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The Beatles and the Whole Earth Design Project

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2. How many additional workers would be required to extend that access to the rest of the population, and how long would it take?

3. Once universal access is established, how many workers would be required thereafter to maintain that access?

Note that the answers to questions two and three are to be expressed in terms of human labor rather than monetary costs, a significant distinction that will serve to reveal the essential cause of society's present dysfunction while simultaneously identifying the solution.

If those questions asked "how much money would be required," rather than "how many additional workers," the results would clearly indicate that universal access to life's essentials is demonstrably impossible given the present state of the world's financial system.

On the other hand, by measuring the cost of universal life support in the units of labor required to produce it, the resulting report will support the startling revelation that, "There is enough for everyone!" Thereby undercutting scarcity as the cause and the justification for adopting competition as the driving social force in the world with capitalism, or money-ism, serving as competition's facilitator and score-keeping mechanism.

Fifty years ago, Fuller expressed the opinion that 60 percent of jobs in the United States produced nothing of life-sustaining value. Today, that figure is likely to be closer to 80 percent. (Think bankers, lawyers, accountants, cashiers, meter maids, the military, etc., versus farmers, doctors, plumbers, electricians, etc.)

The Stage I survey results will vividly demonstrate that the abundance of available human, natural, and technological resources make it possible for an all-hands worldwide emergency effort to bring the planet's entire population up to a humane and sustainable standard of living in just a few short years; and that the maintenance of that standard would require as little as the equivalent of a day a week from each of us as our individual contribution to the smooth functioning of the newly designed economic system.

STAGE II: Fill in the details. Here's how:

Utilizing existing Geographic Information System (GIS) software, we will create the framework for a virtual world in cyberspace. We will begin by geographically locating needs and resources by continents and regions, collecting the gross statistics from various government, trade, professional, and philanthropic organizations. Then, with the aid of a worldwide army of VIGs (volunteer information gatherers) - drawn to the design project by its dramatic declaration of possibilities - we will dissect those gross statistics by locating needs and resources down through increasingly detailed geographic layers until they identify and embrace the entire human population, city by city, town by town, neighborhood by neighborhood, home by home, and individual by individual, resulting in what amounts to the first Earth-wide census.

STAGE III: Complete the winning design. Here's how:

First, assume a post-coalescent world, that is, a world toward which we are all striving, one where we act as a global family, looking after one another, sharing burdens, celebrating life together. Next, assume an entirely new operating system in which violence and money are no longer elements of control. Therefore, no armies and no banks, and none of their offspring or various instrumentalities. Then, without regard to any matters financial, political, or legal, but with a laser-like focus on the simple and direct objective of providing everyone on the planet with all of life's essential goods and services, begin connecting resources with needs by way of the shortest and most direct routes, a process facilitated by the Internet's capacity for communication, collaboration, coordination, and cooperation.

By so connecting the "resource" dots with the "need" dots, out of the design project will emerge an economic model so dramatically superior to the one we have now that, if adopted, would improve the lives of 99.99 percent of the world's population.

This begs the question: If it can be shown that this is so, what could possibly prevent the overwhelming majority of the population from adopting that system?  

STAGE IV: Promote the winning design. Here's how:

By now the Whole Earth Design Project will have become a movement, with a capital M, supported by the millions who have participated in assembling the data. Call it the Whole Earth Movement. Or the Coalescence Movement. But by giving it a name, it can serve as a banner under which all organizations and individuals trying to make this a better world can march in oneness of purpose.  

Then, give this new movement a symbol, a logo, that can be used to express support. The early Christians had the fish symbol and now the cross, Jews have the Star of David, Churchill used the V for Victory sign, the anti-war movement had the peace sign, and the Nazis had the swastika. Here's a suggestion for the Whole Earth Movement:

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I characterize myself as an 81-year-old unreconstructed Sixties radical utopian. I am the author of the self-published, "THE COMING GLOBAL COALESCENCE - How Powerful Evolutionary Forces Are Transforming Seven Billion Individual Humans Into a Single (more...)
 
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