Integrity

According to mathematical calculations, our model of society establishes that the reason we have such horrific social problems, like homelessness and a growing army of mentally ill without access to medical care, comes from basic corruption in society.

Let me explain. It's an engineering problem. Take a bridge. What keeps a bridge up? How come it doesn't fall? Simple. It is the structural integrity of the bridge and integrity of the materials making up the bridge that keep it from falling. If the bridge has no integrity, then the bridge will fall. Simple.

Society is made up of relationships between people -- not political, or social, or financial, or religious or psychological or whatever kind of relationship, but a complex set of dynamics and experiences that form relationships. Not relationships with institutions or companies or governments, but relationships between people, pure and simple.

So, if society is made up of relationships between people and those relationships lack integrity, then society collapses, just like a bridge or a building or anything else. We have found that truth and a commitment to truth and reality is the key to solving social problems. If you want to cure a disease, you have to find the cause of it. Otherwise you are just treating the symptoms. If you want to cure a disease; find the cause. Then you can cure the disease.

The political system and inherent philosophy is irrelevant. The amount of money, budget and technology are all irrelevant. You don't even have to go large scale. If the day-to-day interactions and subsequent relationships between people in a society lack integrity, you will have problems all over the place.

The present economic collapse is no exception. It collapsed because our economic system lacks integrity. Any further analysis is just details.

Our health and social systems lack integrity. Just ask anyone working in these systems. Ask a doctor or an experienced social worker. You can even ask a politician. I've talked to a number of them and, so far, they all agree.

The system under which we live is designed to lack integrity. If you fix it up and make it all squeaky clean, it will soon deteriorate. It works with the assumption that people are fundamentally greedy and lazy, that people themselves lack integrity and have even been trained to be that way. It's an incorrect assumption. If it was correct there would be no need for the media and educational promotion of a necessity of acquiring unlimited material wealth for the sake of self indulgence. You gotta train people to lack integrity and keep at it to make a society like the one we have now.

Everything is relationship. Everything is people -- people dealing with people. The fault lies not with any organization, government, whatever. The fault lies with the individuals that make up and work for organizations, governments, whatever.  That's you and me, and in how we deal with others. It is a personal commitment to integrity.

It's called being an adult. Society has to grow up. A commitment to selfish motivations will result in poverty and disease. An immoral society is a diseased society, or soon will be. 

The cure? Easy. Work together. Talk about it. In a depression, people become a heck of a lot more valuable than money. They're printing the stuff like crazy and it won't be worth much very soon anyway. People, on the other hand, now that's a different story.