In God ($) We Trust
Some friendly advice (suggestions)From the ‘Back Forty’ To all of our neighbours to the south as well as in other countries who desire world peace and freedom, we on the “Back Forty”, send greetings along with a bit or two of advice (suggestions).
“Read my book”. It is our view from here that you who assume leadership of your great countries, which you all proudly call the Dominion of Canada, the United States of America, as well as those leaders of the rest of the world, have many important lessons yet to learn. I believe these lessons need to be well learned before you could be qualified to, teach (dictate to) others. You have many well qualified Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians, who with the help of the many millions of fellow human beings, of every nationality, of every walk in life, colour, male and female, even our neighbours from the ‘Back Forty’, have built many large and many small industrial complexes. Hand in hand with and controlled by “Businesses”, these Industrial Complexes are reaching out into what is known as the third world, and beyond. Taken together, these Industries are more than capable of producing goods and services in sufficient quantities of everything necessary to adequately satisfy the health and living needs of each of the six billion human ibodies and souls on our planet–with a surplus left over. To do this the various forms of the world’s Natural Resources, including Energy Resources from the rain forests; from the mountains; from the mines; from the seas; from the farm-lands; from the lakes and the rivers are all required in varying amounts. It is too often forgotten that these resources belong to every man, women and child on earth, regardless of nationality, colour or culture, in proportion to their requirements.
We each require the use of Nature’s stores of energy in the forms Oil Natural Gas, Coal, Running Water or Moving Air, whether it is under the sands of the Arabian Desert, the sands of Texas, the bowels of the earth or the ice and snows of Alaska. We, the people of Earth, require these products to be used in creative and judicious ways to keep us alive and well.
“Read my book”:
There is another way!
Has anyone ever figured out what it has cost the world in Natural resources and Human Lives to have produced your huge armies of sophisticated war machines, for sea, land and air? Has anyone ever estimated the amount of fuel of various kinds, required to maintain these ships, land vehicles and airplanes, to maintain your place of supremacy among the nations?
Has anyone ever figured the cost of human lives lost or perverted in the conversion of hundreds of thousands of healthy men and women carefully trained and taught to kill or maim millions of other men, women and children?
In this modern, competitive, capitalistic society, we are all familiar with the fact that ‘Money’, whether the American Dollar, the Canadian Looney or whatever, is required in varying amounts to exchange for each and every one of these items of goods and services which our industries are willing and able to produce.
Finally, this idea of Money is as old as civilization; and is now quite out of place as a device for which it was intended, to be used for the distribution of the goods and services, from producer to person, as well as person to person.
There must be a better way!
Read my book and you will discover “The Other Way”, a co-operative way of living and the distribution of goods and services of whatever nature, whenever and wherever required without the use of money or the now very familiar Visa, or other credit card. Learn how the poor, the homeless and the starving need not always be with us. Learn how the ‘Third World’ and the ‘Developed World’ can become ‘One World’. Learn how Nations can live alongside Nations without fear of aggression. Learn how neighbour can live alongside neighbour in a sharing, caring relationship. Learn how ‘Doves’ can once again fly in peace and harmony with the rest of Nature; and hawks will return to the natural wilds where they will find their proper place in the eternal scheme of things.
The cash register, the slide rule and the adding machine have now given place to the computer; and our lives are being motivated by the ‘Internet’, ‘On-line Commerce and Banking’, ‘Credit Cards’, Visas and Bank Cards. Tomorrow all of these can become obsolete, with a new kind of “Internet”. A new all-purpose credit-debit card designed to replace every form of money for every sort of transaction between person and “Industry”, “Industry” and “Industry”, as well as between “Industry” and the Sources of energy and raw materials. Tomorrow, these pieces of paper, these bits of metal, these mortgage and loan certificates could all be scrapped and recycled for utilitarian uses as scrap metal and recyclable paper products.
Open the hearts and the minds of your business executives, the political leaders, the stock-brokers, the Prime Ministers, the Presidents of the ‘developed countries’ as well as all heads of state, everywhere. Advise them to
“Read my book!”
The great concern today is the scourge of ‘terrorists’, those mysterious People killers who seem to have very little regard for either human life or property (including their own). It seems to me here on my ‘Back Forty’, in spite of appearances to the contrary, these terrorists as well, have their roots deep in the ‘foul soil’ of ‘degenerate capitalism’. It should be known that competition, which is the underlying philosophy of capitalism, can eventually lead to quarrels between individuals, between groups of individuals and finally – Wars!
I wonder if the President of our self-confident and over-aggressive neighbour to the south decided to take the bold step to devaluate their money, the US $ to zero, and henceforth adopt my proposed “Other Way” system of trading (sharing) among themselves and their neighbors, what would happen to these neighboring countries? In self-defense, would these neighbours – the rest of the world – quickly ask to be included in this fantastic, new scheme for production and distribution – this “Share-Card” principle ?
The Business Philosophy, which now supports the Money Price System, would naturally give place to a care and share philosophy in whose language ‘Profit’ takes on a different meaning. Without the incentive for wars of any nature, the march of the War Mongers everywhere would probably be brought to an abrupt halt. Thousands of war-planes would be grounded at the nearest airport, while all land based, motorized fighting machines would cease operations along with all submarines and other vessels of war, in all the waters of the world. All of this war equipment would be decommissioned and scheduled for the scrap heap– not land fill. The military personnel of whatever rank would become responsible for the location and destruction of any and all land and sea mines of whatever nature, wherever located. All of the above would be deemed necessary in order to make the world safe for mankind to live compatibly with each other as well as with the rest of the natural living beings.
In deed, there is much work of a constructive nature, when properly organized, here on our beleaguered planet, which would provide employment for every able man and woman, for the rest of this millennium and beyond.
In this respect, this little book:
“The Other Way….”
I believe, holds the secret to world peace.
Now is the time to start building
for ourselves, as well as for all others
a ‘Compatible Society’.
This society would comprise all Cultures, all Nations, all Colors, all Creeds, and all Lands with their many natural resources.
All Persons, Male and Female, Young and Old, could each find a place to play out his or her unique roll.
Read more about ‘the Why’ and ‘the How-to’ in this
thought-provoking little book:
“The Other Way
To Socio-Economic Survival
For
Man and The Environment”
(An anodyne for today’s ills)”
By
Ken Muma (alias – Timothy Haystubble)
mumak@rogers.com
651 Baseline Road E. London, On N6C 2R2