Moving to our New Home

Eco-nomy means 'home-order'. An intrinsic value money economy is like a home in which dad issues as many buttons as he wants (counterfeiters are boiled alive) and pays his older sons to beat the other members of the family if when they do not obey his commands. He also feuds with is neighbours and taxes buttons from his family to arm his sons to fight them. It is time to move out of that sort of house. Humanity faces very serious challenges. Nature is getting fed up with the filth and heat we are dumping into the environment - we could succumb to climate change quite soon. Technologies for over-coming such dangers have been known for a long time - we never needed fossil or nuclear fuels. Others are available for making deserts bloom, feeding, fueling and housing everyone alive decently. But we are telling ourselves lies to prevent such things from happening, and wasting many of our resources to kill each other. There are also tremendous opportunities waiting for us if we find our way out of our violent, dishonest, confusion to a more living, loving order in the human home.

When the agreement that money has intrinsic value ceases to make sense, the social order can no longer be imposed with rigid laws and written commandments. It must be renewed continually, mutually and reciprocally. Such an arrangement is difficult to describe because it is at once as simple and complex as any living creature. We use words whose meaning is supposed to remain constant while the reality they re-present changes. We assume that our languages of few thousand words can map the whole universe. Its parts define each other, but are not separable from each other by any precise definitions. The universe is alive, fundamentally unknowable and unpredictable. Ultimate reality is beyond symbols. Life is renewed in the conjunction of opposites. Male and female, existence and non-existence, good and evil meet and beget each other.

The truth of what is at any place and time must be rediscovered in unprejudiced awareness then and there. There can be no set of symbols which prescribes right action other than that which ensues from such awareness. When truths discovered at some particular place and time are extended to others, they become lies. Life cannot be caught between the covers of a book, or trapped in the bits on computer disks. Symbols that program living minds kill them by turning them into computers that serve the purposes of their programmers. That is largely what propaganda, indoctrination and advertising are for. All legal, ideological, religious, scientific symbol systems can be used to indoctrinate, exploit and enslave. No messiahs can come to utter strings of words that describe how to create a free, fair living, loving world. The words of the man who said "love one another", "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, Ye are gods" were used to build an organisation that acquired immense wealth and power by programming millions of people into zombiehood, instigating inquisitions against those who resisted, and to justify religious wars. Paradise does not come with expectations, prayers, jubilees or state planning. Charismatic dictators persuaded other millions that the 'worker's Paradise' was at hand if those millions would obey the dictators - and came closer to creating hell on earth.

All rigidly codified systems of law are at least partly unjust - hence destroy the living order they are supposed to preserve. The power to do this is still obtained by confusing the symbol for value with real value. The love that money once symbolized (#3.1.1) correctly has vanished. The real value of money was always more or less of a lie. It has now become a pure lie. A society that uses this lie to enforce its order has two floors. The authority that creates the money also lays down the law for those below who obey and pay taxes for it. The authority in the upper floor cannot remain there without the means and weapons to enforce its unjust form of justice. These are normally obtained by internal and external protection racketeering. This involves over-emphasizing the dangers of local criminals and foreigners, and hiding the dangers of conceding too many powers to the local authority. That authority alone must have the power to tax the rest and arm itself to protect the country from external enemies - and to remain in power internally by enforcing its justice unjustly. That injustice arouses hatred which is directed against external enemies who justify their protection rackets similarly. So the authorities, that run the mutually justifying protection rackets, cheat and steal astronomical sums from their own subjects, and use them to slaughter each other. Those subjects have almost no organisation, weapons or money to defend their rights.

A person can be killed just as dead by a megaton bomb sent over from another continent, as by a neighbour, or the bite of an infected bed bug. Real order would enable him/her to live longest, most enjoyably and intensely at least cost. A person only dies once, and a chain is as strong as its weakest link. Links in the chains of all possible dangers and all resources available for reducing the probabilities that they will occur vary continually. Bedbug bites may be harmless one day, deadly another. A living social organisation would enable its members to balance their needs (demand) with their abilities to satisfy them (supply) continually, on both the individual and global levels - with no authority above who decrees how the rest shall live.

A economy is not a machine with indicators, brakes and accelerators as boom-bust experts would have us believe. It is a living body with many living parts. Atoms combine to form molecules, cells, organs, living bodies. People combine to families, clans, tribes, nations, empires.. This fusion is accelerating irreversibly as middlemen between production and consumption become redundant. Travel agencies can pack up when people can use the internet to reserve the flights without getting out of bed. Supermarket chains and discount houses are no longer needed when producers can supply clients directly at their doorsteps much faster and more cheaply than they do now. Clients will order from home terminals - none of the bother of driving into town, parking (deflated tyres, mugged, shopping-cart stolen.. ). Computers can be programmed to survey markets, buy low, sell high, manage joint income distributions to individuals and combine their re-contributions far more fairly and efficiently than existing bankers, bosses and bureaucrats could. Management then becomes a creative art (#5.5, #5.6, #5.7). Frontiers are fading, and nation states are withering away, as banker-borrower brotherhoods cease to be able create bogus money value into their accounts. When globalization is complete, wars will make no sense. There will also be no way the hoods will be able to corrupt governments to borrow their money to buy their arms.

There will also be no money to fund internal colonization rackets with rigid systems of law cut to meet the needs of the money-makers, or to manage the media to get chosen lawmakers elected into power, or to play-nation states of against each other. Rigid national systems of law will be replaced by a single formalized dynamic fabric of agreements. That fabric enables each of its members at every sub- and super-set level on the whole planet to satisfy all of their needs with all of their resources, such that the subjective changing needs of each could not be better satisfied with the changing resources of all. Such a fabric of agreements will be necessary if we are to undertake large projects - make deserts bloom, bring the ocean to maximum fertility - without the strikes, bitterness and wars that the injustices of money creation now entail. It will enable us to prepare for rapid changes on a global scale - such an asteroid on course for the earth, without ignoring the possible dangers of neighbours, or bedbug bites. We will also want to organise adventures in inner and outer space

The component of the IE software package that enables its users to use all the price and other information in the system to create fabrics of agreements in known as the Generative Agreement (GA). It is the most important part of the package.