Dedication

This writing is dedicated to the unique, precious and irreplaceable entity known as Humanity, who is the sum total of all that we are, have been and will be.

The body of Humanity is currently gravely ill of a potentially fatal autoimmune condition in which we are consuming ourselves from within and slowly dying of our own toxins.

The root causes are overpopulation and the profoundly dysfunctional dominant socio-economic paradigm operating in the world today, alongside similar socio-economic paradigms.

Global warming and destruction of the environment, most wars, much despotism, poverty, global and national inequity, strife among races, religions, ethnic and other groups and most of the ills that we are experiencing, are symptoms of primarily those two critical conditions. Our other ills are minor in comparison as a cold compared to metastatic cancer.

Yet our condition is treatable and our life expectancy need not be tragically cut short. This writing explores and explains the diagnosis and outlines a course of treatment that will most certainly return us, as Humanity and as the individual humans who make it up, to a state of robust and thriving health in mind, body, heart and soul.

The time has come to implement a completely new paradigm which is neither Capitalism, Communism, nor Socialism but which benefits from experience gained from experiments in all three and more. In order to achieve human communities that foster the thriving of all of their members and form optimal norms and patterns of co-operation among individuals while honoring the sovereignty of each person in a win-win, rather than a win-lose, dynamic, we must be guided by a deeper understanding of history, science, and the inner workings and responses of the human heart and psyche.

The Transition from the current paradigms and systems to the new ones must be accomplished in a coordinated act of changing the way things are done from the ground up, carried out strategically, forcefully but non-violently and with profound respect for human life and dignity. This will be not a political action, but a social, economic and cultural one. There are no “us” and “them,” no enemies, no “good guys” and “bad guys.” In its essence, it will flow from a decision to stop repeating dysfunctional patterns over and over while expecting different results, to replace an unworkable societal paradigm with a workable one that will evolve and adapt naturally in the direction of ever increasing human well-being, fulfillment, empowerment, and mutually-reinforcing-and-strengthening benefit.