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Since taking both of the basic government classes in college, I knew that political science and the very nature of it was inherently pointing to flaws in governmental systems. Some people look at the United States Constitution as a great work of art or a piece of genius. Other people look at it as a horrible disgrace that does nothing to show anything above and beyond any other government structure.

I have decided to start a little project because of this. After watching Zeitgeist:Addendum, a documentary of sorts that discusses major problems with the Federal Reserve central banking system in the United States and then proceeds to propose building a society based on the Venus Project, where the economy would not function off of money or finance but instead off of the availability of resources. When focusing all of society on adundance and creating new technologies instead of laws to govern civilization, Venus Project supporters argue that this is, while not anywhere near perfect, an undoubtably better solution to modern society’s model.

Some of the ideas in the Venus Project sound remarkably close to Karl Marx, and from Marxism has come socialism, and finally communism. Communism, especially in the United States, is seen as bad, and evil – tiny words that are thought and expressed by the public without much questioning or consideration. In truth, communism states that all property is owned by the community, and that all people are supported by the community as a whole.

Actually, if you take the time to hear the case of communism, it sounds like a really fantastic idea. The problem lies in its implementation. People are still put into power, and dictatorships still tend to form. “Well, that sucks!” I say. But we do know that one thing is for certain: socialized services are not a bad thing, and social welfare that tends to the population is also not a bad thing by the population’s government.

Many conservative thinking peoples would claim that one world government is the thing that we should try to avoid at all costs, and that it attempting to impose itself would mean the end of the world. I disagree. One world government must happen at some point, because we must unite as a species. If the world is unified, there are no nations to go to war with each other. At first glance, finding a way to get an acceptable one world government seems virtually impossible, but as we dive into some of the ideas, we discover that perhaps one world government might be more simple to achieve than it might appear.

Some believe that the only way to convince the entire world to get along would be to convert absolutely everyone to something, like one religion or one belief, one political doctrine. Somehow, we must find a way to convince everyone (or at least a vast majority) to get behind a particular idea. Then, it will happen. How do we get the world to that state? Well, it is obviously not war, because we all know that ends badly, with lots of people dying and chaos engrossing the bulk of the planet. We also know that we likely cannot just get up on podiums and persuade audience after audience too flawlessly. Of course, that is not to say that lots of people have not been convinced by speeches given at podiums – it does happen, but too often persuaders wind up preaching to the choir anyway.

In order to bring about a new and improved system, I propose a horribly confusing paradox: we must use the existing system to reshape our priorities so that we may bring about a new system. It all starts with education. If the world could at least agree on education, then we would begin to see drastic positive differences. Knowledge is not something that tends to hurt societies. Rather, it appears to actually empower them. The Venus Project is correct to state that technology, not law, is the primary thing that allows positive change and improvement of living to happen. Your air conditioning, vehicle, medical benefits, and virtually every other aspect of your daily living is aided by technology and knowledge.

It astounds me that we live in such a bizarre world as we do, that education is on such a low list so many places. Of course, readers from other countries might read this and say, “Ha! Education might be low on America’s list, but not my country!” I do not know if there is any major evidence I can cite for any one country having a good or bad priority on education, but I know for a fact that as a global initiative, there is not nearly enough that is taking place. I do not care how much Japan or the United Kingdom or India or anywhere is doing – sorry, it is not enough. As long as we are still spending millions of our currencies (which in almost all currencies is often a lot of money) for military purposes or nuclear weapons, we are wasting that money.

We must have the world devoted to education, to knowledge, to technology. Our very survival depends on it. This is not to say that I necessarily advocate a technolological singularity or something similar. A technological singularity would consist of human intelligence somehow being emulated successfully by computers in the form of artificial intelligence, or AI, and human beings no longer having a reason for existing with their limited organic capacities. Evolution must continue, but as far as trend of evolution has appeared to progress over the estimated 14-15 billion year history of the universe, I do not believe that organic beings would for any reason have a good reason to switch to a non-organic evolutionary cycle.

Converting what was an organic being, a carbon based being, into something else, is to eliminate what was human in the first place. Electrochemical messages would become purely electrical messages. From present data, and I anticipate loads of future data, there is no substitution for humanity in the form of technology. But again, technology has the capacity to allow us to transcend, perhaps even on a long term, billions-of-years evolutionary scale.

In conjunction with this post, I am also going to work on designing my own government, my own constitution, and my own legislative structure for something that I believe might work better than American government, and especially any sort of other country or international governmental system. Wish me luck – so far no one has succeeded in creating a really good government. Most frustrating of all, no one has succeeded in figuring out a way to be without government either.