Hello, all.
I come bearing ideas that I hope many will embrace in part or in toto to reform the global economy and the US political structure.
First, about me and names. I am a Native American of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, the last tribe to bear arms against the United States, and who suffered deportation (ethnic cleansing) from our homelands and have been scattered homeless because of it. We have no reservation, no home of our own. When I first encountered and joined here I chose the moniker Netdahe, an Apache word meaning something like "wild ones" or "untamed", applied to the warriors who refused to surrender, preferring to fight to the death rather than surrender their freedom. However, most of my thoughts have been refined under the screen name of apacheman, a more accessible and less threatening name and more familiar to many elsewhere, so that is what I shall call this diary.
I come from a different world in time, place, and culture: my worldview is far different from that of most, shaped by unique conditions and experiences unlikely to be repeated by anyone. Those differences enable me to think in ways that follow different paths from most of you, paths of thought that I will share, hoping you find some worth in them. Please be patient and take the time to absorb the textures and layers of what I will show you, I promise it will be worth the effort.
The point of this diary is to effect changes for the betterment of humanity, and true change is generally loathed by human beings, because it is scary and only semi-predictable. Gird your spirit and accept the scariness, and think hard about what I will show you; if you do, you will at least have a new viewpoint from which to derive the solutions to the enormous problems facing us over the next few years.
The problems are many, and linked in ways both obvious and subtle. The solutions I offer are linked solutions that should be adopted together to achieve the greatest results. The problems I see and choose to focus on at the moment and solutions I offer are:
Problem: Huge disparities in wealth distribution resulting in huger disparities in opportunity distribution.
Solution: Cap wealth at one billion dollars globally per human being. There is no natural or legal "right to unlimited wealth".
Problem: Corruption of the political systems by super-wealthy individuals and corporations.
Solution: Establish ubiquitous local tax payment centers hardwired into a secure, non-wireless system that allows the taxpayers to directly allocate their taxes according to their perceived priorities among those departments, agencies, programs, and other entities passed by the Congress, i.e., Congress proposes, taxpayers dispose.
Problem: An out-of-touch Congress.
Solution: Expand it. Anyone who "represents" more than 100,000 people represents no one but themselves. Expand the House into four chambers, roughly: a Business Chamber (current House), a Science and Technology Chamber, A Health and Environment Chamber, and an Education, Arts, and Culture Chamber. Using the tax-paying system alluded to above, allow constituents to override their Representative's and Senator's votes.
Problem: Continual problems with a lack of ethics, empathy, and truthfulness in all aspects of government and high finance.
Solution: Mandatory screening for sociopathy for politicians, police, and corporate officers using a combination of the Hare test, fMRIs, and other brainscan techniques to detect empathic disabilities and to preclude those physically incapable of feeling empathy or caring about the consequences of their actions to handle or influence the controls of society.
In future diary entries I will explore both the problems and solutions in detail, and show that all of them are linked on multiple levels.
I hope that I don't offend too many, and that some of my solutions are accepted as both viable and worthwhile.