Vi-Tocracy: Sharing
People Sharing with People,
Sharing with Nature,
Would Create a
True Caring and Sharing
World Society.
“New Wine Skins for New Wine”
Eventually, Men and women will become fed up with the hardships, the poverty, the stress, the uncertainty and the warfare characteristic of our “Free Enterprise” society, as well as with the injustices of our outworn “Economic System”. When this happens, through the use of numerous, organized referenda, the people of the world can decide to collectively and peacefully abandon this ’sacred’, insecure “ship of state” and climb aboard the new ship “VI-TOCRACY”. In the meantime, it is important to thoroughly understand the nature of this new “Ship of State”, what it looks like and what it feels like, inside and out.
Now, please join me here in my little cabin, “Greenwood Cottage”, here on the “Back Forty”. It is here in the humble “Grass Roots” of my country and your country where civilization begins. This is where change and growth takes place. It is here in the rural areas, in the towns and in the cities where people live and work and play, that “Vi-Tocracy” can germinate, take root and grow.
Here, each municipal unit or area, which now has a municipal governing body, would be declared an autonomous unit, subject to the collective will of the people in that area. In turn, each autonomous unit would be required, as much as possible, not only to co-exist in a sustainable way with all parts of its Natural Environment, but also to reach out to its neighboring Units in active communication. When this is done we will have a network of active autonomous Neighborhoods. Each of these municipalities, towns, villages, cities, etc could keep their identifying name they now have plus a number, which would be their global location, i.e. the intersection of their latitude and longitudinal lines.
” We Share Because We Care”
However these would be more than just words.
This expression would be incorporated into
The working philosophy of a
“World Charter”
Immediately following a “Referendum”, which would vote out “The Old Regime” and vote in a New Way of Life on Planet Earth, a Global Census would of necessity be taken. Each person would register at a registry office in his hometown. Here, he would be provided with a special permanent “ID.” Card, about the size of our, now familiar, “Visa” card. Like our Visa card, there would be the inevitable magnetic strip containing the user’s identification data along with the request of purchase. There would also be a serial number; which would in part be made up of the location of the registry office (latitude /longitude), as mentioned above.
The holder would need to use this card, which could be known as the “SHARE CARD”, each and every time a purchase of either “Goods” or “Services” is made. In use, the method would be as simple as paying by Visa or by Bank Debit Card. At the checkout counter or the order desk after the usual scanning of the product’s bar code, the customer’s “Share Card” would be electronically scanned. This dual process sends a communication to the supplier of the article or the service, requesting the article or the service (health, education, recreation, entertainment, transportation, etc), in a sense, be debited to the cardholder. In the case of a product, this electronic signal would go to the supplier (warehouse of the production industry) to indicate that the production of this article should to be continued.
From this point, similar requisitions would be sent along a network to activate the various operations and finally to the supplier of the raw materials. In this way, an accurate accounting and control can be kept of all of our natural resources used to produce these goods or services.
Having registered, each person would consequently become a legitimate citizen of the Global Village (the Earth) and as such, would be entitled to all of the privileges as well as the obligations, accorded by “The Charter”, i.e., a proportionate share of the Goods and Services either Natural or Contrived, currently available. In return, in as much as would be physically possible, a contribution of his or her knowledge and skills to the work and welfare of his or her neighborhood would be expected.
It is evident now; there would no longer be any need for Banks or any other Financial Institution. As such, these institutions would become redundant. Their buildings, if necessary, could be retrofitted to serve the purposes of the New Regime. Many of those architectural masterpieces, which had been built as tributes to Free Enterprise, along with certain, historical, heritage mansions and castles, would probably be voted to remain as show places, or as places of entertainment. Without having the concern of property rights, taxes and upkeep expense in the usual way, our National Parks and Conservation areas could be expanded and improved upon as seen advisable, in keeping with the long term policy of the “Global Charter”.
Unrestricted free enterprise and competition have, to a large extent, created “Mega Corporations” of industry and commerce. These business enterprises have built up a “global network” of operation and control. Although this Conglomerate of Corporate Power has alarmed many “entrepreneurs”, I see how it has played into the hands of the designers of this New Age. They have shown that a global network of computers was not only possible but has already been established. It now remains for “Vi-Tocracy” to modify and adapt this growing network to the uses of this Global Village.
This global government of the people would work in cooperation with People for the benefit of the People as well as all “Natural Life” in general.
I believe that there is no man or woman intellectually and physically capable of governing a large group of people, without first establishing the power of “The Word”.
Such a group of words would form a set of operating, governing rules or principles forming a charter or constitution. This would be freely conceived and understood by the people (the electorate). This “Word” or Charter, conceived and spoken throughout this Global Village, would become the “I Am”, the governing principle to which the people-appointed leader must subscribe. This new government would have neither King, Emperor, President, Prime Minister, Sheik, the Pentagon nor military Dictator.
The SPIRIT of “The Word” as set forth in “The Charter”, would be the required Figure Head to guide this new World Government which would operate under the leadership of an appointed Chair Person.
Yours From the Back Forty:
Timothy Haystubble (Grass Roots Philosopher)