Freedom Justice Community
Voluntary, Self-Governing Jural Assembly Communities funded with Community-Created Credit give us the Society that Benefits Everyone
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This book aims to describe the essentials for creating the society that benefits everyone, the ideal world we can all describe to each other, the utopia we are taught is unrealistic, but which we envision as possible to create. The two questions that this book aims to answer are: 1. “Why is the society that benefits everyone considered utopian, and therefore out of reach?” and: 2. “What kind of society would we create if it were entirely up to us - We, the People?” The answer to the first question: (“Why is the society that benefits everyone considered utopian, and therefore out of reach?”) is that we have a false understanding of the forces that are controlling society. The Official Story attributes the circumstances of our lives to human nature and our government. People are considered selfish, greedy, fearful, and irresponsible and must be controlled by our government; and democracy is considered the best form of government. The truth is, as we all know from our lived experience, if we can get the money to do what we desire to do, we can do it, but if we can’t get the money, we can’t do it. It thus becomes obvious that money is the controlling factor that orients society and directs human endeavor. The primary tool that the sovereign, the lawgiver, uses to create the conditions in which we live is money creation. Unfortunately, we do not know who the sovereign is, what the money is being issued for, and how money issuance orients society and directs our endeavors. We all have a visceral sense that the wealth discrepancy is not justified, that the billionaires have captured the government, and that the government serves primarily their interests, not ours. The answer to the second question (“What kind of society would we create if it were entirely up to us - We, the People?”) is that we would create the society that benefits everyone when We, the People, remember we are sovereign. When we remember we are sovereign, we will issue the money so that money is not the issue. The questions become: What would you like to dedicate your life to accomplishing? How much will it cost to develop your capacities to do that and inspire collaborators to work with you? How much capital will you and your collaborators require? When the answers to those questions are reasonable, you will issue the money you can be responsible for. The book aims to describe the philosophical ideas and the practical reasons why it is reasonable for each of us to issue the money we each need to capitalize our capacities.
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Money makes the world go round? This should be: Money goes round the world. We have a world economy that could be benefiting everyone. Money is like manure; it is only good when it is spread around. Everyone’s work needs to be fertilized with the right amount of money for society to be healthy. Money is the root of all evil or the love of money is the root of all evil. Do we assume that the problem is human nature, not money itself? This book demonstrates that the problem is not human nature, and it is not money itself. The problem is who issues the money, how it is issued, and what it is issued for. Monetary reform is necessary but not sufficient to bring about the world we know in our hearts. To bring about the world we know in our hearts, we must share that knowing with each other. This book aims to show that when the individual is Free to express the love that wells up naturally to fulfill their life’s purpose; when society is Just because it is based on the people’s active consent and participation in adjudicating / remediating harm; and when everything that the people provide each other to satisfy their needs and desires is the result of a voluntary initiative inspired and supported by the Community, and funded as a right; then the individual will be sovereign and will be creating, contributing to, and maintaining a society that benefits everyone.
About the Author
I come from an Anthroposophical family, attended 13 years of Waldorf School in New York City, dropped out of Bowdoin College and graduated from the Camphill Seminar (for special education and social therapy) I am a member of the Anthroposophical Society and The School of Spiritual Science and its Social Science Section. I have been living and worked in intentional communities oriented to manifesting Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science most of my life. My career has been creating community with people with mental disabilities in an intentional community called the Cadmus Lifesharing Association in which everyone is a volunteer. I wish I had known Sociocracy during that time because consensus is a lousy way to govern an intentional community. The motto of the Cadmus Lifesharing Association is “Everyone is perfect in their essential being and everyone is handicapped in bringing that essence to expression”. In Cadmus, we recognize and further each other’s abilities and we recognize and compensate for each other’s disabilities. This experience is what gives me confidence that we can extend this to our neighborhoods and Wards. In 2012 I retired and shifted my volunteer efforts to monetary reform and read just about every book there is about the nature of money. I have participated in numerous efforts to revendicate the promise of the Declaration of Independence. When I was expelled from a group working to reinhabit the Republic a small group of us formed what we call the Unity Team to come up with the ideas we need to succeed in uniting the freedom movement. This book is a fruit of my transcendent purpose to create sovereign communities based on our common sense, sense of justice and the primary tool that the sovereign uses to create the conditions in which, we the people, live, which is money creation. A community or ward that, issues the money to accomplish the things that we agree would be good and regulates the money supply so that it is always properly measuring the value of the goods and services we make available to each other will create a society that benefits everyone. Creating Common Good Communities governed Sociocratically as described in Chapter 5 is what I expect this book will help me do. I aim to help create a new civilization that respects our essential being and heals our planet. The principle of self-actualization will become the principle of civilization.