The Unlearning

We need to unlearn many concepts that we have been taught so our existing money based society could exist.

We would need to unlearn the concept of ownership. The idea that we own spaces, things and people - which we literally don’t - is false. Nothing can literally be owned. Beings, things and spaces exist and interact. People are alive and share space with other people in varying ways.  The concept of ownership is a core element of our existing caste system/financial world.  Again we can refer to the animal world for guidance.  

If a bird builds a nest in a tree, that is their home, and other birds will let that bird have the home they’ve built out of respect for the natural order that they all deserve homes.  If something destroys the nest then the bird will build a new one.  Birds find any available space that best suits them, they use that space for as long as they need.  When they vacate the space it is available for other creatures to use or not use.  Other creatures may share the space as needed.  They do not own any tree, twig, section of ground or air space.  These things exist naturally and are used by living creatures as needed.  When they have babies, they care for their babies as their biology calls them to do - they do not own their children.  When they mate with another bird neither bird is owned by its chosen partner.  They share life together as they are called to do to maintain their species and bring fulfillment into their lives. Animals do not have marriage.  Animals do not have divorce.  Ownership of beings does not exist in the natural world, and as humans are creatures of this planet, living without ownership would benefit us the same as it does for animals.

We need to unlearn that people will only be productive if they are told to be.  We have been sold a lie that people will only do things if they are rewarded or compensated in some way.  While there is a very small percentage of people who are actually lazy or looking to cause pain and disturbance - most of us just want to be productive, helpful and live in peace.  This is proven even in our existing money structure because people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, and billionaires, still work.  People who have plenty of money and are able to retire from gainful endeavors still want to be engaged and have jobs to remain productive and connected to other humans - because being active and engaged is part of what makes us feel alive and at peace.  Being engaged in our communities and being productive is part of a healthy life. The act of participating is the compensation.

We need to unlearn that other people are bad.  There are very very few truly bad people.  The people of various faiths and nationalities are fundamentally good all across the world. Your neighbor with the different political view is actually a good human. Even people who are members of hate groups are good humans.  I would say most people are part of a hate group to some degree.  Americans hate Russia, Iraq, Iran, Japan, China… Israel hates Palestine and vice versa.  The French hate everyone ;)…  We have been trained into believing whole “other” groups of people are bad - which is not true. The people of every nation want the same things.  We all love, eat, grieve, work and feel joy.  Our conditioning that places other than our own are filled with bad people is actually a tool to ensure we never come together to truly care for each other, and ourselves, but instead continue to work for our masters.  Of course there are truly bad people everywhere, but there is no town, city, state or country that is entirely bad.

Again we can reference the animal world.  All around the world there are versions of fowl, rodents, mammals of varying kinds.  While the ducks in England may look, sound, move and gather differently than the ducks in the United States - neither is bad.  Neither is looking to cause harm.  The ducks in their own regions have no thought about the ducks in other regions because they are all just doing their best to live their best lives.

We need to unlearn that people are selfish and seek to deny others the chance to live.  A persistent notion of scarcity has been established through money.  Most people truly do not want more than they need.  People don’t want to take food that they don’t need to watch it rot while someone else writhes in starvation.  People don’t want to have housing sit empty while someone suffers in the elements.  Creatures hoard and defend in response to threats to the elements needed for life.  The money system creates a constant feeling of threat to the elements needed for life and so brings out our need to constantly gather and defend when you have the means to do so.  If we remove money we remove scarcity and live in the true reality of enough.

We need to unlearn that people have what they deserve.  We have been trained that people with means have earned them and are worthy of living and people without means deserve to suffer and die.  The reality is everyone deserves to live and no one has truly earned the right to life more than another.

We need to unlearn that we want each other to suffer.  When we see people struggling, most of us want to help. When we don’t help someone in need it generally isn’t because we don’t WANT to help, but because of this false and destructive financial system that leaves us with not enough money to care for ourselves let alone help anyone in need.  Most people are not interested in making other people suffer, this is true globally.  

Take away money and we TAKE AWAY ALL UNNATURAL SUFFERING.  Yes, we don’t have to suffer to have shelter, food, clothes, healthcare, education and experiences in the way we do now.  We need to unlearn our existing norm that resources are scarce and go to the people who have earned them. The people with the highest status, and the most resources, created the system that made them that way and got lucky they were born into the top caste group. No one has earned housing, food, healthcare, safety, education or access to travel more than anyone else, actually.  

This is not to say there will be no struggling, sadly there is no way to fully avoid it.  Working for something of value is a healthy stress.  The natural world provides endless opportunities for struggle with any and all creatures: natural disasters, illness, accidents, age, interpersonal disconnects… Finding and managing resources to live will always require work.  These will always exist and frankly are enough to add drama and challenge to life.  We don’t need to maintain a system that artificially creates hardship and misery.  There is no real value to living in a man made economy.  We can thrive if we just live as communities for ourselves and each other in the world - a true free market system. 

I’m sure you’re thinking I am crazy.  How do we determine who gets a mansion and who lives in a cardboard box?  How do we determine who gets to eat caviar and who gets to starve?  How do we get to determine who gets medical care and who writhes in pain as they expire prematurely?  This Manual proposes we unlearn status dictates the value and quality of human life. This Manual proposes no one deserves either situation and everyone deserves a quality life.

We need to unlearn that people deserve a quality of life based on status.  Everyone deserves, and yet no one needs, a mansion.  Everyone deserves to try caviar.  Everyone deserves to feel healthy, safe and enriched.  If you took a Trump/Musk/Kardashain baby and a poor “no name” baby (but we actually all have names) and set them side by side - no one knowing their lineage or net worth (the basis for our fake system) - which baby would deserve food and which wouldn’t?  Which baby would deserve to have a home? Love?  Healthcare?  Experiences?  Joy?  Both babies deserve all the greatness life has to offer.  Neither baby should be set up to suffer.  Babies are humans.  No human should be set up to artificially live a life of suffering.  This Manual offers a path so that this falsely destructive structure is gone and EVERYONE gets access to a decent life.  Everyone has access to home, furnishings, clothing, transportation, healthcare, education… Everyone gets to travel.  Everyone gets to live a good quality of life.  Everyone.  

In our existing economic society structure status means safety.  The notion that some humans of certain status deserve safety and life while everyone else deserves to suffer is another tool used to divide us.  In the new free market society this manual proposes we are all safe and have everything we need to live. There will be no value in status in the way it exists now.  We are all valuable and worthy.  This isn’t to say there cannot be greatness and greatness acknowledged.  The Beyonce’s, Taylor Swifts, David Beckham’s, Lewis Hamilton’s, Donald Glover’s, Monet’s of the world will still be uniquely shining stars. They could still get awards, put on shows, engage in sports, create art for us to experience - but the people picking up trash at their events would have the same access to travel, food, healthcare, leisure… because WE ALL deserve a quality life.  

We need to unlearn that people’s quality of life should be based on their born talents and abilities.  The ability to have a quality life shouldn’t be based on status or any qualifying factor other than “Are they causing pain and/or destruction intentionally”.  We all deserve good quality clothes.  We all deserve nice homes.  We all deserve reliable transportation. We all deserve healthcare.  We all deserve experiences and fun. We actually all need all of these things as well and the mass experience of depression and anxiety is because we have gone further and further from working with and for each other and money is the only thing that exists - which is literally untrue but that is how we are living.  Even people who are intentionally causing pain deserve a quality of life, but they would not be able to access it the same as healthy members of society - which we will process later in this Manual.