Category: Utopia

  • Why Waking Up Exists

    Why Waking Up Exists

    An article for new readers who might be interested in a better future for humanity.

    All my life I’ve had a strong urge to fix things.

    Gadgets and machines — and systems. Situations where people suffer even though, intuitively, it feels like they shouldn’t have to. That urge was always paired with something else: a deep concern for humanity, and a simple desire for everyone to be able to thrive.

    Over time, one pattern became impossible to ignore. Again and again, the limits to human well-being traced back to the same source: money. How much you had of it. Or didn’t.

    Everywhere I looked, money seemed to generate problems — inequality, stress, conflict, environmental destruction. Not because people were inherently selfish or cruel, but because the system itself was built on scarcity, competition, and exclusion.

    That realization led to an obvious but uncomfortable question:

    How do you fix a system that large?

    For a long time, I couldn’t see an answer.

    Then I encountered ideas that changed the frame entirely. The Venus Project had turned everything upside down. Instead of asking how to distribute money more fairly, they asked a different question altogether: Why is money there in the first place? What if, instead of managing prices and profits, we managed what actually exists — the planet’s resources, our knowledge and technologies, and our collective capacity to care for one another?

    This way of thinking removes money from the equation and focuses on something more concrete: what we have, what we need, and how we can organize society so that everyone’s needs are met within ecological limits.

    That shift fascinated me. Not as ideology, but as design. As engineering applied to civilization itself.

    TVP had been exploring and sharing these ideas for decades, often with little traction. Inspired by their persistence, I didn’t want to write a political program or a manifesto. I wanted to explore what such a world would actually feel like.

    So I chose fiction.

    I began writing a story about a contemporary man who wakes up in a future where humanity has finally reorganized itself around cooperation, stewardship, and shared abundance. A world where the central question is no longer who can afford to live, but how can we make life work for everyone?

    That story became Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity.

    Over the many years it took to write the book, new ideas naturally emerged — about technology, psychology, governance, ecology,  human nature, and the story of the novel itself. All of them were woven into the story, not as lectures, but as lived reality.

    Waking Up exists to explore a simple, unsettling question:

    What would the world look like if we finally designed it to work — for people, nature, and for the planet?

    If this question resonates with you, you’re already part of the conversation and I urge you to share this article.

    If you would like to read the result of all these years of writing, you can find the book HERE. I thank you.

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  • From Supply and Demand to Demand and Supply

    From Supply and Demand to Demand and Supply

    For centuries, the dominant logic of our economy has been supply and demand.

    Seemingly they try to fulfill a demand. So, something is produced. Then demand is measured again — or manufactured — and price adjusts accordingly. If demand is too low, marketing steps in to create it. If demand is high, prices rise. Scarcity becomes profitable.

    This logic has quietly inverted the purpose of production.

    Instead of producing what people actually need, we produce what can be sold — and then persuade people they need it.

    The result?

    • Overproduction of the non‑essential

    • Underproduction of the essential

    • Rising prices on food, housing, energy, healthcare, and land

    • Ecological overshoot and pollution

    • Stress baked into the system itself

    The hidden flaw in supply‑first thinking

    In a supply‑first world, need is secondary to profitability.

    Food is destroyed to keep prices stable.

    Homes can stand empty while people are homeless.

    Water can be privatized.

    Scarcity can be engineered.

    All of this is considered rational — even responsible — within the logic of supply and demand.

    But rationality is not the same as wisdom.

    A simple reversal that changes everything

    Imagine flipping the logic:

    Demand first. Supply second.

    Nothing is produced unless there is a real demand for it. Which of course is impossible within today’s logic and monetary system.

    And whatever there is a demand for will be produced — as long as:

    • it stays within ecological limits

    • it does not come at the expense of other people

    • it does not damage future generations

    This is not utopian.

    It is simply mature.

    What demand actually means

    In today’s system, demand is distorted by:

    • unequal purchasing power

    • artificial scarcity

    • advertising pressure

    • survival anxiety

    A demand‑first future assumes something radically different:

    That basic needs are already met.

    When people are not forced to compete for survival, demand becomes clearer, calmer, and more truthful. People ask for what they actually need — not what they fear losing status without.

    So what is “need”?

    Need is not limited to bare survival.

    It includes basic needs — food, shelter, water, healthcare, self-realization, safety — and the things people genuinely want once those basics are secure.

    Need emerges wherever a conscious, informed desire exists.

    For example:

    If a group of people want Coca‑Cola, then there is a demand — and meeting that demand becomes a legitimate task.

    In a demand‑first system, the question is not whether something should exist, but how it can be produced responsibly:

    • within ecological limits

    • without exploiting people or ecosystems

    • without externalizing harm to others or the future

    If those conditions can be met, production makes sense.

    If they cannot, the demand itself becomes a conversation — not a market opportunity.

    This shifts production from manipulation to dialogue.

    Needs are no longer guessed at, manufactured, or monetized.

    They are expressed — and answered. People ask for what they actually need — not what they fear losing status without.

    Production as response, not manipulation

    In a demand‑and‑supply world:

    • Production responds to lived needs, not speculative markets

    • Supply chains become adaptive instead of extractive

    • Waste collapses because excess production disappears

    • Prices lose their coercive role and fade from relevance

    Production becomes a service to life — not a mechanism for profit extraction.

    Technology makes this possible

    For the first time in history, we can:

    • measure real demand in real time

    • coordinate production globally

    • model ecological impact before acting

    • distribute without intermediaries designed to skim value

    The barrier is no longer technological.

    It is only conceptual.

    From fear to trust

    Supply‑first systems are built on fear:

    What if there isn’t enough?

    What if someone else gets more?

    What if I lose?

    Demand‑first systems are built on trust:

    We produce because someone needs this.

    We stop when the need is met.

    We respect planetary boundaries.

    This is not about controlling people.

    It is about listening to them.

    The quiet shift already underway

    We already see early signals:

    • on‑demand manufacturing

    • local energy production

    • open‑source collaboration

    • cooperative housing

    • circular design

    These are not anomalies.

    They are previews.

    A world that finally makes sense

    A civilization is mature when it no longer needs scarcity to function.

    When demand guides supply — instead of supply manipulating demand — production aligns with reality rather than fighting it.

    This is not the end of provision.

    It is the end of distortion.

    And it may be one of the simplest ideas powerful enough to change everything.

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    You can explore this vision through story in Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity.

  • The Clean Slate

    The Clean Slate

    Yes, there is huge inequality in the world. And yes, many people therefore argue that we should tax the rich more heavily, believing that this would somehow even things out.

    The problem is that this treats inequality as a mistake of the system — when in fact it is a requirement.

    The monetary system itself needs differences to function. Money only has value because it is scarce, unevenly distributed, and hoardable. If everyone had enough, money would lose its value. So taxation doesn’t fix the problem — it merely tries to soften the sharpest edges while keeping the underlying rules intact.

    That’s why the same problems keep returning.

    The True Face of the system

    Look around.

    We see a world where a tiny number of people accumulate staggering wealth while billions struggle to meet basic needs. Not because there is a lack of resources, but because access is filtered through money.

    We see products deliberately designed to stop working long before their real lifespan is over — not due to technical necessity, but because continuous consumption is required to keep profits flowing. This requirement of the system is of course devastating to the whole planet, causing resource depletion, pollution and climate change.

    We see poverty described as something that is “systemically entrenched” — an almost accidental admission that the problem isn’t individual failure, but structural design.

    These are not isolated issues. They are different expressions of the same logic.

    The wasteful system

    When a system produces inequality, waste, and scarcity as normal outcomes, trying to fix it with the same rules is like rearranging furniture in a house that is on fire.

    Redistribution debates miss the deeper question:

    Why is access to life’s essentials mediated by money at all?

    As long as money remains the central organizing principle, someone must lose so that others can win. Someone must be excluded so that value can exist. Someone must go without so that hoarding makes sense.

    Starting from a clean slate

    Yes — proposing a world without money and ownership sounds drastic.

    But here’s the real question:

    Why do we keep assuming that a centuries‑old system designed for scarcity, competition, and limited information should govern a planet with global awareness, real‑time data, automation, and unprecedented technological capacity?

    Imagine this instead:

    Humanity as one family arriving on Earth together — like a modern Robinson family, but on a planetary scale.

    No inherited privileges.

    No historical debts.

    No artificial scarcity.

    Just one planet, shared by many species, mankind as one of them.

    With today’s technology, we could design a system that takes everything into account:

    • the limits of nature

    • the needs of ecosystems

    • the well‑being of every human being

    • long‑term planetary sustainability

    In such a system, ownership becomes unnecessary. Stewardship replaces possession. Access replaces accumulation.

    From spoiled brats to a global family

    Our current behavior often looks less like civilization and more like a family fighting over toys in a burning house.

    We fight over borders, resources, money, and status — while having more than enough knowledge and technology to ensure a dignified life for everyone.

    A clean slate changes the game entirely.

    No one owns the planet.

    No one owns life’s essentials.

    No one hoards while others starve.

    Not because of moral superiority — but because the system no longer rewards that behavior.

    The real question

    So the question isn’t whether a clean slate is too radical.

    The question is this:

    How long can we keep pretending that patching a broken system will somehow turn it into one that works for everyone?

    Maybe it’s time to stop fixing.

    And start designing. From a clean slate.

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    Do you want to experience how life in an optimized world can be? If so, explore the story and vision behind this in the novel Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity.

  • Maybe There Is Still Hope…?

    Maybe There Is Still Hope…?

    It’s hard to believe in human nature these days.

    Countries invade each other. Wars rage. Civilians suffer. Ecological warnings grow louder. Artificial intelligence accelerates faster than our ethics. Even the future itself feels fragile — as if it could tip in the wrong direction at any moment.

    More and more people quietly ask the same question:

    Will humanity even survive?

    And if we do — will it be worth surviving?

    In this climate, hope can feel naïve. Trust can feel irresponsible. Believing in a positive future can seem almost delusional — like wishful thinking in the face of overwhelming evidence.

    And yet.

    Maybe there is still hope anyway.

    Not the loud optimism that pretends everything will be fine. But a quieter, more grounded hope — one that exists despite fear, not because fear is absent.

    The Fear of the Future

    We are living inside a collective anxiety about what comes next.

    Climate collapse. Political extremism. Technological power without wisdom. Economic systems that demand endless growth on a finite planet. It’s no wonder so many people feel that humanity is on borrowed time.

    From this perspective, believing that we can survive — let alone create a better world — sounds naïve.

    But maybe that’s the wrong conclusion.

    Because fear has a way of shrinking our imagination. It convinces us that what we see now is all that’s possible. That conflict is inevitable. That cooperation is fragile. That humans, when pushed, will always choose destruction over care.

    History tells a more complicated story.

    Yes, we are capable of immense harm.

    But we are also capable of extraordinary adaptation — especially when old systems break down. Maybe that is even the core feature of human nature? Adaptation? Because, if it is something humanity has done over millennia it is this, adapt.

    Naivety Is Not Weakness — It Is Strength

    But today we’re taught that trusting others in dangerous times is foolish. That skepticism equals intelligence. That cynicism is realism.

    But cynicism is easy.

    Distrust is easy.

    Closing your heart when the future feels threatening is the most understandable reaction in the world.

    What’s hard — and therefore strong — is to stay open while fully aware of the risks.

    The person who dares to trust in dire times is not ignorant.

    They are courageous.

    That kind of naivety is not blindness. It’s a conscious choice to refuse fear as a governing principle. It’s choosing connection over armor. Imagination over resignation.

    Anyone can assume the worst.

    It takes strength to believe something better is possible — and to live as if that belief matters.

    Why Literature Still Matters

    Positive literature doesn’t stop wars.

    It doesn’t dismantle failing systems overnight.

    It doesn’t save the world by itself.

    But it does something quieter — and more essential.

    It keeps the inner flame alive.

    Stories, novels, and reflections remind us who we are beneath conditioning and trauma. They stretch our sense of what’s possible. They keep the future from collapsing into inevitability.

    A single book won’t change the world.

    But books change people.

    And people — slowly, unevenly, imperfectly — change the world.

    Even cheering each other up matters. It’s not trivial. It’s resistance against despair. It’s a refusal to let fear become the final authority.

    Imagining a World That Works

    This is where the novel, Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, begins.

    Not with the assumption that humanity is doomed — but with the question:

    What if we survive?

    And what if, after everything we’ve been through, we finally grow up as a species?

    The story follows a contemporary man who wakes up into a future where humanity has grown up and moved beyond money, war, and fear-driven systems — not because humans became perfect, but because they were forced to face the consequences of the old world and chose differently.

    It’s a work of speculative fiction — but also an act of trust.

    A trust that humans are capable of learning.

    A trust that cooperation can replace domination.

    A trust that naivety, in the deepest sense, might be our greatest strength.

    Keeping the Door Open

    Maybe hope doesn’t arrive as a solution.

    Maybe it arrives as a story that refuses to give up on us.

    Or a sentence that lands at the right moment.

    Or the quiet realization that believing in a positive future is not weakness — it’s an act of courage.

    If nothing else, literature keeps the door open.

    So that if humanity does make it through —

    the light is still on.

  • What System Comes After the Monetary System?

    What System Comes After the Monetary System?

    For centuries, the monetary system has been treated as inevitable.

    Not perfect, not fair, not even particularly rational — but unavoidable.

    Every serious discussion about climate change, inequality, war, sustainability, or wellbeing eventually reaches the same unspoken conclusion:

    We are sorry, but we have to continue with the system we have.

    The question that is almost never asked — or answered — is the most fundamental one:

    What system comes after the monetary system?

    Because, clearly, we need a change.

    But to answer that, we need to stop arguing inside the current framework and instead look at systems themselves: how they arise, how they function, and how they evolve.

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    Three systems, clearly distinguished

    Humanity currently operates at the intersection of three fundamentally different systems. Understanding their nature is the key to understanding what comes next.

    1. The Monetary system — an artificial system

    The monetary system is not natural.

    It is a symbolic coordination system invented by humans.

    Its defining characteristics are:

    • money as a proxy for value

    • prices as signals

    • growth as success

    • scarcity(with abundance for a few) as a requirement

    • competition as a driver

    It does not measure wellbeing, ecological health, or long-term balance.

    It measures monetary activity. 

    This is the one thing it does very well.

    That does not make it evil — but it does make it blind.

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    2. The Planetary system — a natural system

    The Planetary system is the opposite.

    It is Earth’s biophysical reality:

    • ecosystems

    • climate

    • soil

    • oceans

    • biodiversity

    • feedback loops

    It operates without money, ownership, prices, or growth imperatives.

    Its defining features are:

    • balance

    • regeneration

    • circular flows

    • natural limits

    • real, physical feedback

    The planetary system does not negotiate.

    It responds.

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    3. The Humanitary system — a natural system with humans consciously included

    The Humanitary system represents a qualitative shift.

    It is also a natural system, but one where humans no longer act as an external, extractive force. Instead, human activity becomes consciously integrated with planetary reality.

    In this system:

    • wellbeing replaces profit as the primary measure

    • contribution replaces competition

    • access and stewardship replaces ownership

    • regeneration replaces extraction

    This is not ideology.

    It is systems alignment.

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    The key shift: the ecosystem becomes the economic system

    Today, the word ecosystem almost exclusively refers to ecological systems.

    In the Humanitary system, the meaning expands:

    The ecosystem becomes the economic system.

    Not metaphorically.

    Literally.

    Human resource flows begin to behave like natural ecosystems:

    • resources circulate like nutrients

    • waste becomes input

    • diversity creates resilience

    • balance replaces growth

    • feedback is immediate and real

    The economy stops being an abstract overlay and starts behaving like a living system.

    Once this is seen, it becomes difficult to unsee.

    The next system will not be communism, socialism or capitalism. It won’t even be the monetary system.

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    The Natural Exchange System (NES)

    If the ecosystem is the economic system, how does exchange actually work?

    This is where the Natural Exchange System (NES) comes in.

    NES is neither a market nor a centrally planned economy.

    It is applied ecology.

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    Exchange without trade

    One of the deepest assumptions of the monetary system is that exchange requires trade — that value must be priced, negotiated, balanced, or repaid.

    Nature shows us otherwise.

    In a natural ecosystem:

    • nothing is traded

    • nothing is paid back

    • nothing is accounted

    • nothing is owed

    Yet everything that needs to happen, happens.

    Plants produce oxygen without expecting carbon dioxide in return. 

    Animals and humans already do the same only opposite. Breathing in oxygen and out CO2.

    Bees pollinate without invoices.

    Trees share nutrients through fungal networks without bookkeeping.

    Predators regulate populations without moral judgment.

    Exchange exists — but not as transaction.

    Not as trade.

    It exists as participation.

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    NES as human participation in a living system

    The Natural Exchange System follows the same principle.

    In NES:

    • humans contribute based on interest, ability, curiosity, and context

    • fulfillment comes from the activity itself, not from reward

    • resources flow according to real needs, not purchasing power

    Technology help where it is needed

    • coordination emerges from awareness, not accounting

    People do what they are naturally drawn to do —

    because doing it is meaningful, satisfying, or joyful.

    This is not hypothetical.

    It already happens wherever money is absent:

    • parenting

    • caregiving

    • art

    • open-source software

    • community help

    • volunteering

    • emergency response

    NES simply removes the artificial constraints that prevent this logic from scaling.

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    No accounting needed

    Accounting exists to manage scarcity, distrust, and misalignment.

    In a functioning ecosystem:

    • scarcity is physical, not artificial

    • trust is implicit in interdependence

    • alignment is enforced by feedback, not punishment

    In NES:

    • resource availability is sensed directly

    • needs are visible, not hidden behind prices

    • overuse is corrected by real-world signals

    • contribution is self-regulating, not coerced

    Just as no forest needs a ledger,

    a mature human ecosystem does not require accounts, balances, or reciprocal payment.

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    Motivation without reward

    A common concern is: “Why would anyone do anything?”

    Nature answers this clearly.

    Species act because:

    • it is their nature

    • it sustains the system they depend on

    • it feels right within their role

    Humans are no different — when freed from survival anxiety and artificial scarcity.

    In NES:

    • work is not forced

    • contribution is not moralized

    • rest is not punished

    • creativity is not secondary

    People choose what they contribute —

    and are fulfilled by the contribution itself, not by compensation.

    That fulfillment is the signal.

    The ecosystem responds accordingly.

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    Exchange as flow

    The core shift is simple:

    • Monetary system → exchange as transaction and trade

    • Natural Exchange System → exchange as flow

    Nothing is traded.

    Nothing is paid back.

    Everything moves.

    Resources circulate like nutrients.

    Skills circulate like energy.

    Care circulates like water.

    Once exchange is understood this way, the question is no longer

    “How do we replace money?”

    but rather

    “Why did we ever need it in the first place?”

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    A system of systems

    The Humanitary world is not a single mechanism.

    It is an interconnected system of systems, all behaving ecosystem-like:

    • Resource systems — food, energy, materials

    • Information systems — sensing, feedback, coordination

    • Social systems — care, creativity, contribution

    • Governance systems — councils, transparency, resonance

    Each system:

    • adapts locally

    • cooperates globally

    • responds to real-world signals

    No growth mandate.

    No artificial scarcity.

    No central authority.

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    Why the monetary system cannot evolve into this

    The monetary system cannot simply be “fixed” into an ecosystem because it violates ecosystem logic at its core:

    • it rewards accumulation

    • it requires scarcity

    • it externalizes damage

    • it measures symbols instead of reality

    In nature, any subsystem that behaves this way is eventually corrected.

    What we are witnessing today — ecological breakdown, social stress, political fragmentation — is not a failure of humanity.

    It is a system mismatch.

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    What comes after the monetary system

    The answer is not another ideology.

    It is not socialism, communism, or a greener version of capitalism.

    What comes after the monetary system is a living system — one that behaves like nature itself.

    A Humanitary system, where the ecosystem is the economic system, and exchange follows natural laws rather than artificial symbols.

    When that happens, humans stop being a disruptive force on Earth —

    and become a regenerative one.

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    If this resonates and you would like to read an inspirational story about a contemporary man who wakes up in a world like this, the novel Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity is for you.

  • What Shall People Do When They Have No Jobs?

    What Shall People Do When They Have No Jobs?

    That question is no longer theoretical.

    Artificial intelligence is accelerating toward a world where human labor is no longer required for production at scale. The real issue is not that jobs may disappear — it’s that our entire society still assumes people must have jobs to deserve life.

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    Replace the System, Not the Jobs

    Bernie Sanders calls for pause in AI development:

    When Bernie Sanders asks, “What are they gonna do when people have no jobs?”, he is asking the right question — inside the wrong frame.

    The problem is not that artificial intelligence may eliminate jobs.

    The problem is that our survival is still tied to jobs at all.

    Calling for a pause in AI development assumes that the system we have is fundamentally sound and merely needs time to adjust. 

    It isn’t. 

    AI is not breaking a healthy system — it is exposing a broken one.

    Jobs Were Never the Point

    Jobs are not a natural feature of human societies. They are a construct of the monetary system — a mechanism that ties access to food, shelter, healthcare, and dignity to wage labor.

    For most of human history, people:

    • gathered, built, farmed, cared, created

    • shared resources directly

    • contributed because it made sense, not because they were forced to make money to buy food. 

    The modern job exists primarily to distribute money, not to meet human or planetary needs. When machines become better at performing that distribution-linked labor, the absurdity becomes impossible to ignore.

    Pausing AI Misses the Moment

    Pausing AI development to “save jobs” is like pausing electricity to save candle makers.

    The real question is not:

    How do we preserve jobs?

    But:

    Why should anyone need a job to deserve life?

    AI does not remove meaning, purpose, or contribution from human life. It removes coercion. And that is what truly scares existing systems of power.

    Replace the System — Don’t Redesign It

    There is a crucial difference between redesigning and replacing.

    Redesigning implies:

    • the same assumptions

    • the same scarcity logic

    • the same survival pressure

    Replacing means admitting that the foundation itself is obsolete and crumbling.

    What needs replacing is not work, creativity, or effort — but the idea that humans must earn access to existence.

    • Replace jobs with self-chosen activity

    • Replace ownership with stewardship and money with direct access to resources

    • Replace obligation with intrinsic motivation

    • Replace fear with security

    When survival is guaranteed, contribution does not disappear. It emerges naturally.

    Beyond Contribution as Obligation

    A future beyond jobs does not mean a future without participation.

    It means a future without forced contribution.

    No metrics.

    No punishment.

    No survival conditions.

    People contribute because they want to — because curiosity, care, and creativity are native human traits when fear is removed.

    Trees don’t produce oxygen to earn sunlight. They grow — and oxygen happens as a result.

    The Real Choice

    AI presents humanity with a clear choice:

    • Use it to accelerate inequality inside a dying system

    • Or use it to help replace that system altogether

    Trying to save jobs is trying to save the wrong thing.

    The task now is not to slow down technology —

    It is to replace the system that no longer serves life.

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    What Shall People Do When They Have No Jobs?

    That question sits at the heart of Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity.

    Follow Benjamin Michaels, a man from our world who wakes up a century into the future — in a society that has moved beyond jobs, money, and enforced survival.

    There, he discovers what people actually do when:

    • survival is guaranteed

    • resources are optimized and shared

    • fear is no longer the organizing principle

    Waking Up is not a manifesto or a technical blueprint.

    It is a human story about letting go of a system and mindset that no longer works — and daring to imagine what replaces it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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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

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