Well done Dr. Martin, you certainly are light years ago of the rest by calling the 21st. century "very critical, unique in all history".

All I can say is Wow!

Regards,

Steve

21st Century Balanced Energy Exchange Systems

I think it is all about balanced energy exchange and a system that supports that. Providing everyone a place to provide input to the economic system and participate, a channel to direct their energy into the system and then the ability to extract it out in what ever form is needed.

That is what economics is all about in it's simple form. Yet we have created a complex system for accounting for this energy exchange one that now leads to an imbalance, distortion and a huge waste of human energy.

I have been exploring the idea that human energy is unlike mechanical energy in that it defies the Law of Thermodynamics. Human energy multiplies and increases itself; this is really what profit is. The sum output of human energy is greater than the total of it's inputs. It seems that intelligence amplifies the results gained from our energy inputs. It is the creation and application of this intelligence that really represents "profit" which is an intangible based increase of "return" from the system. Using intelligence we leverage external energy reducing the need for labor, individual mechanical energy inputs.

In fact there is really no limit to the energy in the universe, so through the application of intelligence there is no limit to what we can create.

What we do see is that much of the benefit of this application of intelligence and harnessing of the energy found in nature may not have been passed on to all but rather it has been hoarded by a few. For some reason many still work 40 hour work weeks or more when technology should have created more leisure time for play, exploration and creativity. In fact I can say that we work more than we did in our basic agricultural society with farming, which means technology has had an opposite effect as it relates to reducing labor. In fact I look at the world and see that we have actually succeeded in creating unnecessary artificial needs and new fictional labor requirements. If your not doing food, shelter, energy, or transportation then you may be participating in a bogus economic role.

The one other product and service that should be arise as a result of our technology, although not essential is entertainment, this is what we are supposed to occupy our increased leisure time with. Those that hoard energy or extract it unfairly from the system through manipulation or control of the accounting system itself are a major detriment to balanced energy exchange, created one where some have excess and others are lacking. This is why we need to restructure the worlds systems with accountability especially in the public sector, and transparency.

With this ability to direct unlimited energy, and to manipulate the manner of exchange between even the smallest components of the system comes the need for wisdom. For in nature there is a perfect system of energy exchange which we must not disrupt and imbalance or attempt to reconfigure, but rather we should work in concert with it as we create.

Transparency eliminates temptation, let us not lead them to temptation then, and build a transparent system.

As for energy, as I have often written, humanity squeezes it out of matter in a very crude manner, we must look like medieval primitives to others in the universe, yet there is abundant free form flowing energy all around us. Of course nobody has a monopoly on the Sun, if they did it, would probably be our active source of energy. How much more high tech can you get then having a nuclear reactor floating over your head streaming energy everywhere at no cost, with no pollution? Nature is pure genius.

This is similar to the issues with health where patented methods with monopolies are the ones that are promoted and the low profit highly effective methods (prevention by keeping the biochemical system in balance) are not offered by most professionals as an option and they require your own self recovery.

Any economic role resulting from fear, the creation of a need for a solution, accommodating a "created" system imbalance, or due to hard to navigate complex game rules shall be eliminated in the 21st century.

There will not be Universal Health Care, there will be Universal Health, we will not get a disease in the first place. We have the knowing we need only apply it.

There will not be a few governing the many to their own benefit and the detriment of the many but Universal Self Government (USG) resulting in a collective manifestation that benefits the whole.

Dear James Martin,

I'm in the process of reading your truly fascinating book - "The Meaning of the 21st Century" - and I was flabbergasted when I came to page 279-280 since I've come across similar points and even phrasings as early as 1912 and 1938:

You write:

“The 20th century was the most violent century so far. It was like a teenage world swept with intense emotional traumas and violence, prior to adulthood. Because of mass-destruction weapons, the 21st century cannot withstand similar behaviour. It’s the century when we have to achieve adulthood, and there are some early signs of this developing. Improvement in behaviour is critical in the 21st century because, suddenly we’re all in the same totally isolating melting pot, amidst dreadful weapons. We’ll have new wealth and capabilities that can greatly upgrade what humankind is all about, but we have to grow up pretty quickly. This is childhood’s end. The melting pot is global. . . .” (p. 279-280)

In 1912 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said:

“. . . there are periods and stages in the life of the aggregate world of humanity, which at one time was passing through its degree of childhood, at another its time of youth but now has entered its long presaged period of maturity, the evidences of which are everywhere visible and apparent. Therefore, the requirements and conditions of former periods have changed and merged into exigencies which distinctly characterize the present age of the world of mankind. That which was applicable to human needs during the early history of the race could neither meet nor satisfy the demands of this day and period of newness and consummation. Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him. The gifts and graces of the period of youth, although timely and sufficient during the adolescence of the world of mankind, are now incapable of meeting the requirements of its maturity. The playthings of childhood and infancy no longer satisfy or interest the adult mind.”

(‘Abdu’l-Bahá , The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 438-439)

In 1938 Shoghi Effendi wrote:

“...His [Bahá'u'lláh's] mission is to proclaim that the ages of the infancy and of the childhood of the human race are past, that the convulsions associated with the present stage of its adolescence are slowly and painfully preparing it to attain the stage of manhood, and are heralding the approach of that Age of Ages when swords will be beaten into plowshares, when the Kingdom promised by Jesus Christ will have been established, and the peace of the planet definitely and permanently ensured. Nor does Bahá'u'lláh claim finality for His own Revelation, but rather stipulates that a fuller measure of the truth He has been commissioned by the Almighty to vouchsafe to humanity, at so critical a juncture in its fortunes, must needs be disclosed at future stages in the constant and limitless evolution of mankind.”

(Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. v)

I do not know if you're familiar with the Bahá'í Faith, but some of the issues that you raise in your book have been addressed by both Bahá'u'lláh 1817-1892 (the prophet-founder of the Faith), 'Abdu'l-Bahá 1844-1921 (his son), and Shoghi Effendi 1897-1957 (the grandson of 'Abdu'l-Bahá who also - incidentally - studied at Balliol College, Oxford at the beginning of the 20th century)

Cordially,

Zaid Lundberg