Sunday, December 11, 2005

The following quote came from

http://www.synearth.net/healing/FuturePositive.pdf

a link y'all can find on "The Gaia Model" site among this site's links...

"Taking the Moral High Ground Requires that We Face the Truth

If we humans are going to solve our evolutionary crisis, it will require
that we take action. We can expect no help from big government
nor big business. Big government's only goal is to be re-elected so
they can retain political power, and the only goal of big business is
to make money. These two forces have combined to create the
present law of society one dollar = one vote.
If we humans with no political or economic power want to solve our
problems, then we will have to take charge of our society. What is
our authority for taking such action? We must begin by seizing the
moral high ground. And, taking the moral high ground requires that
we face the truth.
Truth # 1
The possession of an object does not mean that the possessor has a
moral or rational claim to ownership of the object. The political,
economic, and social structures of our present world are all based on
our concept of ‘property’ and property rights. Recall from the Basics
section, my discussion of the shifting of human values as humanity
evolves from adversary processing to neutral processing to synergic
processing. Adversary wealth is physical force. Neutral wealth is
money. And, synergic wealth is mutual life support. Therefore
adversary ‘property’ is property obtained by force or fraud, and then
held with physical force. Neutral ‘property’ is property purchased in
the fair market, and held by right of law enforced by neutral
government.
Possession is 9/10 of the Law
Remember Neutrality was an evolutionary advance from Adversity,
at the time of Neutrality’s inception most possessions were
adversary. They had been obtained through force or fraud and
held with physical force. The new institutions of Neutrality never
made any attempt to correct what by the new values of Neutrality
would be past injustices. Neutral values would prevail in future,
but the past was left alone.
This resulted in the legal precedent wherein possession is 9/10 of the
law. In other words, at the time Neutrality was institutionalized,
all existing ‘property’ whether adversary or neutral was made
legal ‘property’. However, all new ‘property’ was required to be
neutral ‘property’– that is ‘property’ acquired by paying a fair
price in a free market to the rightful owner, or that ‘property’
which is created directly by the mind and labor of the owner.
Finders Keepers Losers Weepers
Most of the founding fathers of Neutrality were beneficiaries of
‘adversary’ property and in no hurry to give it up. They also
believed that in the long run these injustices would slowly be
corrected, and all property would eventually come to be ‘neutral’
property. We will see later that this was not the case.
While synergic ‘property’ is not yet defined, it would have to be
property that was obtained without hurting or ignoring anyone, and
even more importantly, it would have to be property that was
mutually life supporting – that is it would have to be property that
had a beneficial effect for self and others. If humanity is to advance
to Synergy, our concept of ‘property’ and property rights must
change radically in the future. "

Cheers and Jolly Ranchers,

Z. MoonDog

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