The avoidable inevitable

The present welfare system, by the way it operates, does not encourage the individual to improve their self respect or financial independence but does the very opposite. It endeavours to cover every aspect of our social problems and allocate benefits down to the minutest level and by its very nature is wide open to fraud and abuse. Many people not getting what is due to them, but a greater number obtaining benefits to which they are not entitled in spite of a great deal of time and effort spent on trying to police it. So a system to replace this would set out clear rules to ensure that no individual has any reason to suffer poverty. It would be simple and straightforward, with no opportunity for fraud to take place and so designed to make it advantageous to the individual to improve their lifestyle by their own efforts while accepting their social responsibilities. The most efficient way to change the present system to incorporate these ideals would be to dispense with unemployme...

  continued ... So how did such an advanced civilization as ours come about? Initially the others had order and stability, the prerequisite for a civilization and we also, but over a longer period. It hasn’t been plane sailing though, but a very bumpy ride indeed. This belief has been used and abused, but the evidence we see in the temples and cathedrals of the world tell us that this belief was profound. The belief in a creator though cannot fully explain the creation and sustainability of such a unique, long lasting civilization, and it does not. It was the message promoted as truths that provided the catalyst. They encompassed a great deal but the basic message was one of love and humility and this can be summed up in one word, a word that is much derided today,   Morality. Morality:   Do what you know is basically right, for you instinctively know if it is right or wrong.   Previous generations had a morality based on religion that was sufficie...

PROGAM   Promoting Governments of Rational Morality.   When you analyse life, how it was created and how it conforms to the laws of physics, the same laws of physics that govern everything on this planet, then you are inevitably bound to come to two basic conclusions.   1.   For every action there is a reaction:    A reaction that has consequences, for every action inevitably leads to a result that will have consequences. 2 .   We live in an uncaring world.  When a reaction results from an action, that reaction conforms exactly to the laws of physics and is not influenced in any other way.   As far as humanity can tell this has been and always will be the system under which we live, for we can find many of examples of this in our everyday lives, from the smallest event, either natural or manmade, to those that channel the Universe through space and time. You could say that the first observation is the most basic of all, w...

Clifford Thomas, June 2019. May I point out that I am in declining health with a disease that has and continues to result in declining cognitive function, but in spite of this I have a story to tell that is built on my life experiences over the past 77 years and it is the conclusions I drew from them that I trust you will find helpful in creating a better society. This relates particularly to the UK, but may well be applicable to all. The avoidable inevitable.   When trying to make sense of our place in the world, how it affects us and how we have affected it, then we cannot but realize that we are in trouble in so many ways and if we are going to get out of this, even if we start now, then it will be by the skin of our teeth. So the best way to assess our situation is to start at the very beginning and that is at the birth of the Universe some 13 billion years ago. Obviously we cannot say for sure how it began and even if it was the beginning, or just the par...