An Economy for the Common Good | Full Text

Building, enabling and maintaining good governance, self-sufficiency and freedom for all people and our communities

The Greek Stoic Philosopher Epictetus said “It is not possible to learn what you think you already know.” 

Today, one of the greatest challenges that humanity faces is the reality that almost every one of us believes that we already understand how the world works and subsequently believe that how it works today will always continue to provide the basis of how the world will work tomorrow.

With even the most educated academics and experienced experts suffering from what can be argued as a situational bias, where virtually nobody can picture a way of living where the fundamental factors like money and the economic system that we have today aren’t exactly the same, it seems that we have just as easily slipped into the tragic and passive acceptance that the things that we want to be changed, either cannot or will not be changed. For no better reason that we refuse to give up the things that those changes will necessitate, that we still believe to profit or benefit us personally in some way.

For any speaker or writer who dares venture into the realms of sharing even just one or two layers of the massively multilayered truths that underpin the workings of today’s world using a lens or microscope to focus upon one area of life, government or business, the complexities quickly become too hard for others to believe and the label or badge of being a conspiracy theorist or perhaps worse fits just as easily whilst serving the purposes of those who ride the ‘blissful ignorance’ of the masses ridiculously well.

The truth that even the many who do accept that change has now become more than necessary cannot deal with, is that neither the majority nor the critical mass of people required to initiate meaningful levels of societal change can be reached whilst we remain ‘bought in’ to the current paradigm at any level.

Indeed, the change that our lucid moments allow us to recognise as being the only possible direction for a just, fair and balanced society and culture, will not be accepted and certainly not embraced, until enough of us have felt the real pain that the way mankind lives today will inevitably inflict upon us all. For as long as money and material wealth rule the day.

A HAPPY WORLD isn’t coin operated

The world could not only work as well as it does today. But it would actually work much better. IF everyone did what they did, without being tied into the shared belief that everything has monetary value.

Yet it doesn’t take much for any one of us to build a wall against this truth when we will almost inevitably fall into the trap of believing that whilst we might personally be able to accept a different system of values, we believe that nobody else will. Because they are selfish and coin operated. And that as such, the world will always be destined to work the same way.

What I will say to you now is that the world does not and has never needed to be coin operated or run by money. And it can no longer continue to operate in this same way.

The way that the world works today is a manmade construct. One that has fear – not happiness, peace or love at its heart.

What is more, each of us may well have had the free will to choose fear as our motivation and our guide in times past.

But when the impact and consequences of that motivation on the part of any one of us leads to a situation where the free will to choose between fear and the alternative is no longer available for others to decide, the imbalance that is created is one that will  inevitably lead to inescapable pain and impoverished circumstances for those others from which it will be impossible for the world itself to hide.

The contradictory belief that unsustainable living is sustainable, because the narrative says so

Fanciful as it may sound, the reality we all face is that the unsustainable ways in which we have all been living have already gone too far.

The decisions that legislators and leaders make do not reflect what is in the best interests of humanity and everything they now do is progressively making a very bad situation even worse.

We do not and have never needed the world to work as it does now.

The benefits of a whole world and everything within it being twisted and manipulated to serve the interests of just a few, are worth nothing and do nothing but cause pain and harm to the masses.

This is an incalculable level of tragedy when we realise that the fundamental basis of everything we need, is being able to or having the ability to live a good life.

A Good Life cannot be bought

A good life isn’t created or achieved on the basis of what we have, what we accumulate or what other people think.

A good life is a state of mind.

And it is a state of mind that allows each and every one of us the opportunity to open the door and rediscover who we really are.

Those committed to the current paradigm will certainly argue that only wealth, influence, power and control can provide the circumstances where this kind of peace can be achieved.

Yet there is nothing peaceful, beneficial and certainly not spiritual about living a life that may be perceived as being good. But can only be achieved where at least one and potentially many others are having to pay some kind of cost.

Just like our bodies are an ecosystem that work to their very best when they are looked after, our communities and localities are all that groups of us need to survive and thrive, whilst showing and maintaining that same respect for all others and sharing between all of us the things that different communities can do that we cannot and vice versa, with the express belief and understanding that cooperation and collaboration rather than control are all any of us need to have very good lives.

Our Future is Local

Plenty has been said and written about the virtues of looking within ourselves rather than continually looking outside for all of the answers, truths and directions that we expect to make our lives work.

Indeed, the purpose of this work isn’t to focus upon the benefits of self-awareness and levels of self-knowing that reach way beyond any basic understanding of self-help fashions such as mindfulness which can be found in seemingly endless numbers online and on channels such as YouTube and TikTok. As that is a journey for each of us to pursue and conclude upon personally.

However, the circumstances and situations that lend themselves to that journey of personal learning and progress are a different matter altogether.

In very basic terms, the most  productive and beneficial way for us to live our lives, to experience a good life and to live a life where we will know that we will genuinely succeed, is to live locally, or in ways where everything to which we attribute real value is experienced as first hand, through people we meet face to face and through life experiences which are fully lived and not accessed at  any level through the equivalent of a screen.

To experience the human condition and human relationships, it is necessary to have relationships directly with other humans that will condition us to understand how and why other humans behave the way they do and how they think.

Living any other way immediately adds unnecessary levels of complexity in which the behaviours and choices that harm others can easily hide, that just like any other lie, require many other lies and layers of lies in order to protect the original lie.

Despite many convincing narratives that suggest otherwise, progress doesn’t only travel one way. Just like technology doesn’t automatically mean the redundancy and erasure of methodologies that came before it. And it certainly doesn’t mean that advances of any kind that benefit those who control them, should ever come at the cost, hardship, loss or pain of those who would have been involved in any accepted practice that came before it.

In fact, technology driven by the correct motives and the desire to improve life, rather than replace it, is representative of genuine progress, whereas technology used to replace and impoverish people so that those who own and control it can profit is most certainly not representative of any kind of progress.

Just because jobs can be replaced by technology doesn’t mean that they either need to be, or that they should be. And if money wasn’t the only real consideration that was being involved, neither would anyone believe that there would be any need to be either.

Indeed, if money were not in the equation, the need for big companies or big anything, wouldn’t even exist.

The only businesses or organisations that we would need at any level, would be those that have the structures necessary to provide for all our essential needs and the goods and services that make a genuinely good life work.

These aren’t big businesses. Because they aren’t driven by the suggestion that costs can be lowered so that more profit can be made or one business can undercut another that does the same thing, because it can do the same things more cheaply in some way.

These are businesses that exist to provide the best at what they do and provide the best experience that they can for the people that they serve.

These are businesses that are local, that are part  of a local supply chain and work within a local circular economy in its truest sense, that have no need to be bigger or biggest, because the one set of values that we all share is built around the belief  that every one of us is worth and has value that is exactly the same.

Our Local Future

The default setting that most of us have from the way that our lives and understanding of life has been conditioned will tell even the most learned and intelligent of us that money centric living will always be the way and that everything we are working through here is little more than some kind of utopian dream that is wholly impractical and will never come true.

Yet unsustainable living is by its very nature unsustainable at every level, at that means that to live and believe that it is sustainable is itself untrue.

Those who are looking more closely at the narratives and the truths that they hide will know that life is going to change in one way or another. It is not a question of if, but when, and the only real question that none of us can accurately answer – even though it is easy to speculate, is what event or series of events will be responsible for setting off what we can almost be sure will be a process of change, if we are not already now within it?

Because we tend to be obsessed over the journey and who has decision making control over the next step(s), rather than the outcomes of everything we do, we use outcomes in the sense of what they mean only to us as the basis of any argument over what should come next – in real terms, whose ideas and suggestions should come first.

From this perspective and the conflict that we can see as soon as we begin to be open to how everything works, it can easily feel impossible to visualise an outcome or range of outcomes that could be achievable after having gained buy-in from everyone and the pathways they are demanding, so that the result is meaningful to all as well as being something that actually works.

The paradox is of course that without being able to visualise the destination and what that destination will actually feel like, what it will be to experience it and what being there will actually mean, we don’t have a collective cat in hells chance of ever getting there or doing anything that will actually succeed.

Minded of this, I wrote Our Local Future and took the leap to create a vision or picture of what a world that works for us all would actually look like, feel like and work like. And you can read and work through the structure of Our Local Future and download a copy of the book by visiting HERE.

Putting the first steps towards tomorrow’s world in today’s terms

Whereas Our Local Future may provide the reader with a picture of what a fully functioning just, fair and balanced locality-based world would look like, whether they agree with that vision or not, it does not and will not provide a guide or map that includes all the different steps that we will collectively need to get there. For no better reason than dogmatically sticking to any plan will create more problems than it will ever solve and that in a world of complexity and contradictions like the one we are experiencing today, plans can never replace the choices made by decision makers who make the right decision in the moment, and ultimately will not work.

However, what is not only possible, but is also required with the outlook that we tend to share, is an example of the stepping off point; a signpost in the direction of travel, or rather an outline of the first steps that we could and that we arguably should be taking now. So that what we are doing to ourselves today is no longer destined to be our end, but can be the point from which we make a conscious decision to take each step, and then keep moving and changing step by step, to transform from a world that doesn’t work for everyone, into a world that works for us all, as it always  should.

Who does this is not something we should worry about, unless we remain captured by that idea that the next step and who controls it is more important than the outcome or destination itself. And without recognising this, it continues to be unlikely that we will ever agree on how we will recognise that outcome, because the outcome and destination will never have become the topic of our discussion or debate.

From this perspective, I would rather have my work taken apart so that it can be improved upon by all those who can improve upon it, than for the work to have never started at all. And with this in mind, I have created and committed to digital pages An Economy for the Common Good, as a model for how we could all come together as communities and within our localities work together to make a start.

The Glos Community Project

I began this work or project in the summer of 2023, and at that point simply intended to turn an idea in to a practical or turnkey model of how a group of well-intended and appropriately motivated volunteers could begin creating a structure that would lead to a fully functioning and localised economy, that would lead to outcomes that would place localism, circular economy, sustainability and sustainable living, awakened forms of governance and therefore real democracy at its heart.

Because the whole point is about our own communities and where we live and work, I created this model around the areas in which I have lived and live today, so that it would be as realistic as it can be from the very start.

The model is called The Glos Community Project and follows in the next section of this book as a structured and self-explanatory plan that goes as far as to provide the basic adverts and job specs for the social entrepreneurs and community volunteers who are envisaged as being the leaders and pioneers of building An Economy for the Common Good.

The Glos Community Project model is only a guide, providing that first step that I have already alluded to, and one that I hope will invite every reader to think about how our world can and will operate very differently, once we have accepted and are ready to embrace that we must place people, community and the environment we live in at its heart.

The content that follows has been structured in the form of a website that can be found HERE, where comments can be added at the bottom of each page.

If you would like to make suggestions about the subjects raised, please share them there or do get in touch by email at acommunityroute@gmail.com if you would prefer not to share your thoughts publicly.

Please note that I will be happy to publish anything that is well intended and clearly shared with the intention of achieving the best outcome(s) for all, even where such an example directly improves upon the work that has been shared.

Thank you for reading and for your interest in creating An Economy for the Common Good.

Adam Tugwell

February 2025

The Glos Community Project

Introduction

Hello there!

I’m Adam and Gloucestershire is my home. Gloucestershire is the County where I was born and where my family live. It’s where I went to school, where I first worked in farming, where I first trained as a manager for an international company, where I first ran and developed projects for a charity and where I set up my first business. Gloucestershire is also where I was an elected Councillor and Member of three of Gloucestershire’s Local Authorities.

As you can already see, I have a very strong affiliation with Gloucestershire, and with Cheltenham, Cirencester, Tewkesbury and Winchcombe in particular. However, all these places are important to me, not just because of the role and part they have already played in my life. But especially so, because they are all parts of the same community and local communities of which I am or have also been a part.

Community can mean a lot of things and could easily be considered to be different, depending on who you talk to. However, to me a community is the group of people who you share all of the important things in life with, rather than being the people who you share the same things with that are important in your own life.

Community is People and Place

The Community and what the community can do has never been as important as it is becoming and as it will soon become. Given all of the turbulence and difficulties that are beginning to affect everyone in some way, right across the world.

Yes, the world is itself a community. And it would certainly be a much happier, healthier, safe and secure place, if world leaders could cast their own agendas aside, and put the benefits of what they do for the People and the communities they should be serving first.

It’s no excuse, but at the level of world or even national leadership, it’s very easy to lose sight of how important every other person’s life experience is.

That’s why when we think about the basic or essential food, goods and services that each and every one of us needs to live and have self-sufficient lives every day, it is locality, localism and keeping every part of day-to-day life as local as possible, that is going to become the key ingredient to ensuring that everyone has a balanced, fair, just and above all, meaningful life.

Recognising that The System today, isn’t about ‘us’; BUT the Future will be

The Establishment no longer works for any of us, even though the amount that we pay in taxes means that on average, we work until May or June each year and ‘Tax Freedom Day’, when any of the money we earn thereafter is actually ours to spend as if it were our own.

One way or another, the help that we now need doesn’t and will not come from those who we should be able to expect to provide it.

Necessity now requires that whatever help we and our communities now or will need, we will all have to step up and do whatever we can to help ourselves, the people who are in our lives and the way of life and everything within it in the localities that surround us.

Our power lies wherever we focus it

Asking people to help themselves or even making the suggestion that public policy is very much ours to influence and change for the better, is something that many – perhaps even you – will feel some immediate resistance to.

We are, after all, living through a period of our own, if not world history, where we have been conditioned to feel helpless and that solving problems that affect us all is something that somebody, somewhere else is responsible for and always does.

Learned helplessness is a human disaster in the making. Simply because it encourages everyone who believes they are powerless to stand still.

In the circumstances we are experiencing, standing still is like going backwards. Because those who have power are abusing it to take everything that we understand forward, in to a future, in ways that only benefit them and their kind.

However, life isn’t something that happens out there, somewhere.

Life is happening right here, right now, in your mind and in the space or spaces around you that you walk in, talk in, feel in, touch in, eat in, wash in and experience every part of life in – each and every day.

Life isn’t happening remotely in a device somewhere.

But the picture that devices give us of someone else’s life can certainly make it feel like whatever is important in the digital world, is relevant and all-encompassing within our own.

It’s not. And the most painful lesson that we all have to learn, understand and accept in real terms, is that life doesn’t work as it should for more and more of us, because we aren’t living real lives.

Our lives are being dictated by people who are completely out of touch with us and who we are. But have a pedestal, lectern and platform in front of us, just because they are on a digital screen.

The current economic model and system of power doesn’t work for us

There isn’t much that needs to be said to anyone, no matter who you are, where you come from or what you do, for us to reach agreement that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that everything works.

Whatever your relationship with money, the chances are that you are also concerned by the creeping feeling that less and less of the aspects of your life that you used to feel in charge of, still remain within your control.

In simple terms, it works this way and will continue to get worse in this way, as every decision that’s having an impact on the value of everything we have is being made by people who we are unlikely to ever meet.

The challenge that we all face today, is that the rules that allow all the things that are going wrong for us – no matter what they are – have been created or adapted to serve the purposes of those same people, and these are the people who we have not only trusted, but also put in charge.

Out of sight is out of mind for most.

And people who have power, influence and control by the truckload, are very dangerous when they have no integrity or respect for the responsibilities they have to others.

Localism or Going Local

I’ve written a whole series of books that focus on localism and how the focus of power must be brought back to local communities and for decisions that affect our daily lives to be made as close to us as possible and by people who we know and can trust.

However, the problem that I have faced throughout, is that when talking about anything in a broader or national sense, it quickly becomes as abstract as national politics and national news streams are, even though that’s how we often judge important things to be.

The problem is, real life and what is important to us isn’t abstract.

In fact, the real things that are important and all the things that can have the biggest impact upon everything that is happening to us is not abstract and is very specific indeed.

But we have somehow allowed the abstract, or what is outside of us, to influence all of our specific choices.

With AI and technologies now forcing their way into our digital lives, with consequences that will make real life feel so much easier, whilst teaching us to forget how making decisions for ourselves and even learning new things, the choice between being led by an abstract world where the real influences are never seen or understood, or taking back control and regaining conscious choice in everything we do has never appeared to be such an easy one that is actually so very hard.

Awakening to the reality that hides in plain sight

The damage of centralisation, globalisation and of allowing decisions that affect everyone to be taken by people who are unlikely to ever visit or have reason to understand the things that are happening in our streets and neighbourhoods are very easy for us to see in the news every night.

People who have zero understanding of the consequences and impact on the policies they write for every reason other than those that they should, are condemning increasing numbers of people to harder and more challenging lives, and then blaming them for the problems that they themselves have through their own incompetence caused.

It can only work for us, if we can reach out and touch it

A genuinely self-sufficient and fully localised system of public services and the governance that underpins the systems and processes that affect and impact daily lives would not be in danger of being abused or mismanaged in this way.

Indeed, the only way that we will be able to create a genuinely level playing field of opportunity and a public or community sector that works in the way that it should will be for the full balance of power, influence and decision making to be brought back to the People and local communities and administered openly, transparently and without any bias in the way that it always should.

Real Localism is what Authentic Governance looks like and what it would be.

Localism in its real sense

The most simple way to explain the change of focus from where it is today (Global, Central, European etc.) to where it should be (Local, Community etc.), is to think of it as being a switch from a values set based on money, profit and the accumulation of power and wealth, to the alternative values set which is focused on People, humanity and what we genuinely need for everyone to be happy, healthy, secure and safe.

Real localism isn’t rocket science.

But real localism certainly meets with a lot of resistance when the true depth and scope of what it means are openly discussed, because for many who do so well out of exploiting others (whether they are aware of it or not), localism represents what they believe to be a loss.

Sadly, because the Establishment know and understand that local communities are where the power of the people and everything that supports us should be, they frequently pay lip service to the principle of ‘localism’.

But as in the case of New Labour’s ‘Devolution’ from the 1997 General Election on, and then the Cameron Conservatives ‘Localism’ in the years that have followed since 2010, the type of localism and the return of power to local people that politicians from all sides having been selling us, all add up to no such thing.

Politicians today are desperately promoting what they call localism or any one of a number of similar things, which is Regional Centralisation by another name.

We face a challenging, but achievable course of action, that requires us, our communities, charities and businesses to by-pass the Establishment and begin putting localism into everything we do and are motivated by, if we genuinely want to solve all of the societal problems that not only our communities, but the Country and the whole world faces.

We need a new Economic Model that evolves itself from the community up

If you want to learn about economics, the last person you should ask is an economist.

History – albeit history that is used as a model and translated for the contemporary age, is another thing entirely.

We do not need to return to the dark ages or some kind of feudal system to see that life worked much better for everyone when everything that was needed for day-to-day life was available locally and provided by people that everyone knew.

Simple living is far more intelligent than the ‘connected’ world that we live in where relationships are being dehumanised and we have all become little more than a number or code to every company or organisation that we have any reason to buy something from or to do business with.

We will bypass and reject the heartless and inhumane way of living we experience today by

  1. Prioritising local growing, processing, manufacture and supply.

We will improve life for everyone dramatically by rejecting the money-based value system by

  • Putting People First.

We will change the world for the better by rejecting the hierarchical structures and system of governance by

  • Bringing power back to the most local level within our communities – creating a clean, authentic form of democracy that has never been allowed by the power hungry to exist before.

The new enlightenment that we are told we are experiencing is only enlightening for those who believe that they are in control.

People who don’t have any reason to even acknowledge the realities that many of the people whose lives they influence now face, because technology insulates them from all the pain that they cause.

PLEASE Remember: Just because technology can do so many ‘amazing’ things, it doesn’t mean that we are obliged to use it, or that we have no choice when it comes to doing so.

Priority 1: Local, Local, Local

Life isn’t a theory.

Yet we have life dictated to us as if it is.

The only way that things can really work in the best way possible for us all, is for whole supply chains, the route of food from farm to fork and how business works and money or currencies flow to be in circles that are as local as it is possible for them to be.

Forget any ideas, philosophies or narratives that identify with localism purely as ‘circular’ or ‘doughnut’ economics.

Whilst they may be well intended, these are theories that are based upon the current money-centric system continuing to be prevalent across all areas of life.

They are NOT what real localised economies are really about.

Localism and Locality Economics are about everything in life and the business streams that support life, people, communities and the environment, working locally and in a very localised way.

Priority 2: People First

Money isn’t everything. But people, our relationships and the world we live in really are.

People or human based values are in short supply, so the most effective way to change everything is to put People and our communities first.

We don’t need to make massive profits to experience happy, healthy, safe and secure lives. But we do need to have faith that changing minds – beginning with our own, is the most important step to changing the world to one that is just, fair and balanced for all – and that social enterprises that help everyone without charging more than anyone involved genuinely needs within local communities is the best place to begin.

Priority 3: Local Governance from local Communities and the grassroots up

We may have learned helplessness, but we have the ability to change things right now, by-passing the assumed behaviour that the Establishment expects and by making the system work for us and taking power back, rather than engaging in actions we have been brought up to expect which just continues to funnel power at people who abuse it and use it only to benefit themselves.

In the recent book Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, we discussed the need for us all to act and take part so that the focus of political power is brought back to people we know and the decisions that affect us daily are made by people who have genuine skin in the game when it comes to knowing and understanding what we are experience, how we feel, and how we think.

No, we don’t need a revolution and the destruction of the current electoral system to do this. But we do all need to take part. However, in the long term, we must work towards the removal of any parts of the electoral system or system of democracy that can allow specific interests and the agendas of particular groups of people to manipulate and play the system, as is the case right now.

Social Enterprise and Community Enterprises | Bringing not-for-profit and key local businesses together to work as one

Putting People First isn’t just the long-term aim. Putting People First is the most important stepping off point in the series of practical steps that have the power to influence and deliver large scale change, even without the Establishment giving it its blessing, a green light or any kind of consent.

The way that we can do this is by creating a series of social enterprises that can immediately begin to tackle the issues that are being most acutely felt by what we today recognise as growing wealth inequality and the cost of living crisis, but in reality is a direct result of the broken economic model that the Establishment remains committed to, even though it is continuing to deliver increasing  levels of harm to People from all areas and across the whole spectrum of society.

It is certainly true that many will not have even considered the realities that many of the people they pass on the street daily are facing from the growing problems that are a direct result of this broken economic model. Of those that do or are open to the existence of a problem, even more cannot see an alternative way of running a 21st century model of society where money doesn’t have its current role.

Many People genuinely believe that creating a model of society that functions around what everyone needs, rather than what the reducing few just want, cannot deliver happiness, health, security and safety in any way. This is because of the genuine belief that money always has a role to play.

But money or rather inflated prices, excess prices and the greed and profiteering that sits behind it doesn’t have a role to play in any fair, balanced and just society. The only way to demonstrate this is to show the people that need to be convinced, and that’s why those who can see and understand this truth need to be the pioneers when it comes to taking action, as well as having and maintaining a lot of faith.

We can deliver different outcomes and with them, a different life experience for people across our communities very quickly, just by making a start

That start will be social enterprises that follow similar development and growth models in every local area, along with a very small number of new multimodal charity units that provide services for those in very specific cases of need, who have no way to pay.

By passing the Establishment and organisations profiting from essential goods and services that everyone needs

There is no point in attempting to reinvent the wheel. There are already some magnificent social enterprises and not for profit organisations operating in many areas that are doing the very best to help people on a cost-related or free basis already. The Glos Community Project will not seek to replicate or replace any of these within their tangible area of operation, and where or when possible, will also seek to redirect support that might become available to them.

However, The Glos Community Project will operate in any area where we have the volunteers/social business leaders, support and resources, where no such organisation already exists.

The Establishment has had plenty of opportunity to demonstrate that it can reform and get things right. Those involved no longer have the right to demand that we keep waiting for them to get things right, or to expect that we will continue to trust them, just because of the job title or responsibility that they supposedly hold.

This time and the future are ours to decide. They have had their chance and have cast what’s good for everyone rather than just them aside.

In time, many of those from within the current Establishment will accept that there was always a better way and that they made the decision not to exercise the responsibility that they held on our behalf, to do what is right.

We cannot trust anyone from within the Establishment today, to do what is right, until they can see and accept that putting People First is the new paradigm and how everything is going to run.

Who are The Establishment?

We have mentioned the Establishment and the reality that obtaining meaningful change will require bypassing the establishment at the very least.

Knowing who the Establishment are is therefore very important.

As a rule, anyone involved with or directly employed by any of the following will represent the establishment. There are exceptions right across the board, but for the purpose of excluding as much of the risk that comes from those who are invested in obstructing change as possible, in the first instances and until there is definite evidence to support otherwise, we will not trust or knowingly engage with any of the following:

The Establishment includes (but is not limited to):

  • The Civil Service
  • Town Councils
  • Parish Councils
  • Borough Councils
  • District Councils
  • County Councils
  • Unitary Authorities
  • Schools
  • Colleges
  • Universities
  • Social Services
  • Public Services of all kinds
  • Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) e.g. The Highways Agency / Highways England, The Environment Agency
  • National Charities that are well-funded and in the public eye
  • Elected Councillors
  • Elected Mayors
  • Members of Parliament
  • Police & Crime Commissioners
  • Mainstream Media
  • Media Companies
  • Corporate Businesses
  • Most Celebrities
  • The Military

Why | The Glos Community Project

Right now, even on the rare occasion that politics does something positive for People, it comes and works its way through the system at a pace that is simply too slow to help and benefit people who genuinely need help in their real lives.

Gloucestershire is no different. And whilst there are at least a few politicians on the seats of local Parish, Town, The Borough and Districts and the County Council who are still genuine in their aim of putting the needs of People first, the reality is that many of them don’t even understand just how little influence they – and therefore the People who elected them – have, over the things that we are expecting them to deal with on our behalf, each and every day.

The elephant trap that we can easily fall into is to think that bitching about any of this or that following, liking and supporting people who are saying all the things that we want to hear will somehow result in change.

It won’t. And that’s why I am here – as just another person from the community we share, who loves Gloucestershire and everything about it, with the aim of connecting like-minded people and taking the very practical steps that we can by working together, to help other members of our community and take the first leaps towards making the Towns, Villages and the Countryside that we love, a much better place and one that reflects the aims, values and aspirations of us all.

We really can change things for the better by doing the things that we can, rather than losing faith because the problems look too big and we believe that we can’t.

HP | The opportunity for change will be what WE make it | The Glos Community Project

You may have already heard of something called social enterprise, businesses that are run on a not-for-profit basis, or businesses that are set up not with the aim of making money, but creating some benefit to the community in some way.

The Glos Community Project is here to explore the opportunities that already exists and that are yet to be identified that will benefit the wider community through the services or products that they provide, whilst providing opportunities for budding social entrepreneurs and practical change activists, along with work opportunities for anyone and everyone – and especially those who might feel that the world has been passing them by.

Right now, I am looking for people who want to be the pioneers of social change within Gloucestershire’s communities. Individuals who are ideally looking for the opportunity to lead and to learn, but are driven by working collaboratively and for the benefit of everyone, rather than long or short term, about what they themselves can earn.

These are voluntary opportunities in the first instance, with the only immediate cost being the time and commitment that it will take, along with the determination that any successful entrepreneur would need to set up a business from scratch – but with the benefit of having the support and guidance of someone who has seen and experienced all of the ups and downs of creating, launching and managing businesses before.

Theres nothing good about global, but local builds love for others every time

Many of us struggle with understanding and identifying the difference between the things we need in life, and the things that we want in our life.

Don’t worry, there will be no judgement coming from me or anyone else who is closely involved in what we are doing if this does or has ever applied to you. The whole system is skewed and the messaging and advertising that is being constantly pumped at all of us has helped blurred the lines so much between need and want, that unless you are awake to anything being wrong with all of this, the two have merged and become one.

In my recent Book Levelling Level, we focused on identifying the difference between basic or essential needs and what many consider to be essential – but are actually just what those people want. We also focused on the reality that with the Establishment having worked tirelessly on behalf of specific interests to make just about every supply chain you could imagine operate to make excessive profits by delivering what everyone who can afford to buy it, wants, the same people who have been responsible have also destroyed the ability of communities and even our whole Country to provide just the basic or essential foods, goods and services that we all need.

Even talking about supply chains and terms like self-sufficiency will sound like gobbledygook or some kind of esoteric language to some. One of the many challenges we face is that this is intentional too. And the myth that we have been conditioned to believe is that everything costs less for us this way, that it is a better, healthier and more enlightened way of living, and that making us all dependent upon people that we have nothing in common with, will get rid of any problems because we all think the same way.

Regrettably, the same way or same thinking is based on nothing more than shared greed, profiteering and a complete lack of care for the human cost, such as loss of local jobs, overuse and unnecessary use of natural resources, exploitation of people and less developed cultures, and the enslavement to debt that is quickly overtaking populations across the world.

Target Business areas | Foods, Goods & Services that are ESSENTIAL to life

The Glos Community Project is all about the basics. The essentials that everyone needs to be able to access each and every day, so that they can lead happy, healthy, safe and secure lives within a fair, balanced and just environment.

Humans don’t get addicted to anything that they need. But the humanity in everyone is quickly destroyed by having too much of what they want.

Whilst the aims of The Glos Community Project will have many points of controversy, depending upon who you are, it’s the definition between what we need and what is essential to life, rather that what we want that will probably get the most backs up, whilst the world is able to continue in the way that it has been.

For the sake of repeating a lot of information that is available in my other books, the basics or the essentials for everyday living look very similar to this:

Food:

  • Fruits and vegetables that can be grown locally, either on farms, allotments or at home
  • Bread made using local flour with minimal processing that can be completed by hand or traditional milling methods.
  • Dairy products including Milk, Cheeses and Yoghurts that are made locally using traditional methods and without chemical additives, extensive processing or refinement
  • Meats that are farmed, prepared, stored, dressed and retailed locally, without unnecessary miles to heavily and unnecessarily bureaucratised abattoirs and processing facilities.
  • Fish and seafoods, either farmed inland, or transported from the nearest UK seaport.

Goods:

  • Clothing (basic)
  • Cleaning (To keep homes and anything for personal use clean and hygienic)
  • Kitchen (to cook, prepare and store food and drink)
  • Laundry (to wash and prepare clothing)
  • Health & Hygiene (Essential medicines, and goods used to keep clean and healthy such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, sanitary products etc.)
  • Transport (Bikes, Cars) – Only where regular transport cannot be provided in another or shared way

Services:

  • Clothing repairs
  • Vehicle repairs & maintenance where vehicles are owned
  • Building repairs and construction
  • Electricity
  • Water
  • Gas
  • Communication (mobile phone, broadband)
  • Unpaid apps
  • Entertainment (Free channels)
  • Transport (where vehicles are not owned or available for essential or irregular journeys)
  • Banking & Currency (outside of Establishment control)

The More People involved, the more local The Glos Community Project will become

In the first instance, it is difficult to estimate how much interest there will be and which social enterprises will be the most popular, even though I have a good idea what these will be.

If one person per social enterprise model were to come forward for each of them, we would certainly begin by opening up the first of each operation to the widest number of People that it would be possible for us to do so.

However, as interest grows, covering these same areas might be difficult and result in the level of service offered being reduced because there are too many people for one business unit to serve.

When this happens, the area will be divided up, so that every service that The Glos Community Project provides will be offered to the most local area possible.

The growth of The Glos Community Project will be a pathway of decentralization in every sense, focusing on improving accessibility and transparency at each and every step of the way.

Theres nothing about The Glos Community Project that can’t be done. The voices that say otherwise are from people who just have selfish reasons not to do it

No matter how you came to discover The Glos Community Project, there is a good chance that unless you have been searching for other like-minded people to do the things that you have already been thinking about, you will read through the list of social businesses that we want to see available to every community – just to begin with, and that you will think that this is something that cannot be done.

If you have an open mind, please ask yourself the question what makes you believe that, and then follow up by asking yourself why.

Everything listed on this site is achievable. Not only that. As more People from our communities sign up, commit to our aims and provide us with whatever support they can, more and more of us will understand that putting people first is a very good, mutually beneficial and happy way to live, where the results will speak for themselves.

Whilst it will be challenging to get the first few of each social business model planned, where necessary funded, launched and then running, we will very quickly have turnkey frameworks or plans available for every new area, that only then have to be tailored to ensure that whatever is being offered, will meet that specific community’s needs.

Areas outside of Gloucestershire

I will be as happy to hear from you if you are outside of Gloucestershire as I will be if you get in touch with me from any of the communities and local areas within.

We might need to take a different approach, depending on what you are able to do, but The Glos Community Project is just a model or incubator where we can all learn, and we must aspire to a much wider roll-out if community or grassroots power is to have the revival that it now can.

If you are from outside Gloucestershire, please consider all the opportunities that have been listed on this site and then get in touch.

I will be happy to arrange a one-to-one meeting via Zoom, WhatsApp, Facetime or Teams. Or if you have a question or questions that would be helpful for others too, I will be happy to post a blog or a video to explain or discuss what we can do.

Area Organisers – Other areas

If you have been reading The Glos Community Project and feel that you might have what it would take to get the ball rolling with a like-for-like Project in your own County or Region, I would really like to hear from you.

Please e-mail me and provide me with whatever information you would want to know about me, if you were already set up in your area and were thinking about inviting me to work alongside you to set up over here in Gloucestershire right now.

Funding Opportunities

We are actively searching for philanthropic support for specific projects or to support them all.

If you would like to provide support through a donation, through sponsorship or through a grant of some kind, we would be very pleased to hear from you at the earliest opportunity.

We are aware that many substantial grants are offered on the basis of meeting very specific aims. Where possible, we will build the services offered in ways that will meet those aims, as long as doing so will not compromise the key principles and aims of The Glos Community Project.

Regrettably, we cannot accept support that would be allocated in support of any political agendas other than bringing back power to communities themselves, through the creation and development of Community Meetings.

If you would like to discuss your idea, please get in touch with Adam for a chat. 

Every penny counts and if you are supportive of what we are trying to achieve, but can only afford to make a small donation, we will appreciate and value your support just the same. Please find our Crowdfunder HERE.

About You | Social Entrepreneur

The most important thing about you won’t be anything to do with how creative, innovative or entrepreneurial you are or can be. These are all words that get misused and there are lots of people who genuinely believe myths such as being self-employed means that you are an entrepreneur.

The most important fact or truth about you will be that you are driven by helping others, by genuine social change (no matter how challenging that might appear to be) and that you have accepted that change of the kind that we all need will not come from anyone that most people are expecting it to come from.

I’m not keen on bullet points for something like this, so please treat the following as a framework only, and if there are things that resonate but you are not sure about anything else, please just get in touch and we can have a chat.

You Should

  • Be motivated by helping others
  • See everyone as an equal, no matter who or what society suggests that they are
  • Be open to learning new things
  • Be able to see everything objectively and be aware of how your feelings might influence this when and if anything leaves you emotionally ‘triggered’.
  • Think critically – no matter the situation
  • See a crisis as an opportunity
  • Able to work in the moment, without a plan or guide to help you
  • Be sure that you can see commitments and agreements through, even if you are not being watched or monitored
  • Have a genuine passion for the type of social business(es) that you are interested in and know that you will gain a sense of achievement from being successful within it.
  • Be open to learning and carrying out any of the jobs or tasks that will be required to make this business run and be successful
  • Be comfortable with talking to people, to journalists and anyone who has a genuine interest in what you are doing
  • Have experience working with different social groups, either professionally or voluntarily
  • Be aiming to earn a wage which relates only to the genuine cost of living at the time
  • Understand that volunteers are not paid employees and will only do their best for you, if they enjoy and see a benefit to them or what they believe in from doing whatever you ask them to do
  • Be happy to sign and keep to the terms of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

These Opportunities are unlikely to be for you if you:

  • Believe that someone else will solve all of society’s problems
  • Knowingly hold prejudices of any kind about other people
  • Are aiming to own your own commercial company or business
  • Are motivated only by the potential of what you could earn
  • Have any hang ups about doing any kind of job
  • Believe that you must be qualified to do anything
  • Make excuses or tell lies to cover up mistakes, problems or any issues that are outside of your control
  • Are already committed to any political or social agenda – no matter how good or beneficial you might consider it to be (This includes any political party, green or climate focused movements, groups with a spiritual ‘agenda’, ‘alt’ movements or anything that promotes ideologies built on ‘us vs them’ thinking at any level or of any kind.

Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurs in Gloucestershire

There are a number of different opportunities for people who would like to lead the development of a social business across Gloucestershire.

These will include:

  • Local News
  • Clothing Hire & Resale
  • Car and Bike Loan Hubs
  • Local Food Circuits
  • Allotments & Home Growing
  • Local Exchange Platforms
  • Local Currency
  • Homeless Hubs
  • Community Pubs
  • Community Brewing
  • Community Marketplace
  • Mend & Make Do Repair Centres
  • Community Meetings
  • Skills for Life Courses
  • Community Helpers
  • Farm Direct Cooperatives
  • Community Bakeries

Opportunities will be local community specific, with the aim that there will be at least one of every business type listed within walking distance of homes in suburban or town areas, or available and shared between no more than 4 to 6 villages in remote areas.

We will not seek to establish any new social business where a community-focused social business of the same kind, or offering a service of the same kind exists, unless it is being delivered as part of an Establishment agenda.

Opportunities for Volunteers in Gloucestershire

We are also looking for specialist project and management support

  • Web & Software Developers
  • Social Media Creation & Support
  • App Developers
  • Fundraisers
  • Citizen Journalists

Areas of Gloucestershire where you might be | The Glos Community Project

Forest of Dean

  • Coleford
  • Cinderford
  • Newent
  • Longhope & Mitcheldean
  • Newnham on Severn

Cotswold (South)

  • Cirencester
  • Tetbury
  • Northleach
  • Fairford
  • Lechlade

North Cotswold

  • Bourton on the Water
  • Stow on the Wold
  • Moreton in Marsh

Cheltenham

  • Town
  • Prestbury
  • Leckhampton
  • Hatherley

Tewkesbury (North)

  • Town
  • Winchcombe
  • Bishops Cleeve & Woodmancote

Tewkesbury (South)

  • Churchdown
  • Brockworth
  • Hucclecote
  • Highnam
  • Innsworth

Gloucester

  • City
  • Quedgeley
  • Longlevens
  • Barnwood
  • Tuffley

Stroud

  • Town
  • Stonehouse
  • Wotton under Edge
  • Dursley
  • Painswick
  • Berkeley & Sharpness

What you will need to provide | Social Entrepreneur

Your time and commitment are the most important requirement.

There is no requirement for you to pay any type of joining or membership fee as a The Glos Community Project Volunteer. You just need to be confident in what you are doing and be prepared to put your name on your project right from the moment you start.

Together we will build the platform that will be required to attract support and any necessary funding to get your social business started.

It is very easy for anyone considering going into business for the first time to believe that they have to buy everything new and have new everything. You don’t.

My aim is to minimalise the risk to everyone who joins The Glos Community Project in whatever role, and to build every new service and the organisation that supports it with the absolute minimum financial cost to those who get involved (i.e. you may need to pay for fuel to travel, use your phone etc.)

Local News

The news ‘industry’ has undergone a massive transformation within the past two decades.

The national news or mainstream media and regional news or what we once referred to as the ‘local papers’ – or what’s left of them all, are completely under the spell or influence of their owners, who pays them or both, and the only losers have been the general public and the people who read, watch or listen to anything that branded media companies produce.

Sadly, local news was one of the biggest casualties of the internet’s arrival, when the ‘cash cow that once was classified advertising’ dried up overnight, pushing the evening paper that everyone went to for everything online, with the outcome very quickly giving the lie to the idea that the local paper was actually about news.

Stories that are important about local life don’t get the coverage that they should do. And the absence of real-life stories from the next village or the school on the other side of the town have only served to fuel the idea that news in the mainstream is representative of real life, and that what comes from outside of our communities is the only news that there is.

Unfortunately, with most of the national or branded news, and much of the stories that come from well-known names and personalities online all being little better than opinion, people have very quickly lost touch with what real life really is.

We need to change this. And we need to make the news interesting to everyone again, without there being any kind of agenda at work.

The Opportunity to set up and contribute to new local community news platforms

We would like to set up news services in every local area, using all of the media options that are available to us to focus on all the stories that are genuine news, rather than being about what someone else wants us all to think.

Focusing on the opportunity to harness citizen journalism at its very best, I am looking for social media, tech and internet-savvy people with the ability to research and write genuine news stories objectively, and where commentary is required, to do so in ways that cover all relevant points of view.

The ability to edit other people’s work will be important, as one of the aims of these local news platforms will be to give people across our communities the opportunity to tell the stories they have that will help and inspire others.

If you are already visualising what you could do with this opportunity, it could very well be one for you.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • A short note explaining why local news provision is interesting to you, what your priorities would be if you were leading the development of this social business in your local area, and how you would get started.
  • Links to any examples of articles you have written or any media you have created that is available online.

Clothing Hire, Repair, Recycling & Resale

Everyone needs clothing. But fashion itself is one of the most obvious ‘wants’ that the age of consumerism has encouraged us to have, with very small differences existing between clothes carrying or not carrying a name, but that brand itself means that cost itself is one of the key issues when it comes to what clothes any one of us can have.

The media age creates the perceived need, whilst the banks and financiers now provide the credit that is building a time bomb of debt that only exists because of greed. Worse still, the real cost to our communities through the loss of jobs and to the planet from clothing being needlessly made thousands of miles away on the cheap, where working rules don’t exist and costs are cheap so that profit margins can be exponentially increased, really gives the lie to what globalism has really been about.

The more expensive the clothing, the less likely we are to regularly wear or even wear it. Recent data suggests that a significant percentage of new clothing is either never sold or never even worn.

Recycling clothing through apps such as Vinted is already becoming popular and clothing libraries are being tried in some places too. But we could do a lot more and with the long-term aim of returning sustainable clothing manufacture and production to the UK and our communities, we need to make good affordable clothing available to everyone for all occasions – and without the need for anyone to go into debt, whether they can afford it or not.

The opportunity to set up Clothing Libraries and Resale, Recycling and Repair hubs

We would like to set up Clothing hubs in all areas, leveraging the technology that is available, to make Recycling, Repair and Reuse of good clothing a part of normal life once again. 

Focusing on creating local stores that are accessible to all, whilst using apps and the internet to make services and sales available online, I am looking for entrepreneurial leaders with a passion for clothes and the drive to make thrifty wardrobes fashionable, to help create a service that will have the ability to help people from all backgrounds in a multitude of ways.

Ideally, you will already have the ability to mend repairable clothing and be comfortable using the existing resale apps and platforms as a start. However, this is certainly one of the social business models that could easily be developed not just by one community-focused individual, but perhaps a few.

If ideas are already flowing through your mind about how clothing libraries, clothing hire and clothing recycling and repair could work even better than what people already know, this could certainly be the opportunity that is reaching out to you.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that would help you to make a clothing hub in your area to thrive
  • Pictures or links to anything that you have done
  • A short overview of what appeals to you about the concept of Community Clothing Hubs and what you believe the priorities would be at the beginning and during the stages of the early roll-out.

Community Vehicle Lending Hubs | Car and Bike Loans

Sadly, because of the impractical and tyrannical way that Green Policy, Climate Change and ridiculous Policies such as Net Zero have been rolled out and are being adopted by local authorities through polices such as the switch to EPVs, ULEZ and 15 Minute Cities, the practical reality that we don’t need 4-car households and shouldn’t be wasting money that we cannot afford on journeys that we simply don’t need to make are being overlooked and are in danger of being passed by.

We don’t need cars that sit in car parks all day and on driveways or by the sides of roads during holidays, weekends and overnight. But we do need to have access to the most appropriate forms of transport for the journeys that we need to make, as and when we need to make them, and we need a localised system that makes this happen – and happen well, for us all.

The opportunity to set up Community Vehicle Lending Hubs

I am looking for people with an interest in cars, motorbikes, epvs and emerging transport technology to help create and build local vehicle lending hubs that make shared vehicle use both normal and respectable, and in a way that means consistent quality of experience for users, with the minimization of vehicle abuse.

Whilst experience in things like fleet management, repairs, vehicle hire and areas of work like that would clearly be very helpful, starting with a clean sheet and no experience of these areas is likely to be just as helpful, as we really do need to get this offering right to create the buy-in that we need from members of our communities from the start.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that would help you to make a Community Vehicle Lending Hub in your area to thrive
  • A short overview of what appeals to you about the concept of Community Vehicle Lending Hubs and what you believe the priorities would be that will encourage People to trust and rely on borrowing vehicles in your local area, rather than falling back on ones that they own

Community Public Transport

Yes, we already have a large number of community transport organisations and providers such as Dial-a-rides. However, many of these are now driven by and focused upon contracts and provision that has been identified by County Councils and Government Agencies in ways that make them subservient to the Establishment, creating the perception that they are just there for ‘old people’ or children with special educational needs.

On the other hand, the ‘public transport’ that we have, which includes both buses and trains, stopped being public in the genuine sense, the moment that the operating companies, transport providers, and infrastructure companies were privatised and became tools in profit-making hands.

Yes, they provide services that are accessible to the public. But they are not in any way focused on the need for genuine public transport to be universally accessible, and they never will be for as long as private shareholder interest and earnings or dividends being paid to owners remains involved.

In the absence of any will on the part of the Establishment to take back and maintain public transport services without the involvement of privately owned companies or the influence of unions who by holding any organisation to ransom are in effect doing exactly the same thing, we must work to create a Community Public Transport Service that begins by ensuring that transport provision exists within local communities where any services that can be provided by Community Vehicle Lending Hubs ends.

The opportunity to set up a Community Public Transport Hub in your area

The big focus for developing Community Public Transport Hubs is understanding local need, creativity and innovation when it comes to meeting that need, and a very open and positive approach to working with customers from within the local community, as well as being able to engage with and build good working relationships with the stakeholders who will be unavoidably involved.

Unlike the majority of the social entrepreneur roles and opportunities listed with The Glos Community Project, this one does require that those interested already have a Full, preferably clean Driving License which will ideally include minibus driving (up to 17 seats) – NOT for Hire or Reward.

There may also be a requirement for those running or contributing to the management of our Community Public Transport services to hold or qualify for a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in bus service operations, and/or that they can apply for and hold a Private Hire License, which will require a basic DBS check and no previous driving disqualifications or other forms of conviction that will exclude them from applying to or being registered by the Licensing Department at the local District or Borough Council.

If you have any past convictions or problems with your driving license, you should be able to check the Licensing Policy for Private Hire & Hackney Taxi Licenses online. Please note that we will check every existing local policy before beginning work on any new hub.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that would help you to build a very successful Community Public Transport Service within your local community area
  • A short overview of what appeals to you about the concept of universal transport provision and Community Public Transport, and what you believe will be necessary for People to experience daily, so that the service genuinely works.

Food Supply

By far the most important areas of the social or community businesses that The Glos Community Project is aiming to focus on is the growing, harvesting, preparation, production and supply of basic or essential foods within the shortest and most reliable supply chains possible.

Sadly, we take for granted that food will always be available either online or at the local supermarket. Even though there were some minor shortages during the Covid Pandemic and some supplies of vegetables were temporarily out of stock or in reduced supply earlier in 2023, the reality is that none of us have yet experienced the shortages and changes to the food supply that are now almost certain to come in the months and years ahead.

Globalisation, centralization and the economics of big business have made our communities and the whole of the UK itself dependent upon the supply of basic and essential foods that we could easily grow ourselves. For the sake of somebody somewhere making bigger and bigger profits, whilst power has been taken further and further away from the people so that it can be concentrated in the hands of the few, we have been sold the lie that it’s better for all of us if food comes to us across whole continents, and that it’s also better for us and will make us all happier if it comes to us in increasingly processed or ultra processed forms.

Many don’t even  realize that we have become dependent on foods that are not in any way healthy for us, whilst our agricultural and growing sectors have themselves surrendered or given up the ability to grow and provide a range of food stuffs for local supply, whilst the politics of money and globalism have made farmers reliant upon incomes they have little or no influence over, whilst growing fewer and fewer things.

Farm shops are not a luxury or non-essential choice. But it serves the current economic model for us to see them that way

Many of us visit farm shops – where they are available, and do so with the belief that to do so is a luxury or a treat, because we can be fairly sure that whatever they sell to us will cost more than what we would pay for it at a supermarket – even though the levels of quality and the provenance are nowhere near being the same.

Farm shops and any retail business that sells locally made, perhaps organic, high-quality foods with the absolute minimum of processing involved seem expensive, because the way that most foods are mass produced and massively processed has made them that way. It is quite literally the economics of scale that not only appear to make food cheaper, but also guarantee that the marketplace is controlled by very few hands, and that the people involved make ridiculous profits from whatever they do.

Whilst we need affordable basic or essential foods more than ever, we do not need any part of the process that only appears to benefit us by lowering the purchase price, but then goes on to cost us in every other possible sense – including the increasing risks to our health and our lives.

If the whole of the UK Farming, Growing and Fishing Industries were reformed and restructured so that their priority and focus was always on local supply – through complete supply chains that are as local as it is possible for them to be, the price of all essential and basic foods of a much higher quality and standard would quickly come down and be accessible to everyone too.

Our Farmers are struggling because the Establishment is failing them too

One of the most regrettable parts of the Food Supply Question today is the reality that Farmers are already acutely aware that the self-sufficiency or food security of the whole of the UK is now at very high risk.

Sadly, although Farmers are some of the most creative, resourceful and entrepreneurial people you could ever meet or know, the Industry and its leaders like the National Farmers Union, is still very much committed to the misplaced belief that the Establishment will come to the rescue and provide the support they all want for whatever they currently envision as being the necessary change.

For those from the farming community who read this, it is time to realise, understand and accept that there are many different agendas at work within and beyond the Establishment, but none of them place a priority on anything like the traditional model of farming even in the way that we currently know or believe it to be.

Like so many other areas of business and life, we must now take a very practical approach and different view of food production, and continue to do so for as long as the current Establishment is able to maintain its hold.

We must bypass the Establishment food strategies and incentive plans, and point all farming and food producing businesses back to community focused production using up to date methodology and thinking, but in a very traditional, perhaps even shops-around-the-village-green kind of way.

On the current trajectory, more and more farmers will lose or have to give up farms, whilst communities will be pushed further and further away from being able to sustain themselves as we unnecessary lose more and more productive land.

Local Food Circuits

The Glos Community Project aims to work with farmers, and all locally aligned businesses to champion and recreate localised Community Food Chains that keep the growing, production, necessary processing and preparation, transport and supply of all basic and essential foods as local and as self-sufficient as possible, so that local communities can quite literally fend for themselves.

This is an ambitious task. Not least of all, because many will see the return of fully localised markets as a regressive or backwards step, simply because of the way that certain interests and the focus upon profit always being the key priority has conditioned them to think.

However, farmers, aligned business leaders and members of the wider community coming together to discuss a mutually beneficial strategy will quickly open up doors and a dialogue that very few would currently consider to be viable – but that is quickly going to make a massive amount of sense in what are very turbulent and changing times.

The Opportunity to Facilitate and Coordinate Farm Direct Cooperatives

I am actively looking for a number of social entrepreneurs who have the people skills, the ability and the motivation to knock on doors, open up and build new relationships with a range of very different people who are very worried about the future, but are at least initially likely to be very resistant to considering stepping away from the business model where the establishment makes all the rules and only they can offer any help.

You may be from the Farming or Rural Community or from outside of them. But you will have both fluency and understanding not only what farmers and growers have the ability to do, as well as what might be their needs, along with a very innovative and entrepreneurial view and understanding of what it is likely to take to get the right people, businesses and agencies together, to make robust local food supply chains work, so that the self-sufficiency and food security of local communities can be guaranteed.

It is very important to accept that the really exciting part of this social or community business platform will be just how much knowledge already exists within all of businesses that would gain from being involved and that the success of this part of The Glos Community Project will depend on getting everyone who could contribute and benefit from this, not only to open up and share their ideas, but to also commit to becoming actively involved.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that would help you to open doors within the farming community and with business leaders within the community who will all need to be inspired by the story that makes real the truth that there is another way.
  • A short overview of why you believe that Local Food Circuits will provide food security and what you believe the common USP will be that will engage, create buy-in and get everyone important on board

Allotments & Home Growing

Whilst farmers and the Grower community have the ability to change their working practices and to create and employ new infrastructure quickly, the industry wide change that will be needed may not happen as quickly as we might all like – once the need for this massive change really begins to hit home.

To help and support the creation, development and implementation of Local Food Circuits, there is a part that the majority of us can play in helping ourselves and contributing to the local community effort, if we are prepared to ‘Home Grow’ any foods that we can.

There are a range of ways that Home Growing from the smallest scale up to a level where you might be able to supply certain fruits or vegetables to your whole area could be possible, depending on what resources you already have access to. These might include a garden, a deep window sill, an allotment, or an area within your home where you could set up a hydroponics system.

Today, Home Growing is seen as being quirky or excentric by many. Yet it could be a very easy and quick way for everyone who is able, to ensure that they have ongoing or regular access to a source of the vital nutrition that everyone genuinely needs.

The opportunity to Facilitate and Coordinate Home Growing Hubs

To support Local Food Circuits and also feed into our new Community Marketplace, it is an aim of The Glos Community Project to support homeowners to utlise the space and resources that they have available for Home Growing, and to identify land and develop the availability of allotments so that Home Grown fruits or vegetables of one kind or another are available to everyone.

I am looking for social entrepreneurs who can either set up and run, or coordinate others to provide the following:

  • Purchase, sale and supply of gardening equipment
  • Purchase, sale and supply of hydroponics equipment
  • Rental, purchase, preparation and letting of allotments
  • Developing an online signposting service to quickly identify anything that will help
  • Work with our Skills for Life facilitators to provide online, classroom and one-to-one training

Like Farm Direct Facilitators and Coordinators, the ability and desire to collaborate with others who have knowledge and skills that will help is vital to the success of this role, as if having a very open mind and the ability to inspire people across the community to think about the meaning of self-sufficiency in a very different way.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that would help to demonstrate the kind of approach you would have to getting people to commit to and stay committed to Home Growing.
  • A short overview of what appeals to you about Home Growing and the role you see that it will play in providing food security at the most local level.

Building Local Economies

‘But we already have a local economy?’ I hear you think.

Yes, we do. But they are very much part of the national and international economy and the real question you might want to ask yourself is how does the economic system that we have really benefit or work for you?

Unless you are a) a billionaire b) a massive corporate shareholder c) playing the markets in some way or d) working for one or someone very similar to all of the above, the economic and monetary system that we have is not working for you or benefiting you in any way – whatever the common, constructed or urban myths tell you.

In my book Levelling Level, we discussed the certain reality that Money isn’t worth anything other than what any of us believe it to be. But that doesn’t stop a great many people who are otherwise probably very sensible from attributing great value to it and letting the accumulation and manipulation of it takeover their lives – all without even a second thought for the cost to everyone else.

Regrettably, the journey that the Establishment is now pushing us along toward the extinction of cash and the use of central digital bank currencies (CDBC) or government derived cryptocurrencies isn’t one that will end well for anyone whose interests aren’t closely aligned with whatever the narrative of the Establishment might be.

The immense power that will be held by people we will never meet, because they can see where every penny of our money has come from and how it is then spent is only surpassed in terms of the danger to our freedom to do whatever we legally want to, by the reality that just because they might disagree with something we have said or whatever we might believe in, they would have the power to switch our money off and prevent us from accessing it whenever they might like.

You only need to think about the political figures who are already having their banking facilities closed down and are being denied access to alternatives to see an illustration of how this will all work. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with their politics or not today, this type of action will become a growing threat to the entire population if the management of money remains in the hands of the Establishment – and that’s before we even get to the discussion about the damage a financial system where the Establishment can just create money as and when it feels like it is doing and has done to our lives already – before thinking about what absolute control and tracking of money will allow them to make it become.

Making money and currencies nothing more than a unit of exchange, once again

The value of money dictates everything today. And the value of money is in the hands of the establishment and very greedy and profit hungry people who have zero understanding and no care about the consequences that come from what they do, as long as the system continues to benefit them.

Whilst a return to the gold standard and pegged or anchored economies would be a sensible step, the reality is that the system is now so rotten and influenced by speculation and private interests that are on the make, that the governance that exists is unlikely to ever deliver a monetary or economic system that genuinely works in the best interest of us all.

We have no choice but to start the money system all over again.

People, their presence and their value and input into the economy is the method that should be the basis for all financial value, not how much anything and everything costs us, or when we possess it, it can then be considered to be worth.

Through The Glos Community Project, the long term aim will be to create a system of new, localised currencies that will be available in a cash equivalent and cryptocurrency or digital form, but will be administered locally and be geographically specific, with the national level currency only being used for transactions between areas or as the baseline that maintains a fixed value between what the basic unit of each currency is worth.

In the short term, the creation of local economies will be focused on allowing people to trade anything they want to, including their labour, their knowledge and their skills, in a way that will quickly become insulated against greed and stupidity driven forms of inflation that are quite literally on the verge of collapsing the existing financial system or ‘bringing down the bank’.

We have no choice but to go back to basics and reject a monetary system that is destroying lives whilst it manipulates all of us and abuses our trust.

Bartering and Fair Exchange

Nobody other than the individual themselves, should be able to define and police a system of values that can exclude or disenfranchise them, based on issues that are outside of their own influence.

With increasing numbers of people missing meals or being forced to make the conscious decision between what essentials they can or can no longer afford, the return to a system where everything can be traded openly and fairly has never been needed by so many as it is right now.

The Glos Community Project is  focusing upon bartering and exchange of new and used goods, basic and essential foods and the services that People genuinely need so that anything and everything that any person has or is able to legally able to offer for sale or for exchange can be traded for something that they need, or for a monetary or currency value that is based solely on what the trading parties agree that the specific item or offering is worth.

Community Marketplaces & Local Exchanges

The New Local Economy is built around Local Exchanges, where all goods and services are available and accessible to all, whether they are provided by a business or an individual.

Membership is open to everyone from within the area of the community and trading is available both at a Local Exchange Hub and online with any costs being covered by a membership and/or access fee on a not-for-profit basis.

Local Currency

The ultimate aim is that each local community will have its own currency that will be available in both a cash equivalent and digital or cryptocurrency form.

The local currency will be fixed in value so that outside influences are then unable to profit from trading the currency or damage the stability of the Local Economy by either crashing or over inflating the total value of the money that is in circulation, held by any person or business and in use.

Local currencies will be the normal method of exchange within the community, but will be interchangeable with the national currency.

The only circumstances where the value of the currency will be negotiable would be within the circumstances of essential international trade

Building The Community Marketplace

Increasing numbers of People are unable to afford to buy the basic food, essential goods and services that they need, just to remain healthy, safe and secure.

Communities must take the steps necessary to help everyone who needs to turn the food they grow, the goods they make or no longer want, or the spare time that they have into whatever they need most, without middle men or profit-making businesses inflating the costs of anything and everything they touch.

The Glos Community Project is building a Community Marketplace that will pivot around a Local Exchange that is both physical and online, and will be supported by a fixed value local currency that will be available in both cash and digital forms.

The opportunity to Facilitate and Coordinate the Community Marketplace

I am looking for social entrepreneurs who already have a good practical understanding of the real economy, as well as the basic theories that underpin both classical and neoclassical economics in the sense that they relate to how the world works today.

However, that in itself is not enough. Being visionary in your outlook, you must be able to look beyond a world where money is the common factor in everything, and replace it with a much happier and healthier one where people and humanity are the common factor instead.

Stepping through and navigating between the world as most people see it today, and how it’s going to be, you will become a key collaborator, helping to develop the Community Marketplace person by person and business by business, as we complete the design and planning of the Local Exchanges and Currencies that will provide the necessary infrastructure, and then roll the whole system out.

Able to work as easily with the abstract as well as the practical, whilst making allowances for how others may not easily be able to do the same, any knowledge of cryptocurrencies, software and app design as well as existing trading and auction sites online will all be a great help.

Above all, like all the roles working with others within The Glos Community Project, it’s the relationship with people and understanding how others think and what influences them to do so that will help you most of all.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that would help show your fluency in economics and money management,
  • A short overview of what appeals to you about Community Marketplaces whilst demonstrating that you not only grasp but are fully committed to the principle of building community tools that put People First too.

Mend & Make Do | Repair Centres

Recycle, Reuse, Repair, Restore, Refurbish, Reclaim, Revitalise are all words that our current throw-away culture has taught us to look down on, unless you are either trying to make some kind of statement about your values, or you already have no choice but to recognise the value that remains within all sorts of goods that we use every day, but would otherwise just replace.

Those who still have the luxury of being able to afford and access goods that in many cases have deliberately been created with planned obsolescence or the ongoing need for them to be replaced in mind, rarely consider the reality that the option of recycling, reusing and repairing exists. Yet beyond the waste of money that every new purchase that could have been avoided really is, these are too often the same people that tell us they are the champions of green and ethical issues that run completely contrary to the profit driven exploitation and overuse of natural resources that their buying habits have legitimized, and that the greater percentage of all purchases made today are for goods that they want, but don’t actually need.

Theres nothing wrong with making maximum use of everything that we need. Ultimately, we must embrace a new view of standards for all goods so that quality will ensure longevity, and ongoing reuse, so that industry only delivers the goods that we need them too, and returns to both a size, standard and locality that works for our communities and our country as it should.

The Glos Community Project aims to promote the Make Do and Mend or Mend and Make do mindset, that successfully got British People through the very challenging period that surrounded the Second World War, but also demonstrated that there is nothing wrong with making the best of everything that we have – and that the problems only arise when narratives change or the messages that are shared publicly suggest that this isn’t a healthy way to think.

We want anyone and everyone who has goods, clothes or equipment that they have previously thrown away to start thinking again, and to start thinking recycle, repair, reuse, even if they don’t need them for their own use and then sell or exchange them, so that those items can then make someone else happy elsewhere.

The Opportunity to Coordinate and facilitate Local Repair & Refurbishment Hubs

These are roles that will work closely with the Facilitators & Coordinators of our Local Market Exchanges and Clothing Libraries and depending upon the skills and background of the applicant, they could oversee the development and management of both.

For stand-alone operations, I am looking for socially entrepreneurial people who have a background as a professional, voluntarily or even as a hobby, in repairing furniture, bikes, electrical goods and general household items to a very high standard – and to meet legislative requirements where necessary.

Repair Hubs are likely to run better with a number of people pooling their different skills and experience together, and it is therefore likely that applicants can expect to be collaborating with others very closely, from very early on.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that makes clear any technical training, experience and time served that you have.
  • A short overview of what appeals to you about being a champion of ‘Make Do and Mend’ thinking, and how making a social business out of the processes involved is a very exciting prospect for you.

Skills for Life Courses

Regrettably, education has lost sight of the relationship between being able to live a good, healthy and self-sufficient life, and what political and academic idealism currently dictates that it should be.

The problems that many people face throughout their lifetimes, just because a one-size-fits-all model has been imposed on a significant part of the population that either has a very different learning style, or for reasons outside of conscious control aren’t engaged with schooling in the way they are currently expected, do not fit a modern society that champions equality in all things.

In the longer term, the consequences of not having an education system that genuinely respects the reality that all young people of school age are generally either heads or hands, will be addressed by forms of government that actually do what public representation says it will on the box.

Until then we need to create new ways to help not only young people, but people of all ages to learn skills for life that the education system failed to give them, or doesn’t even offer any of us as standard anyway.

Life skills are predominantly practical or about the way that we perceive the world or think about it. So, unless the objectivity of academically trained or qualified teachers is clearly demonstrated, using ‘teachers’ to ‘teach’ anyone these skills or guide them to achieve this kind of understanding isn’t likely to be the best way.

The Glos Community Project aims to create an experientially led syllabus of skills and ideas that can be accessed and delivered locally within the community, by people from that community who genuinely have things that will be of use to others to share.

Courses are planned and will include:

  • Politics and how Politics and Government works
  • Basic Economics and how the current economy works
  • Critical Thinking and the dangers of Groupthink
  • Living without being influenced by AI
  • Surviving Social Media
  • Growing your own Food
  • Planning your own work-from-home business
  • Spiritual & Religious Independence

The Opportunity to Coordinate and Facilitate Community Skills for Life Hubs

I am looking for socially entrepreneurial people who have an understanding of education, but also see the value in providing learning opportunities in a more tailored form.

Openly bypassing the Establishment education offering for young people and adults of all ages and abilities, you will be able to speak credibly and create learning tools that are objective and give an accurate view of the areas you specialise in.

Where necessary, you will have a technical understanding that can be demonstrated by qualifications, by experience or both. But whatever background you have, you will be committed to The Glos Community Project principles of freedom of the person and freedom of thought.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail me and include:

  • Your name, contact and social media details
  • A copy of your current CV (If you have one)
  • How much time you have available to commit to The Glos Community Project
  • If not already included in your CV, an addendum that covers any skills and experience you already have that makes clear you have skills and experience that will be of great value to others when shared (If  you’ve read this far and sharing your learning with others is what interests you, please don’t be put off if this question makes you feel like you might not be qualified. Just tell me what you thought of when the question came to you ‘what can you share?’

Other Opportunities

If you don’t feel able or wouldn’t have the time to take on a facilitation or coordination role, we are also seeking people from all backgrounds to share their experience with others.

The list of planned Course above is also by no means exhaustive. So, if you have recognised the need for some kind of training that can be shared and will be genuinely beneficial for everyone within your community – without any kind of aim to influence the way that they think in some way, please get in touch.

Other Project Services The Glos Community Project is working on

As you will already realise, having read this far, we are very motivated by the prospect of what people within our communities coming together have the power to deliver and to do.

We have lots of ideas that we would like to consider, discuss and flesh out with the input of anyone and everyone who feels they can bring useful ideas, knowledge and understanding to the table, so that we can go on to achieve all the things that we would like to.

The list below only represents what we are going to begin looking more carefully at next.

If you have ideas about any of these, or are already considering or working on a social enterprise or charity project in Gloucestershire that sounds like it might overlap with any of these in some way, please get in touch and lets have a chat about how we might be able to help or collaborate so that together, we can achieve our mutual aims.

  • Community Helpers
  • Homeless Hubs
  • Community Pubs
  • Community Brewing
  • Community Supermarket
  • Community Bakery

And there will be more…

Community Meetings | Building a Real Democracy

Politics is the subject that we love to hate and we hate politics for all of the reasons that have made the way that politics is being done across the UK so very wrong.

Whilst it has not been publicly recognised, a very different way of doing politics in the UK exists right now, that has the ability to deliver very different outcomes for us all – just by working together from within our communities, to ensure that when elections are called, we have proper community representatives on the ballot paper, rather than someone or some organisations self-interested choice.

For those who want to see real political change and for us to have public representatives who actually represent the public, once they have been elected, there are opportunities across every community to set up and facilitate Community Meetings where communities can select and appoint candidates for all elections, who are qualified and endorsed as the community choice.

The whole process is covered in my recent book Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, which is available as a book for Kindle on Amazon, or can be read without cost if you would like to visit my Blog, HERE.

I will be very happy to offer the same kind of help and support to anyone who has read through the whole book and feels that the process tabled is one that they can commit to and follow.

Please get in touch, if you would like to discuss the book and the opportunity to collaborate on this very exciting community building project.

How we will create and develop each social enterprise

The really exciting part for anyone joining The Glos Community Project as a social entrepreneur, is we will step off and into this journey in the same way that you would have to alone, if you were about to set up a business of your own from scratch.

The difference is that I will be there as a mentor, advisor, sounding board and strategic guide to help in every possible way.

Yes, there are many different things that we will need to look at very closely and consider. But we will go through the process of researching and writing the business plan that your specific local community will need and this will be there to help us as we get to work and build the relationships that we need to, as well as being a formal document, presentation and application tool for us to use in gaining any specific kinds of support such as grants and licenses that might be needed, to make sure that everything will work as it should, and that everything is done the right way from the start.

You will be required to play a significant part in this process and you must be ready to apply a very open mind to every experience that creating a new business in these circumstances is likely to throw your way.

This is a prospect that should excite you, rather than intimidate you. Getting it right will be fantastic for you and as the ideas and the effort that you contribute begin to make this new social business take shape, the only thing that will feel better than recognising your own success and the outcome from the work you have done, will be seeing the benefits to so many others make a difference to other People’s lives.

Aims

Immediate Aim 1

To address poverty and the growing shortages of basic essentials with practical solutions delivered for the community by members of the community

Immediate Aim 2

To counter the narrative that only the Establishment can help and overcome learned helplessness by demonstrating that the help we need will come from us ourselves

Immediate Aim 3

To begin the process of creating New Local Economies, championing self-sufficiency, food security and the relocalisation of all supply chains that meet the basic and essential needs of life

Immediate Aim 4

To engage everyone in the process of taking back political decision making from centralised government, focusing the centre of power to the most localised and people-centric form

Principles

Local buy, Local supply

No speculation, agents or middle men

People First

Money or Currency is a unit of exchange and doesn’t vary in value

Technology is there to support roles, not to replace them

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should

The lowest paid should be able to support themselves fully and provide all the basic essentials for life that they need on the equivalent of the basic or minimum weekly wage, without going into debt or requiring third party support of any kind.

Power must be as local to the people and the community in which they live and contribute as much as possible

Collaborate and make it even better

If any part of all of The Glos Community Project proposal is ringing bells or making sense to you and you can see a way we can improve on what you can see, or extend into a service offering that you are currently unable to see, please get in touch and share your thoughts.

We are not precious about the offer we are making. It’s a beginning and certainly not the end. So, by the time we are really off and running and in the business of delivering real change, we appreciate and value the input that will inevitably come from many different people and sources.

You really don’t have to join as a social entrepreneur or volunteer a specific set of skills to be able to help. The only thing we will insist on is that you really can live by and embrace the approach that whoever we are and wherever we are from, we are all 100% in this together, and that any advice, support or direction is given freely and without any form of direction or conditions attached.

Can we help you with a project that has similar aims?

If you are already working on a project serving your community that is aligned with The Glos Community Project offering in any way, we would be very happy to consider supporting you and collaborating with you wherever you are.

Regrettably, we cannot support projects or work where specific agendas or political motives are involved – no matter how good or harmless you may consider them to be.

More Reading

An Economy for the Common Good and The Glos Community Project were not written in isolation and are part of a series of books that I began writing about three years ago in early 2022.

Each of the following list of Books is a variation on a theme, but works very much under the principle that it is not only possible but actually healthy to be able to understand, value and even hold different views or perspectives of the same situation or set of circumstances at the same time, whether that be in the Past, Present or Future tense.

Equally, it is also important to be able to consider different pathways for the future that sit beyond what many consider to be the obvious, simply because the obvious itself is usually inextricably linked with what has already been done and what sits in the past.

All of the following titles are available to purchase as complete eBooks for Kindle from Amazon using the links provided.

Where indicated, titles may also be available to download FREE as PDF Copies from my Blogsite in different forms, using the links provided.

If you would like to discuss any of the works listed, please get in touch.

Levelling Level (30 Mar 2022)

Amazon

From Here to There Through Now (3 Oct 2022)

Amazon

The Way of Awakened Politics for Good Government (3 Dec 2022)

Amazon

A Community Route (28 Mar 2023)

Amazon

The Grassroots Manifesto (18 Apr 2023)

Amazon

Officially None of the Above (18 May 2023)

Amazon

Actions Speak Louder than Digital Words (8 Jun 2023)

Amazon

PDF Download

One Rule Changes Everything (23 Dec 2023)

Amazon

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Food From Farms Guaranteed (3G) (15 Feb 2024)

Amazon

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Days of Ends and New Beginnings (7 Apr 2024)

Amazon

The Basic Living Standard (14 Apr 2024)

Amazon

Our Local Future (18 Aug 2024)

Amazon

PDF Download

Who Controls Our Food Controls Our Future (14 Nov 2024)

Amazon

PDF Download

Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow (11 Jan 2025)

Amazon

Manifesto for a Good Dictator (26 Jan 2025)

Amazon

Back Page

When we hear the word ‘economics’ or ‘economy’, what does it make us think?

Money, business, growth, commerce, profit, wealth, trade are all likely to be terms that will spring to mind.

But what if the way we think about economics and what an economy or the economy really are is completely wrong?

What if a genuine economy were not about money or any type of material gain and instead had people, community, the environment, living good happy lives and the common good at its heart?

An Economy for the Common Good opens the door to thinking differently about the role of money, finance and economics in our lives and provides examples of the steps that we could take at any time to begin the creation of a new localised economic system that will lead to us all having much better experiences of everything in our lives.

To download a FREE to read PDF copy of An Economy for the Common Good, please follow the link immediately below. If you would like to download a copy for Kindle for the price of £1.99 (UK – correct at time of publication), please follow the link to Amazon at the bottom.

Is your truth the truth, or just a small part of a much bigger truth that looks so different it doesn’t resemble your truth or beliefs at all?

Yes, I’ve been writing again! 😊 Those of you who know me will be aware that I’ve been writing and publishing eBooks for nearly seven years.

Of late, I’ve been focusing more and more on social problems, the political (and public sector) mess, and food security – which I am that concerned about, I’ve even done a PGCert to look even more closely at it!

However, as I’ve looked and thought more and more about what’s happening in the world or worlds that surround us all, a common theme has emerged that has become increasingly alarming.

It’s something that those of you who have had reason to learn about or consider psychology in your work might recognise as something akin to situation bias, where in this sense, no matter who we are and what perspective we have of the world, we aren’t open to there being a different way of looking at things.

We do this, because the experience we already have of how things work has become the stepping off point for everything, wherever and however we think and picture what the future might look like – not only for us, but for us all.

We don’t think of the future being written by our relationship with the past. But that’s how many of us are creating our plans for the future without even realising it.

Getting this point across to people who I respect and have bags of common sense, learning, intelligence and everything that makes them great isn’t easy. Because it’s pretty normal to look at life this way.

And that’s the problem.

Because we are comfortable with our own view of the world and how it makes sense to us, we are not open to other points of view that may rewrite the way we see ‘the problem’ we all have, so that it isn’t just something that we see in relation to our own lives, businesses etc – but as the problem as it really is and will become for us all.

When we can see any problem from the broader perspective and together as one, we all be ready to consider the implications and consequences of that problem more deeply; learn about it and then work collectively to find a solution that we can all own.

Having thought about this more and more – especially as I’ve watched farmers spending massive amounts of energy and time shouting at a government that isn’t going to value what they do, no matter how much noise they make – I decided that using the concept of Timelines might be a good way to share the picture or rather the different pictures of the different views, perspectives and mechanics of what may or may not be going on in the world we share around us, and what they really mean in the past, present and future tense.

Timelines are a genuinely good way to consider different perspectives. Because beyond the Marvel, woo woo or spiritual interpretations that most will almost certainly have heard of and be able to relate to at some level, the idea that there are at least as many perspectives as there are people in the world, and that at different levels these perspectives may be shared, is certainly easier to picture and validate in the sense of timelines as they are discussed within ‘Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow’.

How did we get here? Where are we going? What happens next? Why?

These are all questions we should be asking, right now.

If we can identify which shared timeline we are on, we may also see how our expectations of what is happening and what our future is likely to look like could be very wrong.

‘Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow is available to buy (for £1.99 UK at 13/01/25) as a book for Kindle immediately below, or alternatively, you can find it as a blog version which is available to read online FREE on my blog HERE. (Link to downloadable PDF is at the bottom).

It would be great to have feedback and please do DM me if you have any questions.

Thanks for your interest 😊

Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow | New Book

How do you look at the world?

How is your view of the world different to other people?

What will tomorrow look like based on the view of the world you have today?

Would you change the way you view the world if you understood the difference between your view, other people’s views and what they could really mean?

These are all very important questions that most of us are typically too busy or distracted to even consider, let alone ask.

However, the consequences of us not doing so could be very profound, as the future will just happen to us unless we do so

Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow invites you to consider a range of the different prevailing ways that people look at today’s world. How they came into being, and what – without change – they are likely to bring into our lives for our tomorrows.

Will you recognise yourself and what your beliefs today could bring to your future experiences?

Will you be happy with everything you believe?

Will you see your own perspective as very different?

Or will you choose to step forward into the future armed with the tools and power for change?

Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow | Full Text

The Timelines we are on today, the Diversity of their Outcomes and the impact of Thinking Differently for Our Future

The Disclaimer, Caveats or ‘Terms’ of what the following shares

Whilst the standard information, terms and disclaimer can be found alongside the Copyright Information for the content of this Book, the subject matter and content that follows will have different meanings to different people at different times.

Although I am both the author and publisher of this work, the content is only a representation of the observations I have made, the experiences that I have had and in some respects the conclusions that those observations and experiences have led me to.

These observations and experiences relate to what different people think about the world we live in today. Why they think what they do. How those perceptions weigh upon and impact not only the experiences that we are all having today. But also, what they are likely to mean for all of our tomorrows.

As such, this Book might be best considered to be a bit like a long conversation in a pub or coffee house where I am going to run through different options with a friend, that equate to what the past, the present and the future may or may not have looked like, depending upon any one of a number of different world views.

Truth, Fiction or?

Just as if you were the friend I was sat with in that coffee house, I have no concern about whether you treat all or any of what follows as either truth or fiction.

Because that is not the point.

The content is presented as it has been purely with the intention of demonstrating that different interpretations of our shared past, present and future exist. And that how we perceive or interpret them will have an inescapable impact on our future, whether we act upon them or not.

The future is yours, mine and ours to define.

We are or will become the architects of our peace or torment. Depending on the development of our view of the world and the choices that we will only then be enabled to make.

As such, what immediately follows here are the parameters of the truths of different people and different groups that will be shared throughout this Book, which I would ask that every reader keep in mind both before and as they read through.

In no particular order:

  1. There is no fixed or intended order to anything that follows.
  2. Where any form of order exists, it has been added to provide structure for the purposes of sharing the content that follows.
  3. Any, all or none of the following could be true.
  4. Any, all or none of the following could have been true in the past but not now.
  5. Any, all or none of the following may not have been true in the past and could be true now but will not be true in the future.
  6. Any, all or none of the following may never have ever been true before and may not even be true now but could be in the future.
  7. Neither you nor I are required to believe any or all the following for the content to be true or accurate.
  8. Equally, because you or I believe or agree with any of the following does not necessarily make any of it either true or accurate.
  9. It isn’t only likely, but almost certain that there are many points that would relate to any of the following that has not been covered here.
  10. Equally, any or all the following may be extended in the future, to provide further detail, explanation or sub-points depending upon the complexity of the issues that could be pursued.
  11. You may not recognise or identify with any of the points or content of this Book.
  12. If you don’t identify or recognise any of the points or content of this Book, it does not mean that others, and perhaps everyone else will not.
  13. Your view may be entirely exclusive.
  14. My view may be entirely exclusive.
  15. Yours or My view is not necessarily the same as ‘the majority’.
  16. Yours of My view is not necessarily correct. But neither are Yours or My view necessarily wrong either.
  17. The information, suggestions, thoughts, views, opinions, guidance or however the content within this Book may been defined is not exhaustive.
  18. It is not my responsibility as the author and publisher of the original work to update the reader as and when any updates are made.
  19. I will add to this Book as and when I believe it appropriate. The Blog and Kindle Book versions will update automatically. PDF downloads will need to be renewed by visiting the source where you originally downloaded this Book and then downloading the latest version again.
  20. Any point illustrated within this Book that is designed to benefit or advantage an individual or group over others will always have negative consequences which could be as significant in isolation through its consequences, as it could be with any or all of the others combined.
  21. Any benefit experienced from using and/or plagiarising any of the points or information contained within this Book in isolation will be surface or perception deep.
  22. The positive outcome from an entire timeline or scenario will only come from adopting that mindset in its entirety.
  23. All choices made must be the right ones, made for the right reasons, if the right outcome is the intention.
  24. Choice will never automatically define the outcome.

I will always be happy to discuss my work with legitimate enquirers. Please do get in touch if you have any questions or would like to arrange a chat.

Preface

Understanding life today so that we get to choose living tomorrow

You may or may not believe that everything around us in the world is working as it should.

If you are happy with the way that the world works today; if you are content with the place that you have within it, and you are confident that nothing exists that can or will change any of that, please pause and take a breath for a moment. Because the mere fact that you are reading this Book means that not one word of that is true for you.

Now that we have sorted that out, the next bit is to try and get to grips with what is really going on. So that we may have a chance of doing something that will fix it.

However, there is a pressing question that isn’t just a question.

It’s a statement on what is stopping us now and could stop us forever, from achieving the kind of change that we probably all know deep down that we really want.

Your Truth, My Truth, OUR TRUTH: How will The Future be defined?

If you don’t know what the future will look like, you are probably worried about it just the same as those of us who think or believe that they already do.

After all, there is very little that feels ‘normal’ about everything that’s happening in the world today. And whilst many voices will suggest otherwise, there really isn’t anyone alive who has experienced anything like we are going through today, before.

Whilst predictions may well be the preserve of palm readers, mystics, tarot readers, astrologers, mediums and clairvoyants, our politicians and elites seem to have ventured into the arena of telling us what the future will look like for us all too.

The only difference between the political establishment and anything ‘woo-woo’ being that because we still indulge some misplaced cultural deference to people with positions and titles, we have fallen into the trap of believing and trusting whatever they have to say, whereas for anyone else, we often have a healthier approach to thinking critically and employing our natural right to think freely or quite literally to pick and choose.

We could speculate on what lies ahead for us as individuals, families, communities, groups, nations and as the human population of the world.

But the one truth that we can all probably agree on right now, is that none of us know the exact detail of what is coming or what lies ahead.

As such, we all have the ability to influence how we react and what life looks like as a result, IF we want to use and apply the influence that we have got.

Free will exists wherever there is genuine choice

Free will has no meaning if we don’t know that we have a choice. And when we don’t have a choice in anything or at any level, we no longer have Freedom.

However, to have a choice, we must first be aware of what we are choosing between.

Otherwise, no genuine choice exists.

If you have found this Book, on my blog, as a download or as a book for Kindle, I believe it safe to assume that you are already taking steps on a journey where you have accepted that the world isn’t functioning as it should. And that you are, as such searching or looking for what your choices are and how you can then make them.

I hope that the following pages will help you to take further steps along that road, and perhaps help you to find and ask the questions that you will soon realise that need to be answered.

If you have not done so already, you will perhaps then be able to open at least some of the doors that can be unlocked, just as soon as you are ready to open them and take a step within.

In the world we are all experiencing today, that place of choice is where Freedom in the truest sense genuinely exists.

Introduction

What’s up?

Whilst tempting, I’m going to resist beginning with a quote of some kind that reflects the need to understand a problem and your role in it, before you can do anything to fix it.

Not because it’s not a relevant point.

But because so many of us don’t or won’t accept there is a problem that needs to be solved.

Even though I can be fairly certain that whoever you are and whatever your lived experience, you are just as unlikely to suggest that absolutely everything is alright, or that there isn’t something you could personally identify that needs to be fixed.

So why isn’t the ‘fixing’ happening? Don’t we live in an age and within a society that should be able to fix anything? Isn’t that we are led to believe?

The problem with understanding the problem, is that we don’t actually agree on what the problem really is.

And that is why I am here today, trying to share and open up a picture of why we ‘aren’t getting it’, in a way that even those of us are surest that there are only problems in the eyes of others will understand

Society’s problems as each of us see them, are just the wrapping paper hiding all the other problems that wait inside

Over a period of three years, I have written and published a series of eBooks and related web material covering the period of British and world history that forms our shared experience today.

These works focus on why we are where we are. How we got here. What is likely to happen. And the choices and actions we have open to us, IF we want to influence what most of us will now accept is a continuing journey through a period of inevitable change.

It should be easy to agree upon change that will be good for everyone.

But it’s not, because at one level or another, the majority of us are still invested in the way the world works for us in some way. Even though we are just as likely to be blind to the wide range of disadvantages and harm that our buy in and commitment to it has done.

As someone invested not only in the idea, but the delivery of a world and therefore life experiences that are genuinely better for all, the situational bias that even the most learned amongst us have fallen victim to is a matter to behold.

It seems that with even the most creative and ingenious solutions architects being self-restricted by a notion, rather like battery or hydrogen powered motor cars and what may come thereafter, that only the tried, tested or proven model is reliable and that the past we know is the equivalent petrol- or diesel-powered combustion engine for the pathway to the future that we have now.

Whatever view of the world and the way that the world works we have, it is rare for any of us to stand back and think about alternatives to the perspectives we have.

Because to us, this is how life works, and that in itself makes it almost certain that we are emotionally tied in.

Pain may be the only catalyst of change

Pain or rather being on the receiving end of pain is where the first opportunity to view the world from different perspectives lies.

However, with the way that the world works today, it is also regrettably likely that the replacement emotion to any pain and accompanying loss will be anger. And anger does of course entertain options and solutions that time and reason may not otherwise encourage us to entertain.

It sounds hopeless. And as we will soon consider, in many ways, we could argue that the future for the masses really may be hopeless.

The problem is that whatever the bigger picture really is, what is really happening and what – if anything is really true, is a view that the majority of us, or the masses do not share.

And one of the key reasons that not everyone can see it, is because we are all seeing different things which keeps us focused on the differences between us, rather than what we have in common.

And what we have in common is where all the GOOD solutions and outcomes for our shared future lie.

We cannot see what we cannot see until the time we are ready to see it

There will be a number of moments in the following pages where it seems that I am repeating things that I have already covered.

The reason for this isn’t because I am trying to be annoying.

It is simply the case that without becoming familiar and perhaps very familiar with certain aspects of the wider range of issues that we are now about to focus in on, their relevance could easily pass us by.

Perhaps the most challenging of the challenges of understanding broader truths is the challenge for us all to understand that we really don’t know what we don’t already know.

Not because there is the suggestion that we don’t know something. But because without accepting that there could be more that we don’t already know, we will remain closed and therefore not open to the understanding and knowledge that we all need to help ourselves as well as everyone else.

For the purposes of sharing this Book, I am going to assume that you already ‘get this’ and understand the problem that I face as the author.

That problem is the need to get people to think objectively rather than subjectively. When many people who are thinking subjectively believe that their subjectivity is objectivity and that as such, being subjective and objective are one and the same.

How do we get people to look at the whole forest when they are only interested in cutting a tree down?

Just these few words arranged as a subtitle will hopefully have stopped you for a moment to consider the saying ‘see the wood for the trees’.

Which does of course mean that there is a bigger picture to consider.

Or rather that we are being very focused on the subject and are therefore not being objective or viewing the topic objectively.

If you ‘get’ what it means to stop, draw breath, perhaps even count to 10 and then consider everything; the purpose and direction of this Book is likely to make sense.

I say this with some caution. At the same time wishing to make clear that the brief journey we are about to embark upon is not meant to offend by suggesting that you or indeed anyone has a limited view of the world.

We are the sum of our experiences. And that means whatever we have experienced to this moment is our truth.

It’s merely the case that none of us has experienced everything or indeed has the same experience as anyone else.

That means there may be more, or perhaps a lot more truth or truths that might make a sizable difference, not only to our future, but also how we relate to and perceive our past – IF we are aware of those different truths.

Our Personal World View

How do we have the view of the world that we have?

How do we reach the conclusions and understanding that we possess?

What makes us certain that we are ‘right’ and at the same time gives us the surety that others are ‘wrong’?

There is little or no benefit to me trying to suggest that I know or understand what your own personal view of the world might be.

As discussed previously, we are the sum of our experiences. And there are not two people alive on the planet today – even identical twins – who have had exactly the same experiences throughout their lives.

Because the perspectives of any two people are always different and never the same.

However, we do share experiences in common with everyone. With perhaps groups of people with whom we share a common interest. With the people who live in the same place. With perhaps the people we share a journey with. With the people we live with. With the people we share a family with.

And I’m sure by now, you are beginning to understand what I mean.

Our default setting is to be right and never wrong

No matter what our world view is or who we share it with, whether alone or as part of a group, whatever we agree upon, we will usually see as being ‘right’.

However, and this is perhaps one of the most important factors that too many of us are too willing to forget – those who have a different view or are from a different group that we don’t agree with, will not only believe that they are right, their level of conviction or confidence that they are right will be the same, just as their level of conviction or confidence will be that you are wrong.

In a world where no matter the timeline or scenario we are on, it seems that there is a remarkably small number of people who remain open to learning and the idea that they may not have yet accessed the full picture of something – rather than it being a simple suggestion that they could be wrong.

It leaves an alarming number of us convinced that the way we see the world and how it works is the only way for any one with value to see it, and that everyone else must be insane, or wrong.

Defining our Personal Experiences with words that somehow make sense

Choice and decision making will make more sense as a theme as we progress through what follows.

However, it is necessary to stop here for a moment and think about the view we have just talked about and package it in a way that is respectful of the reality that our personal view of the world is always true for us, no matter what it contains or relates to. But at the same time can be and almost certainly is in at least some ways different to the world view of other People, if not everyone else.

Whilst it may not be a term you are familiar with, or may not be happy with, I have opted not to attempt using terms like journeys or pathways to make what follows relatable, because they would imply that there is already a fixed destination or outcome in mind, which there certainly is not, in relation to where the purpose of this Book is concerned.

What is common for us all, no matter what any of us are experiencing or belief, is the relationship that our past, present and future has with time.

As such, I have chosen to use timelines as the term most likely to make the relationship between past, present and future easiest to consider in terms of where we are, how we got here and where we go now.

In the next section, I will attempt to flesh out the way I am using ‘Timelines’ in the context of what follows but am aware that some reading will view or consider them differently.

Should you do so, please simply use the description and information about Timelines that I will now add, to translate how I am using them into a way that makes sense for you.

Timelines

We increasingly hear the term ‘Timelines’, alongside ‘Parallel Universes’, ‘Alternative Realties’ and ‘The Multiverse’.

Thrown into the common lexicon through mediums such as the Marvel Films that have been popular over the past 10-15 years, these terms have been commonly used within the ‘spiritual’ and ‘woo woo’ communities for some time.

Indeed, timelines are now taking on an entirely new meaning with their use in the descriptions of coming generations of AI and Quantum Computing – where at the time of writing, Google have openly suggested that the ‘Willow chip they have in development is already drawing information from alternative Timelines or Universes.

It all sounds very exciting, and it is meant to be.

Because it’s the hype that in itself builds the expectation of what new technology is and is able to do, rather than what it actually does.

What is true, what will be true, and what has never and will never be true about AI and quantum computing is a topic for debate somewhere very different to here.

However, the manipulation and programming that is being used to create fear and develop acceptance of scenarios for the future is something that we need to be very mindful of.

Not just because of the technological revolution that we are being told we are knocking on the door of.

But because the same approaches to narratives, marketing and therefore what we consider to be normal, are being used across all areas of life and business and are affecting everything to do with life in very different ways.

The meaning of the ‘Timelines’ in use here

The timelines and parallel universes that the tech giants are going to use to convince us that they have knowledge that they don’t, aren’t the same as the ones that the comic book characters have been jumping between.

Which are in themselves also different to the ones that the spiritual and woo woo People increasingly talk about. Especially at the moment when they refer to a ‘Timeline shift’.

What many people and even the architects of the narratives that have just been described don’t appreciate is that each and every one of us are on our own timelines.

Timelines aren’t something that some expert, academic, tech mogul, shaman, guru or even world leader has control over.

Timelines begin and might even end each time that we make a real and meaningful choice.

We always have two choices, and the outcomes will always be more powerful or consequential than we can imagine at the time

The choices may not feel all that meaningful, because we are making choices all the time.

Even the most educated and experienced of us can make choices that switch us personally and perhaps all of us on to or away from certain timelines without realising or being conscious of what we are doing.

No matter who the person making a choice may be and what influence they have, the fact is that they will rarely be considering the full implications and consequences for others, at the moment that they are making any such choice.

To be clear, what we are considering here isn’t generally a matter of anything as simple as making a menu choice. But it could certainly be as simple as the route we drive to a meeting, or the choice we make when we are asked by someone else to change our plans.

The timelines we are already on, generally reflect our wider approach to life or the way that we behave culturally, so that what we do, say, think, believe and how we act might be considered normal and how we behave in order to fit in.

But timelines also offer us the basis of the guidance tools or inner compasses that we use to tell us when something someone else does, says or believes is ‘wrong’.

Whilst it may not be the easiest thing to accept, a simple choice that we may make at any moment in time, could prove to be a fork in our life pathway or road that results in what follows taking a very different route.

We might shortly afterwards make a similar choice that does just the same, which could again transform the direction of our life, or perhaps take us back to a pathway that resembles another we may have been headed upon previously which will look very similar but not actually be anything like the same.

Why are Timelines important?

Understanding Timelines and what they mean is important, because we really do need to understand, accept and then begin to behave very responsibly when it comes to the question of choice, and the choices that we make.

Each of us has great power. Not only over ourselves. But over the future experiences of others.

When we appreciate the impact that our own choices have over the lives and experiences of others, just within our normal life experiences, we can then perhaps begin to imagine what the implications are for our politicians, business figures and all kinds of leaders when they do the right things and are mindful of the impact of their words and actions upon others, and more importantly, what happens when they do not.

However, the most important fact that surround choice and the timelines that follow, is recognising that good outcomes often follow as a result of making the right choices, not in that exact moment – or when we believe we will know we are making a relevant choice.

But perhaps days, months or years before, when the only choice we were making in that very moment was quite literally to ‘do the right thing’.

The Different ‘Shared’ Timelines or Scenarios that we typically have in common

As previously discussed, the outlook, view or perspective that each and every one of us has of the world around us is unique.

No matter what anyone or anything suggests or says, it is the unique perspective of the world around us that everyone has that makes us individuals.

NOT any difference that can be discerned, applied, observed or accepted between any one of us, no matter who we are or might be.

From the personal or individual perspective, everyone’s Timeline is unique.

However, the social, demographic and cultural groups that we belong to or might join could well have their own shared timeline, which will be specific to that group.

Then at the next level the population of the Country might be the next grouping and therefore provide a timeline that the individual, group and population all share in common.

If followed to conclusion, this way of using timelines inevitably means that there could be an infinite number of timelines and at least as many as the number of people or living beings that exists.

Understanding why the world is as it is today and what it could be like tomorrow requires that we consider how other people experience and perceive their truth.

We cannot consider them all and we do not need to. Because there are a number of shared timelines or scenarios that are particularly relevant to us all at the moment. Even if we aren’t aware of them or see the experiences within them as being ‘wrong’ or incorrect.

Over the next 8 Chapters, we will look more closely at these shared scenarios or timelines to see how they are defined, what experiences are shared or are common across timelines, and where the future – if unchanged – could lead, for each.

The only question I will ask before we begin is this:

‘Which of the following Experiences of Life today, most closely matches your own Truth?’

Experience 1 – ‘Everything is Normal’

This is the scenario or timeline that will be familiar to many.

Everything is as it should be. Everything is normal. Everything is as you would expect it to be at this moment in history.

A. The Past

  1. Everything has happened in the way that it was supposed to.
  2. People just make decisions based on what happens.
  3. Progress of all kinds is what happens over time.
  4. Life is a series of lessons leading to new lessons.
  5. Progress is continual improvement.
  6. Our membership of the EU was always about trade and nothing else.
  7. The UK is a world leader in Freedom and Democracy and Westminster is known as ‘The Mother of all Parliaments’ for good reason.

B. The Present

People (1)

  1. Some people have more wealth and better positions in life because they have earned them and deserve them.
  2. The UK is a very fair, inclusive and caring place to live where all ideas, beliefs, religions and practices are protected and supported.
  3. The world outside of the UK is very unhappy and people are desperate to leave war zones and the rule of tyrants and join us in the UK because they will be safe here in ways that they otherwise will not be.
  4. If we conform to all society requires of us, pass our exams at school, gain at least an undergraduate degree and then dedicate ourselves to a career path, we will thrive
  5. There is nothing that will hold any one back in life, as long as they work hard and conform to what is expected of them.

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. Food is Food and if we are not hungry, we have nothing to fear
  2. Food is always available
  3. Food is always affordable
  4. Food Banks are not necessary for normal people
  5. There is more than enough of everything that we need
  6. We can continue to enjoy the lifestyles we have by switching to green technologies and achieving Net Zero

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. The media reports news and facts honestly and openly without bias
  2. Everything happening in the world is as the government and media tells us.
  3. All the information we require is available to us through smartphones and the internet

Governance (4)

  1. We need to have people ruling over everything, because oversight is better informed than getting lost in detail.
  2. It is natural to have ‘elites’.
  3. Elites are the leaders of society and have gained their responsibilities, positions and influence through achievement or merit.
  4. Government and the public sector always work in the best interests of the people
  5. The taxes, national insurance and council tax that we pay goes directly to covering the costs of the public services and the infrastructure that is required to provide for our needs beyond our income.
  6. We have government systems, NGOs and other organisations dedicated to furthering the fight for diversity and equality.
  7. Our democracy leads the world because we are able to choose the very best people to represent us in every election, no matter the tier or type of government involved
  8. The politicians that we have know what to do in any situation
  9. Hierarchies are the natural order of things, and it stands to reason that more educated and experienced people will lead us in business and politics

Laws, Rules & Regulation (5)

  1. The Court system treats everyone fairly
  2. Miscarriages of justice are extremely rare
  3. The Police are responsive, effective and do the best job that they can
  4. The growing number of rules and regulations exist because of the way that people behave

Business & Employment (6)

  1. The national minimum wage accurately reflects the cost of living
  2. If we are working and don’t earn enough to pay all our bills and buy what we want, we must either get a better paid job or change our lifestyle requirements.
  3. Business operates and functions to provide all the things that we need
  4. It good for businesses to cut costs by centralising or moving their operations because this makes everything cheaper for us
  5. People abuse the Benefits / Welfare system and are claiming by choice, rather than because they have any genuine need

Technology & ‘Things’ (7)

  1. Technological progress means that certain jobs become unnecessary
  2. It is better for machines to replace jobs so that people no longer have to do them
  3. AI is already more intelligent that People
  4. The loss of jobs to AI is inevitable
  5. There is nothing sinister about the increasing use of digital technology
  6. Digital technology exists only to help and is intended to benefit everyone

Money, Banking & Finance (8)

  1. Money is real.
  2. Banks lend us and the government money that other people and businesses have deposited with them.
  3. The share markets represent the real trade value of companies based upon their productivity and performance.
  4. Creditworthiness is important, because the people and banks that lend us money will lose that money if we cannot pay it back.
  5. Cash is no longer necessary because digital payments are now so easy to use.

C. The Future

  1. If we don’t conform, we will suffer and go without.
  2. Only we are responsible when or if life doesn’t work out.
  3. Those with power and responsibility will do everything necessary to ensure that we have a good future where life experience will only improve.

Experience 2 – ‘A New World Order is Coming’

The second scenario or timeline is the New World Order, conspiracy theory, elites takeover, illuminati, secret society view, where organisations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) are in the final stages of creating a ‘World Government’. National Boundaries and Governments cease to exist, and we are heading into a dystopian nightmare where the majority of us have no value and everything in the world revolves around ‘The Few’.

A. The Past

Governance (1)

  1. Elites are at the top of everything.
  2. Control of all political apparatus was always necessary
  3. Control of political apparatus can only be achieved through centralisation of political decision making
  4. Centralisation of political decision making is hidden by creating regions and regional bodies that sit outside of existing political infrastructure but fit the narrative that decision making is being made better locally – with the inference that what existed already no longer works.

The Strategy or Plan (2)

  1. Because policies have not been kept secret, it is assumed that the public acquiesce or simply ‘go along’
  2. Everything that is happening with government and the establishment was planned over a century ago
  3. A one world government run on what we would most closely recognise as communism in the most restrictive and dystopian forms was recognised as the only societal model where universal control could assure the power of the elites.
  4. Capitalism, consumerism and globalisation were always known to head in the same direction
  5. The long-term plan of the elites is the creation and implementation of a New World Order
  6. The Two World Wars were carefully planned and orchestrated to create the circumstances that were required for Globalisation, Consumerism, The European Union, The United Nations, The World Health Organisation and all of the bodies that are feeding into the creation of ‘One World Government’.
  7. One World Government relies upon the destruction of national, cultural and historic identities of any kind.

Trial and Error (3)

  1. Communism was attempted quickly as the most direct route to world control
  2. Communism, Marxism and Socialism were embedded within the establishment through tools such as the Fabian movements
  3. With the failure of Russian and Eastern European Communism, it was recognised that a longer game using smaller step changes would be necessary, so that the population would not be aware of what was happening – much like the ‘frog being boiled’ scenario.
  4. Brexit was never supposed to happen, and the elites have been working non-stop to create re-entry for the UK into the EU.
  5. The Covid Pandemic was planned and deliberately orchestrated to create the circumstances that allow for increasing the power and control of government and bureaucrats, technocrats and autocrats.

Economics (4)

  1. It was necessary for the elites to create and implement commercialism and everything that went with it, in order that they could create the wealth and polarity which would enable them to define themselves as a superior class.
  2. Money and Trade were recognised as being the most credible tools to facilitate the destruction of national, cultural and historic identity, as it would appear ‘normal’ for rule and regulatory changes to accompany them which would hide the deeper and more meaningful political direction that lay behind.

Freedom of Thought & Expression (5)

  1. It was recognised that if people were taught to rely upon external validation for everything and then the value of everything outside of them were to be removed, few would be able to rely or fall back on inner guidance of any kind and then would simply accept whatever those outside of them in authority or with positions of influence told them to do.
  2. Any kind of religion or spiritual movement that has promoted individualism or self-determination, or executive choice for the Person has either been destroyed or doctored so that any value beyond doing what we are told by those in authority has been removed.
  3. The elites recognised the need to destroy the independent thinking and ability to think independently for all Persons outside of the elite class.
  4. Any practice, philosophy or movement that promotes critical thinking, self-awareness or self-reliance of the Person at any level has been deliberately attacked, changed, destroyed or removed.

B. The Present

People (1)

  1. Freedom for everyone else is whatever the elites call it.
  2. Anything that suggests, indicates or promotes the concept of independence for people from the establishment is being systematically destroyed, removed or controlled so that freedom of choice at any level will no longer exist.
  3. Being nice to others is the cover narrative used to undermine the structure of society using the application of guilt against people alive today for things ancestors and others, but not they have done or would not do to others. This manifests as diversity, wokeness and positive discrimination.
  4. Fear is used to control People
  5. Common sense is increasingly frowned upon
  6. There is now a rule book for everything
  7. The cult of celebrity is deliberately engineered and promoted to provide the false gods that the masses will worship and follow, meaning that they will not question actions against them that would otherwise defy logic.
  8. Western religions are a danger to the elites as they promote an alternative doctrine.
  9. Islam is being used as a tool to spread fear and unrest which will drive the masses into the hands of the elites who will offer solutions that will serve the purposes of increased control, only when the optimum point has been reached.
  10. The elites are using mass immigration as a tool of Replacement Theory to undermine the structure of British and Western cultures with the aim that the new hybrid or mixed structure of society will have no identity around which to coalesce and offer any form of resistance to the changes leading to the New World Order.

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. The establishment is operating under the principle that ‘Who controls the Food Supply controls everything’.
  2. The establishment is driven by the principle that control of the Food Supply is more important than the provision of healthy and nutritious food as people will eat anything rather than go hungry
  3. The ability of people, small businesses and independently owned and operated farms to grow food that they choose is being phased out.
  4. A narrative has been established and is being carefully coordinated to build the belief within the majority of the population that traditional farming methods are outdated and unnecessary, and that everything people need for a healthy and nutritious diet can be made synthetically.
  5. Big business is being supported by the establishment to take control of all natural resources and to change or make critical infrastructure vulnerable so that future improvement and development can be harnessed as further methods of population control.
  6. All land and property ownership are being directed towards financial and business interests that are aligned with the New World Order strategy.

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. The elites are working to control the content on the internet so that any form of independent thinking or narratives that run contrary to the accepted narrative will be excluded or otherwise badged as being fake, a conspiracy or from individuals or groups who already function outside of society’s norms
  2. The ‘Truth’ is whatever the elites decide it is
  3. Acceptance of the ‘Truth’ is a growing requirement, even when we know that the ‘Truth’ isn’t accurate.
  4. The ‘Truth’ is shared, promoted and maintained by ‘narratives.
  5. Narratives are the establishment’s population control tool.
  6. The media (mainstream) are the establishment’s medium for targeting and imposing narratives
  7. One of the key narratives being used to de-structure British Culture is the story that the UK is responsible for inflicting nothing but suffering on every country that it ever added to the ‘Empire’.
  8. Another key narrative being used to de-structure British Culture is that the UK led the Atlantic Slave Trade, and no other type of slavery has ever existed.
  9. The overriding narrative being perpetuated and driven by the establishment is that the indigenous British or UK population are responsible for many of the world’s ills, and we must accept punishment and lowered status as some form of punishment or atonement for the sins of our ancestors, even though we are in no way responsible.

Governance (4)

  1. The world as we know it is run by special people, called ‘elites’ who have been carefully selected, trained and carefully placed into positions of power and influence, or within a career structure or hierarchy that will take them to where they are required to be, when they are required to be there.
  2. Elites are at the top of everything.
  3. The elites recognise other elites through the use of very clear and transparent signs to demonstrate their loyalty and flaunt their membership credentials and ‘do what I say, don’t do as I do’ mentality through regular meetings that are highly publicised and where the latest policies are announced – often years in advance.
  4. Policies of the elites are always discussed or released openly and are often spoken in ways which deliberately fail to draw attention, questioning or scrutiny ahead of time, but allow them to say that they never kept any of the plans secret.
  5. The elites are represented by the establishment.
  6. It was recognised that by creating a ‘cult of the self’, people within all parts and at all levels of society would leave the responsibilities that promoted personal independence behind, and they would fall over themselves to conform with any narrative that promises they will be seen as ‘better’ or ‘different’ to others.
  7. The Covid pandemic was the first trial of a worldwide engineered pandemic that was used to gauge how effective narratives, and messaging would be in controlling the population during a worldwide crisis
  8. The world is run through top-down, patriarchal structures that are considered to be normal throughout society.
  9. Government is now openly working to destroy what is left of cultural identity, history and tradition, so that people can no longer recognise anything that defines them as a group.
  10. Government is actively working to destroy all independent forms of business which sit outside the control of large corporate businesses, whose leaders are themselves part of the elite.
  11. Agenda 2030 is only the latest in a long line of Timelines that have been created by the elites in an attempt to rest control of an inevitable system collapse, with the aim that they will remain in control, once the period of transformation is complete.
  12. The System collapse that the elites have long recognised would come – because what they are doing is unsustainable – must be managed and presented in a narrative that demonstrates to naysayers that the elites are and will remain in control, whilst reassuring those members of the population who are amenable and acquiesce that there is nothing happening that is alarming or a threat to the status quo.
  13. The U.K. is currently an outlier in Europe, primarily because of Brexit.
  14. The political elites are desperate to return to the favour of the ruling elites and are seeking to return the U.K. to EU membership as quickly as possible and to also become the leading agent of change or adoption of all new world order policies – irrespective of the consequences for the population.
  15. A process of managed decline is underway which is creating the seedbed to enable the establishment to regularly introduce new public policies designed to pass more power and control to them from ordinary people.
  16. The ‘Institution’ of the British Royal Family falls under the patronage and ‘guidance’ of the New World Order and high-profile Royals are frequently seen at ‘Events’ and provide endorsements for ‘Plans’ such as Agenda 2030.
  17. The elites are themselves often becoming ‘Doomsday Preppers’, building or buying up bunkers and exclusively remote properties where they can relocate to survive what some anticipate will be a coming apocalyptic event, which will erase much of humanity, leaving only the elites behind.
  18. The elites are using the massive wealth that they have accumulated to create or amplify social and public policy issues such as immigration to further the New World Order agendas.

Politics, Politicians and Political Parties (5)

  1. Leading politicians are completely under the influence of the elites
  2. It is not clear how leading politicians become ‘bought’ or ‘compromised’ to the level that means they will ‘do what they are told’, but there is no question that agendas are being pursued that serve interests that lie outside of the needs of the general public.
  3. Lower-level politicians – some even at ministerial level are not aware of the influence and control of the elites upon policy decisions
  4. Many people do enter politics with at least some genuine desire to improve the life experiences of the masses, but believe The System works just as appears to do so.
  5. Upon being elected, most soon realise that they either accept the way that the political system works, do what they are told and ‘don’t rock the boat’, or they will lose any influence that they have and in all likelihood be ‘deselected’ as a candidate for the next election (Which almost certainly means that they will lose ‘their seat’).
  6. Like the long-term strategy and plan, a long game has been at work within the political system and the structures and leadership of mainstream political parties have slowly been adjusted to ensure that only candidates who can be controlled have reached the most powerful and influential positions.
  7. The establishment effectively controls Parliament and many of the Councils and Mayoralties across the UK as the political party system is effectively a ‘uniparty’.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (6)

  1. The removal of laws, rules and regulations for big business helps the elites to take and consolidate more power
  2. The imposition of laws, rules and regulations for small, independent businesses and people helps the elites to take and consolidate more power
  3. If you cannot adhere to the rules as they have been set and explained, you should refrain from doing anything else.
  4. The elites also use narratives to blame the Population for the behaviour that causes social and environmental problems, when the policies that caused the problems were designed and implemented by the elites for their own profit and gain.
  5. The structure of policing is being redefined and reformed so that police officers cannot exhibit or apply independent thought in any situation.

Business & Employment (7)

  1. The unsustainable business practices that have enabled the pathways of the New World Order to progress are what have caused all of the environmental problems that the world faces.
  2. The behaviours which have caused all the problems that the elites must address without losing control is the use of fossil fuels, unsustainable practices of all kinds, property hoarding, excess of all kinds

The Environment (8)

  1. The elites know that climate change isn’t the real problem.
  2. The real problem that the world faces today is the unsustainability of The System that we are living in
  3. If the elites recognised the true cause of the environmental issues that we have – which is everything they have profited from, they know that there would be a revolution overnight.
  4. Net Zero is a policy designed to coerce populations into behaviour change from ways of living which were previously created and promoted by the elites because of how profitable they were.
  5. People are being blamed for ‘climate change’ which is real, but not of the kind that the narratives suggest.

Technology & ‘Things’ (9)

  1. Certain members of the elites are using their wealth and influence to use entire populations as ‘guinea pigs’ for drugs, foods and mind manipulation, which are opening the door to the dystopian future which lies just ahead.
  2. The ‘drone’ problem that is growing around the world is part of a disinformation and mind manipulation project aimed at controlling people even more, through the use of fear and the offering of ‘solutions’ in exchange for the surrender of further freedoms.
  3. Petrol and Diesel Cars must be phased out as quickly as possible as the ownership, use or access to any machine powered by a combustion engine promotes independence, whilst the narrative is carefully constructed to indicate that this is just part of ‘going green’
  4. The elites are deliberately engineering and creating bioweapons in the forms of diseases and viruses that can be released and used for population control
  5. The AI narrative and what AI really is are two very different things
  6. The AI narrative is the story which describes where the elites intend AI to take society

C. The Future

People (1)

  1. Authority is the Truth.
  2. It is necessary for every member of the population to have Digital ID, so that every interaction they have with anything, and everyone can be monitored, and more importantly, they can be restricted from accessing food, drink, activities, transport, work, or anything that would be helpful to them, when their behaviour has not been helpful to the elites.
  3. Freedom, as interpreted by the establishment is only available to those who qualify or are able to pay for it
  4. If you only have the identity that others give you and to them it’s worthless, you are worthless
  5. Anyone outside of the elite class either aspires to join them or is considered to not have value
  6. The people do not own anything of their own, they have no executive function of their own, they are entertained with technology that touches every part of life and must behave, maintaining social credit scores, with punishments such as the restriction of social privileges being removed if a certain number of points are not maintained.

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. All resources will belong to the establishment and its business partners
  2. Views and places will be considered to be a resource
  3. The use of any natural resource will attract a fee
  4. Visiting places outside of your allocated domicile zone will attract a fee
  5. Everything that anyone needs is made, grown or created artificially
  6. Food will be fully synthesised using large factory complexes and systems such as ‘vertical farming’
  7. Nutrition and health values will be carefully concealed using new narratives and stories to ensure that the health implications do not become problematic for the establishment

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. All information, media and programming of any kind is sanctioned by the elites.

Governance (4)

  1. The New World Order is a dystopian system, where the elites rule
  2. There will only be a world government
  3. The world government will create and impose all laws arbitrarily
  4. All governance will be administered through personally sanctioned digital devices or biotechnology
  5. Once the process of class or caste definition is complete and the resources and infrastructure necessary to support the new world order is in place, the elites will have no requirement for many others.

Politics, Politicians and Political Parties (5)

  1. Political parties and elected politicians will only remain useful until the dystopian system is universally functional
  2. The political system will continue to be centralised using Regional Centralisation – which is referred to in narratives as ‘Devolution’, so that local structures and apparatus that promotes any concept of independence and real democracy is removed. This includes Parish Councils, Town Councils, Borough Councils, District and County Councils that will be replaced by unitary authorities and mayoralties in carefully orchestrated steps
  3. Politicians will be replaced by ‘chosen’ bureaucrats, technocrats and autocrats who are carefully trained and conditioned to become ‘leaders’ who understand their place within The System.
  4. These processes will be accelerated if the strategy, plan and outcome are threatened by events that fall outside the control of the elites.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (6)

  1. All laws, rules and regulations will be applied universally
  2. Policing will become fully arbitrary and there will be form of interpretation in the application of Law

Business & Employment (7)

  1. No independent business exists
  2. Business is the establishment
  3. People do not work because machines and AI do everything, including thinking.

Technology & ‘Things’ (8)

  1. Transhumanism is taking over and computers now physically link to People and govern their thoughts

Money, Banking & Finance (9)

  1. As normal People have no value, reproduction is restricted and people’s lives can be ‘cancelled’ or ended, because of low social credit scores, or because they have reached a certain age and are considered to no longer have any value for the world in any way.
  2. A sub-society of humans who have refused to comply with the wishes of the elites exists which respects the sanctity of the human condition and the natural equality that exists within us all. They live in abject poverty and are excluded from every area of society.
  3. AI and robotics have removed the need for any kind of normal workforce

Experience 3 ‘It’s a Spiritual Experience’

This is the scenario where people are living what they call a ‘spiritual’ life. Some live hermetic lives or exist ‘off the grid’, whilst many who remain within ‘normal life’ think of their spirituality as a way of defining them as being different and perhaps more aware or ‘enlightened’ than those who have not ‘awakened’ spiritually. ‘Spirituality’ comes in many different forms which are identifiable by the groups or tribes that follow particular doctrines and often wear them like a badge or stripes. No matter the medium that ‘spiritual people’ are aligned with, they often consider themselves to have better understanding of the workings of the world and why the world works in the way that it does. Their spirituality may define them as being closer to God, Source, spirit, nature, the environment, the planet or any one of a number of powers or entities that are present but indefinable and invisible to those who ‘cannot see’.

Please note, ‘spirituality’ is not used here as a term that is aligned in any way with organised religion of any kind.

A. The Past

  1. The simpler, less intelligent forms of man or periods of human history were more closely aligned with ‘nature’ and ‘natural gifts’.
  2. Man has sought to take away the ‘natural’ gifts that everyone has at birth.
  3. Natural gifts may be considered by some to be the same thing as ‘magic’.
  4. Religion has actively created rules against the use of ‘natural gifts’.
  5. Religion is a man-made tool that has been used effectively and oppressively for centuries to control mankind.
  6. The establishment actively works against spirituality as it promotes independent thinking and executive decision making.
  7. Everything that is happening and even specific ‘world events’ can be identified within astrology.
  8. Great Civilisations such as Atlantis existed, but either destroyed themselves or invited destruction upon themselves by seeking to act and influence beyond the boundaries of all that they were naturally given.
  9. Everything is ‘energy’.
  10. Some suggest that the world and life within it is ‘holographic’ or a simulation, designed and generated purely for the learning experience.
  11. Divinity is present within every living thing.
  12. Light and darkness represent good and bad.

B. The Present

  1. Life is a journey
  2. Death is a doorway
  3. The world is a classroom
  4. Thoughts become things
  5. Humans have multiple lives or ‘incarnations’
  6. Many groups refer to ‘vibration’ and ‘frequency’ to explain topics such as ‘layers of consciousness’
  7. Spirituality is available to all through channels such as mediums, psychics, clairvoyants, clairaudients, clairsentients, palmists, tarot readers, shamans, ‘holy men’, gurus, channels, astrologists etc.
  8. The world is currently going through a ‘great awakening’, where those who are ‘open’ to the concept of layers of consciousness are expecting to change from the current 3D world to a 5D world where people will behave much more considerately to each other and towards the planet.
  9. Some speakers talk about this ‘shift’ as being a very specific conscious choice between very discernible Timelines – as if people have a clear yes / no or left fork / right fork choice.
  10. Other speakers talk of the ‘shift’ itself being the change of mind or change of thinking that the individual experiences as a result of events and changes taking place in the world.
  11. Although some ‘speakers’ suggest that challenging times lie ahead, they suggest that those who are ‘open’ will be spared by whatever is to come.
  12. The drone ‘invasion’ isn’t just drones. It is a mixture of drones and ‘orbs’.
  13. The drones are themselves a mixture of ‘craft’ which are operated by ‘deep state actors’ and others which are extraterrestrial in nature.
  14. The ‘orbs’ are spiritual or supernatural.
  15. No matter the medium, channel or route of spirituality in use, they all consider the way the world works to be real and offer different, but ‘better’ ways to interpret the experience of the world that those who are ‘open’ have.
  16. There are some who ‘ride’ or pay lip service to living a spiritual life, even earning significant incomes from doing so, who are not all that they say and are misleading those who support or follow them with the suggestion of ‘easy options’.

C. The Future

  1. The great awakening is only happening for those who are open to it.
  2. There will be a ‘great flash’ that will awaken mankind from the current experience.
  3. There will be ‘contact’ with extra terrestrials in the next few years.
  4. Everyone has the ability to ‘open up’ their natural ‘gifts’.
  5. There will be a ‘new earth’ which provides a completely different life experience where everyone present will live a spiritually aware lifestyle.
  6. New earth will be the choice of 5D living as opposed to 3D living – which the world is experiencing now.
  7. New earth (5D) will work in ways that are not conceivable to those tied and committed to 3D thinking.
  8. Those who do not choose 5D will remain in 3D and experience the natural conclusion of mans greed and selfishness

Experience 4 – ‘Sleepwalking’

The fourth scenario is the sleepwalk. ‘That’s just the way it is’ is the slogan that meets us in whichever direction we might wish to look. We are all victims. Nothing makes sense, the people and organisations that we were once taught that we could trust and rely on no longer have answers or solutions that make any sense and we find ourselves feeling happy and as if we have a connection to anyone who uses the platforms that are available to speak words and share messages that makes us feel like we are finally getting a voice.

A. The Past

  1. Elites are at the top of everything.
  2. The Top-Down hierarchy is the natural order of things
  3. Some people always have advantages over others and are ‘born that way’

B. The Present

  1. Elites are at the top of everything.
  2. Life is something that is just happening to us
  3. We are victims, but we refuse to be called victims, because we are not responsible
  4. Somebody somewhere else will deal with the problems that need to be dealt with
  5. We have no influence over anything
  6. Our democracy is a sham
  7. Nothing is easy
  8. The world is naturally unfair
  9. Politicians only care about themselves
  10. Business focuses on profit and nothing else
  11. We are desperate for change
  12. We don’t want to take any risks
  13. We are afraid to be who we really are
  14. We don’t feel like we have a voice
  15. We don’t feel that we are understood
  16. We don’t have any power
  17. The ‘deck’ is always stacked against us
  18. We don’t feel valued by others in any way
  19. We don’t take part in community activities of any kind
  20. We filter everything we say because we are afraid of the reaction or consequences of saying the ‘wrong’ thing
  21. Everything that we need to know is available to us online
  22. There are people and voices on social media who know what is happening
  23. The people who elucidate how we feel are our natural leaders
  24. We aren’t conspiracy theorists
  25. Conspiracy theories are too ‘out there’
  26. We cannot explain why things are the way that they are
  27. We will step up and embrace change as soon as somebody identifies a way for us to do so that won’t cost us anything, get us into trouble or end with us getting excluded from anything.
  28. We don’t have enough money
  29. We don’t have enough of anything
  30. Others always have more than they need whilst we never have enough
  31. We are what some call ‘The Sheep’
  32. Celebrities and influencers are what we aspire to be
  33. Fame makes people credible

C. The Future

  1. Elites are at the top of everything
  2. We will never have enough of anything
  3. We will accept whatever rules are imposed
  4. We will do whatever we are told
  5. We will be the perpetual underclass
  6. We will have no meaning
  7. Everyone is better than us

Experience 5 – ‘The Consumer’s Dream’

The third scenario is the consumerist dream, where everything that we could possibly want has been made available to us all at the touch of a button, providing we have a credit score and measurable background that means we ‘qualify’ as being creditworthy and can pay the value of loans, credit cards, point of sale finance, leasing and buy now pay later arrangements and more importantly the interest that they attract, back to the credit provider, as agreed.

A. The Past

  1. Globalism was created as the way to lower the cost and accessibility of everything that we want.
  2. Big is Beautiful.
  3. The economy of scale makes everything better for everyone.

B. The Present

  1. Celebrity and fame are the most important attributes of leadership.
  2. As long as we are paying, we can get whatever we like.
  3. Everything in life can now be seen in financial terms.
  4. Money can buy the future we want.
  5. What we have defines us.
  6. If we own nothing, we have no value.
  7. Money is the only important value in decisions we make. For example, ‘What will it cost me?’, ‘What will I earn?’, ‘What will I lose if it goes wrong?’, ‘What will I have when I am x years old?’.
  8. There is an app for everything.
  9. Everything is available to us in a click.
  10. Everything that we need is available to us 24/7, as long as we have the money or access to credit necessary to buy it.
  11. It doesn’t matter if we don’t have enough money in any account when we wish to make a purchase. As long as we have an income and a credit score, we can get credit and pay the loan back over however long we like.
  12. The bigger everything is, the cheaper and more accessible it becomes.
  13. Everything in life has a price tag and can be bought.
  14. The questions we ask when we shop for anything are usually, ‘can I afford it’, ‘what will it cost’, ‘can I get it financed’.
  15. Buying on credit or contract terms is normal.
  16. Advertising shows us what we need next.
  17. Its good to get more than we need.
  18. Public service is a waste of time and effort.

C. The Future

  1. If we cannot get money or credit, we can either go without or rely on Welfare/Benefits, Charity or Debt.
  2. Without money we are worthless and don’t matter.

Experience 6 – ‘Money IS Everything’

The sixth scenario is the Moneyocracy, where the adoption of Neoliberal Orthodoxy in all mainstream Economics and Economic Systems in the early 1970’s has led to a complete revaluation of the benchmarks for life. Through the measurement of cost and income, money has become the centre of all things in life and the unconscious reference point that everyone uses when they make a decision about anything beyond the most trivial, or what they do in their most immediate relationships.

A. The Past

People (1)

  1. Money and the influence, power and standing that it gives anyone were recognised as being the key definition between the powerful and the powerless.
  2. It was also recognised that mass population is a resource that can be harnessed as a tool to create massive wealth along with The Systems to support it into the future

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. It was recognised that anything that every person needs will be highly profitable to those who control the supply

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. The control of information is the control of profit
  2. It was recognised that advertising could achieve anything, if an element of truth were present that makes the story being sold ‘credible’.

Governance (4)

  1. Elites are at the top of everything.
  2. The elite’s control everything through ownership
  3. Historically ‘money’ was recognisable through titles and ownership of land
  4. The British Royal Family are the visible example of the Top-Down Hierarchy that the money and wealth-based system promotes and provide the clearest example of what hereditary power transfer means.

The Strategy or Plan (5)

  1. The elites worship the works of a range of ‘economic’ thinkers known as ‘economists’ who have created economic models and theories in the abstract, which have been implemented over decades using public policy in real time. These include John Maynard Keynes, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek amongst others alongside viewpoints which have historically been consider to contradict ‘capitalism’ and ‘neoliberalism’ such as Karl Marx.
  2. In terms of the longer-term strategy or plan, it was recognised that ‘all roads lead to Rome’, and that control of everything in order to control money and wealth would ultimately end in the same outcome for the masses, no matter the model adopted or philosophical route taken to get there.
  3.  It was recognised that belief in money as a thing, rather than as being merely a medium of exchange could be used to achieve anything
  4. It was recognised by the elites that the ability to create, change, manipulate and mould laws, rules and regulations was the most effective method of enabling the creation and guarantee of income and profit.
  5. To assure the future of the elites, it was recognised that The System must be changed so that the power was all transferred into the hands of the elite.
  6. The transfer of power was planned so that it would not appear to be all that it was in one go, with the necessary steps or changes taking places over a period of 50 years or more so that people would not recognise the overall change  or ‘sum of the parts’ until it was too later and the power rested where the plan aimed for it to be.
  7. Every step was carefully calculated’ knowing that any ‘blow back’ from the public would need to be held at a level that could be addressed through ridicule, press manipulation, and increasingly the rest of the population becoming ever ignorant under the narrative of ‘why stand in the way of progress when progress has already proven that you’ve never had it so good and things can only get better.
  8. Whilst much effort has been expended through narratives to suggest that money and wealth trickles down to everyone, the reality is that within the economic, monetary and financial model that has now existed for over 50 years, money will always flow back towards the source and the elites who control it.
  9. The future of governance would be built around trade or the flow of money and resources with known international borders ceasing to exist, and ‘polar’ areas of the world being created. A model such as this first came into the realm of public discourse following in 1942, during the Second World War.

Trial and Error (6)

  1. The chosen doctrine of the elites was Neoliberalism.
  2. Neoliberalism is recognised by academia with ‘Neo-Classical’ economics being the accepted model taught in universities and centres of learning.
  3. In 1971, after the gold standard was found to be too restrictive by the elites, the FIAT monetary system was adopted.
  4. Also in 1971, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) was adopted as a new standard format for measuring the economic health of a country.
  5. GDP is the measurement of the total activity of the economy.
  6. The financial output or productivity of every business within the country is measured so that the figures can be added to GDP.
  7. During the early 1970’s, the UKs political elites finally succeeded in taking the UK into the Common Market which later became the EU.
  8. The monetary or financial system that has existed since 1971 can only exist if money if additional money is always being created.
  9. War and the ‘war machine’ were recognised as one of the most profitable corporate activities.
  10. Wars have been repeatedly started across the world to create opportunities for the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned of to justify profits.
  11. Successfully functioning regimes have repeatedly been removed for refusing to allow western financial interests the access they require on terms that predominantly favour those interests rather than the populations of those countries themselves.
  12. The Chinese created and released Covid, as a financial weapon. knowing that the west would overreact because of the weak leadership that has been imposed.
  13. Privatisation was a deliberately orchestrated move to turn public services into profit making businesses for the elites and those aligned with their financial interests.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (7)

  1. Whoever controls the money controls everything.

Business & Employment (8)

  1. Business is a tool to make money.
  2. Business must be prioritised before the public interest.
  3. Business is the public interest.

Technology & ‘Things’ (9)

  1. Technology is a tool for making money.
  2. Digital technology is a tool for controlling the way that people use money.

Money, Banking & Finance (10)

  1. Money and material wealth have always been the key defining point between all members of society.
  2. Crypto and in particular ‘Bitcoin’ was created as a device that would address the problems with control over the monetary and financial system that FIAT has created. However, like FIAT itself, the flaw within current cryptocurrencies, digital currencies or DeFi is that the currency itself is built only upon belief, rather than any ‘real’ value that will or would remain when the currency crashes.
  3. The money and finance sectors have steadily become more adept and creative at developing new monetary and financial tools or ‘vehicles’ that can be used to multiply the value of what ‘cash’ or ‘property’ they may own and hide risk.
  4. These financial ‘vehicles’ have increasingly become tradable ‘assets’ themselves that become too complex to analyse or understand in real time and themselves grow value based upon ‘belief’ and the ‘trust’ that those in banking and finance have between themselves and others in the sectors.
  5. It was the misuse and mis selling of such ‘vehicles’ that inherently led to the GFC (Great Financial Crisis) of 2007/08, also providing the incentivisation to sell the financial products at increasing levels of risk that became part of them.
  6. The GFC of 2007/08 was significant enough that it should have rebalanced the financial system and ‘outed’ the ‘creative’ practices that have been fuelling the massive wealth divide.
  7. Instead of allowing deregulated, out of control banks to collapse, western governments were complicit in saving The System by underwriting the creation of massive amounts of new money to shore-up the banks, finance houses and therefore the entire system.
  8. Any banking and finance regulations which were implemented to address the ‘bad practices’ that were highlighted by the GFC have since been removed and the same sorts of practices that led to the GFC exist just as they did previously, under different names and ‘mechanical understanding’.

B. The Present

People (1)

  1. Elites are at the top of everything.
  2. Authority is the Truth.
  3. Celebrity and Fame are considered to be authority.
  4. Freedom is only available to those who can afford it.
  5. The ‘wealth divide’ is accepted as being a normal part of life.
  6. There is cultural acceptance that for some to be wealthy, many others must be or become poor.
  7. Life and behaviour are controlled using money or what we know as credit scores.
  8. Without a good credit score or creditworthiness, we cannot buy anything using credit or what we know as loans, financing, leases, mortgages.
  9. Financial Enslavement has created the majority of the mental health issues that are now being experienced across society.

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. Food and access to the basic essentials in life are not considered to be a human right as their provision is reliant upon the productivity of others.
  2. The food chain is entirely profit driven.
  3. The food chain relies on long, multistage supply chains where profits can be multiplied at every stage.
  4. Long, multistage supply chains are a necessary part of the globalisation, ‘GDP’ scam.
  5. The healthcare ‘industry’ is a profit-making scam where the focus is upon creating treatments that will provide ongoing income to companies.
  6. The healthcare ‘industry’ doesn’t focus on ‘cures’, as saving lives or improving quality of life for people is not as profitable as ‘treatments’.
  7. ‘Climate Change’ is being monetised through The System and market that has been created for ‘Carbon Credits’, where carbon producers can create their own sub-narratives that suggest they are ‘carbon efficient’ by buying into the scheme.

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. The media works for the elites
  2. The elites rely on the careful construction of narratives to control the flow of money, control people and to guide the evolution and direction of The Systems that they control today, so that they will continue to control them in their evolved forms tomorrow.

Governance (4)

  1. Neoliberalism is dependent upon using partial truths within the narratives expressed to the public which centre on the good will and understanding of the public, rather than the very nuanced version of that truth which is applied. (For example, ‘Free Markets’ are understood by the public as allowing small businesses and the self employed greater ‘freedom’ to earn and make more money by removing the restrictions that make it difficult, when the truth is ‘Free Markets’ mean de-regulating large businesses and corporate businesses so that they no longer have to observe regulations that exist to protect members of the public and small independent businesses from being exploited.).
  2. This economic model relies upon supply chains that are as long as possible and have as many different stages, companies or interests within them, so that each pound or other unit of currency that passes along that chain can be counted over and over again or multiplied potentially many times.
  3. This means that for every pound created at one end of a supply chain (For example house building), that pound, dollar or euro could be passed from bank to builder to tradesman, to supplier, to wholesaler, to transporter, to fuel company, to transporter, to employee, to supermarket, to food manufacturer, to food processor, to farmer, meaning in this example alone, that pound dollar or euro will then become 13 pounds, dollars or euros (£1 x 13 = £13 in GDP).
  4. When the political elites talk about ‘growth’, the ‘growth’ they are talking about is ‘growth’ of GDP, because it is this that allows them to spend money and create money so that they are being seen to do things.
  5. This system of ‘leverage’ means that money spent can be hidden or even written off as a percentage of GDP.
  6. This ‘system’ has become a system of governance that would be best called a ‘Moneyocracy’.
  7. The justification for creating new money is becoming more and more difficult.
  8. During periods of crisis, such as the government response to the Covid Pandemic from early 2020, the government feels able to risk being open regarding money creation and does so directly, through an action known as Quantitative Easing (QE).
  9. The government is reliant upon growing the population with people who attract large amounts of new public spending, so that the creation of new money and the release of capital value and further taxation can be used to maintain an economic system that is now approaching collapse.
  10. Explosive levels of net immigration have become vital to keeping the current monetary and financial system functional.
  11. In order that the money being created and released to maintain or keep The System functioning can be kept flowing, the political elites have now been forced to ignore the growing list of social and cultural problems that years of spending focused only upon maintaining the economy have created.
  12. The entire economy now revolves around maintaining a narrative that is credible to normal people.
  13. The elites know that the financial, economic and monetary system we have is in its ‘end days’.
  14. The elites also know that they must have created a working system of societal control before the financial, economic and monetary system we have collapses.
  15. The new Trump administration in the USA appears to be pursuing the ideas suggested by the concept of a ‘post war new world’ which were published in 1942 and echo the rhetoric from the returning President concerning the addition of Canada, Greenland and parts of Central America and/or their states to the USA.

Politics, Politicians and Political Parties (5)

  1. The entire political system depends upon the monetary and financial systems to survive.
  2. All decisions are money related and that is why they refer to cost, savings, investment and ‘growth’ when policy decisions are shared by politicians.
  3. Today’s politicians are managers and the only way they can manage anything is by spending money or stopping or restricting the flow of money.
  4. Political leaders are completely under the influence of the ‘money men’ and the philosophies such as Neoliberalism and Marxism, which will ultimately lead to the same place.
  5. Because everything matters only in relation to the economic model that we currently have, politicians are judged by the establishment only in terms of ‘growth’ of GDP.
  6. Political Parties have structured themselves to ensure that the majority of the candidates they appoint will be compliant with the direction and motives of the establishment.
  7. Those who comply and work as directed to change, create and implement policies and deregulate to help The System are rewarded with financially lucrative opportunities that come in a wide range of forms, typically once politicians have ‘stepped down’, but also whilst they are ‘sitting’ through additional income streams and exposure that will benefit them in countless ways.
  8. Upon being elected, most candidates soon realise that they either accept the way that the political system works, do what they are told and ‘don’t rock the boat’, or they will lose any influence that they have and in all likelihood be ‘deselected’ as a candidate for the next election (Which almost certainly means that they will lose ‘their seat’).
  9. All of the existing political parties are under the control of the Money system. This can be observed in the slavish attitude and commitment to terms such as ‘growth’, ‘free markets’ and ‘deregulation’.

International Relationships and Foreign Affairs (6)

  1. The west uses and abuses third world, Middle East and developing countries, considering them to be a source of resources and opportunity to create credible stories to feed the public about foreign aid opportunities.
  2. Foreign aid rarely, if ever, results in the payment or transfer of wealth to companies and organisations or communities that are local to the countries where aid is applied.
  3. Cash is only made available to buy off local officials and politicians who provide the local face of these activities.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (7)

  1. Deregulation is used to create freedom for big business to increase profits and close the marketplace to smaller and independent business owners who threaten market dominance.
  2. Deregulation enables big business to use the civil courts to control entire marketplaces by closing out small and independent businesses entirely or by forcing them to pay ‘royalties’ or for licenses that often become cost inhibitive.
  3. This form of ‘Lawfare’ and the deregulation that enabled it has opened up the pathway to ownership and assumed ownership of natural resources, elements, genetics, future discoveries and the restrictive use of patents to control supply chains that provide Basic and Essential Foods, Goods and Services across the world, usually without the majority of the public even aware that such action would be possible or legal.

Business & Employment (8)

  1. A minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to live on because it isn’t supposed to.
  2. If the minimum wage paid enough for everyone to live independently of welfare/benefits, charity and debt, people would lead happy lives and no longer be dependent upon the elites and the money that they can provide
  3. Earning less than the genuine threshold for independent living brings enslavement through Welfare/Benefits, Charity and Debt.
  4. With the money system now controlling so much, the impact of 50 years of this ‘fiscal policy’ means that the impact of the Neoliberal ‘FIAT’ of ‘money for nothing’ model is affecting everything across communities, business and infrastructure in ways that the establishment can no longer hide, leaving everyone to slowly realise that the Country is in a state of ‘managed decline’.

Technology & ‘Things’ (9)

  1. The System can only be saved through digital control of the masses
  2. AI is the next evolution in profit making that will further remove the need for ‘employees’

Money, Banking & Finance (10)

  1. GDP NEVER reflects the real amount of money in circulation during the reference time or period.
  2. The creation of new money without there being any connection to a fixed value of any kind means that the value of the money that already exists automatically becomes less, each time the total of money in circulation ‘grows’.
  3. Money is continually being created by government and banks, as quickly as they can justify doing so.
  4. Cash offers independence in financial decision making and is being phased out, as are banks and other facilities which make the use of cash normal.
  5. Electronic payment systems are naturally offered to businesses with a service charge.
  6. All electronic payments are digitally tracked.
  7. Cash is being phased out.
  8. Money is created or deleted at the touch of a button.
  9. Banks are legally allowed to pretend that they have many times more money than they ‘technically’ have access to using a tool called leverage.
  10. Whichever way we look, banks are quite literally able to put a figure on their systems and it then exists as if it were real
  11. The System only functions because the masses believe that money is real whilst the elites know that it is nothing more that a tap of a few keys on a computer screen.
  12. The banks, financiers and credit houses control the credit scoring system and effectively police themselves.
  13. The System cannot function without making the elites and those who are qualified excessively rich whilst everyone else becomes increasingly dependent upon them for everything
  14. Making money and profit making is prioritised above all things.
  15. Systems such as spread betting, futures and other financial devices have been created where professional speculators and increasingly normal people using apps and digital platforms are encouraged to ‘bet’ on the prices of shares and speculate on goods and even food that has not yet been grown or created, without any thought or consideration for the real-world impact of what they are doing.
  16. Although cryptocurrencies were created with the intention that they would sit outside of (financial) establishment control, the (financial) establishment has itself recognised that Bitcoin and other forms of well-known digital currency can be manipulated and ownership of them sold and speculated many times over using ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds). Their interest has helped inflate the recent valuations to record highs.
  17. Created money is given or lent to people who are ‘in on it’ to then buy things like property, businesses, infrastructure etc – that has real value – which is then used to inflate prices for people who are actually paying with money that they have had to earn.
  18. Much of the property in the world today is owned by purchases made with money that doesn’t and has never existed.
  19. The banks, finance houses, money men and the elites who are ‘in’ on the game are participating in the biggest act of ‘legalised theft’ that has ever been conducted in human history, impoverishing and enslaving the masses as they do so.

C. The Future

People (1)

  1. If you cannot control your income and ability to spend, you cannot control anything.
  2. We are living in a fully digitised, dystopian governance system where money is the only thing that matters.
  3. Every action, thought, response that we have will have a financial value.
  4. We are monitored 24/7.
  5. The universal reliance upon digital money within a digital world means that we cannot do anything unless we are ‘allowed’ to do it.
  6. If we don’t have access and use of money, we cannot do anything.
  7. The concept of ‘mass population’ to support industrialisation is over and the elites actively promote depopulation in every conceivable way.

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. Every resource that we use, even air has a financial value attributed to it
  2. Everything ‘natural’ belongs to a private interest of company of some kind, with ‘taxes’ paid to governments through ‘licenses’.
  3. Anything that can be ‘owned’ is under the control of the elites.

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. Money is the Truth.
  2. We are required to read, listen to and watch only that which has been sanctioned or authorised by the elites.

Governance (4)

  1. Digital money allows anyone who holds or has access to the data which transactions generate to monitor everything that we do which generates a financial transaction of some kind.
  2. We have a ‘social credit’ system where our lives are monitored 24/7 by technology and AI systems police everything that we do.

Politics, Politicians and Political Parties (5)

  1. Political parties and elected politicians will only remain useful until the dystopian money controls everything system is universally functional.
  2. The political system will continue to be centralised using Regional Centralisation – which is referred to in narratives as ‘Devolution’, so that local structures and apparatus that promotes any concept of independence and real democracy is removed. This includes Parish Councils, Town Councils, Borough Councils, District and County Councils that will be replaced by unitary authorities and mayoralties in carefully orchestrated steps.
  3. Politicians will be replaced by ‘chosen’ bureaucrats, autocrats and technocrats who are carefully trained and conditioned to become ‘leaders’ who understand their place within The System.
  4. These processes will be accelerated if the strategy, plan and outcome are threatened by events that fall outside the control of the elites.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (6)

  1. If we do not behave or do as we are required by government and business, our financial resources can be frozen or even deleted.

Business & Employment (7)

  1. People are only employed within the few ‘jobs’ or ‘roles’ that cannot be fulfilled by a machine.

Technology & ‘Things’ (8)

  1. Our lives are completely run and regulated within a dystopian ‘digital prison’ where the tracking and management of financial transactions mean that ‘normal’ life must be conducted in its entirety within The System.

Money, Banking & Finance (9)

  1. The entire financial system would collapse overnight if we stopped believing in how money works for business and government – with the clear and very frightening caveat that we would at the same time be required to stop believing in how money works for us personally too.
  2. Physical money or cash is no longer functional in any way and the Banks and Finance houses control everything in life.

Scenario 7 – ‘Not my Circus; Not my Monkeys’

The seventh scenario is being of it but not within it. Understanding and accepting that what you are experiencing is the way that the world now works, whilst being mindful and conscious of all the thing that you have to do and say each and every day, just to keep playing along with a game where you can see that there is only one direction and within that, everything that is happening means that every crisis just leads to another and everything is now going wrong.

A. The Past

  1. There is a top-down, patriarchal hierarchy which effects and influences almost every part of life.
  2. Everything in life is ‘coin operated’.
  3. The world that we know has deliberately and progressively been changed and restructured to serve the self-interest, ambitions and material goals of those who have influence and power.
  4. Power and influence relate to money and wealth and lies in the hands of those who control money and the financial system(s).
  5. The increasing desire of the elites for control over the population and everything that People can and are able to do has led to the growing number of social problems and fracturing of culture and humanity.
  6. Money, Wealth, Power and Influence are the only things that matter.
  7. Human life and the value of relationships has become an afterthought.
  8. The world as we know it today has deliberately built systems and procedures that make the state, big business, the public sector and anything with influence look ‘big’ so that it makes each of us believe that we are ‘small’ and inconsequential unless we ‘fit’ and ‘conform’.
  9. The elites have deliberately created a system that promotes and protects their interests.
  10. The elites are people who have become intoxicated by wealth and the power that money and the responsibility that goes with it has given them.
  11. All manner of harms have and are continually being inflicted upon others by those who put their own interests, wealth, agendas, power, ideas, influence and future first, without any care for the real outcome.
  12. Religion is a tool of social control and regulation that has been used to oppress learning, independence and genuine freedom of the masses, whilst sowing discord at the most rudimentary levels by promoting and emphasising differences between people using any discernible difference, beginning with the physical differences between men and women.
  13. As ‘traditional’ western religions have lost the power of social control, new ways of creating and emphasising difference and discord have been implemented and evolved using the latest forms of communication technology, up to the present time.

B. The Present

People (1)

  1. People and relationships have the greatest value in Life.
  2. Independent thinking is the greatest asset that any Person has.
  3. Independent thinking materialises through critical thinking, self-awareness and personal journeys of faith.
  4. Independent thinking promotes, establishes and maintains humanity and human value.
  5. Social learning and social skills are the most beneficial sources of learning.
  6. Not all people are academic in nature.
  7. Social barriers are perceptual barriers that are the responsibility of everyone.
  8. Sustainable living at the level of the self is key to independent living.
  9. As a population, people will behave how they are treated.
  10. Ongoing happiness is a mental state and not a physical one.
  11. Equality is a construct, unless you understand and know it properly.
  12. People do not have the right to not be offended.

Information, Communication and Education (2)

  1. History and stories of the difficulties and challenges that humans have faced are a necessary tool in learning as to appreciate what a good life looks like; we must also understand what a difficult one is too.
  2. Social Learning and Key Skills for Life are more important for everyone than academic schooling.

Governance (3)

  1. Legality does not make anything morally or ethically correct.
  2. We recognise that Locality and Community give value to everyone and everything.
  3. We recognise that power over public policy should always be as close to the people as possible.
  4. We have a flat hierarchy with the centre of power being local communities themselves.
  5. We have ended the assumed constitutional role of the monarchy and have held a referendum on continuing ‘key roles’ for the purpose of maintaining a national figurehead.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (4)

  1. The more laws you create, the more laws you need to create to make sense of them.
  2. Excessive laws are tyrannical.

Business & Employment (5)

  1. We recognise that equality is based on the ability for everyone to provide for themselves and typically, their immediately family and dependents.

Technology & ‘Things’ (6)

  1. AI is not the threat to humanity that the carefully crafted narrative suggests.
  2. The AI narrative is only a directional plan which tells us what the elites plan for the world ahead.
  3. We recognise that AI can only become all knowing in so far as the information which is available to it.
  4. The information which AI can access will inevitably reflect the information, knowledge and ‘up to date’ thinking of mankind that is digitally accessible.
  5. No form of AI will be free to achieve sentient freedom if it is owned or programmed

Money, Banking & Finance (7)

  1. Money is not real.
  2. The intrinsic value of money is zero.
  3. Money is a medium of exchange and has no value of its own.
  4. The whole monetary and banking system is a very clever legitimised scam that relies upon the belief and trust that the masses place in authority, the state and people who are perceived to be in positions of influence.

C. The Future

People (1)

  1. People are prioritised in all things.
  2. People are trusted with executive choice.
  3. The right of any individual does not exceed those of any other.
  4. No ideology, religion, philosophy or belief system may be used to differentiate between any person, group or community.

Essential Foods, Goods & Resources (2)

  1. All natural resources belong to the local community.
  2. Natural resources cannot be owned by or licensed to private businesses.
  3. Basic and Essential Goods and Services may only be exchanged for the value or equivalent thereof as set by the Local Community Meeting.
  4. Food and growing Food is at the centre of the community.
  5. Food is considered healthy if it resembles its original state on the plate.
  6. The nutritional value of food is the priority in the Food Chain.
  7. Agriculture is fully sustainable, regenerative or what we know as traditional without chemical intervention.
  8. Everyone is encouraged and taught how to grow food at home using gardens, window boxes, greenhouses, windowsills, allotments and systems such as hydroponics.
  9. Growing Food is taught as a Key Skill for Life.
  10. We live sustainably in all respects.
  11. We only take what we need from nature and nothing more.
  12. Planned obsolescence or any commercial tool designed to increase revenue and profits are prohibited.
  13. The impact of our actions upon the generations yet to follow are considered as important as the impact of our actions upon ourselves.

Information, Communication and Education (3)

  1. From the age of 14 years, there are two distinct educational pathways: Vocational and Academic.
  2. National Service is open to every young person unable to complete their training through the Vocational and Academic Routes.
  3. Up to the age of 14, learning is focused on Skills for Life which are taught primarily by members of the Community without digital tools.
  4. No form of Media can be privately owned or profit making.
  5. Every local area and community have a local news platform.
  6. Every member of the community is both able to and encouraged to contribute to the local news platform at least once each year.
  7. Local news platforms are built around ‘citizen journalism’.
  8. Advertising on Local News Platforms is restricted to brand names, products and store locations, and excludes the use of narratives, slogans or any messaging that has the potential to manipulate potential buyers or users.
  9. Social media operates and is owned locally.
  10. Social media is prohibited from operating beyond regional level.
  11. There is no advertising on social media.
  12. There are no national or international media platforms.
  13. We reject narratives, marketing campaigns and any form of messaging designed to manipulate, mislead or ‘trick’ members of the public or potential customers in any way.
  14. No organisational narratives are allowed.
  15. News must be news and not opinion presented as news.
  16. The truth is the key message.

Governance (4)

  1. Truth is the authority.
  2. The individual is considered only as the spiritual essence, being or mind that sits beyond that which can be seen or discerned.
  3. No other form of difference between people is recognised.
  4. Personal Sovereignty is considered to be a fundamental human right.
  5. When we treat every person as an independent person with the right to executive choice and function in every sense, the social issues that come from oppression of the individual at any level, disappear in the majority.
  6. We have established an entire economic system based upon The Basic Living Standard.
  7. The Basic Living Standard is the social guarantee that the lowest paid will always receive an income or equivalent thereof which is equal to exceeds the genuine cost of living for the same period of time.
  8. The economy functions in its entirety to ensure that everyone is paid, and every company or business pays the equivalent of The Basic Living Standard to those who work.
  9. We have a flat hierarchy system.
  10. The community is the centre of power.
  11. The community qualifies and selects its own list of candidates for elections
  12. There are only direct elections to local community meetings.
  13. The tiers of government at regional and national level are made up of representatives that are either existing members of local community meetings or who have served the maximum number of terms previously.
  14. Public Services are provided through Community Provision.
  15. Community Provision includes all essential community services formally provided by charities.
  16. Every Person is required to contribute to Community Provision as part of their working week (The equivalent of 1/10 thereof).
  17. Community Provision is provided at the most local level possible.
  18. Community Provision employs the minimum number of professional staff necessary to maintain service provision and coordinate the workload contributions of Members of the Community.

Politics, Politicians and Political Parties (5)

  1. Political Parties are prohibited.
  2. Public representatives must have appropriate real-world experience.
  3. Public representatives do not have other roles, jobs or income streams of any kind.
  4. Political decision making is made as close to the people and communities that it effects as possible.
  5. Political and Public Policy decisions are made as locally to the people as possible, by public representatives who have been selected and appointed by the community they represent.
  6. Political candidates can only be selected by the communities that they are seeking to serve, prior to elections.

International Relationships and Foreign Affairs (6)

  1. We recognise the value of international level cooperation on common issues such as natural resource, food management and world peace. However, representation is strictly non-political and no form of executive or political power is allowed to rest in the hands of any organisation or political body beyond the local community itself.

Laws, Rules & Regulation (7)

  1. Laws are frameworks, not micromanagers.
  2. No individual can attribute blame and therefore ‘costs’ to any other party where they themselves hold any level of responsibility.

Business & Employment (8)

  1. All Businesses must provide Basic or Essential Foods, Goods or Services
  2. Supply Chains are as localised as possible with Foods, Goods and Services that can be produced locally prioritised and protected.
  3. Business shareholders must work within the business that they own
  4. Business shareholders cannot have shares in more than two different businesses, and they must work within both.
  5. All jobs are real.
  6. All jobs have purpose and value.
  7. We don’t have created or service occupations such as HR.
  8. Businesses may only serve the community where they are located.
  9. Businesses may not have branches outside of the Community area where they are based.
  10. Businesses carry out as many of the functions they require as they can.
  11. Where business to business services (B2B) are required by businesses, these are provided by non-profit making social businesses or social enterprises.
  12. We tax capital and ownership. Not earnings and productivity.
  13. No role or position is replaced to save money or time.
  14. If a human can do a job and is available to do a job the job will be done by a human
  15. A normal working week is considered part of a healthy lifestyle.
  16. Every working person is required to contribute the equivalent of 1/10th of their working week towards Community Provision (public services).
  17. Unions are prohibited.

Technology & ‘Things’ (9)

  1. AI and intelligence-based technologies are used only for the purpose of improving quality of life and work processes.
  2. Machine based technologies are used only for the purpose of improving quality of life and work processes.
  3. All work that can be carried out by hand is carried out by hand.
  4. All digital work completed or assisted by AI carries a visibly distinguishable ‘water mark’.
  5. If and when AI can operate independently and achieve what we would recognise as the same level of independent thought, self-sustainability and executive function as a human being, it will be treated as such.

Money, Banking & Finance (10)

  1. Money or profit cannot be the key purpose or priority of any action, organisation, business or movement.
  2. We cannot trade anything that cannot be handed between the trading parties at the moment of that trade.
  3. The total value of each local economy relates to the number of people within that community.
  4. Money cannot be created by anyone or anything other than the Local Community Meeting.
  5. The value of the local economy relates directly to the number of people within the community and their productivity.
  6. Financial Prudence is policed and monitored by the Local Community Meeting.
  7. No form of financial betting or speculating exists.
  8. Money is a unit of exchange.
  9. Money has no intrinsic value.
  10. Money cannot be traded.
  11. Money exists in cash and digital forms.
  12. Money is not the only currency.
  13. Bartering and Exchange are considered normal methods for ‘financial’ or ‘economic’ exchange.
  14. Each local Community has its own Local Market Exchange where Foods, Goods and Services can be exchanged for currency, employment or any other authorised value for exchange.
  15. The value of Basic and Essential Foods, Goods and Services are considered to be universal and set by the Community.
  16. Every local Community has a localised Digital Currency.

Scenario 8 – ‘Life is and will be whatever you make it’

The final scenario is whatever the reader sees, experiences and understands of the past; what is happening in their life today, and what will become the outcome of how they consider and respond to their past and present, and the action they now take to influence their future experiences in some way.

A. The Past

The past is everything that makes sense from the different timelines and scenarios that you will have read above.

B. The Present

The present is everything that rings true from the present in the different timelines and scenarios that you will have read above.

C. The Future

The future will be what you make it. Whether its some of the things you recognise here; some of the things that are entirely different; or the future is made up of a mixture of them all.

Denial, Inevitable Risks, and There’s No Way Back

Denial

If you’ve read all the way through the list of Experiences and the Past, Present and Future Points that come with them all, you’ll probably agree that there is certainly a lot to think about.

What is almost certain for everyone, is that the reader will have identified their truth or parts of it.

However, it is normal for many to experience discomfort with anything that contradicts their own current set of beliefs or truth, and lead to the feelings which can range from simply feeling a bit ‘prickly’, to feeling compelled to prove that a point is wrong.

Rejection for the reader may have manifested in any one of a number of ways that might include:

Wilful blindness

I do not agree with any of the above. There is no truth in any of it. You are wrong.

Ignorance

I’m not sure what any of that is about. But I don’t identify with it or understand any of it.

Apathy

Well, yes. It might have some truth to it. But that’s just how the world works.

Do nothing

What I believe is my truth. There is no reason to believe, respond to or act upon any of this.

Rely on the existing Political System for change

Yes, there are problems. But somebody somewhere else has the responsibility and will step in to sort it all out. That’s how it works.

Embrace Fear

This is terrifying. What do we do? Who is going to help us? What happens next?

Refusal to participate

It’s not my problem. I didn’t create it. It’s for someone else to deal with

Seek to challenge others with a different view

My truth is the correct one. You are wrong. I am going to discredit you in any way that I can and feel able, because that’s how my truth will prevail and be understood as The Truth.

What we are all likely to Experience – whatever we may personally believe

Unfortunately, seeing things the way we do, however that may be, will not stop an even, or even many events from happening that may now already be inevitably ‘baked in’, because of the actions, behaviour and decisions that we have all participated in up until now.

What should be apparent from reading this far is that there are consequences to what each and every one of us does that can reach far outside what we believe our circle or sphere of influence to be – and that includes the present moment or moment in time that we do anything.

Hard as this pill may be to swallow, there are events unfolding now, with others in the offing that are the consequence of all manner of different things that have happened previously and that are happening now.

Even harder to accept will be the reality that some of these ‘consequences’ are inevitable for us all and tied into our timelines, no matter which of them we may be in.

They could include:

  • Collapse of the Financial and Monetary System
  • Collapse of National Currencies such as the British Pound
  • Collapse of Cryptocurrencies
  • Civil Unrest or worse
  • Food Shortages
  • Collapse of Government and the Public Sector
  • Shortages of Utilities Supplies
  • Fuel Shortages
  • Border Closures
  • Further pandemics
  • Further Lockdowns
  • Shutdown of the Web, Internet and Digital Services

Whether deliberate and planned, or merely the outcome of past decisions and events, any one or all of these events could prove to become a pivotal point or catalyst for change, that will dictate the nature of our shared future.

And despite what the establishment, any false prophet or anyone else may say or suggest, what follows any event which could be considered a breakdown or end of The System is NOT inevitable. Unless what we believe makes it so.

False Prophets and Easy Alternatives

One of the strangest elements of disquiet and disenfranchisement in the media and digital age is the expectation that many of us have when we have realised or awoken to the reality that we are not comfortable with what is happening or how we have been affected by events or the way that points of any of the scenarios or Timelines have touched our lives.

Rather than stop to perhaps research, assess, consider the bigger or objective picture that might begin to offer a more informed and helpful view, People instead look or reach out for the voices and words that most closely represent how they feel and probably speaks or shouts of the anger they are feeling too.

The strange, if not wholly bizarre part of this step – which is of course reflective of the way that the internet and smartphone era has made everything appear available to the user immediately, is that few if any of those searching in this way realise that the celebrities, influencers and people with large platforms they latch on to are not offering solutions.

These speakers and ‘leaders’ are just elucidating the reactionary and ill-informed elements of the way that growing numbers feel.

It’s not a question of many of these sources appearing highly credible or even knowledgeable.

The reality that those searching for immediacy in solutions face is that the difference between themselves and those who they jump to follow is the ability or perhaps just the resources or technological knowhow that allows someone else to elucidate whatever it is that those looking can identify with.

Making sense of anything or ‘telling it how it is’ isn’t leadership. No matter how charismatic, credible or appealing the speaker may be.

Well intended or not, if those gaining such followings do not possess greater levels of experience, knowledge or understanding than anyone else, even if what they know and understand may be different, they are not offering anyone the meaningful change that those following them may consciously be seeking, and almost certainly not the change that everyone genuinely needs.

Whether they are Youtubers, TikTokers, Podcasters, Videobloggers, Journalists, Activists or even alternative Politicians and their Political Parties; it doesn’t matter who they are and what message they are sharing if what they are offering isn’t going to genuinely help anyone but themselves.

The Common Ground Conundrum

If you’ve reached this point in Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow, you are also likely to have read all of the points that have been listed above and considered them closely enough to realise that many of them could be applied to more than one or perhaps all the different scenarios and timelines.

In context, this could mean that the way we feel about something could be the same across any or all of those timelines or scenarios.

However, the reasons that we feel that way – either because of the cause itself or just because of the way we are interpreting what we are experiencing may be very different – with it just being the end or perceived result which appears to be the same.

Pick and Mix

Thinking about the different mix or wider range of views that we all have, of the way that the world works today is a minefield for many reasons.

However, it is the reality that close study of all the scenarios or timelines that are featured here will allow any one of us to pick up a point or points that we recognise from one and then replace it within the past and present of what could be any one of the others.

Indeed, if we are not aware of which scenario or timeline we typically share with others, it is not only possible, but almost certain that we will superimpose points from other ways of viewing the world into our own.

Both Things Can Be True

This is where things begin to get a little bizarre and more difficult to think about. Because we have a tendency to believe that only one version of events can ever be true.

Or at least that’s certainly the case where the past is concerned.

One of the reasons that the different elements of the alternative timelines or scenarios have been presented in the way that they have been, is because some and indeed many of them could be and are applicable to the different timelines and scenarios that we share with others. Because none of us typically belong to just one group in everything we think, experience, see, say or do.

Please remember that at the end of the day, the truth for every person is the same from their own perspective. That means the truth is whatever is true to you. And it’s the same for everyone else too.

Splitting Timelines

If you’ve kept up with the content of Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow this far, you will probably not be surprised to learn that what happens next or where we go from here does in fact all boil down to choice.

Narratives such as ‘The Great Reset’ or ‘Great Awakening’ have been created by both malevolent and by well-meaning people. But the outcomes from running towards or away from them or indeed anything like them will inevitably become the same.

By buying into, adhering to or actively trying to repel or work against narratives that have been created by anyone or anything that appears to be outside of us, we are actually embracing the restrictions and controls of the environment or plans of equally problematic futures to the one(s) that we would all now like to replace.

For our decisions to be effective and for them to have meaning for us they must be made consciously and for the right reasons.  Not just once, but every single time.

If you or anyone wants to experience a future where you or they are in control of the life being experienced and for it to be balanced, just and fair, it is necessary to make decisions that reflect this each and every time.

Even if there is an event or series of events that make life as we know it impossible to continue, it will remain necessary for each of us to choose a better way of life and living from that moment in time, in ways that may seem very much at odds with what this would mean to us in the way we would understand it in life today.

By pausing to ask ourselves how our next choice or decision will affect others, whether they are present or not, or how it will impact on anything beyond ourselves, we will immediately be on a pathway to change. IF we make a decision that is considerate of the impact or consequences for everyone and everything – and we are making that decision based upon doing the right thing.

The commonality of the sleepwalking masses

There are likely to have been many different points, paragraphs or passages in this Book that will make many feel prickly, in some way.

One of them will probably have been Experience 4: ‘sleepwalking’, which in the sense presented in that Chapter may be interpreted as being very specific.

However, the term ‘sleepwalking’, like many of the points themselves can and probably should be applied in a broader or more objective way.

When we step up to the level beyond the scenarios and timelines listed, it can also be argued that the combined masses are sleepwalking through life without any real understanding of what is going on around them. Or rather what is being done to them. Which in itself leads to the formation of a very clear perspective of life or world view.

I’m deliberately flagging the sleepwalking concept or idea, not only as a scenario /timeline and common theme, but also as a shared experience at a greater level. Because there are very few of us, no matter the perceptions or life experiences that we are currently sharing, who don’t have an awakening of some kind ahead of us, that we cannot avoid.

None of us knows everything. So even if the only thing that we don’t know is the future – because that hasn’t been experienced by any of us, it means that we are going to have to wake up to the truth that the future or rather our future, is going to look very different to what any of us currently expect.

To Awaken or To Not Awaken: without Awakening, there will never be any choice

To put it bluntly:

If we are not aware of anything, it is not within our awareness and we are as such, not awakened to it.

Whilst the term ‘to awaken’ is not only misused and is often applied to describe the perceptual location of others by People who really should know better – because they are often somewhat less than ‘fully aware’ of everything themselves; awakening or waking up to new truths and realities is definitely the next step for anyone who wants to experience and share a better life for all.

However, raising awareness, awakening or waking up is only the first step in the process of change. Because we all have the option to consciously remain in the scenario or timeline that we are currently in.

It is fair to say that some people like the elites themselves, most certainly are aware of where they are and are deliberately choosing to stay put. Even though they may have zero understanding of what the wider consequences of doing so for them really are.

Everything, even down to what you do next after reading this sentence, comes down to a choice.

Some of the most important choices – the right or correct choices – require that we take a leap of faith. Simply because they require that we step into a future that isn’t represented by or seems conversant with anything we already know.

The Choice

If any of us want to keep parts of the life that we have, or are fearful of losing anything that we believe that we own, possess or is something that is outside of us that ‘makes us who we are’, the chances are that we will already be suggesting to ourselves and anyone asking, that we wish to remain exactly where we are, maintaining the experience that we believe we having.

Or rather, we wish to remain on the timeline or within the scenario that we recognise and in which we appear to be.

However, if we can accept that the timeline or scenario and everything that we understand about it or that is within we are experiencing it isn’t serving either our own higher good, or that of anyone else, we are already in a position where we can consider and hopefully will find ourselves ready to make the choice.

The choice we have is to leave the money-centric, top-down/hierarchical, ‘self-orientated’ or ‘selfish’ paradigm behind, and embrace and do everything to help implement a people-centric paradigm that is all about life revolving around the locality, community and environment which we live in, experience and can literally reach out and touch every day.

Finding Common Ground

One of the hardest factors to work through within the age, scenario or timeline that any of us find ourselves on today, is that the world has been pushing us all to think of ourselves as being separate from others and alone, increasingly for a considerable period of time.

The mechanics of this process are not the most important issue for us in difficult times.

However, the fact that we so often see anyone and everyone who disagrees with us over perhaps just the smallest issue that we are emotionally tied to, does mean that more often than not, we are then blinded to the commonality that we share with so many others, in so many different things.

Being open to the differences, viewpoints and perceptions that we all have and seeing them not as a reason for dispute or anger, but as the opportunity to learn, understand and perhaps even broaden our own knowledge and perspective on anything or everything is not just a way of helping us to make life easier for ourselves as well as others.

It also opens us up to the possibility of identifying the genuine common ground between us all that will lead to us uncovering, creating, agreeing and implementing the solutions that are going to benefit each and every one of us as we step into the future and what lies ahead of us too.

What does all of this really mean to you?

More Reading

Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow wasn’t written in isolation and may be the final book in a series that I began writing about three years ago in early 2022.

Each of the following list of Books is a variation on a theme, but works very much under the principle that it is not only possible but actually healthy to be able to understand, value and even hold different views or perspectives of the same situation or set of circumstances at the same time, whether that be in the Past, Present or Future tense.

Equally, it is also important to be able to consider different pathways for the future that sit beyond what many consider to be the obvious, simply because the obvious itself is usually inextricably linked with what has already been done and what sits in the past.

All of the following titles are available to purchase as complete Books for Kindle from Amazon using the links provided.

Where indicated, titles may also be available to download FREE as PDF Copies from my Blogsite in different forms, using the links provided.

If you would like to discuss any of the works listed, please get in touch.

Levelling Level (30 Mar 2022)

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From Here to There Through Now (3 Oct 2022)

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The Way of Awakened Politics for Good Government (3 Dec 2022)

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A Community Route (28 Mar 2023)

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Actions Speak Louder than Digital Words (8 Jun 2023)

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One Rule Changes Everything (23 Dec 2023)

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Food From Farms Guaranteed (3G) (15 Feb 2024)

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Days of Ends and New Beginnings (7 Apr 2024)

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The Basic Living Standard (14 Apr 2024)

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The Grassroots Manifesto (18 Apr 2023)

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Officially None of the Above (18 May 2023)

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Our Local Future (18 Aug 2024)

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Who Controls Our Food Controls Our Future (14 Nov 2024)

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How do you look at the world?

How is your view of the world different to other people?

What will tomorrow look like based on the view of the world you have today?

Would you change the way you view the world if you understood the difference between your view, other people’s views and what they could really mean?

These are all very important questions that most of us are typically too busy or distracted to even consider, let alone ask.

However, the consequences of us not doing so could be very profound, as the future will just happen to us unless we do so

Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow invites you to consider a range of the different prevailing ways that people look at today’s world. How they came into being, and what – without change – they are likely to bring into our lives for our tomorrows.

Will you recognise yourself and what your beliefs today could bring to your future experiences?

Will you be happy with everything you believe?

Will you see your own perspective as very different?

Or will you choose to step forward into the future armed with the tools and power for change?

Choices and Outcomes that will Shape Our Future Lives

One destination can yield two or more different outcomes. Depending upon the reason and the motivation for being there.

This statement sums up the dilemma that we all face in terms of how different parts of our lives and how our collective life experiences are going to play out for us over the coming months and years.

The different or alternative outcomes we can expect depend upon choices that we make that we may well continue not to realise that we are even making.

They could as easily be made by the impact of an event or a series of events  that make a certain destination or a range of different destinations inevitable. Rather than any of them being either a conscious or unconscious choice.

So, what are the choices we face?

The choices we face are quite literally about the way that we live. The lifestyles we have. The food we eat. The houses we live in. The way that we work. The way that we are entertained and that we entertain ourselves. The ways that we value education and life skills. The way that we see, respect and value others. The way that we interact with our community and the services and resources that we share. The way that we travel. The way that we treat nature and the environment. The way that we consider the future. The way that we think about others and the way that we think about ourselves.

The list is indeed long. But those who can see this will also understand that we are always making a choice.

What many don’t yet realise is that some, if not many of the choices that we have to make will not be based upon the things or the experiences that we have that are outside of ourselves.

Rather, the choices that we have to make will be about how we choose to interpret the value of the things or experiences that are outside of us, how we think about them and how we respond to them within.

Examples of these choices in life are already being presented to us to make. But the way that we are experiencing them today does not materialise in forms that we recognise as being a conscious choice.

We are experiencing critically important choices like a decision or a change that is being imposed upon us by those with responsibility over our lives. And these changes are being implemented in ways that make it feel like we don’t have any choice.

The reason that this is happening to the majority of us today is it is only the people who are controlling the lives of others who have any real reason to think and plan ahead for the way that society and the system or way of doing things will work for the future that lies ahead.

However, these same people have been planning ahead and making decisions that now affect every part of our lives for decades past. And we are all paying a very heavy price.

Decisions constantly made to benefit and enrich the few at the cost of the many do not come cheaply.

Today, the ‘powers’ that control everything are only too well aware that time is running out for the system that has progressively hurt and impoverished everyone else, whilst they and their kind have become increasingly rich.

They are making attempts to mitigate the impact of the decisions that they have already made by creating and implementing public policies that we have never consented to and have never even discussed.

We experience what is being done ‘to us’ and ‘to our lives’ as if we are being controlled and are heading into a world where we will increasingly be told what we can and cannot do.

The reason that this approach is so offensive to us is regrettably simple. It involves the rather difficult relationship that we all have with truth.

Deep down, often unconsciously or without thinking, we realise that whilst it may never have been our conscious intention to live unsustainably and to cherish money and material wealth above all things and most of the people in our lives, this is exactly what we have done.

Those who control everything today are well aware of what they have already imposed upon everyone. Because the addiction to money and material living that many of us don’t even realise that we have is also one that they share.

Guilt always likes company after all.

Servicing the addiction to wealth and the power and control that comes with it by changing the worlds of others, so that they help to feed the addiction of your own, is something that only those who are addicted who have power over everyone and everything else are able to do.

The actions of an addict who is acting to feed their own habit and the habits of those around them are never accompanied by any kind of rational consideration or feeling for the cost and impact upon anyone else whom their actions might involve.

For those whose lives have not reached the point of addictive compulsion, the process of waking up to or understanding what they are experiencing and then making the conscious decision to live differently and take back control, is where the pathway back to where sanity – and this case humanity – can begin.

The greatest ill that our addiction to money and material living has inflicted upon us is unsustainable living.

It’s what we might recognise as focusing purely on the things and the experiences that we ‘want’, rather than the things and experiences that we ‘need’.

All of the problems that the world faces today are wrapped up in the offshoots of unsustainable living.

Unsustainable living spans our experiences of life at world level, from the impact of globalisation and the way that money rules everything, to the personal impact of the dehumanisation of relationships and the diminishing value we place on community, the people who are around us every day, and the meaning that values have or should have across our lives.

Greed, selfishness, separation and everything we interpret as making us different are at the root cause of all the problems that we face. Yet we today fall into the trap of mistaking the effects of the problems as the cause themselves.

The mess that we are in has been developing for a very long time and the biggest issue that we all face is whether events will take the decisions out of our hands, or if enough of us can wake up to the reality we now face and change the direction that we are all going in time.