Quote:I don't know what the exact solution is, ... the whole system has to go.
We have good things that exist within the system. No need to call for the entire deal that we have built up to go down the crapper. There are some good things that have been birthed by the system and we can't encompass it all in an everything must go revolution mentality. Figure out what's good what has to be tweaked and what has to be dismantled. At the same time we build/rebuild to fill the holes of commerce, distribution, communication, energy etc. and the fulfillment of needs. We gradually built this web and it would be a mistake to take it all down in a quick and dirty fashion.
A migration of centralized to decentralized systems that can cooperate and compete would be ideal. It's different for every community, for every technology for every social order but it has to be founded on mutual respect for eachother and the ecosystem we reside in.
A few ideas for a rough starter:
* Release all patents and set the information free but act prudently with it as often it can be a double edged sword
* Simplify law and apply it fairly and equally according to the communities values.
* Free up land for responsible stewardship and development for co-existence with Earth's inhabitants.
* Allow freedom of travel. We are not penned in farm animals.
* Respect your neighbour whether they be next door or on the other side of the world.
* Centralized money does not work but a common exchange would be useful. Usury should be abolished. The money now is a cheap magic trick, an illusion, treat it as such.
* Excessive hoarding is frowned upon and should be dealt with.
* Centralized decision making does not work, group collaboration does. Make it voluntary not forced but don't allow those who don't contribute a free ride but allow those who want to give a free ride to those in need that option out of their fair share earned.
* Corporations are not people
* Governments are not people they are the executive branch to serve the people if and when it is needed, not as a way of railroading a nation or humanity as a whole.
* Value the individual as if they were family.
Pick it apart, add to it, hack it down. Really it's whatever works at whatever pace for each individual community and if you don't like your community go join and contribute to another.
Human strength is the diversity of individuals. It's akin to mixed farming vs. factory farming; or a single bamboo shooting straight up but can be chopped down in one fell swoop vs. a great oak with a thick trunk and branches that goes every which way.
The "system" has fostered some advancements that can act as seeds for the next generation that inhabits this floating marble. Use them as you will but temper them with wisdom, prudence and respect for others.
Make a wrong move and their will be direct consequences as you will be accountable directly as a group, a community or an individual.
Quote:its the people in it that ruin it for everyone.
There has to be consequence. The shell game, the blame game, the detachment from action to apathy to consequence is too far obfuscated in a collective mentality.
Related:
Individualism vs Collectivism, The True Debate of Our Time
http://forum.concen.org/showthread.php?tid=35103