Re: Collaboration by Leading People to Finance World Needs

[Garry Davis <worldlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/7/03 6:58 AM, John Gelles at indexed-savings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Dear John Gelles et al,
After reading your letter below to Doug Everingham which you kindly
forwarded to me among others, I turned immediately to my copy of Buckminster
Fuller's Critical Path and the chapter on "World Game." I highly recommend
its rereading on the subject of money based on electrical output. Some
relevant quotes:
"There can be no planetary equity until all the sovereign nations are
abolished and we have but one accounting system-that of the one human family
aboard the spaceship Earth."
"The first step in bringing about the desovereignization will be the closing
of the gaps in the world electric power grid. The world-unifying electric
power accounting will be the beginning of the omnienergy accounting for
world economic management."
"World Game finds that wealth measures the degree to which humans have used
their minds to discover scientific principles and have used those principles
to invent artifacts and environment-controlling and implementing
complex-artifact systems which, AS POWERED ONLY BY DAILY ENERGY INCOME
(emphasis added), can be demonstrably shown to be able to take care of of
given numbers of people for given number of forward days."
"World Game makes it clear that the world electrical systems' energy network
integration and its comprehensive  powering of automated, special case
machinery would most effectively counter the peril of overspecialization of
the human and would introduce the omni-Universe-operative, time-energy,
KILOWATT-HOURS-PER-YEAR, (emphasis added) commonwealth accounting system."
As for world government, Bucky writes:
"World government will require all industries to install the
already-successfully-proven technology and therewith precipitate  and
recover all their profitwise-unwanted chemical byproducts....World
government will then stockpile all the chemical substances recovered from
all previous liquid, gaseous, or solid dumpings, fumings, or
runnings-off-known ignorantly as 'pollution'"

As an example of an economic artifact based on Bucky's these of energy as
the PRIME economic unit, I attach a picture of the Kilowatt Dollar, the
official currency of the World Government founded 50 years ago. (For the
moment its par value in allied with the US dollar. The Kilowatt fund is at
Riggs National Bank, DC.) (For information,see also the attached release).
(The World Government's design-science World Coordinator, incidentally is
Bill Perk, who worked with Bucky on the World Game at Southern Ill U. at
Carbondale.)

I attended Bucky's Centenary Forum at MIT in April, 1995. My talk was
entitled "World Thought, Corollary to World Action: in which I quoted
Bucky's warning in Grunch of Giants: "We may soon be atombombed into
extinction by the pre-emptive folly of the political puppet administrators
fronting for the exclusively-for-money-making, supranational corporation'
weaponry industry of the now hopelessly bankrupt
greatest-weapons-manufacturing nation, the U.S,A."

The exercise of sovereign political choice by definition is an inalienable
right of we humans. You mention "world political and financial leaders" in
your reply to Doug. But who are they? On the world level, we are all
amateurs, especially in political terms. That's precisely why the individual
declaration of world citizenship is vital: "The will of the people shall be
the basis of the authority of government." Article 21(3), Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
With cordial regards in the World Village.
Garry Davis



 Dear Doug Everingham
>
> In response to the need I wrote that the world faces to
> spend today the greenback-type money Lincoln spent
> in the American Civil War, and Roosevelt (and all
> nations) spent in World War II, which is money
> based on circulation, workers' savings and the legal
> power to repay debt, you have been supportive.
>
> You mentioned money that might be recognized by
> highly respected people (whom you named) so that, in
> time, governments might be able to finance needs that
> private banking does not now address.
>
> You and I see the potential of such money to be spent
> into circulation in these critical times so that the benefits
> of science and industry can be produced in far greater
> amount than today -- when debt-based money is so
> scarce (and can grow debt too fast for industry to
> grow output to meet need.)
>
> The key to the money you and I want is the intention
> that workers, (including managers and business owners)
> will want to save wages and profits for future spending,
> as output rises very fast. If they will save, prices can be
> low enough for the money to motivate hard work.
>
> Highly respected people have been unable to collaborate
> with each other, or with world political or financial leaders,
> or with opinion makers in media, to popularize greenbacks
> in our current hour of need. The first order of business
> by our current American President appears to be to fight
> a war on terrorism without the kind of money that financed
> the arsenal of democracy against Hitler and Tojo.
>
> Other nations follow suit and add to our problems the not
> so hidden desire to humble the United States for removing
> from power the worst despot since Adolph Hitler.
>
> In the current issue of the New Yorker Magazine is a letter
> from North Korea describing the next worst despot since
> Hitler. And this one has a big army that may have to be
> destroyed if diplomacy fails.
>
> Because weapons have become so terrible and are being
> produced by failed nations, we are living in fearful times.
> The menace of communism is gone but the menace of
> ignorance in high places remains.
>
> In your message you mentioned Joseph Stiglitz. He and
> Ben Bernanke, a governor of the American central bank,
> have recently asked for greenbacks to defeat world hunger
> and thirst and to prevent deflation.  So far, few are heeding
> their call.
>
> No leading politician in the industrial world appears ready
> to ask for Lincoln's or Roosevelt's financing methods to
> achieve victory over want and terrorism today.
>
> Of course, we are lucky that there is a real potential for
> cooperation among the continental sized nations, and
> between such treaty organizations as the UN and NATO
> and these immense nations, to enter an era free of world
> war and uncontrollable arms races.
>
> In such an era, the necessary development of political and
> economic tools to solve our problems is possible. From this
> perspective, we are living in one of the most hopeful periods
> in history.
>
> We who criticize everyone else, especially those in office,
> might try to collaborate better with each other -- as we want
> them to collaborate better with each other.
>
> It is truly sad to see so many of us fighting each other for no
> gain at all -- fighting only to evidence our own ignorance.
>
> The enemy is not any one of us, or the Presidents of the
> US or France. The enemy is want and terrorism and people
> with guns and bombs who commit murder for a living--
> here or in paradise-- or both.
>
> The bankers and hard money advocates are NOT the
> enemy. They do not outnumber workers. They can be
> convinced at the polls to make money our servant and
> to be tied more to potential economic output than poorly
> disciplined debt.
>
> John
>
>
>

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