Isn't this the test we face now? And isn't it really more about how we see ourselves, and our place in the cosmos?
Are we, for instance, still the semi-organized, semi-civilized, semi-animals that began truly directed, collective effort? Back when we were also so territorial, and so bare to the bone impoverished for the most part, it had to be harshly hierarchical, and expansionist. And we were impoverished in no small part precisely because of how ignorant we were in those days. And so you can imagine that, if a system were developed to do things better by, it would have to be based in the economics of scarcity in a very significant way, and that harsh, hierarchical control, would be a lingering issue, no matter how much talk would ultimately be put into the power of markets.
But we've come a long way baby, since then. So long indeed. And the mind boggles, continuously, at what new forms of instrumentality keep being created, as well as what each new one can do to outpace what was amazing only a year or two ago. And that too is increasing. And now the economics of scarcity need no longer apply, if we do not wish them to. Because, as I said, it is really more about how we see ourselves now, and how we'd like to see ourselves. Because now we have new ways to do that too. Possible ways of living, taking advantage of new instrumentality where it applies, and is sustainable. Ways to give us not only what we need, but a good portion of what we yearn for as well; those things we put special passion to because they are more than what mere logic, or pure rationality can speak to.
The first thing, though, is to recognize that this choice is upon us. Then we can start thinking about how we're going to go about stopping the "Business As Usual," that now passes for everyday life, and get the negotiations going as to the specifics of an alternative, as well as to the balanced process we'll go about putting in place to implement the alternative.
The thing is, however, a very large majority of each and every one of you has to make the choice to do this; each in your own communities, so that you can decide how you want to set things up there. Understanding that you and yours are going to be owning that community from that point forward. Owning it, however, within a Federated collective that will leverage our cooperation to the greatest degree possible; and we'll do that because it will be in everybody's very keen interest to do that; in their interests because no single community will ever be able to be completely self sufficient. Not with the difficulties that we and the planet face if we still want to have anywhere to live at all. As well as to say a future that will touch the stars because we can find a way for our reach to exceed our grasp. We just have to give up some old ways of thinking, and seeing things, to do it.
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[Post Note: And no sooner do you say new kinds of instrumentality a new one pops up yet again. J.V.]
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