The Utopian Globalists

Author : Cyril Belshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1425722431
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Choosing Our Destiny written by Cyril Belshaw and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Table of Contents follows) Also see important information about non-US shipping at the end. If we are honest with ourselves, most of us feel helpless to resolve the world's problems. Cyril Belshaw provides a hopeful wake-up call, showing that a Utopian world is within our grasp. It is a matter of individual and public will, a determination in each of us to Choose Our Destiny. We cannot wave magic wants. W have to think about what we want, rather than passively allow events to overtake us, as if we were automatons. The world is what we make it; so let's take the responsibility. This is no pie in the sky, it is a matter of practicality. Belshaw builds his ideas on three themes. One is that each element in global society relates to each of the others, that is we must have a holistic perspective. We must be aware that family life impinges on crime which impinges on violence which impinges on law which impinges on nation states and global government. Another is that change obviously involves innovation. So what is innovation? How do we as individuals innovate in our personal and public lives? How do governments innovate, to make the globe a better place? Belshaw shows that innovation is with us all the time and explores how it works to show that it is very simple to maximize and manipulate - provided we have the goals in place. The third theme is to abandon our ethnocentric prejudices and to learn and observe from other peoples. Western values are not the be all and the end all. We must and can learn from others. We must not be bound by limited experience, confining our thinking to some sort of bounded box. We must roam freely in our ideas and search for solutions which remove the dysfunctionality from our world and replace it with lives and goals in which we trust. And that is just what Belshaw does. He examines the interlocking parts of global society and culture, its politics and its economics. You will identify with his critiques of family life, legal systems, education, nation states, the roots of poverty, and attempts at global government, among many others. You will NOT AGREE with many of his proposed solutions. That is not his point. But you will be forced to think about them and work out your own solutions, and apply them in a holistic manner to your view of the world, the globe you will be trying to create. Indeed, Belshaw challenges you to do exactly that. And he invites you to send your comments and disagreements in preparation for a potential revised second edition. Here are just a few random hypotheses to titillate your interest and challenge your conventions. Monogamy requires reform. Jealousy and envy are at the root of much crime and violence and must be removed. Schools will be replaced by Youth Maturity Institutes which will address the whole youth, and, among other things, remove violent characteristics, embrace risk, remove boredom, address personality disorders, and encourage cultural skills. Criminal law should be replaced by civil law, restitutional justice and therapy, leading to a merging of health and remedial services. There should b e a zero based re-examination of public finances. This would lead to the removal of all taxes which inhibit enterprise (corporate and personal). Replacement should be levied on consumption. World customs duties should be eliminated. There should be mandatory minimum incomes replacing social subsidies. Nation States should be downgraded in the global hierarchy to become essentially national administrators. Global Government should be strengthened by becoming a parliament of peoples and not a cabal of competing States. Global Government should have a full monopoly of armed force. There are many pros and cons to each of these, and other, hypotheses. They are for you to think about, argue about, and act upon when you have made up your mind. Don't try to ign