We approached a solar system and soon it was
floating in front of us - Freegaia, a wonderful blue planet, quite similar to
our earth. We gently dived into the atmosphere and landed in the middle of a
magnificent park, similar to a huge garden. The plants emanated an
indescribably delicious scent. Now and then a small space vehicle flitted by
almost noiselessly above our heads.
But there in the middle of the plants were
houses. They did not look like our houses; they fitted into their natural surroundings
in such a way that from a distance they were not recognisable as houses at all.
The people we encountered all greeted us in a friendly manner. They appeared to
be happy. Humans and nature were living together in harmony.
“How did you manage to achieve this? Can you
tell me something about your technology?”
“Technology was never a problem,“ said Very.
“The problem that needed to be solved lay in the inhabitants’ thinking and in
the economy. Because their way of thinking focused on scarcity our ancestors
had thought out an economic system marked by competition. Now our life together
and also our economy is characterised by abundance, wealth and love of
nature and everything that exists.”
Very gave me a short
outline of the history of his planet
“Quite a long time ago some robbing and
murdering carnivores – Romucas – increasingly took over power by
killing weaker people and depriving them of their livelihood through the force
of their martial superiority. To prevent the Romucas eating themselves up, huge books of laws
regulating every little thing were written. For the Romucas’ intelligence und ethics were not
sufficient for a peaceful life together. In these books of laws there were
instructions such as »You shall not kill«. The Romucas had to be explicitly told this! During the Romucas’ raids these laws were either suspended or their opponents were
defined as “wild people” who needed to be missionized or exterminated. After
their raids the Romucas introduced the same Romuca law for everybody. In this way stability was created and the new power
structure was cemented.
The Romucas’ main illusion was their thinking
based on scarcity. Seemingly there wasn’t enough there for everybody. So
their favourite occupation was fighting or competition. There had to be winners
and losers. As killing was forbidden and most of the “wild people” had already
been killed or missionized anyway, ambitious Romucas shifted their activities to other fields, such
as the economy, sport and games. In sport and games they were able to live out
their competition in a relatively harmless way. In the economy, on the other
hand, Romucaism led to
more and more social injustice. The gap between poor and rich became greater
and greater.
On Freegaia there had always been people who
observed nature and sought to fathom its laws.
In early times these people had been burnt as heretics.
But later when they let their knowledge be used for military purposes they were
called scientists. Observers of nature who did not make any discoveries
useful to the military were called charlatans and subjected to ridicule.
Over time the climate become more liberal
and more and more nations converted to democracy. Shortly before the
beginning of the New Age the observations of the scientists and charlatans
started to correlate more and more. Analogies were found between natural
sciences, philosophy and religions. People started to translate this knowledge
to politics and economics.
Comparison of the economy
and nature
Nature produces food from herself and gives it
to her living creatures. When nature is in order, abundance prevails,
i.e. there is more food available than is needed. Food is perishable and can
only be stored for a certain amount of time.
In nature there are no debts and no interest is
charged. That’s why it doesn’t occur to plants and animals to hoard more than
they need. Because of that there are no
»rich« and »poor« plants or animals.
And another thing: whether and how hard animals
work for their food is very different from one form of life to another. Every
animal living in the wild behaves in accordance with its nature. If you
want an animal in captivity to work, you have to goad it all the time. No
animal would fight for a »right to work«.
At that time people didn’t receive any basic
income. Although the governments required their citizens to pay tax, they had
such a big shortage of money that they had to borrow again and again each year.
Great attention was paid to monetary stability but they seldom managed to
achieve this. Money was created from debt and there was a system of charging
interest. Both the assets and the debts got higher and higher. The citizens did
all they could to accumulate money. The rich got richer and richer and the poor
got poorer and poorer.
As far as work was concerned, most people did
similar work, which was rarely in harmony with their natures. Although they
disliked doing these jobs so alien to their natures, they had previously fought
hard for the right to work. In spite of this right, large parts of the
population were unemployed. On the other side, there was a surplus of goods and
services.
The economy behaved in a way exactly contrary
to nature. So we had to reverse our economic practice and bring it into harmony
with nature. This realisation was the key to worldwide prosperity.
We thus developed our new economic model that
today is practised on the entire planet and brings riches and happiness to all
those involved: it is the Natural Economy of Life.”
