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Introduction
The following article is adapted from the second third of a pamphlet that I self-published at age 26, Our New Planet: An Economic Vision for a United States of Earth (1999). [Since 2004, after serving as interim president of Citizens for Global Solutions (formerly, World Federalist Association), Washington, D.C. Chapter, my views on world federalism have become more constructively critical and I have continued to serve as an officer with a more nuanced precursor organization, Association to Unite the Democracies since 2014.] Other updates relevant to world events since 1999 are given in sentence form through footnotes along with regular sources. The later third of my pamphlet will be published as a further article on this blogsite. An autobiographical article from August 14, 20252 provides more social context from the 1980 timeframe and serves as an introduction to this three-part article, the first part of which was published on September 21, 2025.3
Conventional Wisdom (CW): We have rich people and poor people. They distrust each other. How do you plan to overcome that distrust?
Martin Schwab (MS): Three goals to transcend current economic class divides and bring human beings together more naturally:
Goal 1: Create energy abundance through Buckminster Fuller’s global electric grid plan – inspiration for this vision
We should follow Buckminster Fuller’s global electric grid proposal and create total, renewable and sustainable electric energy by harvesting energy income from our sun, our wind, our waterfalls, our waves and our hydrogen.
Buckminster Fuller has clearly demonstrated that resources abundant in the universe can be harvested and distributed around this planet, creating equal but more importantly higher standards of living for all. Again, Fuller’s global electric grid proposal would use high-voltage transmission lines to link all continents of the world, particularly via the Bering Strait, to provide electrification to developing countries.
An admitted potential hazard is electromagnetic damage to humans who live close to these power lines. This poses a further challenge for science. However, no conclusive results are available regarding this concern and other creative measures could be taken. These include installing the lines away from residential areas or relocating people away from the lines.
The global grid project would also complement the need for military conversion to civilian jobs. Fuller’s grid would also serve American interests because “a bloom where planted” concept would emerge worldwide, reducing the present mass of humans immigrating to America for the wrong reasons.
The significance of Fuller’s proposed project would be similar to Franklin Roosevelt’s Tennessee Valley Authority project, which brought the rural South out of poverty into electric civilization. Fuller’s proposal would strengthen political relationships between the largely destitute southern hemisphere and the industrialized northern democracies.4
Goal 2: Explore and develop space including detecting and deflecting asteroids and comets
In Fire from the Sky (1997),5 the classic documentary explains why it is not a question of if we will be hit by a devastating kilometer sized asteroid, but when. Earth has as much chance of being hit by a devastating asteroid or comet in a populated area as any one of us has of dying in an airplane crash. The 1871 Chicago fire is now believed by some to have been caused by a comet that exploded in our atmosphere and sent a shock wave down to the states surrounding Chicago. 1,200 people died in the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin where it was reported that the “air itself seemed to be on fire.”6
Then, in 1908, Tunguska, a remote region in Siberia was hit by a similar shock wave that “laid pine trees down like new mowed hay.” Had it occurred six hours later, the asteroid would have hit Moscow, killing 10 million people. People in London, England, could read newspapers at night from the glow of the impact with Earth’s atmosphere. In 1931, another shock wave blast of similar magnitude occurred in a remote region of Brazil.7
Space is a violent place. Everyday, an asteroid the size of a house comes between Earth and the moon, and every month, there is one the size of a football field. We are actually hit 20-25 times a year by meteors the size of basketballs. Each of these hits gives us an explosion (overhead as it burns in our atmosphere, usually in remote locations), roughly the size of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. If we mobilize now, we are just now in the human story, able to avert the coming bigger hits, by kilometer sized asteroids and comets which supposedly put an end to the dinosaurs.8
Asteroid and comet strikes are not isolated events. Within a more responsible human paradigm of working in concert across our new planets, we would not have to worry about convincing national legislatures to make prevention of these strikes a priority over other needs such as “social security,” and “defense,” that reflect zero-sum and oppositional economic and geopolitical frameworks respectively. How silly these terms sound in light of the asteroid/comet threat not being defended against due to the imposed scarcity of economic resources, artificially created after the agricultural revolution in ancient Mesopotamia.9
We are only spending $10 million a year as a planet on tracking asteroids and comets. This affords us tracking of only around 400 of the almost 2000-kilometer-sized asteroids and comets that could pass Earth’s orbit in the near future. Comets come in especially quick with little warning, unless we can find them when they are far away so we could have a year or two to plan for adequate defense.10 We have the options of exploding nuclear missiles near the asteroid to divert its course without causing equally threatening fragmentation of the asteroid or comet. We could also develop mass drivers that land on the asteroid or comet and thrust it away from Earth.11
We should also develop space stations, moon bases and bases on Mars so that we are not all here in the inevitable event that we can’t prevent a direct hit. To do this, we need to coordinate our pool of expertise and material resources from the various space agencies around the planet. At this point, these include NASA, the European, Russian, Japanese and Indian space agencies. Such goals, if acted upon, could unite human beings across our homeplanet as we begin to venture beyond. When leaders demand that populaces fight a common threat, solidarity can occur over panic.
Most of the comets and asteroids currently being discovered are found by amateurs. For this reason, the human citizenry could also help and be involved. There is no reason why we shouldn’t have a good telescope in every household as a matter of global security. In line with this concept is the Argus telescope design. Argus aims to look at all of the sky with a series of interconnected telescopes rather than at just one part of the sky at one time.12
Goal 3: Foreign no more – the role of cultural bioregions
We need not another diplomatic attempt to achieve balance of power – guns large and small poised at each other. Power cannot be balanced, only redirected, preferably with positive-synergistic dynamics.
The essence of sovereignty is the legitimate interest to preserve cultural heritage. Once we as human beings are committed to all human positive synergy akin to the team concept in sports, we will be faced with the task of drawing up cultural regions as new units of analysis/building blocks for achievements by the human team. Perhaps like cultures can police-regulate-cultivate themselves within this new context, each particular cultural bioregion checked in terms of universal human rights by a majority of cultural bioregions, through overwhelming non-lethal force if necessary.
As people could be so busy working on planetary and multi-planetary projects or raising children to commit crimes, the role of policing as indicated above could be primarily geared to assisting people during natural disasters, accidents etc. As a systemic safeguard, if one or a coalition of such cultural bioregion police forces formed an offensive action against another cultural bioregion, that force could be destroyed and rebuilt or contained by an all-region police force. In this arrangement, war could very well be abolished, as the League of Nations (1920-46) and Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) tried to do, setting a precedent in the affirmative, though given by realists as a precedent in the negative.13 Cultural autonomy and individual liberty are moral absolutes, necessary to prevent a potentially tyrannical all-human negative synergy.
In order to have a workable federation, we can not have the present amount of polities, 193 to 251,14 independent of population which are not comparable among all as a disintegrated system. The U.S. Senate has 100 voices for 50 states and the U.S. House of Representatives has 435 voices. Structurally, this is workable though with population increase in recent decades, the amount of people that each U.S. representative can truly represent is unwieldy. For global/multi-global synergy among human polities, many current countries may want to be combined or split up. Somehow, we need to get to around 50 to 80 cultural states or cultural bioregions of Earth and/or the solar system and beyond aspirationally. Instead of “representing” various factions within an artificial paradigm of scarcity, input-based mobilization around common goals is a more dignified use of everyone’s limited lifetimes.
As indicated above, one option that could emphasize harmony with our planet would be to have political subdivisions based on bioregions and subdivided further by watersheds. Human cultures have developed along these natural barriers anyway. Tidewater Virginia, Monterey Bay, the North American Plains, the Great Lakes Region, the Australian Outback, the African Serengeti and the Steppes of Russia are a few examples of cultural bioregions, envisioned by this outline.
A more specific option to consider is to establish a unicameral Earth or Solar System Senate, functioning with two senators from each of only 36 cultural bioregion, 12 across the Asia-Pacific, 12 across the Americas and 12 across Africa-Europe, harnessing positive human synergy across the global south-north, no longer a divide or source for dysfunctional bloc politics.15
Philosophy on government: An ultimate United Humans of the Universe depends on the rule of conscience – more on the role of cultural bioregions
In my view, both liberals and conservatives today have a negative view of human nature. Liberals see that government is necessary to counteract the exploitation they believe is inherent in capitalism. Conservatives want less government, except for military spending because they do not believe government can stop most exploitation or its own corruption. Conservatives say exploitation, corruption and crime can only be curbed through private morality, which they stress. This pamphlet seeks to obliterate the paradigm of both liberal and conservative political philosophy which are both based on an inaccurate view of human nature(s).
I consider myself a conservative, but for a reason that other conservatives do not espouse. I believe that if the economic conditions that I have so far outlined existed, people would not exploit or commit vice and government could be reduced to the role of coordinator, to service private free enterprise as opposed to capitalism, much as a stoplight services traffic. (Remember the freeway analogy of economic interchange in Part 1 of 3 in this article series.)
Even this function, such as employment agencies would provide could be privatized. Essentially, the executive branch of government, which most people think of when they think of over-expansive regulatory government, could be eliminated, except for cultural bioregion forces for policing/regulating/cultivating.
A planetary legislative branch of government should concern itself with planning the best use of our resources to make Earth more accessible by building better planetary transportation networks and how best to synergize exploration on Mars, our own moon, in space stations and possibly other moons in our solar system. A bioregional legislature might discuss issues not immediately relevant to the planetary legislature, such as how to organize the building of small independent-efficient communities including mass recycling efforts – the antithesis of the “15 minute cities” concept that emerged in the early 2020s. The role of a planetary judiciary could be to mediate any conflicts between bioregions. The role of bioregional judiciaries might be to mediate conflicts between individuals and recommend modes of rehabilitation/cultivation for any criminals that might still exist on a case-by-case basis.
The natural tendency, over time for government to widen in scope should be counterbalanced by smaller subdivisions working together in the widened framework. This is known as the concept of subsidiarity found in the federal model of government. As mentioned before, there is the potential for individual humans to eventually govern themselves, technically defined as anarchy. As we get better at governing ourselves, such as bettering our skills in inter-human communication, government should loosen its reins until those reins completely unravel and blow away, leaving us truly free.
Even in the stoplight analogy, if we developed ways of communicating with each other, or let our cars communicate with each other, there would be no need for the stop light, figuratively or literally. An eventual United Humans of the Universe could increasingly depend on evolving social conventions. Again, if we are busy working with each other on large scale projects, we just might not have time or reason to engage in crime or violence against one another.
The internet of 1999 had no real regulatory measures. It was largely self-policed. Matt Drudge, of the internet-based Drudge Report, envisioned the institution of journalism evolving so that everyone is a potential reporter, with the only editor being our conscience. Perhaps the institution of conscience in the end is what has to be present in the individual for true democracy through a United Humans of the Universe to function. Again, this is why the method of teaching our toddlers is so important, to develop their conscience, as explained in the Montessori method.
CW: Conscience. You see these kids today, shooting each other in school. That never used to happen. They have no conscience. I give you credit for defining the problem, but do you really think we can eventually get to self-government with this new breed of humans at the helm in the 21st century? I’m afraid most people in the present generation of leaders do not have faith in “Generation X,” not to mention what some call “Generation Y,” graduating from high school at the very turn of the millennium.
MS: It is frightening. However, all humans have it in them to rise to the occasion and act selflessly, even humans who have never felt their conscience within them. History bears this out, usually in times of war and disaster. We need to give ourselves worthy challenges to both our collective and individual human spirits. That is what will bring out the good over the bad in people.
PW: Doesn’t the competition that money exchange fosters do more good for society than bad?
Healthy competition and cutthroat competition
MS: The artificial scarcity-based money exchange system will never be able to foster enough of the healthy type of competition and corporate risk necessary for an exponentially achieving civilization to emerge. (Recall the first paragraphs of Part 1 of 3 of this article series.)
Exchange systems, namely through money inevitably bring out the worst cutthroat type of competition, encouraging some of us to find a way to gain some kind of advantage over others. This is only a corrupted part of human nature. The healthy side of human nature is still there, enjoying the kind of competition that tests the self.
For example, the automotive industry could produce a new model car every week if it wanted to. The demand would have to be there, which among enthusiasts, would be the case. Car enthusiasts could drive a new car every week and then turn it into the recycling lot and pick up next week’s design.
The car engineers would have a friendly competition to outdo each other in market share. That’s what would motivate them, not the bottom line of profit. Again, it’s creating, exploring possibilities and earning appreciation from others – in this case, even the competition. Giving out ideas and seeing if the competition can outperform you – that is true free enterprise.
No one should exchange his or her time for something else. The three internal forces of 1) exploring, 2) creating and 3) earning appreciation from others have guided all of us, wherever our DNA originated. These forces have guided us since we ventured out from the trees onto the Sahara, working together to slay giant beasts with tools made from our own hands, to the year 1969 when we were able to land Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon and return them to our homeplanet.
What has been going on since 1969? Everyone seems to feel as though he or she wants to do more with his or her life. The phrase “if they can put a man on the moon, why can’t they ______?” When we say this phrase, we are really saying, “Why can’t we make every shortcoming we experience in civilization a priority to fix?”
What is different now is the prevailing sense that because of our technological understanding, we could be doing more if we only had more money/socially approved resources. The primary example of this sentiment is the people at NASA, who are doing a fine job probing our solar system and beyond but mainly taxing their creativity on how to do it on the cheap.
Imagine what NASA scientists and engineers could do if they could utilize their imaginations beyond budget constraints? The same is true for alternative energy sources writ large, water desalination, mass transportation and mass recycling systems here on Earth. Right now, these technologies are not economically viable. This is evidence enough that money exchange is defeating the purpose of civilization, to explore, create and earn appreciation.
CW: Would car enthusiasts be prevented from collecting as many cars as they wanted. Since there would be no money, what would stop an individual from picking up 50 cars every week? What would stop a person from picking up a whole rain forest of lumber to build a log cabin the size of Iowa, on Iowa? These are extreme examples I admit, but how do you limit over-consumption without limiting human freedom? Scarcity of money at least keeps this issue from surfacing.
MS: True. There would have to be a limit to material consumption and therefore technically to human freedom. As I introduced to you before, that limit would probably be what is called the global carrying capacity. That means we cannot consume more than the planet or solar system can provide. At least for the near future, government as we currently conceptualize it would be necessary to regulate the global carrying capacity.
I’m not sure how many cars per person per week that would translate into, or for that matter, how much wood. My guess would be that the global carrying capacity could provide more to each of us than even the richest among us now has the taste to buy. The artificial scarce nature of money is an unnecessary limit on human freedom. If the objective standard of the global carrying capacity is a limit to human freedom, at least it is necessary.
The war question – “Earth Rise”
CW: People have always been at war with each other. How do you plan to change that? That fact alone flys in the face of the cooperation that you say is necessary for an exchange-free interchange economy to work.
MS: It is true that NASA was created to help win the power struggle on this planet between democracy and communism, not just for the true purpose of exploration, creation and earning appreciation.
It is widely recognized that the photograph taken of the Earth, called “Earth Rise,” has made a slow but drastic change in how humans see themselves upon what Buckminster Fuller called “Spaceship Earth.” Even at the height of the Cold War, in 1975, Soviet and American humans met peacefully in space. In the late 1990s we continued this tradition of togetherness in space aboard the Russian space station Mir.16
However, past is not necessarily prologue. We could remain separate in space and fail the challenge of detecting and deflecting asteroids and comets. That would be epically unfortunate as that potential outcome would represent both a technical and moral failure to all who have lived before who have developed both technology and moral philosophy.
Political systems based on war will eventually collapse from their own weight. This was learned by the Greeks in the Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Sparta and by the over expansive Roman and British empires. While the American dictum of civilian control of the military is impressive, control and influence of the government by what President Eisenhower called the “military industrial complex” is reason for concern. We need to get the military industrial complexes to turn their collective sights on asteroids and comets.
CW: Well, I see your point, too. During floods or disasters, people help each other because it’s natural, but you also see looting, especially during the confusion of earthquakes.
Disasters and human nature
MS: So, it’s natural to help people in need, but during confusion the worst also comes out in people in the form of looting? Why the looting?
CW: Because you can get away with it.
MS: What do you get away with?
CW: Stuff for free, without having to work for it.
MS: You still have to put energy into breaking windows and carrying the stuff away. Why is it considered more work to order the same stuff through mail order and charge it on a credit card?
CW: Because you have to work to pay off the credit card.
MS: So in both cases, looting during a disaster and mail order, there is work to be done for profit in return?
CW: Yes, but with looting there is less work to be done, so you get more stuff for less work, and you are likely to get away with it.
MS: Looting seems to me as equally deplorable as the retail practice of marking prices up and then marking them down and calling it a sale because the result is the same – win at someone else’s expense. You cannot blame looters or salesman. They are playing the same game the best way they know how. The idea that “money is only a medium of exchange,” a benign tool that fosters trust across civilization(s) is misleading. Money as a systemic efficiency over barter still represents an aggressive act as a social invention – confusion by design – small wastes of time over lifetimes.
CW: You don’t seem to emphasize commitment. Aside from your idea of the need to earn respect and appreciation from others, how could you put together projects? Projects, like building space stations, need teamwork and dependability. How do you think this will happen if everybody is just free to follow his or her bliss?
Management, labor, recycling and corporate apprenticeship for the 2000s
MS: If we created this new planetary civilization, maintaining one’s honor and reputation would become more important than it is today. Currently, the bottom line has to be the primary consideration for anyone to survive in our world as presently configured. Showing up on time for projects like a space station would come naturally just by the adventurous nature of the project.
There could still be people who manage and people who labor. Some people like to manage while others like to have less responsibility and simply work hard for the sense of achievement. The working relationship across our new planets could be like the working relationship on a professional American football team between coach, quarterback and the rest of the team.
Division of responsibility post-hierarchy is necessary to get projects done. However, this is distinct from the current system where an individual works for a boss who pays his or her salary or wages.
Laborers could work by possibly remote controlling the recycling trucks and backhoes. That might even be fun for some personality types, but only for a while – say a few months in a new town, or planet. There is nothing wrong with temporary employment. On the contrary, it is refreshing to the work force. It should be encouraged by society, not frowned upon. Who really wants to “stick with something” or “slug it out?” In effect, we aspire to be “sticky slugs.”
In an interchange economy, without the exchange of money, management could offer laborers appointments to an unlimited number of laborers, each on a four hour shift. For example, management could keep up a backhoe operation for a new sewer on Mars or in Montana around the clock. It would take some extra scheduling, but there are plenty of people who would like to schedule for four hours a day.
CW: Why the four hours a day? I thought you said that people want to earn appreciation from others by creating and exploring. Let’s say there is a person inside a crater on Mars constructing a pressurized bubble, back hoeing a sewer ditch by remote control. It is 4:00 p.m.; he or she has been at the joy stick since the crack of noon.
Another person is scheduled to work, or play to 8:00 p.m. I can see that he or she got there because he or she wanted to explore his or her solar system, that’s natural. This person is feeling good about creating a new settlement on Mars, certainly a legacy to be proud of but how can anyone gain any respect by playing around on a joystick for only four hours?
Also, what does this person have to do until noon the next day? He or she is on Mars. I guess they might have some sort of bars on Mars, but that wouldn’t be very good for society, to be following that type of schedule.
MS: To answer the last part of your question first; family. People could spend all morning and all evening with their partner and children. That would be good for society. To answer the first part of your question, those sewer pipes need to be laid and maybe that’s the type of job you could keep manual, for humanhood-proving purposes. You laugh but you brought up a key component to what makes us human – rites of passage.
Here’s another thing that person on Mars could do from 4:00 p.m. to whenever. He could earn respect from others by playing a sport – the spirit of amateur athletics. Without money and with more leisure time, people could enjoy watching and betting on different levels of sports competition.
CW: If there is no money, what would they bet? What would be the appeal?
MS: The principle of seeing who can pick the most winners, who understands the game the best. That’s important, too, for those of us who are not athletic at all, to have something from which to earn appreciation from others. To be honest, there might not be as big an appeal to betting and gambling as there is now. It would be a diversion, as it should be. For those with addictive personalities, it wouldn’t be a life-crippling activity.
CW: Gambling… Las Vegas. The essence of American capitalism and materialism. Since you are so against money, I figured you would want to tear down Las Vegas, but I guess you would be for even more of that scene on Mars.
America is already a consumer nation, producing landfill after landfill. Maybe your true free enterprise, based on energy abundance, albeit clean energy, would produce, distribute and consume more than the planet can handle. If we just give everybody in the world a blank check, won’t we just choke on all the waste that we create?
MS: Maybe. That’s why we should mass recycle all the paper, plastic, metal and glass that is already here instead of producing new materials. However, in the present artificial scarcity-based money exchange system, it is cheaper to make new materials than to buy recycled material. Think about the possibilities of mass recycling in defacto abundance-based interchange economics.
We wouldn’t have to sort our trash. Mass recycling could have had that process automated by now. There should be no need for landfills. Raw materials should be fed back into the economic production, distribution and consumption interchange loop. With no concept of expense, mass recycling could be a great aid to the production and creative side of industry. (The idea of a circular economy exists within a paradigm of artificial scarcity, seeking to optimize it.)17
CW: How are you legally going to get people to give up title to their property? How do you address land-use planning?
Land use planning
MS: Just law, in my mind is an extension of the golden rule: to ensure individual liberty up to the point where it infringes on another individual’s liberty. Future practitioners of law would still have to litigate, or perhaps simply mediate those remaining questions that would not be cleared up through the principle of interchange as described in this three-part article. Existing contracts, in the areas of home loans, insurance, taxes, stocks and bonds would be annulled because there would be no need for them.
We could all have more property if we use science in accordance with nature. We could use desalination plants to take salt out of seawater and pump this cultivated fresh `water to the deserts. Then slowly, we could begin to plant those lands with crops that make sense to that region. We could use the same concepts with our deserts as we would use to colonize Mars.
Perhaps striking natural landscapes could be preserved by building moderately populated residential villages every twenty miles or so – solar system-wide. This would afford residents breathtaking views while preserving nature’s balance. Industrial zones might be hundreds of miles away from the nearest residential zone. Subterranean residence or industry is also an option.
CW: How would you decide who lived where within these small villages? It seems to me that you would still have squabbles over who could build where. At least now, money solves those issues of contention.
First divider, second chooser – urban restoration and civil aviation
MS: We could use the method of “first divider, second chooser” that mothers use to divide a cake fairly. The mother tells one child to divide the cake as evenly as possible. The second child then picks one of the divisions, so the first child has a vested interest in dividing the cake as evenly as possible. There are various versions of this method used today in dividing up farmland and estates between children of deceased parents. This method could come in handy in land-use planning in an interchange economy where the idea is not altogether different. We would be dividing up land and resources left to us by the deceased system of exchange economies.
Reconstructing Earth’s natural landscape could give humans a new sense of mission and a lot to do on Earth while space colonization is furthered. Borrowing from Frank Lloyd Wright, the aim should be to ensure that every human has a home that meets his or her individual needs and personality while blending into and utilizing nature.
Consistent with the concept of zoning and the appreciation of our history and heritage, all cultural bioregions of our new planets could have designated historic districts. This ideal could coexist with the concept of leisure. There are still many old, run-down buildings, both in urban and rural areas that could be renovated into dance clubs, restaurants, museums or whatever the leisure market demands. The concept could be extended to buildings that contain financial institutions, which are seductively some of the planet’s most beautiful. The Citibank building in Houston is a striking example. Perhaps Wall Street could be turned into a series of dance clubs, gardens or malls.
1965 is an approximate year in which the planet’s landscape began to be cluttered with unnecessary horizontal development, such as strip malls and urban sprawl. Any structure that existed before mass horizontal building and that enhances or does not disturb a landscape should not be torn down. It should remain in the possession of original family members and/or their descendants currently owning or being willed the possession in the future. Those currently owning parts of the mass horizontal clutter could be invited to better their lot by transferring square footage, not exchanging it. They could have transferred footage in remodeled footage in unused historic buildings or new villages in the expanses of the planet’s arid lands.
Travel between moderately populated villages and larger historic cities could be left up to those proponents of civil aviation, who since the 1950s have been advocating personal, vertical take-off flying machines. However, civil aviation has had a hard time getting started because it is a threat to the economically entrenched auto industry.
Without the inhibitor of present day-economics, we could turn our engineering community loose to produce practical “sky cars.” However, we should be wary of the futuristic tendency to envision mile-high vertical skyscrapers because it is known by those who live in big cities that these types of buildings can contribute to depression.
No one has ever liked invasive advertising, especially on television. Billboards in particular should be torn down and recycled. However, if people feel nostalgic for billboards, perhaps a theme park of billboards could be built in honor of the history of human trial and error. All advertising could be done on select television commercial channels, similar to QVC, but more interactive. The lines between television and the internet are starting to blur anyway.
Commercial channels, electronic billboards and classified ads could not only clean up landscapes but could also match the right market with the right products and services. We could have a world without television commercial interruption and billboards. These are common sense implications that appeal to all human beings.
CW: Since you think that money exchange is animalistic and uncivilized, what should we do with indigenous cultures, who by definition, are not “civilized,” nor want to be?
The third and final article in this three-part series will answer the above question based on Tecumseh’s (1768-1813) enduring life example.18
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