A plan for man; a new kind of industry for the age of automation.

We probably can not break up the giant corporations that have taken over the governments of the world. The events of 911 were engineered to give them nearly perfect control of public opinion as well as a firm hand on the controls of each government.

They have used their monopolistic control of the media to work some real magic. People have used quantities of money to make their financial decisions for a long time. But now, they have been frightened into using money to make ALL decisions.

Human concerns, and ethics are no longer considered when making decisions. That is the result of lots of fake terrorism, fake wars and constant brainwashing. My fellow Americans spend much of their free time soaking up suspicion, violence and fear from their TV sets. If more attention is available, the ugly American is dosed with an overwhelming greed for things and sex.

Now led by a shining example of runaway greed and bad taste, the desire to injure other humans in exchange for money is overwhelming. This is supported by a helpless feeling, where the brainwashed person feels powerless to change what is going on, and too poorly connected to completely understand it.

So, is my goal simply to expose this loss of the pioneering spirit among Americans? It is not! I hope to find a way out. There have been movements of late, such as Occupy, and Black Lives Matter. They are worthy causes, but flawed. We can not vote ourselves into being wealthy landowners, and we will not become safe from brutality through media events and snappy slogans.

The system itself has to change. The corporations will not give up until they hold all the money and power on the planet. Each one is willing to trade the health of the planet, and the quality of life of the humans, plants and animals for a larger share of the collective pie. And, the ‘economy’ supports their greedy attempts. Forceful, damaging groups tend to succeed. Altruistic entities tend to fail, with the notable exception of Elon Musk.

How has the Tesla company managed to make altruism pay on a large scale? In my opinion, Elon is a one off, or ‘perfect storm’, like Einstein. Albert came at a time when theoretical physics was wide open, and he had the tools and motivation to do a complete make over of our way of thinking. Sadly, his astounding efforts were hijacked misdirected, and very nearly resulted in the destruction of Earth.

Elon is a different story. Although he started by learning about money [Paypal], he quickly realized that money is just the water in the pipe, and moved on to the important things that money can do. New forms of energy production and transportation could possibly avert the destruction of earths atmosphere and land. And, he found a way to make them profitable enough to continue his work.

The next step is to change our way of living and organizing ourselves. Yet, our current practices are self reinforcing and deeply entrenched. Altruistic people and groups typically fail economically, and success with money is our measure of value and goodness. Greed and cruelty are rewarded economically, and the best practitioners of selfish deeds are adept at staying slightly ahead of the law.

What is to replace the corporations? How can it be done? We have seen that the folks who have control now will set the world alight instead of relinquishing their wealth and power. So, violent revolution is not the answer. Whatever we try must exist along with the current toxic structure. I send my mind back into history. Things that worked before are likely to work again. What did we have before corporations?

The first groups to be ‘incorporated’ [made flesh] were diggers of canals and builders of transcontinental railroads. We required these improvements in infrastructure to become great [pun intended]. And, we were willing to give these newly fleshed beings extraordinary powers so that they could accomplish seemingly impossible feats. They would have the legal advantages of an individual, without all of the responsibilities. Basically, they were not taxed much, could make a big mess, and did not have to clean it up.

For some reason, we did not dissolve these super beings after the infrastructure was complete. We made more and more of them. Instead of building something that we need, corporations learned to insert themselves between something that people need and the people themselves. They seized control of water, energy, land and political power. Since it is easier to destroy than to build, Corporations switched over to harmful pursuits like Wars and walls [Halliburton], and large scale poisoning and propriety seed stocks [Monsanto].

Again, these groups were allowed to destroy for money, and were not asked to clean up after the destruction. An example is the use of depleted Uranium in the middle east wars.  It was convenient to shoot our spent nuclear fuel at targets in Iraq. One does not pick up ones cannon shells after a war. Sadly, in this case, our cannon shells will poison millions of people for thousands of years. Another is the loss of much of the planet's viable seed stock, and the destruction of many of the pollinators on earth. The most glaring example of corporate greed was the privatazation of the water in Bolivia. Further, when the Bolivians attempted to have water without buying it from Bechtel corporation, a brutal war against the population in general was waged.

What came before corporations then? Did people bang rocks together and grunt? No! industry existed. At first it was dispersed. A grain mill by a river, where energy could be obtained from nature. A group of knitters that were given raw wool, and made sweaters at their homes. It is now called cottage industry. It did not require large cities, or a captive work force, so this form of business provided income without cooersion or captivity. People led shorter lives, and there was still brutality to deal with [the African slave trade, the genocide of the native Americans, etc]. But, at least, people could own some land, and stay home much of the time. Polluted cities with large forces of police came later, when new forms of energy were found, and factories required a steady supply of semi-enslaved labor. A new system of slavery replaced legal ownership of human beings. It was great for the factories, because this new type of slave could be beaten and killed without loosing the value of a good slave. Further, they would feed and house themselves, and prevent themselves from escaping!

That is what is happening now. The poor slaves sit in traffic jams in gigantic cities, waiting their turn to enter into their cubicle prisons. They do not have real work to do. They spend their days like pigeons in a cage, pecking at this key or that, and squawking into devices. There is very rarely anything to show for their decades of wage slavery. Little is accomplished, and they get almost no reward.

Most folks have kids. The system holds the kids hostage, even locking them away from the parents each weekday in sterile concrete buildings. What a system! As the billions of people increase, it gets worse, with no end in sight. It is already much worse that Huxley and others had predicted.

How can cottage industry come back in this situation? Picture an assembly line for a complicated thing like a portable building. But, instead of housing it in a gigantic building, and compelling the workers to live very close together, and to come to the building every day of their adult lives, The product instead moves through their various home shops. A way is found to keep track of the work until the product is sold, bartered, or rented. At first US currency could be used. As long as it passes from hand to hand, it is not taxed again and again. The human parasites that ride the currency without performing useful work get no cut of the proceeds until the final sale of the product.

Cities would empty out in this type of scenario. They do not work without 'modern' industry. The internal combustion engine can finally be laid to rest, some half century after it became outmoded. A bizarre system of captivity and violence underlays our notion of motorized freedom. We think that we love the internal combustion engine in town, but inside, we cringe at the explosions, the bright lights, and the rapid movements. We have made our world dangerous and unpleasant, and then provided lots of fortifications and armed guards. We hold the collective illusion that our motorized steeds provide a kind of escape or freedom.

The internal combustion engine provides neither freedom or any kind of safety. A curious relationship has developed between American people and their motor vehicles. The poor will often spend the majority of their money renting a car and keeping it full of hydrocarbons. This leaves almost nothing for their junky trailer, food, tools, etc. Before the brain washing, people knew how much to spend on their home, and how much should be used for transprotation.

Also, poor Americans have largely stopped eating good food and taking exercise. Their cars, in effect, have become their bodies. So, we see obese, pasty creatures staggering into sleek, gaudily painted chariots. We have become like snails, who are helpless and ugly outside of their shells. Indeed, we are ugly snails that become mean, predatory beasts when charging about in our noisy, dangerous shells. We have allowed the corporations to squeeze us together, and to control us by setting us against one another in large, energy wasting machinery.

Let us design a better way to live, and then pull the rug out from under the banks and the whole idea of the corporation.