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26 Oct 2011 @ 13:38, by Shreepal Singh
I am keenly following the OCCUPY movement of American people. While I am all with the just cause of this movement, I wish to draw the attention of American people to the deeper issue raised by this movement.
The substance of this movement is the economic discontent of people in America, and even global humanity which is making this movement spread around the world. What are the causes of these unfortunate conditions inflicted on people the world-over? This question raises the need of serious consideration on our part. In one word it is the CORPORATE GREED. but it is simplistic explanation of the truth. While coping with the present emergent situation, let us put the whole thing in the historical prespective and shape our future.
Let us not be blinded by the glare of the present glittering civilization. Let us make our mind immune to the surrounding influence of the present and look beyond. Let us look at the tomorrow that is unfolding before our own eyes. What does the coming time hold in store for us? Can we derive some lessons from the historical prespective of this our movement and chalk out a better and effective strategy to deal with the present situation?
Let us learn economics and history. Human beings require commodities, like food, clothes etc., to meet their needs, wants and demands. These commodities are not available in nature in ready-made forms; they are needed to be produced by us; and, they are produced by human interaction with ready-made or naturally available materials. There are many things already available in nature in the form of raw material etc. but they may not be useful to us unless the same are transformed in an artificial manner by us into something useful to meet our needs and demands; these raw things need to be converted into commodities. To convert raw things into finished commodities we require two basic elements: firstly, we require an input of energy from an outside source to carry out the process of this conversion or transformation; and, secondly, we require a human element of contriving a social-mechanism that puts this transformation-process into motion. The history of this ever-changing social-mechanism, which change is brought about by the constant development of science and technology, is the history of economic progress and social development.
At the dawn of human civilization – a period when humans just emerged out of animal living conditions – in the hunter-gatherers society, the first element, an input of energy for production, was provided by humans themselves; they hunted animals and gathered food from nature. To make this difficult economic-way-of-life work smoothly, the social-mechanism of organizing humans into an extended clan (that is, a large tribal family) was established. With the advancement of science and technology, a new and developed agricultural society came into existence, where this energy-input was provided by animals, like oxen, horses etc. Again, to make this economic way-of-life work smoothly, a feudal social-mechanism came into being where persons with better circumstances took over as landlords (Zamindars) and kings, and those with unfortunate circumstances found themselves as serfs and land-tillers. With further scientific and technological advances, a new industrial economic way-of-life came into existence where this motive-energy input is provided by fuel-driven machines. To make this economic way-of-life work smoothly, a modern social-mechanism of capital controlled democracy came into being where persons with better circumstances overtook as owners of wealth producing machines and those with unfortunate circumstances were pushed to the position of laborers on those machines.
Again, with the advancement of science and technology today, as ever, a new and better economic way-of-life is coming into existence. In this new economic way-of-life, the human-element involved in the production-process (in the forms of hunters of tribal society or land-tillers of feudal society or laborers/workers of industrial society) would be replaced, for the first time in human history, by a completely non-human element of artificial intelligence in the form of automated robotics production. This non-human element, for the first time in human history, would almost completely eliminate the need of human beings in commodities production-process.
On the strength of already available technology (like digital-software, nano-technology, bio-computers, DNA-engineering etc.), we can forecast that very soon the employment of laborers to operate machines to produce commodities would become a thing of the past. To make this new economic way-of-life work smoothly, which social way-of-life is going to become the need of the new situation? Here comes a dilemma before the human race and a turning point in her civilization. There would be available only two alternative courses, both opposite to each other, to choose from in order to allow the new economic way-of-life to work smoothly; firstly, allow the capital to run the automated production-process and let the major part of humanity remain unemployed for want of work (and, of course, make provisions to fire fight against global mass discontent); or, secondly, allow sea of humanity (through info-technologically empowered democracy) to run the automated production and let the capital starve of investment opportunity (and, again, be ready to face social turmoil caused by the deprived capital). The inevitable consequences that would ensue on following one of these two alternatives do not augur well for the immediate future of the peace loving humanity.
When these two available alternatives to meet the need of this new economic way-of-life are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their respective likelihood of their adoption in near future, we find strong reasons to support the premise that the global human population will not allow a situation where they are condemned to remain unemployed for all times to come. But what can a lot of disadvantaged and unorganized mass of human beings do in face of the bitter opposition of the privileged and organized capital that is globally well-entrenched? Here comes the role of mind and reason in the forward movement of humanity.
There are hundreds of ways of looking at things; and, all these observations have relativist values. We can look at the human evolution from the angle of the development of consciousness. We humans have biological needs, desires, mind and heart; and, these elements are better evolved in humans than animals. The history of economics and society is propelled, guided and shaped by the determining relative roles of these elements. In the primitive hunting tribal society, the propelling role was played by the tribes’ biological needs; although desires, mind and heart were also present there but they were underdeveloped, subdued and played only a secondary role to support the prime biological needs of the society. In agricultural society, these biological needs were fulfilled by surplus production and the desire started playing a increasing role in organizing life (music, poetry, art and craft found a place); although biological needs, mind and heart were also there but they gave a helping hand to desires in shaping life.
In industrial society, the element of mind started playing an increasing role in shaping life and although the other remaining elements of biological needs, desires and heart are present there but they only gave a supportive hand to this life’s organization. These zones are not clear-cut territories but ever-shifting water-sheds and in all forms of society these elements play their roles and remain very much parts of human consciousness.
Today, with the advent of a new economic way-of-life, we need to provide a place to heart to play a greater role in organizing human life and direct the other three elements of biological needs, desires and mind to help heart shape and organize life. The life that is organized by the element of heart does not allow the capital to run production and render global human mass workless. This new social way-of-life would on the one hand ensure the smooth working of the new economic way-of-life and, on the other, would be better and higher from the evolutionary point of view.
Are we ready to work for an economic way-of-life where the capital would be denied the right to invest in production process? Are we ready to empower people by the adoption of info-technology in running our democracy? Are we ready to choose or reject our political leaders who may have put us in the present dismal conditions by demanding that info-technology be used for DAILY elections of our political leaders? Do we understand the importance of this measure, a measure that would impose an iron discipline of people on our political leaders and capital?
Let us be clear on these things and let the intelligent people chalk out an effective strategy for this movement to guarantee its success of its declared goals.
What is Direct Democracy
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5 comments
29 Oct 2011 @ 05:00 by marblex @71.133.121.147 : Or Maybe...
we'll rid ourselves of the criminal cabal that has kept us enslaved for so long; throw off a monetary based economy and adopt a resource-based economy that will free human beings up for meaningful uses of their time instead of dead end jobs that produce nothing meaningful and barely provide a wage adequate to support a dog.
Perhaps we will see the development of stunning new technologies that we cannot now conceive of... maybe we will finally see a whole new world.
30 Oct 2011 @ 10:09 by : Time to openly support Direct Democracy
The time has come now for all those who yearn for a new civilization to openly support those who are advocating for the adoption of Direct Democracy through the "Occupy Wallst." movement.This is a test of "who stands where". Lip service of new civilization is nothing but harming its cause. There are many intelligence moles of the government of false and deformed democracy (a democracy deformed by corporate greed, that is corporate equals to capital) in the garb of aspirants of a new civilization and they are always on the look out of an opportunity to serve their masters.
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