Category: Essential Thoughts

2006.10.19

Let’s build democratic anarchy

Democratic anarchy is a new form of social relations based on the hierarchical structure of making a decision about organizing society, but the final power will belong directly to all of the people. We cannot cooperate everywhere. In the first place, we just do not have time for it. Also, we have to pass our participation rights in the decision-making processes in society to people who are experts in the fields. Let’s give the people the freedom to do whatever they think is the best for society, but those people must not disappoint us when they decide something in the fields of our interest.


Democratic anarchy will enforce that by assigning every person an equal right and power to evaluate any other person. Let’s say each person gets the right to assess three people positively and three people negatively every month. Each positive assessment should automatically bring a small benefit, let’s say one dollar, to the assessed person. On the other hand, any negative evaluation will result in a punishment of the same form.


What would we get? Such a small power in the people’s hand will make individuals respect each other strongly. Each member of society will try to create the highest possible advantages for the community, and to diminish or abolish creation of all forms of disadvantages.


People will judge other people freely. That means an immoral person may evaluate other people dishonestly, but it will not matter much because an individual power of one dollar cannot produce harm to anybody. If two people do not like each other, they may evaluate each other negatively for years, which would not be a big deal. Getting or losing three dollars in the developed world does not mean much. Individuals will not have much power in society but independent evaluations of people joined together will be mighty. Besides, the person who receives bad evaluations would never know who has evaluated him negatively. However, the result will be very affirmative because he would try to improve his behaviour towards everyone.


A person who receives a large number of negative evaluations would work even harder to avoid doing anything inconvenient to other people and to produce betterment to all. As the result of it, a bully will not harass you at school, your boss will not abuse you at work, your neighbour will not produce noise at night, a salesperson will not cheat on you, politicians will not lie to you; you name it. They will all try to please other people in the best possible way. This is what will eliminate social evil and make a good society.


The higher position in society a worker has, the more responsible to society he would be. If you are an exposed person, for example, a chief of a hundred workers, there is no chance you would be a jerk to the workers (which is, by the way, a very occasional incident today) because they might evaluate you negatively and it may cost you few hundred dollars monthly. By the system of evaluations, chiefs would immediately lose their privileged status among the workers. They will not have any other choice than to cooperate with workers.


The president of the US, for example, might get 100,000,000 bad evaluations from the American people for bad policies, lies, and for the criminal aggression in other countries. That would cost him 100,000,000 dollars in only one month. Such a president would not be privileged by any means anymore. He would run away from his position so fast that no one would have remembered him as a president. Only the most skilful and bravest individuals, willing to cooperate with all of the people, would dare to lead countries. They will not be authorities any more but our servants.


Everyone will serve others as much as he or she can. Everyone will try hard to please society in the best possible way, and that will make a harmonious society. By the time, the system of evaluation will abolish the state laws, police and military force, and very states. Nobody will need it anymore. That would be perfect anarchy. You may find more about that here: The Future of Democracy.


2006.10.09

Let’s demystify the system of education

Education gives the needed knowledge. In the alienated society, we live in today, authorities determine what knowledge is required, and society does not have any other choice than to accept it. Today’s authorities have established the compulsory education on purpose, to make sure that established order, their way of thinking, and their values would be thoroughly accepted by students. Such education is alienated. It alienates us from our nature, prevents the development of our abilities, and prevents us from living a normal life.


Alienated societies overestimate the significance of education. The best learning comes from practice. When a man likes what he is doing, he quickly learns everything that he needs for doing his work. But we can very rarely get the chance to work what we would like to do because most of the work positions are taken and inaccessible to other people. When we cannot productively express ourselves through natural needs such as work, we seek for alienated shapes of values that degenerate us. That is precisely the situation we have today.


The new system I have proposed brings an open competition of workers for every work post. The worker who anticipates and offers the highest productivity for the needed work post will get the job. The system will form far higher responsibilities of workers for their work and productivity than it is possible today so that no one will dare to offer productivity that they cannot achieve, such as how politicians regularly do today for example.


In such a system, work will not be conditioned by education. Education will be treated only as help for work. Firstly, that means the school will not be an obligation. Students will freely take lessons where they want and when they want. It could be assumed that most of the students will not attend classes they do not have interests in or do not receive direct benefits from. Education in the future will aim to teach students the knowledge they need.


Schools will be places for students socialize with teachers and exchange their theoretical knowledge and experience from practice. The work competition will require professors to be the best experts in their fields. That will be provided by the evaluation of teachers by students. I think that teachers will not evaluate students anymore because that will not be needed. Once the students start to work their clients and customers will assess them. The changes in the system of education will be significant and essential.


I think that education in the future will teach students how to help themselves maximally. One could assume that most visited classes will be “do it yourself“ in all the natural sciences: mechanics, electrics, electronics, feeding, health, and even in medicine. I believe that the people in the future will need to acquire the basic knowledge of medicine in the scope that family doctors usually use so that they could be able to heal themselves as much as possible.


The new system will reveal the social sciences to the objective essence and then we would all become well familiarized with the social sciences. As all people speak their mother’s tongue pretty well without matter of the level of education, the same way, all of the people will become good psychologists, sociologists, lawyers, economists, philosophers, artists, etc., just because they live in the new system.


Most of the workplaces today objectively do not require schooling but only a short course. The students will take such courses by their free will. The students will also make a curriculum for their studies following their needs and skills. That would be the case even in large, complex, specialized jobs. For example, a student studies in rocket science. Soon he finds he does not know enough mathematics to be able to follow the lectures in rocket science. Then he postpones the study of rocket science and starts studying mathematics until he gets the knowledge necessary to continue studying rocket science. Education in the future will require the shortest way of acquiring needed knowledge.


Today, for example, an average surgeon needs to educate himself for more than twenty years. What slavery to the bureaucracy that is! What a loss of time in the most creative edge! I think that an average educated person may acquire proficiency in surgery in a much shorter time if he throws out everything that is not necessary. How to do this? While taking the required lessons, the student surgeons will attend the surgeries of experienced surgeons. When a student finishes the program he chooses for a surgeon profession, he will estimate alone whether he is able to perform an operation. The surgeons will not evaluate their own skills wrongfully because the regulation of the work responsibility will be much stronger than it is today. The patients will not be in danger of non-professional surgeons because experienced surgeons will supervise the beginners. Besides that, when a beginner surgeon feels capable of surgery, he will still need to convince patients that he is capable of doing it because patients will choose their surgeons alone. A surgeon who makes a big mistake by performing a surgery might lose their patients forever. So that if a beginner surgeon does not feel capable of delivering an operation, he could attend additional education as much as he feels he needs.


That’s how demystified education should look like. That is how the future of education would look like.

2005.07.07

Let’s be good, sane, and joyful people

There is no other way to reach a good, sane, and joyful life besides accepting the political and economic social system I have proposed in my book, Humanism.


There is no more straightforward way either. My solution does not require rules, laws, consciousness, intelligence, wisdom, authorities nor teachers; it does not require strength, unpleasant work nor any kind of sacrifice. It only needs free people who respect other people. My idea of mutual evaluation will make it happen.


The life in the system I have proposed will teach people how to follow the will of God. You may ask yourself how you would know the will of God? The answer is straightforward; when you make the environment where all the people are satisfied with their lives while living in beautiful harmony, in paradise on earth, that will be the will of God.


2005.07.06

Let’s be free

Freedom is a state of non-dependence. A person who has needs depends on these needs and therefore cannot be entirely free. In a more narrow case, freedom is a state that allows us to satisfy our needs.


A person has subjective and objective needs. Objective needs are natural needs. People may satisfy them pretty much successfully and thus find their freedom. Troubles of today’s society come from subjective or alienated needs because people could not satisfy them. Generally speaking, subjective needs can give people a feeling of overcoming their weaknesses before nature and releasing people from the inconveniences coming from such weaknesses. But of course, that is a false release.


How it manifests? Whenever people accomplish any goal in their lives, the narcissus in them assigns to that success, and of course to their egos, a more significant value then it objectively deserves. Such a phenomenon might look unimportant, but in essence, it is the nest of all social evil. All the social evil around the world comes from over self-evaluation because it unavoidably brings underestimation of other people. Wrong evaluation of people alienates people from the nature of people and prepares an environment for all social troubles.


When a person’s needs are alienated, they tend not to be satisfied because no action can reach the nature of the origin of such needs. No action can give a person more power than they get by their nature. Such a person is afraid of the possibility of losing imagined alienated power, and it forces him to act endlessly to protect his false vision. Taking into account he cannot get satisfaction in this way, such acting takes freedom from him while the endlessness useless acting kills the soul of such a person. A person without a soul is just a machine that walks and produces trouble.


On top of everything, such a person tends to impose alienated values to other people and to oppress other people, which takes freedom from other people and brings considerable problems to the whole society. Presidents, scientists, soccer players, mothers do such things; practically no one is immune to self over-evaluating, no one is immune to narcissism. That is a problem we need to solve.


Without matter of what a goal a man accomplishes, he must not forget, for his own sake and for the sake of the whole society; he is equal to any other person. This is precisely what the system of mutual evaluation among the people I have proposed will remind each person all the time. This is the first step to freedom.


Also, the system I have proposed, will rid the people of authoritative pressure and give them the freedom to follow their own interests. Such experience will demystify the values imposed by authorities and will teach people to live observing their proper nature, which will, in turn, free them from all types of alienation characteristics of present-day society.


The new system I have proposed gives objective freedom to the people. They will have choices everywhere. The people will have a right to choose whether they want to work and what they want to work. Their existence will not depend on work anymore, but they will choose to work because they will like to work in the new system.


Such a life will be free. It will be significantly better than the life we live in today; a life much better than anyone can imagine.


2005.06.25

Let’s finish with the social evil

So you are a student, and a bully harasses you at school? Or your boss abuses you at work? One cannot find a person who would not agree that these are very occasional incidents today. To protect yourself from harassments you need to report it to authorities. The culture we have inherited gives authorities more power than other people have. The system we live in provides authorities with the rights to know what is good or bad for you, better than you would. That is wrong.

 

Also, the authorities more often like their power much more than you, so that they might be easily corrupted. Besides that, even the courts can hardly protect you from sophisticated abuse. Yes, you may move to another school or company if they are available, but another bully or boss may abuse you there, too. If somebody calls you names or your neighbour produces noise at night, or you name it, you do not have adequate protection from such harassment in everyday life anywhere.

 

Well, the system of evaluation I have invented will protect you from all of the evil mentioned above and from much more. This is actually anarchy because the people will not follow any written rules while evaluating other people. This will give people much more effective protection than laws or authorities. Everyone will stop doing what other people do not like and try their best to do what people do like. This is what will make a good society.

 

But you may be concerned, for example, what if somebody does not like the fact your singing is better than his. Would he evaluate you negatively just because he is jealous of your skill? Firstly, I would like to say that every person would have a limited right for assessing negatively let’s say three people monthly. That would have to make you a worse person to him than his lousy boss is, and a salesperson that sold him spoiled food, or the politician who lied to him, which is hard to believe. An average person would never evaluate you negatively just because you sing better than him.

 

Nevertheless, in an alienated perverted society we live in today, some misevaluation may happen, but an individual evaluation would not have the power to produce significant harm to anybody. On the other hand, if you are an exposed person and do things many people would not like you to do, you would get a large number of negative evaluations from the people, and that would hurt you and force you to change your behaviour.

 

Finally, the new system will make all peoples’ good skills equally appreciated so that if you sing better than somebody else, it will not bother him much because he would have a chance to be better than you in something else and to find his satisfaction there. Last but not least, the system of evaluation will teach people to solve possible conflicts through agreements. That would make all sides in conflicts satisfied without arbitrages of authorities. Bravery and excellent skills in serving the people will be appreciated strongly and evaluated positively.

 

Actually, I cannot see any problem with the system of evaluation besides that of the resistance of a small narcissus inside you people that does not like other people evaluating you. But the assessment is precisely what will finally give each person equal rights and power in society. The lack of it was the primary cause that prevented establishing a good society in the whole history of humankind.

 

People hurt other people only when they feel superior and do not harm people who might equally hurt them back. The system of evaluation will make people respect each other, and that will prevent bad relationships happening in society. However, if you are still concerned about the evaluation rights of people, we may try it without any awards and punishments involved. Let’s just see how many good and bad evaluations each person would get and that will make a significant improvement to society. We may try it tomorrow, and a much better future will start tomorrow. The system of evaluation will one day stop all evil.

2005.06.13

Let’s remove immorality

Man is immoral when he does not have the freedom to be moral. When the system he lives in does not allow him to use his power productively. Powerlessness in society is immoral itself and indeed spreads immorality. In today’s closed, not free, alienated society, almost all the people take some power from other people. That is the reason nearly all people are powerless in the community so that it is no surprise in what immorality we live in. Immorality is malign cancer for every society.

 

The system I have proposed gives unlimited possibilities to man to express his productive power in society and to find satisfaction from it. On the other hand, the system does not provide freedom to inconvenient or destructive behaviour in society. In the new order, everyone will have the power to evaluate any other person in the community. This evaluation will represent such a value so that everyone will avoid doing anything inconvenient to another person or to society, and everyone will try hard to produce the most significant possible benefits to another man and to society. What goes around comes around, and therefore the society will become good. The people will, through self-practice, get to know where natural values are. That will definitely stop all kinds of immorality.

2005.06.01

Let’s remove alienation

Subjectivity creates alienation. A man hardly accepts his powerlessness in nature, and therefore he easily gives to unknown or superior phenomena in nature determinations that suit him best. Such determinations often give the man an illusion of power and release him from unpleasant tensions, but such determinations are alienated from their objective essences and thus alienate the man from his nature. Nobody is immune to this process so that every man builds some sort of alienation. In purpose to achieve more power, alienated people tend to impose their alienated visions, values, needs to other people. This is an origin for the unlimited alienation we live in today.


It starts with upbringing. Parents teach children what they think is good and bad. Parents who live more naturally are mostly satisfied with their lives. They take care of their children and allow free development of children which is a precondition for the prosperity of children. Such parents are really rare today.


Today, parents are pretty much alienated from their own nature, so that they can hardly satisfy their needs and therefore cannot be satisfied with their lives. They often do not have time for their children so that they leave it to society to take care of them. The shortage of love does huge damage to the development of children. If alienated parents find the time for children that is mostly to force their children to accomplish everything they were not able to. They force children to accept even more alienated values and needs than they have accepted. Such parents produce outrageous demands for their children which oppresses them strongly. That does considerable damages to their mental development. The misfortune of today’s society starts here.


Then education comes as an institutionalized demand for imposing settled alienated knowledge. This is an abuse of a student’s mind. More successful students in schools are mainly those ones who have more advanced intelligence and who often feel less of their nature so that they may accept alienated knowledge more efficiently. After finishing schools, these students have a better chance to take leading roles in society. They are intellectually capable of making improvements in alienated fields but this, as a general rule, has little to do with the social growth. On the contrary, taking into account that these kinds of people have more difficulties to feel and comprehend natural issues, they prevent the natural development of society and spread accepted alienation.


The oppression continues in adulthood where you, dear reader, carry and develop all the alienation coming from your ancestors. The alienation makes you powerless. In today’s closed alienated society you almost do not have a chance to live a natural life. All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall (Pink Floyd).


Walls are everywhere around you, and what is worse, they are in your heads too. Authorities have taught you to fight just for the better positions in the walls all your lives. But there is not a better position in the wall; you just think there is because firstly, you cannot try it. You are not free and do not allow anybody you control anyhow to be free either. You are good people to authorities because they abundantly use you, but you can hardly be good for yourself nor to society. Here are the origins for all of the social problems today. That is what prevents you and other people from using natural potentials and abilities. That is what stops you and other people of having a good, sane, satisfied and joyful lives.


The system I have proposed will tear down the walls. It will rid you people of authoritative pressure and give you the freedom to follow your own interests, while at the same time the system will be forcing you to respect other people. Such an experience will demystify the values imposed by authorities and will teach you to live following your objective nature, which will, in turn, free you from all types of alienation characteristics of present-day society. Furthermore, the system will teach you to set your needs following the possibilities of satisfying them. This is the chief prerequisite for overcoming destructiveness in society because when you permanently satisfy your needs, you are not going to be destructive anymore. The proposed system will give you the power to be good people. It promises a natural, harmonious and highly prosperous development of society.


2005.05.29

Let’s remove fear


We don’t need fear anymore to achieve existential survival; however, we have it a lot. In today’s abundant production this is an artificial fear that gives power to privileged people. Frightened people are unable to think alone. Every fear blocks an ability to judge, so that afraid people seek shelter from authorities. It is a vicious circle of poverty in which we live. In the system I have proposed, everyone will receive a minimum income that assures an economic existence without matter if one works or not. The height of the salaries will be determined by direct democracy.


So then why would people work if they receive an income without work? Well, the answer is simple; those who work will earn higher salaries than those who do not work. Also, the system will give people a choice to choose the work they love to do, and they will do it primarily because of having a good time. One may say: “Yes, but almost no worker loves his job permanently his whole life.” That is true, but the new system allows people to change their work easily and find new, interesting ones. One may add: “Yes, but the worst problem today lies in the fact that we work all day practically, and even though we have an excellent job, as time passes, it would start becoming more like a difficult burden than a pleasure.”


Well, the new system has a simple answer to this problem. It will allow the demystification of today’s system of values. That means, a reduction in consumption of goods will be achieved and that will require the modification of production. Then, the reorganization of work will significantly reduce needed work hours. Once the new system improves society and society improves the system back, probably two-four hours daily will be enough to satisfy all of the peoples’ production needs. Besides that, the work will be a pleasure and will produce much better production than any fear can. Then the people will have much more time to spend in developing their productive orientations and in socializing with other people.


Another major fear in today’s society is the fear of losing a privileged status. If you are a president, movie star, or have any other exempt status in society, you have achieved alienated advantages that bring happiness but also a fear of losing such a condition. A privileged status brings a pretty much non-existent benefit objectively, and entirely unnecessary fear. In the new system, the people will have different jobs and statuses in society, but they will not rate their jobs nor ranks more or less than jobs or statuses of other people. Therefore, loss of any job or status in the new society will not be a significant inconvenience to anybody, so that neither will fear losing it be. In the new system, the people will respect other people for who they are and not for what kind of statuses they possess. That would enable everyone to have a healthy good life.


The system of mutual evaluation I have proposed will give everyone the ultimate power that no one can overpass. People will respect each other much. No one will be afraid of any other human being anymore without matter of what weaknesses they have. What about other fears: abstract and concrete, rational and irrational, conscious and unconscious, big and small? Authorities create or maintain most fears to make people obedient to them practically all their lives. Well, such fears in the new society where people love each other, where continuously help each other will hardly exist.


Can you imagine a life without fear? That would be a beautiful life.


2005.05.21

Let’s prevent corruption

When I start a discussion about my system with people most often I receive complains that Paradise on Earth is not possible because individuals are weak and like to corrupt or to be corrupted. Corruption makes immoral, destructive relations in society which prevents society from being good. Corruption is a poison of every society.


But when is a man weak? He is weak when he cannot satisfy his needs. He cannot meet his needs in a closed and alienated society where privileges rule such as the one we live in today. Privileges give a man power over people, and that corrupts. Privileges are the nests for corruption. In the world of privileges, one cannot get what he needs unless he is servile to privileged people or corrupts them. That is wrong.


In the system I have proposed power over people will not exist, there will be not privileged people either so that corruption will disappear as well. Everyone who does not satisfy one’s needs at his workplace will get negative evaluations from a not satisfied person. These evaluations will be as influent as it would be necessary for the system to work fine. Therefore, everyone will try hard to please other people as much as they can without corruption.


Furthermore, the new system offers open work competition for every work post in public companies. No one’s public work post will be privileged anymore. If a person at his workplace does not satisfy somebody’s needs, he or she may be replaced with a not satisfied person who offers better productivity. No one would be able to get benefits from a privileged status in society. No one will have control over other people, neither over assets that belong to the society. Why would corruption exist when no one could achieve a privileged status and power in society? Besides that, in such a community no one will be weak, and corruption will not have any reason to exist.


The work competition is probably the most challenging part of the system I have proposed, but it is far from impossible to accomplish. It will bring better productivity than capitalism can so that it will send capitalism down in history. It will make work become a value in itself, and people will enjoy working. The work market will make all jobs equally demanded. Life in such a system will bring disalienation; it will show where real values are. Such a system will undoubtedly stop corruption. The benefits of the new system will bring to society are practically unlimited. You may find more about it in my book The Humanism. The system is entirely new so that it might not be easy to implement, but there is no other good way. We have to go this way if we want to build a beautiful future of humankind.


2005.03.27

Let’s finish with capitalism

The new system I have proposed would offer much more market than capitalism can afford. In the first place, a permanently open labour market will be established. Each public work post will have to be given to the worker who envisages and offers the highest productivity at any time. Productivity could be measured by earned money, by quality and quantity of produced goods, or by productivity evaluation of workers by customers. A worker who offers more profits, manufactured goods, and better or cheaper production will get the job.


That is an idea. How to make such changes to bring the most possible advantages and the least possible disadvantages to society is just a technical question. I have defined a pretty good solution in my book Humanism, but that is what would probably be much more developed by the practice. Today a labour market almost does not exist. Once a developed labour market starts to work, it will bring higher productivity, disalienation, balance among people’s needs, harmony to the people, benefits to society beyond the wildest dreams today.


No economy can be more productive than the one where the best available worker gets each job. Such an economy will easily become significantly more productive than the capitalist one so that the latter will be forced to recede.


In a good society, a human being is a central value and not capital. When capitalism is done humanism will step in, and an unthinkably better future of humankind will start.