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“Freedom,
is the opposite of tyranny.
Thus,
no tyrant can be free.
And vice versa,
no free being can be tyrannical.”
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Governance and Freedom
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Part one:
Liberty and tyranny.
Clerocracy and the renewal of Democracy.
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The compass and the helm
In order for a ship to reach its destination,
not only must all sailors be aware of its destination,
also and above all, they must all row in the same direction.
Governing
is making wills converge in the right direction.
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Liberty
If freedom is to do what’s good for oneself,
and even more so what’s good not only for oneself but also for others,
then to make the right choice, to be able to do it,
is to be free.
Conversely,
not knowing what the right choice is, not having the power to make it,
is a sure sign of not being free.
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Harmony
The more men, women and children all around us are in harmony,
the more likely each and every one of us
is to be harmonious, happy and at peace,
blessed with grace and some form of magic.
Likewise,
the more harmonious will nations be,
the more harmonious each of the nations, each of the peoples, each of us will be.
Because it is in harmony that the eternal lies,
harmony is our only power, our only magic, our only potential.
Harmony is our only real richness.
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The Curse of Power
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Power struggle
Everyone wants power…
For more power…
More and more power…
Everyone believes,
most often out of pride, rightly or wrongly,
that he or she is the best to lead the country, the nation,
the area of influence which he or she is at the head of.
At the political level,
it is the struggle for power that defeats the search for freedom.
The fundamental error
committed by most humans, and all tyrants,
is to believe that power can only be conquered and secured
by force and brutality.
Power does not come by force and brutality,
power comes from within.
Power is an inner state. Power is profound.
Power gets incarnated,
here and now.
Uncreated, without cause or consequence,
power exists in and of itself,
in the depth of consciousness, in the infinity of the present.
To be or not to be.
Shakespeare was so right.
To embody is both to be and to have.
Authority is natural,
it is not desired, it is not coveted.
It doesn’t need to crush others to exist and assert itself.
It exists by itself.
Conversely,
the struggle for power is obviously a destructive, evil illusion.
Believing that our beliefs, believing that our wanderings
can be imposed on Reality
is a tyrannical and ignorant child’s illusion
that each time leads to disaster and inhumanity.
When power becomes a career,
a livelihood, a purpose, a condition
for the survival of the person exercising it,
already the creature of power has morphed into a tyrant.
At the level of humanity, of all nations, of all the people
who live and have lived on this planet,
it is this lust for power, the struggle for power,
this tyrannical need to seize and retain power
that forces us to fight.
Always and forever,
the struggle of the powers that be
have made, are making and will continue to make
men and nations kill each other
and maybe even kill each other to extinction.
Fighting to seize power and keep it for ever and ever,
or so they believe.
The struggle for power is a curse.
A curse that condemns us to war and supreme failure, ultimate defeat.
Be it political or economic, whatever its nature,
addiction to power possesses the tyrant.
Not the other way around.
It is also, of course, a curse on the victim.
Needless to say, the worst is not the condition of tyrants,
but that of all those on whom their cursed tyranny is exercised.
Tyranny breeds slavery, war, injustice and misery,
not only on the tyrants themselves,
but also, and most importantly, on all those
whom their unhealthy, childish, stupid, cursed and murderous tyranny
is exercised on.
No matter how it is said or written,
this is a universal and eternal truth.
Just as tyranny begets slavery, misery, injustice and war,
so slavery, misery, injustice and war begets tyranny.
In all its imaginable and possible forms, even the worst ones,
tyranny is a scourge that will claim our lives.
Conversely,
if tyranny is a deadly scourge,
then freedom is the Way, the one and only way to Salvation, Joy and Life.
The way of multiversal democracy can alone bring forth
wisdom, justice, abundance, sobriety, peace, freedom and harmony.
It must be repeated:
If tyranny begets tyranny,
freedom begets freedom.
If chaos begets chaos,
harmony begets harmony.
Systemic balances and dynamic harmonies
are self-sufficient.
As such,
they are the conditions for their own existence.
They are the conditions for our own survival.
Conversely,
this system based on the vertical power of domination
corrupts and undermines the whole system.
Corrupts and poisons beings.
All our value systems are infected and corrupted.
To the point of endangering
the very notion of the survival of the human species on Earth.
Indeed,
the struggle for power is a disease, a curse
that constantly regenerates itself,
a curse that plagues all humanity
and drags it further and further down …
A real curse with terrible effects.
For all humanity, for all men, women and children,
who are alive, who have lived, and who are yet to come,
the struggle for power is an absolute, total and profound curse.
If struggle is the number one problem of humanity,
then the solution to struggle, to conflict, to extinction, to the foretold Apocalypse,
does not, and never will, be achieved
through struggle, conflict, tyranny, wars.
Salvation is peaceful.
Salvation is universal.
The answer to our present and future afflictions
lies in peaceful and universal wisdom.
This is not a hypothesis.
It is a simple and humble, yet clear and unquestionable certainty.
No justice can be served or accomplished through injustice.
The struggle for power, the struggle for money,
the struggle for self-glorification, tyranny, greed and pride
will never save humanity.
Like many climbing plants that wreathe up, intertwine and interweave,
tyranny and its offshoots are one and many
all at once.
Like the thousand-headed hydra,
greed, the will to power and the desire for self-glorification,
are to be treated as three separate and distinct problems
but also as a single problem,
as a single negative and self-reinforcing feedback loop.
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Tyranny and Liberty
If, on the one hand,
governance is the art of managing relations between humans
in a jurisdiction, or within a sector,
and if, on the other hand, governing is by nature a political act,
then politics affects all individuals.
It affects every man, woman and child
as well as every large and small company and organization
in a very concrete way, on a very daily basis,
I would even say constantly, here and now, everywhere and all the time.
In that sense,
the benefits or ills of a political regime
have an immediate and significant impact
on everyone living in that regime.
Tyranny as a political regime is a systemic totalitarianism
that extends everywhere through space and time, physically and mentally.
This system is a brutal, totalitarian and irrational regime,
based on the law of the strongest,
the richest, the greediest, the most selfish,
the most violent, the most unjust, the most aggressive.
Under a tyrannical regime,
apart from a few rare blessed ones,
no woman, no man, no one, is truly free, happy, satisfied, fulfilled.
Under such a regime, no one is truly him or herself.
Not even the chiefs are free.
Especially not the chiefs are free.
Indeed,
making others our slaves is evidence that we are not free.
Not only does this prove that
not having sufficient strength to cope with the circumstances of our lives,
we are slaves to the point of making others into slaves,
thus proving our lack of consciousness and independence,
but furthermore, since the slave will do everything in his or her power
to regain his or her freedom,
then we will have to give up our freedom
by chaining ourselves to the slave so that the slave does not escape us.
The master or tyrant is therefore not only the slave of the slave
and the slave of the situation he has created for himself,
but he is also his own slave.
Making others into one’s slaves
is renouncing one’s own freedom.
Depriving a people of its freedom, enslaving it,
is evidence that governance, in this case political and economic governance,
is neither free, nor conscious, nor competent.
Thus,
not only is tyranny a liberticidal and criminal regime,
but the very fact that it exists
is also an admission of submission, weakness, ignorance and limitation.
Governing a people or handling a situation
through terror and violence
is indeed proof that one neither understands nor handles
neither anyone nor anything at all.
One can only ever manage what one understands.
I can impose my solutions on the whole world,
if I have not understood the situation,
even if the whole world complied
under pain of death or concentration camp,
I will never solve the situation.
That’s impossible.
Ruling without being free or conscious
is making one’s own prison the prison of the nation.
Thus,
if the essence of tyranny
is to deprive the nation, the people, everyone, without exception,
of freedom, freedom to be, to live or to survive,
then tyranny is the opposite of freedom.
And many are those who pay a high price
for what the tyranny in power extorts from them by legal means or foul,
sometimes at the cost of immense suffering, torture and torment.
Indeed,
since the slave owner has a constant, never-ending need
to reassert his control and authority
over his slaves for fear that they might escape him,
then not only must the slave owner make constant efforts,
but he must very often do so by means of threats, terror and barbarism.
Can he who torments others be free from torment?
We ask you the question.
How in such conditions be at peace with yourself?
Can you? Could you?
We’re asking you the question.
Even though some may be cruel and inhuman,
which of them does not have nightmares at night
that one of their opponents, or of their slaves,
will not come in their sleep to claim their freedom
by slitting their throat?
Who indeed can be free
by choosing to deprive himself of his own serenity,
of his own peace of mind, of his own humanity?
Truly, I have to tell you,
going against a Human being is going against oneself.
It cannot be otherwise.
The reverse is also true:
no free being can make another person his or her slave,
no free being can deprive an innocent person of his or her freedom.
He or she who is free
cannot wish to deprive another of his or her freedom.
On the contrary,
the free seeks to liberate all beings from all their servitude,
from the psychological and intimate to the political and collective scale.
Thus,
every free and harmonious being
wishes and desires freedom and harmony for others.
Freedom is aware that depriving an innocent of his freedom
always results in renouncing one’s own freedom.
Freedom and its opposite are not and cannot be compatible.
They can certainly coexist in a single entity or person,
but like water and oil poured into the same container,
they cannot mix.
Being of a different nature
that makes it possible to distinguish them clearly,
freedom and tyranny are incompatible.
Therefore,
freedom ends when tyranny begins.
Whoever we are, whatever entity we represent,
when we act as tyrants, we act against freedom,
when we tell lies, we destroy the truth, and we contaminate everyone.
Conversely,
when we act for freedom, we fight tyranny.
When we stand up for wisdom, justice and truth,
we stand up for life.
The Hero is the one who is on the side of Wisdom, Justice and Freedom.
Always.
Thus,
it is when tyranny ends where freedom begins
that harmony among human beings emerges.
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Tyranny of Money
Regrettably, as we have said,
on behalf of economic liberalization,
money has made humankind into its slave.
Throughout the world,
money reigns supreme to the ever-increasing detriment of peoples,
peoples who are reduced to obeying
only the rules of privatization and commodification
of human beings, of the living, of nations and of the world.
The reign of money
compels every economic and political actor,
every human being, every man, every woman and every child
against each other.
It is absurd and vain, destructive and murderous to believe
that we can triumph over our woes by fighting each other
at the risk of making the great world economic war
a real political and military global war.
And yet,
it’s precisely because we can’t see
that our ultra-competitive, aggressive and even criminal behavior
is a legacy of the past
that it cannot be stopped.
Yet all it takes is to see it.
The legacy of our perpetual fight is the cause of our perpetual fight.
Because global society was built on conflicting relationships,
any organization or person has to fight all else in order to survive.
From the most humble individual to the richest, most powerful and most influential entity,
we are all condemned to this way of living, thinking, representing and relating to the world.
It is an abomination.
In the most absolute sense of the word, it is a curse.
All of us born into this world,
this world is dragging us into its mad rush to destruction.
Caught up in the momentum of history,
swept along by the current of the past, the present and its consequences,
as in a torrent, we do not know how to get out of it.
Constantly, forever and ever worse,
like puppets, always for the same reasons,
we reproduce the darkest, deadliest disasters in history.
In a society
where division, isolation, aggressiveness, exploitation, indifference and inhumanity
are not only encouraged but are also institutionalized as supreme values,
we cannot, we do not know how to break the vicious circle.
If we are to break the vicious circle and turn the wheel in the right direction,
we must see the vicious circle,
we must identify it, face it, know it and understand it
in order to direct it where we wish to go.
To move,
it is better to see than be in the dark.
To see.
Because we don’t even know we can see,
we cannot know that seeing is power.
Seeing is being powerful.
Seeing is powering.
The only reason we cannot open our eyes
is because we have never opened them.
We have never opened them to see
that it is not, has never been and will never be
in or through division, conflict, aggression, violence, exclusion
that we could make this world a united world, a world of harmony,
a world where it would be good to live.
Survival to the detriment of the other
as an ideological foundation for world civilization
is not only at the root of all our present major problems,
of our serious and profound deviances,
but it also condemns us all
– poor and rich, dominant or dominated –
to nameless, terrible ordeals
with historical and apocalyptic, religious and even mythological dimensions,
in an absolute, total and totalizing negation of life,
of what is human and sacred.
Because we are unable to question ourselves,
unable to question our psycho-social-historical attitudes.
Because our regional, national and international bodies of power
reflect this deleterious planetary state of affairs.
Because money, central to everything,
has been privatized and set up as the absolute master.
Money in the hands of private institutions
that force us to serve them, to serve institutionalized greed,
and pay them constantly, eternally through debt and interest on debt
and thus feed the monster of greed that is destroying the earth
and plunging humanity into hell and darkness.
May nations take back their monetary sovereignty
from the hands of the big private banks
and the world be saved.
And humanity freed.
This is undoubtedly the number one condition.
The unconditional condition
to effectively address political governance issues,
the expression of the common will
and the realization of the common good.
Any problem that has a cause can be solved and reversed
if we address its cause.
Let us save our world before it destroys itself.
Before sinking into the renewed nightmare of savagery and madness
that is once again setting itself up as a system, a killing, a grinding machine,
let us save ourselves.
Me, you, them, all of us!
The solution to our problem is not a mathematical calculation,
it is not even an ideology or a religion.
It is our survival.
The survival of all of us.
The survival of our own species.
It is a philosophy, a way of seeing, a way of living.
It is simple and luminous.
Seeing humanity is seeing yourself in all your humanity.
It is a prayer, it is the prayer,
in every sense of the word.
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A political architecture based on harmony.
We have talked about the development of an architecture
of sovereign, parallel and complementary currencies,
intertwined in a coherent and dynamic system
as systemic solutions to greed and the plundering of the Earth.
The second branch is a global political architecture
with both the rule of law and freedom around the world as its goals.
This is wonderful news.
We have the means and the knowledge to achieve the impossible.
To achieve utopia.
Chaos is by nature unstable, unbalanced, excessive to the breaking point.
Chaos is by nature toxic, dangerous and destructive.
Harmony is always stable and fertile.
Harmony is the only remedy for madness.
Consciousness is the only remedy for ignorance.
Wisdom is the only remedy for insanity.
Comprehension is the only remedy for excesses and folly.
Peace is the only solution to war.
Legitimacy is the only solution to illegitimacy.
Justice is the only solution to barbarism.
Democracy the only solution to tyranny.
Seriously hitting the brakes
on the delusions, the major systemic and seismic excesses
of the contemporary global fight
would inevitably be a real chance.
Anything that’s harmonious is self-sufficient,
while what amounts to more or less intentional malfeasance
must constantly feed on one or more victims to continue to exist.
By being self-sufficient,
Goodness touches on completeness and thus a form of perfection.
Evil, on the other hand,
must constantly find victims in order to survive.
Goodness needs nothing but itself.
Only Goodness is free.
Evil is always a slave to others.
Always and indefinitely.
It is written.
Evil is imperfect by nature, by essence and by definition.
Wisdom,
on the other hand,
is about completeness, serenity, intelligence, understanding, grace,
if not perfection.
Must we continue to fight each other
without doing anything?
For one reason or another,
should we always continue to oppose each other
and thus perpetuate the curse of history?
Or should we fight against the curse itself,
against the causes of the curse itself,
against what pushes us into the bottomless pit?
At the interrelated monetary, economic, political, ideological, sociological,
psychological, emotional, historical and universal levels,
doing everything we can
to harness this unhealthy human impulse for power and domination,
doing everything we can to curb, mitigate, and silence it,
is bringing about what could be most balanced, most virtuous, most beneficial
at the systemic, fundamental and universal level, perhaps forever.
Then we will be able to realize
that there is really no enemy to destroy or defeat.
That our only barrier to happiness, our only obstacle to salvation,
is our unconsciousness, our non-awakening to the universal.
That there is truly nothing to fear
and everything to hope for.
From the intimate to the universal,
from the social to the emotional, from the physical to the spiritual,
at all levels, at all scales,
the great global psychological, political and economic warfare
only begets chaos, imbalance, conflict, and all kinds of super bad delusions,
in many ways worse than you have probably ever imagined.
Whatever we do, whoever we are, whatever our name, wealth or position,
whatever our religion, our temperament, our beliefs, our perceptions, our superstitions,
to the highest degree,
it concerns us all.
If only we realized how much suffering and discomfort we are all inflicted
by a society based on greed and the desire to dominate….
The great global capitalist economic war
is leading us to certain collective death.
If we realized how interconnected we all are,
how much we all have an interest
in ensuring that humanity survives under the best possible conditions,
then we could realize that all classes, all peoples, all nations, all religions
can and must unite for humanity’s salvation.
Harmony is always synonymous with life.
Universal and humane wisdom is fruitful of realistic harmonies.
It is certainly extremely simple,
but it has the merit of being clear:
Salvation is necessarily the solution.
Without salvation,
at least without the sincere search for salvation,
there is only chaos, wanderings, excesses, ignorance, errors, despair
and violence.
Thus,
bringing our unhealthy and hyper-excessive urges
for wealth, domination and self-glorification under systemic control
is necessarily the solution.
We must therefore establish rules
so that our world can free itself from its self-servitude.
We must therefore implement laws based on rights,
on the harmony of the whole and the parts,
and the balance between general and private interests.
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For a fertile world,
for a fruitful Earth.
The only alternative to chaos is harmony.
The only alternative to extinction is life.
My own fulfilment, my own well-being,
depends on the fulfilment and well-being of everybody else.
The will to harmony is the condition for harmony.
Seeing Harmony is wanting it.
And conversely,
since it is impossible to see harmony without wanting it,
wanting harmony is seeing harmony.
Since it is impossible to create harmony without seeing it or envisioning it,
seeing harmony is creating harmony,
it is giving it birth.
You just have to discover or rediscover it.
The will for harmony necessarily, naturally exists deep within each of us.
By definition,
the vision of humane and universal harmony exists in all of us,
in all of humanity, on all of planet Earth.
See,
nothing is more real.
Today,
nothing is more useful, precious or wonderful.
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Change
As we know,
the international political institutions
of the inter-war period in the first half of the 20th century
proved incapable of preventing the nightmare of the Second World War.
Let us beware.
History repeats itself.
The international institutions of this beginning of the third millennium
are incapable of properly managing the crises of the present
and will no doubt be incapable of properly managing those of the future.
Even though their existence is probably infinitely better than their non-existence,
the UN*, the World Bank and the IMF**,
like the League of Nations in the 1930s,
are all proving powerless to resolve
international economic, monetary, cultural or military disputes and conflicts.
It is sad, but it is obvious.
*United Nations
**International Monetary Fund
The IMF,
whose allegiance is neoliberal or even ultra-liberal in inspiration,
is more predatory than regulatory or harmonizing.
The permanent members of the UN Security Council
each have a veto power
that gives them the power to paralyze
the only existing universal political organization.
The UN carries great promises, great possibilities,
which unfortunately cannot be realized because of the Security Council.
Unfortunately,
compared to everything a Union of Peoples and Nations
based on justice and equity, wisdom and truth could achieve,
the United Nations Organization today
is immensely and disappointingly powerless.
With the veto power,
the members of the Security Council
can indeed block any decision or direction
they don’t like.
Five countries out of about 200
have this ultra-privileged power to block the advances
the world so badly needs.
Admittedly,
governing 200 nations is not easy,
but we shall see how to make it possible.
Whatever solutions are possible,
it is obvious that the United Nations of today, by virtue of its powerlessness,
is losing all credibility in solving the great challenges facing humanity.
For the Union of the Nations of the World to become universal again,
the UN Security Council must transform itself
to reveal, express and implement the universal.
Universal wisdom and harmony
are not only infinitely positive,
they are guides.
The universal is the Way.
The universal is the Law.
Its laws are both inspired and guided
by wisdom, justice, measure and responsibility, knowledge and intelligence,
consciousness, respect and harmony
to the point of wonder.
On the harmony of the whole
depends the harmony of the entities that compose it,
and vice versa.
Wholeness and nothingness,
everything that separates them and everything that unites them
intertwine.
Human or non-human,
no one can escape it.
Nothing and no one can escape it.
Universal Harmony as the supreme Law
is the supreme goal of the Human Being on Earth.
We therefore urgently need to overhaul the world’s international institutions
and change the nature of the globalized political, economic and monetary system,
or a cataclysm will force us to do so.
There is no alternative to chaos and madness
without wisdom and harmony.
There is no alternative to collapse and near extinction
without wisdom, hope, prudence and reason.
Whether it is wisdom and hope
for a new and beneficial way, and transformation,
or insanity and collapse,
one way or another, this system will change and we will change.
Because there is no alternative to wisdom,
there’s no other choice, there’s no alternative to change.
Wisdom is the only realistic and achievable desirable response.
There is no alternative…
to the alternative.
How to survive by self-destruction?
How to survive in a world where peaceful cooperation
gives way to enmity and the language of all forms of violence?
Is this how humanity self-destructs and loses its humanity?
Is this how humanity gives birth to the monster
of its own annihilation, of its own curse?
By giving up our humanity,
we give up on ourselves.
For the sake of a realism that pushes us over the edge,
we are told that the good is impossible,
that a better and more harmonious world
is a utopia.
Wasn’t it said, not so long ago,
that slavery was an obvious fact, a despotic realism
that no one could or should question?
Is it not a sure sign
that those who urge us to renounce good, freedom and human rights
and profess only the perpetuation of the exploitation of man by man
are in fact illegitimate to govern?
How can one claim to govern by choosing the opposite of wisdom,
the opposite of all that is positive and beneficial;
by choosing, by legitimizing in fact and by force
the path of predation, exploitation, economic tyranny,
with chaos, violence and destruction as their price?
How,
considering global despair,
considering the state of global lawlessness,
considering the conflicts and wars
that are already tearing the world apart, and all those that are looming,
how can we not seek to institute a global governance
so as to harmonize the world system,
so as to humanize, rationalize the world,
either by coordinating, restructuring and reforming the large supranational organizations
such as the UN, the WTO*, the IMF, the World Bank, the ILO**, the WHO***,
or by creating new ones?
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**International Labour Organization
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In the awareness that what benefits the world benefits everyone, without exception,
how can we not seek to harmonize the Earth?
Would it be possible to transform the aforementioned existing institutions
not only by redefining their objectives,
but also by reforming their modes of operation
in order to serve the causes of the people, of peoples, of justice, of democracy,
of Humanity and of the Earth,
for ourselves and for our children?
However dark the historical and ecological circumstances,
everything is still possible.
Can the defenders of all-out capitalism
promise us anything else but outright annihilation?
Capitalism or nothing,
they have been telling us for decades.
Capitalism or nothing?
Capitalism or nothing.
How indeed would so-called economic necessity
force us to continue to plunder the planet and its peoples
without someday triggering a disaster?
How can we not be aware of this?
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Change
If knowing is knowing what’s possible,
then knowing is knowing which solutions are possible.
Seeing that Humanity on Earth carries within itself
as much as the worst of what is possible,
the best of the future, the most delicious of all possible presents,
then seeing and knowing
is measuring the magnitude of the power of the Earth
as a hyper logical whole of an obvious rationality.
It means knowing
that by redefining the rules of political power and monetary creation,
we could change direction
and get out of this minefield shrouded in darkness.
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Governance
A new system of governance,
based on new democratic and universal rules, with global objectives,
engraved on a kind of great Constitution
enshrined in regenerated or new institutions
which both gives birth to and is nourished by new dynamics and perspectives
fundamentally conducive to stability and harmony, wisdom and justice,
respectful of geo-socio-cultural scales,
fruitful of life and humanity in each and every one of us,
fertile of as much freedom, measure, decency and dignity as humanly possible,
producing as much wealth and prosperity as the socio-economic and earthly realities allow,
is not only entirely feasible and realistic,
it is also, in the long run, our only possible future.
On the world’ s welfare depends the world’ s future.
And vice versa.
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Harmonies
As we have already said,
if imbalance is the opposite of balance,
then harmony and balance cannot be achieved by means of chaos
and the most immense, unjust and dangerous imbalances.
Harmony is necessarily positive.
Seeking the path of balance between the great antinomic tendencies
– egoism vs. altruism, greed vs. generosity, aggressiveness vs. benevolence,
wealth vs. poverty, competition vs. cooperation etc. etc. –
and the great architectural dimensions of our world and our humanity
is necessarily positive.
The further we move along the path of harmony,
the more we will reap its blessings,
which in turn will give us better conditions for universal harmonization,
beneficial to no one in particular more than anybody else,
but beneficial to everyone.
If tyranny is the opposite of freedom,
then freedom cannot compromise with systemic tyrannical excesses.
Make no mistake about it,
harmony does not prohibit.
Harmony brings coherence.
Harmony liberates.
Wisdom based on harmony is clear and solid.
It aims to liberate and not forbid.
It does not prohibit so as to deprive of freedom,
it sets the conditions for freedom.
After a certain impulse,
the momentum is set in motion and self-amplifies.
Not only is it possible,
but once we get started,
of all our current options, it will be the easiest thing to do.
Universal harmony
is the only thing that can liberate humanity and defeat tyranny.
For it alone shows us wisdom.
Wisdom alone can make freedom and law prevail
over tyranny and slavery.
Wisdom alone
shows us a new path of democracies and universal freedoms,
all in the plural.
Harmony liberates.
Universal harmony is the only thing that can liberate humanity.
Harmony does not forbid,
harmony delivers.
It alone delivers
and will deliver us from the curse of history.
No one knows the future
but, however imperfect, the rules outlined here are clear:
they are the conditions for all our futures.
Freedom is the condition for freedom.
Harmony is the condition for harmony.
The possible is the condition for the future and survival
of humankind.
These are super good news.
World harmony is the solution.
It wouldn’t be so complicated to put it all together.
What seems impossible to keep doing
is not to change.
It’s no longer a matter of choice.
It’s a matter of survival.
It’s all we have left to do.
This is our only chance.
And it’s perfectly feasible.
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Power and Democracy
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Since wisdom is necessarily universal,
revealing the nation’s collective intelligence
is giving birth to the nation’s wisdom.
It is giving wisdom the reins of power.
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The tyrant and the Sovereign
A genuine democracy is the only antidote to tyranny.
In order to ensure that power never gets abused,
power must be genuinely democratic.
Those who hold some form of power and authority
will always at some point be tempted to abuse their power,
all the more seriously as their power grows.
It’s the law of probability.
It only takes one man or group of people at the top of power
to be disposed to do anything to keep that power
and all the privileges, material and narcissistic that are associated with it
for the whole political and social body to be gangsterized
and for the people’s minds to be contaminated
with their demagogic and authoritarian madness.
Executioner or victim,
whether one is for or against the regime,
all means are good to break the majority,
to enslave the nation and/or humanity
by corrupting, dividing, antagonizing, intimidating,
locking up, silencing or simply murdering
all those whose voice might be too free, too humanist, too unifying,
for tyranny and tyrants, too threatening.
A people whose law is not the expression of its will
is not in a democracy.
A people whose law is not the expression of its will
is not a free people.
Yet the sovereignty of the people alone
is the guarantee of its freedom.
The people’s sovereignty
is the foundation of democracy and freedom.
In a democracy, in every free country,
the people is sovereign.
It cannot be otherwise.
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Human wisdom
By teaching democracy,
law and freedom, wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, humanism and dignity,
by encouraging the defence of rights, justice and harmony
including the right to live in freedom and dignity,
by inviting citizens to participate in Democracy,
in reading rights and writing laws,
in much the same way as in Athens 2,500 years ago,
a genuine form of democracy would be possible again.
Good, humane and universal laws
are not so hard to envision, conceive and design:
As soon as we ever so slightly open our eyes to ourselves and the world,
as soon as we ever so slightly listen
to what our humanness, our universality whispers to us,
and as soon as we ever so slightly marvel
at being and being in the world,
their drafting becomes simple, spontaneous and natural.
It is naturally easy for a human being to be human.
It is naturally easy for a human being
to be filled with universal humanity.
For such is our nature.
Our only nature, actually.
By putting our heart and soul, our efforts and intelligence into it,
anyone could do it.
If every human being is human, if humanity is common to all of us,
then humanity is inscribed in all of us.
Then the law of humanity is necessarily universal.
Necessarily,
it is within everyone’s reach.
In the small section dedicated to Education,
we address and discuss the benefits of an education
based on a positive appreciation of oneself and the world,
focusing on what is well done
in contrast to focusing on what is failed,
in contrast to a forced learning to voluntary servitude and competition
which unfortunately still prevails
in the majority of schools and school systems in the world today.
Teaching democracy,
respect for other people’s opinions,
seen as a strength and an asset rather than a threat,
teaching democracy through positive appreciation of oneself and others,
helping everyone, every child, every adult,
to find out who he or she is, and what their skills are,
is not only desirable and possible,
but is also the way out of the curse.
It is the bulwark
against primitive authoritarianism and destructive and murderous tyranny.
Today, sadly, in almost every school in the world,
the essential is being neglected:
What we are.
To be or not to be,
isn’t that the greatest question?
We are told over and over again
that the common people are incapable of governing.
Following millennia of monarchies, empires and tyrannies,
the awakening to democracy is slow and difficult,
so much so that more than two centuries after the democratic revival in the West,
we still think that the common people are uncultured, incapable of intelligence
and therefore illegitimate to sit in any form of governance.
Would common people be less able to govern
than ruling castes
devoured by greed, greed for power, domination and self-glorification?
For the very reason that they set themselves apart from the common people
through contemptuous language and violent decisions,
do the rich and powerful global civilization leaders not demonstrate
that they don’t, and won’t, want to be part of the people?
Do they not demonstrate that they are, by this very fact,
illegitimate to rule, let alone rule the world?
At the legislative, executive, judicial,
political, social, psychological, emotional and historical levels,
at all levels actually,
leading by contempt is fraught with extremely harmful and terrible consequences.
How can we govern human beings whom we despise?
What can the governed expect from rulers who despise them?
For a majority of them, we are the rabble,
which is, to say the least, very close to a thinly veiled insult.
Yet the term populist is far from being negative,
quite the opposite of what they tell us again and again.
When I work for the people,
I work for democracy, for the nation, for freedom and common welfare.
That’s wonderful!
If that is the definition of a populist, then populism is a mission.
Would they, our dear leaders, force us to associate populism with extremism?
There is nothing more reasonable and brilliant than wanting harmony,
however extreme it may seem to them.
We have said it enough.
Who are the extremists?
The most unequal society of all time is ours.
The world capitalist civilization,
which is destroying all societies, all cultures,
all faiths, all species, all ecosystems, without exception,
is ours.
Here and now, everywhere on the planet,
what is extreme is the greed and the unbridled lust for power
of those who dominate the world today,
in the North and in the South, in the West and in the East,
everywhere on our sphere the Earth.
The greatest injustices are brewing.
And the curse of history is speeding up…
Making a statement of contempt for the people
is stating that one does not belong to the people,
it is asserting a form of non-citizenship.
Not being part of the people, neither in soul, spirit nor will,
they cannot in any way govern in its name.
The theory that only the leaders
of the major economic, industrial and financial groups
and their allied political parties
are capable of governing
is tantamount to surrendering
sovereignty, democracy and freedom altogether,
abandoning democracy to tyranny for life
to an oligarchy that despises the ‘rabble’.
Not being part of the people,
neither in soul, spirit nor will,
they cannot rule in its name,
not yours, not mine, not ours.
That is impossible.
Or we’re not in a democracy.
Or our nation isn’t free.
That is why we must give a voice back to humanity, to citizens, to human beings
as soon as possible.
We are calling for the sovereignty of peoples over themselves.
We are calling for the sovereignty of the world’s people over itself,
of humanity’s sovereignty over itself.
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Addiction to power
Since careerism in politics is addictive,
it inevitably engenders a necessarily corruptive logic.
By definition,
dependence on power breeds systemic authoritarianism
and thousands of petty tyrants.
Because it produces careerist politicians
whose economic and financial stability
depends on re-election to office, to a term of office,
then a democracy that is only elective
produces politicians’ dependence on this system.
This is all the more true in an ultra-capitalist system
where, in the name of economic ideology,
competition of all against all
produces an ever-increasing precariousness
which therefore makes rampant corruption all the likelier
until it becomes the norm.
If the system breeds dependency,
then it breeds the corruptibility of so-called representatives of the people
who, caught in the trap of having chosen politics as a career,
are forced to seek re-election in order to survive
and who therefore prefer the status quo to anything else,
who would rather do nothing
than save us from the dangerous road we have all taken together.
The dominant parties that supposedly oppose each other
in reality agree on the status quo:
Do nothing.
Such is their creed.
How can I risk changing a system that ensures my survival?
Even if such change would be beneficial to the whole society,
therefore to everyone,
to you, to me, to us and to them?
Prisoners of the system,
are they still able, have they ever been able, to realize it?
How can I change, how can I improve a system
when my greatest fear, however illusory it may be,
is that change neither helps my affairs nor benefits me?
How can I make this civilization better
when, with so little will,
I cannot, I can no longer even conceive of what by definition doesn’t exist,
this future, this possibility that I don’t want to know,
least of all come into existence,
not even if it could turn out to be good for myself,
good for the people I love, good for everyone,
simply because no matter how precarious and unstable it is,
this world will ensure my survival for a while at least,
even if it’s to the expense of Others?
This is true, unfortunately, all over the world.
Addiction to power, the urge to dominate is a disease.
A disease that affects us all.
Indeed,
power is within each one of us.
This power to do good or evil,
to serve peace, joy, justice, benevolence, intelligence and harmony,
or to serve injustice, suffering, conflict, chaos, ignorance and resentment,
we all have it and exercise it a minimum on our immediate reality.
Is the possibility of spreading joy, peace and light,
reason, benevolent and humane wisdom, intelligence and excellence
still an option today?
At a personal and intimate level
but also and at the same time at a systemic level,
is the power to spread the curse of violence
and the will to dominate, unhappiness and suffering,
the power to sack everything
and shed fire and blood all over the Earth and divine Creation
still an option today?
The question is in each one of us, every day,
every time we are confronted with the choice of spreading darkness or light.
This choice has all the more positive or negative consequences
as the person who makes it has more power.
Humans similar to all humans,
without even mentioning lobbying or corruption,
those in power are necessarily influenced by their beliefs,
their reasoning, their convictions, their state of mind,
their emotions, their neuroses, their limitations
which are necessarily reflected in the laws they enact.
From top to bottom, necessarily, these laws concern us all.
Our lives are affected by these laws, of course:
because they govern society, they govern us all.
It is hard to imagine how bad power and bad rules affect us,
to the very depths of our beings, of our hearts, of our minds.
Across the planet, everywhere in the world,
the will to power is a curse.
We must know this.
We have to understand it.
We all have this power, on our humble scale,
this power to choose freedom, joy, understanding and satisfaction
or tyranny, malevolence, suffering and the curse.
That’s one thing.
On a systemic scale,
wrong decisions, wrong laws
imposed on us by tyrants, banks, governments, the powers of money,
are having far-reaching, gigantic, apocalyptic repercussions.
That’s another one.
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Mainstream parties.
Problems are getting worse and worse,
but we’d rather do nothing.
We take small measures, point out details and scapegoats.
Symptoms are presented as causes.
Details take on gigantic proportions
and actual causes are drowned out
in the cacophony of communication experts
paid to muddy the waters.
Without even mentioning empty promises, words and concepts,
ideals are distorted, peoples and nations are betrayed.
Everything is turned upside down,
and no one can see anything anymore, everyone loses their bearings,
and chaos sets in in people’s hearts and minds
and thus in reality, a vicious, perverse and systemic circle is set in motion.
Do you realize how serious this is?
We are all concerned,
right down to our innermost selves.
Born in the twentieth century,
created by the system, and by a particular history,
today totally outdated and unable to respond to the challenges
that we are currently facing,
the two dominant parties, right and left, or in between,
based on ideologies from another time,
were created by and for the system.
No institutional party wants to change a system
that created and still sustains it.
Because in order to exist,
they must be attached to a party
which ensures their economic and social survival,
the status quo puts everyone in the major institutional parties in agreement.
Born out of the system,
not only does the big party system perpetuate
but also aggravates this dangerous and decadent system.
Caught in their own trap,
they imprison us all in it.
Because they have the power,
because they make laws,
because money is the law,
right, left wing, radical, moderate,
liberal, authoritarian, progressive, conservative,
or a bit of all of these at once,
all major parties are therefore absolutely incapable of saving us
from the cataclysms which they themselves contribute to.
Unable to carry out a fundamental systemic reform
which alone can save us from the greatest disasters of all time
because this system has created and nurtured them,
unable they are, unable they will forever be.
Under the current circumstances,
because they live off the system as it is,
there is no hope to be expected from major institutional parties,
or from those born from their ashes.
Careerism in politics is a source of corruption
that is all the more serious and illegal since we live in a globalized system
where all the money in the world is owned by private banks
whose sole interest is profit maximization,
whatever the consequences.
Corruption has permeated everywhere,
in all spheres of power in general,
throughout our globalized society.
We can no longer remain submitted
to the blind and unconscious selfishness of the masters of the system
who are jeopardizing any possible future
for humanity, human beings, our own children, and ourselves
because they are afraid
of an essential, indispensable, saving and life-saving evolution.
The great question of the 21st century is life or death.
To be or not to be.
The combined reforms of the monetary system
and the system of democratic representation
is life.
Failure to implement harmony
full of miraculous promises of opportunities
is chaos, death, extinction, apocalypse.
Unfortunately,
only one-off elections decide who governs.
Elections prior to which
parties become campaigning machines
to win elections
with the help of experts in mass manipulation communication,
all the more harmful, perverse and disastrous
as the corruption of parties by lobbies and the forces of money is immense.
Elections between which the people have no voice or power
over the laws that are decided, drafted, voted and enacted.
In all the democracies under threat,
the obvious question then is this:
How to revive Democracy?
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The People’s Sovereignty
If the power to make the right choice
is the definition of freedom, happiness and prosperity,
then to be free is to have the power to make the right choice.
How can a governance system make the right choices
when its interest has become dissociated from the public interest?
How can governance make the right choices
when it has sold itself to the highest bidder?
How can governance make the right choices when it is corrupt?
We repeat, whatever the reasons,
once the interests of governance
have become dissociated from the general interest,
this governance is no longer legitimate
to represent the general will and therefore the people.
Conversely,
any governance whose interests are aligned with the general interest
is legitimate to represent the general will and to rule.
For a being to be free,
what could be more legitimate than him or herself
to express his or her own will?
In the same way, for a people to be free,
what is more legitimate to express its own will than itself?
The sovereignty of the nation is the sovereignty of the people.
Only a sovereign people can be free.
Only a sovereign humanity can be free.
Democratic and popular sovereignty
is thus the one and only inescapable and unconditional solution
to all our present and future problems.
Of course,
it would be illusory, dangerous and absolutely ineffective
for several million people to govern all together
without any system of governance, without any hierarchical system
not only endowed with popular legitimacy
but also and consequently worthy of allegiance.
The condition for the resurrection of authentic Democracy
lies in the following question:
How to incorporate elements of the people
into the nation’s decision-making bodies
so that the general will is revealed and governs
without falling into anarchy?
In other words,
revealing the general will in the fairest and finest possible way
for it to be at the helm of the nation and govern
would give cohesion and strength to a national governance
which by nature and by definition emanates from the popular will
and which, for exactly this same reason,
would inspire the greatest respect and deference to all.
There are two means to this end:
– Random selection.
– A new method of conducting elections
more indicative of the voters’ will:
The majority judgment.
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Resurrecting Democracy
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Inspiration from Athenian Democracy.
“Suffrage by lot is natural to democracy;
and that by choice [ elections ] is to aristocracy.”
*The Spirit of Laws,
Montesquieu,
Book II, Chapter II,
Of the republican government,
and the laws relative to democracy
“It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot,
and as oligarchic when they are filled by election.”*
*Aristotle,
Politics IV. 9, 1294b
“André Tolmère* provides us with details on Athenian democracy:
“The Greeks invented democracy
because, having experimented with all possible political regimes,
they placed their trust more in the people as a whole
than in privileged minorities of aristocrats, plutocrats and tyrants.
That is why the inescapable foundation of Greek democracy
is the establishment of the principle of the absolute equality
of citizens among themselves politically.
The Greek genius, the pragmatic Greek genius,
is to have invented the method which resolutely respects
the principle of equality, fits in perfectly with it
to form a harmonious and fruitful couple.
This method is not the election,
nor the universal suffrage presented today as binding principles
of modern democracies. […]
This method is the drawing of lots.
It is the kleros of the Greeks of Athens” (MVD, p. 64).
“Only the drawing of lots meets the primary requirement of democracy:
absolute political equality among citizens.
One citizen is worth another.
One equals one and not one citizen equals one vote! “(MVD, p. 72).
“If democracy is government of the people by the people,
the people are made up of citizens.
What distinguishes one citizen from another? Nothing!
For the very notion of citizen implies that one citizen is equal to another
in terms of political rights,
and the quality of citizen
is to be a participating political individual of the people.
The people define themselves as the holders of sovereignty.
To be a citizen is to hold a piece of that sovereignty.
Each citizen being identical, each holds the same piece of sovereignty” (MVD, p. 77). »**
*Manifeste pour la vraie
démocratie
André Tolmère
http://ebookbrowse.com/manifeste-pour-la-vraie-democratie-pdf-d108395532
**Plaidoyer pour la Démocratie,
Etienne Chouard,
http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/PLAIDOYER_POUR_LA_DEMOCRATIE.pdf
Etienne Chouard’s and André Tolmère’s ideas
are clear, powerful and convincing.
We must draw strong inspiration from them.
You have to know them.
It is a great delight to hear Mr Chouard,
a real democrat and humanist, a real defender of freedom and sovereignty
such as humanity has not known any for a long time.
His proposal for a constitution* is enlightening and edifying.
* http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/Bonne_Constitution_Guerison_Democratie.htm
http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/PLAIDOYER_POUR_LA_DEMOCRATIE.pdf
Let’s go back to Athens for a short while:
“In its democratic period, Athens uses the drawing of lots
to entrust most tasks to private citizens,
especially those not performed by the People’s Assembly*.
In the fourth century, the latter lost the vote on laws to the judges
drawn by lot in the People’s Court.
Magistrates are responsible for preparing and implementing the laws
passed by the various institutions.
Out of eleven hundred persons to be appointed each year
(five hundred members of the Council and six hundred other magistrates),
one thousand are drawn by lot, the remainder being elected by suffrage.
Moreover, a citizen may not exercise the same magistracy twice.
In order to be drawn by lot, a citizen must be a candidate,
be over 30 years of age and not be deprived of civil rights.”
*Also called “The ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία)
[which]was the assembly of the citizens in the democratic city-states of ancient Greece.
The ekklesia of ancient Athens is particularly well-known.
It was the popular assembly,
open to all male citizens as soon as they qualified for citizenship.
In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, except thetes.
The assembly was responsible for declaring war, military strategy and electing the strategoi and other officials.
It was responsible for nominating and electing magistrates (árchontes),
thus indirectly electing the members of the Areopagus.
It had the final say on legislation and the right to call magistrates to account after their year of office.
A typical meeting of the Assembly probably contained around 6000 people,
out of a total citizen population of 30,000–60,000.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesia_(ancient_Greece)
“Mode of operation
[…]
Before taking office, the citizen designated by fate
was subject to dokimasia, a test of morality
(good conduct towards his parents)
and actual fulfilment of tax and military obligations.
It is possible for a person known for his oligarchic sympathies
to be rejected at the end of the test.
The purpose of this formality was not to assess the competence
of the designated citizen.
On the other hand, once in office, magistrates
were under constant supervision by the People’s Assembly and the courts,
in particular to ensure their competence,
and were accountable for their actions when they were discharged.
At the Main Assemblies,
the issue of magistrates was systematically on the agenda
and any citizen could request one of them to be censured.
If the censure was adopted,
the accused magistrate was suspended from office until acquittal
and the case was referred to the courts.
Thus, only those who deemed themselves worthy
were included in the lists of names drawn by lot by means of the Klérotèrion,
since they knew that their work would be constantly monitored
and that any misconduct would be punishable.»*
* https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirage_au_sort_en_politique#Ath%C3%A8nes
Here is a system whose history teaches us
that the members of the people designated by random selection
could participate in the writing of laws and the management of the City-State
without doing anything crazy.
You can also read in the French version of the Wikipedia article
to see how the philosophers of the Enlightenment,
at the origin of the democratic revival in the West and in the world,
Montesquieu and Rousseau in particular,
judged that the system of random selection
was of the very nature of democracy.
* https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirage_au_sort_en_politique#Tirage_au_sort_et_d%C3%A9mocratie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#Ancient_Athens
Of course,
the structure and size of Athenian society and modern societies
are in many ways different,
especially in terms of population size and political and economic organisations, parties and lobbies.
That is why a fair random selection system today
could not include only those who would volunteer,
because then parties and lobbies would undoubtedly volunteer en masse
to stifle the popular will and keep power.
Moreover,
in this age of information and communication,
all those who would be known for their ideas in favour of change
and therefore contrary to those of the elites
could be pressured and threatened from ever volunteering.
Thus,
in addition to volunteers,
who, we are convinced,
would mostly be made up of members of traditional political parties and lobbies,
every citizen without exception should participate in the drawing of lots
under certain conditions, to which we shall return.
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Clerocracy
This new form of authentic and genuinely civic democracy
has many names, including those of stochocracy or clerocracy*.
We will choose the latter simply because it evokes clarity in power.
*From the Greek ‘Kleros’, drawing lots, random selection,
and ‘Kratie’, power.
The creation of a new political system
in which a share of the population would participate by random designation
is the best way we know of and have experienced*
to counterbalance parties, their politicians and experts,
and thus restore the major systemic balances in governance.
* In Athens, Switzerland, India, Italy, Bolivia, in various state bodies in many countries.
Besides, a number of proposals to introduce significant random selection
in legislative bodies are being put forward in many countries of the world
– Canada, United Kingdom, France, United States, Denmark etc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#Modern_examples
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirage_au_sort_en_politique
In the United States, as in France at the assizes, to pronounce justice,
jurors drawn at random from the population are called upon.
Somewhere still in the culture of these two countries,
justice and the people are one.
Justice and the general interest are one.
The people, justice and the general interest are one.
Random selection is the best option we have to revive democracy.
Not only are we knowledgeable about it,
we have also experienced it several times in history.
Random selection is the only known solution
to free us from tyranny and save humanity.
Only the system of random selection
can free us from the inherently corruptible nature of the elected officials
who want one and only one thing:
to remain in office for as long as possible.
At this stage of knowledge and experience,
the system of random selection
undeniably bears the potential, the power and the hope
of freeing us from the clutches of lobbies, multinationals,
big banks and finance, the mega-rich, the powerful
who do not mind dividing and pitting us against each other
to the point of starting wars
just to make us forget that they are the cause of all our problems.
The two-stage appointment of the people’s representatives
by random selection and then by elections
can alone give back to the people what is rightfully theirs
by natural and inalienable right:
Sovereignty.
Freedom.
The pillars of renewal are simple and solid.
As they are born from justice,
they are permeated with justice.
Justice and freedom is their purpose and raison d’être.
Life is both their tool and their goal.
At the political level,
the random selection system is our only chance
to access to a genuinely democratic, popular and humane representation
and finally put an end to tyranny and all these childish, pathetic tyrants
that lead us to horror and nameless nightmares
once and for all.
The random selection system is our only chance
to restore the general will to its full significance and power.
Not to seize this chance would be tantamount to refusing the hand
that is extended to us
and drown for fear that there might be a teeny-tiny chance
for it to be malevolent.
The beauty of the random selection system is that many things can be done,
many combinations, variations, all equally positive, are possible,
as we shall see later.
It is a path that we must undertake,
a path in space and time.
The system of appointing people’s representatives through random selection
is the much-needed anti-corruption antidote.
And God knows we need it.
In addition to the great monetary reform,
at the political level,
three things, three elements guarantee the infallibility
of the antidote to corruption:
The random and elective mix
in the appointment of the Nation’s representatives,
multiple checks and balances,
and free media.
Balance rhymes with deliverance.
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The political spring:
An open door to a new range of possibilities.
Among those who call for real democratic change
in political representative bodies,
the question sometimes arises
as to whether or not mix several things together.
Without wishing to set out what has already been proposed,
there are several possible transitional combinations:
1. A 100% random system:
All the representatives of the people are directly appointed by fate.
2. All the representatives of the people are selected by lot
and all or some of them are elected after a relatively short campaign
according to the terms of the majority judgment.
3. Some representatives are appointed by lot
(either directly or after a campaign and election)
and others are directly elected.
4. All the representatives of the people are chosen by lot,
some of them from certain sections of the population
according to the assemblies and/or the missions assigned to them
(then all or some are elected after a relatively short campaign
supervised and financed by the nation).
5. A mix between 3 and 4.
For the sake of realism,
our preference goes for a mix between the random and elective systems.
All the non-exhaustive possibilities described above and below
would in any case be an unprecedented improvement of our political system.
Several things are possible.
That is the beauty of the system.
It can evolve and therefore adapt.
It is not frozen like their system
which is absolutely incapable of evolving to adapt,
frozen like death, incapable of evolving to survive.
The constant is as follows:
As soon as you bring citizens into common political decision-making,
you’re on the ground of democracy, you’re moving in the right direction.
Citizen democracy, which is clerocratic, genuinely democratic,
offers us a space of freedom,
within which multiple readjustments could be made
without creating catastrophic damage.
Quite the contrary,
it would save us from many present and future crises.
The inability for our corrupted-to-the-core capitalist model to adjust
is chronic like a cancer, a disease.
This new form of collective governance
is the only way to resurrect democracy,
the only way to resurrect collective wisdom, intelligence, competence,
and the adaptability of the species.
The only way to rekindle hope in the heart of humanity.
To make hope beat in the hearts, heads and chests of all beings on Earth.
Collective power is as democratic and legitimate, powerful and beneficial
as illegitimate, corrupt and tyrannical power is a curse.
When the consequences reinforce what caused them,
then the dynamic is born.
It lives and grows of its own accord
in an environment and conditions that are conducive to it,
which it creates and which in turn recreate it.
The loop is closed, indefinitely.
Achieving this natural dynamic
of any cause-and-effect relationships at systemic levels
means controlling your destiny.
Wisdom, justice and freedom,
consciousness, truth, harmony and bliss
are a positive dynamic.
What negative dynamics can last longer than this one?
*
Combination of random selection and elections
In order to guarantee the greatest justice, the greatest freedom,
the greatest possible sovereignty, the greatest possible democracy,
in order to ensure the greatest possible equality of opportunity,
a sufficiently large number of representatives
drawn directly from the people,
in the universal sense of the word,
must be determined by the system of random selection,
also known as sortition.
Since mentalities are probably not ready to accept such a revolution,
we need to design a system that marries the elective with the random
on at least two levels:
One, the number:
a proportional relationship
between traditionally elected officials and citizens;
And two, time:
at a later stage,
those chosen by fate or lot may also be elected.
We will come back to the first point.
As for the second,
it would seem wise to hold debates between these citizens
called to participate in the fate of the nation
so that the Nation can choose the best ones to represent them
in an election by universal suffrage
according to the principles of majority judgment,
in order to increase the probability
of finding the most enlightened, the most competent people,
and avoid those who are incompetent to govern.
Thus,
through random selection, or sortition,
and through election in a confrontation of ideas and arguments
in a nation-funded campaign,
a two-step system of appointing representatives
would save two birds with one stone:
Random selection
would cure us of the chronic corruption of elected officials,
and elections would reassure the people by offering protection
against the appointment of incompetent people.
The package that would emerge from this combination
appears to be the most likely to implement recipes
which not only could reconcile everything
that has ever been best conceived in human history
but which could also be agreed upon by everyone
with the least possible prejudice and close-mindedness.
A Nation, a truly free and democratic world
could finally see the light of day.
The main idea is simple:
Introduce citizens into the organs of power,
especially and above all the legislative powers
through a mix of random selection for the representatives of the people
and elections:
a sort of double mix of election and random selection,
one that could be described as vertical
and the other one horizontal.
At a given time, in space, across the land:
one part of the representatives is directly elected, as is the case now,
and the other randomly selected.*
* An alternative to this method of appointing representatives of the people through elections
would be for members of political parties themselves to be randomly chosen.
We will come back to that.
2. Over time:
persons nominated by chance must compete in a direct universal election
according to the principles of the majority judgment.
*
Election of randomly selected citizens
Deadlines (6 months, 9 months, one year, more?) will be thought of
to give people who wish to exercise their right as active citizens of society
time to study and investigate subjects
that might come under their responsibility.
A special status could be created
so that they could exercise this right to study, investigate, ask questions
related to the mission they could be assigned.
Then a short campaign lasting about two weeks (for example),
would be organized for elections,
the second stage of the process
taking place after the random selection process.
The media,
in any case those who obey strict and firm rules of impartiality,
will be asked to offer them speaking time
and thus participate in the great democratic effort,
and the people of the concerned constituency
will choose the one(s) they consider the most relevant, fair, and competent.
Entirely funded by the nation,
no private for-profit sponsor would be invited
to suffer the temptation to claim exclusive privileges,
which is the very definition of corruption.
In this spirit of transparency,
it goes without saying that a public channel, at least,
especially dedicated to political life,
itself subject to any journalistic and/or citizen investigation,
should be created.
If governing is the art of deciding on the freedom or servitude
of those whom one represents, or whom one is supposed to represent,
if politics is therefore deciding on tyranny or democracy,
then corruption is the enemy of freedom and democracy,
then corruption is antithetical to the good of all.
Corruption is the cancer of failing political regimes.
Corruption is therefore incompatible with a free and sovereign nation.
As a natural consequence,
any attempt at intimidation, blackmail, corruption of any kind
will be duly and justly prohibited and prosecuted.
Any selected person who would not wish to exercise their right
to participate in collective decision-making
shall be entitled to decline.
It is their most legitimate right to freedom.
In this way,
holding elections would ensure
that we could make an informed choice of the illustrious unknowns
we would appoint to represent us.
I can already hear protesting voices complaining
that unknown citizens should not be given
any parliamentary, legislative or even executive missions…
But do we really know who we elect when we elect career politicians?
Wouldn’t it be better to have supposedly non-professional newcomers
who will have been trained for their mission,
who will have been elected by universal suffrage
according to the principles of majority judgment,
of whom we will have the greatest possible guarantee
that they are not corrupt
than having the same so-called professionals
who are totally sold to private interests
and completely detached from the interests and concerns of the people?
Rather than being monopolized by so-called pros of politicking
who no longer even believe
in the best possible conditions for freedom and democracy,
for human beings, for the nation, for the world and the future of the world,
is it not better to entrust the mission of representing the people
and deciding on its behalf
to illustrious strangers who,
their lives being elsewhere than in politics,
will most probably have no ambition for themselves
and no conflicts of interest with the forces of money?
Above all,
the two-step random-elective process will protect the nation,
protect us from the corrupt, the unstable, the incompetent,
the unbalanced, the wicked and the tyrants.
Moreover,
we are not talking here about replacing one system with another,
at least not in the first stage,
but about sharing
between politicians by trade and citizens by citizenship,
between elective democracy and the citizens’ democracy,
the Clerocracy,
from the Greek ‘Kleros’, drawing lots, random selection,
and ‘Kratie’, power.
Since,
by nature and by definition,
politics concerns us all,
politics is everyone’s business.
A Clerocratic Democracy is therefore in everybody’s best interest.
A private enterprise is in nothing and no one
but the company’s investors’ interests.
Its main concern is the company’s financial health, nothing else.
It is above all about profitability.
At best and only at best,
the people who work for them are secondary.
The world, time, the planet, have been privatized.
The world has become a private enterprise.
The future and humanity have been privatized.
The fact that the general interest is sacrificed
to the private interests of a minority is worse than theft,
it is a crime against humanity.
Worse, it is a humanicide.
Out of greed,
sacrificing the general interest to the private interests of a minority
is the very definition of corruption.
The best antidote to corruption
is for those in power not to be enslaved by power,
for those in power to serve the nation
rather than using, abusing and enslaving it.
Introducing real people from real life and civil society
who do not make a career out of exercising power
is introducing justice and democracy into the system.
Like antibodies in our bodies,
introducing people like you and us into the parliamentary system
is high end anti-corruption.
Neither should we forget that anyone who is entrusted
with such an important and sacred mission
will obviously and naturally be placed under the spotlight
and the watchful eye of the nation and the people.
Moreover,
it will constantly be possible to dismiss anyone
who fails in their duties and responsibilities
as a representative of the nation.
Finally, as in Athens,
everyone will have to answer for his or her actions
and, if necessary, pay the price.
*
The keystone of the democratic edifice:
A new way to vote:
The Majority Judgment*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_judgment
https://mieuxvoter.fr/index.php/decouvrir/?lang=en
Two CNRS* researchers, Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki,
have revealed a new way of making collective decisions,
and thus not just of electing our representatives,
but also of conducting a referendum,
renamed Preferendum.
*Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
French National Centre for Scientific Research
The principle is simple
and applies to all types of elections:
It is no longer just a question of giving a vote to a single candidate,
or saying yes or no
without any nuances whatsoever,
but of giving one’s opinion
according to degrees of support to each option or candidate.
There are seven of them:
Excellent ;
Very good ;
Good ;
Passable ;
Inadequate ;
Mediocre;
Bad.
It is no longer a binary choice that is offered.
But a universal choice
based on the quality of each of the candidates or each of the solutions.
It is a revolution in the way elections are conducted.
We can clearly see to what extent the system of binary choice,
of a simple yes or no,
is source of great misunderstandings, great errors and great divisions.
The European Treaty of Maastricht in 2005 and the Brexit in 2016
are proof of that.
Whether it is referendums or elections,
our voting system is a source of serious errors
and deep divisions among the population
sometimes to the point of tearing families apart.
Today,
our vote consists of being able to vote only for one candidate
without being able to evaluate or decide on the other candidates.
However,
to give power by default to people
who are often indifferent to the universal interest
is a disastrous mistake.
On the contrary,
the principle of “Majority Judgment” is to carry out the common will
by giving an opinion on every candidate.
Citizens evaluate each candidate according to seven criteria,
the same as for preferendums:
Excellent ;
Very good ;
Good ;
Passable ;
Inadequate ;
Mediocre;
Bad.
The candidate or option with the most positive opinions
will be selected.
We urge you to consult the sites referenced at the beginning of this text
for more concrete and practical illustrations.
Such a revolutionary method of making collective choices
and electing our representatives
would certainly lessen all our divisions, our oppositions
which in extreme cases can lead a people to civil war.
For example,
we would no longer have to choose
by opposing, clashing and polarizing between ecology and economy.
The majority judgment method
would help us find a median, a middle way
representative of the true general will.
We can see the extent to which the single-choice system
is driven by a system
that does not want to hear the popular will, the universal will.
Conversely,
an elective system based on the principles of the majority judgment
would encourage the return to the ballot box of the population
whose opinion would at long last be heard.
Moreover,
it would revive political life and democracy.
Finally,
the blank vote would de facto become useless,
since even the most dissatisfied
would have the opportunity to give their opinion
and, if they so wished, choose the most unfavourable option,
‘very bad’,
for each of the candidates or each of the options.
The ‘Mieux Voter’ collective’s proposal
is simple, luminous and marvelous.
It makes the whole system, the whole edifice, solid.
It is possible.
To build another solid political architecture is possible.
Every time we refer here to elections,
it is in this sense, in the sense of the Majority Judgement,
that we mean it.
*
To politicians.
To citizens.
May the old barons of politics rest assured
that in a system where sovereignty and therefore freedom,
and therefore freedom of conscience and expression are guaranteed,
everyone is free to live and to blossom.
*
Removability of the people’ representatives
As was the case in Athens,
and as should be the case at all times,
no matter how they are appointed,
any representative of the people is necessarily removable
by the people at any time.
First,
a petition for removal could be launched.
If it were signed by a sufficient number of citizens,
it would be brought to light.
If there were enough grounds for suspicion
that the person in question had violated the law or the constitution,
then legal proceedings by the criminal court or the constitutional court would quickly be set in motion,
which would have to decide on the respondant’s guilt or non-guilt
and thus whether or not to dismiss him or her from office
or even sentence him or her to imprisonment.
Of course,
the principle of the presumption of innocence as long as not proven guilty must never cease to apply,
because otherwise any person who would be the victim of malicious rumours
would be judged guilty as long as not proven innocent.
If indeed,
it is still possible to prove something that actually happened,
how do you prove something that never happened?
A Jupiterian came to Earth.
How can you prove the opposite?
How can you prove to me that you’re not a child rapist or a murderer
when thousands of people accuse you of these horrors?
Just as no rule of law can survive
such a dictatorship of arbitrariness and lies,
no dictatorship can survive
a wise, educated, alert, informed and vigilant people,
for no minority can survive
by feeding on the power and wealth granted to it by the people
when the people are given the means to make their voice heard
and assert their right:
that of the best interests of the nation as a whole.
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Constitutional Limits on Terms of office:
non-renewability of appointments.
The duration of terms
will be considered in relation to the probability over time
of a person ceasing to work for the common good
and beginning to favour private interests
to the detriment of the public good.
It is a well-known and proven fact
that the corruptibility of those in power
increases as time goes by.
Since corruption is the number one enemy of good democratic governance,
even before incompetence,
it is obviously a matter of taking into account
the reality of the erosion of power.
For indeed,
when you make a career out of politics,
your livelihood depends on politics.
Therefore,
corruption is made possible.
From then on,
one can choose to sell oneself to the highest bidder,
to sell the future of the people and the nation,
to sell the service one owes the nation,
to sell one’s duty to serve the people and the nation
to an ultra-rich minority
who would be willing to enslave the people and the nation
and destroy it if their interests depended on it.
When one embodies the people and the nation,
selling the interest of all to the highest bidder
amounts to committing a crime of high treason.
One of the ways to prevent politics
from becoming a career, a livelihood, an addiction,
is not to accumulate political offices.
Timewise,
Etienne Chouard considers two terms of office, two appointments at most.
Here is a short excerpt that clarifies, summarizes and supports our point:
« The argument that the decisions to be taken
are highly technical is fallacious.
It is convenient to complicate everything to remain the only master on board,
but it does not demonstrate that complexity is inevitable.
Terms of office should be renewable only a few times.
If two successive terms (one renewal) are accepted,
each candidate has ten years to change his or her life.
That’s enough, isn’t it?
It is essential to understand that even a good chosen one
must leave and make way, even if it is saddening
because the next one may not be as valiant.
We have to accept this because renewable power
is the gangrene of the political system. »*
* Les grands principes d’une bonne Constitution,
qui prouveraient la guérison de notre démocratie
III – Contrôle des pouvoirs
A – Le mode de désignation des représentants
doit permettre la mise en jeu de leur responsabilité (leur contrôle)
b) Mandat non renouvelable (ou peu)
http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/Bonne_Constitution_Guerison_Democratie.htm
These are ‘non-renewable tenures’ through time.
The non-accumulation of positions, salaries and emoluments
that pile up and add up at the same time is also grossly unfair.
Indeed,
a political tenure in office requires all the energy and attention
of the person vested with the will of the people, men, women and children,
and their future, now and in the longer run.
If combining two or more offices at the same time
is certainly not doing any of them well,
then the combination of offices
is proof and demonstration of the negligence of those
for whom this practice is common,
negligence, not to say contempt, for justice and democracy,
for everyone’s life,
for what’s most serious and consequential.
The mission one is entrusted by the nation
is the sacred duty of justice and democratic representation.
More than irresponsible,
to hold multiple offices is amoral.
In spite of all this,
for the simple and healthy reason that good leaders are in short supply,
it would be a good idea to re-elect a good leader for a third term.
However,
it seems that two safeguards are necessary
to guarantee the integrity of democracy, justice and freedom:
First condition:
A preferendum by universal suffrage*
which this citizen who has already represented the nation twice
should be subject to.
*See section on Majority Judgment
Second condition:
One term of office should pass
before the person who wishes to represent the nation for a third time
declares himself or herself a candidate again.
This transition indeed offers the guarantee
that no election or appointment will take place
under the governance of this same citizen representative
who wishes to exercise a third time the functions of representative
of the people and the nation.
Thus,
the risk that the system for appointing the nation’s representatives
would be biased or even rigged by the power in place
would be very unlikely, if not infinitesimal.
Besides,
the nation would have time
to see how the nation’s affairs are managed
without the citizen in question,
which would give it time to do some serious thinking
and weigh the pros and cons of letting someone in power for too long.
We shall return at greater length to the notions of leadership and presidency.
Indeed,
since a truly democratic regime is intended to start with the people
and work its way up to the highest levels of governance,
the question now is the composition of parliament
and the appointment of its members.
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Parliament
« If, when the people,
being furnished with adequate information, held its deliberations,
the citizens had no communication** one with another,
the grand total of the small differences would always give the general will,
and the decision would always be good.»*
* The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right
Book II. Chapter III. Whether the General Will Is Fallible
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
** What J.J. Rousseau means by “communication”
is political association, lobbying, conspiracy and corruption,
which distort both individual and general opinion.
*
The legislator
Making laws.
There is nothing more important, nothing more serious.
Potentially,
there is nothing more beneficial and fertile,
or nothing more monstrous and devastating.
Who, what kind of human being, is legitimate
to decide on laws,
to defend justice and the rights of children, women and men?
Justice is not the business of a minority, a single person or an oligarchy.
All those who are affected
by the laws and the rights of an entity, a community,
have the legitimate right to decide on the law.
*
Justice and tyranny are incompatible.
If justice and tyranny are incompatible,
then justice and freedom are inseparable,
irrefutably, undeniably one and the same.
*
The composition of a citizens’ assembly
Of course,
justice, humanism, wisdom and harmony
are to be enshrined in the constitution of any national or world governance
in indelible ink, carved for eternity.
But that is not all.
Citizens,
in addition to a good constitution,
are the only bulwark against tyranny, corruption and injustice.
The general interest, the universal good,
is contrary to chronic inequality.
Citizens must have access to power
in order to always moderate those who would seize power
for their own benefit and privileges and those of their clique.
*
The proportion in the Legislative Assemblies
of the representatives of the people
according to their status.
For the greatest possible effectiveness,
it seems that at least three dimensions of the nation
must be represented in governance bodies:
volunteers, including politicians,
experts
and citizens.
Among those in favour of representation by random selection,
many believe that politicians should disappear, as well as elections.
They may not be wrong.
However,
for both realistic and prudential reasons,
it seems enlightened to retain, at least temporarily, a little of the old system,
so that the fragile balances that make up today’s already endangered world do not shatter.
For safety net reasons,
which we shall discuss again later,
it seems that two representative houses are relevant if not optimal:
1. An administrative house:
– Members of the administration,
the professionals of the State;
– Citizens, randomly selected, without any discrimination whatsoever;
– Volunteers,
all those who wish to run directly,
politicians or not, from the private sector or not.
2. A house of ‘experts’:
– Experts: scientific experts, human experts,
– Citizens
– Volunteers
Laws can be proposed and will be voted on by both assemblies.
In addition to these two houses of representatives,
we will set up
3. A sovereign and independent monetary committee
made up of eight members,
including two citizens to guarantee the incorruptibility of the institution.
On this subject,
we refer you to the economic section and more particularly to the part
on Governance of the Sovereign Monetary Committee,
which explains the details.
Thus,
the backbone of the system will be solid.
In the event of divisions, suspicions of corruption, or essential issues
such as declaring war,
citizen-initiated preferendums will be the people’s last bulwark
against any infringement of their sovereignty.
Once a certain number of citizens
who have signed a petition has been reached,
then that petition must be proposed to parliament.
In Europe, that number is ten million signatures.
It goes without saying
that everything to do with the Constitution
must be subject to a preferendum.
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A single-assembly Parliament
We could also imagine a single-assembly parliament.
A parliament with an assembly
that is truly representative of the world or the nation
would already be a giant leap forward.
At all levels though,
the two-assembly system seems the wisest.
*
A two-assembly Parliament.
Because a law can be passed on a misunderstanding,
because a majority can be won over
by an unfortunate combination of circumstances,
because one can never be too cautious,
because corruption could, despite the protection of random selection,
eventually succeed in undermining the regime,
it seems and will always seem wise and opportune
to have two assemblies that ratify laws one after the other,
the interlude giving way to a salutary debate.
Thus,
it seems wise and just that a second assembly should be set up,
whose members would be both elected
and formed in the same way as just described,
so that every law is subject to two debates, two votes
and two pools of representatives.
*
A three-tiered system of representation.
Distributed equally in each of the two parliamentary assemblies,
these three different entities of the nation we described earlier
would ensure balanced, free and legitimate governance.
Freedom and legitimacy are indivisible.
It is all about balance.
Where there is corruption and instability,
this governance with trinitarian components
representing all sections of society
will create balance and justice.
The binary opposes us,
leads us to stalemates and contradictions.
Left-right, progressive-conservatives, liberal-regulators, capitalist-communists,
these bipolarities no longer mean anything.
Moreover,
they rob words of their meaning, they usurp language,
which is terrible.
When a system’s propaganda misuses and corrupts its own language,
when men and women no longer have the right words to defend themselves
from the ever more oppressive and enslaving tyranny of the rule of money,
authoritarianism and all its bloody and inhuman offspring,
this is perhaps the closest thing to blasphemy or even worse
in the eyes of all that is sacred on this earth.
If there is a single bipolarity
worthy of consideration at the level of the species,
it is always the same:
Human or inhuman.
To be or not to be.
More than ever,
in the twenty-first century, at the beginning of the third millennium,
that is the question.
Hold a board on two pillars without tying them together,
then the slightest imbalance will cause the board to tip to one side.
And collapse.
Put 3 pillars in a triangle
and the stability of the board will increase.
If the board is also triangular,
then three pillars are enough to make it stable.
If, in order to make it stand on three pillars without tying them,
ideally you give the board a triangle shape,
then you will be able to push it to make it fall,
but certainly you will not be able to tip it over.
A sparrow can tip over a board
that is placed on two pillars that are too thin to support it.
A sparrow will not tip over a triangle on three planks
supported by a pillar at each of its corners.
That said, two pillars are better than one.
Indeed,
a plank supported by only one pillar is a swing
that always swings to one side.
Or you’d have to fix it.
Try as you might,
you can’t apply glue to human relationships.
And if the edifice is not solid,
then sooner or later the edifice collapses.
Look at human history.
The fall of empires and civilizations.
All wars, all catastrophes, all cataclysms.
We are in the third millennium,
it is time to open the tertiary era
in the political world, in human relations on Earth.
It takes three pillars to support a triangle,
it takes four to support a square.
But what is a square
if not two equilateral triangles* in contact along one of their sides?
*the three sides of which are of equal length.
A Parliament with two assemblies plus a monetary committee :
3 essential institutions, each made up of 3 segments of society
found a solid edifice.
Such a governance with a trinitarian structure
that would triple the three pillars on which each of them rests
would multiply the guarantees against any tilting of the board.
It would act both as a buffer and as an impetus,
a buffer against authoritarian,
warlike and repressive, disastrous and dramatic excesses;
and an impetus, a step forward in the right direction,
in the direction of justice, wisdom, freedom, democracy, security and harmony.
Because wisdom is always fertile,
when wisdom is our guide,
the dynamics of corruption and curse are thwarted by its opposite:
the dynamics of revelation and liberation.
Weigh, see, and evaluate the possibilities.
Reread if necessary.
Hear the prayer.
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Methods for appointing members of Parliament
*
Renewal of the Houses of Parliament:
A Reasonable Scenario
As we have said,
to ensure maximum integrity, seriousness and efficiency,
for all these representatives,
the random selection process will be followed by elections.
We could imagine a one-third rotation
of each of the chambers or committees every two years,
which would make six-year terms.
Every two years,
carefully prepared and organized elections would take place.
The procedures for drawing lots and volunteering
would be carried out and secured.
Elections would be held at least every two years.
Taking a country like France as an example,
we could imagine that there would be 303 members in each house*,
i.e. 101 for each segment,
and this in both houses, i.e. 606 in all**.
*We could also imagine the double
**The Monetary Committee is a committee, not a house,
and will therefore have only a limited number of members.
Every two years,
we could renew two segments of society, one per House,
or 202 representatives of the nation.
In France,
there are 101 departments if we include the overseas territories,
which corresponds roughly to the number of representatives per segment of the nation.
2 elected representatives for 101 ‘départements’ x 3 = 606,
with 202 representatives being elected at each election.
For each department,
that would make 2 people to be elected every two years.
Let’s assume 8 candidates for 1 elected person,
which would make a total of 8 candidates per elected person,
or 16 candidates in total,
16 candidates for 2 elected representatives every 2 years per department.
We could also imagine
that both Houses would be elected at the same time,
and that regional, departmental and municipal elections
would take place in the meantime.
For 101 départements,
that would make 606 people to be appointed
as representatives of the nation, all at once,
so six people to be elected per département.
Whatever might be decided,
before each election the random selection process will take place.
The democratic, clerocratic, random and elective process
will be almost constant.
If necessary,
money for this purpose must be created
by the new and sovereign monetary committee.
Since freedom is synonymous with life and sustainability,
since the universal is synonymous with justice, since wisdom is wealth,
financing humanism and democracy, freedom and sovereignty, wisdom and justice
is just and legitimate.
When money has become sovereign again,
there is nothing easier, fairer and more legitimate than creating money
to finance freedom, wisdom, justice, the universal, Harmony.
Once we have understood this, everything’s easy.
Because therein lies ultimate wealth.
*
Volunteers
If there were fewer than the required number,
then citizens would be randomly selected to make up the difference.
If, on the other hand,
the number of volunteers was greater than the required number of candidates,
then random selection would designate those who could run for election.
The parties would probably strongly encourage all their members to volunteer,
but as soon as the number of volunteers exceeds the number of available seats,
then random selection would decide who would be allowed to run.
And even if the majority of volunteers were from parties or lobbies,
there will always be more ordinary citizens, even party members,
than there are chiefs.
It is the law of probabilities that there will be more citizens
than members of any form of authority, power or oligarchy,
who by definition are in the minority.
Any citizen,
in full possession of his or her civil rights,
could volunteer and devote himself or herself to the nation
in as universal a way as possible.
Thus,
true to the spirit of our purpose,
which is to liberate and not to prohibit,
the direct elective system will not totally disappear.
This will have the added virtue of avoiding incomprehension,
and thus the indifference or even opposition of the world
to resuscitate Democracy.
And finally engage the great turning point
and set out on the road to reason, salvation, wisdom and liberation.
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Balance of power.
In order to avoid the conflicts of interest
that would arise from the fact that,
if such a democratic revolution were to be accomplished,
a large part of the representatives of the people
would be able to maintain links with the private world,
it would be appropriate for at least some of the representatives of the people
to be as independent as possible.
Corporatist or lobbying organizations
could very likely incite or even fund,
people financially and ideologically linked to their interests
to volunteer en masse in order to upset the balance of power.
Indeed,
let us imagine that members of the oil industry
find themselves with an office, whatever it may be.
Thus,
in order to counter corruption,
in addition to the ‘knowledgeable experts’ and volunteers,
the third group, composed of all citizens registered on the electoral rolls,
is not only legitimate to represent the population through random selection,
it is also absolutely indispensable.
Thus,
the citizens’ group, randomly selected from all those on the voters’ list
could at any time counterbalance too much volunteerism
from the corporate world.
Then the volunteers,
of which the members of the current establishment will undoubtedly be part,
the experts and the men and women of the people will be able,
thanks to a collective intelligence
reached through the multiplicity
of their ‘socio-educational and cognitive’ points of view,
to counterbalance the temptations of the former segment
to privilege the interests of the industry in which they have a job
to the detriment of the general interest, the environment, life
and human beings.
Moreover,
the Administrative House,
one third of whose members would be members of the senior administration,
would guarantee the professionalism and experience of an assembly
also composed of citizens who, certainly new to politics,
are not corrupted
by ultra-capitalist, ultra-predatory and ultra-greedy corporatist lobbyism.
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A real and contemporary experience
In order to shed light on the debate,
we would like to share with you the words of Mr Jo Spiegel,
Mayor of a French town, Kingersheim, since 1999,
whose municipality has become a renowned laboratory
of participatory democracy:
« Chapter IV
Enriching the democratic alphabet
[…]
Kingersheim’s great innovation in local democracy
is the participatory councillors. How does it work?
They are the fruit of a long maturing process
and bear the demanding, perhaps utopian, but necessary ambition
to take democracy a new qualitative leap forward.
They have the will to bring all the necessary democratic resources together
on the same level, for as long as it takes.
That is to say, at the same time, citizens, experts and elected representatives.
Indeed, if we want to reduce the gap
between the representatives and the represented,
between those who are supposed to know
and those who are supposed not to know,
between those who live in the city and those who manage it,
between those who have the expertise of use
and those who have the expertise of technique or thought,
then it is essential that their specific, particular, singular contributions
can be crossed, and that the different points of view can be fertilized.
The multi-disciplinary composition of participatory councils is essential,
and consubstantial to the emergence of dynamic compromises.
French democracy suffers precisely from functioning in isolation,
in this area as in others. In the democratic field, these silos are called
individualism, elitism, technocracy. Each has their own school of thought,
their own certainties, their own selfishness, their own knowledge.
Each participatory council is composed of a college of inhabitants,
a college of experts (associations, institutions, resource persons)
and a college of elected representatives. It is this composition
that allows the regulation, enrichment
and the very meaning of a real debate and a real co-production.
In ten years, forty participatory councils have met,
with seven hundred participants. They have enabled the city council
to make the best possible decisions, citizens to be recognised
as full-fledged players in the life of the city,
and experts, especially municipal staff, to be put to good use
by providing their input, if necessary.
How do they function?
They are created each time the municipality puts a project
on its agenda, included in the platform on the basis of which it was elected,
and/or each time an idea, a concern, a question comes from the citizens.
In this respect, petitions should be considered as good news.
Participatory councils are always formed after an initial meeting,
which often takes the form of a public meeting.
It is at this point that we call for candidates
to make up the residents’ college.
Those who participate are often retirees and people directly concerned
by the subject, whether they are in favour of it or against it.
In order to constitute a college more representative of the diversity
of the population, we divide it into three parts.
Approximately 40% of the seats are reserved for volunteers,
20% to those directly involved in the project, and 40% are drawn at random.
The composition of colleges is essential.
It affects both the question of its representativeness
and the ability of diversity to regulate the debate.
Another essential point concerns the duration of debates and deliberations.
Fostering collective intelligence means allowing the necessary time
for the subjects to be discussed in depth. Democracy must be slow.
It must give itself time to develop. It must also rediscover the meaning
and values of the people’s university.
Each session therefore begins with training,
so that all the participants have the same meaning of the words
that are used, which are sometimes very technical,
and the same level of understanding of the subjects,
which are sometimes complex.
For example, the participatory council dedicated
to the revision of the local urban plan (plan local d’urbanisme, PLU)
began its work with two training cycles.
The first, to understand the complexity of the subject
and to link the local to the global.
From the moment I pointed out that our city
is a specific point on the planet, the training sessions were oriented
towards a more general reflection on the perspective
of a more sustainable city. The Kyoto agreements,
the ‘Grenelle de l’Environnement’, the SRU law on social housing quotas,
the local housing plan, the territorial coherence scheme, etc. were explained.
The second cycle was devoted to the difficult issue of density:
how can the need for housing be reconciled
with the desire for the environment, if we do not want to continue
to sacrifice agricultural land and destroy areas of biodiversity? »*
*Et si on prenait – enfin ! – les électeurs au sérieux
Jo Spiegel
Temps Présent, 2017.
http://www.pacte-civique.org/EngagementS
“That is to say,
at the same time, citizens, experts and elected representatives.”
The democratic trinity is put into practice in reality by Mr Jo Spiegel.
What he describes both sheds light on the debate
from his first-hand experience
and is entirely within the spirit of this writing.
The hope that this man’s efforts in his town carry and give us is gigantic.
We can be heartened that he is setting such a good example in real life.
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Representatives of the nation:
Designation and composition.
Except for volunteers under the conditions we have discussed before,
selection must be done by random and then election.
These two stages are crucial
for the renewal of democracy, for liberation, for resurrection
at all levels of the Nation.
Starting from its base,
its architecture could be structured as follows:
*
Municipal level:
Three groups:
1. The universal, all citizens:
A drawing of lots among all citizens will take place
to form a first group
with a number set in proportion to its population,
followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
2. Volunteers:
Open to all who have not been designated in the other groups.
Men and women who have already exercised power
will most likely tend to run.
As mentioned above,
in the event that the number of volunteers declaring themselves
were too high,
volunteers declaring themselves would also be subject to the drawing of lots
in order to form a second group
with a number set in proportion to its population
to be followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
*If there were not enough of them, the first group would fill in.
However, it is a good bet that this will never happen.
3. The group of experts:
The process will be the same as for the other two groups:
Random selection from among all those considered as such
so as to form a group
with a number of representatives set in proportion to its population,
to be followed by elections f
or a number of representatives set in proportion to its population.
And even though the definition of expert would need to be refined,
we could consider that all persons
who are researchers and/or teachers from a certain level of education
to be experts.
In order to avoid conflicts of interest,
it would at first sight seem better
for such experts to work in public institutions
rather than for private interests.
This being said,
since states can also become autocratic,
balance always seems to be the best strategy.
In any case, and even though this is important,
the balance of power within the group of experts
is certainly not as important
as the balance of power within territorial governance itself,
which would, we would remind you, be divided into three groups:
1 the Citizen universal
2 the volunteers
3 the experts.
Indeed,
whatever the trends of this group of experts,
they will be counterbalanced, if need be and if reason requires it,
by the potential predominance of the other two groups.
Thus,
even if absolute and static equilibrium in this world is impossible,
it is most likely that, within such governance,
it is reason and wisdom that prevail,
as demonstrated by the wonderful example of Mr. Spiegel in Kingersheim.
In conclusion,
we could therefore say that one is an expert
if one does research in any sector,
whether public or private and/or has some professional experience.
Thus,
we could imagine a system of assignment as follows:
1. Random selection:
Among all the researcher-teachers in the public,
to form a first group in a number determined in proportion to its population.
2. Volunteers:
All persons wishing to volunteer,
from the public or private sector.
They will have to demonstrate their knowledge and expertise in their field.
Volunteers who declare themselves as such
will also be subject to a random draw
in order to form a second group
of a specific number in proportion to its population.
The persons so nominated shall be subject to an election
for a number of representatives set in proportion to its population.
In this way,
a relative public-private balance
within the subgroup of experts could be achieved,
sub-group integrated within a governance system that is itself balanced.
*
County level:
Same as at the municipal level, at the level of the county.
*
Regional level:
Same as the municipal and departmental levels at the regional level.
*
National level:
As discussed at the beginning of this chapter on politics,
an optimal legislative system would seem to be a two-house or two-assembly system:
A. The Experts’ Assembly
B. The Administrative Assembly
Each of them is made up of three groups
based on a similar model to those seen above.
It is always the same principle, the same story,
except for volunteers under the conditions we have discussed before,
for each of the constituent groups of the two Legislative Assemblies,
at every stage, random selection and elections follow one another.
A. The Experts’ Assembly:
1. Citizens on a universal basis:
A drawing of lots among all citizens will take place
to form a first group
with a number of runners set in proportion to its population,
followed by elections for a number of representatives set in proportion to its population.
2. Volunteers:
open to all who have not been designated in the other groups.
Men and women who have already exercised power
will most likely tend to run.
As mentioned above,
in the event that the number of volunteers were too high,*
they would also be subject to the drawing of lots
in order to form a second group with a number
set in proportion to its population,
to be followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
*If there were not enough of them, the first group would fill in.
However, it is a good bet that this will never happen.
3. Scientific experts
Two preliminary groups:
1. Random :
Among all researcher-teachers from the public,
so as to form a first group with a number of runners
set in proportion to its population,
followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
2. Volunteers :
All persons wishing to volunteer.
They will be expected to demonstrate
their knowledge and expertise in their field.
Volunteers who declare themselves as such
will also be subject to a draw
to form a second group with a number of candidates
set in proportion to its population,
followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
These three groups shall be equal in number in the representative body,
regardless of its geo-administrative level.
B. The Administrative Assembly:
1. Public Administration Members:
A drawing of lots among the members of the public administration
will take place from a previously defined level of responsibility,
so as to form a first group with a number of candidates
set in proportion to its population,
followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
2. Citizens without discrimination of any kind:
A drawing of lots among all citizens will take place to form a first group
with a number of runners set in proportion to its population,
followed by elections for a number of representatives set in proportion to its population.
3. Volonteers:
Open to all who have not been designated in the other groups.
Men and women who have already exercised power will most likely tend to run.
As mentioned above,
in the event that the number of volunteers declaring themselves were too high,*
they would also be subject to the drawing of lots
in order to form a second group
with a number set in proportion to its population,
to be followed by elections for a number of representatives
set in proportion to its population.
*If there were not enough of them, the first group would fill in.
However, it is a good bet that this will never happen.
These three groups would each be represented on an equal footing,
one-third each.
*
Time for Action.
Implementing just one of these reforms will be decisive.
Two at the same time will work miracles.
Let us not be afraid of words.
Given the current situation,
everything that is good and good for humans, for humanity,
is a miracle.
If the strength of an alternative is real when it is possible,
then the darker and more desperate the current situation is,
the more the alternative to darkness is a miracle.
It’s literal.
Seeing is always a miracle.
To see, you must live.
To live, you must see.
Justice unites people;
injustice divides, opposes and oppresses them.
Today, the priority is to resurrect
Democracy, Freedom, Harmony, Justice, Peace and Prosperity.
No matter how uncertain we may be about secondary things.
We no longer have the luxury of doing nothing.
It is possible.
We must try.
We must try now.
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The Government
Who should govern?
The people?
Or what we call nowadays
the ‘government’?
*
Executive and Legislative Powers
The government and the presidency embody the executive power.
Everyone agrees on this.
As its name suggests,
the role of the executive branch is to execute.
Execute orders,
implement the laws decided by the houses of representatives of the Nation
and ratified by the People of the Nation.
As an emanation of the People and the Nation,
it is the Parliament, the legislative branch
that legislates, writes the laws, decides.
It is up to the executive power,
the government and the presidency
to obey and implement, execute.
And not the other way around.
Thus,
giving the executive power the name ‘government’.
is at least illusory and deceptive, at best a lie, a linguistic scam,
at worst a crime, a curse.
Truth be told,
the so-called executive power is a contradiction in terms:
Whatever the names given to it,
if to execute is to execute laws,
then the executive power is not a power,
but a duty.
The executive power is a duty:
the duty to implement the general will.
Not to seize or usurp power to the detriment of the general will.
It thus becomes clear that the word ‘government’
which is used to refer to an executive branch of government
by nature and by definition intended not to govern but to obey
is erroneous and misleading.
It would therefore be very useful, symbolically speaking,
to use another, more true and revealing term.
Of course,
this new name will have to reflect the grandeur of the function.
The ‘Great Council of Ministries’ for example, the ‘Executive Council’,
the ‘Great Servants of the Nation’, or else the ‘Office of State Secretaries’…
And if the members of this executive body have prestige and influence,
so be it, the Nation will be better off.
The government, together with the Presidency,
embodies the executive power,
therefore, the power to execute orders.
When the government does not comply with the general will,
neither the government nor the people are free.
The government is already a tyranny and the people enslaved.
In any free nation,
the people is sovereign.
Conversely,
the concentration of legislative and executive powers
in the same institutional body
always gives rise to sectarian and authoritarian aberrations.
It is therefore only fair
that the members of the executive power
cannot substitute, replace and supplant the general will
by being able to exercise, at the same time as the executive power,
the legislative power.
This implies at least two things:
First,
since their purpose is to enforce laws,
then the first and only function of the members of government
should be to work with those who come under the authority of their ministries
in order to implement and harmonize new laws
and be directly accountable
to both the people and their representatives in parliament.
Second,
and precisely because the executive branch must remain so,
it seems wrong for members of the government to be able to propose laws,
because then the executive and legislative branches
would be in the hands of the same institution,
which is inherently liberticidal and undemocratic.
In England,
no private member’s bill has been passed since 1970,
i.e. 100% of new laws are government bills.*
* https://www.legacyias.com/the-difference-between-private-and-government-bills-in-parliament/
Since the adoption of the Fifth Republic in 1958 in France,
only 10% of the bills coming from the National Assembly,
i.e. from the Parliament (called ‘propositions de loi’, private member’s bills),
are adopted,
which means that 90% of the new laws
are the result of bills designed by the government
(‘projets de loi’, government bills)*.
* https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/propositions-et-projets-de-loi/
It goes without saying that this trend must be rebalanced,
if not completely reversed.
It is necessary at this point to quote Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
one of the greatest philosophers of the French Enlightenment of the 18th Century,
without whom the French and American revolutions
would perhaps never have taken place,
or in any case would probably have taken on a completely different form:
The Social Contract,
Book III, Chapter 1:
“Government in general
Every free action is produced by the concurrence of two causes;
one moral, i.e. the will which determines the act;
the other physical, i.e. the power which executes it.
When I walk towards an object,
it is necessary first that I should will to go there,
and, in the second place, that my feet should carry me.
If a paralytic wills to run and an active man wills not to,
they will both stay where they are.
The body politic has the same motive powers;
here too force and will are distinguished,
will under the name of legislative power
and force under that of executive power.
Without their concurrence, nothing is, or should be, done.
We have seen that the legislative power
belongs to the people, and can belong to it alone.
It may, on the other hand, readily be seen,
from the principles laid down above,
that the executive power cannot belong to the generality as legislature or Sovereign,
because it consists wholly of particular acts
which fall outside the competency of the law,
and consequently of the Sovereign, whose acts must always be laws.
The public force therefore needs an agent of its own
to bind it together and set it to work
under the direction of the general will,
to serve as a means of communication between the State and the Sovereign,
and to do for the collective person more or less
what the union of soul and body does for man.
Here we have what is, in the State, the basis of government,
often wrongly confused with the Sovereign, whose minister it is.
What then is government?
An intermediate body set up between the subjects and the Sovereign,
to secure their mutual correspondence, charged with the execution of the laws
and the maintenance of liberty, both civil and political.”
We can only emphasize our total adherence to this quote.
*
Separation and balance of the legislative and executive branches
In order to rebalance the legislative and executive powers,
we have two options:
Option one:
Whether they come from the government or from parliament,
bills should be subject to exactly the same rules and procedures
so that bills may originate as much from parliament as from the government.
Option two:
The executive branch no longer has the power to propose bills,
as in the United States,
where according to the Constitution,
the President can only go through his party to introduce a bill in Congress
and where he also has a veto power to prevent a bill from being passed.*
* https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made
However,
the reference to the United States must end there
because the President can make law through ‘executive orders’ which,
although not subject to the approval of Congress,
have the same effect as if they had been conceived, deliberated and decided by Congress,
the holder of the legislative power in the United States*.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order
In this sense,
executive orders can be seen as a form of concentration
of executive and legislative powers in the hands of a single person,
the President,
thus making them inconsistent with the spirit of a democracy
where the people is sovereign
and where at least the distribution of powers should be balanced.
*
Option one:
Ensuring a balance
between bills issued by the government
and bills issued by parliament.
As mentioned above,
technical procedural solutions or simple equality quotas
must be instituted so that a balance is struck
between the executive and legislative branches
with regard to the prerogative of proposing legislation to Parliament.
From the point of view of democracy where the people is the sovereign,
this is undoubtedly the least perfect solution,
but also the most realistic as things stand.
Thus,
it is probably the least that can be done with regard to this prerogative
if we want to rescue our imperilled democracies.
Indeed,
it is not because a body of elected representatives
approves or disapproves of laws written by others that it is sovereign,
even less so the people it is supposed to represent,
and even less so when the executive power has a majority within this same body.
*
Option two:
The end of the Executive Branch’s prerogative to propose legislation.
As a member of the executive branch,
the real task of a minister, a ministry
is to implement the sovereign will of the nation.
Not to decide it.
This is true for every nation on Earth.
Whichever option is chosen,
it is up to the legislative power to propose the laws, to ratify them,
and to the free and sovereign people to participate in their drafting
and make the final decision, if necessary.
To implement what the sovereign nation, or humankind,
will have decided is the primary function of ministers and government departments.
For example,
if a new economic law were to be passed by both Houses of Parliament,
(as is the case with any law,
with all the intermediate steps deemed necessary
to make the law as wise, relevant and sound as possible),
then the task of the Minister of Economy and Industry
would be to bring together the main representatives of industries,
large and small, employers and employees, in the broadest sense of these terms,
in order to implement the said law
in as great conciliation and harmonization as humanly possible.
In order to ensure that the law
and the details of the best ways to implement it are heard,
a large consultation would be launched
through the spaces of debate dedicated to it
(town halls, community centers, libraries, Internet site, etc.)
in which each and everyone could vote for or against it, and comment on it.
In the event that the Law and the application of the Law
did not win a majority,
then the Law and the procedures for the application of the Law
would be reviewed and corrected according to the proposals
made both by the representatives of the people and by the people themselves.
*
Additional guarantee
of incorruptibility and separation of powers.
If the ministries could no longer propose laws,
then they could no longer propose laws and apply them at the same time,
then we could ascertain their incorruptibility.
Indeed,
what would be the point of bribing ministers to pass laws
in my favour as a wealthy elite
when those ministers no longer have the power
to decide which laws should be enforced?
Seeking to corrupt ministers would no longer have any effect.
For the executive power
would no longer be merged with the legislative power.
Moreover,
we must keep in mind
that if ministers could both propose laws and implement them,
they could work together in such a way
as to overwhelm the chambers with bills
and thus monopolize public debate,
all the more so if they were to ally themselves with the Presidency.
*
Ministerial power
without the prerogative to propose legislation
And yet,
is it fair that some citizens, be they ministers,
should be deprived of their most elementary right to propose laws?
The answer is certainly no.
These two views,
both to give ministers the right to propose laws and to deprive them of it,
however paradoxical they may seem,
are reconcilable by the very fact that ministers exercise executive power:
Because ministers are the link
between the legislature and the people and civil society,
then, if wisely appointed,
by fulfilling their mission of public good
with lucidity, wisdom, conscience and transparency,
their voices will carry.
Ministers are indeed both spokespersons and leaders.
Indeed,
no one can be a minister without some support within the nation.
If not, it should be.
Thus,
in that they are leaders,
they do not need to be able to propose laws to inspire and encourage them.
If their thoughts are wise,
by virtue of their office and the visibility inherent in it,
then thanks in particular to their allies in their midst,
they should be able to convince
both the bicameral parliament and the nation.
In other words,
because of the media platform
that the mere fact of being a minister of the nation gives them,
they will be able to exercise their right to free expression
and if their voices are filled with universal wisdom and reason,
they will be heard.
Thus,
even when ministers are deprived of proposing laws,
they will be able to compensate for this loss
by the enhanced power of their word
due to their hierarchical position.
*
Veto power
For reasons of State secrets
of which only the executive branch is normally cognizant,
a veto power could be granted to either the President or the Prime Minister
to block any unfortunate decisions regarding State security
of which the drafters of the bill were not aware.
*
State of Emergency
Even in emergency situations,
the system we describe holds.
Wisdom is the glue that holds it together.
Once we have understood the precepts of wisdom,
wisdom leads us towards fulfillment and harmony.
Even in difficult situations,
wisdom presides,
concord and harmony remain.
And if,
in cases of extreme urgency,
for the sake of greater speed and efficiency,
it would be wiser that the Executive, the Presidency and the “government” could,
for a limited period of time, recover the right to propose laws,
and to have them voted on urgently, within 24 hours for example,
then, so be it, may their voices be raised
when speed, urgency, and the celerity of the decision is necessary
to convince people of their wisdom and intelligence
and save the nation.
Thus, in emergency situations,
in cases of extreme obstruction,
where a week or a period of time of this magnitude passes by
without any resolution, decision and action being taken by Parliament,
then a ‘state of emergency’ will be declared
and it will be the responsibility of the government to act by vote.
From then on,
the decision will rest with the government.
And if the government cannot agree on the action to be taken,
then and only then, the decision will be made by the Presidency.
All these decisions, all these Acts,
could only be valid, valid and legitimate for the duration of one year.
According to their Constitutions of Rome and Athens,
the “Senate rulings had the force of law for one year;
they became perpetual only by the will of the people. »*
*The Spirit of Laws,
Montesquieu,
Book II, Chapter II,
and the laws relative to democracy
cy
Likewise, after one year,
all these exceptional decisions will be submitted for popular approval.
They may also be renewed for one year
and submitted again for popular approval.
Thus,
when a situation of extreme urgency is aggravated by legislative paralysis,
the necessary decisions could be taken
by the government (the Council of Ministries) or even the Presidency,
provided that they are valid for one year,
at the end of which they will all be submitted
to the will of the nation and all its citizens.
The limited legitimacy of emergency laws
must enter into the universal and timeless Law
because we know from experience
that the more power rulers have,
the more their natural tendency is to seize power to serve their personal interests
before that of the people, the nation and the whole earth,
whatever their virtues and good will at the start.
*
Our destiny
Destiny is to be fulfilled.
To fulfill our destiny is our purpose.
There is no other.
One can only fulfill one’s destiny in wisdom and freedom.
One does not exist without the other.
This is the universal Law.
Wisdom is necessarily legitimate.
Freedom is necessarily sovereign.
Humanity will be sovereign of its own destiny,
or it will annihilate itself.
We are all called to fulfill our destiny.
Humanity will be free,
or will not be.
*
Methods of designating ministers:
elections as a target.
“The people, in whom the supreme power resides, ought to have the
management of everything within their reach: that which exceeds their abilities
must be conducted by their ministers.
But they cannot properly be said to have their ministers, without the power
of nominating them: it is, therefore, a fundamental maxim in this government,
that the people should choose their ministers“*
*The Spirit of Laws,
Montesquieu,
Book II, Chapter II,
Of the republican government,
and the laws relative to democracy
cy
In order to guarantee the incorruptibility of the system,
we could also forge an additional lock
against corruption and corruptibility of the political edifice:
The election of ministers according to the method of majority judgment
which we mentioned earlier.
At least by the entire parliament,
at best by the people.
At least by parliamentary ballot, at best by universal suffrage.
One of the two should suffice.
The ideal would undoubtedly be a universal ballot.
For reasons of practical feasibility, however,
it is possible that this experiment in a renewed democracy
could begin with the appointment of ministers by the vote of parliament,
of all the members of its two houses.
In order to ensure that the nation knows them,
for both the ministries and the Presidency,
it seems advisable that those who wish to participate
in what is now called the ‘government’
should have served at least one full term
in one of the two parliamentary houses.
This would be a guarantee for the victory of popular sovereignty
over corruption, decay, betrayal and destruction.
To put an end to the appointment of ministers by the Presidency
is a giant step in political liberation
from the evil domination of man over himself.
To make it a constitutional law, to make it an eternal law,
would be a giant leap towards universal freedom.
The election of members of parliament to ministerial positions
is a bulwark against corruption and the seizure of power by the president’s men.
More than legitimate,
the election of members of parliament to ministerial positions
would be a wall against the confusion of legislative and executive powers
and thus a bulwark against tyranny.
Even if the election of members of parliament to ministerial positions
by parliament itself
would be a giant leap in the direction of national liberation,
to appoint them regularly through elections by universal suffrage
would be an even more gigantic leap.
At least by parliamentary suffrage, at best by universal suffrage,
any political leader must be the emanation of the popular will.
The convergence between the people and their representatives,
convergence between the people and governance,
is the very definition of political balance.
It is the door open to another dimension, a new era, a new dimension.
The natural inclination of any government is to seize power
to serve its own interests even to the greatest prejudice of the general will.
Thus,
the more the political constitution provides guarantees and protections
against corruption and governance decay,
the better.
We can never be too careful.
The salvation and survival of all humanity depends on it.
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Ministries.
With regard to the challenges of the 21st century, and far beyond,
the following departments seem inevitable:
Environment and Agriculture,
of justice,
of health,
energy and ecological transition,
of industry and labour,
of science and technology,
money and the economy,
of home affairs and defense,
education and research,
culture and the arts,
of the countryside and cities
of citizenship and humanity…
The Prime Minister would be the Minister of Administration,
and he would be designated like all the others.
The function of Minister of Foreign Affairs
could be exercised by the President.
In any case,
he or she would be the first ambassador of the Nation,
a kind of minister of harmony for the whole political edifice.
In the solar system,
the planets rest on nothing
but they all revolve, in perpetual harmony,
around the sun.
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On the Presidency and Leadership
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Guides to Freedom
It must be repeated,
the goal is to tame the will to dominate, to overcome tyranny
and to defeat, as much as humanly possible,
all injustices, excesses and horrors caused by power,
to put a definitive end, or almost, to all tyrannies,
each as inhuman as the next, at every possible level.
The disappearance of careerism in politics is a clear goal.
Nevertheless,
there will always be guides.
And that is good.
Because their deepest and most intimate and ardent desire
is justice, humanity and harmony in the world,
among humans, human beings, earthians,
guides seek the fair truth
with all their brains, with all their minds,
with all their hearts, with all their guts, with all their souls.
The guide never ceases to wish for wisdom, justice
and what’s best for all humans.
The guide is the one who has opened his or her eyes
to the benevolence of the Earth and the Human
and wants to offer his or her deep and intimate vision
of the universal interrelationship.
The guide has his or her eyes open to the great whole,
this great multidimensional infinite whole
where positive magic can be found.
The harmony of this great whole is the polar opposite of dogma,
the polar opposite of liberticidal, murderous, genocidal and humanicidal totalitarianism.
If by definition the guide knows the destination,
then he or she knows the direction.
Wisdom is both the direction and the destination.
The direction is liberation.
If wisdom is liberation,
then the guide is liberating.
Wisdom is saving, life-giving and liberating.
If wisdom liberates,
then freedom is wisdom.
Wisdom is always humane.
The Guide is always humane.
Wisdom is always balance and harmony.
Whether man or woman, young or old, black or white, human or divine,
or somewhere in between,
the Guide is always seeking justice and harmony.
If philosophy is the science of wisdom,
wisdom is the philosophical science at its peak.
It is a self-fulfillment.
To defeatist pragmatism,
a highly petty and misleading euphemism for eternal submission
to the tyranny of money and the caste of the super-privileged,
let us oppose wisdom, knowledge, realism, justice, peace, freedom and harmony.
Wisdom convinces by itself.
Nothing opposes wisdom.
Nothing can defeat it.
A guide incarnates wisdom,
and professes universal harmony in order to get out of the big mess
in which men of power of all kinds,
of every religion, nation, and corruption,
have put us!
And make matters worse and worse
with an unleashing of the most bestial, narcissistic and puerile,
vain and destructive impulses.
By wanting to defeat all opposition by brutal, animal, primitive force,
tyranny always gives birth to opposition.
And therefore tyranny.
Because it creates the oppositions it fights with blood and tears,
it creates more and more resistance.
Thus,
it creates the conditions for its own perdition.
Sooner or later,
tyranny is doomed to perish.
However advanced they may be, sooner or later,
tyranny sinks all civilizations into the abyss,
and thus perpetuates the curse of history.
Before the collapse and then the annihilation
in the 5th Century of what had been the Roman Democracy,
for about two hundred years, there had been a succession of emperors
who got increasingly tyrannical, unconscious and inconsistent
in all their acts and decisions.
Nazi Germany,
which wanted to last 1000 years
perished after only 12 years of existence, from 1933 to 1945.
Since tyranny goes against the common good,
since tyranny imposes acts and decisions contrary to everyone’s interest,
since that is its definition,
tyranny is self-destructive, harmful and evil
by nature and definition.
Nothing could be clearer.
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Light alone enlightens
See to be aware. Be conscious in order to see.
Realize what we are made for:
to come into the world.
The human being is made for that,
not for the abusive, unjust and counterproductive exercise of power
that is selfish, pretentious, lying, unbalanced, stupid and ignorant.
Guides can only assert themselves
in the affirmation of the power of all for all,
in the constant and incessant denunciation
of infamous and barbaric tyranny,
in the power of truth over lies,
in the invincibility of wisdom over insanity, of intelligence over violence.
For wisdom is what guides the guide.
Wisdom, justice, truth, intelligence, fulfillment, light,
are the eternal stars that exist by and for themselves
and shine in our darkness.
Since wisdom exists by and for itself,
since life exists by and for itself,
they need nothing but themselves to exist.
Invincible, immanent and eternal,
their laws are universal.
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The true guide does not want power.
The true guide is the one who enlightens others,
who shows them another direction, a better possible,
a kind of parallel reality, a more beautiful road,
a destiny that is not only realistic and possible,
but also beneficent and saving, prosperous and beneficial,
free and liberating,
desirable to the highest possible degree.
The authentic guide wants the good of all humans, of all earthians,
regardless of race, origin, color, status, caste or religion.
The true guide, who can also be a woman,
is guided by wisdom.
He or she knows that fulfillment
is the purpose of humanity and human beings.
That it is our destiny.
Since dawn is a prelude to dusk and dusk a prelude to dawn,
when origins and purposes meet, when the beginning and the end merge,
when night and day mix in an absolutely hallucinating concert of colors,
then a kind of fullness is created and realized in a form of absoluteness:
The accomplishment of what we are.
Until the twilight of time,
so it shall be.
Realize that power is cursed.
That men are the toys of power,
and have a fascination for weapons and domination.
Men of power are slaves to their own power.
Slaves of power,
they sometimes transform themselves into horrible, abject, inhuman things,
into bloodthirsty monsters that give birth to evil and perpetuate the curse.
Slaves of History.
How can we believe that war and competition to death
between individuals, peoples and nations
could save peoples, nations, humans and the world?
Before the universe was, before anything else,
reigned and still reigns in the beyond of all that exists, has existed and will exist,
the most absolute, the most total stability.
Infinity is necessarily invincible.
Infinity is eternity.
So it is.
Harmony gives birth to all that is, was and is called to be.
Always destruction destroys its host.
The will to destruction is death.
As a species, death is extinction.
No one is spared by such inexorability.
Infinity is eternity.
So it is.
Harmony is life.
Chaos will never give birth to harmony.
Harmony is sublime.
Harmony is a divine quality.
Understanding this is understanding everything.
Or almost.
In any case, it is opening the door, it is being on the right track.
If the proportions in infinity are necessarily relative to infinity,
then they change completely according to our perspective in space-time.
The earth is insignificant in the eyes of the cosmological infinite.
It is a tiny speck of dust, the size of an atom, maybe less,
and yet, from our point of view as human beings,
it is of course immense, gigantic, ultra-powerful,
almighty even.
From the point of view of the cosmos,
we are less than insects,
we are grains of dust lost in the cosmic immensity.
Less than atoms in the eyes of infinity.
Yet, compared to insects,
we are giants.
We are nothing.
You are nothing.
In relation to what is,
in relation to the infinite number of all possible infinities,
we are nothing.
We weigh infinitely less than a speck of dust
lost in the great universal mystery.
Humans are infinitesimal:
the cosmic probabilities of its appearance and existence
are 0, comma an infinite number of zeros -1,
the last zero before infinity being 1.
0,00000000…∞…1
0,0 ∞1
Life is a particle of nothingness that exists.
And yet seeing, grasping the beauty and magic of it all,
then your vision expands to touch the miraculous and the infinite.
From nothingness springs life.
If there is a grace…
From the infinitely small to the infinitely large,
from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, all dimensions, all possibilities
are hidden between these two doors opened to infinity.
Insignificant and gigantic at the same time.
By definition,
infinity is always infinitely more than anything we can infer or imagine.
And perhaps the only way to touch infinity
is to embrace it with your eyes.
Its beauty is magnificent.
A glimpse of infinity is taking in the immeasurable measure of what exists.
A glimpse of infinity is a transfiguration.
A glimpse of infinity is an illumination.
It is time to listen to the voice of reason,
and quickly embark on a path of wisdom and harmony.
It shows us a luminous direction.
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Presidency
We need clear-sighted and convincing guides.
This is an absolute certainty.
Guides, not tyrants.
For life or for a term of office, by blood or by money,
everywhere in the modern world those who seize and abuse power
for the benefit of a minority
are tyrants.
Even though humanity is in desperate need of guidance,
is it not to be thought,
in view of contemporary historical circumstances,
that the presidency itself is a remnant of the monarchy, the sultanate,
the myth of the authoritarian and almighty ruler,
above the laws, above all and sundry,
whom one must if not adulate and worship, at least dub as such,
no matter how relevant his or her decisions may be?
A remnant of those early and primitive, obscure and ignorant times,
cradles of tyranny where the strongest make the law,
even if it must lead everyone to rivers of tears and blood
and turn the men of the whole Earth into cannon fodder?
Indeed,
when the chief or the president seizes executive and legislative powers,
then his power becomes tyrannical.
And so the downward spiral can begin.
Corruption, crime, betrayal, settle down.
And the nightmare become reality.
Look at the United States.
By usurping the power of the judiciary and the legislature
and by doing everything to silence and discredit the media and the press,
by gradually seizing all the branches of power,
its 45th president offered us
the ghastly and appalling spectacle of the torments of a democracy
that is dying and slowly moving into tyranny.
In the peoples’ and human minds,
the difference between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of powers
is so underestimated, blurred and imprecise
that the Presidency is tempted, especially in difficult times,
to seize and abuse his power.
All the more so since the belief in the savior leader, the providential man,
is still a very powerful temptation-reality among peoples and humanity.
The recipe is always the same.
To oppress one’s people
without fear of being overthrown by a popular uprising,
you have to find an enemy.
It is necessary to create an internal or foreign, external danger
to direct all attentions elsewhere,
to turn all eyes and thus all attentions, all consciences
away from the guilt of the monstrous tyrant
that a narcissistic self-interest pushed to the extreme
leads to inhumanity, destruction, betrayal, curse.
By making an enemy from scratch if necessary.
Thus subjugating the population through fear and division…
Even if the enemy is as miserable and innocent as we all are.
Pitting us against each other until we kill each other,
until we push each other to kill each other,
instead of having to bear the consequences of their decisions and actions,
the tyrant will make the Earth a Hell, an ocean of tears and suffering,
an unbearable hell where everyone suffers, where everyone loses,
a world where everyone dies
rather than give up their cursed power,
their spoiled child’s whim, their selfishness, their insensitivity and immense ignorance,
their childish narcissism, their extreme unintelligence,
their bottomless greed devoid of any meaning or intelligence
except to lie, manipulate and dominate
through threats, fear and violence.
Divide to rule.
What a dark, well known and, to say the least, cursed and stupid motto.
Thus,
the tyrant turns all eyes away to anyone
except the one who has granted himself all powers,
the one who murders the nation, freedom and humanity:
The tyrant himself.
The tyrant who dedicates an ever-increasing share of the nation’s energy and money
to violence, repression, propaganda, destruction, war,
to the point of collapse or even annihilation.
Conversely,
by essence, by nature and by definition,
democracy is the fruit of the separation of powers.
When,
in addition to the executive and legislative powers,
the presidency takes over the judiciary and the police,
then the abuses are all the more unjust, liberticidal, murderous, humanicidal,
as they are real and immeasurably immense.
Humanity is crossing a threshold
and entering the next world head-on and with full force.
No one can escape the fate of the entire planet.
Either we adapt or we die.
Who can’t see it?
Who can’t know it?
Look at the excesses of the Presidency in recent years
in many countries around the world.
In a sustainable and ecological, human and divine regime,
the Presidency must be mastered.
It is indispensable.
Otherwise,
sooner or later the tyrant will use the presidential power for personal ends,
usurp judicial and legislative powers
and thus become the absolute master of the country.
The Nation does not need a master.
It needs a vision that guides it to its liberation and realization.
It is in this sense, and only in this sense,
that the Presidency must maintain its symbolic authority,
precisely because it is so powerful.
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Embedded in the vision of an organic political, economic and monetary system
that is as democratic, harmonious and free as possible,
what we propose might not be perfect.
But compared to the hell
which the current elites are leading us and condemning us to,
our proposals are keys to a possible paradise on Earth.
Nothing could be clearer.
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On the limits and magnitude of presidential powers.
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The power of the word
The power of the Word is immense.
If lies poison, kill, destroy and imprison,
the truth heals, liberates, delights and enriches.
When the word becomes a messenger of truth,
its liberating power is immense.
The presidency has an immense symbolic privilege
and an indispensable role to play
in embodying this right to speak,
this natural and universal gift of speech,
revealing who we are and what is.
Its mission
would be to give voice to truth, reason, vision,
harmony and wisdom, justice and freedom.
The Presidency as the spokesperson of universal justice and truth
as enshrined in the universal constitution of the nation or supernation,
and as its priority,
such is the condition for deliverance and liberation,
such is the condition for victory over tyranny and the curse.
Like any other representative of the nation,
its mission would be to defend life and truth, justice, and freedom.
She or he,
more than all the others.
Since the presidency unites the power of the nation’s voice in one person,
then it is inherently stronger and more empowering.
What we describe here is somewhat similar
to today’s monarchical parliamentary systems
where kings and queens have a vestige of symbolic power.
As in Spain or the United Kingdom.
However,
the word of the Presidency
that we envisage would be much more active and effective
in the face of the innumerable injustices
raging throughout the world and the nations
because that would be its clearly defined constitutional priority role:
To defend Wisdom, Justice, Humanism and Harmony.
A constitutional priority of the Presidency,
it shall thus be enshrined as such in the Constitution.
Constitution based on wisdom and harmony
as a model of efficiency and effectiveness
superior to anything we have ever known or considered.
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The power of the word
(continued)
When the word is wise,
the word is strong.
Listening to the word of the wise is a wise action
that brings us closer to perfection.
Listening to the word of fools is a madness
that leads us to perdition.
The word is always active,
and provokes multiple and countless consequences.
The more the Presidency embodies a Constitution
based on wisdom and the universal, justice and truth,
the greater and more powerful his or her word is.
Conferred by the entire nation and a universal constitution,
where the primary rules
are the rules of justice and freedom, humanity and sustainability,
the stronger the presidential word is,
the wiser and fairer it will be.
Thus,
as a guardian of the great and timeless laws of the nation,
one of the constitutional duties of the presidency
will be to embody the constitution.
As the nation’s first ambassador to the international community,
his or her primary role will be
to support, encourage, reveal and glorify
justice and universal wisdom
all over the world.
Its effects will be all the more real and beneficial
as the powers of the presidency will have been recalibrated.
Thus,
albeit controlled, limited and counterbalanced,
the real and symbolic power of the presidency will be preserved.
The strength of the leader does not lie in his or her privileges.
The strength of the leader needs neither privilege nor subterfuge,
nor anything superfluous.
The strength of the leader is inherent in the leader.
The chief is authentic.
The chief is free.
The chief sees and knows in which direction we must go
to survive in peace and harmony.
Or otherwise, he’s not the leader.
He is a usurper.
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On the limits and magnitude of presidential powers.
(continued)
The authority of the executive branch
will only come from implementing the decisions of the nation
according to the goals and means described by the laws passed in Parliament.
It is a system in which it is the parliaments,
composed of experts, elected officials and people like you and me,
who, within the terms defined by the Constitution,
have the power to make decisions, to adjudicate
and to decide the way to implement them.
In other words,
the Parliament is the composer who writes the scores,
the government, the musicians who perform the symphony,
and the Presidency the conductor
who ensures that the harmony of the whole is always in focus.
As such,
and as mentioned in our discussion
of the separation of executive and legislative powers,
as the holder of state secrets,
the Presidency could retain a veto over laws approved by parliament.
Presidential decrees or other executive orders can only be used
in case of imminent and manifest force majeure
in the manner described above about the state of emergency.
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On the limits and magnitude of presidential powers.
(continued)
The primary mission of the presidency will be to defend
wisdom, justice, humanism and harmony loud and clear.
The legislative power
belongs to the sovereign assemblies representing the people,
and the executive power belongs to a government
directly emanating from the people.
In addition to being the guardian of the Constitution
and the first ambassador of the Nation,
in conjunction with not only the representative houses,
but also with all citizens,
the third duty of the Presidency will be to ensure
that the different ministries that make up the government
work together in a harmonious and coherent manner.
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How the Presidency is appointed.
In order to guarantee its legitimacy
and seriousness, security, solidity, wisdom and stability,
for the Presidency as well as for the members of the government,
it will be necessary to have served in one of the national houses
so that the people know them and have seen in office
those who could exercise the greatest responsibilities.
As we have just seen,
the power of the Presidency, the first ambassador of the nation,
is such that this responsibility cannot be left to chance.
Once again,
it therefore seems wise that any candidate for the presidential function
has served at least one term in Parliament.
He or she would be elected by universal suffrage in two ballots
according to the majority judgment method.
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The removal from office of the Presidency
Like any other member of the administration,
the President, the Guardian of the Constitution, First Ambassador of the Nation,
let’s call it what we like,
will be subject to dismissal like any other representative of the nation.*
*see Removability of the people’s representatives,
The removability of the presidency
and of all the representatives of the Nation
must indeed be set in stone in the nation’s constitution.
It is one more stone in the edifice
that can guarantee the success of democratic renewal.
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Public funding of political campaigns
In the same spirit,
political campaigns must be financed by the nation
and not by the forces of money.
It is important not to do the same as the United States,
where corruption is institutionalized
and the forces of money buy politicians by paying them astronomical sums
to finance their campaigns and to line their own pockets on both sides.
Instead of aspiring with all his or her soul to the universal good,
whoever is elected by the powers of money must obviously be accountable to
and repay them by promoting and enacting only laws
that privilege only the special interests of those who pay them.
How can a genuine democracy survive
in a country where corruption is legalized?
If in fact corruption prevents politicians from implementing universal laws,
then corruption is a crime against the law and against the universal.
Since the Law is universal, since the universal is the law,
the politician’s duty is not only to implement the universal law,
but also to represent it.
Thus,
flouting the universal law is tantamount to committing a crime of high treason.
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Public campaigns
Thus,
in order to avoid corruption,
campaigns will be within measured, reasonable, realistic and sound limits
and will be financed by the state.
Of course,
any independent media will be able to cover the campaigns
and inform the public.
However,
it will be crucial and indispensable
for at least one public channel
financed by the nation and not by the forces of money
to be dedicated to the current elections, parliamentary debates and political life
on the airwaves and on the Internet
in order to guarantee the independence, and thus the incorruptibility
of the campaigns vis-à-vis the powers of money.
With the obvious aim of finally eradicating corruption from the nation.
Whether legislative, executive, judicial,
monetary, economic, financial, banking, journalistic, etc.,
all the powers must be able to balance each other
so as to neutralize chaos and anarchy
and boost cooperation, creativity, justice and wealth, wisdom and freedom.
In this way,
power will be hindered without being limited.
Thus,
instead of fighting each other,
they will be able to complement each other.
The recipe is relatively simple.
What is complicated are the problems,
not the solutions.
What is complicated is to let the problems get worse and not to do anything.
It is doing nothing and letting the situation get worse
that is complicated.
The solution is the solution.
The solution is wisdom.
Harmony for all benefits all.
Harmony is a liberation.
Wisdom is a beacon.
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Problems and solutions.
A new world is necessarily a new dimension,
a kind of parallel dimension,
another scenario, another story, another dynamic, another possible.
Because we are blind,
because we have opened our eyes neither to life,
nor to ourselves, nor to the earth, nor to the world, nor to others,
nor to a breathtaking, fascinating, always surprising and subjugating,
magnificent, marvelous, beneficial, infinitely fertile universe,
in eternal renewal and constant change,
then we condemn ourselves to misery and suffering.
Because we are forced by the elites
to consider the worst as a point of comparison to the human condition
so that they can make us accept their bad decisions,
then we are heading in the wrong, worst direction.
In the world of the mind as well as in the real and physical world,
it is always where our eyes are set that we are drawn to.
It’s always where we’re drifting to.
Thus,
we are conditioned into thinking that the negative is decisive.
As a result,
we only focus on the negative to the detriment of the positive.
It is the positive that is the determining factor in the whole situation.
You have no idea what you’re missing, what we’re missing.
You have no idea how we’re all punishing ourselves,
all of us!
The negative cannot be solved by the negative.
It is impossible.
It is the solution that solves the problem.
Not the problem itself.
The solution is the alternative to the problem.
Its positive mirror.
Light is to darkness
what a solution is to a problem.
It is when we consider the positive
that we can see the solutions and realize their potential.
The problem is not only the problem itself.
It also lies in the solution itself.
A problem is not solved just because it exists,
it is solved because a solution exists.
Looking at the situation as much as at the solution
guides our steps towards the solution.
The problem is a suffering;
it compels us to limit our existence.
The solution transcends the limit.
The solution is a liberation.
According to its magnitude,
the solution to a problem can be exponential to the sublime.
They make us believe that everything is very complex
because their world is complex.
It is always the problem that is complex.
Never the solution.
When we have the solution,
it always appears obvious.
The solution always seems very simple to us,
even if, according to its dynamic, deep and subtle multiplicity,
a little experience is sometimes necessary.
This is obvious:
The solution is always obvious when we know it.
When one understands that the earth revolves around the sun,
it is taken for granted forever.
No one can go back.
Only a few people stubbornly deny the obvious
for obscure and stubborn reasons, with psychological origins.
Do you see what I mean?
I’m sure and glad you do.
If the solution is the end of the problem,
it is then necessary to focus more on the solution than on the problems.
Solutions are positive in nature.
These solutions are positive in all areas,
from the professional to the personal, from the intimate to the relational,
at all levels and all scales.
Nothing is more certain.
The benefits for each and every one of us are unimaginable, immeasurable.
This is precisely why it is possible.
Unimaginable does not mean impossible.
It’s beautiful.
If death is the epitome of the impossible,
then only solutions are possible in the realm of life and the possible.
It is so clear and obvious.
Sovereignty, the rule of law, justice, wisdom and harmony
are fertile of what our world is still unable, alas, to conceive and even imagine.
It is precisely because we cannot imagine it that we cannot, yet, do it.
The future by definition is unknown,
and the exponential can stretch to infinity.
In one way or another, whether positive or negative,
in a black hole as in life and consciousness,
the exponential touches infinity.
As soon as we touch harmony, we touch infinity,
and vice versa.
Harmony is simple once you have touched it,
seized and embraced its fertile beneficence.
At the confines of all causes and consequences,
the other world, the other possible
is much simpler, much easier to understand,
much more stable and solid than their world
full of all the high stormy winds they sow on the whole Earth.
Chaos is complex because there is a break with harmony.
The consequences are unpredictable and infinite
as much as they are chaotic, unjust, absurd and horrible.
It is in harmony that are the remedies to chaos.
Not in chaos.
Today,
we are led to believe that manipulating, swindling, extorting others
is normal.
For and through money, power, threats and violence,
it becomes a norm… a demonic and stupid norm.
No wonder there are so many atrociously negative excesses.
Harmony is the solution to chaos,
knowledge the solution to ignorance,
wisdom the solution to madness.
We are ready.
As with all major stages of evolution, there is an adaptation time.
As on any path, there are challenges and trials.
But like shadow and light,
darkness brings out nuances and brightness,
between clarity and unconsciousness.
Without darkness,
there would be no light.
Opposites are not opposed.
The bipolar inverses of any component of the universe
do not oppose each other:
they complement each other, they balance each other,
in a kind of fragile and yet eternal union, at least until the night of time.
It is not because we no longer believe in humanity,
because we no longer believe in anything, in ourselves, in humans
that light and the universe cease to exist.
Just because you may no longer believe in humanity
doesn’t mean that humanity could not at last,
for the first time of all humankind,
at a time when it is still possible,
believe in itself,
believe in its destiny, its purpose and its accomplishment.
Believing that salvation and bliss come through evil and domination
is an illusion pertaining to mental retardation.
Prisoners of the primitive scheme of predation as a supreme value,
prisoners of ignorance,
we are imposed tight binding limits.
We must cure ourselves of the curse of power at all costs,
and become aware that what is exponential stretches to infinity.
The trials we are going through are not so complex to solve.
When we know the solutions
and know the destination, the desired state,
the means and the ways are obvious.
The understanding of peoples and nations throughout the world is a condition.
Let’s spark the impetus.
Monetary and economic reform,
sovereign money,
the reform of political power,
the end of tyranny, the rebirth of democracy, the birth of Clero-democracy,
justice, harmony on Earth,
education in universal wisdom.
Let the flame be kindled in a few countries,
and the blaze of light will flood the Earth
with justice and understanding, recognition and reconciliation
spread out in a rainbow of infinite shades.
To begin is to open a time window.
To begin to work in the right direction is to make possible a future
that is both parallel and divergent,
different from the one that awaits us if we do nothing.
Everywhere in the world the hour is striking.
It is an alarm that echoes on the entire planet.
Let’s get started,
we will have plenty of time to perfect the project.
Now!
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The way and the destination
When we make an appointment,
inevitably, we start from different places.
Our starting points and our paths are therefore different,
and yet we go in the same direction
to finally find ourselves in the same space-time,
in a common place and time, isn’t it?
So, no matter where we start and which paths we take,
as long as we are going in the same direction,
we will find each other again.
Balance is often a subtle and relative thing.
No need for a tyrannical theory which is always and inevitably too rigid.
Adaptability is a virtue of the living.
Non-adaptability spells death.
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Clerocracy,
A few more words.
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On the right of the people to self-governance.
Since freedom is salvation and salvation is freedom,
then citizens must also rule.
In fair and measured proportions among the different segments of the population,
the elective-random mix transferred to any body of power
gives it a multiplied legitimacy.
By bestowing its legitimacy on it,
it vests it with wisdom, justice, harmony and prosperity.
Universal justice is always legitimate.
In the absolute sense, they are synonyms.
The citizens’ revolution is a revolution of consciousness
where justice finally becomes the law.
This is what we need.
It is where we need to go.
Nothing is more certain than that.
The rest is detail.
Random selection within the organs of power is, to this day,
the condition of our freedom, of our future and present life.
Random selection as a system for appointing representatives of the people,
i.e. you and me, you and us,
is the condition for liberation.
In the eyes of the people and especially of humans,
only democracy and justice are legitimate.
Just imagine the benefits of a world where the people would be sovereign.
Being sovereign is being free
to make the best possible choices.
When we, the people, give ourselves the choice to do the right thing,
then that power both liberates and unites us all.
Choosing to do well is a liberating principle.
This is true at the level of the individual.
It is also true, and even more so, at the level of humankind.
Respect for the other is written in our genes,
and humanity is linked to our own survival instinct.
For us humans,
if destruction kills and maims,
humanity and mutual generosity are fertile.
They are what keep us alive.
All the more so when it comes to the survival of the species.
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Random selection
as a framework for Democracy and common interest.
Random selection as a method of appointing the representatives of the people
is this metal framework that must consolidate the pillars of democracy.
A system of random selection is a kind of providential system,
thanks to which we are offered the guarantee of giving a voice
to everybody’s welfare, to the common interest,
of giving voice, power and visibility to the greatest number.
In fact,
virtually everyone could be called upon by drawing lots.
Of course,
a criminal record would suspend your right to represent the nation
for a period of time commensurate
with the number and seriousness of offences in question.
It is a simple way to keep untrustworthy persons away from national representation.
Don’t you think so?
Citizen consciousness and conscientiousness,
which those who do not want to see their power and privileges questioned
pretend to so much lament the loss
would thus be largely resurrected and empowered.
The designation of the people’s representatives by random selection,
therefore, is not a secondary pillar, on the contrary.
It is the metal framework of the entire democratic edifice.
It is the skeleton of the entire democratic body politic.
Just as the skeleton allows our bodies to maintain themselves,
this democratic framework must be able to infiltrate and spread
to as many decision-making bodies as possible,
all the more so since these bodies include a large number of people
in order to ensure its solidity and democratic durability
in as free and fair a manner as possible.
In small structures, inevitably,
it is relatively easy to act as a democrat
and make decisions that suit everyone.
In this case,
regulation by chance or providence, call it what you will,
may not necessarily be useful.
On the other hand,
the more members a decision-making body includes,
the more the system of appointment by random selection is necessary
to prevent usurpation of power, secrecy, withholding of information, corruption and manipulation.
Let’s follow this rule, and things will take care of themselves.
If, moreover,
we capped this framework with the principle of Majority Judgment in every election,
then the general will would finally be revealed
to rule.
We must repeat it:
Justice and democracy are sources of harmony.
And there is nothing,
absolutely nothing that can be dearer to us than harmony.
If only because harmony is the condition for our survival.
If we are all called upon, at least by the law of probability,
to exercise democratic and collective governance,
to make enlightened decisions
while being accountable for our actions and decisions,
then the solidity of the entire democratic edifice will be secured.
Common interest prevails
because no particular interest prevails.
No particular interest being stronger than all the others,
nothing can really unbalance and weaken the whole edifice.
When everyone is represented in the exercise of power,
then everyone finds a common interest in getting along.
When all parts of the edifice are in balance,
then the edifice is solid.
Any architect, any construction worker will tell you that.
A building that is built on solid foundations
and rises with a balanced framework of proven methods
can be shaken, twisted, and battered,
but it does not collapse.
From there,
new construction methods can be developed
which do not deny but on the contrary improve traditional construction methods
and then, the building can be adorned with beautiful and original ornaments.
In order to access this ideal of political construction,
all that is needed is to institutionalize it,
to put it into practice and experiment until a kind of optimum is found
by seeking and thus giving ourselves the chance
to find the balance
between the different ways of exercising the different forms of power
according to their scope and their particular spheres of application.
It is clear.
Harmony is our only hope for survival.
Unfortunately, all of these are only words.
To believe it, we must see it.
So, see and you will believe.
So, believe and you will see.
Good governance is fruitful of justice,
because that is its nature.
What is certain is that
only the system of appointing representatives of the people
by random selection and the principle of the majority judgment
can cure us of domination and corruption.
All that is needed is to translate them into great founding laws
to be enshrined in the Constitution.
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Justice and Truth
Anything that is not a democracy is a tyranny.
No tyrannical act or state is democratic.
As water does not mix with oil,
Democracy and tyranny are two antinomic entities.
How many times do we need to hit the tipping point to understand this?
If it is in the nature of tyranny to be unbalanced, sick,
most often unjust to the point of the most revolting cruelty and barbarity,
if tyranny is fatal to so many innocent people and even all of the guilty,
the nature of democracy is to be wanted and built by all and for all.
They are probably not the only ones,
but it is obvious, when we have looked into the matter a little,
that the system of random-elective selection
coupled with the principle of majority judgment,
a system of popular initiative preferendum
and an ethical and sovereign monetary system,
can make the democratic ideal at least realistic and possible,
at best downright invincible and magnificent.
To found a democracy is not so difficult
as long as the democracy holds the power to create money,
as long as the Constitution is improved,
as long as we enact clear constitutional rules
that respect spatial and temporal, geographical, social and cultural scales,
be they national or planetary.
These observations and their resulting conclusions
are based on the greatest possible concern for justice,
equity, humanism, pragmatism and efficiency,
for the common good of everyone, in the interest of everyone,
in as dignified and humane a manner as possible.
There is no other motivation for these reflections, and this writing,
than the greatest possible justice
and the greatest possible chance for human beings to survive,
and why not, to live the best and happiest possible life.
Indeed,
if freedom stops where tyranny begins,
and vice versa, if tyranny stops where freedom begins,
then in the balance between these two states,
there is universal and enlightened justice.
Justice is divine.
Injustice is diabolical.
Justice is the same for everyone.
It is even its definition.
Justice is by nature universal.
Justice is accessible to everyone, without exception.
Its only prerequisite, its only condition, is to desire it.
To seek the truth is to find it.
Whoever seeks finds.
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Justice and representatives of the general interest.
The People’s Justice.
The system of random selection has undeniably the potential
to guarantee much more justice than the current elective system.
This is the reason why juries are drawn by lot
to decide on the verdict of those suspected of misdemeanors or crimes
in the American, British, French and other legal systems.
This is because the founders of Democracy
believed that people drawn by lot, coming directly from the people,
ensured the integrity and honesty of the court
for as impartial, unbiased and humane a justice system as possible.
Sadly,
the judicial system is increasingly subject to the dictates of the market
that thinks greed should prevail over justice and the courts
all around the world.
By definition,
a mockery of justice betrays justice and truth.
Isn’t it called a mockery because it neither respects nor cares about justice ?
So the question that arises is this:
how to find and guarantee the truth?
If, to see the truth,
one must see the whole as well as the parts,
then it is very difficult, if not impossible,
for the common man to see it
as a whole and in detail at the same time.
Universal Truth is probably as vast as the cosmos,
in other words, infinite.
That is why,
in matters of justice and governance,
it is indispensable:
1. to prevent all forms of corruption and conflicts of interest;
2. to multiply points of view
and, for this reason as much as for the previous one,
to appeal to the people through the drawing of lots
as practiced in the judicial systems of many countries of the world;
3. to hear all parties.
4. Anyone suspected of a crime or misdemeanor is presumed innocent
and no one shall be found guilty
until there is tangible and undeniable evidence of guilt
beyond any reasonable doubt, as they say.
This is the one and only way for humans to reach the truth:
at least by placing and understanding events in their context,
at best by having opened their eyes to the universal truth.
Indeed,
a fragmentary truth is not a truth.
At best,
it is at best a half-open door to truth,
nothing more.
Indeed,
would you think you would know a new region
if you had seen a very small piece of it or a single photograph?
Obviously not.
It is only when truth is universal that justice is revealed.
Whenever universal truth is revealed,
all of its justice and beauty is revealed.
Whenever universal truth is revealed,
a humane and humanistic justice is revealed,
one that is understanding and comprehensive of all parties,
firm and strict, but also merciful and benevolent whenever possible.
Only a just and true reality can be beautiful and universal.
If universal truth is justice, then salvation is liberation,
then freedom of information and education,
freedom of conscience and expression
is essential.
The beauty of justice and truth
strikes a chord with anyone who wants to see it.
Since universal truth excludes no one,
everyone can find it, everyone can embody it.
Only the one who,
out of interest, either secret or revealed,
does not want to see it
neither sees nor serves it.
As soon as one seeks the universal truth,
the truth gradually reveals itself.
And with it, justice.
Our sacred wonderment
at the revealed beauties of Justice and Truth, of Nature and the Living
are the sign that we touch the Truth,
without selfishness, narcissism, greed, hatred, resentment or negativity,
but in fulfillment and serenity.
It is up to you to try.
I know that deep down you know it.
It is when a society seeks, respects and is inspired by Universal Truth
that justice can fulfill its first and foremost objective:
To ensure the harmony and safety of the social body
as well as its spirit.
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Truth
If there is an absolute truth
which encompasses all that is, even the infinites and absolutes,
then it is undoubtedly elusive and indescribable.
Which does not prevent its very existence.
The air we breathe is always there
even if, because it is so natural,
having always evolved inside this bubble of air
that we call the atmosphere
which twirls around in cosmic space and makes us live,
gives birth to us, nourishes us and keeps us alive,
we forget that it exists,
we forget that it is so essential to our survival;
As light as the flapping of a butterfly’s wing,
the atmosphere is this essential resource
that we share with all other past, present and future humans,
that we have been sharing with all other living beings,
since the dawn of time, until the end of time.
Likewise,
the truth is all around us, offered to all who exist.
It is,
like the air, like heaven and earth,
free and priceless.
The universal truth is everywhere,
immanent and eternal,
and yet, as soon as we want to use it
for personal, greedy, selfish, narcissistic, tyrannical purposes,
it disappears.
Misrepresenting universal truth is not only betraying it,
it is betraying everything that exists,
and making it die.
It is, in addition to killing her,
murdering justice.
Only universal truth is absolute,
and yet, like the air, we can touch it, we can feel it
but we cannot grasp it.
Because it is absolute,
the truth is more than immense,
it is infinite.
It is so infinitely large that it covers everything,
that she is the big whole that transcends both the whole and the parts.
She is universal.
She is eternal.
She is thus filled with justice, intelligence, wisdom and humanity.
Infinite,
forever elusive and indescribable,
no doubt, whether we admit it or not,
if the absolute truth exists,
then it is infinite, one and indivisible.
Truth be told,
only truth truly exists.
Truth is invincible and indestructible.
You cannot throw yourself off the cliff
thinking that you will naturally fly away.
Gravity exists.
Deny it and crash into the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
There is no doubt about it.
The truth is what is.
The truth is.
Because it is,
the truth is our only common and universal denominator.
Lost in the labyrinth of compulsive lying,
she is our only guide in the darkness,
our only light in the darkness of selfishness, manipulation and domination.
And yet,
if one refers to the prevalence of the whole over the parts,
to the dimensional ‘superiority’ of the whole over the fragment,
then the fragmented ‘truths’ will never be anything
but relative to the absolute ‘Truth’,
and thus incomplete and somehow imperfect.
This is one of the reasons why
a discussion about truth may never end,
because however long, complex, subtle, enlightened and profound they may be,
fragments of truth are true only in relation to something else
that needs to be named and made explicit
in order to be both as precise and as distant as possible.
On the contrary,
Universal Truth is self-sufficient.
It is.
Period.
She is and she comprehends everything, she reveals everything,
all the piecemeal ‘truths’, all points of view, all dimensions,
even those invisible to humans, all the lies and all the distortions.
This is one of the reasons why
no rigid dogma can ever find either the truth or freedom.
The ultimate and absolute truth is by nature infinite and eternal.
No dogma can adjust
to the nature of the infinite, the eternal and the universal.
For infinity imposes humility.
We are beginning to understand many things about the dynamics of climate.
And yet, many mysteries remain.
And many will probably remain so forever.
For indeed,
the innumerable dynamic interactions of climate
happen at both the infinitely immense and the infinitesimal levels.
Thus,
relative truths are only relative:
As true as they are,
they are by definition incomplete.
And yet,
they are the path to an understanding
that is both more global and distant, more refined, precise and detailed.
Thus,
because the absolute and the relative are linked
and everything on this earth and in the universe
is interrelated through space and time,
the truth reconciles all truths.
That is why tolerance and respect,
freedom of speech, movement, expression and conscience,
wisdom and intelligence, understanding of others and the world, justice and harmony,
are self-evident.
Let us forgive our ignorance.
For it is great.
And we all are,
whether we like it or not,
very ignorant.
Let us be merciful.
Let us be merciful and sensible.
In the midst of discord and storm,
nothing can be accomplished.
Only clemency can heal us
from the hatred and the curse of history.
Only clemency on Earth has the miraculous power
to influence mercy in heaven.
Heaven, the atmosphere,
reflections of who we are?
There is no doubt about it.
The Truth saves and liberates.
As much as blindness imprisons and poisons.
A dogma is by definition blind,
unrealistic, ignorant and ultimately destructive and torturous.
Harmony
is the constant rebalancing
of an infinite number of subtle interactions in constant motion.
Only harmony and justice, truth and freedom
can restore our self-confidence
and give us the means to manage all future crises.
Harmony on Earth,
sovereign currencies, citizen democracies, clerocracies,
education for wisdom and enlightenment…
It’s simple.
All you have to do is want it,
and it will happen.
You’re the first ones who can make a difference.
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The judgment and the sentence,
The word and the guillotine blade
Judging:
an activity not to be taken lightly.
Because its consequences are too important,
Justice has a sacred character which cannot be treated lightly.
At the collective, national and civilizational level,
as well as at the individual level, at the level of the person who judges
as much as at the level of the person being tried and sentenced,
the abuses of justice are always fraught with consequences.
Analyzing the behaviors of human beings
is not the same as a conviction with no recourse to appeal.
It is certainly necessary to decipher and understand,
indeed it is necessary to decipher and understand in order to judge.
This is why a well thought-out judicial framework must be established
in order to avoid all current and past abuses.
Yesteryear,
tyrants, rulers, the powerful abused justice to silence justice
and all those who spoke out on its behalf.
There was a judge, a few magistrates,
all in the pay of the tyrant and his ruling clique
to apply his foregone judgment.
And those who spoke out for justice
were sent to prison, tortured or exterminated.
This is still the case in many countries of the world.
Hence the importance of the separation of powers
and the independence of the judiciary.
Today, on top of that,
through the Internet,
behind the protection of their screens and the anonymity of the Internet,
people pass judgment and sentence
without knowing neither the case, nor the people involved, nor the context,
on the basis of gossip, hearsay, and, or misleading appearances.
And a malicious minority spreads its venom on the Net.
It only takes a determined few,
convinced by accusations, founded or not,
to seek to put the sentence, the anathema, the conviction to execution,
whatever the consequences for the person under accusation,
whether innocent or not,
sometimes even at the instigation of public people, politicians,
to destabilize their opponents
knowing very well that those who follow them will do the rest.
The execution of justice cannot be done lightly,
nor can it be usurped by a slanderous and malicious minority.
If the truth is to be revealed,
all judgments must be fair and well-founded.
Without a fair and well-founded judgment,
without impartial and informed judgment,
there is no justice.
This is a fact.
And yet, at the slightest imperfection, nowadays,
we pass judgment and sentence.
The judgment is pronounced by only a few relatively isolated voices
and yet the sentence is final.
The presumption of innocence and extenuating circumstances are ignored.
Accusations go around the Internet,
sometimes even in the national media.
Some people commit suicide
because of the accusations of a malicious and slanderous minority on the Internet.
Others receive death threats,
are forced to move house dozens of times,
have to resort to personal protection…
Would this be justice?
According to this pseudo-popular court, all human beings should be saints.
Is this partly due to a Judeo-Islamic-Christian culture
where the point of reference is a unique, perfect and inaccessible God?
No doubt,
but that is not so much the question.
You judge, you judge, we all judge each other.
It is a vicious circle:
By judging everyone,
we judge ourselves.
Indeed,
if everyone judges everyone,
like the reflection of light in the mirror,
my judgment of others necessarily reflects on myself.
When everyone judges everyone,
everyone judges themselves.
And conversely,
when we judge ourselves,
we judge everyone else.
Indefinitely.
It cannot be otherwise.
No longer accepting or tolerating anything in others
is indeed no longer accepting or tolerating anything in oneself.
When we condemn others too much,
do we not condemn ourselves too much?
In any case,
to be sooner or later victims of the same anathemas?
Doesn’t being incapable of understanding, tolerance or mercy towards others,
amount to being incapable of understanding, tolerance or mercy towards oneself?
Being unable to forgive others,
does it not amount to being unable to forgive oneself?
Because one is incapable of forgiveness,
then one needs to accuse others in order not to accuse oneself.
The more we accuse others
and the more we accuse ourselves.
The more we accuse ourselves,
the more we need to blame others.
The loop has come full circle, the vicious cycle is set in motion
and the process of destroying the bond, the bond to others,
but also the bond to oneself can begin,
and the nation can disintegrate.
The consequences are as much societal and political
as they are intimate and psychological.
By judging myself too much,
by not giving myself a chance at any fault,
I force myself, I constipate myself, I cannot be free.
There is no more room for spontaneity,
the slightest gesture, the simplest word must be controlled.
So how can you flourish when you are not free?
Flowers and vegetation blossom by being fully what they are
while composing with their environment.
Some are red, some are white, yellow, pink, purple,
or a little of all of these at once,
some are large, some are small, some take up more space than others,
some have flaws, others appear perfect,
but all exist through their own exuberance,
in a brilliant and delightful, magnificent and fascinating symbiosis.
Could it be that because a flower is not perfect
it would not be allowed to exist?
Aren’t all these small deviations from the norm of a species
precisely what has allowed them to evolve
up to the point of making possible the appearance
of the human species on earth?
Without the right to imperfection, without the right to error,
there is no more life, there is no more creation.
Eventually, everything dies.
Is it because we are not free in our heads
and are unable to fulfill ourselves as human beings
that we would like to throw everyone in jail?
We no longer even try to understand the context or the intention.
Whoever misinterprets what we do or say
will take his or her opinion as the gospel word
and, in the most extreme cases, will condemn anyone
to the anathema of the court of opinion and the Internet.
A person, or a society
that constantly judges and condemns itself
cannot be free.
It is impossible.
Constantly judging both others and oneself is a vicious circle,
a straitjacket in which points of reference
pertain to an almost impossible sanctity
that limits us, imprisons us,
in which there is no possible movement, no possible freedom.
It is a new form of inquisition.
And since all this has a certain odor of sanctity,
let us recall the words of a saintly man:
“Let him among you who is without sin cast the first stone.”*
*Jesus Christ,
The Holy Bible, John 8,7
This does not mean that justice should not prevail.
Quite the contrary.
Analyzing and judging are two completely different things.
Analyzing is seeing,
comprehending, understanding.
In order to judge, one must know.
To judge and to analyze, it is necessary to see.
To see, one must look.
Judging without knowing or understanding
is equal to usurping justice and being guilty of injustice.
Judging requires understanding.
Understanding,
it’s all there.
Understanding
that the human being is neither as simple nor as complicated as that.
Understanding
that understanding others requires understanding oneself,
and vice versa.
Genuine justice
understands all of this.
Genuine Justice
therefore seeks to understand and hear all points of view, all parties,
see and understand all the constituent elements of the case,
all the evidence, and even beyond.
This is why
in addition to magistrates and sages, witnesses, defendants and plaintiffs,
a Justice that respects itself requires
the presence of third parties, external and neutral points of view
in the persons of popular jurors in its courts and tribunals.
The aim of Justice is at least as much to punish
as to protect citizens from crimes and injustices
and ultimately to help people
never to resort to crime or injustice
in order to exist.
The goal of Justice is not so much to punish for the sake of punishing
as to give good lessons that can be used in the future and to stick to them.
No crime, no injustice that has been proven and found guilty
can remain without consequences in a society where justice is the rule.
Otherwise,
justice would never exist.
Criminals of all kinds, strengthened by the prevailing impunity,
would not be begged to commit their crimes.
All this is self-evident.
At the same time,
if this is the goal of the judicial, repressive system,
the goal of society is to create the right conditions for justice.
Therefore,
the judicial system, being obviously part of society,
must necessarily contribute to it.
Thus,
the goal of Justice is to resolve situations
so that they do not happen again or as little as possible,
at least as far as the parties are concerned,
at best for the nation as a whole.
An example:
why do people steal?
Two reasons:
misery and greed.
Restore economic justice
and reduce the calls for greed and covetousness
that are absolutely constant in our society
and you will see the crimes of theft decrease.
Thus,
a balance between prevention and education on the one hand,
and repression, understanding, re-education on the other
must be found.
This is also why the prison system must be thought out again
in such a way that the convicts
firstly become fully and completely aware of what has led them to their demise
and secondly so that in prisons and all places of deprivation of liberty,
efficient training systems are put in place
to give these same convicts the greatest possible chance
to regain their rightful place in society
and thus avoid relapsing into crime.
Moreover,
in the case of minor offenses that do not involve any danger to others,
alternatives to incarceration should be continued or favored,
particularly with regard to compensation for acts of vandalism.
Everyone is entitled to a second chance,
all the more so in a world where injustice, corruption and ignorance
are present everywhere
up to the highest levels of society.
If society does not provide the best possible conditions
for a convicted person, once he or she has served his or her sentence,
to be given a second chance,
then that society must build prisons, many prisons,
because he or she will return to them.
Indeed,
if no one wants the convicted to have the slightest chance
to return to the right path,
so we might as well let them rot in jail for the rest of their lives,
because it is inevitable, they will always get back in there.
Only by understanding them and their life circumstances
can real redemption be offered to those who have been brought to justice
and thus guarantee their total rehabilitation
and therefore the security of the members of society.
Indeed,
without this understanding,
no dialogue is possible.
Without any dialogue,
no lesson can be taught.
This does not mean that penalties cannot be severe,
even very severe.
We must no longer oppose
justice and understanding, justice and redemption.
Even more than not being opposed,
justice and understanding, justice and redemption are complementary.
Better still, they are the conditions for it.
Once again,
the purpose of justice is not to punish for the sake of punishing,
the purpose of justice is to serve justice
so that members of society have the least possible incentive to commit crimes.
In other words,
if the justice system must determine the innocence or guilt of the accused
and impose penalties whose severity
must be commensurate with the seriousness of the crime,
its purpose is at least as much to repress crime
as to instill a sense of justice in the body and mind of the entire nation.
In a just world,
where men and women are just,
justice is easy.
It goes without saying.
In our imperfect world, men are imperfect.
Because men are imperfect,
they build an imperfect world,
which exasperates their imperfections.
And so on and so forth indefinitely.
The only way out of this process is understanding.
It is wisdom, understanding and mercy.
The only way out of this process
is to build a better world,
a better world that can only come into existence
if we want it and if we achieve it together.
If by condemning others, we condemn ourselves,
then by showing mercy to others, we will show mercy to ourselves.
Thus and only thus will we be able to give the best of ourselves,
both as individuals and as a nation.
It is so obvious.
Similar to each other,
we are all mirrors of each other.
Reaching understanding and tolerance for others
is reaching understanding and tolerance for oneself,
and vice versa.
Let us therefore have more consideration for others,
we will have more consideration for ourselves.
Inevitably.
In the primary sense of the term,
without justice,
no relationship between free and equal persons in law can exist,
it is impossible.
Without justice,
no nation made up of citizens who are free and equal in law
can exist.
It is impossible.
A justice that is both enlightened and independent, free and structured
is at the same time the sign of a new world
and its condition.
When justice sets the conditions for its own existence,
its raison d’être, its way of functioning as much as its objectives,
justice exists.
When society gives itself the means of justice,
Justice comes to life.
Wouldn’t you like to see justice springs forth as light springs forth
in order for justice to shine on Earth?
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Another world is possible.
The absolute may not exist,
but among the infinity of possible paths,
the path leading to it is infinite.
Do you see what I mean?
The path of human beings is a destination without end
but with an ever-renewed potential,
with an infinity of possible new knowledge
and therefore ever-greater powers, ever more real, sensitive progress
whose benefits would affect everyone.
There are collective thoughts and organizations,
there are thoughts, states, dynamics and politics,
there are dimensions
where wisdom, knowledge, benevolence, happiness,
peace, understanding, life, reconciliation and fulfillment
generate each other.
No dogma, no act, no tyrannical will is capable of that.
No tyranny, no injustice will touch salvation, light, positivity, grace.
We are all part of the historical dynamics
that has carried us along in its current.
The nightmare can still be avoided.
May humanity know how to make us open our eyes to the obvious.
Become aware that a few basic reforms,
simple and few in number,
but healthy, solid, well-founded and fertile
are enough to change direction,
for the dynamic to change itself.
It doesn’t matter where we are,
if our destination is common,
we will meet.
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If it is the prevailing thought
that shapes our human and earthly reality,
then a new thought is needed
to shape our common human and earthly reality.
If it is thinking that shapes our common reality,
then we must also talk about the relationship between power and religion.
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Separation of powers:
Religious power and secular power.
Beyond the three traditional forms of power,
that is, legislative, executive and judicial,
there are, in addition to political power, at least two others, undeniably very powerful,
which it is also crucial and essential to separate and moderate
through the play of counterweights, counter-powers,
in order not to fall into the scourge of tyranny and its infernal downward spiral:
Economic-financial power and religious power.
The balance of power is the absolute condition for freedom.
Our goal is clear:
Harmony.
Just like economic power and political power,
religious and political powers cannot be mixed.
The fact that believers in a God of justice and humanity
can influence the destiny of humanity
may be a blessing as much as a curse is an obviousness
which must be reflected in law, theory, organization and practice.
Each in their own way,
approximately 84% of human beings on this Earth believe
in an almighty and superior entity.*
* http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/mysticism/world_religions_populations.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
This cannot mean, therefore,
that all those who are believers should be excluded from the political game.
That would be totally undemocratic.
Let us be clear:
Everything is based on justice, harmony and freedom.
All believers are equal citizens, equal to everybody else.
As such,
they have the most legitimate right to represent the nation-community.
Even if a grassroots fanatic were drawn by lot,
he or she would soon be unmasked in the election campaign
that should precede any representative appointment.
Nevertheless,
we must be aware
that the fascination that religious power exerts on people’s minds is immense,
especially in times of hardship.
Human fascination for that which is beyond them
and which they cannot understand
is immense.
This fascination for the Mystery of Life and the Beyond
has a gigantic scope, bordering on the infinite.
At the limits of consciousness,
the elusive, the insuperable, the impassable has an infinite reach.
When the Word of God is used
for personal, even criminal, and tyrannical purposes,
he who takes the divine word for his selfish ends
commits an illegitimate and terrible act.
Religious power is dangerous
from the moment it becomes political.
History amply proves this.
The word of God is too powerful for human beings.
No man, no woman, no human,
is big enough for God.
As soon as we believe in what cannot be demonstrated,
a limit is crossed.
Potentially,
one can believe in anything and everything that doesn’t exist.
Believing
is at least taking the risk of taking for real
what is not real.
As soon as we believe in something that doesn’t necessarily exist,
one can believe and give credence to anything.
A line has been crossed.
A borderline that is all the more worrisome
when one gives an absolute, absolutist, dogmatic and authoritarian value
to what one believes.
This is true of all kinds of dogmas,
religious, economic and political alike.
Thus,
one can be manipulated
to the extent of no longer knowing what one is doing
and losing one’s mind, getting crazy, brutal and cruel,
because the ruler orders it and dictates the dogma,
because power is affected
by acute narcissism and the cult of one’s own personality,
because the market is a new blind and dogmatic cult,
or because the religious power says that it is God who said
that you must injure, persecute, tyrannize.
When this mental process of ignorance, dogma, lying and denying is collectively nurtured,
even the slightest opponents are put in the dungeon or on the scaffold.
Every victim of a brutal and torturous dogma
that mercilessly and indiscriminately tortures and murders children, women and men,
are plunged into a waking nightmare.
When this nightmare is imposed on an entire society,
effects are terrible, gigantic and crimes horrifying.
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Misbelieving
Among the 84% of humanity
who each in their own way believe in a Divine entity,
how many of them know who God really is?
Too often,
believing is believing in blind faith.
Too often,
blindly believing is projecting on God
everything that can be convenient for us.
Too often,
projecting upon God whatever suits us
is imparting our own shortcomings to God
and seizing the qualities of His word
in order to abuse it and oppress others.
From then on,
a psychic process is set in motion.
All kinds of abuses,
even the worst and most nightmarish ones
become possible.
Any distortion of the divine word
can then be used as a justification for the slightest fantasy
that goes through the heads of all those who have gone astray.
From there on,
a vicious circle of self-deception, self-conditioning,
intimate and collective wandering follows
which precipitates ever faster and more dangerously the lost ones
in the deep darkness of obscurantism as in a frantic downfall
towards the center of a black hole with no apparent bottom…
Hell.
Hell on Earth.
In the name of God,
they raise hell on Earth.
Thus,
the clear separation of political and religious powers
must be the guarantee, the constitutional guardian
of our unconditional freedom, wisdom, well-being and humanity.
Thus,
the more influential a function is exercised within a religious organization,
the less those who exercise it should be entitled
to popular representation and governance.
The need to identify with a religion
in order not to respect a God or a Divinity
but to use the divine word to misuse it
is destructive and metaphysically evil.
At all times and in all places, even today,
we know that too many are tempted to abuse this ‘esoteric’ power
to wield the name of God before the minds of people
for dark, selfish and narcissistic, tyrannical, destructive and murderous purposes,
murderous of justice and freedom, destructive of all forms of harmony
still possible among men, women, and children throughout the world.
The destroyers of the divine harmony are destroyers of the divinity,
whatever the name given to Her or Him.
God’s power is too great to abuse.
In the eyes of a perfect God, free and in harmony with Himself,
this is without doubt the supreme sin.
Using the divine word to destroy universal harmony
is destroying divine harmony.
Destroying the divine in this world.
Using the divine word to murder humans
is murdering the Divine.
That is why,
from a certain level of power within a religious organization,
the mission of embodying the sovereignty of the nation and, by extension, humanity
must be formally prohibited.
As soon as religious power seizes political power,
it almost automatically turns into sectarian and dogmatic totalitarianism,
enslaving and authoritarian, stupid and bloodthirsty.
The same cause has always had the same consequence:
Whether religious, economic or political,
tyranny is a source of horror for everyone.
Until their absurd and useless system collapses by itself
in atrocious suffering for everyone,
including tyrants.
No one escapes it.
No one can escape it.
The richest man,
the most powerful man,
the most religious man,
the most tyrannical man,
all are human, and simply human.
No one escapes the tsunamis of history.
No human can escape the destiny of Humanity.
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The Assassination of the Divinity
Verily,
when God is thus hijacked
and fantasized for mediocre, sick and evil personal ends,
God is unrevealed.
Worse, He is stifled.
He is repressed.
He is slaughtered!
Indeed,
the universal and infinite Divinity represents a threat
to those who use it for personal, mediocre, unhealthy and evil purposes.
Why do you believe Jesus was put on the cross?
The greatest humanists are always easy prey
to those who no longer have any scruples about imposing their tyranny
through violence and malfeasance.
Misbelieving…
If there is a definition to be given to this absurd term,
it is this one.
Believing blindly to the point of destroying life and the living
is the very definition of misbelieving.
The irony is that often the greatest “misbelievers” and tyrants
are the ones who never stop lecturing others
on order and justice, theology and holiness, and the greatness of God.
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Divinization or demonization.
God is neither a prison, nor a brute, nor a murderer.
If God exists,
God is the protector, the savior, the liberator.
God enlightens, reveals, liberates, unifies.
The infinite God cannot be enclosed in dogmas
because God sees
and his eyes find the essence of every being and everything.
Since God is all that exists, and all that does not exist,
God is all things and all beings.
If God is every being and everything,
then God can be neither a torturer nor a murderer.
God is the opposite of tyranny.
God is the opposite of ignorance.
God is the opposite of dogma.
Dogma is neither science nor faith.
Dogma is the opposite of wisdom.
Dogma is closed-mindedness.
Closed-mindedness is dogma,
the very opposite of divine omniscience.
This must be made clear.
Dogma is the transformation of an ideology or a religion
in order to manipulate and exploit minds improperly,
and ultimately impose tyranny on the greatest number.
Because tyranny is always monstrous,
dogmas are to be feared as murderous, cursed and foul plagues.
Religious tyrannies are even worse
because, evoking demons, supposedly embodying evil,
they can be used, instrumentalized, to create enemies
and justify the massacre and, or enslavement
of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of innocent people.
This is called demonization.
Calling innocent people demons
in order to brutalize them, or even torture and massacre them,
invoking God to do so and having the poison of demonization spread
are, in God’s eyes, terrible and evil acts.
Invoking the powers of the afterlife
to commit injustices and crimes
is like summoning demons.
Truthfully,
this is one of the deadliest sins.
The three great monotheisms
have or have had all the more tendency to sink into this abyss
because their God is one, absolute, all-powerful,
all too often vengeful for want of being just, unfortunately,
and because they make up beliefs about life after death
into equally inflexible and immutable laws
which, although purely hypothetical,
leave little room for probing or questioning.
Using the divine word
to possess the spirits of the faithful, to manipulate them
and use them as bloodthirsty weapons, as executioners or human bombs,
is therefore both a crime
and the antithesis, the exact opposite of the divine will.
Verily,
if there is a divine will,
then it commands us to protect ourselves from all dogmatic tyrants.
We must never take the risk of religious power
becoming too great.
The limit is political power
which must be denied to every religious leader.
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Spiritual power.
The power of the universal and infinite Spirit.
True spiritual, authentic and sincere religious leaders
do not need to exercise any political power to exist.
God’s infinite voice existing of itself,
if they know how to incarnate Him,
His voice will carry.
He or she who truly embodies the divinity
will partake of the radiance of His power.
It is quite sufficient.
When He reveals Himself,
His power is immense.
There is no need for the Spiritual Guide
to take over the power of men, nor any political power:
True spiritual power exists by itself.
And this is undoubtedly well and good.
The one whose God or Divinity is universal
is necessarily humane, authentic, free and just, wise and worthy.
It is wonderful news that spiritual leaders spread the universal word.
As long as each and everyone remains free
to believe or not to believe,
to believe in the divinity that speaks to him or her the most,
to spread the word, in exchange and tolerance, in respect and benevolence
then, as the light of all the stars of the universe illuminates,
light can shine through darkness.
As long as the separation between religion and politics
is clearly defined and applied,
the nation is not only preserved from religious madness
but also spirituality and wisdom can express themselves freely
and finally fulfill their full role
and work for the salvation of humanity on Earth.
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Separation of political and religious powers.
Here is why and how
‘secularism’ as defined here
allows all beliefs but does not favor any.
Thus,
a strong secularism of respect and understanding
of the divinity is, would be, in phase with God himself,
in phase with all possible interpretations, ad infinitum, of the One,
who, by nature, by essence and by definition,
is infinite.
Not only does it allow us to put every faith or belief on an equal footing,
but also, and thus, it is the guarantor of their common existence.
Whatever the name or the forms we give it,
tyranny is the antithesis of the Divinity.
Whatever our beliefs, whatever our paths, whatever our destinies,
freedom of conscience is our common security,
it is the guarantee of our existence, our common welfare,
the common good of humanity.
So is divine political secularism.
Like everyone else,
religions and those who echo them
will always have the right and freedom to express themselves.
This freedom, this universal right,
is of course only possible in a balance between religious and political powers
laid out in a form of tolerant and understanding secularism,
a clear, well-defined, firm, assumed and just form of the separation of powers,
because it ensures freedom and the right of all to live in harmony.
God is necessarily absolute.
A single God is necessarily an absolute God.
The dangers of excesses are too great and terrible.
The influence of religions and their spokespeople
on people’s minds is already quite sufficient power in itself.
We will repeat it as many times as necessary
for those to whom it is offered neither to see nor to know,
to finally open their eyes and discover the light of wisdom and consciousness.
The greater the religious influence,
the wiser it is to limit its political influence.
The more the being of faith is influential in the religious sphere,
the less legitimate he or she is to exercise political representation.
For then he or she would concentrate two distinct forms of power:
religious power and political power.
His or her power combined with his or her weaknesses
could raise hell on earth.
No God is needed to see and know this:
Consciousness, wisdom, justice, truth, secularism, freedom and harmony
are self-evident.
If an infinite and universal Divinity exists, if God exists,
then it is God Himself who commands us, who says the prayer:
God will never wish the Earth to become a hell.
Protection against absolutist, arbitrary dogma, tyranny
and the chronic injustices they entail
is the foundation of political secularism.
Europe understood all this a long time ago,
but urgently needs to rediscover it.
In order to balance them,
just as economic powers should be separated from political powers,
so we must separate political and religious powers.
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Secularism and freedom of speech
As we have said,
all this does not, of course, prevent us from speaking of the Uncreated,
of its existence and, or non-existence.
On the contrary,
the divine mystery is so interesting and exciting.
Thus,
no one can be prevented or forbidden
from acceding to political and democratic representation
on the basis of his religion or beliefs.
And yet,
no belief is necessary to have heart, soul and passion.
Secularism is relatively easy to learn.
The separation of religious from political powers
is not only an act of justice and wisdom,
it is also an act of contrition, an elevation.
And to those whose word carries,
so be it:
Let your word carry.
May the power that is yours be the power of the word and the mind,
but not the political power.
For the right to live,
to live in peace and freedom belongs to everyone,
believers or not, religious or not.
Or God, if He existed, would be neither infinite,
nor universal, nor almighty, nor invincible, nor creator, nor eternal.
Having read all of the above,
how could you not understand?
Harmony is and always will be
the best condition for the survival of a society,
an organism, a system, an entity, an ideology, a spirit or a deity,
whatever its name, form, precepts and principles.
It is thus the best condition for the survival of the species.
By making everyone free
to believe in the God he or she wishes,
as long as no one imposes by force and domination, threat or persecution,
his or her own vision on others,
tolerant secularism allows the existence of religions, political freedom,
and in return allows, will allow, would allow
a constant mutual enrichment.
Political secularism means allowing each religion, faith and belief
to enrich all the others by giving them the best of themselves.
It means allowing peaceful and beneficial relations
between all religions, ideologies, cultures, ideas and thoughts.
The common, universal goal is harmony.
It is also the goal of a perfect divinity.
To share and enrich each other.
It is not to sack, burn and slaughter everything
by exterminating each other in the greatest and most absurd of evils.
Secularism is a distinction between political and religious powers
so that every citizen of every religion can live together.
This is an irrepressible political principle:
A firm and clear-cut accepted, rational and fulfilled secularism
is not only tolerant and just
but also guarantees the freedom of the people,
justice, wisdom, freedom and harmony.
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A miracle
Thinking, ‘seeing’, feeling and sharing
the wonderful and ‘divine’ on this Earth and in this Universe
is bringing to life what is divine in our world and in ourselves.
The number of people in the world
who believe in some form of divinity is around 84%,
a little more, a little less, according to studies.
This gives us an idea of the power of the divine word and the name of God.
Approximately 84% of the earth’s population accepts the idea of a deity,
which is both a curse and an immense blessing.
A curse because a relatively small portion of people
are actually and genuinely connected to this higher entity
so as to see and understand who God truly is.
Because many are easily manipulated,
vulnerable to all those who abuse their religious power
for obscure, narcissistic and selfish ends.
Nevertheless,
and provided that the authentically divine, infinite and universal spirit
finally inspires humans and all of humanity,
religious beliefs can also prove to be an immense blessing.
If 84% of the world’s population assume the existence of a deity,
that makes about 6 billion out of the 7.5 billion of us human beings.
By nature, by essence and by definition,
the Universal liberates, transcends and unifies.
If God exists,
God is a liberator,
not a tyrant.
He is the Liberator.
He is the Savior.
If 84% of humanity heard its true message,
then we would be saved.
All of us together,
almost instantly.
Since the relationship we have with this substance and spirit that we worship
is unique and personal to each of us,
then liberating God in our consciousness
is giving God, all our Gods,
the power to liberate spiritual knowledge.
God is Freedom.
The liberation of speech and conscience, freedom of thought and speech
is extremely positive, enriching and beneficial.
If out of the 7.5 billion human beings,
6 could hear the universal divinity,
the miracle would be accomplished.
How else to say it?
That is the purpose of this writing.
Each of the many arguments presented in it
could be summarized at best in three words, at worst in a few simple sentences:
God is universal.
God is Freedom.
God is Joy.
God is Life.
God is Wisdom.
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The miracle has already begun.
A quiet revolution led by the scientific knowledge of its existence
has already begun but is not yet complete.
Its accomplishment would be a miracle.
Understanding that infinity is divine
at least as much as the divinity is infinite
is a conceptual, universal, both scientific and spiritual revolution
that has the power to save humanity.
It will be accomplished,
or we will die
for not having understood and accomplished it.
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Innermost God,
and freedom of conscience.
If infinity is divine at least as much as divinity is infinite,
then the intimate and the infinite meet.
If the infinite is elusive by nature and by definition,
then God is all the more deeply a private matter as God is infinite.
Forever elusive,
infinity is incarnated in our sensitive and sentient humanity
that sits at the heart of who we are.
If the presence of God cannot, and probably never will be scientifically proven,
then God is a matter of belief.
God is an inner question that cannot be imposed on anyone.
It can be revealed and shared
but never, ever imposed.
Respect for others’ words and thoughts
is therefore intrinsically a divine law.
If God wanted us to have no freedom,
then he would constantly make his existence known to all of humanity
so that no one would have any choice but to meekly follow him.
If God were to be a tyrant, he would be one.
And no possible form of freedom would exist.
But he doesn’t.
Why does he not?
Because God is both universal and infinite, one and multiple at the same time.
He is by nature and by definition freedom of mind.
Because God is everything and nothing at the same time,
everywhere and nowhere all at once,
because God is free,
because God is perfect, because God is the Creator, because God is Love.
Because God cannot be unjust, brutal and wicked,
and because God cannot want the death of the innocent
with the most cruel and monstrous treatment.
It’s impossible.
No God worthy of the name
can be a totally intolerant, violent, bloodthirsty and diabolically wicked tyrant.
It is impossible.
For God is invincible and almighty.
God wants neither crime nor war.
God wants justice and harmony everywhere on Earth.
When thinking is right,
thinking is necessarily as universal as possible.
I would go even further:
The more the thinking or seeing entity
is aware of the whole and the parts, of the whole and the details,
the more it is fair, both just and right.
In order to understand reality
and to adapt to the dynamics, the circumstances
and respond to the greatest challenges of all times,
we must open our eyes and see the real causes of our collective perdition.
This is certainly, undeniably, irrefutably
at the polar opposite of dogmatic, fanatical, liberticidal thinking.
Universal thinking does not affirm His existence in the absolute sense,
but it admits a divine principle to the universe.
This principle is life on earth as a whole.
All this is very strange when you think about it, when you look at it.
If the universal could offer itself as a new way of thinking,
then it would be miraculous, even more miraculous, if possible,
than all religions combined.
Or rather, to be more exact,
if not only religions could agree
on such a broad, rational, metaphysical and spiritual characterization of the divinity,
but if, in addition, humans could understand that no one,
whether he or she wants to or not,
is ever cut off,
separated from his or her fellow human beings and from the universal,
then the addition of these two currents of thought, or consciousness,
would at least have the power to overthrow all the tyrannies of the world.
Harmony is divine as much as divinity is harmony.
For every nation on Earth, for the whole world,
the separation of political and religious powers
is a vital, life-saving duty.
In light of the survival of the Spirit on earth,
incarnated by the human species,
it is a sacred duty.
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Separation of political and economic powers;
Conflicts of interest;
Justice and anti-corruption.
In order to be able to aspire to the sacred mission
to represent and serve the nation,
to speak and act on behalf of all of us and all the beings that make it up, both human and non-human,
one must work for the common good before one’s own.
If, therefore,
a member of the 1% of the richest part of the population was drawn by lot,
it would become absolutely indispensable and necessary
for the absence of conflicts of interest and corruption to be proven.
There is a level beyond which the rich, like the religious,
have too much power to be able to combine it with political power
without risking big authoritarian excesses.
The higher a person occupies a rank in the economic or religious hierarchies,
the less it can claim high ranks in the political hierarchy.
Thus,
in the event that a member of the 1% were to be randomly selected,
then one or even several independent, thorough and detailed investigations
into the businesses, accounts and partnerships of the person in question
would be indispensable and mandatory
in order to ensure his or her probity and honesty.
If, by any chance and for any reason,
the investigation were to be hampered in the least,
then that person would not be given permission to participate
in the appointment process of the nation’s representatives
and would be de facto excluded from it.
That being said,
if the absence of corruption was proven,
then the members of the 1% could enjoy the same civil rights than any other citizen.*
*Let us note,
to do justice to what has been previously said,
that the members of the 1% do not have,
unlike religious leaders,
either the power of the word of God
or billions of potential followers,
which makes all the difference.
.If on the one hand
the contemporary traditional system of political representation
is reduced to a third of the political representation with citizens and experts
within the new clerocratic system as described here,
and if on the other hand the 1% is 1%,
it will then never be much more than 1% in the legislatures,
provided, of course, that the voters have chosen them
in the vote following the universal random selection process.
Thus,
the odds for the richest 1% to steal national representation is made impossible
by the very fact that the new clerocratic system establishes a national representation
that is faithful to the population as a whole.
According to the law of probabilities
made possible by the process of random selection
followed by elections by universal suffrage,
the 1% will be represented as they are:
a minority!
Once again,
when the banking and monetary system is reformed,
the structural dynamics will have been reversed
in favor of the majority of humanity,
and this is what is decisive,
as we have sufficiently demonstrated.
The possible representation of 1% for at most 1% of the national representation
will never be able to overthrow a humanity that has understood
that the laws dictated by wisdom and universal harmony alone
can make it invincible.
When the balance of power is restored,
the law is preserved
and justice, wisdom and freedom prevail.
Moreover,
if laws and prohibitions were dictated by injustice,
resistance to change would be such
that it would seem impossible unless a violent clash occurred.
Violence that would be a harbinger of dark excesses and consequences
of a new tyranny having taken the place of the old one.
If truth and justice are synonymous,
then denying representation to the least segment of the population
would nip in the bud the work of justice for which we speak out.
That being said,
citizens must be informed,
and must be able to make an informed choice
in the elections that will follow the random selection process.
In addition,
the slightest attempt at corruption
by the payment of bribes or in any way whatsoever
would be severely punished.
As well as in Athens,
any representative of the Nation
will have to be held accountable for his or her actions
following the mission that will have been entrusted to him or her.
This total transparency is the key to success.
The key that unlocks the door.
The door that opens the way to salvation.
A world moving in the right direction
is a fairer and safer world for everyone,
for my loved ones, for my children, for myself,
for all that I am, for all that you are, for all that we are,
deep within ourselves.
Planetary harmonization is inevitable if we want to live.
Humanity’s salvation is the best proof, the most marvelous manifestation
that we will be and you will be forgiven.
If a sufficient number of the 1% rallied justice and harmony on Earth,
and proved it by deeds,
then humanity could be saved.
Realize, become aware,
and help bring about major life-saving reforms.
If Humanity is saved,
we will all be saved,
and so will you.
You too will be forgiven.
The great forgiveness is universal.
Or the universal will disappear and we will disappear with it.
The Divine Substance, the Divine Spirit, will disappear with it.
Is Humanity the only universal consciousness
which exists on Earth and perhaps even in the universe?
Would we be the only consciousness,
the only form of life that can open up to the infinite
within infinity itself?
Who knows?
Perhaps all mammals, all insects, all animals, all forms of life
are capable of reaching infinity, in some way, each in its own particular way?
Will we ever be able to answer this question?
Are we the only species to experience infinity and harmony,
consciousness, grace and wonder?
Both in our greatest despair, in our greatest suffering
and in our greatest explosions of happiness and magnificence,
it is undeniable that in each one of us lies a fragment of infinity.
If on the one hand,
it is nowadays undeniable that infinity exists
and if on the other it is undeniable that in each one of us lies a measure of infinity,
then the following is also undeniable:
The miracle is possible.
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Listen to Wisdom
Let’s no longer let the nitpickers who are paid to protect the powers that be
take over any subject, hijack them and drown them in lies and propaganda
in order to delay any strong and frank decision making
that will finally make us move in the right direction.
Let’s be clear,
it is not a question of questioning the right of free speech, quite the contrary,
but with regard to the urgency of the world situation,
we do not have the luxury of debating for too much longer
while listening to people sold to the establishment.
Let the intelligent and non-corrupt ones participate in the debate,
discuss the best course of action to take.
Let us follow wisdom.
As long as the people is sovereign
by universal, constitutional, natural, humanistic and divine right,
as long as we apply the laws of universal wisdom and reason,
we make the right decisions, we go in the right direction.
We will be able to build up the edifice.
And the edifice will rise.
The structure will hold.
The Edifice will save us from the storms to come.
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