Societal Equilibrium E-Book

Brandon Zimmerman

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Prelude (Chapter 1): Introduces the fundamental problem in our society, individualism, along with many aspects of our lives that amplify its effects such as drugs, cosmetics, and money. The following chapters describe new systems to help reduce our focus on individualism and help our society prosper. Communal Living (Chapter 2): Describes a new system of living that would allow us to reduce waste, redundancies, and inefficiencies to dramatically increase our standard of living. Romantic Relationships (Chapter 3): Emphasizes the importance of romantic relationships in our lives, as well as the mindset needed for healthy interaction with significant others. Education (Chapter 4): Illustrates a new approach to education that would eliminate the inconsistencies and limitations of our current system. It would give us an affordable, accessible, and superior form of education by eliminating all of the weaknesses of our teachers, while drawing out all of their strengths.

Leseprobe

Brandon Zimmerman

Societal Equilibrium

The First Iteration

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Prelude

We are approaching one of the most pivotal moments in human existence, where we will be given the opportunity to reach societal equilibrium. This is a state in which power, opportunities, and resources constantly flow between everyone in society. With this potential flowing through all of society, we will have the greatest ability to prosper and grow, and we will finally realize what we are truly capable of. But if we do not make the choice to change, we may never have this opportunity again.

We are currently in an unstable state, corrupted by individual prosperity. We do not care about others. We fight against each other with every difference segregating us from the rest. We do not stand together. We stand divided. The power, opportunities, and resources are stagnant, with many of us never given a chance to achieve our full potential. We are essentially restricting the blood flow in our body. In order to truly prosper, we need blood flowing through our whole body. Otherwise, we will eventually collapse under our own weight.

For too long we have lived together as individuals rather than as a society. This will become more detrimental, and ultimately catastrophic, if we do not reconsider our way of life. If we wish to achieve our true potential and see unparalleled advancement of human ingenuity and prosperity, we must evolve the way we see the world around us. Society is not an individual. We are a group of individuals that should be rising together.

If we stand alone, we can only rise by pushing everyone else down. We force hardships on those who are different to enforce our superiority. We generate hate to justify throwing them beneath us. But there will always be a way to betray each other with segregation. With every religion, there will always be a new interpretation. With every race, there will always be a new generation. With every wealth, there will always be someone to envy, and someone to look down upon. No matter where we look, there will always be a difference that we can find until we are all alone. Our inability to accept each other only introduces new problems and sets us against one another. We cripple the world around us in the hopes of standing on top of the rubble.

Unless we take another look at the path we have taken, it may become too late for us to turn around. Our minds are our only hope for realizing what needs to change. While this ingenuity is one of our greatest assets, it will destroy us if we are unable to control it. The most important aspect of human ingenuity is the ability to use knowledge to derive something new. This ability is what gives us the opportunity to change. It is only through change that we can grow, evolve, and prosper. But it is through change that we may instead destroy the world around us.

Our ingenuity has given us the chance to prosper, but it has also led to many powerful ideas that we have become too reluctant to let go, even though we no longer need them. We have invested so much in these ideas that we have convinced ourselves that we cannot live without them. But these very ideas are holding us back and must be let go. The longer we hold on to these ideas, the more difficult it will become to let go of them, and the more devastating it will be when we finally do. The most gripping and destructive of these ideas is money.

Money is nothing more than an idea we have chosen to follow, and it has since consumed everything in our lives. It has become so dominant that almost all of our thoughts and actions revolve around it. We care so much about money that we have destroyed our ability to care about anything else. It is this addiction that keeps us in the grip of individualism. With money, we are encouraged to stand alone. We all fight against each other to keep the wealth to ourselves. Our wealth does not define the prosperity of our society, it defines the prosperity of an individual. We have become too afraid to help others because that slows us down. We have become too afraid to see others succeed because that drowns us in envy. We have become so focused on our own prosperity that if we cannot have something, we ensure that no one else can. It is with our fear that we hope for and embrace the misfortune of others. But we are only afraid because we know that if we fall, there will be no one to help us up. We all stand alone in fear, fortifying our own prosperity to cushion the fall. But if we stood together, we would not be afraid to fall, only to see others fall.

We fail to realize that money is only an idea, and it only has power because we give it power. While an idea cannot be destroyed, it cannot lead us, only we can follow. We have chosen to follow this idea, and it has brought us down a dangerous path. We have crippled ourselves with money, and now we are using it as a crutch. The corruption we have introduced with money overshadows the solutions we created it for. There are so many companies, institutions, processes, concepts, and jobs that only exist because of money, and these added burdens are slowing us down. Insurance, banks, credit cards, taxes, accountants, investors, salesmen, mortgages and loans, interest, theft, and so many more are merely side effects to the introduction of money. We will never advance if we are bound to work and distractions that provide no true progression to society. And we will never prosper as a society if we are encouraged to rise individually regardless of the expense to others.

We created money in an attempt to establish order, but now it only serves as a method of control. It has disrupted the balance of society and diverts our attention from fundamental issues. It has created a society that only sees others as a means to individual prosperity. Most of us work only to provide basic commodities, while a select few have more money than we could ever possibly need. In either case, we are destroying our ability to progress. The poor struggle to survive, and in their desperation, cannot ever hope to divert the focus from themselves. The wealthy are too afraid to fall, and in their fear, they keep their power from everyone else. Instead of working to survive or to keep the power from others, we could be working to advance. We have become a society of individuals when we should be an individual of society. This is because money inherently encourages us to act individually.

We often make money to that sole end, whether we contribute anything meaningful to society or not. Our wealth does not measure how much we have helped society. Too often our own prosperity indicates how much we have taken from others rather than what we have given. It is not possible to make money by helping others. We can only make money by expecting or demanding something in return, in which it would no longer be help, but a trade. If we truly gave to others or offered help, we would be sacrificing ourselves for others. In reality, it often costs more money to help others than it does to hurt or neglect them. There are an infinite amount of ways we can hurt, scam, trick, use, manipulate, deceive, and exploit others into giving us more money and power.

This behavior can be seen throughout many of the ways we choose to make a living. Money has given us a false sense of self worth. We feel that the more money we have, the more important we are to society. But when the means to achieve this importance relies on the suffering and exploitation of others, we are becoming more of a burden to society than anything else. Rather than contributing to the progression of society, we give ourselves the illusion of progress by giving ourselves a relative advantage over everyone else. We push others back in order to move ourselves forward. This exploitation of others is inherent in almost any business. Many of them care more about profit than anything else, which encourages them to disregard the welfare of others and the quality of their very own products and services. But it does not matter if we truly need or want what they have to offer. With the media, we can be deceived into anything they want us to believe. This deception allows for the prosperity of so many products that are harmful to society, such as drugs and cosmetics.

Drugs are some of the most detrimental products to society, yet we see them in almost all aspects of our lives. Fundamentally, drugs are useless to those who use them, but very useful to those who control them. This power emanates from their contradictory nature. They not only introduce a problem, but simultaneously solve and perpetuate it. This creates an endless cycle capable of sustaining itself, which is very useful to those who sell drugs, but a potential burden to everyone else.