supply.

If you lock a system whereby, without money there are no goods or services, then that system cannot work… especially if that system is based on historical performance and artificial controls… controls that are often in the direct hands of people who have their own personal agenda’s… which often include large amounts of money - which have to be siphoned out of the system somewhere - creating a shortfall somewhere else.

At the moment world leaders are talking about taking about a hundred years or more to just break the boundaries of actual poverty. The Millennium Declaration Goals of the United Nations - many to be achieved by 2015 were shown to be totally inaccurate based on the actions of signatories to it in the few years after it was published.

Countries put their own people first and themselves first - it’s a human thing J

There is a way of rebuilding the way money is used so that it never gets in the way of creative living or even the simple necessities of human, animal or plant life - let alone the planetary needs of a group of fauna and flora and history like we are - we deserve to live and enjoy because we are unique and amazing - leaving the tools to do that job up to a set of old era based economic ways instead of building a new, working system for the modern era is not only criminal on any world scale but also wasteful and backward thinking.

How and when are we, the world, ever going to

• Feed, clothe, educate and supply the world?
• Get off world and colonise the planets?
• Colonise the sea?
• Make sure we don’t loose any more creatures or plants of this planet?
• Capture for posterity everything that is happening from now on?
• Save all world languages?
• Sort out all the mental health problems directly attributable to living and working in a bad system

Let alone anything else each of us wants that we cannot do or have at this moment because of the severe restraints that money imposes - certainly in the UK if nowhere else (I can only talk about the UK because this is where I have spent most of my life).

If your life has allowed you a direct plug in to normal financial lifestyle tools then you will have credit, debt and work that pays just enough to keep you going whilst you build up a stock of money for retiring or speculating.

If you don’t live in this way then usually you live in debt with little or no money to add to a steadily increasing bank roll and no way to aim for anything other than drug and drink induced hilarity or sadness and anger.

If poverty was a lonely thing, suffered in silent, boxed in solitude then maybe poverty would only feel like a lack of a few things but, when confronted by multimedia presentations of how good life can be if you have money then poverty becomes unbearable - especially when you know that with money you would be alive and capable instead of barely just alive.

At the moment most world systems are run on the trickle down effect - huge sums fed in to a single person who then trickles it through his fingers down to the next people down the line who, in turn, trickle it through their fingers etc. The effect of this is to ensure that the top few get all that they want whilst making sure that those at the bottom get little or nothing because of the abstract concept of quantities… as each person lets some of their money go what they retain becomes less…. In a world of unknowns and costly prices for some of the simplest dreams you never know how much you might need in reserve - you never know when the next large dollop is going to land - so each of the tricklers withholds just a little bit more than they need and before you know it the bottom is coping with full drought whilst knowing, deep in their hearts, that money would solve their problems - would allow them to eat, to sleep safe, to grow and expand.

There is not enough money in the system at the moment to cope with any major new needs of the planet. There is not enough money now to cope with the needs of the poor. There is no more evidence than that needed. If something is dying somewhere because of something that money could buy then the system is failing.

But there does seem to be a way that keeps everything fairly balanced and doesn’t create waves except where waves need to happen… There are so many systems and sub systems running in this world at the moment that re styling money would only enhance what is happening - being designed to do exactly that - enhance.

Enhanced Capitalism - where money is only an accounting and performance tool - no longer a life or death tool. Where everything is capitalised when it has to be - Where each individual has a respected part to play in the whole, even if that part is not instantly apparent.

Each and every life is special and individual and important. Look around - it’s rare stuff - nothing as far as our life finders can see - light years and real years of time spent looking and no one yet.

So we have what we have. A whole ecosystem which we can learn to balance with but not while one lot of men are trying to kill off another lot of men.

Capitalism will always have its adversary because it is designed as an aggressive system - has had to be in order to gain ground - yet people don’t see that none of the money side is necessary in life at all - except maybe as a metering system with regards to the system as a whole. Money can be all of the things it is at present whilst being a readily available substance - like air… not like gold or diamonds or a Faberge egg.

This move effects quality of life in the profoundest of ways - Things change and they change fast. All the other systems and subsystems support the change - or are adapted to do so.

How does it work?

Take away the right of any country to starve any of its citizens of the currency of that country.

In five years time give everyone in the world an account with 1 in it.

Then add on 1,000 zero’s.

Between now and then start talking about what will happen… prices staying the same etc… actual and relative poverty explained….

Build lifelong learning tools into the account - and easy access to answers and desires, needs and even whims within reason and possibility…

Ask workers if they will stay on after five years or walk off … and sort other workers to take their places…

Sort out the ramifications of such a drastic change in world running… five years of talking and sorting…

Black White Economy… what happens?

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Written in 2007 as well.

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