G20 MEETING IN WASHINGTON: NECESSARY PARADIGM SHIFT

[Morpheal]

G20 MEETING IN WASHINGTON: NECESSARY PARADIGM SHIFT

What should the first and foremost priority be for world economic leaders, the G20, meeting
in Washington ?

The first priority must be the overcoming of the historic role of any and all a-priori sectarian ideologies from their blinding and conflict oriented effects. That includes such a-priori systems as capitalism (various flavors), free marketism (epitomized by G.W.Bush’s recent pronouncements on his personal belief system), communism (various flavors), socialism (various flavors), and some lesser spooks and hobgoblins that exist to persuade, dissuade, and otherwise possess the human mind. What the world needs is an exorcism of all those foul spirits.

That clearing of the human mind then leads to clear discernment of the real problems, and it also permits clear insight on how best to solve those problems. We must realize that every system, placed ahead of the facts, distorts both facts and limits potential solutions. Every system must be put aside, in order to see the situation clearly and truly. When this fundamental shift in thinking occurs, true progress becomes possible. The alternative is wandering in the systemic bog, until perishing in one quagmire of conflict or another. We have to get out of the bog not deeper in it. The monsters there have been devouring humanity and are showing their teeth more fiercely than ever. To slay them we have to clear our minds of the illusions that systemic assumptions that include belief in a particular system always cloud our reason, perceptions, discernment of truth, and dictate to our actions. We cannot fight those monsters while following systemic dictatorship, regardless of which system, what capital city and what leader, that dictate comes from. We must suspend belief in order to overcome the peril.

Limitations imposed by specific systems of beliefs, placed ahead of facts, and limiting what solutions can be implemented, nearly destroyed humanity in the 20th century. We cannot allow that to continue. All belief must be suspended in favour of true reason, facts, and the sciences.

This essential shift in pardigms, away from the twentieth century systemic dialectic and its constant and persistent abuse of humanity, is a necessary first step to a future that is a future of true progress based on the one essential moral, ethical, principle, as to what serves the present and future good of humanity, ie what truly betters the human condition, providing for maintained and improved quality of life. Science is able to provide direction, without recourse to a-priori systems of belief, on that question also. The social sciences have a relatively clear picture of what provides for the good, without recourse to systemic assumptions being placed ahead of that determination. It is not a point of debate as each system would claim it to be. That again is the fault of a-priori systemic belief, ahead of clear discernment of facts and progressive solutions to the real problems. We can know the common good, and the way to the common good, by means of a pure science, but we cannot know it on the basis of systemic assumptions being placed ahead of that science, clouding its clarity and truth.

Robert Morpheal


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