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Origins and Adaptations Part III Peter Joseph

Modal verbs - B1

“We must believe in free-will. We have no choice.” ZDay, Berlin Germany, March 14th 2015

I did a series called 'Origins and Adaptations' in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

It was supposed to end there but I decided to continue.

This dealt historically with the capitalist economy,

and I wanted to show how the system worked, where it came from,

how it’s evolved and a lot of things I think everybody here

that most everything we are experiencing in the world today -

from ecological decline, to endless government and business corruption,

to human exploitation, to perpetual poverty, to constant war,

to growing unemployment, to debt collapse,

and to the overall value system disorder - has been predictable.

Predictable when viewing the state of the world through the prism

And from this “system-based” worldview,

we can not only better understand the past and the present;

we can also anticipate of course, what is in store for the future

as this social cancer continues to morph and grow and mutate and absorb

and in effect, decouple humanity from everything most fundamental

to our long term social and ecological sustainability.

So before I close this subject, which been drilled in at length,

I want to re-summarize the issue with a quote by a man named Gary Holthaus:

“Our economics, social life, politics, and schools have insisted

that having more toys is better than having fewer toys;

that we have to keep up with or exceed others in our consumption;

that a high paying job can take the place of meaningful work;

that low-paying meaningless jobs that demean our humanity

are better than none, and we should be grateful for them

because they will turn us into decent citizens;

and that a free market has the same powers as a just God...”

“But Capitalism rests ultimately not on innovation or entrepreneurship

or brains or even a free market – those are just stories:

stories we like to tell ourselves because they make

those who are successful look good. At its base,

industrial capitalism’s success rests on exploitation of resources,

contemporary capitalism rests on consumption:

government and corporate consumption of resources,

and citizen consumption of market goods.”

“We are asked to consume not only material goods

but ideas, policies, whole worldviews that are presented with

all the persuasive skills and battering psychological hype

“We are under assault, we are laid siege by hype:

corporate hype, political hype, military hype, educational hype,

commercial hype… and as our civil rights have declined in recent years,

freedom has come to mean the freedom to choose among

“This is the harvest of a culture so bent on growth with all possible speed

that it will pour 100,000 chemicals in the earth and atmosphere,

into our lakes and groundwater and oceans, before it has a clue

about the long-term effects of a single one of them.” (- Gary Holthaus)

Now - that out the way - what I'd like to do here: take the  terms

“Origins,” “Adaptations” [and] change the context a bit.

Instead of how the current economic system has evolved,

What is the technical history, for example, of this logic

we might term a Natural Law Resource-Based Economy?

And more importantly, what is its relationship to the evolution

of material culture? - this term “abundance”

What does this evolution suggest about ourselves? our psychology?

our sociology? even our nature? - as the deeply social organisms we are?

this presentation is a bit stream-of-consciousness.

I’m less interested in defining a whole set of ideas than I want you

to more or less entertain the concepts I put forward,

even though naturally I’ll be drawing some conclusions.

Here is a table of contents ([in the back] if you can’t read it I’m sorry)

Some of the themes might sound eerily familiar if you read these contents.

We have chapters on “The power of wind, tide, waves;"

we have chapters on “Systems of machineries

and the establishment of applications of these powers;”

a “Plan for the building of a community;” oh! and

“The earth can nourish 1000 times more men than now exist,” etc.

Sounds familiar. This is one of the first post-scarcity books ever written.

The subjects include the importance of renewable energy in a systems approach,

applying machines to labor of course, adapting human values through education

“The first elements of mechanics teach that there is no motion imaginable,

that could not be produced by some adapted mechanism,

a million times greater than all men on earth could affect hitherto…

The powers are chiefly to be derived from the wind, from the tide,

Each of these powers requires no consumption of materials,

only materials for the construction of the machineries.”

“Once established, there will be no occasion for any work

which requires 1 to 3 persons in all (he was being relative)

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