Shreepal Singh, a Concerned Global Citizen

Shreepal Singh, a Concerned Global Citizen Our apparentely Glittering Civilization is hollow in substance deep within and a New Enlightened Civilization is striving to take birth 2013-04-24T11:33:19Z User 463 https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/ OrgSpace NewsLog Let there be on Earth: Peace! Change!! And, Change tempered with Wisdom!!!

International Peoples’ Congress

Our times are heading towards a flash-point on Earth. The flash-point of a fearsome showdown: showdown between those who in pursuit of their greed are determined to squeeze-out of Earth its last resources and those whose very survival would be put in grave peril by such cruel treatment of our planet; between those who, in order to earn more profit, employ technology to automate commodity-production and those who would be reduced to an unemployed and hungry human-mass by such automation; between those whose single-minded devotion to earn more wealth is turning society into stinking and depraved human-mass, and shattering its peace and those who would long for their lost personal peace and beauty of life; between those 1% of humanity who are highly intelligent, united in their loot and wield the technology that can smash popular opposition and those 99% of the remaining humanity who would be helpless in circumstances but a mass of belligerent multitude determined to go to any length.

To avert this showdown - to avert this danger to Earth and humanity - the 99% of humanity who are commoners need to awaken. They need to unite. They need to seize the initiative out of the hands of 1% to set the new agenda of peace, prosperity and justice for all on Earth.

And, they need to do it before it is too late. They need to do it before the modern technology turns their numerical superiority – the only advantage they possess over their rival 1% of humanity – into an irrelevant and redundant factor by the rapid advance of technology.

You – the 99% of humanity – have morality on your side. Your aspirations for peace, prosperity and justice for all on Earth are just. This Earth belongs to you. You have the moral right to set things in their right order on this planet. You have the justification to wrest initiative out of the hands of 1% in the matter of setting an agenda for humanity; you have all the justifications to replace the present agenda of greed of 1% with a better agenda of peace on Earth; and prosperity and justice for all humanity. To fulfill your aspirations, which are the aspirations of humanity, you the 99% of humanity awake! Unite! And, move ahead!

Then, what are the steps required of this mass of 99% of humanity?

 Rise above nationalism and unite at global level. In today’s global village, nobody who matters is national. Multinationals – the 1%, your antagonists – are not national; they are national neither in their acts nor in their sentiments. Nationalism is a ruse today by them to keep you divided.

 Form local units at national level to coordinate your consultations and actions at the international – the global – level.

 Learn, learn and once again learn the cause of your plight; without understanding the cause, one cannot find a cure. Unless you the 99% understand the cause of your plight, there cannot be unity. The unity can be forged on clarity of the goal and of the path to reach that goal.

 Learn the rudiments and fundamentals of economics. Economics is all about the production, distribution and consumption of commodities and services by humans; the chronic question of economics – how to make people engage in productive work: engage them by the use of violence in a dictatorial regime or give them freedom to engage by providing an incentive – needs to be answered once again in modern context.

 The freedom to engage in work by providing an incentive makes it possible for humans to turn their potential into creativity and is always the best method. But the old incentive for doing work – the incentive to earn profit – is creating havoc on Earth today; and this incentive – the incentive to earn profit - cannot be the only incentive to make people engage in productive work.

 On our increasingly more fragile planet, the time to replace this old incentive with some another – socially more benevolent – incentive has come today. Understanding economics is the sole key that unlocks the mystery how our planet is being destroyed by the 1% of humanity.

 Learn lessons from the past commotion of human multitude in different countries and the cause of their failure. Occupy Wall Street in the U.S. and elsewhere, Spring Revolution in the Middle East and Anti-corruption Movement of Anna Hazare in India are the social experiments to learn a lesson or two.

 Win over to your cause intelligent persons who are good at heart: humane; compassionate; without ill will against anybody; scientists, teachers, students; all those who respect life, living beings, and our planet.

 Make your efforts spontaneous, full of love to all and heavily loaded with moral authority and command. Nobody is enemy on our Earth; humanity – Homo sapiens – is one race; humanity has but one interest – an interest that is common to all. It is only the greed and ignorance that make the 1% to lead humanity onto the wrong path. They too need compassion and guidance of the 99%.

 No violence! Humanity is intelligent, wise and advanced today. Humanity – at the core of its heart – does not countenance violence. No amount of justification justifies violence. Those who are on the wrong path – your adversary, the 1% - need persuasion of reason and compulsion of circumstances – and not violence - to go along with the rest of humanity. Today violence can bring no solution.

 Make the whole exercise an initiative-based voluntary effort. If thought necessary, you may amend or add to this document. Translate this document in the language of your country. Upload this document or its translated copy as a website onto a server (and several mirror servers) located in your country.

 Make the websites hosting this document or its translated version to work as blogs and comment sites (like twitter or Face book) for general public. Make these websites work for humanity as a meeting and talking place about their problems and future.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000107.htm 2013-04-24T11:33:19Z 2013-05-14T11:04:07Z An experiment in Democratic World World Government of connected volunteers

This is an experiment in a democratic World Government of volunteers from different nations who are connected:

1. The area over which the world government of willing humans shall exercise control shall be the entire Earth and shall be called Earth Cyber Land.

2. Every person from every nation shall have the right to become citizen of Earth Cyber Land.

3. Every citizen shall be issued a Unique Identity Number by the government of Earth Cyber Land, which shall enable him or her to participate in and access to the government.

4. A citizen shall be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of Earth Cyber Land.

5. The government of Earth Cyber Land shall be elected for a fixed term by its citizens.

6. The government of Earth Cyber Land shall consist of a House of Peoples Representatives; a Chief Executive Officer; a Disputes Redress Tribunal.

7. The Peoples Representatives shall be elected for a fixed term and may be recalled any time by the citizens by their votes exercisable on the net.

8. The House of Peoples Representatives shall elect from amongst them a Chief Executive Officer and a number of persons to work on the Disputes Redress Tribunal for a fixed term and may recall them at any time.

9. The number of Peoples Representatives shall be allocated and elected on the basis of continents on Earth.

10. The Head Quarters of the government of Earth Cyber Land shall be maintained only on computer servers and such servers shall have mirror-servers located in all nations of the world.

11. The government of Earth Cyber Land is established by the willing humanity to secure on Earth:

Collective survival of life on Earth;
Freedom;
Common prosperity;
Global Unity: and
Enlightenment.

12. The citizen of Earth Cyber Land shall be under an obligation to abide by the decisions of the government of Earth Cyber Land even if such decisions may be in conflict with the interests of his or her nation of residence.

13. The decision announced in the name and under the hand of its Chief Executive Officer shall be the decision of the government of Earth Cyber Land.

14. The government of Earth Cyber Land shall be carried on by its citizens and organs only on the strength of voluntary cooperation or non-cooperation of its citizens with nations-states of Earth and only in a non-violent manner.

(Note: This is a rough sketch of the Constitution of Earth Cyber Land; the objectives that are to be secured by the this Constitution are stated in the 'Earth Charter of Alternative Human Order'. This Charter is given hereunder:

Preamble:
Whereas:
1. Planet Earth is our COMMON HOME.

2. We have inherited it only in TRUST for use in decent manner and not for spoiling it by our improper acts.

3. Earth is not only for OUR use but also for the use of all other life-species dwelling on it.

4. This trust casts an obligation on us to PASS ON this planet not in inferior health but, if possible in better health to SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS of human beings and to all other life-species that would overtake it from us.

5. All life-species are miracle, blooming flowers in Universe’s barren desert and sacrosanct in their right to exist. We human beings have evolved our BRAIN to an extent where we are able enough to INTELLECTUALLY realize that all these non-human life-species have equal right to co-exist with us. Unless these life-species pose a danger to our safe dwelling on Earth, they deserve protection and preservation at our hands.

6. All man-made disputes of any nature can be resolved by man. And man has evolved his BRAIN to that evolutionary stage where he can INTELLECTUALLY realize that it is in his own interest that these disputes are resolved in PEACE and AMITY.

7. All life is evolving on Earth. Human being is a product of this evolution. Evolution has not stopped with the advent of human being. The process is extremely slow – barely perceptible in thousands of years – yet the process is on. We human beings must accept that we human beings are not the FINAL PRODUCT of this process and our BRAIN and its output of the present stage of our INTELLECT is not the ultimate TOOL of exploring reality around it and in universe.

8. But we human beings have evolved us SIGNIFICANTLY and have INTELLECT that is capable to explore the unknown universe, in both directions of scale – micro and macro. We can harness to our use the secrets of nature and her forces. This, our, capability enables us today, if we are wise enough and choose this wisdom, to CONSCIOUSLY shape our DESTINY. This capability makes it possible for us to shape the destiny of EARTH also. Human beings can make an impact even on the destiny of UNIVERSE.
9. Human beings are capable to destroy themselves. This capability is now PRESENT and they need only the DECISION to destroy. Any serious man-made dispute may act as a TRIGGER to take this decision.

10. Sustainable human-unity, if we achieve at the global scale, is the only EFFECTIVE and WORKABLE guarantee against the danger of self-annihilation posed by divided human beings.

11. This unity can only be established if we human beings realize that our INTERESTS are common, that the PURPOSE OF LIFE on Earth is common and that the DESTINY of human race is common.

Objectives:

Being mindful of this understanding and our realization of the IMPERATIVE NEED for humans dwelling in different nations and countries on Earth, to take prompt steps at the GLOBAL SCALE to avert the impending danger of human annihilation on Earth, WE HUMANS in our common interest, set before ourselves the goal of accomplishing the following OBJECTIVES:

Firstly, COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL:

1. Alternative Global Human Order seeks to accomplish survival not only of all ethnic divisions and subdivisions of human race living in different countries of the world but also of ALL life-species dwelling on Earth.

2. It seeks to secure this objective by ensuring that peoples of Earth stand on the side of PEACE and not war for any cause whatsoever.

3. It also seeks to accomplish this objective by ensuring that peoples establish on our planet GOOD ORDER and not anarchy under any ideology.

4. It further seeks to secure this objective by compelling all organized groups of human beings on Earth, whether organized under the banner of nation-states or of any other common human feelings, to DISARM themselves completely of the WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

5. Alternative Global Human Order seeks to accomplish this objective of collective survival not only by persuading peoples in the world to observe self-restraints in their inter se relations but also by paying RESPECT TO NATURE and its ways through its conservation.

Secondly, FREEDOM:

6. Alternative Global Human Order seeks to accomplish freedom of individual from any kind of oppression, whether it is of political kind or of the kind of economic, culture or social.

7. It seeks to accomplish this freedom of individual from oppression within the human organization of nation-states and also international relations of such nation-states.

8. Alternative Global Human Order seeks to secure this state of freedom for individuals by ensuring that the human rights of individual are protected in the organized society of human beings.

9. It also seeks to secure this freedom of individuals by ensuring that the interests of organized society are guarded against criminals and anarchy.

Thirdly, COMMON PROSPERITY:

10. Alternative Global Human Order seeks to accomplish prosperity not only of one set of human beings (as against another set of those who remain poor) but of ALL.

11. It seeks to secure prosperity for all people by utilizing the TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS made by human beings. These advancements make it possible for human beings to REDUCE THE WORK HOURS for all those who are engaged in creating wealth. New Civilization does not permit utilization of these advancements to make a set of human beings WORK-LESS and to allow another set to ACCUMULATE wealth. Instead, it seeks to utilize these advancements to make available LEASURE-HOURS to all those who are engaged in wealth production.

12. It also seeks to secure this objective by utilizing SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT of natural resources of Earth so that waste of these precious resources is avoided, there is no unsustainable exploitation of these resources and, on that account, no ecological imbalance is created by man.

13.Alternative Global Human Order seeks to utilize these measures in order to bring efficiency in production and distribution of man-made wealth.

Fourthly, GLOBAL UNITY:

14. Alternative Global Human Order aims at accomplishing UNITY among different subdivisions of mankind on Earth by promoting mutual RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY among them.

15. It also aims to secure this unity by promoting UNDERSTANDING with one another on the strength of our scientific understanding of the concept of RELATIVITY and FRAMES OF REFERENCE.

16. Alternative Global Human Order also seeks to secure this unity by admitting that there exists DIVERSITY among different subdivisions of mankind and promoting HARMONY amid this diversity.

And fifthly and finally, ENLIGHTENMENT:

17. Alternative Global Human Order seeks to accomplish enlightenment of human beings by encouraging them to imbibe the KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE.

18. It seeks to encourage them to imbibe the knowledge of MATERIAL SCIENCE. It encourages them to learn and know what modern Physics and other branches of science have revealed to us, like our place in the Universal Time, Unity of Fundamental Forces of nature, Mirror- Images of OUR matter, Life and its Codes, convergence of all branches of science, etc. etc.

19.Alternative Global Human Order also seeks to encourage them to imbibe the knowledge of PSYCHIC SCIENCE. It encourages them to learn and know what psychic sciences are revealing to us, like Near Death Perception, Extra-sensory Perception, Life after Death, Planes of Consciousness, etc. etc.

20. Alternative Global Human Order also seeks to bring enlightenment among human beings by encouraging them to always remain READY TO LEARN and OPEN TO CHANGE of one’s intellectual convictions.

New Humans Order Zones:

NOW these objectives are sought to be realized in an effective manner by this action plan of setting up New Humans Order Zones through out the world as VOLUNTARY ORGANS OF SELF-GOVERNANCE:

1. These objectives are sought to be accomplished by a concerted but voluntary community action of willing individuals at local and global level.

2. Towards this end, the trans-position of allegiance of such willing individuals is sought away from their native nation-states and to New Humans Order Zones.

3. These New Humans Order Zones are envisioned as small units of organized humanity, which are scattered across the globe, connected through information technology with one another and act collectively in unison.

4. Instead of owing allegiance to their native nation-states, these small units of collective humanity in New Humans Order Zones would be bound by a common vision and feeling of belonging to one another for a cause greater than nationality .

5. To bring desirable change around them locally and in the world at large, these small human-groupings would act in global unison through their concerted actions.

6. In dealing with the now-dominating institutions of nation-states, theseNew Humans Order Zones would act in consonance with the dictates of their common vision and feelings.

7. In their dealing with the now-dominant players on the issues of local and global ramifications, New Humans Order Zones solely depend for their victory over them on the strength of their collective co-operative or non-cooperative actions.

8. New Humans Order Zones would act as per the specific issues and stands by either extending their non-violent, collective and co-operating global helping hand to these now-dominant national and international players or by resisting them with their non-violent, non-cooperating global boycott.

9. New Humans Order Zone is a goal-oriented community. This goal is the conscious evolution of human beings. The tool of this conscious evolution is knowledge – this knowledge is in the form of science and technology. This tool – knowledge - helps the human evolution at their collective and individual livings. At the collective living, it is done by subordinating the desire-dominated man-made institutions to the dispassionate discipline of knowledge. There, it helps in planning efficient self-governance in every sphere of human activity. Such planning of self-governance ensures the saving of human-energy from wasteful social conflicts. This saved social energy, when ploughed back to the common benefits of society, provides people leisure-hours, high standard of life and peaceful life. These three things enable human beings to be free from daily struggle of life, be inquisitive to look into things around them and in their search for truth to turn towards spirit. This collective turning towards spirit helps the evolution gain acceleration. In this way, the community is helped by knowledge in providing more freedom to its members, enabling them to become more efficient in the matter of their democratic self-governance and thereby making them collectively available a cultural ambience that is conducive to turn towards spirit. At the individual living, a person is helped by knowledge – or science – in understanding brain, mind, paranormal phenomena etc. and helped to realize the existence of mysterious nature and understand its laws in the service of humanity collectively.

10. New Humans Order Zones are visualized as democratic local communities of spontaneous growth born out of the need of time and gradually spreading all over the world. From their very birth, these communities are seen motivated by the spirit of rebellion against the organized immoral force of multinational business corporations operating in tandem with nation-states, which adversely affect individuals’ spiritual well-being and communities’ social harmony. These communities are seen pursuing in different countries vastly different localized objectives of their initiative but still they are seen globally a single force united in certain common and well defined basic principles.

11. One of the most important hallmarks of these communities is that they do not require an outside initiative by an external force for their birth and growth. They do not need the support of some conspiratorial organizational planning at national or international level. In their birth they are seen spontaneous despite being geographically located in scattered manner in different places. In their growth they are seen multiplying in their location, number and power.

12. Also, it is seen as a slow social process taking place over decades, which may run into centuries to overpower the present civilization. This process is seen fuelled by today’s deep discontent of human spirit and her disapproval of inefficient and wasteful institutions of our civilization. This rejection on the part of mankind seems the sheer historical necessity of our times in the evolutionary march of mankind.

13. The smallest New Humans Order Zone may consist of a few individuals but to survive it must grow further into a community. This Zone is seen as an embryo of a sovereign habitation of human beings governed by its own laws and far superior in quality of its institutions with reference to human-well-being in comparison to our present world’s political, economic and cultural institutions. They must grow out of their minuscule size of a few individuals to a status of democratically elected and self-controlling governments of villages, cities and eventually the whole nation. The key to their defence against the strangulation by the old world lies in their superiority of quality of life, of number of people living in these Zones and of their capability in knowledge and technology.

14. New Humans Order Zone, a community empowered by knowledge: The community puts the highest premium on knowledge and assigns a grading to different branches of knowledge according to their relative importance to human life. The top slot goes to the human spirit. In these zones individuals are guaranteed the peace of one’s inner life against encroachments by uncalled for economic and political intrusion. In these zones, persons leading their peaceful inner spiritual life are regarded a valuable social asset, as being the fountain of social morality and good of fellow human beings and in return of this valuable contribution by them they are guaranteed means of sustenance without any further demand by molesting them with economic and political pressures. The second grade of knowledge in importance is Science. Out of the best available stuff of community, which has no inclination to pursue spirit’s demand, would be deployed to study science and uncover the mysteries of Nature. Next to the first slot, the highest respect of the community goes to scientists. The fruits of their labour are not available for sale, inside New Humans Order Zones or outside to the old world. The contribution in the form of edge-technology made by the scientists is exclusively community’s asset, which would be a closely guarded community’s secret (and would be an important element in defending the community against coercion by the outside – old – world). In return for this valuable social contribution, these people would be guaranteed the best of the available means of life’s sustenance. The third slot in importance goes to commercial activities. These activities may be planned by the scientists so as to sub serve the best interests (mind the grading here) of people and would include elements of planned production, distribution and consumption. The rest of the community that is not able to come up to the first three grading would be a valuable human resource to be deployed that may be needed by the community in pursuit of its first three goals.

15. New Humans Order Zones, a community of more freedom: The zones are able to provide more economic freedom to individuals by eliminating the immoral element of cornering profits by those who plan and control economic engine in the old world. This is done by planning the three basic elements of economy: production; distribution; and consumption. The consumption element is guided by informed incentive; distribution element is controlled by community; and production element is planned to meet consumption- needs by scientific combination of human and natural resources for optimum output (no wastage of human-energy in the form of unemployment etc. finds place in these New Humans Order Zones). In New Humans Order Zones production is a creative enjoyment. These communities are also able to provide more political freedom by employing the information-technology in constantly expressing the will of people in the matter of self-governance. These zones would be transparently self-governed by the available technology and zealously guard themselves against manipulation by money-power (which power would be under social scan and control). Also, these zones would transcend archaic monoliths of religions into the modern day systematic inquiry into things spiritual and thereby provide more cultural freedom.

16. New Humans Order Zones, a community of fewer needs: While the dissemination of information of whatsoever nature would be the backbone of these communities, advertisements to psychologically lure people to unnecessary needs would face non-cooperation and boycott of the community. Such activities would be starved of public's response and thus rendered meaningless for generating funds by promoting blind sales of articles of human use.

17. New Humans Order Zones, a community ensuring its defence by expanding into and absorption of the old world: This growth and expansion are the sine qua non for the survival of these zones against the hostile old world. There is a plain truth expressed in these columns, which is long and consistently recognized by leaders of mankind in different ages. It is the force of this truth that would surely find resonance within secret chambers of hearts of billions of ordinary people throughout the world and get amplified over a period of time in the form of a compelling global demand by them for an alternative civilization. New Humans Order Zones are nothing but this alternative civilization.

18. New Humans Order Zones, a community owing allegiance to an alternative world and civilization: By their very definition, New Humans Order Zones are rival to today’s sovereign nation states. They aspire to absorb and eliminate the modern day nation states (which establish their hegemony by deceitful, immoral and brute force of violence and money, and suppress a justified human spirit’s aspiration for real freedom). These zones rely on the power of people as against that of state. They promote decentralized localism as against centralized multinational-ism. They assert the rights of individual over community, of community over nation and of nation over the globe that is united to usurp individual’s freedom. These Zones make their own political constitutions and laws to govern them as islands amid the ocean of this old world. They print their own local money to give them financial freedom, security and stability. They recruit their own social-volunteers to enforce their laws.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000106.htm 2013-02-03T06:02:33Z 2013-02-03T06:17:01Z New Civilization for 21st Century

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“In quest of a New Civilization: Summary and going ahead”

by Shreepal SINGH (Delhi),
naming self ‘a Concerned Global Citizen'

Here is a summary of what the author has said and premeditated so far about human beings, their society and their evolutionary course.

1. Our curiosity to know is the engine of our progress and evolution. The conclusion is that we should advance the cause of this curiosity by liberating our search from all corrupting influences.

2. The frontiers of modern science bring us to a point where we are able to see the vast span of yet-undiscovered things of bizarre nature. The scientific theories of relativity and probability offer inkling into this bizarre nature of things in nature.

3. The scientific mechanism of hypothesis, experiment, theory and law for understanding the truth of things is not sensitive enough for knowing the truth of those things (phenomena) that are not amenable to the scientific process of ‘controlled and repetitive experiments.' There is a leaking hole in the ‘scientific mechanism' in the form of ‘the effect of the remainder of the universe.' The conclusion is that we should not be arrogant in pronouncing our judgments about things. Things are still mysterious and we should respect this mystery of nature.

4. The greatest mystery of all mysteries of nature is life. While studying life the fundamental question is not how it works but why it works. Life has a wonderful mechanism to function. But still more wonderful is the fact that it has a direction to go ahead, to grow from simple to complex and to evolve from lower to higher.

5. The highest evolved form of life on earth is the ‘intelligent Mind' of humans. It reasons and the reason is equivalent of inter-relations of things present out there in nature, which relations are always harmonious (if they do not look so to a person, he or she is of defective Mind, that is, insane or fool).

6. Mind is a trans-receiver of thoughts. Thoughts in the form of inter-relations of objective things already exist in nature. We may receive them or not receive them, they are always there. What has been thought and what could be thought, both already have their existence.

7. It is not this inter-relation of things alone that consumes the entire picture of nature. There are not thoughts alone that exist in nature. There are other things also having their existence. The creative energy, the urge to unfold, the desire calling for attention also has its own place and relevance in nature. The whole creation is the expression of a grand desire. Like in the earlier case, we humans are trans-receivers of desires. Desires have their own beauty but still it is lower than thought in its rhythm (only from humans' point of view and not absolutely). Desires have a very wide spectrum, which includes all sorts of cravings, attachments, hate and revenge, urges etc.

8. The lowest rung of life is the gross body's instinctive mechanism. It is the first sign of life, the life that has just emerged out of the dark matter. This lower rung of life is represented in trees, insects and animals but it is not exclusively confined to them. Human beings also carry almost all the elements of this lower rung in their evolved self; the difference is that in the case of humans these elements are subordinated to their desires and, during the period of last 10-15 thousand years, to their mind. We are concerned in these articles with human beings and their problems, and not with animals etc. and therefore things should be taken in that context only.

9. Human self is composed of the physical body, desires and mind and these are processing instruments of data. These instruments are all the time connected to their respective outside worlds of these things (the worlds of matter, of desires and of mind) and receiving and transmitting information from and to those worlds. How these elements of human-self are connected to their respective outside worlds? There is a bridging medium between these personal elements and outside worlds. There is a subtle physical body behind our gross physical body, which connects us to outside subtle physical world; and it is so with our body – or bundle – of desires and mind. The subtle physical-body, the subtle desire-body and the subtle-mental body of person do not die immediately with the physical death of that person. They get anchored out of this physical world and remain for their assigned periods in their respective subtle worlds (and therein lay the explanation of sometimes appearing these bodies as ghosts in our physical world). After their assigned period of life, these bodies too are disintegrated only to be absorbed and recycled once again.

10. We live a life composed of the interplaying of our physical body needs, our desires and our thoughts. This is all what we call our life. Ordinarily we do not go beyond these formations. But beyond these formations, there is an element of human-self, of which we are not aware. What is that element cannot be described by words of language but it can be known by experience, just like our awareness of our desires or thoughts or even our physical body. This element is a reality; it is not a mere mental imagination. It is as real as our physical body or desires or thoughts. Any effort to describe this element of our self – the sweetest, the most satisfying, and the most peaceful element of our self – has created through out the long human history the maximum confusion and the maximum antagonism among different sections of mankind. Do the ordinary people have any way of finding – or having at least a glimpse of – it? Yes, there is a way. It is something like what we call the voice of our heart. What is the voice of heart? It is a like a voice in the first place. In some people this voice is (depending upon one's Para-psychological evolutionary stage) often a very strong one, which makes itself heard despite objection from their desires (because it contradicts the legitimacy of those desires) and their thoughts (because it goes against their logic). However, almost in all cases, this voice is suppressed by the mighty ding of our desires and our thoughts. Our desires and thoughts rule this voice out as harmful and illogical one. Thus, this voice of heart is distinctly separate from one's desires and thoughts; it is not only separate from them but even contradicts them and prompts us to go and act against them. This voice is not respected by our civilization; it is not allowed to be cultivated by us. It is ridiculed as worthless, harmful and foolishness. But the reality is that this voice is unfailingly correct in its decisions; its advice is always in the best interest of the person concerned under the available circumstances. This voice is the Gateway to the world of secret of all secrets. We leave this subject at that.

11. Our desires and, like wise, our thoughts have real existence. What is their nature? What are their properties? These entities are not material; they are not electrical charge; they are not made up of gravitational force either. Then, of what nature are they? We have to wait for our science to catch-up with them; it will take time; we must have patience. There are many things we not know yet; this is the lesson, our science teaches us.

12. With this understanding of our self and our life, we proceed further. Our self is a complicated instrument, which has come into being on account of the forces of nature and evolved to this state. Nature is geared to move forward. All her movements seem to move towards a goal; towards the goal of more good, more perfect and always from the better to the best. It is what we call evolution.

13. This evolution of humans is not confined alone to the stream of thriving Homo sapiens on earth. This constancy of biological evolution carried from generation to generation is only one stream. The complicated self of humans follows a pattern of evolution, which is spread over countless births and deaths, on material places (like earth) and on places, which are not material from our reckoning. We must understand this evolutionary pattern and help ourselves to move forward on to the correct course, avoiding pit-falls, zigzag straying off this course or lagging behind lazily. This gives us bacon to chart our course and build our civilizations. This bacon is the pursuit of ‘truth'. Around ‘truth' we have to craft our new civilization.

14. Now we understand that our physical body disintegrates with our death to be absorbed by nature for the second recycling. We understand that the bundle of our desires – our desire-body – like wise disintegrates with our death only to be recycled once again by nature; and, like wise, the bundle of our thoughts disintegrates with our death to be absorbed and recycled once more – in countless such happenings in the past – by nature. All these elements of our self – our instrument – are provided to us by nature in our ‘one' life – in this present life – to help us to become aware of that one element, of which we have spoken about herein above and which we do not know yet. Why should we proceed to know it? Because it is the most satisfying, the most enjoying, the most… (All those things that humans love).

15. Therefore, a civilization that is given to pander our body demands, our desires or our dry thoughts is not suitable for enlightened mankind. Such civilization assaults the nature and mauls it (and, today, beyond repairs), foments competitive ill will and violence and, per force, brings to the fore the traits of human personality that degrade him. But this is only one reason of this civilization being third rate (today). And, this is not the chief reason for its being so. The chief reason is that it in pandering to clamor of humans' body demands, desires and thoughts this civilization effectively pushes behind that sweet element. Therefore, we need to search for a better, a new civilization.

16. The current civilization is exclusively dedicated to this pandering of human needs and demands and there is an engine that powers this civilization. The powerhouse of this civilization is that section of humanity whose sole business of life is nothing but to make available the means – manufactured products – to satisfy those needs and demands of the balance part – a huge number – of humanity. This tiny section of humanity is smart and intelligent. These people sense and search every opportunity to pursue their business – the business of making products available and earn profits in the process. Their one point program is to make profit and nothing else. All their actions are guided this one point agenda. They need machines – machines that are the creation, the fruits, of collective human genius and labor - to produce products and therefore they get possession of those machines; they become owners of those means so that they may earn profits. They need human labor – the work of human being, the most precious thing ever created by nature – so that they may put those humans to work on ‘their' machines and therefore they create (artificially because they are man-made in nature) conditions – economic compulsions – for those human beings so that they are left with no alternative but to flock to them to work on their machines. They call it ‘creating jobs and providing employment'. Creating jobs or providing employment is not their concern (it is necessary evil sought to be avoided) and therefore they reduce the ‘jobs and employment' to the minimum possible. (Incidentally, with the advent of modern age of computerized automation of manufacturing process, this minimum possible is further reduced to a bare few who are technologically highly skilled and economically highly paid; therefore, an era of great unemployment of general public looms large in coming future).

17. The current civilization is patently unjust and third rate in meeting the problems of enlightened humans. Why should the humanity not go deeper into the Para-psychological make-up of humans and investigate the forming elements there? Why should the humanity not delineate those elements and put them into their respective places of comparative utility? Why should the majority of humanity allow the tiny minority of her species today to ‘own' machines, to ‘hire' humans to work on those machines and to make ‘profits' out of this whole arrangement? This arrangement is nothing but a misuse of machine. Machine is a lever that minimizes the amount of labor that is needed in the struggle of Homo sapiens against the harsh nature. Why should the mankind not wean away the use of ‘machine' from generating private profits of a tiny section of her part and instead dedicate this lever – the ‘machine' - exclusively to lessen the common human toil in her war against nature? Humans have come of age now, not only in their science but in their enlightenment also. They must rise fearlessly and fabricate a better civilization. In this venture there is no ill will towards any body and good will towards all. All those among us – we humans – who ‘own' this lever – the machine – are not bad people. And, not all among us who are compelled – consciously or unconsciously – by economic reasons to work for those who ‘own' those machines are good. We all are in this earthly world like the migratory birds, knowing not our destination. We are in a ship – an earthly ship in cosmic ocean – sailing together. We have common interest and common destination.

18. But still a large part of humanity is deeply steeped in ignorance of all these considerations. Mankind can come out of this dismal situation, in comparatively lesser time (we say lesser time because mankind would certainly come out this situation later than sooner on her own account driven by the force of her forward movement, that is, her evolution), by making a combined efforts on three fronts: enlightening people by education; empowering them through technology; and enabling them to manage their own affairs in accordance with the majority wish (effective democracy). It is suggested that based on these three basic principles new civilization zones may be established. But this approach is only ‘wait and watch', which needs to be supported by an active program. This is what we have covered so far in our articles.

19. We propose to proceed further and examine other aspects of the subject, which have not been considered so far. We propose to examine certain other efforts, which were made in the past to replace the current civilization with a new one, and point out their deficiencies in understanding human life and its evolution. After pointing out their defects, we propose to suggest a decisively effective and completely peaceful method of ending the current civilization and substituting it with a new one.
The text is taken from newciv.org

(C) Copyright «Intel Tech»—V.N.Tretyakov (U.M.Tratsiakou). The present information is intellectual property of the author's site, who would be interested in knowing any usage of his materials. Vlad-Tretyakov@yandex.ru]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000105.htm 2012-09-25T05:16:52Z 2013-01-29T13:51:23Z Higgs boson and more destructive weapon than Atom Bomb

The concept of science is firmly linked to humans. Without humans being present there to understand nature, nature would still be there with all its working laws in place but no science. We can legitimately visualize the history (of the development) of science as the reflected mirror image (of the history of the evolutionary development) of humans.

Nature with all its properties and essence has always been in existence there and simply we did not know them. By and by we are becoming aware of them. By knowing nature humans are empowered also. By the knowledge they make machines and change nature according to their needs. Humans are a part of nature. In humans nature is climbing up the ladder to heaven.

A wonderful thing to study is the interrelation of the world as it is in its essence and the human presence with all their inquisitiveness to know this essence.

As an example, before humans knew that apple falls down to the Earth and does not go up above because of an attractive force of Earth – gravity – that pulls it towards it center, obviously this force was always present there. By the works of Isaac Newton we got an idea of this force and its peculiar mechanism of working.

What is the relation of this force of gravity as it exists there in nature and our understanding of this force? This simpleton explanation of this force given by Isaac Newton is not correct, we are told by Einstein; he says, it is because of the curvature of space (and space is real thing!) created by the presence of Earth around it that makes the Newton’s apple move along the shortest path – geodesic path – which looks like falling of the apple down towards Earth!

This time also, the force of gravity as it is in its essence was always present there and simply we changed our understanding of this force.

We call this change the development of science. What is the relation of this development of science to humans? Nature with all its essence (or all its forces) has always been present and working there without any consideration for the human presence and their efforts to know this essence.

When we humans come to know of some part of nature, we simply change ourselves; when we reform and refine our understanding further, we further change ourselves. The development of science is reflected in human evolution.

We humans are inquisitive by nature. We live in a world, which is made-up of a countless things of myriad qualities. We want to know our world, which of course includes us humans also. It is a mysterious yet beautiful loop, wherein ‘we’ who are the product of this nature want to know this nature.

In this inquisitive pursuit, what is given to us as an undisputed premise is ‘our world’ and what is given to us as an available tool is ‘our mind’.

The working of our mind is akin to a computer wherein the biological brain is the ‘processor, input to this processor is made by feeding ‘data’ obtained from our observed world and the output is the ‘reasoned conclusion’. ‘Reason’ is ingrained in nature as its inherent working principle and when it is represented and understood in an abstract form it becomes mathematics.

This ‘reasoned conclusion’ has a long history of development culminating into modern science. Science, to understand world, observes phenomena, offers speculative reason (hypothesis), tests the correctness of this reason by artificially duplicating in laboratory the phenomenon in question (experiment) and after validating this reason in this manner adds one more brick to the edifice of science.

Mathematics is the strongest tool of science to validating a ‘reasoned conclusion’. In this manner in order to understand our world we labor brick by brick, develop our science and in the process become more and more enlightened life-species on earth.
In this pursuit of understanding the world we have come a long way today. Have we, really? Of course, it is all relative! From where we started (cave-dwelling hunters) our journey of this inquisitiveness, we have really come a long way! But from the goal of understanding our world fully, where no question is left to answer or no doubt is left to resolve, we are still far away!!

How do we understand ‘Higgs boson’ and ‘Higgs field’ as a layman but correctly? And, how can we put the importance of this discovery (if the discovered boson, which is termed like Higgs boson, really turns out to be Higgs boson - Higgs boson should have no spin and the discovered boson is yet to be analyzed to find if it really doesn't have spin! ) in the right perspective of things?

In our scientific search of the world, we have come to know that mass and energy are two different forms of the same thing; that mass can be transformed into energy and, vice versa, energy can be transformed into mass; that their inter-relation is defined by the Einstein’s famous equation: e = mc2

There is an enormously successful theoretical framework proposed by physicists to understand the entity that we call matter (and, of course matter includes energy also!) and of which our world is made-up of. This framework is referred to in Physics as the Standard Model and satisfactorily describes the fundamental sub-atomic particles and forces of nature. According to this Model atom is made-up of electrons and nucleus (the later consisting of protons and neutrons). These atomic particles in turn are further made-up of two types of sub-atomic particles: leptons and quarks. Leptons exist on their own but quarks exist bound together. Leptons consist of 12 particles: electrons and electron-neutrinos; Muon and Muon Neutrino; Tau and Tau Neutrino. Atomic particle proton is made-up of six quarks: Down; Up; Strange; Charm; Bottom; and Up. Apart from these 12 sub-atomic particles, there are six force carriers: photon; Z boson; W+ boson; W – boson; Gluon; Higgs boson. Dictated by the requirement of the applicable mathematics, this Standard Model proposes that none of these particles – except Higgs particle – has a mass. But in nature we find that all these particles – except photon particle – have varying degrees of mass. How can we explain this situation? It is proposed by the Standard Model that all these particles get their respective amount of mass only by interacting in varying degrees with the Higgs particle! In nature these fundamental particles interact with Higgs particle and their respective masses are determined by the strengths of their respective interaction with this Higgs particle. Therefore, if there was no Higgs particle in existence, no particle (of the matter) in the universe would have mass! Without the mass, the matter (the mass-less particles) would not stick-together to form atoms etc.

But how can one contrive an experiment to search for this Higgs? We know in nature particles have mass; we also know that mass and energy are one and the same thing inter-related to each other by above said Einstein’s equation.

By accelerating the speed of a particle, we can add mass (mass is a measure of inertia) to it; by this acceleration, we in fact add energy to the sped-up particle. Suppose, we accelerate two particles in opposite directions and then make them collide head-on; what will happen? A great amount of energy would be produced by this collision. Now, the energy cannot be destroyed by any means! At the micro-level, the extra energy imparted by the process of acceleration to the particles speeding in the opposite directions, at the head-on collision, would be transformed into different kinds of new particles.

This was the job done by Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility at CERN at Geneva. One can know the mass (or energy measured in electron Volt – eV) of particles (protons – it is about 1 GeV) which are to be subjected to acceleration and one can also measure the amount of energy imparted to the particles by the acceleration of that particle (till the end of 2011 this energy was increased to 4 TeV per beam and on collision became 8 GeV of total energy); one can also calculate the amount of energy produced by the head-on collision of the two accelerated particles.

Now, the new particles produced by the collision-energy may be detected in refined decay (lepton and photon) channels and measured for their mass or energy. If the amount of total energy produced by the collision comes to more amount than the energy accounted for by all the newly created (and detected) particles, then there must be a newly created particle to account for that excess amount of energy. It is a case for the discovery of a new particle!

In the CERN experiment when collision-energy was accounted for by the total energy used by various newly formed (and of the already known type) particles, there was an excess amount of energy in the range of 125.06 G(ega) e(lectron) V(olt) in the CMS experiment with 0.6 error margin and 125.3 GeV in ATLAS experiment with 0.6 error margin. It was declared that this excess energy was used in the formation of a super-massive Higgs (like) boson!

But this experimental process is not simple. At the time of collision there are many kinds of natural cosmic process of constant new particles formation going on in the background (and, to reduce this factor, the experiment needed to be made underground). Also, the detectors have to catch the right moment (and that depended on the computer software). There had to be repetition of the experiment to remove the negative factors like bumps in cosmic radiation, detectors failure to catch the right moment, background noise, software mistakes etc. to earn the required credibility (the data from June 5 to 18, 2012 of proton-proton 500 trillion collisions at 8 GeV was analyzed).

This was experimental discovery and just two days before the CERN announcement, the Fermilab scientists had also announced that if Higgs boson was to be discovered, it was likely to be discovered in the 115 to 135 GeV range! This was all done and there was a Higgs like particle.

What meaning does it hold for laymen like us? How can we evaluate the worth of this discovery?

We have been able to identify and reduce all fundamental forces into four kinds: electromagnetic; gravity; weak (nuclear) force; strong (nuclear) force. All these four forces are different from one another and fundamental in their separate properties. Strangely, these four fundamental forces are not equal in their strength. The weak nuclear force is almost a 1 billion, trillion, trillion times stronger than gravitational force! The Standard Model is not able to explain this problem, which is called the Hierarchy Problem. We want to somehow unify all these four forces into a single fundamental force (grand unification of forces).

Now, all forces exist in their respective fields; and, a part of this field is carried by a particle of this force. By the application of proper branch of mathematics, we conclude that all fermions and leptons are different forms of a single force but, according to the dictate of the applied mathematics, none of these sub-atomic particles has any mass!

We know, in real world it is not so; except photon, all sub-atomic particles have mass (which is measured in eV - electron volt- since mass and energy are interchangeable and this mass could be in the range of GeV (Gega electron Volts). Without mass, sub-atomic particles would not be able to stick-together (under influence of four fundamental forces) and not able to form atomic particles – like electrons, protons, neutrons. Without atoms and molecules, no world would come into being. But the world is there in existence!

Then, from which source these sub-atomic particles get their mass? This was the question which prompted Peter Higgs and five other independent researchers to propose that we can solve this puzzle by assuming that there is a ‘field’ of force (Higgs field) and a part of this field is carried by a particle (Higgs boson); in Quantum Physics field and particle are one and the same thing and this duality (field versus particle) is dependent on and the result of ‘inter-action with the wave’ etc. etc.
The mathematical requirements of Peter Higgs’ assumption required that all the known sub-atomic particles should have no mass; that these particles should be able to interact (in their own way – that is yet to be discovered) with the new particle (Higgs boson); that depending on this individual type of interaction with Higgs boson, these particles should be able to acquire (get transferred to themselves) a particular quantity of mass from this boson.; that Higgs boson should have no spin etc. etc.

Can we try to understand Higgs boson by an oversimplified analogy? Suppose, 2,3,4,5 are fermions and leptons; if these are sought to be reduced into a single force, we should have a combined pool of energy of 2*3*4*5= 120; but what we find in nature is: 2*3*4*5=945. In case the total energy pool of 2*3*4*5 was 120, we could have concluded that particles 2*3*4*5 were interchangeable in their mutual relations; but the pool was not 120; it was 945. How to resolve this problem? It was proposed that 2 (+1 particle depending upon the capacity of 2 to interact with Higgs field)* 3 (+2 particles depending upon the capacity of 3 to interact with Higgs field)* 4 (+3 particles depending upon the capacity of 4 to interact with Higgs field)* 5 (+4 particles depending upon the capacity of 5 to interact with Higgs field) was = 945. It agreed with the real nature; or, it was tailored to agree with the real nature!
Here, several implications are involved: firstly, there is a vast amount/quantity of Higgs field existing there in nature and how much amount of mass was taken from this vast Higgs field depended only upon the property of a particular sub-atomic particle; secondly, there is a limited number/amount of sub-atomic particles in universe and commensurate with that limited number we find limited mass accounted in nature, while leaving a still greater amount of mass unaccounted for (95% dark matter); thirdly, in the scientists dream to unify all fundamental forces into a single unified force, Higgs field may put a spanner by proposing that: there is one class of sub-atomic particles/forces that have no mass; and there is another class of particles/force (Higgs boson/field) that transfers mass to those non-mass particles. Fourthly, if 95% of the mass in the universe (dark matter) is unaccounted for and all the known matter in our universe accounts for only 5% mass of the universe, then there is still scope in the universe of the formation of more matter till this 95 % of the dark matter or Higgs field is exhausted and this process of new formation may still be going on in our otherwise expanding universe; fifthly, if and when we discover how the non-massive sub-atomic particles (before they get mass by interacting with Higgs boson) are created, we can get some insight whether such particles are still being created and, if so, how much time it will take for them to get transferred to them the remaining 95 % of the remaining Higgs field (or dark matter); sixthly, what will happen when the entire 100 % of the dark matter is consumed and accounted for by the matter that may be created henceforth?

In any way, we need to study the mechanism of the interaction of sub-atomic particles with Higgs field. When we discover this mechanism, a new era of science would start. Once the Higgs field (or, simply the mass field) is understood, we can manipulate the Higgs field like the electromagnetic field.

Gravity is the property of mass and by oscillating the mass-particle (distinct from electrons etc.) we can fabricate gravity transmitters; and these may likelier transmit messages instantaneously over the entire span of universe unlike today’s electromagnetic ones that take years together to send signals over vast universe. Also, we may likely fabricate mass-less vehicles which would travel at the speed of light, like photons.

More dangerously, we may fabricate weapons which would take away mass from our massive-bodies (living and non-living both) and destroy everything without (atomic) explosion! Such a weapon would be qualitatively higher in the capacity to destroy ourselves than today’s atomic bomb. It would be the MOST dangerous weapon! Humanity is not wise enough today to handle such a weapon.

Today we know a lot about electromagnetic waves and their utilization but almost nothing about gravity. This new discovery, if really a discovery, would empower humans beyond imagination; to safely handle such a potent power humans would have to evolve themselves from their present egoistic self to saner beings.

We are still away from a single unified force! Mass (or Higgs field) is not God. Neither the Higgs particle is God’s particle.

In fact, mass is resistance; it restricts the change; it is inertia; it puts hurdle in the way of velocity. It is only because of mass that nothing that is material can travel at a speed more than the velocity of light. It creates a drag on the speed. And, at the speed of light this drag becomes infinite making it impossible for the matter to speed up further.

Mass is just opposite to God. Freedom from mass – freedom from this drag – is liberty; God is not bound to mass; now we know even some sub-atomic particles are mass-less before they interact with Higgs field; being mass-less they cannot create atomic articles, atoms, molecules and compounds, that is, they are free and cannot create our world. They are more free in movement than massive Higgs boson!

In Higgs venture God nowhere comes in. What is the relationship of Higgs venture (God’s Particle) with the God’s and His Beings’ venture? It is this.

In order to understand our world, science observes a phenomenon; proposes an explanation (by hypothesizing parametric conditions) for this phenomenon; artificially duplicates this phenomenon in laboratory (by carrying out an experiment in those parametric conditions); if phenomenon is duplicated, the hypothesis is validated and phenomenon is satisfactorily explained by science.

By this scientific process we understand our world and fabricate articles of our daily use; control diseases; make weapons; talk wirelessly; send rockets to moon etc. To deny this success of science is hypocrisy on our part; it is ignorance; it is foolishness.

And, in the usual human inquisitiveness to know the world, what does the other part of seekers (God’s venture) do? Equally, this set of humans also first observes the natural phenomena; proposes an explanation (by hypothesizing that there is only one force in nature; that it is conscious and benevolent; that to know this force one needs to comply/meet very rigorous parametric conditions like making mind and its noise quiet, prayer and surrender to this force etc.) for this world phenomena; duplicates those parametric conditions (by carrying out a para-psychological experiment by meeting those parametric conditions); if the hypothesis is validated by this experiment, then this set satisfactorily understands this world and its phenomena.

By following this process, there have been persons in the past and there are present still today who understand this world. They utilize this knowledge by flying with a speed that is more than of light (by Einsteinian Relativity it is impossible and yet they so fly!); they make themselves physically available at several geographical locations at a single moment of time (Higgs field would not allow such a feat and yet they achieve it!); they would die in their physical body and come to life once again (such a possibility is denied by medical science and yet they perform it!); they would remember their own past birth (and yours and mine also) and would see the coming events of the future (such a possibility is dismissed by our science and yet they show these abilities to the whole world to test and verify the same!).

One who denies these feats carried out fairly regularly by spiritual persons the world over without taking pains to verify them is a hypocrite. He or she does not want to understand the world and is a pretender only.

Thanks to Peter Higgs for his labors and, more than him, thanks to Lord Buddha, Lord Jesus and countless other saints for their labors! All of them are working towards the same goal, that is, to understand our world.

Both the opposite teams are like tunneling towards the same center of this heap of world from two opposite directions! If they do not miss their goal, they are sure to meet each other.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000104.htm 2012-08-12T16:20:11Z 2012-08-12T16:20:11Z First Earth Summit of Peoples' for New Civilization: Need to Begin

In our fast moving world where unfortunate conditions (over which humans have almost no control) are tumbling down at the break-neck speed and an evil World Order is being crystallized before our own eyes, the idea of a New Civilization offers a flicker of hope in the heart of millions of people. But this idea still has not caught-up the imagination of mankind; the idea has not gone main stream in its appeal.

There is need that the idea of New Civilization is brought to the main stream of humanity’s imagination. This can be done by organizing an annual event of the Earth Summit of Peoples’ for New Civilization. A beginning has to be made in this direction; and, New Civilization Network – as an institution, as a group – has the moral right and the concomitant responsibility to take initiative in this direction.

How can this be done? What are its logistics? This first thing is to raise the necessary funds. Let New Civilization Network work – at least for the time being - as the organizing center for this event. A general appeal may be made to donate money for the purpose; bank account may be opened in the name of the event; the Administrator of NCN may work as the account-keeper and administrator for the event. While thus taking care of the funds, a place to hold the first ‘Summit’ may be chosen by inviting suggestions on the NCN site and arriving at a general consensus. Once this much is done, volunteers may be invited to make preparations; and, lastly, the date of the event, registrations of the participants, lodging arrangements for participants etc. may be tackled.

What should be the theme of the first ‘Summit’? I suggest we use this slogan as a theme: ‘We peoples of the world have gathered to save Earth lest our posterity blame us!’

(This article is also posted as a message to different NCN areas to invite attention)
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000103.htm 2012-05-30T10:13:36Z 2012-06-20T10:11:31Z Impending Global Upheaval and suggested Social Engineering

All humans on Earth as living beings form a crowd of a kind among many; they are a group – a species – that is distinct from the other groups, like animals, trees, insects etc. and is defined by certain specific properties that keep them together as a class apart from others. But this crowd is not homogeneous in all aspects of those common properties. They greatly differ from one another in many respects. This crowd is akin to a caravan on the march: some are in the front of this crowd leading the caravan; some are in the mid-position moving onward on the track carved out for them by those who are in the front; and, then there are those who are positioned at the rear; legging behind and ready to fall off the marching crowd; they find them forced to keep-up by the moving caravan and to somehow move on. All humans are born equal because they all are equal part of this crowd; because they all are equal part of this marching caravan.

But they all are not equal in station in the crowd despite being equal part of this crowd; they all are not equal in place occupied in the marching caravan despite being equal part of the same. Human beings are the product of life’s evolution on Earth and they are as they are – with all their similarities and with all their differences; it is all natural and we humans need not be apologetic about this state of affairs. Despite there being colossal similarities of genes – the biological building blocks of life – among all humans, there are difference there in many respects, which produce many differences among them in many important respects. Then, there are dissimilarities among humans in the matter of state of development of their conscience, mental, emotional and physical formations. By making arrangement to supply all those inputs that are necessary to sustain life – here we mean human life - and further develop it, it is possible for us to help those who are lagging behind to catch-up with those who are middle-positioned in the human-caravan; help those who are middle-positioned to inch forward towards those who are leading in the forefront; and by this arrangement augment the number and the strength of the front rankers of our race.

Every human mind is a processing machine, much like a computer that receives an input data, processes it and produces an output result; human mind – when optimized to its capacity by providing it all that it takes to make it accomplished – observes nature, receives data – scientific information – as an input, processes this data in an ingenious way and provides an output in the shape of scientific discoveries.

A society that makes arrangement for the provision of necessities of life to everybody and guarantees to everyone an incentive to work to his or her optimum capacity produces the maximum number of front rankers who pave the path and direction of humanity’s caravan. Such a society has an effective extra edge in our intra-race competitive environment; such a society is much superior to the rest of competitive segments of human organization; such a society is the fittest in the intra-groups struggle for survival and the most efficient for the marching caravan of humanity as an species in the matter of input-output ratio. However, in what manner these two elements – two requirements – can be put in place for crafting this efficient society, are the bitterest bone of contention and the chief source of conflict among rival sections of humanity in modern times; this conflict may give way to a war that may be fought even with mass-destroying weapons annihilating our race.

We humans have come a long way in our evolutionary journey; we are rational beings and can think in an unbiased manner. Though we know, we humans – like all other kinds of life on Earth – are evolving on an evolutionary ladder; and it takes us long – a very long – time to advance ourselves a little notch upwards on this evolutionary scale to bring any perceptible change in our thinking. Still, we are developed enough to realize that human society can be crafted artificially – by sheer understanding and planning – in a way that brings in these two elements – the elements of human welfare and human freedom - to make them part of the structure. Humans are what they are: always motivated by their instincts; instincts of preservation; dominance; procreation. All those things that give humans the means to preserve, dominate and procreate always attract and motivate them.

Humans are humans and not animals because they produce commodities that satisfy their wants; and animals are animals and not humans because they do not produce commodities. Commodities are artificial articles produced by the human-work when it is applied to the material things offered by Nature as free gift. A commodity is commodity only because it en-capsules within the body of some material thing freely offered by Nature a historical succession of human-work. This succession of human work commencing in pre-historic times and culminating in our modern times remains ever present within commodity in the form of scientific knowledge, technology, machinery, work-force management and required societal production-enabling factors. A piece of commodity apart from having the capacity to meet human wants and thus being of value to humans, is also an anthropological record of the scientific progress made by those humans who produced that commodity.

Commodity is wealth for humans because in their struggle for survival it is a means for them to accomplish their objectives of preservation, dominance and procreation. Commodity, and today services also, is wealth and the accumulation of commodities is the accumulation of wealth; but it is the simplest form of wealth and its accumulation. When commodities – or wealth - are accumulated by someone not for the purpose of consuming them to fulfill his wants but to use them as a means to produce some more commodities – or wealth – with a motive not to consume the production, this simplest form of wealth assumes a complex character. Still, the basics of its character remain the same; commodity retains its character of its capacity to fulfill human wants; it remains the wealth for humans; these commodities – wealth - can be exchanged – or bartered; this wealth can be used either for the consumption of the producer or for producing by him more wealth; wealth can be exchanged through a medium of currency or even by a highly artificial medium of points, drawing rights, credits etc. (so long as these artificial things are backed by hard-reality commodities and precisely accounted for).

A commodity bears within it a very precise quantity of human-work (though in many forms) and of material element taken from Nature; and, if the human work ingrained in it in various forms is accounted for and paid for accordingly, a commodity – or its accumulation as wealth – can never yield any profit whether this commodity is used for consumption or for production of more commodities. It is the human-work in a commodity, which is not accounted for and paid for accordingly, that generates profit; it is variously termed as surplus value, profit, wealth generation etc.; and, the profit comes at the cost of economic exploitation by not accounting for the human-work involved in the production of commodities and by not paying for this work accordingly.

As all humans in our race are not equal in their capabilities, the front rankers of the race – who are less in numbers – find them possessed with the required vision, capacity and initiative to produce commodities for the sole purpose of using this wealth to produce more commodities; the mid-positioned good numbers of humanity of our race find them the willing collaborators in this profiteering venture; and, at the rear – the tail – of this human caravan, a really a vast majority, find them compelled to either work in this profiteering production on dismal conditions or to go unemployed and starve. The rear of the crowd is compelled because it has no vision and capacity to take initiative.

The two elements in our society – the elements of economic welfare and the freedom – do not co-exist together; they are antagonistic; you are given freedom; freedom to think; to have vision; to take initiative; to produce commodities. And, you employ those who are behind you in capacity; to take work from them and do not account for their work and pay accordingly to earn profit; you exploit them economically. Conversely, you produce commodities, account for the human work involved, pay for accordingly and you kill the motive to have vision, take initiative and produce commodities. If there is no profit, there is no wealth; if there is no wealth, there are no advantages associated with it in accomplishing the objectives of preservation, dominance and procreation.

What is the alternative way to offer to the front rankers of our race the effective and equally powerful motive – different from wealth generated by profit – to have vision, to take initiative and to produce commodities? This is the profound question the humanity is faced with today; it is necessary to solve this question in a mathematically precise manner to avert humanity’s social conflict and awaiting catastrophe.

Accumulating wealth by not accounting for the human-work involved in the production process and by earning profit by not paying accordingly is not the only way for wealth-accumulation that can be available to the front rankers humanity; there may be many other ways, which can be crafted by intelligent sections of our race to meet the demands of our times. It is possible to craft our society in a way where all means of cultivating human-capabilities – like economic security, health, education, scientific facilities – are made community owned and made freely available to all sections of society, be it front rankers, mid-positioned or rear portion. But only the front rankers alone – like scientists who make discoveries, accomplished academicians who produce original thoughts, the dare-devils who make records, athletes who win contests etc. - are given the privileges of leading the society in all conceivable fields and by providing that those privileges carry the hefty amount of wealth.

This provision will effectively work as a motive for all to move ahead, to think original, have vision, to take initiative in planning and carrying out production of commodities – albeit without any scope or need to exploit human-work to make profit or wealth. In the democratic self governance of people in all the conceivable fields – legislature, judiciary, executive – only the excellence alone will make a person entitled to be elected or lead; and, all the means to cultivate this excellence will be only community owned and equally open to all without any let or hindrance whatsoever; such social engineering would guarantee that the individual move to excel in any branch of human field is not only given a motive in the form of coveted privileges but also the needed material means to cultivate that excellence.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000102.htm 2012-05-17T12:59:39Z 2012-05-17T13:21:37Z People's Manifesto

The Central Committee of Indian People's Congress is working to prepare a short document - People's Manifesto - which is intended to be the Voice of Humanity. Though this document is being prepared in Indian context and addressed to Indian people, it equally deals with the concerns of peoples of other democratic countries as well. It may be read in the international spirit.

(Draft)
People’s Manifesto – in Participation with People
Political Issue (Document No. 1)

Speaking truth is considered a great virtue in our country since ages and denial of truth invites public ridicule and condemnation. And, it is truth that the demand made by Anna Hazare (and his team) for making a strong Lokpal law to fight corruption in India has got a great public support. Likewise, the demand made by Baba Ramdev (and his supporters) for adopting ‘swadeshi or indigenous’ in every walk of national life and for bringing black money of Indians stashed in foreign countries back to India has got a great popular support. But our representatives sitting in Parliament deny that Anna Hazare or Baba Ramdev represent the will of Indian people. These representatives claim that they alone represent the people’s will and have ridiculed Anna Hazare (and his team) as outsiders. Our Parliamentarians have dismissed these leaders and their movements as ‘outsiders’, civil society and not representing the people will. Parliamentarians assert that these popular leaders have no right to speak on people’s behalf. These public movements lead by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev and the reasons given by our Parliamentarians to dismiss them as not representing the people will raise serious questions about the meaning of democracy. These questions need people’s attention and consideration. The time has come to consider the questions raised by our Parliamentarians. The time has come to assign people and their representatives their right places in relation to each other in our democratic political system.

We, the people of India, had chosen at the eve of independence from foreign rulers to constitute ourselves as a nation into democratic republic. By all accounts, the essence of democracy is that it the rule of the people, by the people and for the people. Democracy is the self-governance of people. Democracy is the self-governance of people for their own development, progress, betterment and happiness. Negatively speaking, democracy is not the rule of a king or dictator over people. Neither is democracy the rule over people of a class or group of persons who may come to possess money or political power. The superiority of democracy as a political institution over all other alternative political institutions like monarchy, dictatorship or theological states lies in the fact that in democracy the sovereignty, the supreme power, rests in the hands of people and they are the masters of their own fate. In democratic India, people are supreme. In democratic India, Parliament, which is made-up of their representatives, is not supreme or superior to people. Parliament members are servants who are chosen by elections to serve the people, their masters. Even the Indian Constitution, which the Indian people have enacted, is not above and superior to Indian people. If the Indian people do not like that the national resources of the country like land, forests, mines etc. should be given in the private hands, their this desire has the supremacy over all other considerations. To say that giving of these national resources in the private hands is the only way to bring progress and development of an otherwise poor India does not provide the democratic authority to overrule the people’s desire to reject this model and to choose a different and alternative model for bringing progress to India.

But all people do not think in this manner. There are disagreements and antagonism among different sections of people. People are not unanimous in their opinions about any or everything and it is but natural. In the matter of taking decisions by people on any issue, the unanimity of their opinion is the best thing that could be achieved, though it is almost always elusive. The next best thing to having unanimity of opinion in taking decisions, which could be hoped for, is to arrive at a decision by the majority of opinions. If all people agree on one thing in taking their decision, it is good; but if they disagree, they may arrive at a decision by the majority of opinions. It is the power of this mechanism to resolve disputes and disagreements among people that makes democracy, as a political institution, better than any other alternative or competitive institution. It is but natural that all people are not similar or alike in their circumstances. Some are poor and some are not. Some are educated, powerful, intelligent etc. and some are not so fortunate because of their disadvantageous circumstances. Because of this difference of circumstances, there is almost always a clash of interests and economic antagonism among different segments of people. The beauty of democracy is that this clash of interests among different sections of people can be resolved amicably and without violence.

However, the unfortunate aspect of democracy is that when decisions are taken to the liking of majority and to the disliking of minority, the minority has to submit itself, obviously much against their wish, to the unpleasant dictates of the majority. When decisions thus taken by the majority relate to important issues, like distributing national wealth or rights to exploitation of natural resources or rights of access to material means necessary to sustain, educate, progress and prosper oneself etc., the minority has to suffer the loss and the majority would gain the advantage. It is an obvious outcome of democratic self governance of people. However, if by any crude or subtle device it becomes possible (and it comes to happen) that the wish of the majority is distorted and the wish of the minority is flaunted as the wish of the majority, then it is the distortion of democracy. In a distorted democracy, the wish of the majority is distorted and the wish of the minority is flaunted as the wish of the majority. In such a distorted democracy the wish of the minority is imposed on the majority and the majority has to suffer the loss, much against the democratic principles. Another unfortunate aspect of democracy is that there are very many devices – both subtle and crude - available in it those make it possible to distort and thwart the will of the majority and to flaunt this disguised minority-wish as the will of majority. The chief device among (like caste considerations, resorting to corruption and crime etc.) them all is the device of money-power. Money is not available equally to all and one who has more money uses this money-power to distort the choice and will of the majority-electorates. This defect of democracy forces the majority to come to the streets, launch agitations and create a law and order problem in an otherwise peaceful society. This defect of democracy makes it possible that a tiny minority of national and multi-national corporate houses, with or without the helping hand of democratic political power, decide economic policies in most of the democratic countries world-over much to the disliking of people and against the majority will. This defect of democracy produces popular movements like Anna Hazare, Baba Ram Dev etc. in India and Occupy Wall Street in the U.S and Occupy London in the U.K. These movements represent the will of majority of people. And, these popular movements are solely against the so-called democratic governments that boast of itself to represent the will of the majority.

In the matter of democratic self-governance of people, the ideal situation is that people do not elect third parties - other persons - to represent them and to take decisions on their behalf. In this ideal situation people can directly participate in the decision making process and arrive at decisions on all crucial issues concerning their lives, lands, waters, forests etc. without any need to have outsider third persons to take decisions on these issues on their behalf. In the bygone ages when there was small population living simple life in villages this type of direct democracy was possible. People in ancient India had indeed practiced this type of political institution. But today in a country having enormous population spread in vast geographical area, the practice of this type of direct democracy is not possible. However the technological advancements may make it possible for us in very near future to practice people’s direct democracy. Today, we are a bit away from this type of democracy of technologically empowered people. But certainly even today we can take some steps towards achieving this goal of a democracy of technologically empowered people. Even today we receive and transfer our money – money that is the most precious thing of all to us– by the use of internet and mobile phones. Likewise, we can certainly transfer or withhold our votes in favor or against our supposed representatives through internet and mobile phones on daily basis. This type of empowerment of people by utilizing technological advancements requires drastic reforms in our existing outdated electoral laws. This technological empowerment would allow Indian people to take their fate in their own hands. When today it is technologically possible for us to vote, elect and recall our representatives on daily basis there is no reason why we should not use this powerful technological tool to empower our people in the field of their democratic self-governance. To remedy the current dangerous situation prevailing in India, our country should take prompt starting steps in the matter of electing and recalling people’s representatives by utilizing technological advancements, as has been suggested below.

The first thing that is required today is to make our democracy truly representative of the will of people, so that democracy can survive as a political institution of people’s self-governance. The true representation of people’s will in our democratic self governance is otherwise also necessary today; a sense of dissatisfaction and discontent is currently prevailing in some sections of our people and our institutions badly need the people’s support and power to withstand against the armed revolts, separatism, public movements etc. of these dissatisfied and discontented elements. To make our democracy truly representative of the will of people, it is necessary that all matters of policies that directly affect the lives of common people and bring an irreversible change in our national life should never be allowed by our people to be decided by persons sitting far away from them and over whose acts people do not have any control after electing them. The demand of Anna Hazare to take away the power from people’s representatives sitting in Parliament to take decisions in such matters and to give this power to village panchayats/ city councils is the most important one and in the right direction in the matter of Indian people’s democratic self-governance. This demand is more effective in setting our corrupt democracy right in comparison to the efficacy of a Lokpal institution.

Recently a demand has been made by the Chief Minister of a State (Prakash Singh Badal, the Chief Minister of Punjab) that Constitution of India does not meet the requirements of our times, like the need to protect federalism, and that a new Constituent Assembly should be elected by the Indian people to frame a new Constitution that meets the requirements of our times. We agree that India should be a federal political structure and, while ensuring that the unity and integrity of India is protected, the principles of local autonomy and federalism should be strictly adhered to by our multi-ethnic country. And, we go further and say that Constitution of India does no longer provide a mechanism whereby the will of the people is truly reflected in the matter of democratic self governance; and that this Constitution needs to be drastically amended or replaced by a new one to cure this defect. By enacting a new Constitution or amending the present one, Indian people should ensure that the representatives who are nearest to them are given the highest power and authority and who are farther (or away) from them are given the least power and authority. It is befitting in India that village panchayats and city councils are given the sole authority to take decisions on important issues concerning people’s lives like taking lands, forests, mineral wealth etc. away from their hands or handing these resources over to others for use and exploitation. In such important matters, representatives sitting at central place (in national capital) far away from people who elected them should have the least power to take decisions. These representatives sitting in national capital should have power only to carry forward/ implement/ coordinate the execution of the decisions already taken by Indian people through their village panchayats/city councils. The time has come for Indian people to demand that all power and authority to take decisions affecting their lives be given to people working through their panchayats/ city councils; that the representatives of people sitting far away from people in Parliament be given the work only to implement those decisions taken by people uniformly throughout India and to coordinate and ensure their compliance.

The second thing that is required to make our democracy truly representative of the will of the people is to technologically empower Indian people to express their will in the matter of electing and recalling their representatives. This can be done by utilizing the technological advancements already available today in the matter of electing and recalling the people’s representatives on regular basis. It is possible today – it is reality today – that Election Commission of India can put in place and maintain an electoral internet website, which is connected to every single mobile phone used in India. The required software can be created that makes the use of a mobile possible only when and if a vote is cast by the user first. The required law can be enacted to make this democratic exercise obligatory on the part of every phone user. Votes for and against a representative can be tallied by the Election Commission on daily basis to find out the will of the electorates for or against that representative. The electoral laws can be enacted to provide that if a representative falls below 50% in popularity of his electorates for continuously six months or so, he shall be shown the exit door.

What we need to progress as a democratic nation is not to invite capital – of national and multi-national corporate houses– to invest in India, to privatize every national resource here and to make unimaginable profits by exploiting these national resources; what we need to progress as a democratic nation is to make our democracy true representative of the will of the majority of Indian people. But whether the representatives of people ever permit the Indian people to become technologically empowered and self-govern themselves, is an issue to be decided by the people. The movements of Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev are the first steps of Indian people in this direction.

As soon as Indian people are empowered by utilizing technological advancements in the matter of their democratic self governance, they will be able to express their true will on the important policy matters. Today the functioning of our democratic system is defective. Solely because of this defect in our democracy, a tiny number of persons have come to possess money and political power. They claim that their decisions are Indian people’s decisions. These persons, while claiming to work in accordance with the will of our people, assert that giving away of our national resources in the private hands is the only way to bring progress and development of an otherwise poor India, much against the resentment, opposition and agitations of our people. Our democracy is defective and the claim of a tiny number of powerful persons that they represent the wish of Indian people is false. Because of our defective and outdated democracy, these powerful persons neither represent the wish of Indian people in giving away our national resources in private hands nor do they have the democratic authority to overrule the people’s desire to reject this model of bringing progress to India and the people’s right to choose a different and alternative model for achieving progress in our country. If the Indian people do not like that mines, minerals, lands, forests, education or healthcare be handed over to profit-seeking national and multi-national private hands, then the people have the democratic authority to reject these moves.

If the group or section of persons who are presenting and implementing these moves towards privatization of everything are found by a credible method of ascertaining the people’s real choice that this group or section of persons as a matter of fact does not represent the choice of people, then this group or section of persons cannot have the democratic authority to go ahead with these moves any further, how so much money or political power they may possess. This is the spirit of democracy. This is the crux of democracy. The model of bringing progress in India through the so-called economic reforms (or privatizing all economic activities) will turn India very soon into a very powerful world economy where a tiny number of persons will be the richest in the world and the remaining vast majority of ordinary people will be living an abject life hovering around, below or above, the line of poverty; where science and technology would be highly advanced but its benefits would go not to people but to corporate houses; where all national resources would be in the hands of corporate houses to make profit and not in the hands of people – the real owners of these resources – working there on the conditions imposed by those corporate houses; where automation of production made possible by technological advancement would be used to fire working people out of jobs to make more profit and not to ease their workload; where a great Indian army will find itself fighting wars for others to fulfill the designs of national and multinational corporate money (like wars being fought in Iraq and Libya by western armies to get oil-contracts for corporate houses); and where peace of Indian people and the world will be shattered.

The alternative model of bringing progress to India could be to empower Indian people in their democratic self governance; where technologically empowered people exercise ever vigilant control over their self government by monitoring the performance of their representatives, by constantly electing and recalling them; where thus empowered people have the exclusive privilege to carry on the economic activities of production, distribution and consumption of products and have the job, in addition to the job of running government, to keep accounts of wealth generated by people; where the empowered people impose iron discipline on national economic activities backed by extreme penalty to the erring individuals; where the incentive for people working as managers, administrators or executers in the matter of carrying on economic activities is not to make profit but to earn social recognition and respect; where the benefits of the advancement in science and technology directly go people and not to corporate houses to make more profits; where the automation of production-process made possible by technological advancement is not allowed to be used by corporate houses in pursuit of their greed of more profit to result in laying-off and unemployment of working people; where India would weave people’s lives around Asia’s ancient humanist values of cooperation and not competition; sacrifice and not greed; compassion and not selfishness; socio-economic justice and not exploitation; where India would promote integration of Asia as a block in the world affairs and set a global agenda for humanity for world peace, progress, harmony and enlightened human life. Now, who will decide which one of these two models of bringing progress to India is better? Certainly, the tiny minority of national and multinational corporate houses, with or without the help of our representatives, have no democratic right to decide this question. And, certainly, the people of India have this democratic right to decide which one of these two models of bringing progress this country should adopt.

Today our democracy has been distorted by money. Our people’s republic has been hijacked by national and multi-national corporate houses. They are tiny in numbers and rich in money but are able to thwart the will of the majority. In league with each other and with the helping hand of our own elected representatives, this tiny minority is racing against time to bring an irreversible change in Indian national life in the name of economic reforms. This tiny minority has evil eye on an Indian peace loving and contented way of life. This evil design of tiny number of powerful national and multi-national corporate houses is to turn India into a market and turn Indians into animals consuming their products, where Indian people are left with no option but to work for them from early mornings to late nights only to be able to pay insurance premiums and bills to sustain their lives and catering to the greed of this evil minority. We cherish democracy. We love democracy. And, democracy is the rule of majority over minority, howsoever intelligent or rich or powerful this minority may be. In democracy the people are supreme and not the money. The money of the corporate cannot be allowed, whether with the help of our representatives or without their help, to distort the will of the majority, to turn Indian people into their consuming colony and to turn this country into a stinking mass of hapless humans groaning under the weight of their greed for more profits.

]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000101.htm 2012-04-02T14:52:20Z 2012-04-02T14:55:32Z OWS: How to survive the winter and emerge stronger?

When challenged, people’s bravery and ingenuity know no bounds. OWS is people’s direct action against the corporate greed and its political support base. In their struggle against an already fearsome opponent, now the people in this nascent stage find one more unusual foe lending a helping hand to their bitter opponent: the winter weather. The winter has added more – and is going to add still more – woes to the embattled people.

The question is: how do we overcome this natural impediment and emerge at the end of the ordeal intact in our body and soul of the movement? It is possible for the people to wear out this winter unscathed and emerge even stronger at the end of the trial. The secret of this success lies in the way of our working and thinking about this movement.

We must recognize that OWS is a people’s action against the corporate greed and its political support-base and that it seeks to replace this duo with something better with the aid of people’s power. We should also recognize that this something better has to be discovered or invented by the people themselves to solve their problems in hands and cannot be borrowed in a ready-made fashion from our opponents; this something better to solve our problems cannot be supplied to us by the so-called researched SOLUTIONS of these opponents.

Let us put this question in a straight forward way: what do we want to do, supposing we win in our (OWS) efforts? Perhaps, a major part of us at the OWS would agree that we want to replace the present corporate greed nurtured and protected by our political establishment (s) with the sovereign governance “of the people, by the people, for the people” – this time in EFFECTIVE MANNER.

If this be our aim, then we would be called upon to change our attitude – the working – towards OWS: we can no longer afford to view this movement as something negative, a mere protest, an opposition to something (like corporate greed) that we do not want to remain in our country; a negative stand and nothing more. This view is half-truth. The other half-truth is that we are a people’s movement aiming at positive things; that we are struggling to replace the present rot with the people’s governance; that we have the right to assume that we have the sovereign right to govern ourselves; that we have the RESPONSIBILITIES to perform like a sovereign government to MANAGE our things in a better manner than the management imposed upon us by our opponents.

In simple words, this calls for our engagement during this winter in constructive works; we should take in our hands constructive work of improving the people’s lot; we should occupy ourselves (as if we are running a government of the people, by the people, for the people) with the jobs aimed at resolving the people’s problems (that we are currently facing). These constructive works would include:

1. Occupy all available houses/buildings to shelter the OWS participants; make an appeal to all those who may offer their properties free of charge (this is opposite to greed and would be people’s reply to this greed) to OWS movement to house the participants. This step would help reduce the harshness of winter, enhance the unity and goodwill among participants and would be people’s reply to the devil’s creed of greed. This step would facilitate the movement to survive the winter and emerge in spring more strong – morally and politically.

2. Learn to enforce self-discipline: OWS is crucible of social experiment of people’s self-governance in all matters of their lives, albeit for a short period of winter season. There may be (rather would be) scarcity of food, cloths, medicines etc. during this trial and people should learn to give preference in supplying these necessities to weak, old, infirm, children, women and those in more need over those who can wait for these supplies. This step calls for sacrifice, love and compassion to others on the part of OWS participants, which is just opposite to the evil of greed. These values, when practiced by people would be a harsh reply to our opponents’ greed and their animal instinct of celebrating over other people’s miseries. We the people are the sovereign rulers – and we shall rule ourselves directly and effectively rather soon than expected. Let us replace people’s regulation by corporate greed with their own self-regulation with discipline. This way, we shall emerge this winter triumphant and more robust in our popular appeal in coming spring.

3. Learn to control crime, drug-abuse, sexual crimes, racial hatred etc.: These are grave problems being faced by OWS on day to day basis and we have to learn to correct these social maladies in a better way than the one adopted by our opponents. Let the competent volunteers among the OWS participants invent social and/or psychological tools (like offering personal examples by volunteers of amiable behavior) to help the afflicted persons to improve himself or herself and bring a beneficial change in their life-style. In a self-regulating society (like OWS), these drug-addicts and deviants should be taken the victims of circumstances created by the corporate greed – these circumstances being the bye-products of the hot-pursuit of more profits by the greedy corporate. Let the people use their ingenuity during this difficult period – winter season – to work constructively and find ways and means to cure our society of these ills. Any achievement – even a small one – by people on this front would be enough to demolish the claimed validity of the insensitive methods that have so far been used by our antagonists to tackle these problems. And, this our method would establish the superiority of the people’s self-regulation and governance in solving their problems over the methods of devil’s creed.

4. Organize voluntary and parallel health services: This is another field of experimenting with the idea of creating a better alternative voluntary and cooperative health services for the OWS participants. Let us pool our health related resources – expertise and means – and use them efficiently without the element of greed. This service is the most essential to make OWS survive through this winter.

Good luck from Indian People's Congress]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000099.htm 2011-11-14T15:21:43Z 2011-11-14T15:21:43Z Occupy Wall Street: To win, make OWS global movement

OWS has its origin in US but its core element of the people’s direct action against corporate greed supported by political establishment has worldwide ramification. This movement has global popular support and sympathetic resonance. OWS is pitted against an unbelievable powerful opponent – the global corporate-capital that has its life- nourishing tentacles stuck everywhere on this planet and is in league with political establishments there, including US.

For OWS to succeed in US it is very necessary that this movement is spread globally and the whole humanity is pitted against this fearsome opponent. Our Earth is still divided into different political units – nations – that are mired into their own separate problems and popular issues. Still, behind these different issues, this core issue of corporate greed and its collaboration with the political establishments there is very much present in all countries.

OWS is faced with many kinds of problems calling its urgent attention. The first and the foremost problem are to face the weather – ordinary people in the open exposed to the extreme cold. It has become the topmost issue of the survival of the movement through this weather. It calls for ingenuity and bravery on the part of OWS participants; in coming month, the real fight may be against the weather and not so much against the corporate greed, of course till this winter is over.

The second problem faced by this movement would be to enlarge its scope from US to global. In the backdrop of the reality of different socio-political conditions in different countries, it is not easy to enlarge its scope; already in US the participants of OWS are not of one view on many important issues. Still, there does not seem to be any alternative to the spreading of the scope of OWS to other countries, if this movement is to succeed.

There may be a few things and issues on which a common stand of “yes and no” may be formulated by the participants for global presentation for common movement of humanity. Here are some suggestions for consideration of OWS.

We say:
NO to the dictatorship of religious thought-processes (like all religions);
YES to the freedom of enquiry into all religious thought-processes;

NO to the dictatorship of political thought-processes (like Marxism, Nazism, Anarchism, Capitalism etc.);
YES to the freedom of scientific evaluation of all political thought-processes;

NO to the political dictatorship (like Communism, Socialism, Deformed Democracy etc.);
YES to the freedom of choice for Democracy, Direct Democracy, and Self-Governance;

NO to the dictatorship of corporate in the matters of carrying on production, distribution and consumption of commodities through their capital;
YES to the freedom of people in the matters of carrying on production, distribution and consumption of commodities through their Direct Democracy.

NO to the enforced-compulsion of commitment to only one nation, race, economic unit, one king;
YES to the freedom of choice to commit oneself to the human unity and her global welfare;

NO to the right of corporate to injure nature in pursuit of their greed;
YES to the right of people to save Earth.

]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000098.htm 2011-11-07T10:22:23Z 2011-11-07T10:26:44Z "Occupy Wall Street" movement: Let people demand "Direct Democracy"

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.

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