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It is amazing with all the
historical evidence, events, books, films and scientific proof that our world
and way of life are starting to falter, most of us remain deaf, dumb, and
subordinate. Despite all the warnings and information, we have done relatively
nothing. Have we ceased to be serious people?
Common Sense 3.1
In 1776, Thomas Payne wrote a pamphlet called
common sense that fueled the idea of American Independence which gave rise to
the American Revolution. He gave hope while painting a direction and a vision to
guide the course of this new nation, the
United States of America. It is time to renew the aspiration of Thomas
Pain and the founding fathers to allow our nation to fulfill its promise. I will
make an attempt to pick up where Thomas left off in 1776.
The American people are supposed to be in
charge, but we are not. We are supposed to be in control, but we are not. There
are things that our government has done in the name of the American people which
make us responsible, but we are not. Then are we really worthy to be what it is
we hold to be sacred - “Americans”.
The root of the message conveyed by Thomas Pain
is the same; government of the people, by the people and for the people. These
were high expectations that we’ve never met, but we still strive to achieve to
the best of our abilities. Today we have the technologies to meet the original
and correct expectations of the founding fathers; True government by the people
is here and possible. We are the first to have a real choice unlike our
ancestors who had to settle for less. We don't have to settle and we certainly
don't have to live like this anymore.
We are the most advanced people that have ever
lived on the face of the earth. The real magnitude of our technology is being
undermined by our old ways, old government and our old economic system. These
old systems are dying and they are threatening to take us with them.
If you understand the true value and magnitude
of our technology, then you should understand there is no need for poverty,
recessions, depressions, homelessness,
unemployment, underemployments, deficits, the lack of healthcare, there
is no need for taxes of any kind, there is no need to saddle our children with
our debt and on and on. That means we are doing everything wrong. I understand
that’s hard for a great many of us to believe. We are use to letting our
government do our thinking for us, so I will keep it very simple. Our technology
has changed our world from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. That
means our old limitations don’t exist. We live in a totally different but
opposite paradigm. If we persist in our old ways, we are dead.
We have become a Capitalocracy. Our country is
ruled by money. The lack of paper or digital money is no longer a limitation. I
repeat, money is not a limitation. The lack of resources is the only limitation
that we have. Technology allows us to preserve and extend the amount and use of
our resources. This is where your real wealth is. Sighting the lack of money,
the deficit, the size of government, or fiscal responsibility as an excuse for
not taking care of the people and the peoples
business is complete nonsense coupled with incompetence. These problems should
have been solved 90 years ago.
Most of us are not scientist and engineers, so I
will have to appeal to your common Sense. A little over 100 years ago man
learned to fly. 60 yeas ago man harnessed the power of the atom. Today we have
super fast computers and the internet. This came all in the last hundred years
or so. Why is it so hard to get rid of less challenging problems that we’ve had
for more than 200 years? Could we be the problem? Obviously we don’t lack the
technology to solve these problems. They are not impossible to solve. We allow
politicians to placate us with talk and empty promises. This is what makes our
progress impossible. A good example is healthcare reform that our government has
been working on for more than 60 years and counting. This is absurd.
Politicians and lawyers can’t help us
now. But we are not alone. The scientist and engineers will show you a better
and smarter way; but you will have to meet them half way. The rest of this
document and Revolution 2.0 are dedicated to doing just that, so lets get
started…
In the Beginning
The American system of government was designed
with checks and balances. But the most important check on our government has
failed; the failure is catastrophic. The people are the most important check on
government to control the power and abuse of government. If the people neglect
their duties, then they become mere slaves and victims of their own government
and neglect. In order for democracy to work, the people have to be vigilant.
Otherwise, democracy slowly dies.
Responsibility of
the people
Why me? - Why us? – Why now?
What we do here and now will not only effect our
nation. It will have dire ramifications for the rest of the world. When we free
ourselves, we will in effect free the rest of the world. If there was ever a
time that our world needed leadership, it is now. Only the
United States has the means to lead. It is not a matter of money. It is a matter of global
presence and influence. It is our responsibility for the simple fact that we can
and we must.
We all want to live good and better lives. We all
want to live in a better world. But we are not willing to change or make the
sacrifices to reap the rewards. So we end up with a world and a country in
decline. First and foremost, to build a new and better world, you will need
thinkers - not talkers. Politicians can not talk their way into the future. It
is far too complex. You will need thinkers with the ability to transform their
ideas into hard working realities. Talkers must employ middle men who waste your
wealth and resources. The problems we face today or technical, not political.
This is the job of the technologist – not politicians, dictators, bankers or big
business. You wouldn't let your auto mechanic perform brain surgery on you. So
why would you let a politician convince you that he/she can build a new and
better world in a technological age. It
is not a practical approach, and if you need any evidence, just look around you.
Our country and our world are falling to pieces.
If we don’t understand our monetary system and tax
systems, understanding the challenge of diverse technologies is totally out of
the question. This is what allows the
American people to be systemically raped over and over by government, big
business and the banks. Because the people don’t really understand the workings
of our government, the tax system and our money system (capitalism), we are
easily exploited and have been for quite some time. The same thing is happening
with technology, in all its diversity. Technology is the bulk of our wealth, not
money. We know even less about technology than we know about our monetary and
tax system. The amount of wealth we are giving away is staggering.
Over the passage of time our government has
slowly reduced its citizens to little more than just slaves. We like to blame
the politicians, big business, the President, anyone and anything else accept
ourselves for the horrendous state that our country is in. We the people or the
real blame for our countries problems. Not the current or past administrations.
Not big business or the bankers. They are just symptoms of a much deeper root
cause. We are the rotten root of the problem. For 233 years, we let our
government do whatever it pleased. For 233 years we ran our government like an
absentee owner. If you don't have health care, a job, hope, money, a home, a
good education, etc…, don't blame it on the government. We the people are
the blame. The buck does not stop with the president. It stops with
people. If you are hated around the world, afraid to travel abroad, in fear of
terrorism, mad because the banks are getting bailed out with your money and you
cant get a loan, if your life savings and retirement have been wiped out or
stolen, upset because the government failed miserably at responding to help your
city after a hurricane, upset because your government is trying to tax you for
any purpose it can think of, upset because your standard of living is declining,
upset because your children are not getting a proper education, upset because
your country and your government is for sale - just calm down. It's easy to find
the dirty rotten scoundrel that is responsible for this mess. Just look in the
mirror. We the people are the blame – “We the people” sat by and
let it happen without doing one single thing about it. That's what happens when
you don't show up to work for 233 years. We can no longer afford to be passive
citizens. The stakes are too high this late in the game. We have 233 years of
work piled up and waiting. It is our responsibility to deal with it. A mess has
never dealt with itself. Government can’t fix itself. Can you imagine someone
giving themselves a triple heart bypass and major brain surgery all at once?
Forget about it! Your responsibility as a citizen does not end with voting and
criticizing the government.
"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course
it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
- Alexander Woollcott
We have neglected our house and business for
much too long. It is time to clean house and get our business in order. We have
to quit rewarding incompetence. Fist, we have to stop hiring government
officials with skill-sets that no longer fit our need. This is the twenty first
century not the seventeenth century. Politicians were ok in an era where talking
and law were the best and only tools of the day for governing. Things have
changed much in 233 years.
Politicians and lawyers are not capable of
moving our nation into the future. There time has come and gone. You will have
to seek out the Scientist and Engineers. They will show you the way. Again, the
bulk of our problems are technical not political. Legislation and political
debate will get us nowhere. This paragraph contains the most important
information in this document. Remember and embrace it. It is our only chance at
success.
We are no longer who we used to be or what we
use to be. We are in a transition phase, stuck half way between two worlds that
are literally ripping us apart. At this very point in time man is without
definition. He knows not where he stands, nor where he is headed. We are the
most advanced civilization that has ever lived. Our limitations to move forward
come from our past. Our limitations are only structural and behavioral which
means they are not impossible to overcome. We don’t have the same limitations
anymore. I understand why most Americans
are skeptical and cynical about real progress. We have been preyed on by big
business, little business, the banks, politicians, Wall Street and government
for so long, we don’t know who to trust or where to turn. Then I say, trust
yourself. Turn to yourself. If you want real change, you can only depend on
yourself to make it happen. That means you will have to take charge of your own
lives and government. No one else can be trusted to take care of the people’s
business like the people.
We need a new vision and direction for our
country and our world. Welcome to the NeXus, our pathway to a new and better
future. We need a revolution in government and paradigm shift in technology
if we are serious about real change that will move the
United States forward.
Revolution
in Government
The founding fathers left the people with one
last safeguard should we ever lose control of our government. It is the
nuclear option.
It is the only way to regain control of our government when all has failed.
The founding fathers preserved our supreme right
and control over the government by preserving our right to alter or abolish the
government if and when the people feel compelled to do so.
“That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government…”
(From
the Declaration of
Independence)
If there was ever a time of
crises when such a thing was needed, we need it now!
“I am a firm believer in the
people. If given the truth, they can be
depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to
bring
them the real facts.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“Information is the currency of
democracy.“
- Thomas Jefferson
The founding fathers left a big gaping whole in our democracy. They preserved
our right to alter or abolish our government in the declaration of independence.
The problem is, they never specifically defined the process for citizens to
follow in order to execute their right to alter or abolish their old government
and start anew. Because the process was not defined, we never exercised our
right to use it. Lack of process does not take away or nullify the right. Then
common sense should tell us to define a process, agree on it amongst ourselves -
then execute it. I took the liberty to
define that process
and to present it to you the people for your approval. I call the execution
process “The Execution of Dissolution and Termination” (EDT). I call the
declaration of this process “A Declaration of Dissolution and Termination”
(DDT). The declaration itself
is modeled after the Declaration of Independence. Its purpose is to declare the
process of disengagement from the present government to the present government.
In other words, it is a pink slip presented to the present government by the
people, affectively firing (terminating) the present government. From now on
democracy will have teeth and will never be taken for granted ever again without
serious consequences from the people. This is how you meet the scientist and
engineers half way. You remove the middle man (politicians and lawyers) and tell
the Scientist and Engineers what kind of country and world you want to live in,
and they will build it for you.
It is up to “we the people” to change our
direction in order to restore our democracy, rule of law, and our self respect.
Never again will government enslave the people.
We have to emancipate ourselves from our old ideas, our old government, big
business and yes, the bankers.
“We really need a better
government than what we have”
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winning Economist
We will need two new branches of government to
navigate the 21st century and beyond. We will have to eliminate the
corruption of money from our government completely. It is a delusion to think we
could make these massive, necessary changes with our current system of
government. Our government is incapable of solving our past, current, and future
problems. That is why politicians spend most of there time attacking each other.
They don’t have the answers for where we are and where we are headed.
New Design for
Government
A new branch of Government (The
Fifth Branch)
How can we redefine ourselves and reclaim our
sanity and free existence. First we must take back our government and that which
belongs to no one and everyone. We have the technology to build an over arching
new branch of government that supersedes all other branches. This branch will
become the new executive branch. The old executive branch will become the
administrative branch. The Internet will allow us (the people) to control,
monitor and directly intercede or override any function or operation that the
people deem unnecessary and in real time not years or decades. The stakes are
too high. There will be no higher authority to assert themselves over the will
of the people. No longer will the people be forced to fight wars they don't want
to fight. No longer will the people be ignored by government or business because
the people or the true government and masters of themselves.
“I know of no safe depository of
the ultimate powers of the society but the
people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is
not to
take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
- Thomas Jefferson
We have 233 years of experience that tells us
what doesn’t work with government. We can use that knowledge to build a better
government along with the technology gains of the last 233 years.
A second new branch of
Government (The Fourth Branch)
The fourth branch will be driven by technology
and technologist. The people will need access to real information based on
facts, figures, reason and most importantly science. The new technology branch
will guide technology policy and direction for rebuilding our country on a sound
technical footing and science. There is no place for politics in science. As you
learn more, you will also learn there is no longer a need for politics or even
political parties. Politics and political parties are limitations of the past.
Without a fourth branch the people can never
realize their true wealth because it will always get plundered and wasted by
middle men. Our technology is worth more than you know. It is worth more than
all the wealth, gold, silver and platinum on this planet and yet we give it away
to be wasted along with the resources that it controls and utilizes.
The fourth and fifth branches should be located
outside of
Washington D.C.
The fourth branch is so important because it is
the only way to manage the distribution of power and resources more efficiently.
It will give us a greater flexibility in handling crises of any nature with
relative ease, because we are not so centralized and inflexible. All our
technology will work together because they will be designed to do so from the
ground up and not this patch work of technologies that don’t work together. We
can’t afford it. The problem with getting your technology from the so called
free market is that the free market doesn’t have a brain, a hart or the best
interest of the American people. erest of the American people.
Our government and society will be the first that is truly based on
technology and not manipulated by it. This technological basis will allow us to
adjust the level of coupling and cohesion between the states.
Paradigm
shift in Technology
Today, technology is working against mankind. Do you think it is a coincidence that we have
the multitude of problems that seem to be converging on us all at once? Could
there be something they all have in common which correlates in our recent
history. Yes, you guessed it. Technology is driving them all. If you look at
recent history, for example, the last 100 years, our technology has grown
exponentially. Unfortunately, there is
a price for progress when you fail to control the assimilation of technology in
society. The fourth branch is key. A piece meal approach won’t work. If we
try to deal with the symptoms (like unemployment, climate change, energy
challenges, uncontrollable debt, deficits, instability and corruption of
financial systems and markets, the housing bubble, the tech bubble and all other
bubbles etc…) without dealing with the real problem (technology), it will be a
total waist of time and resources. We have a tricky situation. It is like
diffusing a bomb. We have to disconnect the correct wire (technology), otherwise
we will continue to self-destruct. Our technology will continue to undermine
everything we do. Politicians can’t tell you that because they don’t know
and they can’t solve this problem. A free market and our present government are
totally inadequate for dealing with today’s challenges, like it or not. Using 17th
century government, ideas, economics and other constructs of the past in the 21st
century has nothing to do with “Common Sense”. We are at an inflection point.
Don’t be afraid of technology. It is your friend when you engage it.
It is your enemy when
you ignore it.
We ignore the smartest among us at our own
peril. When scientists say our planet is in crises, it is probably a good idea
to pay a bit more attention as it is the only planet we have.
What we need is real fundamental change. We are
in yet another crisis brought on by technology and our broken economic system.
Unfortunately, we are ruled by politicians who only treat the symptoms and not
the root causes. They will throw money at the problem and then tax you to death.
The problems will only come back again and again and much worse then before,
because our old government can only mask the problem temporarily while shifting the burden.
We have become a dependent nation. We don't make
things for ourselves and we have to depend on foreigners like china to lend us
money. How can this be in a nation that is so rich in natural resources,
technology, and other material wealth? It is because our house is not in order.
You are probably thinking in order to solve
these problems that we are going to have to work harder, longer and retire
later. This is wrong thinking. To succeed, we will have to be smart enough not
to continue as we have in the past. We will have to do the exact opposite. We
will have to work much less and retire earlier. We will be forced to enjoy more
of our lives. Sorry to disappoint those workaholics, but there is a new slave in
town. Computers, robots and technology are the new slaves; we can not compete.
Common sense should tell us to get out of the way or we will get run over.
That's what's happening to our work force. They are getting run over, and over
and over again. We have to liberate the work force. Common sense has warned us
for quite some time that technology will eventually displace the human worker.
The time is now. Technology is destabilizing our economies and workforce with
increasing frequency and magnitude. Unfortunately, our government and big
business have become our masters. Neither will concede control or profits.
We have to treat business and government like
the mad dogs they have become. The problem is, they are your dogs and you let
them turn on you. You will have to show them that you are the master. The only
way to do that is with a Declaration of Dissolution and Termination. You will
have to declare your freedom and separation from the old government.
“While all other sciences have
advanced, that of government is at a
standstill - little better understood, little better
practiced now than
three or four thousand years ago.”
- John Adams
Obviously our social development has not kept
pace with our technological development. You don't put government or big
business in charge of a technological society. That is suicide.
For hundreds of years or more, politicians,
dictators and monarchs have made promises of a better life if we just put our
faith and trust in them. They have all failed to deliver and in most cases they
have made things much worse. The people who are most responsible for easing the
burdens of mankind are the inventors, scientist and engineers. They have no need
for talk and fiery speeches because they have no need to lead or control anyone.
There is no time for it. They are the thinkers and creators. They are the only
people that can show you the way. If it is salvation that you seek in this life
time, I suggest you seek them out. They are the only people that can set you
free. The time of the politicians and dictators has come and gone; their message
has not changed for thousands of years. This means they have no new answers.
Scientist and engineers are not big on talking, but you can see their work
everywhere: in the skyscrapers, planes, trains, electricity, nuclear and solar
power, computers etc.
What do you expect when you turn over control of
your most important resources? You have only but to take back what is rightfully
yours. Politicians and lawyers have privatized your money, your healthcare and
now your elections. This year, with the help of the Supreme Court our elections
are totally up for sale which includes foreign countries and companies. This
only means that things are going to get much worse until you do something about
it. Yes, the things in this document are hard to do. Yes, it means you will have
to do something instead of nothing. The president and the democrats can’t help
you. Republicans can’t and won’t help you. Big business, the banks and Wall
Street don’t care, unless we are bailing them out. That means “We the people”
have to look out for ourselves, for a change.
Whether we accept it or not, our old world ended
long ago; we are living on borrowed time. Change is coming no mater what. We can
deal with it or it will deal with us. No matter what we do, the road ahead will
be challenging. If we continue on with our 17th century government,
it will be devastating. We have a multitude of serious problems that we are
unable to deal with today because we failed in our duties in the past to prepare
for today. If we continue to fail in our duties today, tomorrow may very well be
unmanageable.
“The
world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
-
Albert Einstein
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What to do Next ***************************
If you’re
ready for real change, lets get started.
1. Join
the Revolution
2. Vote
in the online petition to Declare Dissolution and Termination.
This is the starting process to
help us set up Delegate Committees and
grass roots organizations in all 50 states to organize a formal vote for
DDT in
each state. The purpose of
the Delegate Committees in each state is to
decide who they want to send as delegates to the national convention for
final ratification of DDT and EDT.
3.
Read Death By Technology
The Ideas for Common Sense3.1, Revolution 2.0 and DDT come directly
from Death by Technology.
Before we can fix the United States,
we have to
understand what’s really wrong with
her. We have to look behind the
symptoms. Otherwise, Revolution 2.0 will be useless.
4. Tell the world about Common Sense3.1,
Revolution 2.0 and DDT
This is not a sipping tea party
where we march around carrying silly signs.
Our job is to let every citizen
know that they have a real choice and a
process to take their country back. Tell them about Common Sense3.1,
Revolution 2.0 and DDT, so they can support taking back their
government with their final vote to ratify DDT. Send emails, flyers or
whatever you have to do to contact as many people as possible.
Every American citizen needs to know they have
the right (which is declared
in the Declaration of Independence) to take their country back from the
government. They also need to know they have a formal process
(DDT/EDT) so they can exercise that right.
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