Alternative One

In the ’50’s, studies by the federal government of the U. S. indicated
there were three alternatives in the near future.
Three factors:
1) pollution,
2) population gains, and
3) the menace of nuclear war,
created scenarios that indicated either: Alternative One,
immediate and extensive curbs upon the economically driven rate of pollution
(bottom line, data reduction, profit seeking – disregarding any and all other values)
or two other alternatives:
Alternative Two, underground survival
or Alternative Three, outer space colonization.
Alternative Two and Alternative Three means survival for a select number only,
or an elite few.

Alternative One meant an extensive change, a reorientation, a rate of change,
which it was judged is unlikely or impossible for human nature or human society.
However, people were not given the choice.
Those who were governed and taxed were not informed.
Alternatives Two and Three were selected.
The productivity of the many, the wealth of the citizens, was confiscated
– to provide for the survival of the few, a self selected few.

Deficit spending didn’t matter.
There was no future, not for most.
Government of the people, by the people and for the people, was cancelled.
So-called democracy had always been a highly intermittent choice,
from a small number of alternatives.
People weren’t really offered a voice of representation, just a vote,
every so many years, but call it democracy anyway.

There have always been those who were afraid of what they would experience,
if they didn’t dominate everything and everyone around them.
They combine very well with those who are afraid or lack the interest or concern
to take the responsibility for informing themselves and making choices.

Military societies and martial legal systems eliminated all of the choices or at least limited the choices of one or two, to either obey or disobey.

Military social patterns are effective and efficient, but at a very high cost psychologically and sociologically.

Military social patterns have a very limited function.

 
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