Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #14

would be part of a horror movie.

Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'

because it's analytical

and they don't even know what analytical means.

Science means:
closer approximations

to the way the world really works.

So, it's telling the truth - is what it is

A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.

They tell them what their findings are.

They have to question all things

and if some scientist comes up with an experiment that shows

certain materials have certain strengths

other scientists have to be able to duplicate

that experiment and come up with the same results.

Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing

due to mathematics or calculations

can hold up a given amount of weight

they still pile sandbags on it

to see when it breaks and they say

you know my calculations are right or they are not correct'.

I love that system because it's free of bias

and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.

You have to put your Math to test also.

I think that every system that can

be put to test should be put to test.

And that all decisions should be based upon research.

A Resource-Based Economy is simply the

scientific method applied to social concern -

an approach utterly absent in the world today.

Society is a technical invention.

And the most efficient methods of optimized human health

physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like

reside in the field of science and

technology - not politics or monetary economics.

It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane

and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.

Likewise, nature itself is the

physical referent we use to prove our science

and it is a set system -

emerging only from our increased understanding of it.

In fact, it has no regard for what you

subjectively think or believe to be true.

Rather, it gives you an option:

you can learn and fall in line with its

natural laws and conduct yourself accordingly -

invariably creating good health & sustainability...

or you can go against the current - to no avail.

It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just

stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you

the law of gravity will not allow it.

If you do not eat - you will die.

If you are not touched as an infant - you will die.

As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship

and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it

or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.

So, a Resource-Based Economy is nothing more

than a set of proven, life supporting understandings

where all decisions are based upon

optimized human and environmental sustainability.

It takes into account the empirical "Life Ground"

which every human being shares as a need

regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.

There is no cultural relativism to this approach.

It isn't a matter of opinion.

Human needs are human needs

and having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air

nutritious food and clean water

along with a positively reinforcing, stable

nurturing, non-violent environment, is demanded

for our mental and physical health

our evolutionary fitness

and hence, the species survival itself.

A Resource-Based Economy

would be based upon available resources.

You can't just bring a lot of people to an island

or build a city of 50,000 people without having access

to the necessities of life.

So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'

I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first

and determining what that area can supply -

not just architectural approach -

not just design approach -

but design must be based on all of the requirements

to enhance human life

and that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.

Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love -

All those things are necessary

and if you deprive people of any of them

you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.

As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground up

global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution

is based upon on a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'

which guarantee efficiency and

sustainability in every area of the economy.

So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design -

what is next in our equation?

Where does all this materialize?

Cities.

The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.

Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life

along with increased social support and community interaction.

So how would we go about designing an ideal city?

What shape should we make it?

Square? Trapezoid?

Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing

we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease...

hence the circle.

What should the city contain?

Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area

a power generation area; an agricultural area.

But we also need nurturing as human beings - hence culture

nature, recreation and education.

So lets include a nice open park

an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing

and educational and research facilities.

And since we are working with a circle

it seems rational to place these functions in Belts

based on the amount of land required for each goal

along with ease of access.

Very good.

Now, let's get down to specifics:

First we need the consider the core

infrastructure or intestines of the city organism.

These would be the water, goods

waste and energy transport channels.

Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today

we would extend this channeling concept to

integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.

No more mailmen or garbage men.

It is built right in. We could even use

automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.

Same goes for transport.

It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce

or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.

Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors and

maglevs which can take you virtually

anywhere in the city, even up and down

along with connecting you to other cities as well.

And of course, in the event a car is required

it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.

In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.

Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year;

injuring about 50 million.

This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.

Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars

this death toll can be virtually eliminated.

Agriculture.

Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods

using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means

we have successfully destroyed much

of the the arable land on this planet

not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.

In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins

now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.

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