Truth-systems modeled on TATP could be used to bridge the gap between where, intellectually, a nation is now and where it needs to be in the future, to collectively make the important decisions it, an only it can make.
The New Media -- Tool #3
All of this could of course easily get bogged down, if not conveyed with integrity, in an easy to understand and even entertaining fashion. PeeCE dictates that media will have to accommodate the new needs of the citizenry, its audience. This comes at a time when media in many countries is losing enormous share to newer media forms, share moving "from" rather than "toward" an old media that cannot satisfy its need for "certainty" of delivered content. The audience is becoming increasingly discontented with media's omissions, distortions, lies and mindless drivel.
Some directions new-media might take. Old formats could be used and reworked such as; news shows modified to use two anchors, each taking a different position in the delivery of the news. Game shows, historical dramas and the "60 minutes" news format could be expanded on and enhanced. Ideally, new formats could be developed that would precisely match this new audience, such as formal debate and especially this new and powerful technique of idea presentation called "mind mapping".
There is a market for truth. Truth could become the next commodity and save present media from the garbage can of history. Indeed, if done correctly it might even elevate media back to its supreme pedestal of unimpeachable truth, but it's going to have to work hard for that one.
Amnesty -- Tool #4
What's being proposed here is an ongoing truth commission of sorts. Truth will surface that will be at best embarrassing and at worst incriminating. It must be recognized that we are going through the final stage of a trilogy of ages. First was the jungle. Then a couple of hundred years ago we moved into a period of enlightenment, coupled with the industrial revolution. Certainly the early thinkers could have never envisioned all that has come to pass, especially recently.
Third, is the new time we are entering. Technology has delivered us to the doorstep of unimaginable plenty. It has been well kept from the eyes of America, but virtually all mass produced goods have been manufactured by machines, especially robots, for at least the last decade. This has all been principally driven by the development of the computer. While this will free many people to enjoy their lives, it has also brought other ominous possibilities.
The weapons possessed and the ease of which they can be built and otherwise acquired, makes our immediate future tenuous if not impossible. We must get there, to the future. To do so we must cut-the-cord of the past. Without a General Amnesty those who will be incriminated by the new found knowledge of the citizen, will attempt to inhibit a smooth transition to the "new". We must recognize that we all have acted less than perfect, in a past time where things were, less than perfect. We are capable of much better, because we are all human beings and the one thing we know for certain about our species, is that we are highly adaptive. We can change if it is in our best interest. To that end, I will make one last point.
SuperCapitalism -- Tool #5
To truly make PeeCE work, it would be extremely beneficial to jazz the average citizen, the one who is at the center of all this. To strap on to society some kind of "supercharger", so to speak. To create some kind of big carrot that would induce them do anything and everything they had to, to make this all happen. With that in mind, a plan called "SuperCapitalism" was devised.
In the 1930s Benito Mussolini used the term "Super Capitalism" to define another term which he later became synonymous with, "Fascism". The author used it as well in a previous essay published on www.opednews.com entitled SuperCapitalism: The Sperry Plan To Rescue The U.S. Economy.(5) The essay was in response to a query by our then new President Obama, for ideas and input by which the U.S. economy might be mended. SuperCapitalism may be the kind of "big carrot", that could induce the average citizen into sending PeeCE into the stratosphere.
We Are Not a Capitalistic Society
In almost mantra like fashion we repeat one to the other, that we are a "capitalistic society", without ever considering that very few of us are actually capitalists. It raises the question; Is it possible that the reason true capitalism has failed to meet our highest expectations is because we, as a society, actually only practice capitalism to a minor degree? In this case, since the word 'society' is used in conjunction with the word capitalistic it implies "all of us" and since virtually none of us, according to the latest statistics, actually derive most of, indeed any of, our sustenance from a return on investment or profit, it seems it could be argued successfully that we are not a capitalistic society.
I don't mean to denigrate capitalism here, as it has produced a great bounty for all Americans in terms of selection of products at ever decreasing price. However, in terms of any kind of 'return on investment' for the average person, it has produced practically nothing. This is because there simply is no 'investment' for the average person. The average person is completely outside the very system he professes to be a part of. The Sperry Plan will change that. It will make everyone who participates a capitalist, a SuperCapitalist.
The Sperry Plan would result in the very rapid creation of many small investment companies modeled on traditional venture capital groups. Each participant would only be allowed to invest $10 a week, a small amount to be sure, but this would be a "ground floor" investment great potential, built on "fail safe" methods that should ensure the success of these companies while preventing failure. The projected long term earnings are right off the charts. The Sperry Plan has the very real potential of making all who participate, well, quite wealthy. This by creating "new wealth" instead of scavenging "old money" and would probably result in a far more green environment as well.
