Category: Utopia

  • The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

    The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

    For centuries, humanity has sensed that history does not move in straight lines, but in long, slow waves. Cultures rise and fall, belief systems crystallize and dissolve, and every so often a deeper shift occurs — one that is felt long before it is understood.

    Astrologers have long described these great transitions as ages, each lasting more than two thousand years, shaped by the slow precession of the equinoxes. Whether one takes astrology symbolically or literally, the language of the ages has proven remarkably accurate in describing humanity’s inner development.

    From Pisces to Aquarius

    The Age of Pisces, which began around the dawn of the Christian era, was defined by faith, sacrifice, hierarchy, and authority. It was an age of belief — belief in God, belief in institutions, belief in systems that promised salvation or order if people obeyed.

    Pisces gave us compassion, art, devotion, and spiritual depth. But it also gave us rigid power structures, religious conflict, and a world organized around obedience and fear. Over time, these systems hardened. What began as guidance became control.

    The Age of Aquarius emerges as a response to this imbalance.

    Aquarius is not about belief, but about knowing. Not about religion and hierarchy, but about science and networks. Not about obedience, but participation. Its core themes are understanding, cooperation, transparency, science, technology, and — above all — humanity seen as a single interconnected whole.

    A Long Transition

    There is no single moment when the Age of Aquarius “starts.” Cultural ages overlap. Old systems do not disappear overnight; they erode while new ones quietly take root.

    Many point to early signals as far back as the Enlightenment. Others see the Industrial Revolution, the rise of electricity, global communication, civil rights movements, space exploration, and the internet as unmistakable Aquarian markers.

    In this sense, we have been entering the Age of Aquarius for generations.

    And yet, only now do its implications become unavoidable.

    The Crisis That Forces Awakening

    Every age change is turbulent. When the old worldview no longer fits reality, crises multiply. Today, humanity faces a convergence of breakdowns:

    • ecological overshoot

    • climate disruption

    • economic inequality

    • mental health collapse

    • technological power without ethical coherence

    These are not isolated problems. They are symptoms of a worldview that has reached its limits.

    Aquarius does not promise comfort. It demands maturity.

    It asks humanity to move from competition to cooperation, from ownership to stewardship, from artificial scarcity to shared abundance.

    A New Question for Humanity

    The core Aquarian question is not:

    Who is right?

    but:

    What works — for everyone and for the planet?

    This is a radical shift. It dissolves ideological battles and replaces them with systemic thinking. It reframes economics, governance, technology, and even identity itself.

    It is here that storytelling becomes essential.

    For some of us, this recognition has personal roots. I was born in 1966 and grew up with the cultural echo of the musical Hair — especially the song Aquarius. Long before I could articulate systems or futures, those words carried a simple, disarming intuition: harmony, understanding, sympathy, trust. As the song goes:

    Harmony and understanding

    Sympathy and trust abounding

    That early emotional imprint never left. It shaped a lifelong sensitivity toward humanity itself — a stubborn wish that we might see one another not as rivals or enemies, but as companions sharing the same fragile world. When stories touch that place, they don’t persuade; they remind.

    No more falsehoods or derisions

    Golden living dreams of visions

    Mystic crystal revelation

    And the mind’s true liberation, Aquarius

    Aquarius

    Why Stories Matter in Times of Transition

    Facts alone do not change civilizations. Stories do.

    Humanity learns through narrative — through imagined futures that allow us to emotionally rehearse what does not yet exist. In earlier ages, myths explained the cosmos. Today, speculative stories explore what kind of society we might become.

    This is where Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity finds its place.

    The novel does not argue. It does not preach. It simply asks:

    What if humanity grew up and outgrew money, war, and artificial scarcity — and built a world organized around cooperation, intelligence, and care for life itself?

    It presents the Age of Aquarius not as ideology, but as lived reality.

    The Age of Aquarius as a Direction, Not a Destination

    The most important misunderstanding about the Age of Aquarius is the belief that it will arrive fully formed.

    It won’t.

    It will be built — patiently, imperfectly — by people who sense that another way is possible, and who are willing to imagine it before it exists.

    Every conversation that replaces fear with understanding.

    Every system redesigned for inclusion instead of control.

    Every story that reminds us we are one human family.

    These are not side notes of history.

    They are how ages change.

    A Quiet Dawn

    The dawning of the Age of Aquarius is not announced with trumpets.

    It arrives quietly — in ideas that refuse to go away, in values that feel self-evident to new generations, in the growing discomfort with systems that no longer make sense.

    And perhaps most of all, it arrives in a simple, radical longing:

    That we might stop seeing one another as enemies — and begin, at last, to see ourselves as partners.

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    Call to Action

    If this vision resonates with you — if you sense that humanity is standing at the threshold of a new way of living — Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity offers a story that explores that future from the inside.

    Not as fantasy. Not as doctrine.

    But as an invitation and inspiration.

    Are you one of those who sense that another way is possible?

    Are you willing to imagine it before it exists?

    If so:

    Read the book. Share the idea. Be part of the dawn.

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  • The Kingdom of God Is Within You

    The Kingdom of God Is Within You

    What if the “Second Coming” was never meant to arrive from the outside — but from within us all?

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    “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”

    — Jesus Christ

    This sentence has been repeated for two thousand years.

    Quoted. Sermonized. Framed on walls.

    And mostly… not taken literally.

    Because if it is taken literally, it quietly dismantles almost everything humanity has built its power structures upon.

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    Waiting for salvation — then

    For most of history, people lived under conditions where inner freedom was not enough.

    • Empires ruled by force

    • Poverty was structural

    • Injustice was absolute

    • Individual agency was minimal

    In such a world, hope had to come from above.

    From heaven.

    From a returning savior who would overturn injustice for humanity.

    That hope made sense then.

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    But what if that was never the end of the story?

    What if the first coming was not the solution — but the seed?

    A demonstration, not a conclusion.

    Not:

    “Wait for me to return.”

    But:

    “One day, you will understand what this really means.”

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    The overlooked implication

    If the kingdom of God is within each person, then:

    • No institution can own it

    • No authority can distribute it

    • No hierarchy can mediate it

    • No future date can postpone it

    Which means the delay was never divine.

    It was human.

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    Two thousand years of misunderstanding

    Over time, something subtle but profound happened:

    • The inner kingdom was externalized

    • Living metaphor hardened into doctrine

    • Awakening was replaced by obedience

    • Love was confused with authority

    The light was not extinguished —

    it was covered, regulated, and outsourced.

    And humanity waited… for someone else to do what could only be done from within.

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    Why now feels different

    We are living through a peculiar moment in history.

    For the first time:

    • Material abundance is technically possible

    • Information is globally accessible

    • Old systems are visibly failing

    • Authority is being questioned at every level

    The crisis is no longer survival.

    The crisis is meaning, maturity, and self-governance.

    In other words:

    Humanity is being asked to grow up.

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    The Second Coming — re-imagined

    This article makes no claim of prophecy.

    No claim of divinity.

    No claim of special knowledge.

    It suggests something far quieter:

    That humanity may finally be capable of understanding

    what was said two thousand years ago.

    Not a man returning from the sky —

    but a realization emerging within many.

    Not salvation imposed —

    but responsibility accepted.

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    A world built on inner realization

    This is precisely the world Benjamin Michaels wakes up to in Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity.

    Not a religious world.

    Not a perfect world.

    Not a utopia handed down by God.

    But a world where humanity finally acts as if:

    • dignity is inherent

    • worth is not earned

    • fear is no longer the organizing principle

    • systems reflect trust instead of control

    A world designed as if the kingdom truly resides within everyone. Resulting in a world where:

    • Money becomes obsolete.
    • Coercion loses legitimacy.
    • Contribution replaces survival.

    Not because humans became saints —

    but because they stopped building systems that assume the worst in each other.

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    This is not belief — it is design

    The question is no longer theological.

    It is practical.

    What kind of world do we build

    if we genuinely believe

    that the light we’re waiting for

    is already here? 

    Because if the kingdom is within us,

    then our systems should reflect that.

    And if they don’t —

    the problem was never the absence of light,

    but our refusal to trust it.

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    A final thought

    The Second Coming may never arrive with trumpets

    because it arrives with something far more demanding:

    Responsibility.

    Not for saving the world —

    but for no longer pretending

    that salvation must come from somewhere else.

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    🌍 Call to Action

    If this resonates, Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity explores this realization in lived form — through the eyes of Benjamin Michaels, a man who wakes up into a world that has quietly, imperfectly, and courageously begun to live as if the kingdom of God is within us all.

    👉 Discover the book and the wider vision HERE.

    👉 Share this article if you feel humanity is ready to stop waiting — and start remembering.

    The light was never missing.

    We were just not ready to carry it.

  • How Can Ending the Monetary System Save the Planet?

    How Can Ending the Monetary System Save the Planet?

    At first glance, the question sounds absurd.

    Money feels neutral — just a tool for exchange. Environmental destruction is usually framed as a technological problem, a political failure, or a lack of individual responsibility.

    But what if it’s none of those?

    What if the primary driver of ecological collapse is a system that requires endless growth on a finite planet?

    And what if, by following that logic honestly, we discover something even more unsettling:

    That the same system destroying Earth is also quietly destroying our lives and our dignity.

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    Growth is not a flaw — it is a requirement

    In a monetary system, growth is not optional.

    • Companies must grow to survive.

    • Nations must grow GDP to remain stable.

    • Debt requires interest, which requires expansion.

    But Earth does not grow.

    Forests regenerate slowly.

    Soils take centuries to rebuild.

    Oceans absorb damage silently — until they don’t.

    The collision is inevitable:

    Infinite economic growth meets finite ecological limits.

    This is not a moral failure.

    It is a design conflict.

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    Money turns living systems into profit

    In a monetary framework, nature has value only when it can be priced.

    A living forest is “unused land.”

    A cut forest is “economic activity.”

    Clean air, biodiversity, climate stability, and future generations do not appear on balance sheets — so they are systematically ignored.

    What cannot be monetized is treated as expendable.

    The result is not stewardship, but liquidation.

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    Profit rewards destruction faster than care

    Today, it is often cheaper to pollute than to protect.

    It is more profitable to extract than to regenerate.

    It is easier to destroy than to repair.

    Environmental damage is labeled an “externality” — a cost pushed onto nature, communities, or the future.

    This doesn’t happen because people are evil.

    It happens because the system reward the wrong behavior.

    As long as money is the scoreboard, the fastest destroyers tend to win.

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    The planet is indebted to itself — and it is still not enough

    Here is the absurdity, stated plainly:

    The entire planet is in debt to itself. It’s basically bankrupt.

    Total global debt now equals more than three years of the planet’s entire yearly output — everything humanity produces in one year, multiplied by three, already promised away.

    And even that is still not enough.

    Because if we stop borrowing — the system breaks.

    If we stop growing — the system collapses.

    If we stop expanding — debt becomes unpayable, which it is already, as the money we use ARE debt. “Paying it back” will mean we don’t have any money anymore.Still, governments think debt can actually be paid back. But even trying means creating more debt and more environmental destruction.

    So even while drowning in debt, we are told we must take on more.

    More loans.

    More growth.

    More extraction.

    More pressure on land, oceans, climate, and people.

    Debt is not just money owed. It is a demand placed on the future and the planet itself.

    It is a claim that tomorrow must produce more than today — forever.

    But the planet does not know debt.

    The planet does not grow GDP.

    The planet does not compound interest.

    Forests do not grow faster because markets demand it.

    Oceans do not replenish on quarterly schedules.

    Soils do not regenerate on balance-sheet timelines.

    This is the core insanity:

    We have built a system that treats Earth as an infinite credit card —

    and even after maxing it out, demands a higher limit.

    That is why this is not a problem that can be fixed with better regulation, greener growth, or smarter finance.

    A system that requires endless expansion on a finite planet is not malfunctioning.

    It is doing exactly what it was designed to do. 

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    Artificial scarcity fuels overconsumption

    Money-based systems depend on scarcity.

    Not natural scarcity — manufactured scarcity.

    There is enough food, yet people starve.

    More than enough homes, yet people sleep outside.

    An abundance of energy from the sun, yet we burn the planet for fuel.

    Scarcity is no longer a condition of nature.

    It is a condition of design.

    And scarcity doesn’t just damage ecosystems — it damages people.

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    A wounded humanity consumes to compensate

    Much of modern overconsumption is not driven by greed.

    It is driven by emptiness.

    When work is disconnected from meaning,

    when time is stolen from life,

    when worth is measured numerically,

    people compensate.

    With status.

    With possessions.

    With distraction.

    The planet pays the price for a wound we rarely name.

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    The same system erodes human dignity

    In a monetary world, your value becomes conditional.

    You are valued when you are:

    • productive,

    • efficient,

    • competitive,

    • profitable.

    Rest must be earned.

    Care must be justified.

    Illness becomes a liability.

    Aging becomes a problem.

    Your right to exist quietly shifts from being human to being useful.

    That shift happens slowly — until exhaustion feels normal.

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    Ending money changes the question

    Without money, society stops asking:

    “Is this profitable?”

    And begins asking:

    “Is this necessary?”

    “Is this sustainable?”

    “Does this improve life — for people and the planet?”

    Production becomes needs-based.

    Technology serves life, not return on investment.

    Durability replaces planned obsolescence.

    This is not idealism.

    It is systems logic.

    Why saving the planet without ending the monetary system is almost impossible

    It is not that people aren’t trying to save the planet within the monetary system today — they are. 

    But every serious environmental effort is forced to operate against the system’s underlying logic. Renewable energy must compete with fossil fuels on price. Ecosystem protection must justify itself in economic terms. Climate action must promise growth, jobs, and returns to be considered “realistic.” 

    In other words, nature is allowed to survive only if it can be made profitable. 

    This creates a constant contradiction: we try to heal the planet while preserving the very engine that requires its continued destruction. As long as money, debt, and growth remain the organizing principles of society, ecological protection will always be partial, fragile, and reversible — tolerated only until it threatens profits. That is why saving the planet without ending the monetary system is not just difficult; it may be structurally impossible.

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    But what can we have instead? This is the only system we’ve got. Or is it…?

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    Stewardship replaces ownership

    When land, water, and ecosystems are no longer owned for profit:

    • extraction loses its incentive,

    • care becomes collective,

    • long-term thinking becomes natural.

    The guiding question shifts from:

    “How can we extract as much as possible?”

    to:

    “How do we keep this system healthy for generations?”

    That shift alone rewrites humanity’s relationship with Earth.

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    Saving the planet is not only about the planet

    A humanity stripped of dignity will compete, consume, and destroy.

    Not because it is evil — but because it is wounded.

    A humanity that feels safe, valued, and meaningful does not need to dominate its environment.

    Healed people make good ancestors.

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    The deeper truth

    Money is not neutral.

    It is a behavioral engine.

    And as long as that engine requires scarcity, competition, and endless growth, ecological collapse is not a failure.

    It is the expected outcome.

    Ending the monetary system does not magically save the planet.

    But it removes the root incentive that is currently destroying it —

    and gives both Earth and humanity a chance to recover.

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    Call to action

    This is the core vision explored in Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity — a story that doesn’t ask whether such a world is perfect, but whether it becomes possible once the old rules are removed.

    The question is no longer whether we can afford to imagine a world beyond money.

    The question is whether we can afford not to. If you want to be inspired, dive into this new world with Benjamin Michaels:

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  • I am right! How Opinion Destroys Our World…

    I am right! How Opinion Destroys Our World…

    Why a civilization built on mostly personal opinion cannot solve global challenges.

    Humanity has of now more potential than any generation before us. We have the science and knowledge to restore ecosystems, the technology to eliminate scarcity, and the global capacity to meet every human need.

    Yet progress stalls — not for lack of solutions, but because too many decisions that shape our world are driven by opinion, not facts.

    When opinion overrides reality

    In modern political and economic systems, personal preferences frequently override evidence. Leaders shape national policies based on what they “feel,” “believe,” or “prefer,” even when the data suggests the opposite.

    And the consequences are visible everywhere.

    Concrete examples of opinion-based damage

    1. Food waste: belief vs. biology

    Governments continue subsidizing overproduction because “it’s good for the economy,” even though biology shows soil degradation intensifies with monoculture and chemical inputs.

    Result:

    • More than 40% of global food is thrown away.

    • Farmers are incentivized to grow more, not better.

    • Soil becomes depleted and requires more fertilizer to compensate.

    This is not rational. It is ideological.

    2. Climate policy shaped by party preference

    Scientific consensus on climate change is overwhelming. Yet entire nations still delay action because certain parties “don’t believe” it’s urgent or “disagree” with the methods.

    Opinions block:

    • renewable energy grids

    • electric transport transitions

    • coastal protection plans

    • long-term climate resilience investments

    Meanwhile, the laws of physics continue unaffected by political opinion.

    3. Public health decisions made by sentiment

    During health crises, evidence-based strategies can be ignored because a segment of leadership prefers alternative narratives. This leads to:

    • delayed responses

    • avoidable deaths

    • mistrust in institutions

    • overwhelmed healthcare systems

    Once again, opinions overpower objective medical knowledge — with measurable consequences.

    4. Urban planning based on tradition, not function

    Cities still prioritize cars over people because “that’s how it has always been,” ignoring data showing:

    • walkable cities increase health

    • green spaces reduce heat

    • public transit improves efficiency

    • compact design reduces emissions

    Opinion keeps cities locked in the past.

    5. Education shaped by ideology instead of evidence

    Some nations cut arts programs because certain parties claim they “aren’t useful,” despite research showing arts improve cognitive development, emotional resilience, and innovation capacity.

    Opinion wins. Students lose.

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    The world we get when opinion rules

    When decisions depend on belief rather than reality:

    • resources are misused

    • progress becomes unstable

    • innovation is blocked

    • global problems worsen

    • the future is shaped by personal taste, not planetary needs

    Civilisation becomes a ship drifting at the mercy of whoever holds the wheel this season.

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    What becomes possible when decisions follow facts and knowledge

    Now imagine the opposite.

    Imagine a world where we make choices based on what actually works, not what someone prefers.

    1. Food systems that nourish the planet

    With regenerative agriculture, vertical farming, and precision logistics:

    • food waste drops dramatically

    • soil regenerates

    • biodiversity returns

    • everyone gets fresh food daily

    Not a dream — the technology already exists.

    2. Energy abundance through clean infrastructure

    Using evidence-driven planning:

    • renewable grids provide stable energy

    • cities become energy-positive

    • storage systems smooth out supply

    • emissions fall without economic loss

    Physics is on our side — if we let it be.

    3. Health guided by science, not sentiment

    Fact-based policies create:

    • resilient healthcare systems

    • rapid response capabilities

    • preventative public health

    • dramatically reduced mortality

    Data saves lives.

    4. Cities redesigned for wellbeing

    Urban design centered on evidence produces:

    • cleaner air

    • cooler streets

    • less noise

    • more social interaction

    • higher productivity

    • lower cost of living – completely free in the new world.

    Every major study supports this.

    5. Education that prepares children for the real world

    When curricula follow neuroscience and developmental research:

    • creativity increases

    • critical thinking strengthens

    • emotional wellbeing improves

    • innovation thrives

    Evidence builds thriving minds.

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    Opinion is loud — but knowledge is powerful

    The gap between the world we have and the world we could create is not technology.

    It is not money.

    It is not capability.

    It is simply this:

    We run civilisation on personal opinion instead of collective intelligence.

    If we change that, humanity enters a new era — one defined not by fear, bias, and ideological preference, but by what is real, what is true, and what actually works.

    Call To Action — For readers who want to explore a world beyond opinion-driven chaos

    Follow the former billionaire Benjamin Michaels into this new world and discover the vision of a civilization guided by knowledge, cooperation, and shared human values. Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity is a book that reimagines a future where facts and knowledge overrides opinion..

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  • But Who Will Make the Roads in a Moneyless World?

    But Who Will Make the Roads in a Moneyless World?

    Why this question reveals the deepest wound of our civilization

    People often ask me the same question my friend Henny asked recently:

    “But who will make the roads in a moneyless world?”

    On the surface, it sounds practical.

    Underneath, it carries something much deeper: the belief that without coercion, nothing essential will get done.

    To understand why this fear appears, we have to look honestly at the system we’ve lived under for millennia.

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    The Old System Was Coercion With Extra Steps

    Our entire economy has been built on one unspoken rule:

    Work… or you don’t survive.

    It is a softer, modernized form of slavery —

    not chains, but contracts.

    Not whips, but bills.

    Not owners, but employers.

    Not physical force, but financial fear.

    It’s the same mechanism:

    Do this, or you lose your life’s stability.

    When someone asks, “But who will do the necessary jobs if nobody is forced?”, they are really saying:

    “I don’t trust human nature.”

    And how could they?

    We live in a money world where people are exhausted, underpaid, disconnected from meaning, and pressured every day to “earn their right” to exist.

    No wonder it’s hard to imagine anything else.

    Humans Resist Meaninglessness — Not Work

    The belief that people won’t contribute unless they’re coerced is disproven every day:

    • people volunteer

    • they build open-source software

    • they help neighbors

    • they raise children

    • they care for elders

    • they rescue strangers in disasters

    • they create gardens, art, solutions, communities.

    Not because someone threatens them.

    But because contribution is a natural human impulse.

    Humans thrive when they can see:

    • meaning

    • impact

    • purpose

    • connection

    • respect

    The problem isn’t work.

    The problem is the system around it.

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    So Who Makes the Roads in a Moneyless World?

    1. Those who feel drawn to it

    Every area of life attracts different kinds of people:

    • some love machines

    • some love construction

    • some love planning and designing

    • some love engineering

    • some love logistics

    • some love earthwork and outdoor labor

    The world already works like this —

    except today people are often forced into jobs they don’t like because they need a paycheck.

    Remove the coercion, and people naturally gravitate toward what they enjoy and what they’re good at.

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    2. The needs of society direct the contributions

    This is the part most people have never experienced:

    In a moneyless world, needs shape contribution, not markets.

    • If a road is needed, the community requests it.

    • If a hospital needs staff, people trained in care step forward.

    • If infrastructure needs upgrading, teams form naturally around that task.

    The organizing principle is simple:

    Need → Resonance → Contribution.

    Instead of “What job will pay me enough?”, the question becomes:

    “What does the community need, and where do I fit naturally?”

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    3. AI, robotics, and machinery do the heavy lifting

    We already have road-printing robots today.

    We already have self-driving construction machines.

    We already have AI that plans infrastructure more efficiently than any human could.

    Project this 100 years forward — the world of Waking Up:

    • dangerous work is automated

    • repetitive work is automated

    • heavy work is automated

    • humans guide, design, and coordinate

    • machines handle the rest

    Road-building becomes a creative, collaborative, mostly automated process.

    The “labor shortage” fear belongs to an era that is ending.

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    The Real Fear Hidden in the Question

    Henny wasn’t asking about roads.

    She was asking:

    “If no one is forced to work, will society fall apart?”

    The answer becomes obvious when you look at the world we have today:

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    Crime, Wars, and Prisons Are Products of Coercion — Not Freedom

    People often point to violence and crime as “proof” that humans can’t be trusted.

    But:

    Crime is a symptom of unmet needs.

    Most crime comes from:

    • poverty

    • desperation

    • exclusion

    • trauma

    • lack of belonging

    • lack of opportunity

    These are system-created conditions, not human nature.

    War is institutionalized coercion.

    Wars are driven by:

    • resource control

    • profit

    • power

    • fear

    • strategic dominance

    A world without ownership and scarcity has nothing to fight over.

    Prisons are evidence of system failure.

    People don’t end up in prison because they are “bad.”

    They end up there because:

    • their needs weren’t met

    • their communities broke

    • their lives lacked support, meaning, and belonging.

    Prisons don’t fix people.

    They reflect the collapse of a coercive society.

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    A coercive system creates coercive behavior.

    When life is structured around:

    • fear

    • competition

    • scarcity

    • punishment

    • hierarchy

    • economic pressure

    then society must produce crime, war, and prisons.

    Not because humans are broken.

    But because the system is.

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    A trust-based system produces trust-based behaviour.

    When:

    • needs are met

    • belonging is real

    • contribution is voluntary

    • coercion disappears

    • technology carries the burden

    • community is the foundation

    violence evaporates the way darkness disappears when you switch on a light.

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    Call To Action

    Benjamin Michaels went into cryonic sleep believing — exactly like Henny — that without money, nothing essential would ever get done.

    When he wakes 100 years later, he discovers a world where contribution follows need, where technology removes the drudgery, and where humans give because it is natural, not forced.

    If you want to explore that world, my novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity is for you.

    Discover it here:

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  • The Systemic Change We Desperately Need

    The Systemic Change We Desperately Need

    For thousands of years, humanity has lived inside a story we barely notice. A story so pervasive we mistake it for reality itself. The story says: money is the center of life.

    It decides what we build, what we protect, what we destroy, and even who we become.

    But as the world edges closer to ecological and social breaking points, it’s becoming painfully clear:

    The monetary system we built cannot solve the planetary crisis we created.

    It tells us:

    • compete or fall behind,

    • own or be owned,

    • extract or be extracted,

    • grow or collapse.

    And under the rule of The monetary system, everything on Earth becomes a commodity:

    forests, rivers, animals, ecosystems, even our own time and attention.

    But as the world cracks under ecological collapse, inequality, burnout, and global mistrust, a truth is becoming undeniable:

    A monetary system cannot save a planetary crisis.

    Because the crisis is caused by the monetary system itself.

    Recycling, green tech, ESG scores, carbon markets — these are all efforts to repair a broken house without questioning the foundation.

    To understand the real systemic change we need, we must step back and look at the full architecture of life on Earth.

    There are not one, but three systems

    Monetary. Planetary. Humanitary.

    One artificial, one eternal, one emerging.

    Let’s explore them.

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    🌑 1. The Monetary System — The Artificial System

    The monetary system is:

    • human-made

    • extractive

    • competitive

    • based on scarcity

    • driven by profit

    • aligned with neither nature nor wellbeing

    It rewards:

    • depletion over regeneration

    • individual gain over collective good

    • excess over access

    • ownership over stewardship

    Forests are worth more cut down than standing.

    Oceans are worth more dead than alive.

    Humans are worth more as consumers than as creators

    And even climate efforts — like the TFFF – Tropical Forest Forever Facility — must bend to monetary logic: funds must perform, investors must profit, returns must be stable.

    You cannot heal the Earth with the logic that harms it.

    The monetary system is not evil — it’s simply misaligned with life.

    And any system misaligned with life eventually collapses.

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    🌍 2. The Planetary System — The True System of Earth

    Long before money existed — long before humans existed — there was already a complete system.

    The planetary system.

    It is:

    • regenerative

    • interconnected

    • circular

    • cooperative

    • balanced

    • self-correcting

    • life-creating

    This system is the real operating system of Earth.

    It includes:

    • ecosystems

    • climate cycles

    • water cycles

    • soil regeneration

    • food webs

    • atmosphere

    • biodiversity

    • evolutionary adaptation

    It has existed for 3.8 billion years.

    It is older, wiser, and infinitely more intelligent than any economic model we have invented.

    And it does not need our permission to function.

    Humans are not outside it — we are expressions of it.

    But somewhere along the way, we disconnected from this system and began living entirely inside the monetary illusion.

    The result?

    We started optimizing for the wrong metrics:

    • GDP instead of biodiversity

    • profit instead of wellbeing

    • ownership instead of stewardship

    • scarcity instead of abundance

    The planetary system is the real system.

    The monetary system is a shadow system.

    And the shadow is failing because it contradicts the real.

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    🌱 3. The Humanitary System — Humanity’s Next Operating System

    This is the system humanity must now create.

    A system that is:

    • aligned with the planetary system

    • post-monetary

    • regenerative

    • cooperative

    • contribution-based

    • purpose-driven

    • stewardship-centered

    We now have the name for it:

    ⭐ The Humanitary System

    A new word that did not exist until today — because the idea itself is only now emerging.

    The humanitary system is:

    A post-monetary human civilization aligned with Earth’s planetary system, designed around stewardship, regeneration, cooperation, and shared wellbeing.

    It is humanity expressing the logic of nature through consciousness.

    Humanity → Humanitary.

    A species maturing into alignment with the living Earth.

    Where do we see it emerging?

    • Future Cities of Light

    • Natural Exchange System (NES)

    • regenerative culture

    • kin domains

    • circular local economies

    • universal commons

    • Return On Soul Investment (ROSI)

    • post-money communities

    • Indigenous stewardship laws

    • new governance models (councils, consent, circles)

    This is not utopian — it is evolutionary.

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    🔄 Putting it all together: the Three-System Shift

    1. Planetary

    The original system. Real, natural, foundational.

    2. Monetary

    The made-up human system. Artificial, extractive, misaligned.

    3. Humanitary

    The new human system aligned with the planetary system.

    This is the true systemic change humanity needs.

    And once you see this structure, it becomes impossible to “unsee” it.

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    🔥 Why the Humanitary System is Inevitable

    Because the planetary system has the final say.

    And the monetary system is collapsing under its own contradictions.

    This is the moment in history when humanity must choose:

    • continue the monetary illusion and collapse,

    or

    • return to the planetary truth and evolve.

    The humanitary system is not a political choice.

    It is a biological necessity.

    It is the only system that makes sense on a living planet.

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    🌈 Cities of Light as the First Humanitary Prototypes

    A City of Light does not promise monetary profit.

    Its residents are:

    • not investors

    • not consumers

    • not shareholders

    They are ROSI contributors — Return On Soul Investment.

    They invest not capital, but consciousness.

    They receive not dividends, but:

    • meaning

    • belonging

    • community

    • purpose

    • wellbeing

    • connection

    • safety

    • planetary restoration

    A City of Light is a prototype of the humanitary system,

    designed in alignment with the planetary system.

    This is how the new civilization begins.

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    🌟 Conclusion: The Systemic Change We Need

    Humanity is not just changing systems —

    we are changing civilizational operating systems.

    From the artificial to the natural.

    From extraction to regeneration.

    From competition to cooperation.

    From profit to purpose.

    From planetary via monetary to humanitary.

    This is the future taking shape.

    And it begins with those who dare to name it.

    ⸻

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  • The Great Unveiling – Awakening to the Real World

    The Great Unveiling – Awakening to the Real World

    What would actually happen if the world erased all debt overnight?

    ⸻

    1. The Starting Point

    Let’s start with a fact, not an opinion.

    As of 2025, total global debt is about $340 trillion — every mortgage, every student loan, every government bond, every corporate IOU combined.

    It is, quite literally, the sum of what humanity owes to itself.

    Let that sink in.

    To itself.

    How can a species owe itself money?

    How can the left hand be in debt to the right?

    The numbers are real enough on paper — but the logic behind them is absurd.

    We’ve built a global system in which humanity as a whole is perpetually indebted to… humanity as a whole.

    Meanwhile, the world’s annual GGP, Gross Global Product— the total value of everything we actually create and produce — is about $110 trillion.

    So globally we owe more than three times what we make in a year.

    We are, in effect, trying to pay ourselves with our own promises, and calling the shortfall “growth.”

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    2. The Paradox of Debt-Money

    Here’s the strange truth of modern economics:

    Money isn’t printed first and then lent — it’s created by lending.

    When a bank issues a loan, it simply types numbers into an account.

    Those digits are new money, but they exist only because someone has agreed to owe them back.

    For every dollar of money, there’s a dollar of debt somewhere else. So of course, since we are constantly creating new money mostly by loans that needs to be repaid with interest which is not created, we constantly need to create new debt perpetually. If everyone repaid their loans tomorrow, almost every dollar in existence would vanish.

    The economy wouldn’t just slow down — it would cease to exist. Because money = debt.

    Debt isn’t a flaw in the system.

    Debt is the system.

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    3. The Absurd Scale

    Three hundred and forty trillion dollars.

    A number so large it almost loses meaning.

    To “repay” it, we’d need about three more Earth-sized economies operating at today’s output — three planets producing, mining, farming, shipping, and consuming at full speed just to settle our existing balance sheet.

    But we have only one planet, and it’s already showing the strain: melting ice caps, depleting soils, rising seas.

    We’ve mortgaged the future to pay for the present, and even the collateral — the planet itself — is running out.

    The debt can never be repaid, because repayment would destroy the very money supply that makes repayment possible. The paradox is profound

    It’s a snake eating its own tail.

    ⸻

    4. The Thought Experiment

    So what if, instead of running faster on the treadmill, we simply stopped?

    What if: every government, bank, and individual agreed to wipe the slate clean — erase all debt at once?

    Technically, it would be easy.

    After all, when a bank issues a loan, it simply types numbers into an account.

    Those digits appear from nowhere, authorized by nothing more than confidence in the story.

    And just as easily as they’re created, they can be erased.

    The same keyboard that made them has another key — 

    backspace.

    Press it once for a typo.

    Press it a few more times, and the world is debt-free.

    Thus: the so-called global “debt crisis” is nothing more than a collection of keystrokes. 

    The difficulty isn’t technical. 

    It’s psychological.

    The moment those numbers disappear, the story humanity believes about itself — the story of credit, ownership, and fake obligation — vanishes with them.

    For a few hours, maybe days, the world would panic.

    Markets would freeze. Banks would have no assets. Governments would have no bonds.

    It would look like collapse.

    But collapse of what, exactly?

    ⸻

    5. What Would Still Exist

    Would the roads disappear?

    Would the houses crumble?

    Would the hospitals and schools evaporate?

    Would the oceans stop moving or the sun fail to shine?

    No.

    Every physical thing humanity has built and nature has created would still be there:

    every bridge, every farm, every power plant, every tool, every ship.

    The forests, the animals, the wind and rain — all still exactly as before.

    The real world would remain completely intact.

    The only thing missing would be the numbers we used to measure it.

    That’s the realization: the “economy” we thought sustained us was only a layer of code floating above what was real.

    When the code is erased, the world itself doesn’t vanish

    — it appears.

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    6. The Great Unveiling

    That’s the unveiling — the moment when the illusion drops and we see what was always there.

    The money world was never the world.

    It was a veil — a story of ownership drawn over nature, over work, over life itself.

    When that story ends, nothing real is lost.

    In fact, reality becomes visible again.

    The forests keep breathing.

    The clouds still drift and drop rain.

    Birds still fly, insects still hum, whales still cross the oceans.

    People still wake up, stretch, laugh, argue, cook, and create.

    All of it continues as if nothing happened — because to the real world, nothing did.

    ⸻

    7. Seeing the Illusion for What It Was

    Imagine standing in a field the morning after the Great Erasure.

    The banks are silent, the stock tickers blank, but the sun still warms your skin.

    You realize how strange it was to think that this — sunlight, air, grass, breath — could ever be “priced.”

    The absurdity becomes obvious: we built a system that claims ownership over everything that already belongs to life.

    We invented scarcity in the middle of abundance. Saying only those with enough numbers in their accounts would have an abundance of time to really enjoy life.

    We called debt wealth and competition progress.

    We covered the real world with a mirage of money — and then forgot it was a mirage.

    And yet, beneath that mirage, everything real has been patiently waiting.

    ⸻

    8. What Happens Next

    At first, confusion.

    If no one owns anything, who decides?

    But slowly, reason returns.

    People realize they don’t need permission to use what already exists. 

    Food still grows. Tools still work. Knowledge still lives in every mind. We can peacefully agree to create abundance for all.

    Communities reorganize — not around money, but around contribution, skill, and trust.

    Value shifts from possession to participation.

    Humanity begins to live again as nature does — through exchange without debt, through cycles of giving and renewal.

    ⸻

    9. The Realization

    The true catastrophe isn’t the collapse of the money world — it’s that we mistook it for the real one.

    The true awakening is realizing the world doesn’t need to be rebuilt — only remembered.

    Everything that matters survives the erasure:

    the land, the oceans, the people, the animals, the insects, the sky, the sun.

    When the numbers vanish, what remains is life — unpriced, unowned, unending.

    ⸻

    10. The Invitation

    This is the Great Unveiling: not the end of civilization, but the end of its disguise.

    A collective seeing — that the wealth of the world was never in banks, but in being.

    Step outside.

    Feel the ground.

    Everything real is still here.

    The world is Waking Up.

    Are you?

    Follow the former billionaire Benjamin Michaels as he wakes up in a world where this has already happened. Shaken and shocked he staggers out of the hospital where he has been sleeping for a century, only to find his old world of money and numbers completely vanished… Only the real world remains.

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  • The Tipping-Point Generation(who this book is for)

    The Tipping-Point Generation(who this book is for)

    We are living in the most paradoxical time in human history.

    Never before have we been so connected, yet so divided.

    So informed, yet so confused.

    So powerful, yet so close to the edge.

    Everywhere we look, something is collapsing — and something else is quietly being born.

    We stand between two possible futures: the abyss and the dawn.

    ⸻

    The Abyss — What’s Breaking Down

    The signs of exhaustion are everywhere.

    A planet fevered with heat and pollution.

    A suicidal economy that thrives on debt, fear, conflict and competition.

    A species so busy surviving that it has forgotten how to live.

    We scroll past wars, famine and wildfires in the same feed.

    We work harder while feeling emptier.

    We chase “growth” that devours its own foundation.

    This is the shadow side of our brilliance —

    a civilization built on separation, now facing the consequences of its illusion.

    ⸻

    The Dawn — What’s Emerging

    And yet — beyond the noise, something luminous is stirring.

    All over the world, people are beginning to wake up.

    To question, to reconnect, to imagine again.

    Open-source creators are sharing freely.

    Communities are forming outside the logic of money and profit.

    Technology is turning from exploitation to regeneration.

    Young people are marching not for ideology, but for life itself.

    Science, spirituality, and empathy are converging.

    Even AI — once feared as our rival — is revealing itself as a tool for healing, learning, and collaboration.

    This is the first light of the Generation of Awakening —

    the ones who remember that the Earth was never ours to own, only to care for together.

    ⸻

    Who This Book Is For

    Waking Up was written for this generation — the Tipping-Point Generation.

    Not defined by age, but by awareness.

    It’s for those who sense that the old story of humanity has run its course,

    and that a new one is waiting to be told.

    For those who feel both the grief of what’s ending and the quiet certainty of what’s possible.

    This is not a book of escape.

    It’s an invitation — to remember, to imagine, to be inspired, and to help birth the world that lies just beyond our fear.

    ⸻

    From Impossible to Inevitable

    Many will say that such a world — without money, greed, or ownership — is impossible.

    But every transformation begins that way. With the impossible.

    Flying was impossible.

    Electricity was impossible.

    The moon was impossible.

    Talking to someone across the planet in real time was impossible.

    Healing the body with light and sound was impossible.

    Even believing that humanity could live in peace was impossible —

    until it wasn’t.

    What we call “impossible” is often just unimagined.

    The moment enough people see it, it begins to take shape.

    The future isn’t waiting for permission.

    It’s waiting for participation.

    If you’ve ever felt that subtle call — that there must be another way —

    this story is for you.

    ⸻

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  • Too Simple, Even Naïve — And Proud of It

    Too Simple, Even Naïve — And Proud of It

    The Alchemist has sold about 150 million copies since its quiet debut in 1988.

    My book, Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, launched on May 2, 2025, and is currently moving at a slightly more contemplative pace — around five or six copies a month.

    At this rate, I’ll catch up with Paulo Coelho somewhere around the year 47,312.

    But who’s counting?

    People have told me Waking Up is “too simple,” “too idealistic,” even “naïve.”

    And I smile, because those are the same words critics once used to describe some of the most beloved books ever written:

    • The Alchemist — “childlike allegory.”

    • The Little Prince — “too simple for adults.”

    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — “new-age fluff.”

    • Siddhartha — “mystical oversimplification.”

    • Always Coming Home — “utopian idealism.”

    Apparently, sincerity makes people nervous.

    But maybe simplicity isn’t a flaw — maybe it’s the distillation of depth.

    When a story dares to believe in meaning, kindness, or transformation without irony, critics roll their eyes — until the world quietly falls in love with it.

    ⸻

    How the “naïve” ones sold

    If we’re keeping score, here’s how the simpletons have done:

    • The Little Prince — around 200 million copies.

    • The Alchemist — about 150 million.

    • Siddhartha — roughly 50 million.

    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — somewhere near 40 million.

    • Always Coming Home — maybe a few hundred thousand.

    And then there’s Waking Up — proudly holding at five or six copies a month.

    Which, if you think about it, might make it the most energy-efficient book launch in history.

    (Why rush a planetary awakening, right?)

    But here’s the thing — I didn’t write Waking Up out of ambition at all.

    I wasn’t trying to become a bestselling author.

    I had never even written a full-length story before, only essays at university. Waking Up began as a screenplay, an idea for a film about a world beyond money and struggle. I had no clue if I could pull it off.

    What drove me wasn’t career — it was curiosity and hope.

    I wanted to show humanity an alternative future — a world we could actually long to live in.

    Not another dystopia to fear, but a vision to believe in.

    If Waking Up ever reaches millions of readers, it won’t be my “success” — it will be our success, because it means the story resonated deeply enough to tilt our collective imagination toward something better.

    The royalties wouldn’t fund mansions or yachts; they’d firstly help make a movie to spread the ideas even further, and then, build the first City of Light, a real-world prototype of the cooperative, money-free world described in the book.

    Buying the book helps make that future physically possible.

    Reading it helps make it emotionally possible.

    ⸻

    A lineage of clarity

    The Alchemist is a perfect example. It’s a straight road through the desert — one boy, one dream, one revelation. A parable so linear that a child can follow it, yet so archetypal that philosophers still quote it.

    Its strength lies in its clarity. The Alchemist asks,

    “What is your personal legend?”

    It became a global phenomenon because everyone, everywhere, can answer that question.

    Waking Up carries that torch into the 21st century — but widens the question:

    “What is humanity’s personal legend?”

    Where Santiago’s treasure was individual, Waking Up explores our collective treasure — a world healed of scarcity, fear, and competition. A civilization guided not by money and greed but by trust and creative abundance.

    ⸻

    Utopian? Maybe. But that’s the point.

    Of them all, Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home might be the truest kin to Waking Up. Both imagine a cooperative, post-monetary humanity — not as a fantasy of escape but as a return home.

    Le Guin’s masterpiece was visionary, but also fragmented — an anthropological mosaic rather than a story. Critics admired it, but few readers finished it. It was too far ahead of its time, and too far from the emotional thread most readers need.

    I learned from that. I wanted to write a book that could touch the mainstream without dumbing down the vision.

    That’s why Waking Up is linear, cinematic, and emotionally grounded.

    It began as a screenplay — and maybe that’s why it reads like one.

    You don’t have to understand systems theory or spiritual philosophy to get it.

    You just follow Ben — and before you know it, you’ve crossed into another kind of world.

    ⸻

    The quiet revolution of sincerity

    My goal was simple: for the reader to pause somewhere in the story and think,

    “Hm. This is a world I’d like to live in.”

    That thought — quiet, almost casual — is the beginning of transformation.

    It’s the spark where imagination becomes possibility.

    Because in a culture addicted to irony, sincerity itself is rebellion.

    And the deepest revolutions have always begun with simple words that everyone can understand.

    So yes, call Waking Up naïve if you like.

    I’ll take that as a compliment.

    After all, The Alchemist had to start somewhere too.

    And maybe, just maybe, Waking Up is where we start — again.

    ⸻

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  • The Invention of Scarcity

    The Invention of Scarcity

    For centuries, humanity has lived under two great experiments: capitalism and communism. On the surface, they seem like opposites — one worships the market, the other the state. But beneath their differences lies the same hidden root: fear and lack of trust.

    Artificial Scarcity

    Both systems were born from the same doubt — the belief that people cannot be trusted to share, cooperate, or care without being controlled.

    So one tried to control through money and ownership, the other through authority and rules.

    Both tried to prevent chaos. Both tried to prevent scarcity.

    But in truth, both created it.

    Capitalism thrives on artificial scarcity — on turning natural abundance into commodities, putting a price tag on life itself. It must keep people wanting, buying, and competing, because without scarcity, money loses meaning. Anything abundantly available has no value in capitalism.

    Communism, on the other hand, tried to redistribute the same imagined scarcity by replacing private ownership with state ownership and planning. But it still relied on control — and too much control always chokes flow. It feared greed, so it built walls. But walls only hide abundance from those who need it most. State control and distribution in communism only created a bottleneck for resources that was abundant in the first place, just like money and private ownership creates many bottlenecks in capitalism. Abundant resources first have to be filtered through who owns what and who can pay for it.

    Communism didn’t abolish ownership — it merely transferred it from individuals to the state. The state claimed all resources and distributed them as it saw fit. That’s not freedom; it’s just another form of control. True freedom begins only when ownership itself dissolves, and resources become our shared inheritance — managed with trust, not fear.

    The Currency of Trust

    And then, of course, it’s easy to think, “Oh, but… what if someone just takes much more than they need?”

    And that’s exactly how the old spiral begins again. Because that thought itself — that fear — is the opposite of trust.

    It’s the seed from which all control and scarcity grow.

    We simply need to choose trust, even in spite of the fear we might feel. Because when someone starts truly trusting, it spreads. Trust becomes contagious — and before long, fear loses its grip. In the end, both systems are mirrors of each other — two expressions of the same misunderstanding of human nature. Both are built on the assumption that trust is naïve, and that without control, people would take more than they need.

    But what if it’s the other way around?

    What if trust is the real economy — the invisible current that makes life flow? And a current that actually multiplies the more it is used. The more we trust the more trusting we get.

    What if scarcity was never natural at all, but a collective illusion born from fear?

    In the new world, the one described in Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, humanity simply remembers.

    We remember that the Earth already gives freely and abundantly. That collaboration isn’t utopian — it’s instinctive. That when everything is shared, nothing needs to be hoarded.

    It’s not communism, and it’s not capitalism.

    It’s a completely free world where humanity has simply chosen to share it instead of hoarding it.

    A world built not on fear, but on trust.

    And in that trust, the myth of scarcity finally ends.

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