THE NEED FOR A LOGICALLY PLANNED WORLD

D.  SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Human rights and social conditions are not purely domestic affairs.  They are worldwide affairs, of concern to all of jus, wherever we may be.  The human race deserves a world that enables people to be happy, healthy, productive, and fulfilled.  In this regard, we would need to install a world governing, or guiding, body that shall be apolitical in nature.  As described earlier, it should be composed of experts in whatever fields there should be that would require such expertise.  As such, it would pursue but a single goal:  the provision of service and benefit to all of mankind.

The goal of government is not to legitimize a particular political establishment or power arrangement.  It is not the active pursuit of dominance over, and/or the provision of protection from, other governments and their peoples--which other governments are simultaneously functioning in accordance with these same ill-suited motives.  Instead, the goal of government should be to promote the health, welfare, security, freedom, and protection of all; and to insure as well an atmosphere of peace, assistance, and encouragement to all.

It is the duty of government to furnish the services that will result in an appropriate quality of life for everyone.  If everyone worked together, under the guidance of a governing body composed of experts, toward the accomplishment of these things--instead of numerous governing bodies, composed of politicians and worse, wastefully in conflict with one another in the interest of personal, political, and national agendas--much could and would be achieved.  It is time to put common sense ahead of emotion; and practicality ahead of selfish self-interest.  Without the burden of feuding national governments, and their self-defeating egocentric policies, mankind can fashion a world that would be effective, efficient, and beneficial to everyone.

The human race requires and deserves a worldwide network of schools, medical facilities, and roads, to name but a few of the numerous present deficiencies that stand out in our world.  Among other things, we require worldwide children's services, educational institutions, health facilities, and assistance to the elderly and handicapped.  Under the guidance of experts--instead of politicians seeking reelection--agriculturaL and industrial production can actually be increased worldwide, illiteracy and disease truly overcome, and living standards elebvated.  Freedom, human rights, and improvement of the human condition--which are the entitlement of everyone--can reaslistically be achieved.  In such an atmosphere, poverty, hunger, disease, and infant mortality xcan and would be reduced and overcome everywhere.

Public policies need to be put into place that will secure universal economic stability, expanded educational opportunities, reduced unemployment, and greater income equality.  This is within our capability right now.  Systems need to be devised and implemented that would put an end to drought and famine.  In places wheere this should prove impracticable or impossible, a world without borders would afford resident victims the freedo0m to move on to places that are not so affected.  This too is a fundamental human entitlement.

Solcial volunteerism should always be encouraged, and perhaps at times required.  In a prior posting, I refer to the possibility of making it mandatoryfor the recipients of medical and other such prospectively lucrative degrees to serve mankind in some needful part of our world for a period of time.  Moreover, I have spoken of the advantage of teaching people in needful places to meet their own needs, as preferred to the mere furnishing of aid or assistance to them.  Thus, an intense system of social volunteerism, and possibly even a "social draft," aimed at endowing the local residents with the skills they require is probably the most favorable way to approach this goal.

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