This video covers one of three tax types we need to re-focus as explained in: “Re-focus Tax Policy” (which in turn is part of my “9 Point Agenda For Counter Revolution“)

More information on the “9 Point agenda for Counter-Revolution”

Related Topics: Abolish Aristocracies

I have been accused of hating rich people.

if you have seen some of my other videos, especially “Aristocracies Are Anti-American”  and “Counter-Revolution – A Nine Point Agenda for Change” you may understand why.

I do not hate people, rich or otherwise.

I do hate aristocracies. Although I do not hate their members.

And I hate a society which permits people to possess unearned privileges through membership in aristocracies.

I actually believe in true meritocracy. 
I love a society in which all humans have freedom and opportunity to strive for wealth and power if they so choose.
Or to strive for creativity.
Or to strive for meaningfulness and significance in their lives.
And certainly to strive for love.

And I believe that the only way we can move toward such a society is through the engine of freedom and equal opportunity: 
the supercharger of civilization; which is the expansion of human rights. 
More human rights for more human beings.

Any human being who strives for wealth and/or power, and plays by the rules. Obeys the laws and pays the taxes. 
Should be permitted to do what he or she wants with that wealth, within the law.

It is incumbent upon us who constitute the society to write and enforce laws, including tax policy, which restrain those individuals who possess wealth and power from behaving in ways detrimental to society.

And one of the things most detrimental to society is aristocracy. 
We need laws which prevent aristocracies from occurring.

Aristocracies are created when individual human beings receive unearned wealth and/or power. 
The unearned wealth and/or power bestows upon members of the aristocracy certain unearned privileges which exceed the basic rights enjoyed by all human beings within the society. 
Those privileges, because they are unearned, constitute an evil to society.

The most common form of aristocracy and thus unearned privileges is the transfer of wealth from generation to generation by wealthy families.

Recipients of that unearned wealth possess privileges which destroy the society's equality of freedom and opportunity.

It is for this reason that I propose we re-focus our tax laws to abolish aristocracies.
We can accomplish this in part by re-invigorating the Anti-Aristocracy Tax.

Now you may not think you have ever heard of the anti-aristocracy tax. 
But that is probably because you know it by a different name.  
Corrupt politicians, owned by aristocracies, since Ronnie Rodeo have referred to it as the "death tax”.

It's official name is the Estate and Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax.

This tax only applies to very wealthy families.  
The Estate Tax is designed to limit the of wealth that can be transferred to beneficiaries upon the death of a rich person. The Gift Tax is designed for prevent rich people from giving great wealth to their beneficiaries before they die in order to avoid the Estate Tax.  
And the generation-skipping transfer tax prevents families who attempt to avoid a taxable event by transferring wealth to grandchildren instead of children.

Before Ronnie Rodeo, estates of $150,000 or higher were potentially subject to this tax.  
And although estates that small paid a much lower rate, the maximum rate for very large estates was 70%.  
At that time there were many loopholes that could be used avoid or reduce taxes.  
This tax certainly did not prevent aristocracies, but it slowed their growth rate.

Today the tax doesn't apply unless the estate is over 5 1/2 million dollars, 11 million for a married couple. 
The maximum rate is only 40%.
But few estates pay that.  Loopholes have proliferated, and lawyers and lobbyists are making new ones all the time.

Such a weak tax barely slows aristocracies down. 
And yet the Rapepublican Party platform consistently advocates complete abolition of this tax.  

We don't need to abolish the tax. We need to abolish the aristocracies.

I propose that we lower the exclusion to $1 million for a single individual, two million for a married couple.

For the next million after that the rate will be 20%.
With the rate increasing steadily through several brackets until at $500 million the rate is 99%.

No one should ever be able to pass on more than half a billion dollars to beneficiaries who did not earn it.

And of course we need to close down all loopholes, trusts, and other legal shenanigans designed avoid this tax.
The only exemption I would allow would be for contributions to legitimate charities.


Aristocracies are un-American, anti-Democratic, 
and, at this point in history, if they are allowed to continue, they have the potential to lead to total destruction.

I do not hate human beings. Wealthy or otherwise. I do hate institutions which are destructive of human rights.

And among those i hate most are aristocracies.

A key element of Radically Reversing   Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution must be to Abolish Aristocracies  And a major weapon to that purpose can be the Anti-Aristocracy Tax

Related Topics: Human Beings; Human Society

i'm going to talk about Exclusionism.  And it's opposite, Inclusionism    
Like all “isms” these are each a set of beliefs which many humans adopt.  
-------- And a good, shorthand way of describing a particular point of view.

Whether or not they realize it, every person is more or less one or the other.
An Inclusionist. 
Or an Exclusionist.
--- So what is the difference?

An inclusionist is a person who is very happy to live in a world with other kinds of people around. 
An exclusionist wants to live in a world where everybody else thinks, believes, looks, acts like him or her.

For example an "islamic fundamentalist” taliban, would be an exclusionist. 
But---- so would many of the folks who call themselves evangelical Christians. 

And ----- a lot of American rich people are exclusionists. 
Now they realize there are other kinds of people in the world. 
But they don't want to have anything to do with them. 

If you believe that anyone who does not look or act like you is subhuman in some way ,,,, or if you just want to make sure that in your life experience you don't encounter them, you are an exclusionist. 

And it's not just the rich.  A lot of American poor people are exclusionist too. They seem to be convinced that the world would be a better place if only they could get rid of all the people don't look, …........... or think, or behave,  or talk like them.

{Laugh} Well, let me tell you something. It wouldn't. 

Now I say that in part because I'm an inclusionist. 
I love having other kinds of people around.  
Now I don't think i'm better than them ...but I don't think i'm worse either.

I do think I'm wise, clever, good-looking, and an altogether wonderful human being. 

But I sure wouldn't want everybody else to look, act, be like me. 
It's the diversity of humanity that makes it fun. 

It's also what makes it work. 

Simple example: I can't have babies. 
But I sure am glad that I live in a world where there are women as well as men. 
'cause I think babies are a good thing.

Also I was never very good at mathematics. 
But because I live in a world where there are people different from me who are good at mathematics, --------all this stuff--- these devices that we are using to communicate are made possible.

now I may not believe in the particular God that you believe in. 
or I may not even believe in god at all

But I am happy to live in the world where there are a lot of different humans believing in a lot of different gods and moral systems. 
It gives us the opportunity to learn from each other. And to grow in our understanding of what God ---------- or non-God;   may be. 

Inclusionism makes life richer and more interesting.
Exclusionism may make you feel a little more secure, but it is kind of barren and limiting.

Also .. there is a huge danger lurking in exclusionism.  

If everyone I spoke to believed everything that I believe in, I would start thinking that I had all the right answers. 
And life would hardly be worth living. 

As a matter of fact, I know that I don't have all the right answers. And one of the fascinating things about life is learning from others the possible alternative answers, --- and, ------------- in the process, growing in my own understanding. 

That is what it means to be an inclusionist. 
I want to live in a world with a lot of different kinds of people, who've got a lot of different beliefs, talents, proclivities, ideas, etc. 
I want to interact with other humans. 
I want to learn from them.

Practically the only characteristic of other human beings with which I've got a problem –  is exclusionism. 

It's pretty simple. If we are all happy to be in the world inhabited by each other, then we will get along. 
And if we are all willing to respect each other, listen to each other ------
we might even learn to love each other.

Hell, if we take this love stuff too far, we might start treating other animals, plants, all aspects of Earthlife as our cousins and neighbors. 

Anyhow – I have found this little Exclusionism / Inclusionism paradigm helpful.  

 And if you do to, maybe you would want to check out some of my other videos.  
There is even one in which I explore the puzzling (at least to me) question: 
“If Inclusionism is such a wonderful thing, why are there so many Exclusionists?”

This video covers one of the three proposals introduced in my video “Change the Power Structure“, which is in turn part of my “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution“

More information on the “9 Point agenda for Counter-Revolution”

Related Topics: Change The Power Structure; Human Beings; Human Society; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

Why should we reconsider warfare? 
Well let's break it down into three reasons. 
First, human considerations.
Second, because reconsidering warfare is in our national interest.
And third, because warfare is obsolete.

Let's look at the human considerations which argue in favor of reconsidering warfare.

Warfare has always been destructive. And it is becoming more so.

It is a waste of resources, and it is a waste of human lives.

The resources could be put to more constructive use, 
and the human lives are irreplaceable. Not only are they irreplaceable, they are our future.

Because most of the lives lost in war are young people who have not yet made their contribution to society. 
The songwriter Phil Ochs said it well: 
it's always the old who lead us to the war.   always the young who fall.

And I'm not just talking about those who are killed. 
Many of the returnees are broken in body or broken in mind. 
They will never be able to lead as fulfilling lives as they might have, had war not intervened. 
Or make the contributions to society which they might have.

So there are human considerations which argue in favor of reconsidering warfare. But another good reason is that this reconsideration is in our national interest.

The pentagon is in the pockets of the corporations who build weapons and provide many other services to the Armed Forces.

Dwight David Eisenhower, who was both a successful president and a successful general, warned us about this. 
As he left office said: "in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military industrial complex." 
'We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."

He was right. 
And he was prescient. 
Today all aspects of military policy and budget are influenced profoundly by private corporations. 
And decisions are often made which benefit the corporations though not necessarily the interests of our nation.

And high-ranking officers are often far too friendly with the executives of those corporations.

We waste our wealth. Spending much too much on weaponry which is often of dubious value.

The real danger of invasion or severe damage done to the United States by some other nation is minuscule compared to other dangers which we face as a nation and a people and upon which we spend nothing or a pittance.

The amount of this waste is astonishing. 
In 2018 our military budget was $643 billion. 
The next highest of any nation was China which, even though they have a lot of catching up to do, only spent $168 billion. 
No one else in the world spent more than $83 billion.

Russia, which through espionage, has greatly increased its stature in the world, usually at our expense, 
only spent $63 billion on its military. Less than one tenth of the money we threw at the pentagon.

Another president, Jimmy Carter, called us the most warlike nation in the history of the world. 

In support of this, he pointed out that since 1980 China has been at war for zero years. During that time the United States has been almost constantly at war.

We initiate unnecessary wars, which damage our reputation with the rest of humanity while also damaging our own people. 
And we damage our economy, our position in the world, and even our health.

The Iraq war, a completely unnecessary enterprise, cost $5.9 trillion. 
And all we accomplished was to inflame the Middle East, 
kill a lot of human beings,
make ourselves a lot of enemies, disrupt the oil industry, 
and do huge ecological damage.

Warfare, the way we've been spending money on it, is clearly contrary to our national interest.

And finally, war is obsolete.

At this point in history it has become fatal to human existence.

Because today the ultimate weapon cannot be used without destroying everything. There is no way to win.

If total war ever breaks out between nuclear armed nations, all humanity, and perhaps all earth life will lose.

War is bad for humanity, it is bad for the United States, and it is obsolete.


So what do we do about it? How do we reconsider warfare.

I propose a three part program.
1 – report reality
2 – rethink our strategic position
3 – redesign our military.

Large portions of our defense budget are secret, and much of our expenditure isn't even included in the budget. This is not only undemocratic, but it is an invitation to the corruption which has indeed ensued.

I think we have to report reality. 
We need to make our actual total military budget transparent and available to the American people.
It needs to be published so that the citizens can understand what we are spending and what we are getting for our money.

Once we have reported reality, we can rethink our strategic position. 
We can have a public discussion of war plans, placing everything on the table.

What do we want to stand for as a nation?
What are the realistic threats that we face in the world? 
How can we meet the real needs of our defense more efficiently?

And once we have started asking those questions is a people, we can begin the redesign of our military.

I think this ought to be done by a special committee. 
I recommend that committee members be appointed by the president and confirmed by both houses of Congress. 

And that the committee be composed of:
members of Congress
retired military, 50% officers and 50% enlisted.
And career diplomats.
It should be stipulated that no participant may have any financial relationship with any defense contractor.

We do need to defend our people and their rights. And as long as this is a world composed of competing nation states we will need some form of defense.

But we do not need an overwhelming military power designed to maintain an oppressive Empire.

We do not need to waste our precious resources on the military industrial complex which does nothing to expand human rights or create a better future for our children.

And we do not need to send our young citizens into harms way simply to protect the profits of corporations and the privileges of aristocracies.

The Defense Department and the sector of our economy which it supports has been given practically unlimited funding with no transparency, or accountability. 

With all that power has come massive corruption and abuse. 
We the people cannot effectively change the power structure of our nation without reconsidering warfare and the power center devoted to it.

It is time to reconsider warfare. It is bad for humanity, bad for the United States, and obsolete.


Reconsidering warfare is one of three proposals for changing the power structure which I have recommended in other videos. The others are refocusing tax policy, and reforming corporations.

There are more videos about Corporations and other enemies of the people at: “Enemies“.

And i have more to say about Human Beings here: “Human Beings“

i'm going to talk about prohibition and control.
They are really the same thing.  
Government regulating the behavior of humans and other entities.
I am using the word “prohibition” to refer to regulation of human beings.
And “control” to refer to regulation of corporations and similar non-human entities.

Let's start with Prohibition
 prohibition is government saying there are certain things which citizens and other human beings may not do.

Generally these are things which do not harm others or society as a whole.  
Though they may or may not be harmful to the individual.

And prohibition is a really bad idea. 
For two reasons – – – 
first, many people are going to do what they want to do regardless of government regulations. 
And second, prohibition is most often a violation of human rights. 
And human rights are the foundation upon which our nation and the advancement of civilization are built and The SuperCharger of Civilization.

But prohibition has been increasing in recent years. 
You may wonder why.
Well the main reason is Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution. 

You see, back in 1980, when Ronnie Rodeo became president – – one of the main things that his bosses wanted him to do was deregulate big business, especially corporations. And I'm going to get to that in just a few minutes because that is an important related issue.

Right now I'm talking about prohibition. Government forbidding certain actions by human beings.

Now in order to become president, Ronnie needed allies. 
And he hooked up with a group of exclusionist Christians who wanted to institute prohibitions.

So, for the last 40 years, the United States government has been decreasing the regulations, the restrictions upon behavior, of business entities. 
And at the same time, it has been increasing prohibition – – – restriction upon the behavior of human beings.

Now don't get me wrong.  I realize that restriction upon the behavior of human beings is a necessary function of government. But only when that behavior is harmful to other human beings or harmful to the community as a whole. 

Prohibition, as I define it here, is restriction upon the behavior and the human rights of human beings where that behavior is not in conflict with the rights of others or the good of the community.

And it doesn't work.

I'll give you some examples.

When I say prohibition most of you probably think of the laws in the 1920s which prohibited the consumption of alcohol. 
And anyone who has read any history about that era knows that it didn't work. 
People simply broke the law, and criminals help them to do it.      
We see the same phenomenon today with regards to marijuana.

What some of you may not realize is that government at one time prohibited gambling. That may be hard to believe because today governments actually are engaged in the business of promoting gambling. 

but prohibition of gambling has never worked. Like with alcohol and marijuana, prohibition of gambling led to criminal activity.

It is true that for certain human beings consumption of gambling and alcohol has a dilatory effect. 
Government has a responsibility there.
 But prohibition does not work.

Now I'd like to talk about a more controversial example. 
Abortion. 
If a woman is pregnant and truly does not want to carry the child to term, she is going to seek an abortion. 
If it is illegal it will be dangerous and expensive. 
Where abortions are legal (and have not been unconscionably restricted by state laws) it is generally a simple safe and inexpensive procedure. 

And by the way, the alternative leads to unwanted children. And that is bad for society, …. and for the adults that those children become.

It doesn't matter whether I am in favor of abortion were opposed to it.  
Humans have the right to control their own bodies.
And prohibition doesn't work.

Not only does prohibition not work. It is un-American. I would go so far as to say it is anti-American. 

Because all human beings have certain unalienable rights. And prohibition restricts those rights. 

Government's job is to secure the unalienable rights of human beings. 
Government exceeds its power and becomes tyrannical when it attempts to restrict those rights.

But as I said earlier, and have explained in greater detail in some of my other videos, Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution reversed the course of American history.   
Government started restricting the rights of human beings while at the same time loosening the regulations upon corporations.

You see, the increase in prohibition is just a diversion and part of a political deal.

the main purpose of Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution was to loosen the regulations upon business entities.

But both efforts were counter to American history and both need to be reversed.

Corporations and other business entities should be allowed to exist only when they advance the common good and serve human beings. 
If their behavior is contrary to the common good or does nothing to benefit humans. They have no real right to exist. 

Corporations, unlike human beings do not have unalienable rights. 
And the only privileges which they have are granted by government and can be withdrawn. 

A good example of this is corporations who sell deleterious products and lie about the effects of their products. 
These corporations need to be disbanded by the government.   
Their charters need to be withdrawn and their executives need to go to jail.

The abominations of Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution need to be reversed. 
We need to prohibit prohibition and control corporations.

Counterrevolution Now

Related Topics: Abolish Aristocracies; Human Society; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

This time I want to talk about aristocracies.

We have got to abolish aristocracies in America.

Why? Because they are anti-American. Because the very idea of the United States of America is fundamentally anti-aristocratic.

Most of the early settlers came here to escape the aristocracies of their home countries.

Our revolutionary leaders who founded this nation and wrote our Constitution were absolute anti-aristocrats. Even though some of them actually belonged to aristocracies that had been formed here.

Don't believe me?!! listen to this: “All men are created equal”. 

Well putting aside for the moment the obvious sexism, you can't get any more anti-aristocratic than that.

The subsequent history of America is the story of immigrants escaping aristocracy. This nation was built not only by the founding fathers and mothers but by succeeding waves of immigrants.

Each was following the myth of an egalitarian land where everyone could succeed. 

Now, like all myths, it was never completely true. 
But it is the ideal, the inspiration that is intrinsically embedded in the founding of this nation. 

And it inspires brave, ambitious, creative people leave behind their countries and families to come to land where the content of their character will matter more than social status of their parents.
It is the American dream.
 
America is fundamentally, at the core of its very being, anti-aristocracy.



I am an American and I am imbued with the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. 

But even if I were not, I am personally anti-aristocracy. 
Why? 
Because aristocracies are a threat to democracy. 
Because they are an obsolete institution within human society. 
And Because they are inefficient. 
    Among other things, aristocracies discourage entrepreneurial capitalism. 
They limit the creation of entrepreneurs. 
And They limit human rights (which are the supercharger of civilization).

Okay, so what are aristocracies. Specifically what do I mean by the word. 

Well, aristocracies are usually defined as "families which hoard wealth and/or power passing it on, un-earned, to subsequent generations". 
That's the traditional definition.

But I would like to suggest a broader definition.

Any institution or entity within society which bestows unearned privilege on its members. 

Because wealth and power are one kind of privilege but there are others. 
And families are one kind of aristocracy, but there are others.

Any institution or entity within society which bestows unearned privilege on its members.

Although America is based on the abolition of aristocracies, 
today we have a whole lot of them. 

There are many wealthy American aristocratic families. 
They have proliferated over the last 40 years. 
(And there's a reason for that.) 
And they've grown richer and more powerful.

But we have also political aristocracies. 
The owners and leaders of both political parties certainly qualify.

The Cult of Celebrity has become an aristocracy. 

Some professions are aristocracies. 
Certainly lawyers;    many would say doctors;   and others.

In America corporate executives form an aristocracy.

Any institution or entity within society which bestows unearned privilege on its members. 
Not just wealthy families.

And they are all bad.


Where did aristocracies come from?

Well, they have been with us through most of human history. 

They are closely related to a couple of other institutions of inequality – slavery and warfare. 
Slavery made aristocracy possible. 
And warfare was the ultimate method of deciding who would be the aristocrats and who would be the slaves.

Like warfare and slavery,
 aristocracy may have served a purpose in earlier human culture. 
Though often doing more harm than good. 
But now it is obsolete!

Like warfare and slavery, aristocracy is bad for the development of geniuses and entrepreneurs. 
We need all human beings to have the opportunity to reach their full potential. 
By misappropriating resources, aristocracies stunt the development of those humans who are not privileged.

So what can we do to abolish aristocracies in America? 
Let me make a few suggestions. 

First we must recognize the evil. 
We need to talk about the fact that aristocracies are not good for society. 
And we need to stop celebrating aristocrats. 
Recognize them as anti-American parasites.

In addition to recognizing the evil we can use the tax laws to abolish aristocracy. You might want to check out my videos on the anti-aristocracy tax and the pro-investment tax.

We also need to fix our educational system. I have a lot more to say about that in other videos as well.


Recognize the evil.
Use tax laws to abolish aristocracies.
Fix the educational system. 
That'll give us a good start. 

We need to take action!
Because aristocracies are anti-American. 
Today they are expanding. 
And we need to reverse that trend. 
We need to abolish aristocracies in America.

And Take Our Country Back

Related Topics: Enemies; Ronnie Rodeo; Der Don; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

It's time to stop the circus, and take our country back!

The enemies of we the people of the United States have been distracting us with 
shallow shenanigans and puppet presidents 
while corrupting our institutions, reversing the course of American history, 
and shutting down the American dream.

Der Don is the circus but he is not the enemy.
He is just the latest in a string of entertainments designed to distract us while the real enemies 
steal our government, 
plunder our economy, 
and rape our planet.

The real enemy is composed of cabals of corporations and clubs of aristocracies.

They are not American citizens. But in-human institutions. 

Aristocracies have been with us for millennia.  If they ever had any value which outweighed the damage they cause, by today they are certainly obsolete. They are un-American, undemocratic, and destructive of human rights.

Corporations are a more recent development. They were meant to be our tools but have aspired to become our masters.

Both have been cancers, eating away at our society, 
stealing from our citizens, 
and trying to take over our government for many years.

But in 1980 they took a giant step. 
They fomented a revolution against we the people of the United States.

They hired a very likable grade B-movie actor named Ronald Reagan and taught him to play the role of a political leader. 
They gave him scripts in which the central plot was that the United States had fallen into powerlessness and sin, 
but he had a plan to restore our greatness and make our nation a shining city on a hill which all other humans will envy.

The facts were quite different. The United States was, at the time, the most powerful and dominant Empire the world has ever known.
We were advancing our national ideals of more human rights for more human beings; 
freedom from repression; 
and building a world where our children can prosper.

In reality, the only things that were holding us back as a nation were economic imbalances and fear. 
Both of which were inflamed by policies and propaganda promulgated by the corporations and aristocracies.

But Ronnie was a great actor and a great salesman. 
He convinced enough of us to get him elected. 
And for eight years he pretended to be president, 
restoring America's greatness by defeating the phony rival that was the Soviet Union.
He put on a fantastic show.

And a lot of us didn't notice that in the background corporations and aristocracies were reversing the course of American history. 

They were passing election laws which made it easier for them to put corrupt politicians in positions of power. 

They were changing the tax laws to benefit themselves at the expense of human citizens. 

They were turning our healthcare system into a profit center, designed to generate wealth rather than heal humans.

They were wasting uncountable sums on unnecessary weaponry because fear and secrecy made this such a profitable enterprise.

They were removing barriers which had been placed upon their behavior to safeguard human health and environment.

They were restricting human rights and creating in their place exclusive privileges for corporations and aristocracies.

 -----  'Pay no attention to the rape and pillage behind the curtain, 
let's watch Ronnie wave the flag and tell us how wonderful we are."

Well, Ronnie had to go after eight years but they had done a whole lot of damage.
Laws were changed and the system was rigged.
They had shifted power away from people 
and reversed the course of American history.

Most, but not all, of our politicians and presidents since that time have been, 
to one degree or another, in the thrall of corporations and aristocracies. 
And American history has been moving slowly but inexorably in the wrong direction.

And then, in 2016, the circus came to town!

Corporations and aristocracies didn't really want Der Don to be president. because they didn't control him. 

No one can control a mentally ill ConMan.
But they soon realized that he could actually do more for them than even Ronnie.
The equivalent today of a grade B-movie actor in 1980 – is a reality TV star. 
And all Der Don really wants for himself is adulation and coddling of his childlike ego.

So when it looked like he was going to win the Rapepublican nomination, the corporations and aristocracies sent their minions to descend upon Der Don's campaign and make sure that if he got elected they would be in control of the real policy decisions.

Der Don hasn't a clue about government. And he doesn't care anyway.
He has proven to be the perfect front man.
And because his only behavioral mode is grotesque attention seeking, 
he has been able to distract us to a degree Ronnie could never have imagined.

All of the rape and pillage that the corporations and aristocracies conducted under Ronnie and have continued for the last 40 years --- are now in hyperdrive!

If we don't stop this immediately, humans will have no power left.

They have rigged the system against us but we still have the vote.
And there are still human beings who believe in the ideals that created this country and wish to serve in our government. 
We need to encourage them to run, support them and vote for them,
and especially encourage them to Radically Reverse Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution.

Human rights for human beings!
Abolish aristocracies!
Put corporations in their place!

Counterrevolution now!

Friendship, Fiduciarity, Funding

Related Topics: Human Beings; Human Society; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

HI there 
this time I'd like to introduce the concept of three moral pillars of society.

If you have played any of my other videos, you must realize that I believe humans are social animals and that our natural tendency is to want to interact in a cooperative, mutually beneficial way. 
And yet we don't always do so.

There are many reasons why. In some other videos I talk about the institutions which pervert society such as warfare, slavery, and aristocracy. 

But sometimes society is undermined by perversion of the very moral pillars which are designed to uphold it.

I believe that we as humans are pre-disposed to feel and behave in ways which are supportive of a just and cooperative society.  
That Human Society (the great innovation of our species) is made up of Cooperation, Culture and Commerce.  
And it is supported by natural predispositions of all healthy human beings.  
I refer to those predispositions as “moral pillars of society”.

Three of the fundamental moral pillars upon which our society rests are
friendship
fiduciarity
and funding
 
Each of these is naturally present in all healthy, well-adjusted human beings.

First of the major moral pillars is friendship. 
This is really love in all of its forms. 
Love is a natural affinity for other human beings deep within our genetic makeup. 
It is what drives sex even in the simplest of animals 
and causes more complex animals to bond with their children. 

For humans, it extends to a broad societal context.  

With every human being that we encounter we desire some form of friendship. 
we desire to be accepted as we are and given the opportunity to accept that person. 
It is a natural human characteristic to want to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

The second major moral pillar is fiduciarity. 
The word itself may not be as familiar as friendship, but we all have an intrinsic understanding of the concept.

It has to do with the responsibility of those in positions of power and authority.  
When we cede some of our personal autonomy or wealth to others we do it trusting them to use it in a way beneficial to us.

The simple example is parenthood. 
A child is helpless, 
the parent is a fiduciary. 
The parent has complete authority over the child, and yet puts the child's interests above his or her own.

Professions involve fiduciarity. 
The lawyer must work in the interest of her client. 
A banker must look after the funds of the depositor.

In a just government, all elected and appointed officials must subordinate their own interests to those of their constituents.

That is fiduciarity.

So far we have mentioned Friendship and Fiduciarity.

The third major moral pillar is funding. Another word for funding is investment.

We all must make choices about what to do with our time, talent and other resources. 
Funding is the principle by which we attempt to judge which use of our resources will bring the best results, 
not necessary immediately, but over time 
and not only for ourselves but for our fellow human beings, children, and generations to come.

Friendship, Fiduciarity and Funding
These three moral pillars are necessary to support society 
and fortunately they are part of the moral fabric of any healthy human.  
We are naturally disposed toward friendship fiduciarity and funding.

Friendship works both ways.  Because we feel it towards others, we desire interaction.  
And because they feel it too, our overtures are rewarded.  
The gratification is mutual, and reinforces the inclination to interact with others.

Fiduciarity makes specialization and hierarchy in human society possible. 
We allow others to have some power over us because we know that their natural proclivity will be to use that power justly. They will not abuse our trust. 

And without the willingness to defer gratification which is funding, only the very simplest projects would ever be accomplished. 
From an individual artistic endevour to the most complex building or research enterprise, all advancements in  civilization rely on our willingness to invest talent, effort, and wealth toward some future accomplishment.

there are of course other moral principles which are important to human society, but I believe that these three are major elements without which we cannot survive as a species.

However all three can be, and often are perverted, twisted into something destructive of society. 

friendship, can be perverted into contempt (hatred)

fiduciarity, into corruption (betrayal of trust)

and funding, can be perverted into consumption  (wasting or miss-using resources)

These perversions of moral pillars work all manner of mischief in society.  And I have another video discussing that.

All of my videos can easily be found on your friendly neighborhood internet at www.DAFFWOLD.com

Human society would not exist without friendship fiduciarity and funding. 
Society is always damaged to the degree that, in any one of us, these moral pillars are perverted to contempt corruption and consumption.

This video is part of the section of my “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution” which proposes that we Change Our Direction.

More information on the “9 Point agenda for Counter-Revolution”

Related Topics: Human Society; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

Education is a primary function of democratic government. 

First because it is a human right, and governments job is to secure human rights. 
But also because an informed and educated citizenry is a necessary condition of democracy.

And, because government has a responsibility to manage the economy, and as technology evolves, the economy requires an ever more well-educated workforce.

This education must the universal, 
it must be high quality, 
and it must be integrated.

Young americans should be encountering people from all segments of our society and beyond. This is necessary to build a democratic society which minimizes racism, xenophobia and class hatred.

Before Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution, we were moving in the right direction. 
Education was free for all in the first 12 grades and inexpensive colleges and universities were available to most. 

The quality of education for the majority of American citizens was improving greatly and our schools were becoming more integrated at every level.

The education system here in the United States was the envy of the world. Other countries sent their brightest students here to be educated; and emulated our system when designing their own.

This is no longer true. Our education system is bad and getting worse.

How could this come about?

Before Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution, our government emphasized expanding human rights and the need to develop the potential of each human being. 
We believed in investment in human development and funding the future of this great people.

But Ronnie Rodeo introduced a contrasting set of values. 
For the last 40 years the emphasis has been on diverging funds from human development to subsidize corporations and aristocracies. 

There is been a change in focus from improving human minds to controlling human behavior.

Federal funds are being diverted from public education to private schools for the purpose of enriching corporations and aristocracies, 
and also to divide society, creating unequal opportunity and animosity within the citizenry.

The planning time frame of our government has been dramatically reduced from multi generational human improvement to short-term economic growth.


Now it seems like every time I talk about Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution the discussion boils down to "we changed the direction and started going the wrong way". 
But that does pretty much sum it up.

It's time for counterrevolution. The education system in the United States is going in the wrong direction and we have to reverse it.

We need to fund it, fix it, and make it fair.

First we have to fund it.
Privatization is a waste of money. 
Education is primarily the job of government. 
And although much of the control and management of the school system should remain local, the only way we can fairly and adequately fund our education system is by using federal dollars. 

The present system of local funding, usually using property tax, not only leads to unequal education but increased geographic segregation.

And we need to invest in our educators. 
One of the most important jobs in our society requires the very best, brightest and most dedicated practitioners. 
We need to restore the high status teachers once held within our society and reinforce it with high pay and high quality training.

Education must be free, and all students must be able to acquire as much education as they need to pursue their dreams.

We need to invest in our future. We need to invest in our democracy.

In addition to funding it we need to fix it, and make it fair.

To fix it we need to re-examine the purposes of education. 
Our system needs to:
produce informed and curious citizens of our democracy,
prepare young people to be productive in our economy,
develop each individual's personal and artistic communication and expression, 
and encourage entrepreneurial genius.

To do this we need to train our children and youth to: 
Collect, Connect, and Communicate.

* Train the senses to Collect raw data and ideas from other humans, past and present.
* Train the brain to Connect ideas and observations in the process of building its own special way of looking at the world.
* And help each student to develop Communication skills so as to share her or his unique ideas with others.

Education starts at birth. 
Our government needs to assist new parents attempting to provide an rich environment for infants in the home, 
often while balancing two or more jobs between them. 
And of course daycare must be free for all. 
Daycare which is not warehousing, but the first stages of education.

We need to fund it, we need to fix it, we also need to make it fair.

Although for the most part equal dollars should be spent for each student, provisions must be made for special needs students. 
And I also believe that funding should be 15% higher for each student below the poverty level.

Schools must be required to employ any practical means to maximize integration,
racial, ethnic, economic, religious, 
and anything I may have neglected to list.
Our democracy requires it.

America is only great if the American people are great.
The most important single initiative for making Americans rate is to fully fund our education system, fix it, and make it fair.

This is not the only video in which I discuss education. I would especially refer you to my video on "funding the future", which is part of my nine point agenda for counterrevolution.