Free World Charter: Let's make everything free

[Nighthawk]

Free World Charter Website: http://www.freeworldcharter.org/




What is The Free World Charter?


The Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimise life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress.

Neither political nor religious, these ten short principles could form the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, is free, fair and sustainable. They are based solely on Nature, common sense and survival.

The Free World Charter is now widely considered a logical progression out of the failing mechanisms of today's society, and a natural step in our evolution.[ Stats ]

Why we need it

In case you haven't noticed, the world has become a very hostile place. Basic living has become really difficult for many of us, and is quite literally impossible for millions of people every year.

It does not have to be this way.

As the predominant species, we humans have failed to acknowledge the great responsibility that comes with our great knowledge and power. Money has seriously distorted our world view, and distracted us from what is genuinely important.

Everything we need for survival: water, food, air, energy, biodiversity, compassion, have become jeopardized through our prioritisation of profit over Nature. Nature does not yield or negotiate. If we continually fight against it, Nature will win. In other words, humanity - and countless other innocent species - could face extinction.

The time has come to make some fundamental changes to our way of life, which has become both unsustainable and unjust. Adopting the principles of The Free World Charter is, we believe, the first crucial step mankind must now take in order to protect and preserve both ourselves and our planet.

What is wrong with the world?

In a word: money. Our own monetary system of exchange now effectively prioritises financial stability and growth over survival and progress. While once a useful tool in earlier times, money has now become incompatible with life itself and creates far more problems than it solves. We can put these problems into four main categories:

1. Inequality and Injustice


In today's world, a handful of people have enormous wealth, influence and freedom, while the vast majority are burdened with debt, labour and poverty; with little or no say in world affairs. This imbalance is clearly unfair and can no longer just be accepted as normal.

Millions of people every year are born into a life of poverty and starvation, even though we have the resources and technology to feed and shelter everybody if we want to.

Wasteful manufacturing drives an insatiable appetite for limited natural resources like oil, copper, gold etc. Since these scarce resources are only found in certain countries, exploitation or cross-border conflicts inevitably result.

Some areas of the world suffer extreme weather conditions and a lack of arable soil or drinkable water, yet are largely forgotten by richer nations as they have nothing of value to contribute to the world economy.

Money, by definition, creates inequality and injustice.

2. Waste and Pollution


Manufacturing companies need a constant turnover of products in order to be profitable. It doesn't make financial sense to make products that truly last. It is better for cash-flow to keep producing disposable goods that ultimately need replacing - despite the waste of natural resources and pollution that this causes.

Many companies spend millions every year creating a market for unnecessary and wasteful products through clever advertising. This creates a culture of consumerism and an illusion of 'limitless' growth which is unrealistic, unsustainable and simply must end some day.

We know that oil is a toxic pollutant that produces carbon-dioxide, yet we still use it because it is cheap; despite having abundant, clean renewable energy all around us.

Oxygen-producing trees are plundered irresponsibly for their wood, while aeroplanes pump millions of tons of poisonous gases into our air every year.

Our disregard for Nature is slowly poisoning and choking us.

Read more here: http://www.freeworldcharter.org/?a=more


Just wondering about other peoples thoughts on a world without money!

[JoeBG]

Great movie but can this idea work in practice?

[noot]

When the medium of exchange is just paper everything is already free. Just sayin...

[noot]

On Ethics, Debt and the Boycott of Everything


Econ 1001 You're free!
© General Striker News Service, 2009


The US has completed a de facto repudiation of debt. How was this

possible and what does it matter? It's possible because capital is

essentially amoral. Debt has no other reality than as a monetary

instrument regardless of the importunate protests of the lender.

Debt is no more than a matter of record keeping. It only becomes

overbearing and consequential when it has become imbued with

the quality of moral obligation- which is essentially nothing more

than a refutation of reality. This is so because money is conjured

ex nihilo and depends for its value on nothing more substantial

than faith. Faith in the value of currency is all that stands between

wealth and penury. This is so for nations as well as individuals. It

can be said that economic value is actually derived from the

production of commodities and, as Marx and the rest of the

civilized world would have us believe, the labor required for that

very production. But this is not so and has never been so.

Economic value is actually determined by the records of

bookkeepers. And therefore both accumulation of wealth and the

onerous bonds of debt are equally illusory figments. Freedom from

economic shackles is simply a matter of tossing the books on the

ash bin of history. It is the case that those who are imprisoned by

monetary economy must be complicit in their own captivity in

order for the bars of the gaol to remain secure. The worst

nightmare for the rich is the waking of the people from the cloying

hypnosis brought about by the political magicians in their employ. It

is of such stuff that economic depressions are constructed.

Economic depression is freedom in the last analysis.

So- What can we do?

The Boycott of Everything? An Enquiry.

The first step in the Boycott of Everything is the boycott of popular
culture. By popular culture I mean the 'spectacle' that's given us by the
ruling class as a substitute for authentic existence. The most obvious
among these is of course is rampant consumerism - but that's only one facet of the problem. If one were to incline towards the principle of 'taking only from existence that which we need' the problem solves itself. But such principle requires serious consideration of authentic needs to start with. We need to be serious about life and its continuance and reject everything that contradicts that basic constraint, as the Cartoonsyndicate has indicated ad nauseum on these little stitch and bitches for the better part of the last decade. What is required is a study and an immersion in process and a rejection of snap-shot reality- a realization that we are not tourists here in the Disneyland of the mind. What is required is an overcoming of temporal morality and an approach to transcendent Ethics. Will must give way to Imagination and the real revolution can then proceed. Che said, "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the real revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love." That's a decent point of departure. The next step in the process then must be the contemplation of the meaning of 'love' per se or his entire argument has no meaning. It has been said that one must 'love oneself' but this is untrue. Real love is a matter of loving everything that is 'not self.' You can see where this leads. What we require in order to love is nothing less than purging the 'self' as a quality of the loved. To love without regard for self as the highest calling and overcomes the conundrum of 'will' and trivial morality that has led humanity to our present nihilistic impasse. So the boycott of everything can also be reasonably expressed as the boycott of self in the first instance. Self preservation gives way to altruism in such a regime- and opens the door to meaningful existence and immersion in process.[/QUOTE]