How-To Fix Politics

In today’s global society, politics has become a game for narcissistic personalities to grab the spotlight by winning the most meaningless popularity contest of all, and giving these individuals, be they lacking in scruples, or practical experience, or aptitude, something resembling a measure of absolute power. Not only is this extremely obvious to the average person, but it has become well understood around the world that politics is a dirty profession, and politicians are all corrupt, whatever station they may win. Now maybe you may be saying, “wait, politicians do care,” and I agree, they care, about their reputation. They are constantly worried about people discovering their little bedroom indiscretions, or the state of their health, or how many tickets they have gotten. They are constantly smiling and shaking hands and waving at people, even though they secretly despise them. In more recent times, the supposedly humble politicians have gathered huge groups of well groomed employees around to shake hand with instead of average citizens.

All of this nonsense has to stop. As everyone already knows, politics is far separated from a moral calling. It is a popularity contest. Politicians are well known for playing dirty and making promises they can’t keep. Politicians should not really have to worry about moral issues, because they should learn what the people want, and give it to them. If everyone wants war, even if the politician doesn’t, the people should get their war. If everyone wants good health care and education, they should get the quality they expect. If a politician sleeps around, but does his job properly, nobody is harmed. If a politician is a terrible driver and loves to party, but comes to work on time and does an exemplary job, then no worries. Anything more would dehumanize the poor weary politician, and alienate him from himself, which is the worst thing anyone could ever do.

This brings us to the issue of corruption. It is widely accepted worldwide that anyone who runs for political office is corrupt. This is almost completely true in almost every case. Most people are a little bit corrupt even without running for office. Now lets do some elementary logic and make a decision about which politician you want ruling over you. I know that most people would say they don’t want a corrupt individual making decisions about them, so using simple logic, you would decide to vote for none of them. So who will fill these important positions, you might ask, and I, not being an anarchist, would have to agree and echo your question, along with billions of other people around the world.

The answer is, vote for someone who isn’t running for political office. Lets first get one thing straight. Politicians have been spending centuries trying to convince people that politics is a difficult and complex task. Well, that is a lie told by politicians who want more job security, even though nobody likes them. Politics is basically an upper management position in which you get to decide how complicated your job has to be, so by making politics seem as complicated as possible, and often failing in the process, politicians get to keep their hold onto power. Now that your mind is at ease, you should be able to pick someone with a little less guilt.

Now you might be wondering, how do you elect someone who isn’t running for political office? Who is out there available to do the job? The answer to that is complicated, yet very simple. Look around you. Look at those people who do a better than average job, and still somehow have time to take care of things like volunteer work, while you are exhausted, stuck sitting on your easy chair watching television or playing computer games. Now sit back and put a crafty smile on your face, stop envying them that their yard looks better than yours, and get a grassroots movement started, you are about to elect someone into office, and you are going to feel a sense of satisfaction that you got someone you always envied into a very difficult and punishing job, and all you had to do was sit in your easy chair.

In a proper democracy, the people are the royalty. In USA there have been times in which The People elected someone into office who didn’t even want the job. Now, this may sound cruel, or possibly a bad idea, since the person may not be qualified for the position, but like everyone knows, it has to be better than the current situation. Start a movement around The People, not around a single individual. Don’t make the person hold big fancy speeches that are basically meaningless. Don’t make the person kiss babies and shake hands with everyone. Government officials are lower than citizens, they are servants, they bow to the people, not the other way around. You should have no more respect for them than you had before they were elected. You should not put your trust in them, always question, always keep them honest, and if they make a mistake, gather together into a majority and make your voice heard until they change their position.

The USA is a special case. Their right to bear arms was a purposeful measure to keep the people dangerous, always ready to rise up in a rebellion in case the government tries to do something it has no right to do. Once this right is removed, the government becomes the royalty again, as it always was historically in other nations, and the people lose. You have probably seen, exemplified in other countries, the state of civil uprising in which civilians have no weapons to defend themselves. The rulers slaughter their own people, they prance their military around and go on a rampage. Other nations have to smuggle weapons in to help get the rebellion started. This is an outrage to any patriotic US citizen, and a pitiful state of affairs indeed.

Free Food Update

It has been a dream for many people to create a system that creates free food available for everyone. The possibility is right around the corner with the advent of solar powered factories, along with the mini-mart food shop accompanying fuel stations. There is a huge number of people in this world who would be willing to work part time in return for a direct payment of food, even just for one or two hours of work. This could be considered a volunteer occupation, with all food priced purely for the reimbursement of labor and fuel.

To start the system, a fully established shipping company needs to partner with a network of fully established factories, or branch out to run a dedicated free food factory venture. The truck drivers could be existing truckers who want to help out one day a week with feeding the needy, or simply want free food. The factory workers could be people who are looking for jobs or work experience and would work for food,  people who want to feed the needy or just want free food. The fuel would be earned by dropping off food to the mini-mart fuel stations in exchange for points on a gas card.

It would be extremely easy to get a free supply of grains of most types into the factories from any number of farms. This is because many farms have to throw out their produce because of lack of demand and overproduction, leading to spoilage of otherwise perfectly good grains. Some estimate that this number can be as high as 30% of food crops annually.

Generating completely free food may require the creation of a completely free supply chain. One popular method is to create isolated communities of people who get together for a common goal. These could be people who don’t want to have to relax during a vacation, or people who enjoy taking life slow on a traditional farm, or some kind of youth group trip to learn about farming, or just some people who want to help make food free, and people who want free food. Each commune could have its own methane production plant generated by their dairy farm to deliver grain to the factories.

New farming methods need to take hold in order to make making free food a viable possibility. It is just an expectation of life that there will be few people available to donate their precious time, and many people who are in need of the services provided. This means that per-person productivity needs to be increased, and not only for free food production, but for-profit enterprises as well. Technologies like biologically secure geodesic dome structures that focus more light into the farm, or multilevel agricultural buildings that sit in the middle of towns, or even altering plants to grow at any time of the year and at a single steady temperature would boost productivity immensely.

There needs to be some financial incentives to get individuals and businesses involved in the creation of free food networks. The free food organizations could get together frequently to spend their excess capital in a bonus program to give extra hard workers of any station a little boost. This attracts people to volunteer, if not to help feed the needy, then for a chance to win $1000 bonus prize every month, or $100 per week. Non-profits and volunteer organizations often get tax breaks all over the place. They also attract intelligent individuals interested in advancing the common good, even people like accountants and lawyers flock to the aid of these organizations in times of need. Active charity work often also attracts large government grants, often in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. This could be the one final ingredient needed to make everything run smoothly.

Rejection is Good

Equality is a great thing. Everyone gets one cookie. Everyone gets equal education and equal opportunity. Everyone gets clothing and a place to sleep. But in some cases, equality is a terrible thing, and leads only to self destruction of any population.

When individuals are looked upon as equals, they are not oppressed or attacked as enemies. Equality should be more about quality of outcome than it should apply to individuals. If a man does a better job than a woman, he should get an equal return based on the quality of his work, this means that even though his payment is considered equal, he gets paid more than she does. The same is true for a woman who does a better job than a man, and for race, and for religion, and for any other such distinction that is ultimately irrelevant to quality of work. Irrelevancies can be quite counter intuitive, for example, one person may have a degree or many years of training and education, but the person off the street produces a better quality. This makes education and other measurements of prior accomplishment irrelevant.

Judging by quality is basically, and I would say fundamentally an evolutionary principle.  Natural selection produces outcomes that favor greater quality of work. Somehow, over the decades, there has been a huge gravitation away from anything that can be considered evolution based. Fortunately, evolution rules any area of life that can not be perfectly regulated by a ruling body, thus making us all safe from the detrimental effect that eliminating evolutionary principles would have, which is mostly visible in things of such large scope that one regulatory body simply doesn’t have the resources to manage them.  Evolutionary principles are responsible for the great divide between rich and poor, but anti-evolutionary activity is responsible for the existence of the poor.

Most people think of evolution as some strange abstract theory, understood mostly in terms of historical biological processes, but the truth is that evolution is a social function that is happening all around us right now. It happens in populations of organisms and can not happen when all organisms are completely isolated. Biology is thus a social process, with many individuals working together, following evolutionary processes that ultimately lead to superior forms. The only people who despise evolution after these facts are people who are undereducated or willfully ignorant.

One area that must never be separated from evolution is sexual selection. This is purely limited to physical interactions and production of offspring. In many regions that fester with crime and extremely poor quality of work, people don’t care what their partner looks like, and they certainly don’t care what their partner thinks. They just do the deed as though there is no person there at all. This is basically random selection, which produces random results. People who are not of sound mind or body are able to reproduce, which leads to more people who may be mentally and physically ill and therefore unable to generate the minimum quality of work necessary to keep a population stable. Even though these populations advocate birth control measures, many people still opt to have these randomly selected children.

I am not saying it is bad to have children, but it is bad to have no idea who your partner is, and have no respect for your partner’s values. Since evolution determines quality of outcomes, all living organisms are socially capable of discriminating the quality of others by simple observation. If you see an inferior product, don’t reproduce with the worker, your offspring will be negatively affected. Their quality of life will likely be worse than yours. Many children of random selection attempt suicide and often say they wish they had never  been born.

Evolutionary forces create hierarchical structures. All hierarchies are formed by evolutionary processes. If you eliminate these processes, you will be left with a random outcome. One example is government. When a leader is selected without a full inspection of that person’s values and leadership style, the selection is random, and the quality of the resulting leader is ambiguous. Most people reading this will have to admit that they could have done a better job finding out about their choices before they made a decision. The likelihood of the leader being a good one, luckily for you neglectful voters, is fifty percent, unless all of the leaders are a product of the random selection process in society and culture.

Mind Programming

You may be wondering, “what is the brain?” or thinking to yourself “am I just a biological robot?” and the answer is invariably yes. In the same token, it is possible to use a repeatable scientific approach to program your brain, or as is often the case, to deprogram, or remove brainwashing and bad habits. Unfortunately, you can’t simply attach a keyboard into your brainUSB port and get inputting new programs and deleting old ones. The  brain’s programming code base is primarily altered through the programming of the environment around you, through your senses and how you react.

In this update to mind programming you will learn some guidelines to eliminating unwanted emotional responses to things, and the basic programming user interface for the brain. Programming by using the senses is not an easy task as it requires a lot of repetition, but it is simple enough. Some people will experience faster results than others based on their brain’s plasticity, but all brains are somewhat plastic, meaning alterable, so don’t lose hope. I will have a report on repetition intervals and guidelines for how often to train in a later update.

So then, lets begin by creating your very own brain programming toolkit. This is something you have to assemble on your own, and may take a while to master. To assemble your toolkit you must focus on the emotions and reactions that you have to things, and concentrate on those emotions while in a reflective state of mind. This may come quickly and easily to you if you are the type of person who knows how feelings really feel, but don’t be too disappointed if you really don’t know, a lot of people don’t. To collect elements for the toolkit, simply subject yourself to situations, or imagine situations, and remove yourself from the emotional equation immediately after feeling an emotion. Think about the emotion very hard, try to memorize how it makes you feel from the tip of your nose to the tips of your toes. Notice how your face feels, or look in a mirror at your face to see what expressions you are making while you feel the emotions. Notice your posture and how walking and talking feels while you are feeling the emotion. Try to memorize it to the best of your ability.

Now that you have a piece in your toolkit, give it a whirl. To test whether a toolkit element is fully integrated, try using it. Yes, this means you should be able to recall exactly how you felt, and bring up the emotions all over again. Don’ t let yourself get sucked too deeply into it, as deeper emotions can be damaging in that they are far more effective at programming your mind, possibly creating strange emotional responses to mundane situations. Try to recall emotions in a completely calm and safe environment, with as few surprises as possible, and try not to observe it too closely. For example, you could be practicing the extreme sadness emotion, I don’t know why you would, but say you do, when suddenly a car drives by. You may notice later that a car driving by awakens that emotional response and eventually cars driving by will make you cry. It may sound absurd and impossible, but however unlikely, this is what can happen, so take care.

Finally, once you decide that you have sufficiently memorized the emotion you want, possibly over the course of a week or a month, or maybe just from remembering all day, you are ready to apply the emotion to a situation. Make sure that you pay close attention to the order of events in a real world situation. First you have to experience the real event, then while you are in the midst of the emotion you want to remove, remember the emotion that you want to experience. This will create a chain of events in your mind that overwrites the old emotion. Make sure to try to be in the event while you are overwriting emotions. It is also possible to memorize how you feel when you are sapped of all emotion, having no emotional response to something, or perhaps that feeling of confusion or friendship will work just as well.

The reason this system works is because of how the brain works at its most basic level. The amygdala is the lima bean sized part of the brain that basically contains all of the responses to things that wild animals have in order to survive. These emotions and responses are often obsolete in human society. This is mainly the part of the brain that we are reprogramming by overwriting a new emotional response over the old one. Conceptually this is the conscious mind training the unconscious/subconscious/habitual mind, the oldest part of the brain/mind, and so it may be obvious why we share it with animals. I like the concept of the habitual mind a lot because it basically controls all actions you have perfectly refined into an instant response, or a habit, something you don’t consciously think about, thus making it the unconscious or subconscious. It operates at a higher speed than the conscious mind due to its small size, if you study CPU technology you will understand the reason for that.

So, the conscious mind which acts thoughtfully, can be used to program the habitual mind which acts thoughtlessly. When you are subjected to new scenarios, your conscious mind inspects everything and allows you to reflect on what just happened and how well you responded. Once a scenario becomes old or common or frequent, you no longer have to think about it, making it a subconscious action, or a habit. There is also a huge part of the brain devoted to detecting and identifying objects you can see, and also one for making words into and out of concepts. Once a skill becomes habitual you may notice that you will not remember doing the more tedious or frequent things as much, in fact, this is the most common side effect of habit formation. You may notice this in older folks who sometimes ask how you are, or say hello, multiple times during one conversation. Older people tend to have a more difficult time forming memories about habitual skills. They also find it more difficult to create habitual skills. This is mainly caused by the fact that learning and memorization are so repetitive that they simply can’t justify doing them because they forgot ever learning or memorizing anything. This happens even at a very early age. This is also why obsessions make people very good at remembering things, and why people who love their job tend to excel at it.

There are two sides to the blade of the habitual mind and habit forming. One good thing, if you can manage it, is the skill of learning new things and training new skills. If you can create a habit from this skillset, you can learn and excel at anything and everything. One method for doing this is by creating subconscious obsessions, things that you think about, or realize are on your mind, even while you are concentrating on other things. To create such obsessions, just force yourself to think about one thing every five minutes throughout the week, then do that with another thing, and another. Alternatively, if you make a habit out of a skill right away, it will become more difficult to refine that skill later, thus limiting your overall performance. In order to increase a habitual skill, simply focus on it consciously using whatever method helps you focus on things consciously. Some examples are saying what you are doing out loud, or thinking of unusual verbs and adjectives for the task while you do it.

The Future of the USA Economy Is Certain

As the title says, the future is certain. I wouldn’t say there’s a big secret conspiracy, but the organics of the political processes and the economy are leading in a very predictable direction, not only in the US, but around the world. The basics of the global economy are that the poor nations are becoming richer while the rich nations are becoming poorer.

One thing must be noted about the similarities between individual people and individual nations is that they act in a similar way. Both are capable of harnessing their natural resources, in the case of individuals that would be intelligence, qualifications, skills and energy, for the purpose of self betterment. In the case of individuals, it isn’t quite so easy to market and sell yourself to just anyone, but nations are presumed to be able to trade with each other quite readily and frequently. This trade flow means that whatever person or nation is capable of producing the highest value of resources for the lowest cost will gain superiority. As is well known to economics, as people become wealthier, their lives become more expensive, and the whole thing balances out, and often overbalances. If individual people could trade so freely, there would be an obvious social and economic meritocracy.

As stated earlier, nations that can produce products cheaper will rise faster than others, and this is due to the cost of the lifestyle of  the general population  of each nation. Any economically minded politician would then be able to make the inference that the decline of his or her nation is due to the general wealth of the population, and this is true. So, in an effort to make the nation more competitive, politicians must drive down the average cost of living, which is tied to the wealth of the general public, so they must somehow drive their people closer to poverty.

Lets look at a few things and see where they’re headed. First lets look at energy policy. A green nation is an efficient nation. Green nations do not use billions of barrels of fossil fuels annually. The ultimate conclusion that a politician may make from these facts is that driving cars is bad for the economy. This means that it’s okay to ignore the maintenance of the roadways and creation of oil pipelines. This means it’s okay to drastically increase fuel economy standards, bolster gas prices, and foster the growth of clean alternative energy sources. Basically, this means that you should get used to riding a bicycle to work every day, lose all those extra pounds, or purchase an electric vehicle.

As global population increases, natural resources become less important to a nation’s rise to power than its sheer ability to harness its human resources. With less regulation, businesses can hire workers for pennies, and fire workers who don’t work as hard. The resulting products may not be as high quality as overseas competitors, but companies are able to work at a much larger scale and produce many more units. The public relations consequences are trifling in comparison to the economic benefits, as poor nations must continuously stifle human rights concerns and quell any unrest in order to keep the people productive. What can outsiders do to them? They can’t tell a poor nation to spend money it doesn’t have, but they can introduce social media and slowly alter cultural ideals from the inside.

The other side of the balancing effect is that richer nations must sell their high quality products at a much higher price. This reduces the likelihood that average people from the poorer nations will purchase those goods. Poor nations simply have to sit back and wait for the people of rich nations to become lazy and spoiled on the huge influx of cheap goods, while continuing to increase their already lavish lifestyles. The inevitable end to allowing rich nations to go on this path is that citizens will come to expect their lives to be quite easy forever, and they will stop working quite as hard for what they get, and eventually general quality of exports will go down. People who don’t work hard become soft and unhealthy and less intelligent, while people who work hard become fit, vital and smart. Thus, after a lot of back and forth, barring huge natural disasters or wars that cripple infrastructure, every nation will eventually stagnate in an uneasy equality.

I think the moral of this story is to work hard, grow your own food, ride a bicycle to work, and just try to pretend that you are poor and hungry even though you are not. If you are in a rich nation and you don’t do all of these things, you will soon be in a poor nation and you will be forced into this life anyway. Your only defense against poverty is your lifestyle choices. Everything else can change, and will change, and there’s nothing anyone really wants to do to save you.

Cultism 101

A cult is a group of people focused around an individual leader. Leaders tend to be charismatic in order to feed into the well defined social norms of trust and safety. These social norms that promote a feeling of trust and safety among people who care about you have led to the greatest of moral abuses.

Here I am going to try to explain how to start a cult, in case you are inclined to do such a thing, methods for determining if you are in a cult, and how to avoid being sucked into a cult. Cultism is not about a religion or a god or any one person, rather it is a method of socially acceptably gaining power over people to some end.

Our Great Leader

As an aspiring cult leader, you are likely asking yourself how to gain followers. There are many ways to gain followers, and they are all quite easy, in fact you have probably seen many of these methods performed at social events. The first and most important method to subvert people into following you is to have many reliable and memorable sound bytes that you can use to make yourself heard and steer any conversation away from other people. You must project your voice. This skill can be learned in a solo singing class. You must make you voice unique among all others, speaking with gratuitous amounts of self importance and eloquence. You must adopt a stylish flare that will make you instantly recognizable to others. When talking, you must always agree vaguely and then say your sound byte, disagreeing would upset other aspiring leaders, which may cause them to plot against you.

Hope to the Hopeless

A great leader knows who needs leadership. You must be able to spot people who are socially abandoned or traumatized. You must bring nurturing and love into the lives of people who need it. It is easy to give people the illusion of acceptance by talking about their problems. The more common the problem, the larger the group of followers you can gather under your control with the least amount of effort. The more widespread and more numerous of problems there are amongst a group of people, the easier it is to gather sheep for your flock. Often a group of people is devoid in the basic human needs of love, which is touching such as shaking hand hugging or kissing, making peaceful happy noises such as laughter, agreeing a lot, and using positive facial expressions.

Often groups of people are lacking in group activities. A great leader brings even the most private of people to the group, and airs their problems, and gets their followers to be loving and accepting. The main reason people hide away from the group is because they are driven away for not being the same. When loving activities abound in a social group, they often replace any possibility of negativity and disrespectful interactions, making even the most hated or the most angry people agreeable. The environment often plays a major role in the mood of the group, affecting all of the senses. There should be many beautiful things around everywhere you meet, on the walls, on people outfits, even outdoors. There should be quiet peaceful background sounds such as music or running water or birds. There should be wonderful smells all the time, even changing from room to room so that you never stop enjoying the aroma. There should also be a pleasant diversion that gets people up and interacting, such as a dance or a sermon or some arts and crafts. The importance of flooding all of the senses with happiness is greater than you can imagine.

The Great Harvest

Once everyone’s desires for happiness are sated, all the while reminding them it was organized by you, now you can order people around. People will be happy to serve a part of this great community. You will be able to get them to do your chores, even massage your feet. You will be able to convince people to farm and construct and perform for you without money or question. Because you introduced them to great joy, they will accept great hardships. You can organize unique activities such as odd rituals to some kind of gods, or some kind of mythical summoning of power, something people would assume is probably not real but it’ll be fun so just go along with it. Slowly ease people into more fantasy until you have everyone believing that you are god. It’s that simple.

A Special Family

Now that you have this great influence, you should exercise it once in a while in order to make your followers believe you are uniquely qualified to lead. You should organize personal challenges for people who are not fully on board with you, and rig events that would lead to a revelation in your power. You must show them that you are capable of things that they aren’t, and this should be easy enough, as you command a number of people who bow to your will without question. Now that you have done some fantasy based activities, you should realize that it is probably not a great idea to let people leave the cult, and it’s a bad idea to let them tell anyone about your group and what you do. You must methodically drill into your followers,  by personal interaction, by training brain-washers, or by sermons, exactly what to say to outsiders. What a cult does is not relevant to anyone’s decision to join the cult, it is all about the atmosphere and the temptation to live a better life amongst loving individuals. Immersion is all about getting people to cooperate in things they know nothing about. This gives them a feeling of supernatural power, of accomplishment, of intrigue into the unknown.

There are a few details that I haven’t covered, for the protection of society.

Prerequisite: Ease of Life

Currently one of the biggest drivers of the leap to the next tier of civilization in the most advanced nations is disease. There seems to be countless diseases and more cropping up all the time. By now you probably know that the reason there are so many diseased people is because it is possible to support their lives in this level of civilization. Not only are genetic diseases good for society, but also contagious diseases. These diseases exist on the micro and nano scales which spurs every branch of science to think smaller and create technologies on the playing field of the contagions. Not only do they pose a challenge, they can replace war against fellow humans as one of the foremost challenges.

Human nature dictates that bad things must be fought and weak things must be supported. In combating disease, we fulfill both of these human desires. The activity of fighting diseases stimulates every part of human society and economy, mobilizing them against the mortal  threats against us. Not only is the ability to cure these diseases an ever increasing need, but being able to make every person capable of autonomy and independence is a requirement for reaching the next level of civilization. This great medical leap is going to take place very soon. Such a large number of people know that it is happening that it is revolutionizing the medical industry towards efficiency and ultimately the free and easy detection and eradication of contagions anywhere. This is not only possible, but will also soon be economically feasible.

The increase in the human population and its density is not only a product of society, but a major factor in leading to the next level of society. The more able bodied and willed individuals who exist, the faster technological development will occur, the more quickly we will see the jump to the next level of civilization. There are several movements which will ultimately fail that try to make everyone stop caring about living conditions and education. They will fail because it is human nature to be curious about the truth, and these movements are inherently misleading.  In order to live in a high density society, we must all be invested in each other, even strangers, to the point that we would try to protect them from harm. The war between good and evil is finally getting some press in scientific circles, who are, largely for the first time, defining and accurately measuring behaviors that contribute to good and evil. Good has a tendency to promote high population density and evil promotes low population density, hate and murder to that effect. This means that people must be good in order to reach the next tier of civilization.

Anyone worried about overpopulation can be put at ease right now. Indoor mass farming can be used in a single sixty story building that would exceed the food production of the entire outlying area while taking a footprint of only one farm. The water conservation of such a building is impressive as well as its growth speed boost and crop yields due to perfectly controlled internal climate and lighting. It is also far less labor intensive and uses much less pesticide because most pathogens and weeds can’t get in to the closed environment and soil can’t be eroded by wind. Not only do such indoor systems provide an efficiency boost in every area, they can also be used to absorb carbon dioxide wastes, with just one such farming system being able to absorb all of the carbon dioxide of every nearby power plant. In addition, if animals that produce a lot of methane were included on some levels, the building could very possibly be able to power itself in complete autonomy along with the use of solar panels and certain wind channeling electricity generators. Perhaps the best thing about such a building is that it can exist in the middle of a booming metropolis without polluting the air or water, while at the same time serving as a nearby food source.

Civilization: The Next Level

The freedom that is legendary is almost possible now. There is no doubt that it was not possible before except to return to the sparse population levels of the early years. The threshold that allows true freedom to  be possible is one of the dominant driving forces of prosperity within a fledgeling nation. As the population density rises, it becomes less possible to live free. Luckily, there is an upper limit to this threshold. Our world is vaulting into this upper limit at an impossible pace. It was quite wise for nations to try to limit their population growth around the world, but population growth will not be challenged for long.

All around the world, the threshold of mobility and self improvement draws people toward one another from low density farming regions to high density cities. This obvious benefit in efficiency drives population density increases around the world, and adds to the exponential advance in everything human. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize the obvious superiority of a city over a rural area. Everyone wants to have friends and know the latest gossip and not be lonely and have everything one could possibly want and get to anywhere within minutes.

There are many systems that are required to exist in order to reach what I will call the third tier of civilization. You may realize the first technology already, this is the fast and free automated flow of information, whatever it may  be. What could be more automated than a media system that never stops? Turn on a television or radio and you will be inundated with sounds and images. Just as reaching the second tier of civilization was having instant access to food and friendship is an indispensable system. The quantum leap in information that is leading to the third tier of civilization is the ability to summon exactly the information desired, instantly. The internet, and search engines, are that quantum leap, and without some system that works exactly as they do, we would never be able to consider this jump to a higher level.

The second quantum leap is being developed right now. Harnessing the elements, and mostly the sun, to enable enhanced mobility, and free mobility to anywhere in the world. Just as the car was the quantum leap in mobility that led to a solid jump to the second tier of civilization, some form of always-available-for-anyone-anywhere transportation needs to exist. Some people think that the magic technology for this is train services. Others think this is a free city car membership to use any designated public car nearby. Some people think it is a logistic problem, with an online ride sharing network to allow people to ride with others who are already going that way anyways. Ultimately, these are all good ideas, but they lack the true freedom required. Vehicles need to have simple mechanics and a free power source, such as the sun. They need to be fast and reliable, and they need to get to you without a hassle or a long wait. This is where electric, solar, and driverless technology become the solution. This technology is on the horizon.

The next system that is required is, perhaps by using the previous technology, the ability to feed anyone anywhere anytime for free. The ability to instantly summon the appropriate nutrition to you from anywhere is possible and may be done soon. It relies on the first two ubiquitous technologies, those of instant communication and free transportation capability. Soon, and very soon, there will be automated flying supply vehicles that transfer goods and have permanent food and water supplies on-board everywhere across the globe, flying through the air for free with solar electric technology. If you send out a signal from your mobile device, a flying vehicle will pinpoint your location and drop an intelligently guided supply pod to your position on the ground, no matter who or where you are globally. The supply pod will then return to the sky for use with other goods transport at any time.

So far I have described many technologies that are easy for anyone to envision existing. Many of the technologies are already in place, and every one of these capabilities is already in use, if only in early versions. Free public wireless communication, electric cars and solar panels, self guided vehicles, automated flying vehicles both large and small. Some people have even flown toys up above the clouds and have posted many fun videos on youtube. The next technologies are often frightening and controversial to people today, but they will all be required before we can get to the next level of civilization and be truly free.

Why Pay To Live?

It has existed in the most ancient of tales of humankind. The wish to wander about, discover new things, meet new people, and basically seek adventure. Mythical people are seen wandering about the countryside with no worries about how to feed themselves or where to purchase things, they just do it all behind the scenes, and basically this is the way life was and still is in some places. This is because it is a very sparsely populated region, not full of humans and human built structures. These places don’t often support enough people to have a thriving society, so there are no conflicts and no wars and no litter everywhere and no pollution and really only one worry, the need to survive.

As stated in earlier articles, thriving populations enable weaker members to survive when they normally wouldn’t have a chance. The percentage of healthy individuals decreases with population size, which scales directly with wealth of land resources. This means that healthy people have to work harder  to survive because they are surviving for more than themselves. Often times, some people who can survive can only survive for themselves, and not for the many less healthy people in their group. These populations are unable to maintain a stable thriving economy to support everyone, so what do they do? They go and attack populations with more healthy individuals.

Some people can barely survive on their own, but they have learned how to predate upon others, which is actually quite easy. Many of these predators tend to flock together against a larger population of many less healthy individuals who are basically defenseless. Going after a population which is just on the breaking point is the most reliable bet, and it also serves to destabilize a population and prove that it was too weak. In response, thriving and honest societies build up a huge force of people who train and actually consume far more than less healthy people, and often don’t produce as much for the society. If a society is strong enough to do this, they can defend against the predators and survive on the brink of collapse. Usually, however, societies don’t know when they are about to collapse so that they will stop having children and forsake the weak. Instead, they continue to expand until the collapse happens.

A highly compact population has more consumption needs and produces more concentrated byproducts. The land can’t recycle that much feces, and it can’t decompose that much food wrapping and it can’t sufficiently increase the populations of prey species in order to cope. That isn’t entirely true, as humans may be able to destroy the predator population and replace them, releasing outside pressures on prey species and food crops. Also, over thousands or possibly millions of years, plants may gain the ability to grow faster and more efficiently. Eventually, natural things are pushed aside altogether, and humans proceed to play god by deciding what and how many animals and plants grow near them.

In nature, the weak don’t survive.

So, why should you pay to live? It is because nature is inadequate to support your life in a typical human population. We are all beholden to an artificial life sustaining system that is held up purely by human beings, and not by the ecosystem. Nature gives all of its bounties for free, and takes your byproducts as payment, people do not. People don’t want your byproducts, they want something that will be of value to them, which means it is of value to you. It could be a barter system or an employment system or a currency system. Not only do you have to pay to live, you have to work hard. You have to support all of the weak people who can’t do the work themselves, or even can’t do any work. The other reason, and the reason that is on everyone’s mind is that cooperation can create great works such as pyramids and towers and great walls and skyscrapers and hospitals. Without a large population, they just aren’t possible.

The superior test and judgement of any population’s greatness is the ratio of weak and diseased people who exist in the population who weigh down on the economy.

Any population’s success is also its failure. This is not, however, a problem that can be easily corrected by simply killing off all of the weak in society. Caring for the weak and injured and diseased is a maternal instinct that has constantly been developed through every human population. It makes us compassionate and caring and kind and fair and reasonable and friendly and generous and ultimately cooperative enough to create all that we have in the first place. Of course, eventually all diseases and weaknesses will be cured and civilization will take a giant leap into the future, but who really knows when?

Living Isn’t Free, Or Is It?

Complex freedom is the ability to recover ones resource use in a way that results in a non-negative resource level. Most things are designed to create a positive value for price comparison, which means it basically pays for itself and still works afterwards. Every action has a value, and that value can be converted into a currency price. Everything you own and use should be compared for its price to real value before it is purchased.

Entropy is often blamed as the reason why everything degrades, and the value of every thing degrades over time. Just look at the human digestive system for an example of things that are required to consume value. When you eat, you are using your body to put food into your mouth, which can be measured with a real value. How much would a person have to be paid to scoop food into your mouth? You are doing all of this work for free! The value of putting food into your mouth differs by regional cost of living and cost of personal care.

Next there are the tools that are used to do this job. If you use a metal fork, you are degrading the fork by a tiny bit. The real value of the fork is the increased efficiency it gives you to eat more food more quickly. The real-time ratio of value for the fork is the percentage of the purchase price of the fork divided by the total number of projected uses. You can probably use that metal fork for fifty years or more, possibly for your entire life. If the fork cost five dollars, then the value of each use is extremely small. It is also possible to calculate the efficiency gain from using the fork versus using your hand, which still has value, but less. You may also factor in maintenance costs such as sanitation resources and duration.

Finally we have the food itself to measure. You may have purchased the food from somewhere for a specific price, or you may have picked it from a garden or farm or somewhere in nature. When you consume the food, its value goes to zero, and it produces a byproduct which has a negative value, unless you use it as a fertilizer or a heating material. Your very life is a drain on resources, and therefore a money pit, especially if you are not working and producing a value. Children are the prime example of this, as well as most pets, aside from the investment potentials and psychological benefits and stresses.

But lets step back from all of this economic analysis for one moment and consider lives that can’t be transferred into a real dollar value. These are wild animals that live far from civilization. They have likely never seen a dollar bill, and probably will never see one. No person will benefit or lose money from the animals’ lives and deaths. They just exist in a largely static cycle of production and consumption that never ends unless some force comes in to disrupt it.