Unity

John Berge

1992

Published in:

The Northwest Technocrat, 2nd quarter 1992, No. 327

The world has reached a stage of technological development that, if conditions are to improve, requires a new type of social organization, one that is not based on Price System techniques. A Price System requires that goods be scarce in order to preserve price. Social systems the world over are Price Systems in various forms, and a Price System is by its nature wasteful and adversarial. The world's needs could be better met, especially with the technologically advanced countries' affairs being based on cooperation.

The problem seems simple, especially between countries with similar cultures -- but it isn't; recent decades have shown that. Victor Hugo is given credit for having said that "More powerful than armies is an idea whose time has come." This is true, but it seems that an attractive and correct idea can be better understood and then put to use by having a model that is easily visible.

That seems to be the difficulty; nowhere is there a society that operates as a Technocracy -- a government organized to implement the best understanding of nature's laws for the benefit of all the people. There are requirements for such a type of social operation: There should be a full range of natural resources, sufficient land area with a plentiful supply of fresh water, compatible climatic conditions, a sufficient level of technological development and a population containing people with sufficient education and skills to operate the technology. All this must be orchestrated by a governance called Functional Control. A little study will show that these requirements can be satisfied best by unifying the entire Continent of North America.

The world is in social turmoil, and nowhere is there any indication of a new social direction -- just more of the same. But North America can provide a model for the resolution of many of the world's seemingly intractable problems and provide help where needed and appreciated. This can be accomplished without diminishing our domestic resources or antagonizing anyone. It may seem paradoxical, but North Americans can help others best by living well themselves.

North Americans, burdened with debt and a sinking economy and beset with a multitude of social problems, still have the opportunity to unify their Continent into a social organism that will bring them over a threshold that people have been trying to surmount for centuries.