Topic-III

A Flawed Formula and Its Aftereffects.

  1. Unwanted exploitation of Natural Resources and Human Effort:

Money is required as compensation for individual to acquire products, services (P&S), education, and resources for their livelihood, as well as for governments to execute nation-building. However, to earn this money, P&S must first be produced. This force individuals and governments to overproduce unnecessary P&S, depleting natural resources and exhausting human effort.

  1. Restricted Freedom of Life:

Every citizen born in a country is compelled to provide ‘money’ to the elder generation in order to access P&S, education, and resources for its production. This entraps them in an endless cycle of earning money through P&S production, restricting their freedom, limiting their ability to explore the dynamics of time, and hindering their potential for self-realization.

  1. Overburdened Producers and Consumers:

If an item is valued at 100, the producer must first invest this amount while ensuring a profit, and the consumer must pay an additional 100 to obtain it. To sustain this value, both the producer and the consumer must continue producing or consuming other products or services. This endless cycle overburdens both producers and consumers in their livelihood activities.

  1. Equality and Fraternity: An Elusive Goal:

When the state’s constitution allows individuals to own education and resources, and grant them the right to produce and distribute P&S, control of these items often becomes concentrated in the hands of these individuals. The government is then forced to depend on them for the supply of P&S to the entire population. Under such conditions, achieving equality and fraternity becomes an elusive goal. Those who lack ownership of education and resources often find themselves in a state of servitude or dependence on those with an abundance of these assets. Without the ownership of it, individuals may even be denied access to essential, life-sustaining P&S.

  1. Impractical Nation-Building and Inappropriate P&S:

When tax allocations are derived from profit values to fund nation-building projects, governments of all countries are pressured to exploit Earth’s resources for financial gain. New legal frameworks or bills must be passed periodically to facilitate the production of various P&S aimed at generating profits. Entrepreneurs are compelled to relentlessly produce surplus P&S to ensure sustained profits. To sustain this production process, money must be provided in the form of loans and subsidies.

These P&S, produced primarily for profit, are frequently marketed through misleading practices, including false claims and advertising gimmicks. To secure tax revenues from these profits, various tax policies must be consistently enforced, and tax collections must be carried out regularly.

However, P&S produced primarily for profit often fail to effectively utilize human capabilities. They may not adequately ensure human safety or sufficiently promote human needs, growth, and enjoyment. Additionally, they frequently overlook the well-being of future generations and the protection of biological resources. Furthermore, surplus products and its resulting waste, become environmental pollutants, endangering human survival, threatening the life of other species and contributing to climate change.

  1. Neglected Information and Unprotected Resources:

Due to limited profit margins and tax allocations, P&S relying on native knowledge and traditional skills are neither sufficiently protected nor promoted, and are often hindered. This leads to the loss of invaluable wisdom and natural resources essential for sustainable development of a nation.

  1. Fictitious Values and Social Disorder:
Across generations, citizens repeatedly inflate the arbitrarynumerical values assigned to education, resources, P&S, and working time multiple times their lifetimes, in pursuit of profit. This uncontrolled inflation fuels conflicts, riots, and loss of life, destabilizing societies. As people struggle with these challenges, governments in countries where citizens depend on such means for survival are forced to allocate the lion’s share of tax revenue collected from citizens to securing their borders from other nations, where similar crises unfold. To protect borders—a social constructs that often divide people—countries continuously develop, stockpile, and covertly store high-explosive formulas and weapons of mass destruction. This has subjected humanity to persistent threats of wars, uprisings, atrocities, and violence, both historically and in the present era.
  1. Degrading Natural Resources and Eroding Human Values:
Due to the prevailing laws of every country, people worldwide must reward their elder generations with money to obtain education, resources, and P&S—money that can only be acquired by exploiting excess natural resources and investing additional working time.
As these practices have continued for generations, 85% of fossil fuels have been depleted, and 65% of dense forests have turned into barren deserts. Furthermore, 57% of living organisms face extinction, while the primary mass of icebergs has vanished. Climate change has become an everyday occurrence, with water sources contaminated and disruptions occurring within the food chain. Pollution has tainted the air, contaminated the soil, poisoned the water, and spoiled food. As a result, the natural organic equilibrium of the Earth has been disrupted, leading to perilous atmospheric concentrations of toxic gases.
Global warming now poses a significant threat to all forms of life, as oceans and land are drowning in mountains of waste. Lethal pathogens have evolved into a menace endangering all species, casting the prospects of future generations into uncertainty.
Additionally, the security, liberty, and harmony of individuals have been compromised, leading to detachment from health, happiness, and a sense of belonging. Commitment, patience, and interdependence have waned, and the preservation of elderly individuals, moral values, and ancient wisdom has been overlooked. (Data source: World Wide Forum)
  1. Inherent Conflicts in Imperative Restoration:

The equilibrium of Earth’s biodiversity has been severely disrupted, and human activities have become increasingly misaligned with natural balance due to the previously mentioned factors. Geologists and anthropologists, backed by substantial evidence, warn that if the relentless depletion of natural resources and erosion of human values persist, humanity may face extinction within a few generations.

Ironically, restoration efforts by governments, NGOs, activists, and environmentalists depend on money generated through the very exploitation and unethical practices they seek to eliminate. Furthermore, to sustain these crucial yet conflicting restoration efforts, future generations will inevitably be forced to participate in the same destructive activities.

  1. Biological Benefits But Legislative Limitations:

Human beings, born on Earth through cosmic processes over vast time scales, have evolved through generations, developing both physical and cognitive abilities. These advancements enable them to efficiently utilize available information, resources, and time, leading to the creation, storage, exchange, and enjoyment of diverse P&S. This progress has expanded livelihood needs and public amenities, fostering various forms of art, sports, music, literature, and entertainment. Substantial advancements in transportation systems, communication networks, information technology, scientific disciplines, and even extra-terrestrial research have been achieved. Yet, laws mandate that these achievements cannot be accessed without monetary compensation.

  1. Economic Realities and Environmental Urgencies:

Both those who possess money and those who do not eventually realize that money is powerless when the air becomes unbreathable, the environment is polluted, and deadly viruses emerge. Contagious diseases spiral out of control, resource reserves are exhausted, and premature death becomes inevitable for both humans and animals. Yet, survival remains tied to earning money—acquired only by selling education, resources, and P&S to future generations, thus perpetuating the cycle.

  1. State-Promoted Legal Framework that Fragmented Humanity:

The common practice is for individuals to pass down resources as inheritance to their descendants. The legal systems of all nations support this practice. In this scenario, citizens who genuinely had rights to all the nation’s assets and resources are reduced to having ownership only over the assets of their parents. As this situation continues, with each passing generation, the nation’s legal system reinforces the fragmentation of its citizens and resources into individual ownership.

However, for the timely availability of various P&S, it is a biological necessity for individuals to unite under a nation and collectively invest their working time. When this necessity was not upheld by the nation’s legal framework, people of the country were compelled to preserve this collectivism in other forms and under different identities.

As a result, deferent societal groups emerged in every country, including religious communities such as Christian, Islamic, and Hindu groups; regional divisions based on East-West and North-South identities; racial classifications of Black and White individuals; caste-based distinctions between privileged and underprivileged classes; majority and minority fractions; ideological divisions between left-wing and right-wing thinkers; economic groups of capitalists and workers; and gender-based groups of men, women, and non-binary individuals.

Ultimately, this legal system erodes humanity’s inherent sense of unity as one, fostering deeper divisions and accelerating fragmentation.

  1. Supportive Guidance But Unsupportive Results:

Parents, administrators, mentors, employers, motivational speakers, and spiritual leaders, themselves trapped in a system that demands for P&S, have provided diverse guidance to younger generations on achieving success by earning money through competition.

This relentless drive for financial stability, instilled from an early age, has led to widespread frustration, anxiety, and restlessness among the youth. Many, unable to meet these unrealistic expectations, have turned to drugs or substance abuse as an escape from the pressures of life. Others, driven by a desire to resolve the world’s chaos, have resorted to extreme measures, such as taking up arms as revolutionaries, in hopes of bringing about societal change within their lifetimes. Still others have embraced radical forms of spirituality, seeking peace in an imagined life after death. Tragically, this has led to instances of individuals taking both their own lives and the lives of others.

This guidance by the elder generation, which prioritizes financial success over human well-being, has become a global epidemic, affecting individuals across all backgrounds and cultures. The failure of these systems to address basic human needs and values have driven more and more people in every generation to seek solace in dangerous and harmful ways.

  1. Source of Superstitions:

Since time immemorial, members of the elder generation, unaware of the true causes of survival crises, have repeatedly faltered in their attempts—spiritual, physical, and philosophical—to address these challenges.

To mask their inadequacies, they propagated superstitions, like the earth being an illusion, human beings being sinners, and eternal life beginning after death. They further promoted ideas of karmic retribution, claiming that suffering in this life was the result of past actions, while salvation could only be achieved by worshipping the gods of their own tribe, among others.

To conceal their shortcomings and avoid such questions, they enforced these beliefs upon their offspring through strict discipline before the younger generation had developed their own sense of reason. Fear, respect, and coercion ensured that subsequent generations adopted these beliefs, perpetuating rituals, groundless ideologies, and divisive sectarianism, which continue to influence societies worldwide to this day.

  1. Death, Faith and Truth

Throughout history, humans have witnessed countless untimely and tragic deaths. These deaths are the result of persistent battles for resource, the brutality of power-hungry rulers, widespread starvation, contagious diseases, natural disasters, and numerous human-made risks. Additionally, neglect of infancy and old age, lifestyle diseases, drug addiction, unsafe tools & equipment, untreated chronic conditions, and anxiety-driven suicides have only intensified this grim reality. As a result, death is often viewed through the lens and sense of dread as either the cruelty of nature, the fate of man, a divine test, or simply the end of life.

However, from a biological perspective, life is sustained through the act of preserving one’s lineage. In the case of humans, they must engage in the production, storage, and consumption of P&S, all while facing the natural deterioration of the body and consciousness. Before deterioration sets in, they give rise to new generations, each with renewed bodies and consciousness. This cycle of life is a fundamental truth revealed in the study of genetics: organisms do not cease to exist—they are said to be immortal, as their legacy continues through their descendants.

Due to primitive conditions and a limited understanding of survival, we have failed to raise future generations in alignment with the fundamental principles of time. As a result, we have overlooked the biological reality that our existence continues through them. Despite this continuity, the absence of a structured survival approach has led us to perceive death as an absolute end of individual existence rather than an ongoing process of renewal.

-While there are many more implications of this flawed formula to explore, this chapter is abbreviated by explaining only 15 major points.

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