Steps towards Synergy

These ideas begin to shift our current structures towards synergistic expressions of

well being.

Children: If every human being magically disappeared off the face of the planet today, within five years the world's water, air, and bio-diversity would be in a significantly more balanced and sustainable place than it is now. This has more to do with the programs running in seven billion human brains than the core nature of humanity or our current population density.

Our greatest human responsibility and gift is the cultural software we give to our children. We cannot teach our children models of sustainability, beauty and love until we are able to embody those models ourselves. Given that our current software is unsustainable for seven billion humans, it is respectful of ourselves, our world and our children to re-direct the energy spent raising a child towards re-inventing who we are and/or adopting the many abused and neglected children in need of love today.

Prisons: Spending $30,000 per inmate per year to punish those in need of help by removing them any productive contribution to the culture in growing numbers is unsustainable. Re-focusing prisons to be mandatory learning centers, which are funded by the work of prisoners making some contribution to their communities is more sustainable and valuable for all concerned.

Schools: The brain is designed for multi-sensory learning through observation, practice and experience in the environment one wishes to thrive in. Most schools go against this and instead separate students from the world they will later live in using a variety of misguided approaches:

• Students are isolated from other ages in class.
  

• Learning life skills through experience is discouraged in favor of head-knowledge.
  

• The unique wiring of every brain to learn in different ways is ignored in favor of a standardized approach discouraging the uniqueness that will be needed to flourish in the world.
  

• Empathy and deep bonding are discouraged by large-group settings and an unnatural ratio of student to teacher.
  

• Route memory of largely irrelevant information is favored instead of teaching many of the life-skills a student might be learning out of school.
  

Imagine another model where rather than paying $60,000.00 per student in tax payer money to take students out of world circulation for 12 years of their lives, students actually makes money while contributing to the community and learn key life skills! For more information on how I have used this model in my own life, click here.

Drugs: We have spent more than a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs. Most users pose little threat to society, and would pose even less if drugs were not so expensive to obtain. Many jail terms are related not so much to drug use, but drug dealing. However, any kid can still get a drug much easier today than they could get a fresh organic peach or a vitamin, for which they would probably need to leave the school grounds and go shopping. The illegality of drugs means criminals have a monopoly on a very popular substance. And as profitable as they are, the dealers will go door to door, school to school, street corner to street corner to insure you have all the drugs you want all the time. We create this profitable monopoly, driving up the cost of drugs significantly by making them illegal, which simply puts more money in the  hands of drug lords. Why not legalize drugs, allow them to be sold anywhere to adults just like cigarettes or alcohol, for prices that no one would murder for, and then focus on spending the tax money generated to educate children and adults on the pros and cons of using, while allowing people who consume drugs to have safe-houses where they can indulge without hurting others until they are considered fit again to re-enter the streets. Crime and tax spending would go down dramatically and we could start focusing on the real problem: what changes can we make to a social climate that is so lonely and painful for so many that they prefer to kill themselves through a variety of addictions rather than face their lives un-medicated.

Government Ombudsmen: It is natural in our current system for many of our government programs and laws to be quite unfriendly or unhelpful for the people they are supposedly designed for. Giving broad power to refine, synergies and integrate disparate programs within our governments  to help citizens could save large sums of money and insure that the money spent did what it was intended to do.

Health: Health is the well spring of a sustainable economy. As such, any health related expense, from Organic food to spas, to energy healing and acupuncture should be a tax write off to every business and individual. If people are healthier they need less government assistance. If people are healthy they can think clearer and work more sustainably. It also makes sense for more study to be done on preventative care. Currently only expensive emergency care is provided free of charge at any emergency room.

Relationships: Relationships are the fabric of life. Every dollar we earn, thing we create, and every love we share is made possible through relationships.  By developing the science of relationships in chemistry and biology, we have transformed the modern world. No less is possible by learning the science of human relationships. We have invested billions of hours understanding the nature of biological, nuclear and chemical relationships. With even a tenth of that focus, it is possible to learn the skills of consciously creating a significantly higher quality of win/win relationships. Several practical ideas for this include: Experiential classes in all schools practicing win/win sensual and platonic relationships,  mandatory training for all parents, and using our national air-waves and TV stations to broadcast 24/7 the skills and forces behind extraordinary relationships and other basic life-skills.

War: The best defense against war is to support every person in the world in having a clear way to live the life they want to live. No sane satisfied person prefers to risk death to hurt others when they can see and let in a loving alternative. It is also true that it costs less to create opportunity than it does to go to war. It is in our interest to start re-allocating our defense budget towards creating well being around the world in the places that need it most. There is a need for a strong defensive force as long as misunderstanding and enemies exist, but money is better spent creating friends than winning wars.

Taxes: Every year most Americans spend several hundred dollars to prepare their taxes because they are so complicated. That is a national billion dollar tax in and of itself! Then there are the endless hours and stresses to every day of keeping receipts. What about a flat sales tax on all items other than necessities such as food, rent and health?  No more tax returns, no more guilt and fear! Tax attorney's can start giving massages for a living!

Broadband in Every Home and Free Delivery: Most roads are congested by people running senseless errands, including going to work in an office to do things that could easily be done at home. By providing free broad-band to every home, it is like free highways, only much less detrimental to the environment and people's well being. This universal broadband could give rise to several things including:

A national shopping program with a truly effective search engine, coupled with free Shipping once a day for all of the items on your list? Need groceries, put them on the list. An enormously efficient distribution system could be put in place to drop things off within hours of the order simply by making it easy and attractive for more people to use it. You would type in your item description, and the program would automatically let you know the cheapest source and ship it from the easiest warehouse on the shipping circuit. All your stuff from various stores would arrive at the same time within a one hour window and deliver to your whole neighborhood at the same time. The hours saved could be spent with family and friends.

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