Social Sanity Can Be Restored

Ed McBurnie

1998

Published in:

Technocracy Digest, 3rd quarter 1998, No. 329

Has the sleeping giant awakened? It is beginning to appear that way.

The media, that great communication network, loosely connected, but lovingly associated, has now discovered the horror of environmental disaster hanging over this earth.

Heretofore, ecology, insofar as the media and general public was concerned, involved the study and interest by oddballs and a few academics. The media touched on their activities dutifully, but overwhelmed the apathetic public with topics of money, politics, millionaires and, in recent years, sex. Media techniques leaned to those human interests to attract readers, listeners, viewers and advertisers, to maintain income.

Mention of a redesign of our social system was considered sacrilege. What might befall future generations, or nature's house, was secondary to the prime consideration of making a profit. Over hundreds of years, the pattern of hornswoggling others for self-aggrandisement was, and still is, accepted by media and public alike, as normal and necessary. If you obtain a sizeable quantity of money, you are successful, no matter how you got it.

Enemies of conditioning

During the past hundred years, there have appeared two sly enemies of popular human conditioning. These enemies have worked their way into society by the invitation of Man and now that they are firmly established, they can never be banished. They are: the twin brothers -- technology and rapid change.

Economic confusion

Confusion, created by the twin brothers (monsters), is tearing apart the fabric of pre-technological economics under which we are now socially struggling. They have caused individuals, groups, and governments to rush about applying band-aids to repair holes which appear with greater frequency each year. And the more holes that rent our social fabric, the more people argue, and blame each other, for not applying band-aids in the right place, or in those positions where millions of different opinions consider they should be applied.

Due to historic conditioning, it is generally agreed that people should think only in terms of politics, money and profits. But technology has upset the old apple cart, and while people scramble to retrieve the apples, technology marches on to create more social havoc. And, only now are the money-seekers realizing that the headlong rush for profits has aided in the potential destruction, not only of our Continent, but also the entire planet.

The quandary now is, how can we continue making profits and still preserve the house in which we all live? Every suggestion or attempt, so far, has ended in failure.

Money and technology are incompatible in a technological society. Technocracy's statements come from the great wellspring of scientific knowledge and research -- that same science that now provides us with the technology for our daily needs.

There are millions of opinions, but only one science. Science is based on the known physical laws.

Technocracy cuts through the social maze of opinions, beliefs, hunches, fantasies, and dreams, with scientific facts. Technocracy tells it like it is. Those who choose not to know about social facts invariably suffer under stress, anxiety, and discomfort, but that is their prerogative. They can stay in the torture chamber, or search for a way out. Technocrats choose the latter.

Before anyone can get a factual picture of the economic and ecological dilemma facing us today, he or she must observe and understand the cause.

In simple terms, there has been more technology invented and fabricated in the last century, by scientists and technologists, than in all of the hundreds of centuries recorded by historians.

The root of most social problems can be traced to the fact that, while technology has shattered practically all of the ancient methods of producing physical needs, the distribution of those goods is still being attempted by the same ancient methods practiced for centuries.

It is done by politicians, money-lenders, knaves, and sincere people, all contriving not to distribute the bountiful necessities and comforts fashioned by technology, but to manipulate money, in order to see that large numbers of the population don't get adequate purchasing power.

This must be so, because the Money System -- Price System -- is designed (if you could call it `designed') to distribute only a scarcity. If everyone had adequate purchasing power in money, the entire Price System would immediately collapse. Think about all the trappings which would be unnecessary if everyone had sufficient money to purchase what they need.

You will then realize how many useless pursuits are practiced, today, in our witchcraft society. There is more human energy expended in devising means whereby citizens are denied purchasing power than human energy expended in devising means to get that purchasing power out where it belongs. In the process, we pollute, waste, and desecrate the Continent.

Before you brush this off, tally up the information in the media that reports all of the disputes, arguments and concerns over money -- who should get it and who should not -- and you have to admit that the obsession with money has blinded the sanity of North American citizens.

With technology pouring out a plethora of goods -- more than can be sold at a profit -- we find thousands of organizations and parochial governments hell-bent to get money by preventing others from getting it, while wasting our resources and poisoning the planet. All this to create the necessary scarcity for the preservation of the politico- financial system, known as the Price System.

Technocrats find this all the more pitiful and absurd, since some of the same scientists and technologists who contributed to the technology we now have, foresaw the present economic situation, and spent many years voluntarily outlining a social concept which can largely overcome most of the problems we now experience.

The conceptual blueprint for gracious and abundant living for all North Americans has been available, and has been offered to governments, organizations, and individuals, to examine, for more than sixty years. For the most part, those groups and individuals have chosen to close their eyes to it, and they continue suffering or complaining. What a pity we can't scrape up enough money to have it all printed in Braille!

Nevertheless, the two sly enemies of socially-blind people are relentlessly pressuring the millions of apathetic citizens on the Continent with rapidly increasing vigor, as technology marches forward, and the citizens firmly seize their ancient social conditioning and attempt to march backward.

Technocracy scientists put it all in a nutshell decades ago. They said: "Technology will become too expensive for money." There is a hint of this coming, as our North American governments wrestle with taxation which will barely cover the interest charges on debts incurred to create the "prosperity" of the past three decades.

And as the disemployed find themselves unable to cope with technology, either before or after being booted out of their jobs, they become victims of stress, anxiety and frustration.

Since we have the resources, the know-how of competent technicians, and a design concept available, the present untenable situation is patently ridiculous.

Now that the media has discovered the horrific state of our ecology, how much longer will it take them to discover where the money will come from to rectify the ongoing destruction? The more technology installed, the less money available. The fear of more debt may soon transcend the politicians' dreams.

If we are to be granted the luxury of hope, let us hope that the media, and the citizens of this North American Continent, will soon "discover" the Technocratic concept for a distribution system which is compatible with technology.

It is the only concept which, if implemented, can banish drug trafficking, muggings, poverty, most diseases, and the destruction of our environment.

Thinking is not always easy; but it is much more desirable than destitution, misery, and choking on pollution.

Think about Technocracy. Read about it, investigate and study it. It is painless. And it can take the sting out of our social miseries.