Technocracy ->
Periodicals ->
Technocracy Digest ->
Q1, 96 #319 ->
New Way Of Life
|
Technocracy ->
Periodicals ->
Technocracy Digest ->
Q1, 96 #319 ->
New Way Of Life
|
Search |
Published in:
Before, during, and now, after the election of a new batch of politicians, the media continues to flood us with ``cutting the deficit'' and ``balancing the budget'' analyses. My comments on these phenomena reflect a background in Technocracy, Inc., an educational, research organization.
Deficit spending has been an important part of our way of life ever since the '30s. The only change has been its astronomical growth. Our memories are short. During the Great Depression, budget cuts were enacted to reduce deficit spending. What happened? We had a depression within the depression. Deficit spending had to be increased to solve the problem.
Good times, or what were considered good times, and deficit spending, go hand in hand. Without it, the economy would crumble. Now, we are told that deficits will crumble the economy as well. So, we are damned if we deficit and damned if we don't deficit! In other words, no matter what manoeuvres politicians try, the system just won't work.
What we know, for sure, is that we are in serious trouble. Politicians -- collectively and singly -- offer no solution, just promises tried before and found wanting then. Bluntly put, politicians are useless. The security of our society depends on doing something drastic, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with deficit spending, balancing the budget, etc.
Our socioeconomic structure, our ``Price System'', adequately handled the operation of society during the slow-pace, hand-tool, stoop-labour days of the primitive, agrarian age. Practically everyone had a job, or could get a job. There was no welfare or mass-unemployment. Today, because assembly-line production, computer robotic automation, downsizing, reinventing government, etc., employing the entire workforce is a physical impossibility. Deficit spending has been the linchpin that has maintained the economy, as bad as it is, and has kept it from terminal disaster.
In our high-tech, modern technological age, our Price System manipulations are a tragedy, causing widespread, unnecessary suffering. We must install a design of social operation that is in sync. with our modern times, and take advantage of the technological advances, not leave ourselves punished by them.
Technocracy proposes that we trash our Price System and install a modern technological social design. We are talking about a whole new way of life. Deficit spending, balancing the budget, welfare, unemployment, poverty, taxes, etc. vanish.
Those who study Technocracy's proposal find its concepts exhilarating. Yes, it's a whole new way of life. Check it out.
-- Jim Deacove
7943-1 Technocracy Section,
Hamilton, Ont.