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Noel Edward Mundy: The full text of Pathway to Utopia is a new way of thinking for a new world

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Summary to Pathway to Utopia.
The main text outlines a system of true democracy.
People are frightened of change yet history reveals many changes- mostly forced onto people by Power out of control.
Parties:
A political party is formed to carry out the wishes of its supporters. Those wishes are presented to the voters as Policies. Consequently there are always vested interests involved to win an election and then to stay in power.
The voters never know what proportion of money and energy used by the party goes towards being elected and then re-elected, and what proportion is used towards long term benefits for the nation itself.
A lesson from history.
Democracy:
The following quotation was given by an American economist to a large gathering on 20 January, 1986
Cycle of Democracy is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler - a Scotsman - 1748-1813.
Tytler taught Universal History at Edinburgh University.

'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's great civilisations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back into bondage.
The political cycle follows. Rule by one (king) - rule by few (a republic) - rule by many (democracy) - anarchy (rule by one - king)'
Could history be repeating itself ?
Throughout history people have set out to rule the world. With nuclear weapons that is now possible. Our modern world must be safeguarded by the people themselves and not ruled by those with a lust for power.
An Observation:
For countless centuries millions have died defending their religious and political beliefs.
People never all think the same at the same time, which is by far the greatest safeguard of our species.
If we all thought the same way in times of great fear and panic our leaders could easily stampede us all into oblivion.

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World Change:
This new era is best described as the computer driven, technological revolution. Old values have rapidly changed. The speed of production and communications is still accelerating. Employment opportunities are declining in developed nations with youth the main casualty. Many nations now have similar problems with an estimated 30% of the world's workforce, either unemployed or under employed. Our fast changing world has brought people to a greater consciousness of one another. Humanity faces a more honest awareness of its very existence. with clear thinking the only way ahead. Public apathy must give way to public perception while power for power's sake must give way to sound management. It will take some years to adapt to the many changes, but there is no alternative other than to adapt. For the wealthy, developed nations the irony is that the better times of less hard work, shorter working hours and more leisure time have arrived. All that is missing is the necessary changes to systems of government the world over. Without these essential changes the vested interest 2 party systems the world has known as democracy will have a most violent future, yet those nations are only 1/3rd of world population. In some nations many people die each year with not even the basic requirements of day to day living. There are 2 main reasons why this happens - 1. Human apathy, the world's greatest curse and, 2. Because the motives of people seeking power are too complex for people to recognise, ( Only those who don't seek power should be given power (Socrates) . He didn't trust democracy because he could see that a democracy could be controlled by those who owed their power to force and deception.) History tells us that for all the reasons given for war, it is politicians who precipitate wars - never the people. There are very few exceptions to that old rule. A system (with safeguards) trusting the judgment of a nation's people instead of a collective of party supporters would give all humanity a more secure world. In almost all nations the supporters of political parties are just a relatively small proportion of the population. That is also the reason why party systems of government are now powerless to effect change and to adapt to a changing world.
Who then is guardian of each nation's future? Certainly not a party.

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