The “Human Economic System” is simply a subset of the “Earth Biosphere System”, unable to exceed the Earth's biocapacity. The framework of “living systems thinking” allows us to delineate the foundational living principles of a compatible life-core “Human Economic System”.
Living Principles:
- Wealth is Life
- Law is Natural
- Money is Sovereign
- Energy is Distributed
- Governance is Localised
- Economy is Regenerative
- Knowledge is Shared
- Diversity is Healthy
Wealth is Life. The sanctity of life is the essential truth of all living creatures. All life desires life, and the preservation of its life – unless it is dysfunctional.
Law is Natural. The definitive law of the living is Natural Law, mirrored in the People's Common Law – the Law of the Land, the living jurisdiction of the People. Logically, matters concerning the well-being of living people, including their community of life, require a reality-based system of law, in which the participants are “fully liable” in their “private capacity”. Whereas, a system of legal fiction commerce in which “artificial person” proxies can amass virtually unlimited wealth, with “limited liability”, is a fallacy.
Money is Sovereign. By definition, “sovereign money” is created by sovereign people, without debt, interest, or any counterparty liability. Sovereign people have the prerogative to issue sovereign money, nationally, locally, or as a voluntary community of people. Communities of open-source cryptographers may issue cryptocurrencies, based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), that are available to anyone without a central authority or censorship. Sovereign money has limited issuance, and belongs to the sovereign people who choose to use it.
Energy is Distributed. Life is energy, and energy is universal. Whether its source is sunlight, or the zero point field, it is distributed in abundance to life on Earth. However, the present economic paradigm depends on the suppression of advanced energy technologies. According to the Federation of American Scientists “there were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2010”, based on figures released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. “Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders restricting their publication if government agencies believe that disclosure would be “detrimental to the national security.” Next paradigm energy technologies, including overunity, electromagnetic, and plasma energy generators, have the potential to free humanity from a dark age of destructive fossil fuels, debt-bondage, and the war system. The liberation and distribution of open source clean energy technologies will be highly regenerative. This evolutionary transformation, necessarily, requires a concomitant level of human consciousness.
Governance is Localised. Living economies arise and are sustained by the localisation of common interests within living communities. Whereas, deadly economies arise and decay through the centralisation of elite interests as a means of control and wealth extraction without the immediate consequences of local exploitation. Centralised governance structures inherently empower a minority and disempower the majority, while decentralised governance structures inherently disperse power to communities.
In a life-core system, the people base their governance upon a moral foundation. They believe that all people are created with equal and unalienable rights; that free people institute and perpetuate their governance by delegating sufficient power to their public servants for the beneficial operation of government; that the people by their delegation, oversight and consent, are responsible for their government, public servants, statutes, and justice; that consequently all public servants are accountable to the people, for whom all government exists and acts; and that government is subject to the law, for the law makes government, the law being the definition and limitation of power.
Well-founded Constitutional governance sustains our Earthly community of life, unlike our present centralised governmental system in which life in every form, including human, is treated as property. The only remedy for centralism is localism. Paradigm change never comes from established institutions, because political and economic power is always constrained by the pressures of business-as-usual. The so-called “leaders” of “the system” are by definition engaged in conventional behaviour, and are inevitably restrained, controlled, and corrupted, by the special interests threatened by transformational change. The true leaders and change-makers are the people in their communities, because they have the most freedom of thought and behaviour, and potentially the most influence and reach. When a critical mass of people want to transcend the paradigm, it changes in a “morphegenic field event”, around the planet. The institutional structures of governance and economics then have no choice but to follow the people. The ultimate power, as always, derives from each man and woman serving life together as “the people”, under Natural Law.
Economy is Regenerative. A death-core market can only exist when the state abrogates its oversight of the fictional corporations that it originally created and regulated. In a life-core market, fictional things are not given precedence over living things. This requires a sovereign state, with an organic and unincorporated government, in which Public Servants actually serve the people of the nation, ensuring the regenerative capacity of their life-sustaining ecosystems.
Knowledge is Shared. Beneficial knowledge is freely available on a Common Information Model for the benefit of humanity, including advanced energy and health technologies currently withheld by patent capture. Harmful technologies are sanctioned by consensus in Common Law venues, upholding the life-core principle. The freedom of the press is constitutionally upheld as a common good, as is the freedom of the internet, and the right of living people to speak and write without political censure.
Diversity is Healthy. Different cultures and economies arise and flourish naturally within different geocultural regions, and although each can benefit from trade, they cannot be merged into a political and monetary union without diminishing and eventually destroying their unique strengths. Cultural and economic homogeneity is the antithesis of Nature. The biological world requires diversity to ensure resilience and adaptability. The pursuit of domination by “globalisation” is symptomatic of megalomania. Geocultural diversity is healthy and must be respected.
Austrian economist Leopold Kohr argued that overwhelming evidence from science, culture and biology all pointed to one unending truth: things improve with an unending process of division. The breakdown ensured that nothing ever got too unmanageable or unaccountable. Small things simply worked best. Kohr believed part of the problem with bigness was “the law of diminishing sensitivity”. The bigger a government or market or corporation got, the less sensitive it became to matters of the neighbourhood. In the end bigness, just like any empire, concentrated power and delivered misery, corruption and waste. He recognized that "Monopolies are to economics what great powers are to politics." As such, Kohr respected limits. The problem, he added, “is not to grow but to stop growing; the answer not union but division”. These vandals have no allegiance to place, language, race or spirit; they serve only the force of bigness. But unity in the end breeds a sameness and ultimately, tyranny. The biological world doesn't operate this way. It rejects any attempt to replace diversity with monotony because there is no resilience without the many.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – E.F. Schumacher
