Human Perspectives and Living Income Guaranteed

I am currently reading „The Limits of Growth“ (D.L.Medows; 1972), a book that is often brought up and refered to in conjunction with sustainablitiy and global development. On page 20 one can find this interesting graph, that basically shows how the perspective and concerns of most human beings only extend to their closest circle of relationships and a very short period of time. Though i have no numbers or graph to back it up, i strongly assume that this is as true now, as it was 40 years ago.

 

 

"Although the perspectives of the world's people vary in space and in time, every human concern falls somewhere on the space-time graph. The majority of the world's people are concerned with matters that affect only family or friends over a short period of time. Others look farther ahead in time or over a larger area-a city or a nation. Only a very few people have a global perspective that extends far into the future ." - Limits of Growth -

The Points i would like to adress in this Blog are the problems that come with such a limited perspective, the reason for it, which contains then also the solution and from there i´d like to look at the benefits that will open up with expanding ones own perspective and equally allow everyone else to do so.

Starting with the problems on the space-axis, we can see that far away events/things seem to be of lesser concern for the individual. This means that one will care less about the people in ones neighborhood, than in ones family, less about the ones in another city than in ones neighourhood , less about the ones in another country then in ones own contry and so forth....Therefore it seems to be easier to disregard, abuse and exploit people of other groups. We see this manifested as constant conflicts, wars, one family/region/country/groups fighting each other. The exploitation and abuse of „far away people“ has become the very driving force of the economies in for example Europa and USA (watch „Darvins Nightmare“ to get perspective). Its pretty easy to turn a blind eye and ingnore what you do and participate in on a daily basis, when you have money in the pocket, food on the table and a roof over the head. The same is true with environmental Issues, for example pollution, the farther away, the lesser we care, and one can bring up all kinds of reasons and Justifications for why that is so, and that one can do nothing, knows nothing about it etc. but that is in fact only cover ups to hide ones responsibility as an equal participant.

Looking at the time-axis, the limited perspecitive does not allow us to see what we accumulate – which is what we have to face and live with - and what we leave as a legacy for the generations to come – Again this can be exemplifed with the social and envirnmental aspects and condensed to a question: Do we want to leave behind a burnt, destroyed, polluted Planet and a conflicting mess of society? Will we even leave behind a „conflicting mess of society“, or just vanish completly, basically self-destructing ourselves? Why are we so „short-sighted“?

The reason for our limited perspecitve as a human is quite simple: We are living in a System of Survival – where one needs money to survive and to get this money, to make this money more and to spent this money has become the primary reason for „living“ - thus we cower in and hide behind family, relationships, groups etc.; to secure our survival. More than half of the Population lives under the breadline and has to literally fight for their life, which should be a given right, they are the ones that do not have the time or opportunity to broaden their Perspective in any way whatsoever, as all their tought/mind/self and body is focued on getting something to eat/survive for the next day.

Then we have the so called „developed countries“, but the only thing we have developed is our greed and fear - in fact we exist in the very same position that: if we dont have/earn money = we have no right to life, no unconditional support - but our mind/self and body is consumed by constant desires that are implanted into and presented to us by the very System we live in – we are constantly on the search for the next fix, the next energetic experiance, that we can buy, which is always short term and so we dont see beyond the limited horizion of the next Pay-Check. Point to note here is that all of this is driven by FEAR.

 

One can go quite into detail with showing how every act of abuse or disregard, based on a limited human perspective, has its root in the way money/the money-system functions, yet at the same time it is so obvious, that it seems we are running around with extremly narrowed down blindfolds to not have to see it all the time, everywhere – For the sake of consistancy we can take the examples of how most wars/conflicts are fought over some kind of resource or land - which can be translated into money - or how it is simply less expensive for companies to dump their waste into the sea or rivers, causing pollution, than to properly take care of it.

Regardless of „third world“ or „first world“, our perspectives are made out of Money, as everything you see or can imagine is made out of and cost money – if you have a lot of money, you can broaden your perspective, say educate yourself, go for a trip to a foreign country or learn something new, you can create (a limited) future for yourself, yet this „Future-Perspective“ will be your limitation, as it is in danger, meaning, you have to constantly strife for „making it real“ in making money to be able to buy it. If you dont have a lot of money, your persepective on the Future will be more focussed on immediaty survival, like getting the necessary foods, water, stuff and shelter that you need to survive and yet again all this things cost money and are made up of Money – All those things are linked to Fear of not having them, and so currently the Human Perspective is generally a very fearful one. What is fascinating within this is, that despite the fact that those with more Money are able to broaden their perspective, educate theselves about the world and whats going, seem to not see the Solution to our limited perspective, which is to give everyone enough money to lead a dignified life without the basic fear of survival. Such a Solution is proposed as the Living Income Guaranteed by the Equal Life Foundation.

 

Giving everyone a Living Income Guaranteed will enable the human to slow down in a way, like we have been all running and chasing after something the whole time and now we can stop within ourselves and take a Look at what is really here, both what we have created as our Systems and Stuff as well as what is here as Nature, the Animals this Earth and what our effects on it, we will be able to look at each other, people in other coutries, without at the same time thinking that „O dear God, thanks that i am not that poor sucker“, we can look at the conflicts and wars going on and ask the questions why they are going on – where its the question if after all, with all people having enough Money to live a decent life, who will go to war?

 

What does it mean to give a Living Income for all on the space-axis? It means, that everywhere on earth, at minimum, a being recieves the necessary amount of Money to lead a dignified life and so to have a equal Living Perspective free from fear of Survival. The interesting thing is, that with having your Living Guranteed as Money provided by the government, which is basically all of the People/Citizens, your interesst will automatically be „all of the people/citizens“, instead your close relationships with family/friends, that where only so „close“ in fear of Survival, and so automatically the perspective change.

With LIG everybody has the certain perspective that their living in this word AND that of everyone else is taken Care of and so one will be abole to look beyond only ones own life and more readily consider others as well. Most of the worries and concerns about the people in ones immediate environment/relationships will chease to exist – Parents wont have to worry and fear about the future of their children, neither Children about the retirement and wellbeing of their parents, for example in their older years, as each will be given a Living Income and in this have their basic Human Rights guaranteed. If one is in an abusive Relationship of any kind and staying because of money to secure ones survival, the LIG will enable one to leave, which is only one way in which it will assist and support the human to live Self-Determination and Self-Responsibility.

In removing worries and fears we can create a Climate of Freedom to be able to change your relationships and to care for the things that really matter, which is ourselves and everything and everyone else that is here with us as part of the Living Organism called Earth. This then has the potential to really fundamentally change our Perspective on what is Here, on what is Life. So - one can essentially say that LIG is opening up the individuals perspective to seeing and considering a global perspective that can be condensed to: supporting everybody, everywhere, all of the time.

 

 

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