Collapse 2020 Vol. 2: Birth of Personalized Democracy

Collapse 2020

Volume 2

Birth of Personalized Democracy

by

Bruce Nappi

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Ch 1: Review – Why the collapse?

Ch 2: Principles for a New Society – Overview of Volume 2

Ch 3: GOALS to guide a New Society - The A3 Society

Ch 4: The 10 Principles - The Social Contract

Ch 5: Solutions for Governance

Ch 6: Solutions for Business and Institutions

Ch 7: Solutions for Individuals

Ch 8: The Machines

Ch 9: The Transition - Pandemic

References

Appendix 1 – Glossary

Appendix 2 – The Multiple Religions Problem

Appendix 3 – The Legacy Problem

Appendix 4 - A3 Society - A3 Research Institute

Index

About the Author

PREFACE

55 years ago, I was a young impetuous Eagle Scout selected through national competition to accompany the U.S. Navy’s 1964 North Pole expedition. It was promised to be another ‘Journey of Discovery’ - a Lewis and Clark adventure across the Northwest Passage. A Journey of Discovery it was, but not the one of progress and wonder that was promised. The natural wonders of the Arctic were breathtaking. What the non-native humans were doing there, however, was a tragedy of lies, corruption and incompetence. After two failed attempts, a year apart, the expedition, in fact, never occurred. The great Eagle Scout explorer became an Arctic Research lab rat. The incompetence, negligence and deceit I encounterd I would never forget.

I returned to the lower 48 during the peak years of the Vietnam war and began technical studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Everywhere in life there were problems to solve. My energy knew no bounds. Inventions poured out of my head like acorns from an oak tree in the fall. Finally, believing I had access to the best world class technology at MIT, I also believed I could fix ALL the problems!

It quickly became clear, however, that what the public was being told, based on what I believed to be true about technology and world events, was as deceitful as the arctic screwups and coverups. For example, consider the day U.S. newspapers announced, Oil discovered in Alaska! A full year before, I personally walked through long closed up oil camps spread across the tundra with oil and gas wells already drilled and capped! The news reports were clearly false.

In 1969, I graduated - yes, a true MIT rocket scientist - and immediately entered the U.S. nuclear weapons program. From that priveleged vantage point, I watched the U.S. government and academic institutions continually feed propaganda to the press! Sure, the U.S. was first to put a man on the moon. But in almost every other space achievement, the Russians had led the way, including the first space station right after the moon landing, military aircraft and nuclear ballistic missiles. I kept asking, how could society even function with so much misinformation?

This started me on a dual path life long journey. One path was to achieve breakthrough discoveries in science and technology. For 40 years, I chased an elusive professional career. I rode the high tech wave at the cutting edge: nuclear weapons, fusion power, robots, computers, medicine and psychology. I developed artificial heart pumps, DNA sequencing machines, and invented many medical devices like a non-prick diabetes blood test. None of these ever saw the light of day. Working for 17 companies, both government and private, I experienced the same levels of incompetence, negligence and unethical behavior everywhere I turned.

The other path – a personal quest - was to understand the breakdown of communications in human society that supported such ubiquitous unethical behaviors. Like the Journey of Discovery that Darwin made on the Beagle and Einstein made into the cosmos, my career continually exposed me to major discoveries. But, unlike the joys of exploring flora, fauna and the mysteries of the cosmos, my career journey, like my experience in the Arctic, showed me that humans had created a civilization founded on lies, corruption and incompetence. I looked everywhere for wisdom. I found mostly deceit and superstition. I came to realize that the real frontier for society’s passage into a just and beautiful world wasn’t in some far off frozen place like Alaska, or Mars. It was right here, surrounding us like a strangling fog. The search to understand this took me to the fundamentals of knowledge. I created books full of notes along the way!

Being thrown into a stalled employment situation by the 2000 dot com crash, I decided to pull together all the notes from my journey. I was totally unprepared for what would emerge. Reviewing my employment through my sporadic journals, there were the repeated notes of despair about many solutions found and proven, but companies and institutions unwilling or unable to do anything with them. It was also clear that the unremitting rejection had personally changed me from 30 years before. None of my employment was fulfilling my destiny to help mankind. It had become a challenge just to survive and save for retirement.

On the other hand, what happened with my search for knowledge was mind blowing! The synergy of all the foundational information I collected, as it did for Darwin, led me to profound scientific and philosophical discoveries. These are the basis for the insights in this book series.

In short, any reader truly looking to understand the chaos of current society, can find new and significant answers here. Not only do the discoveries explain everyday confusion, they finally provide logical answers for some of the greatest unanswered questions of the ages and great riddles of our time.

There is a LOT in this book. If you read it quickly, it will probably provide more discoveries and wisdom than you’ve come across in a long time. If you read it slowly, trying to understand each principle, you could get lost for a month in a single chapter. In either case, it should change you deeply, which I hope was the reason you bought it.

WELCOME !

INTRODUCTION

Hindsight, they say, gives us 20/20 vision. Don’t believe it. Without a sound understanding of fundamental ideas that accurately explain what happened, hindsight is no better than a fairy tale. Collapse 2020, Vol. 2, digs into the major problem of how to structure a new civilization that effectively deals with the chaos of today’s world: climate change, liberal-conservative polarization, gridlock in governments, and massive social injustice, to yield a truly sustainable and equitable future. Unlike many books and articles that just rehash conventional ideas, this book presents major new perspectives based on discoveries from over 30 years of unpublished research. After creating an entirely new foundation to understand the fundamentals of these problems, Collapse 2020 Vol. 2 describes an entirely new social structure that shows how the entire world can live in peace and harmony. Anyone interested in social activism will find explanations for the stagnation of current groups and totally new ways to move forward. People in government, social institutions and business will find explanations for the seemingly endless corruption we encounter every day, that opens doors for new approaches.

Collapse 2020 Vol 2: Birth of Personalized Democracy

Chapter 1 begins the journey at some unknown time in the future when the survivors of the collapse have found a way to create a new, sustainable, world-wide human civilization. While such a setting is made up, i.e. fictitious, it is only presented as a structure to help visualize the interrelationship of the many new processes the book is proposing. Those processes and their interactions are based on logical reasoning, and could exist today if they were introduced as a complete system. They are not fictional ideas that require magic or supernatural results not already observable in the natural world.

The basis for this new society starts with the principles of: sustainability, egalitarianism for all people, good quality of life for all, and the full efficiency of modern technology. What results is a very different world from the one we have now.

To begin with, it already has and maintains a population limit of 2B people. This means, there is no population growth. Because the new population is inheriting the remains of our current, almost 8B person world, there is no need to build new roads, or new houses, or new factories, or new shipping ports etc. All of these become maintenance or renovation chores. With very few new factories, businesses, and institutions, every available job is already identified. Constraints like this change the entire framing of what we call civilization.

Chapter 2 opens with an overview of the major considerations that sustainability and egalitarianism need in a complex, high technology society. Ironically, when organized, these inherently create a new universal morality for humanity. The moral principles lead directly to a foundation for a new universal social contract. While this might at first appear to imply a prescription for one homogenous culture, because diversity is one of humanity’s sacred goals, the new foundation also requires a very large diversity.

Chapter 3 walks the reader through a high level explanation of how system analysis goes about making sense out of, literally, thousands of simultaneous objectives of widely diverse cultures for human success while at the same time achieving both social and ecological sustainability. Brief listings of the cherished goals humans have sought throughout time that form the foundation are included. The explanation then provides an example of the process at the next level with the universal hopes presented in the U.S. Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. While most people might believe these principles are pretty straight forward, when viewed in light of the causes for the collapse presented in Vol1, each one becomes a nightmare of complexity. Not addressing this complexity in the past, of course, was part of the reasons for the collapse. The chapter finally shows how the system model sorts out a lot of the confusion for these hopes as well as the other major enduring hopes of humanity to arrive at a focused set of GOALS for social organization. It also describes how these goals formed the basis for the A3 Society.

Chapter 4 then shows how the system analysis also organized the many hundreds of interacting issues summarized in chapter 3 to establish 10 overarching principles. The chapter explains how, if followed, the principles are sufficient to achieve all of humanity’s most cherished GOALS – a structure many people will believe is totally impossible.

Chapter 5 turns its focus to implementation. It takes each of the 10 principles and shows how they could be applied at the top coordinating levels of society – i.e. governments. The result is nothing like any government the world has ever seen or even discussed. The new structure is called Personalized Democracy .

For the first time in human history, a structure has been conceived where every individual in society, not only has a direct say in how their world is organized, but their personal visions are directly acted on! This new structure solves the major problems destroying current society, by inherently eliminating all corruption. The result produces the best possible quality of life, on an egalitarian basis, for every individual in society. There would no longer be poverty, homelessness or crime. The current driving causes for social discrimination would inherently be eliminated. While these achievements may seem impossible for many readers, it is only because human society has never seen or discussed any examples like these. People in our current world can’t even envision a democracy without congresses, or voting, or compromise.

Chapter 6 moves to the next level of society: businesses and institutions. It starts out with a profound requirement: the concept of buyer beware is thrown out! This warning does not belong in a civilization. It is a relic of Stone Age society; a result of designing businesses based on a predatory evolutionary bacterial model of life. Buyer beware is replaced with a principle that requires all organizations to be constructed for the benefit of the individuals in the society. For example, in such a society, when a child is born, the value of that new life would be held much higher than it is today. This means the entire weight of society would be brought to bear to insure that the child grew and achieved optimum opportunities for success. Another example would be the complete elimination of fear by every individual, that they did not have the full support of society for unforeseeable problems. In current language, it would be as if every person, from the moment they were born, had fully paid up comprehensive insurance coverage for every part of their life. But rather than this implying the need for more insurance companies, using novel approaches, the business of insurance companies would only be anecdotes of history books. Examples of changes of this magnitude are presented for many parts of human experience.

Chapter 7 carries the changes down to the key level: the individual. With buyer beware gone, all those stupid commercial contracts gone, taxes gone, healthcare and education completely integrated into life, every individual can finally focus on the freedom to develop their own personalities. This chapter describes how society could actually be structured to support this in a world of diversity far greater than people can even imagine today. And, possibly the greatest relief of all from today’s high stress world, every individual would live, and understand how they can live, in a completely sustainable society on a fully sustainable planet, where they don’t ever have to worry about crime, war, poverty or homelessness.

Chapter 8 repeats Vol. 1, Ch 9, The Machines, in its entirety, plus expands the subchapter directly discussing what a future society should do about the machines. The chapter from Vol. 1 is repeated in Vol. 2 because of the major, and unexpected, role machines will play in a new society.

Chapter 1

Review – Why the collapse?

Review of Collapse 2020 Volume 1

Collapse 2020 Vol 1 described 12 causes for the collapse that society is generally not aware of. Yes, humans have gotten themselves into such a bad situation that civilization, as we know it, can no longer continue. This is not a prediction for some far off time in the future. The tragedy is already unfolding on the world stage.

Vol. 1, Ch. 1 briefly summarized 12 hidden causes that are really driving the unfolding collapse. All of these problems are put in a context that exposes the media’s use, and abuse of climate change, through a disinformation campaign, to create a smokescreen for other problems of even greater seriousness.

While climate change is deadly serious - rising sea levels, extreme droughts – even leading to major population die-offs, it is actually only one of multiple larger problems. Climate has been reluctantly but maliciously brought to center stage by those in power because it is hard to cover up: its effects are very easy to see and very scary when they occur. What the leaders want to hide, to avoid major rebellion, is the exposure of much less visible impending collapse due to depletion of life critical natural resources, poisoning pollution, and the growing awareness of social manipulation.

The natural resource depletion collapse was the focus of a study by the Club of Rome in 1970. The study was described in the book Limits to Growth, that listed the elements of collapse, along with when they might occur. These estimates show that the collapse is already well underway and will fully unfold over the next few generations. The book was suppressed world-wide by both governments and industry. The overarching collapse driver in their study was, of course, world population. World leaders have also sup-pressed this by making public discussion of it a social taboo.

Vol. 1, Ch. 2 expands on the concepts of overpopulation versus limited resources, focusing on four categories: land, water, air and minerals. It illustrates key issues of sustainability. It discusses how we have exhausted all of the low-hanging fruit, – the easily accessed resources - and now find ourselves in a situation where we must expend greatly increased energy and cause more environ-mental disruption to continue to harvest the resources upon which our civilization operates.

That chapter also investigates why in the last 40 years we have made so little progress addressing sustainability, even though the collapse was rigorously foretold. The question this repeatedly raises among the public is, well, don’t we still have time to react? Unlike the relentless yes, if we act NOW wolf cries we continually hear from climate activists, the available science no longer supports that answer. But, this is also not a single answer question. Reactions from society still have a lot to say about where a surviving humanity is headed. Is the next age for humans destined to be another Dark Ages? Or, can it be made a more gentle place? This depends, the studies show, on how "smart" humans really are.

Vol. 1, Ch. 3 addresses this smart criterion of the previous chapter with a summary of profound new discoveries about human thinking. I’m sorry to say, based on the discoveries, achieving that gentle place will not be easy. The discoveries tell us that, current human brains are not much different from those of our Stone Age Neanderthal ancestors. The good news is, the more we learn about Neanderthals, the smarter we believe they were. So, the good news is, being compared to them may not be that bad. On the other hand, observing human thinking right up to current society, it is clear that Stone Age thinking is insufficient to achieve human survival under modern conditions. The primary reason for this is that a brain which evolved to survive in a hostile hunter-gatherer environment, is very poorly adapted to deal with the extreme complexity and destructive weapons produced during the last two centuries of technology proliferation. The human brain’s primal instincts developed based on hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution during which most behavioral brain structures evolved as hard wired survival skills. Unfortunately, these were primarily based on survival through aggression and physical power. The primary learned structure was herding where a dominant male gathered and defended a small groups of females. As this structure continued into primate brain development, the smarter brains added a large group of deceit behaviors to support the physical aggression. In humans, all of these negative traits appear as behaviors we call the Seven Deadly Sins. (Note, this use of the term Seven Deadly Sins is not that of modern religious usage, which will be explained later.)

Vol. 1, Ch. 4 digs a little deeper into human brain structure to explain how evolution introduced two major brain changes that produced today’s world. The first, around 300,000 years ago, produced the human brain, which first exhibited the ability we call "human consciousness or self awareness". And, note well, the discussion in chapter 4 explains, for the first time in human history, the discovery of what human consciousness is and how it is produced in the brain. The second brain change, which occurred around 20,000 years ago, introduced, in a small number of humans, the creative ability to design cities, nations, agriculture, architecture, fine arts, transportation, etc. The second brain change, however, also created an environment that expanded the primitive Seven Deadly Sins psychology of our Stone Age brains. That expansion yoked humanity to authoritarian governments, slavery and war. This psychology, in the minds of autocratic leaders and industrialists, has subjugated human existence in a way that has ultimately brought the first world-wide human civilization to collapse.

Vol. 1, Ch. 5 built on the new brain model to finally provide answers for the failure of communications that started my journey 50 years ago. When human brains made the jump to human self-awareness around 300,000 years ago, they also developed the mental tools to produce language and organize themselves in purpose directed efforts. But these abilities did not come without the baggage of the Seven Deadly Sins. The bulk of human thinking is still fine-tuned for aggression, power, and deceit. Another big discovery was how human behavior was tied to language through the way humans learn language. It is emotion based, not a logical process like the one we associate with adult learning. Once this connection fell into place, answers became clear that explained the concepts of absolutes and truth. The answers also explain fake news, and the liberal-conservative polarization that is causing government gridlock and social breakdown.

With an understanding of the logic flaws built into language, it became possible to identify processes which define most major social institutions that are built on concepts which are unworkable in modern society. This is due primarily to three reasons. The first is simply the use of flawed word definitions. When words are claimed to mean different things by different institutions, breakdowns occur when the institutions interact. The second is that, our major social institutions, law and justice for example, evolved by slow refinement of ancient social practices, each defending its professional position of power in isolation, like the ivory towers of a university. The differences of terminology, process, and pace, when these institutions have to interact, tie humanity to the inefficiencies of Renaissance culture. The third is the demand of modern technology for precision in communications, at the extreme pace created by modern communications, in the face of overlapping world cultures and the shear complexity of new social services and activities.

Vol. 1, Chs. 6 and 7 provided two critical examples of these combined language problems. They showed how democracy and capitalism, both foundations of modern western society, are built, throughout, on concepts that are not viable in modern society. The basic concepts for these principles, though logically flawed from the beginning, may have been passable centuries ago in low population, simple technology, religiously homogeneous, agricultural communities. They are totally unworkable in modern society and can never achieve a sustainable culture. As they collapse, current civilization will collapse with them because their inherent flaws block the transition to viable alternatives.

12 major problems – a recap

During my decades long study of the issues discussed in this book, my research discovered 12 major interrelated fundamental social problems that I believe will lead to the collapse of current world civilization. Alone, each of these problems is capable of causing world-wide disruption. In combination, they overwhelm any conventional approach to achieve peace or a sustainable society. While the seriousness of some of these problems has been recognized throughout history, critical misunderstandings and traditional governing structures have blocked society from solving them. Some of the problems, however, are so new that traditional language and culture have not given society the functional vocabulary to adequately grasp the principles involved. And, tragically, the current domination of world media by the military, industrial, academic, government complex is suppressing the significance of the problems through intentional discrediting and confusion.

The way each of these problems infects society is by being included as part of our fundamental social principles and institutions. A clear understanding of these principles is needed to expose critical flaws in the practices and fundamental institutions that our society runs on. Once these flaws are exposed and visualized, it is straight forward to see how they have created the collapse, as well as suggesting solutions.

If human society, after its impending and certain collapse, is to emerge into a better place, implementing a different approach will be absolutely essential for sustainability. The following chapters explore each of these principles in more detail to explain how they act alone, as well as how they interact as a system. In Part 2 of the book, a brief overview is presented for a new social structure that pulls together solutions for all of the problems simultaneously and in harmony. The 12 major social problems are listed here (with chapter numbers) for their primary discussion:

1. Vol 1, Ch. 1: HUMAN OVER-POPULATION, which has been made taboo as a subject for discussion in western society, is the most critical factor in the coming collapse. The seven billion people on earth today are way too many for the natural resources available world-wide to produce a reasonable quality of life for all of them.

2. Vol 1, Ch. 3: HUMAN BRAINS have not evolved much since the Stone Age, and essentially not at all since the dawn of high technology only 200 years ago. Humans are not capable of understanding and controlling high complexity well enough to keep it from harming them.

3. Vol 1, Ch. 3: TECHNOLOGY has exploded, introducing extreme complexity into society and everyday life. Complexity, however, requires rigid rules for the pieces to work together. This is in direct conflict with the concepts of individual freedom and democracy. Also we don’t have a clue what to do with automation!

4. Vol 1, Ch. 4: HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY prevents individuals from seeing the potential harm of complexity. Their psychological need to feel secure misleads them through denial into believing that they are in control of the physical gadgets, legal situations and financial products they can so easily purchase. When they are harmed, their psychological need for security requires that others must be blamed for their failures.

5. Vol 1, Ch. 4: SELF PRESERVATION INSTINCTS. Humans cannot escape numerous strong survival drives that have been hard-wired into primate brains over millions of years of evolution. The drives frequently lead to violence. When confronted with this, society’s response has covered the gamut from: admonishments to act responsibly or just get over it, to putting them in jail, or even putting them to death. The problem is, the drives run way too deep. The entire range of traditional techniques have failed because they only address the outcomes rather than the causes.

6. Vol 1, Ch. 5: HUMAN LANGUAGE is initially learned based on sound pattern memory based on emotion. The patterns are then expanded to words and grouped into simple-logical phrases referred to as Single Sentence Logic. This is a very quickly processed brain system that provides a survival advantage in a hunter-gatherer environment. It leads, however, to significant problems for complex communications. Until this is resolved, given the increased complexity of society, traditional forms of communication are incapable of resolving human problems.

7. Vol 1, Ch. 6: DEMOCRACY, in the form of a republic, as it is now implemented around the world, is incompatible with individual freedom and complex social structures. None of the alternate forms of democracy, in use or currently being discussed, resolve this. When implemented through representative models, they become hot beds for corruption and government failure.

8. Vol 1, Ch. 6: MISUNDERSTANDING FREEDOM. We have been misled by governments, education and the media about the concept of freedom. With high populations, people are brought into frequent interaction. It is impossible for people with conflicting beliefs, who find themselves living and working together, to have unlimited freedom to practice those beliefs. No system of government has acknowledged this, understood it, or made it clear to its people or created a system that provides a workable solution. This is particularly evident in the world-wide rise of nationalism, religious extremism and war.

9. Vol 1, Ch. 6: NAIVE LAWS. Our society is regulated by laws that are modeled on authoritarian principles where control is achieved by punishment. This approach completely blocks processes that automatically eliminate the value of crime and thereby stop it. The result is institutionalizing a fundamental social drive to violence.

10. Vol 1, Ch. 6: FLAWED ELECTION PROCESSES preferentially select leaders to make our laws who’s minds are good at fight or flight type interactions. This insures they are incapable of understanding the complexity needed to produce fair and just laws which requires the patience of broad and complex analysis.

11. Vol 2, Ch. 3: SYSTEM ANALYSIS methods exist that can deal with the complexity of life. They are not being used because they require passing control from human whims to machine algorithms. This threatens people’s sense of personal freedom, especially people and organizations in power. So they continue to try to solve complex problems using completely unsuitable simple methods that only address one issue at a time.

12. Vol 2, Ch. 6: THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF MODERN BUSINESS is based on a primitive, evolutionary, bartering, authoritarian, predator-prey, bacterial model. This model is so imbedded in our Stone Age brains that most people can’t even envision another approach. The outcome of bacteria living in a Petri dish, however, is always a violent end for each individual and collapse of the colony. This is where the human race is heading.

Very important problem principles

Two major principles, not generally well understood, are foundational to understanding the transformation of society described in this book. One is "The Legacy Problem. In casual discussion, this is generally called, The Fear of Change." We all have it. But it takes on a new perspective when it is discussed in depth.

The second one, which was one of the discoveries of my research, I call, "The Multiple Religions Problem. This is not about religious principles. It is about how a secular governing or organizational body deals with multiple overlapping religions in a common region, when the cannons of those religions require different behaviors from, or even violence against, other religions. When modern nations decided to adopt what they believed to be a democratic solution to this problem, what they called freedom of religion, Pandora’s box was opened. Not only did they completely fail to think through or anticipate what they were unleashing, they didn’t understand how its implementation would escape from the concept of religion" and destroy the logical bases for most of human language and reasoning.

Detailed discussions of both principles are taken directly from Volume 1 and included in this book as appendices 2 and 3.

Chapter 2

Principles for a New Society

The goal for this book is to provide a very high level overview of one possible social structure for a new sustainable human civilization. This new social structure can achieve both ecological and social sustainability in a world of peace and human equity. What makes this model novel and significant is its comprehensiveness. It addresses most facets of both the natural and social worlds, and is based on relevant scientific knowledge and over 20 new discoveries. It was constructed using modern system analysis methods that eliminate the most significant existing social problems.

The book jumps to some undetermined time in the future when some survivors of the unfolding collapse have created a new world civilization. The new civilization is described as it would appear in a fully operational form. Specifically, it does not address the current period of collapse nor the transitional period from devastation to the fully implemented new culture. While we can speculate on how the end of the collapse and transition might unfold, there are simply too many unknowns to provide any accurate picture.

Notice, the action of moving forward was described as a new social structure. It did not use terms like "restart or renew or rebirth. Our past and current cultures" evolved through millennia of repeated chaotic attempts of human groups trying to escape authoritarian oppression. The result of every failed attempt was the addition of new but uncoordinated processes to former dysfunctions. In order to avoid simply repeating the past, the tragic flaws of the past need to be eliminated. The Legacy Problems need to be left behind. Because so much has to be abandoned, a new civilization, built on human freedom and cooperation, will look radically different in almost every way.

Vol. 1 of this series looked, in depth, at the major flaws that brought modern civilization over the precipice into collapse. And yes, the conclusion of that book was that the first global