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, with the second one reinforcing it and although we may not always appreciate it this is being tested every day in our normal living activities.

These observations hold true, completely and universally. 

The second observation is inclusive, because as far as we know and as far as we can observe, the creator does not interfere with the physical laws either to our advantage or to our disadvantage. We can have good luck or bad luck, either by making it or been stuck with it. We can organize our lives by the decisions we make so that it appears that fortune favours us, or perhaps we can have the misfortune to be born with some inherited genetic defect, suffer some accident in our life that is detrimental to us, or conversely win the lottery, it matters not who we are or how events affect us, for we live in an uncaring world.

When we realize this and assimilate it and its consequences, then we must also realize that we are bound to live our lives with these observations in mind, for to do otherwise would be to invite chaos. After all chaos is the order of things in a universe without life and life is organization and order amongst chaos, but bound by the same physical laws. 

Life was a spontaneous creation in the chaos of the universe, a bringing together of energy and matter to create life under the slimmest of chances imaginable.

On a molecular level and over an immense time scale the experiment of life could take place, so many times, countless times, falling back into chaos before succeeding and finally developing, through chance and natural selection, to the marvellous diverse and advanced life forms that are us, and around us, on Earth today. So until it can be proved otherwise then we must assume life on this Earth is the most advanced form of life and possibly the only form of life in the Universe.

We must also be aware that WE are the most advanced form of life on Earth, but are still, and always will be, subject to the physical laws that were laid down at the beginning of creation, for to ignore this as individuals or as a species would be to do so at our peril.

Mankind in the past has taken decisions or been subject to events that have lead to his downfall. Civilizations have come and gone many times, their demise been largely due to mistakes and events that could have been avoided if appropriate action had been taken. The consequences were catastrophic for those civilizations but not entirely for mankind itself because of the limited capacity of those mistakes to do us harm. Today however, due to the advancement of our knowledge and the development of a global “civilization”, for the first time we have the capacity to make mistakes that would have a truly disastrous effect on our civilization and on life itself. 

 If we are to avoid repeating these mistakes, then we must advance our civilization and the values that sustain it so that we live our lives in such a way that these mistakes are not repeated, but presently this is not so, for our capacity for destruction and evil has preceded the advancement of our present civilisation. Science and technology has enabled us to be aware of this and hopefully we will use this knowledge to secure the future of mankind, yet perversely this gap is increasing and just at a time when the opposite should be the case

 

For every action there is a result.

We do live in an uncaring world. 

It is imperative to realize just how critical these two observations are, for we have actions and results in our uncaring world where the creator of our Universe is not going to intervene to save the situation, or otherwise, the result being purely dependant on the laws of physics and we would be well advised to organize our lives and our society with this in mind. Unfortunately at present we do not. We make decisions with results that are largely dependent on bias, anticipation, hope and luck, where a clear factual and honest evaluation of cause and affect would have given us a good indication of the outcome, but even then we will almost certainly not have all the correct information on which to make the most optimum decision in the first place.  

This is because of the vast amount of information required to accurately forecast even the simplest of events, and we will also not have control over other events taking place at the same time, that may influence the outcome. This is the best we can hope for however, and although we may not have control over these other events that may have an influence, as we continually make decisions that have a beneficial result then these influences become less. What is most important is the validity of the information that we have when making a decision based upon it. If the information is wrong, then the decision that is taken on which it is based will not give the result that we anticipate, expect or require. 

So in order to achieve the results we desire, be it simple decisions in daily life on an individual basis, or major decisions that affect national and international events, then we must have one thing, the most important thing of all when making decisions that will lead to a successful conclusion and that is:
TRUTH.
 

It could be argued that you cannot get to the truth because it is different, dependant on the individuals point of view, but this is not so. When we consider this objectively then we must surely come to the conclusion that there is only one truth, it is like a dot on a sheet of blank paper, it does exist and you are either on it, or somewhere else.

The laws of physics are formulated so that if you make a rational decision that is not influenced by parallel events and that decision is based on truth, then the results of that decision can be entirely predicted, but decisions may have to be made with information that is incomplete and where it is difficult to get at the truth. It is however possible to initially obtain a satisfactory and indeed, the best to be obtained result, by first getting as near to the truth as can be, then analyze the result and modifying it in an unbiased way, again based on truth, until the desired result is obtained.

There are two ways in which human fallibility fails in this process; firstly, it does not allow itself to get at the truth, the spot in the middle of the paper, the one truth. Instead it is influenced by the desire for the truth to be something else, to allow emotion, bias, and prejudice to take place. In other words instead of acting on the truth the decisions are taken on a perceived truth and consequently the result is different to what was intended. Secondly, the result is anticipated, then decisions are taken, again that are not based on truth but on a corrupted truth that sends the result wide of the mark.

Most people are aware of this, at least sub-consciously, and act accordingly. We do however, without thinking continually try to buck the system, but all too often reality strikes and the results of actions taken come home to roost. This applies from the simplest of daily decisions, to the those of global importance, for it is in the realm of national and international politics that decisions that bring about an incorrect or undesired result are being made and at a time in our civilization when it is imperative that the decisions taken are the correct ones.

Politicians and the decisions they make are subject to the same rules as anyone else, but, by the very nature of their success in politics this ensures that they are receptive to all the prejudices and human fallibilities, such as greed, desire, envy, cant and malice, and so this invariably results in decisions being made that are not the most beneficial. 

It must be clear by now that civilization and a civilized way of life is totally dependant on the results of correct decisions being made that are based on truth, and if this is done then civilization will move to a sustainably higher plane.
 

It must also be noted that once this improvement is made it does not end there, because the improvement is attained only at that point in time. If it is to be maintained or improved upon, then correct, unbiased decisions based on truth, must continue to be made.
 Order and civilization is continually advancing or retreating, rarely by the very nature of the complexity of events does it ever stay the same for long. Indeed in the very unlikely event that decisions were taken that in theory should maintain the present position, then that position would not hold because of the flywheel affect of decisions taken in the past and the changes that are likely to take place in the environment outside the decision making process, that are not affected by it, yet having an influence on it.
The flywheel effect is the on-going consequences of decisions that were made in the past in that, when an action is taken the result takes some time to become fully realized and the consequences felt.
The larger the event, then the greater the flywheel effect will be. Small scale events will have quick results but large scale events are slower to react due to inertia, and sometimes this can be due to what can be seen as large-scale events that are in reality a series of smaller one’s.
Decisions taken by governments on a national and international basis are large scale events that are subject to the flywheel effect and more often than not are credited or discredited with events that are not entirely of their making. It takes many years, sometimes many generations, for some decisions of government to have the full resultant affect on society.
Surely we must want our species and our civilization to continue, after all, those generations that have gone before us have made the same commitment and it would be selfish of us to do otherwise. We are unique however in that we are the first generation alive on this planet that has the capacity to virtually destroy all life on this earth, or do untold degradation to it.
Yet at the same time we live, riding on the crest of a wave of supposedly, the greatest and most advanced civilization that has ever existed.

How did this come about?
How can we sustain it?
How can we improve it?

Many civilizations have come and gone, but if we are not to follow in their footsteps then it would be wise of us to consider their fate. What can be said of all civilizations, at least at the start and to a varying degree, is that they had a measure of order and stability.

 So a civilization may be regarded as the creation of a life form consisting of a birth, a coming to fruition, and a death. All previous civilizations have conformed to this pattern and ours will surely do the same, but there is no reason to doubt that the period of fruition can be greatly extended if it is given the right conditions.

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