Leading to a General Economic Reform
Easter Wish 2025
This essay arises from the continuing horror of the genocide in Gaza, of the now three-year war in Ukraine, of all the cruel wars before. This essay is intended to counter the general view that aggression and violence are an inevitable part of the human condition, that they have always existed and always will. No, it doesn't have to be that way. Perhaps a peaceful constellation has never been thought through to the end and written down clearly, simply, unambiguously and comprehensibly enough to become part of the collective consciousness and behaviour. Well, today, at Easter 2025, I want to write down the story.
The Pope (God rest his soul), President Putin, J.D. Vance, Pakistan and Afghanistan were on the news. Russian soldiers on the front exchanged Easter eggs. The Pope wished happy Easter. Putin crossed himself. Ceasefires were ordered and violated so that people could pass the buck to each other. Farces and routines without any grip, because they do not change the basic position and balance of power.
The story of how humanity can really position itself in security and peace has space on two A4 pages. So why not write it down? Well-understood for the whole of humanity and, in view of the already dawning turning point, with immediate effect, please. It doesn't take much. All we need to do is succeed in eliminating fear and resentment from the world. Because they are the result of chains of effects from differences in potential, which cause 'fear of too little' and 'resentment because of too much' and often lead to aggression.
Therefore, the ominous mission is to equalise differences in potential and thus remove the breeding ground for fear and resentment! This is how it works from a sober point of view: If all people everywhere have enough of everything, i.e. enough food, shelter, health, soil, water, light, warmth, security, happiness, love, ideas, strength, attention, recognition, pride, peace, tranquillity, ... then there is nothing left to equalise. Then there is no longer any reason to go into battle for something to get it. Because you already have it. So why go to the extra effort?
Let's get down to business: If we humans can all live self-determined and independent lives everywhere, i.e. we don't have to suffer hunger, thirst, homelessness, danger or stress anywhere, then it should work actually. The best thing we can do as humanity is to create settlements and communities worldwide that are subsidiarily autonomous (self-determined), self-sufficient and resilient (self-sustaining). This would presumably fulfil the prerequisites for a high degree of serenity and therefore happiness. That sounds like a good plan.
We shall be working on it! First and foremost, it's about having enough agricultural production area and enough settlement area. As far as space for living and settling is concerned, let's clear away all the plastic[i] that has littered the ecosystems of us and of other living creatures. We take this plastic waste to the pyro- and plasmalysis[ii] , and gasify it into hydrogen and carbon, which we can use as environmentally friendly energy (hydrogen) and as a soil substrate (carbon). We fill the hydrogen into bottles[iii] to drive, work and cook with it. We bring the carbon into the desert to increase its water storage capacity and fertility. In this way, it can be opened up for agriculture and new settlements. Small-scale structures create biodiversity, protection from disruptive events and thus conditions that are favourable to life, the environment and the climate. [iv]
In the immediate neighbourhood and cooperation between agriculture and settlements, sufficient food and renewable raw materials are available, which are produced in agriculture and processed and used in everyday products in the settlements. The power, tradition and innovation of the collectives are developing the perfect circular economy. In the processing of renewable raw materials from bast fibre plants, the production of cellulose and lignin as multifunctional intermediate products is the key to high-quality, everyday products.[v]
So much for what needs to be reorganised in order to create a good life. Then we shall address the factors that must be avoided in order not to further hinder or even completely prevent the good life:
On the one hand, there is the excess and exploitation, i.e. conditions that people can no longer afford. In particular, there is waste in the form of meat consumption from animal fattening and in the form of oil consumption. Both can be stopped by rewarding avoidance through CO2 offsetting: For every day that a person neither eats meat nor consumes petrol or diesel, he or she is credited with suggested five dollars on their credit card or PayPal account. Thanks to smartphones and digital networking, those entitled can be reliably identified and served.[vi] In addition to equalising unfair distribution, this can also stimulate discipline, self-control and personal responsibility.
On the other hand, there is the leverage of monetary scarcity and debt, with which individuals, organisations and entire nations are denied their right to exist and their ability to act. The accumulated debt has reached gigantic proportions that no debt service worldwide can effectively cope with today. Instead of constantly writing on the debt, it could just as easily be cancelled in a general amnesty. After all, nobody will ever be able to pay them anyway. This would free the entire system from paralysing impossibilities. Cancelling the debt will also release the creditors and debtors, i.e. the demanding parties as well as the demanded parties: institutions, organisations, administrations, corporations, banks, individuals. This means that humanity is rid of them and can reorganise itself free of them. From then on, people will organise themselves maturely, independently, on their own responsibility and agree the rules among themselves on an equal footing.
That's it then. More systemic change is probably not needed. Everything else will be regulated by the natural, good forces that come with self-determination, self-responsibility, self-sufficiency and self-preservation and can assert themselves in the natural and liberated human capacity for empathy and solidarity.
With the good handful of solution providers in the endnotes, this vision can take place and succeed. Let's wish for their alliance and thus for humanity to have the common sense to effectively dare to make this paradigm shift and to take the path to finally find the serenity they long for and naturally desire.
[i] www.theoceancleanup.com
[ii] www.graforce.com
[iii] www.hydrox.earth
[iv] www.simsal.net
[v] www.ditf.de
[vi] www.southpole.com, https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-foundation.html
This essay arises from the continuing horror of the genocide in Gaza, of the now three-year war in Ukraine, of all the cruel wars before. This essay is intended to counter the general view that aggression and violence are an inevitable part of the human condition, that they have always existed and always will. No, it doesn't have to be that way. Perhaps a peaceful constellation has never been thought through to the end and written down clearly, simply, unambiguously and comprehensibly enough to become part of the collective consciousness and behaviour. Well, today, at Easter 2025, I want to write down the story.
The Pope (God rest his soul), President Putin, J.D. Vance, Pakistan and Afghanistan were on the news. Russian soldiers on the front exchanged Easter eggs. The Pope wished happy Easter. Putin crossed himself. Ceasefires were ordered and violated so that people could pass the buck to each other. Farces and routines without any grip, because they do not change the basic position and balance of power.
The story of how humanity can really position itself in security and peace has space on two A4 pages. So why not write it down? Well-understood for the whole of humanity and, in view of the already dawning turning point, with immediate effect, please. It doesn't take much. All we need to do is succeed in eliminating fear and resentment from the world. Because they are the result of chains of effects from differences in potential, which cause 'fear of too little' and 'resentment because of too much' and often lead to aggression.
Therefore, the ominous mission is to equalise differences in potential and thus remove the breeding ground for fear and resentment! This is how it works from a sober point of view: If all people everywhere have enough of everything, i.e. enough food, shelter, health, soil, water, light, warmth, security, happiness, love, ideas, strength, attention, recognition, pride, peace, tranquillity, ... then there is nothing left to equalise. Then there is no longer any reason to go into battle for something to get it. Because you already have it. So why go to the extra effort?
Let's get down to business: If we humans can all live self-determined and independent lives everywhere, i.e. we don't have to suffer hunger, thirst, homelessness, danger or stress anywhere, then it should work actually. The best thing we can do as humanity is to create settlements and communities worldwide that are subsidiarily autonomous (self-determined), self-sufficient and resilient (self-sustaining). This would presumably fulfil the prerequisites for a high degree of serenity and therefore happiness. That sounds like a good plan.
We shall be working on it! First and foremost, it's about having enough agricultural production area and enough settlement area. As far as space for living and settling is concerned, let's clear away all the plastic[i] that has littered the ecosystems of us and of other living creatures. We take this plastic waste to the pyro- and plasmalysis[ii] , and gasify it into hydrogen and carbon, which we can use as environmentally friendly energy (hydrogen) and as a soil substrate (carbon). We fill the hydrogen into bottles[iii] to drive, work and cook with it. We bring the carbon into the desert to increase its water storage capacity and fertility. In this way, it can be opened up for agriculture and new settlements. Small-scale structures create biodiversity, protection from disruptive events and thus conditions that are favourable to life, the environment and the climate. [iv]
In the immediate neighbourhood and cooperation between agriculture and settlements, sufficient food and renewable raw materials are available, which are produced in agriculture and processed and used in everyday products in the settlements. The power, tradition and innovation of the collectives are developing the perfect circular economy. In the processing of renewable raw materials from bast fibre plants, the production of cellulose and lignin as multifunctional intermediate products is the key to high-quality, everyday products.[v]
So much for what needs to be reorganised in order to create a good life. Then we shall address the factors that must be avoided in order not to further hinder or even completely prevent the good life:
On the one hand, there is the excess and exploitation, i.e. conditions that people can no longer afford. In particular, there is waste in the form of meat consumption from animal fattening and in the form of oil consumption. Both can be stopped by rewarding avoidance through CO2 offsetting: For every day that a person neither eats meat nor consumes petrol or diesel, he or she is credited with suggested five dollars on their credit card or PayPal account. Thanks to smartphones and digital networking, those entitled can be reliably identified and served.[vi] In addition to equalising unfair distribution, this can also stimulate discipline, self-control and personal responsibility.
On the other hand, there is the leverage of monetary scarcity and debt, with which individuals, organisations and entire nations are denied their right to exist and their ability to act. The accumulated debt has reached gigantic proportions that no debt service worldwide can effectively cope with today. Instead of constantly writing on the debt, it could just as easily be cancelled in a general amnesty. After all, nobody will ever be able to pay them anyway. This would free the entire system from paralysing impossibilities. Cancelling the debt will also release the creditors and debtors, i.e. the demanding parties as well as the demanded parties: institutions, organisations, administrations, corporations, banks, individuals. This means that humanity is rid of them and can reorganise itself free of them. From then on, people will organise themselves maturely, independently, on their own responsibility and agree the rules among themselves on an equal footing.
That's it then. More systemic change is probably not needed. Everything else will be regulated by the natural, good forces that come with self-determination, self-responsibility, self-sufficiency and self-preservation and can assert themselves in the natural and liberated human capacity for empathy and solidarity.
With the good handful of solution providers in the endnotes, this vision can take place and succeed. Let's wish for their alliance and thus for humanity to have the common sense to effectively dare to make this paradigm shift and to take the path to finally find the serenity they long for and naturally desire.
[i] www.theoceancleanup.com
[ii] www.graforce.com
[iii] www.hydrox.earth
[iv] www.simsal.net
[v] www.ditf.de
[vi] www.southpole.com, https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-foundation.html
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