Sunday, July 6, 2008

sci fi

1 car for every 15 people should be enough. roomier but less gassy? slower? who's in a hurry?communism could work fine for groups of up to one hundred, but maybe we could work on a system of 'porous' class for thousands and millions. we dont need a middle class, in fact, maybe it is the middle class whose buffer is what blinds us, isolates us. i imagine a system in which big thinkers have all the resouces and small thinkers use all the resources.who is a big thinker? a big thinker is someone who can step outside of their shell, abandon their personal belief and habits, discard their security blanket and consider another human being's frailty. the more compassion, the more vision one has, the more money/resource they are given access to for sharing. ideally, everyone could make their own way, decide what they need for themself and how much, but in a world of one thousand, one million, one billion, perhaps this is too much to expect.a self-server can sustain themselves. why shouldnt a public servant have enough to go around?this seems to be exactly what we do have, or are moving toward, the elimination of the middle class, the middle class demoting to lower class, a two class state. but the key difference is that a public servant is a public person. there are no mansions for a family of three. a mansion with 120 rooms would house at least one hundred people. maybe the 'owner' has the best room, but there are no fences. there are no exclusive clubs, there are no ghettoes for the poor and real estate for the rich.a rich person has the understanding that they are a public servant. and someone who has no desire or concept to serve is alotted very little resource. the rich servant is given a meal too plentiful for themselves alone, the most selfish are merely given seeds to plant, baby animals to raise. this sounds impossible, but i think it would be easy to switch to this system if one compassionate person were given a voice.the change must happen at the very top, people you have not met, systems you were not aware of volunteer to expire. someone breathes love into the globe and it spreads like beautiful crystals.the change must simultaneously happen at the bottom. the most selfish people realize they have very little to offer the world, very little to give, and they should have in equal proportion to what they give.the change also happens in the middle, people accepting their own unique place in a world of over a billion unique people. decide how many of 7 or 8 billion unique things they can accomodate and then demand that their lifestyle reflect that value.things are not like this.there is not enough energy at the top to overcome human doubt. is this what seperates man from beast? the notion of doubt? or the notion of notion? with allignment of energy, efficient use of human energy, doubt could be propellant rather than imprisoning. to accept doubt into a series of harmonious days, aka a human life, is the blurry line between impossible and commonplace.for one person to agree with themself creates enough energy for at least two people to share. for two people to agree, even to agree to disagree, creates enough energy for four or more people to share. so, perhaps i propose a world full of communist batteries which power the spiritual machine of humanity. the communists have all the wealth to share amongst themselves and too much to keep much of. it is dangerous to keep, it is suffocating to keep too much.so, the key to getting rich, acquiring wealth is to find 100 people to agree with.again, this mirrors the 'real' world, but like a mirror, things are identical but reversed. in this scenario, the wealthy must share with people who cant agree with them in order to survive.somehow this fuels the unique-ness which is already self-evident.the uniqu-ness becomes easier to understand, disagreements become easier to swallow, men and women become more like humans and humans. human becomes a pleasant word again, as in, squirrels trust us again etc...the more people can accept one another, the closer together they can live, so we stop gobbling up the surface of the planet with suburbs.should we give selfish people seeds and call them farmers? this is a risky move, but trust is the catalyst here. the transformation of seeds to crops/food=the transformation of personal habits/self-knowledge to observation of earth habits/ green thumb? i hope so
for a city of one million, there are 100 communists agreeing or agreeing to disagree for their sustenance. there is not a mayor, there are 100 mayors and they live in the 120 room house and anyone can hang out there. the mayors' ears are always open.there are buses for travel or taxis with global positioning system that can find your cell phone and of course, taxis are much cheaper. trucks and cars can be rented, but it is cheaper to call taxis or ride the bus.
the physical world will change itself whether we like it or not. the mental world is not concrete. it is our spiritual world that is poisoned. it is not enough to change one's mind. it is not even necesarry. perhaps it is not even possible to change one's mind since it was not ever truly fixed in one state. but a heart puts down roots. it is not the fault of the heart if the ground is or becomes unhealthy, but it necesary to leave ruined ground behind.

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