Solving the Fossil Fuel Depletion Crisis

Timothy Wilken writes: Big government and big business cannot help us. They are the problem. They are invested in a model of society that depends on separation and scarcity. Big government wants only to get re-elected and big business wants only to make a buck. Together they completely dominate our current political-economic system by their reality of one dollar = one vote. They cannot solve our human crisis. They don't have a clue. They can only make it worse. Its up to us. We can only rely on ourselves. We need individuals of integrity to join with us to build a new model of society that depends on co-Operation and abundance. And, by abundance I am referring to an abundance of integrity, intelligence  and responsibility. Then we can begin restructuring our society in ways that will lead to a relative abundance of matter-energy even within the finite world we inhabit. Modern society is currently ruled by a political-economic  system that is controlled and determined only by money. Remember  one dollar = one vote. The only votes that count in our modern human society are the dollar votes you exercise by buying or not buying products. (07/17/02)

Understanding 'Wealth'

Timothy Wilken writes: The human species emerged in the world of space-binding. Here the rule of survival was fight or flight. The values in this world were adversarial. Adversary relationship originates on earth in the animal world. Earth supplies limited space for the animals. Space is finite. Good space is even more finite. This means it is very limited. There is only so much good water, so much good grazing land, so much good shelter, and so much good food. There is not enough to go around. The space-binders must compete for this limited amount of good space. They compete adversarialy. They compete by fighting and flighting. They compete by attacking and killing other space-binders. Humans living as space-binders follow the adversarial rule. They compete by fighting and flighting. They compete by attacking and killing their enemies. In this world survival depends on securing good space and avoiding bad space. Bad space is where the predators live – bad space is where you lose – bad space is where you die. ... Physical force is what adversarial humans value most. The force to physically control other humans. Adversarial wealth is weapons, fighting men, horses, fortresses, that which gives me the adversarial advantage. In our modern world, adversarial wealth is B2 bombers, F15 fighter aircraft, aircraft carriers, tanks, military satellites, explosives of all types from hand grenades to nuclear weapons, trained soldiers and last but not least guns. The adversary world is a game of with losers and winners. This is a world of fighting and flighting – of pain and dying. Survival depends on securing good space and avoiding bad space. To win in this game someone must lose. Winning is always at the cost of another. All humans living in the adversarial world are struggling to avoid losing – struggling to avoid being hurt. (07/17/02)

Japan, a Preview of Coming Attractions?

CNN Money -- For years, the Japan question has come up only to be quickly swatted down. There's no way we'd let our economy languish for 12 years like the Japanese have, said the optimists. This is America, and when we've got a problem we fix it. But a June paper from the Federal Reserve titled, "Preventing Deflation: Lessons from Japan's Experience in the 1990's," has got the U.S.-is-Japan worries revving again. The comparison isn't hard to draw. Japan had a bubble, the United States had a bubble. Japan's banks are unwilling to lend to businesses despite low interest rates, and U.S. banks are increasingly unwilling to lend despite low interest rates. And now the Fed paper raises a worry that the same deflationary forces that have helped prevent a Japanese recovery could happen in the United States too. (07/17/02)