Action Program for the EU for 5 years
Introduction
This Program consists of 20 points/thesis and is addressed primarily to active citizens and politicians who want to make the world more harmonious. Thanks to the realization of the theses listed below, the EU economy will become significantly more efficient, and the energy and material intensity of GDP will be reduced. At the same time, social standards will rise and the EU will become a pronounced World Center of Positive Influence.
At the same time, the benefits of progress will be aimed at making people happy and prosperous, and vice versa, to exclude the scenario of technology development in the genre of cyberpunk, i.e. with simultaneous decline of human culture. The first priority here is to comply with the criteria of sustainable development of society. In particular, the elimination of negative human impact on the environment and the achievement of a sustainable demographic situation. This means sustainability for centuries and even millennia to come. To get acquainted with the fundamental principles of society development, it is recommended to study the whole Program.
It is obvious that in the era of post-industrial society, on the threshold of the next industrial revolution, technically literate people, visionaries, who have a deep enough understanding of modern technological aspects, who clearly see new opportunities to optimize processes and the long overdue need to modernize society and the economy, should enter politics. Frankly speaking, today the EU looks like it has lost its long-term orientations.
If we plunge back in time and compare this Program with Plato's "State" (360 BC) [ 1 ], who believed that the state should be governed by philosophers who are able to contemplate ideas that are eternally identical to themselves, then I note: a modern politician should be able not only to "contemplate ideas", but also to successfully implement this "contemplation" in reality. For example, for example, the genius of our time Steve Jobs perfectly realized the ideas of "universal simplicity" and "universal beauty" into reality through the creation of revolutionary gadgets, which gained recognition all over the world.
I won't deny that Steve Jobs' personality inspires me too. But not only him, here's a list of the greatest contemporaries I'd like to recognize: Steve Jobs, Ilon Musk, Jimmy Wales, Sam Altman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pavel Durov, Iar Elterrus. And a few historical figures: Mikhailo Lomonosov, Carl Gustav Jung, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Einstein, Plato.
Be free, dream boldly!
Notes:
Many references to internet sources are cited throughout the text of this Program. Due to the fact that web pages may be unavailable at some points in time and their content may change over time, for each source a graphic copy (PNG replica) created at the time of writing the text of the Program is available.
Of the many sources cited, references are to Wikipedia, among others. There is an opinion that "Wikipedia references are not trusted in the scientific community". Blind adherence to such a generalization is in itself a sign of an unscientific approach. Obviously, we should distinguish at least two types of Wikipedia articles: the first is historical and political topics, which can indeed be distorted due to the subjectivity of the presenter or other external circumstances (and not only in Wikipedia, but also in any other sources) [ 2 ]. The second type is articles of a scientific nature, describing objective data and facts, statistics, scientific research, mere disclosure of concepts, and so on. Articles of this kind on Wikipedia are in the vast majority of cases objective and of high quality. They are as good as, and often better than, similar articles in the world's leading encyclopedias. The sources in this Program belong to the latter type of information.
The original of this Program is written in Russian, which is the native language of the author. Translation into foreign languages was made with the help of DeepL Translate [ 3 ]. For Youtube videos in a foreign language it is necessary to enable automatic generation and automatic translation of subtitles.
The authors of the articles referred to by the author of this Program are not indicated due to the low importance of this kind of information.
Materials of this Program are regularly supplemented and corrected.
Copying of materials of this site is allowed only with a link to this site.
At the same time, the benefits of progress will be aimed at making people happy and prosperous, and vice versa, to exclude the scenario of technology development in the genre of cyberpunk, i.e. with simultaneous decline of human culture. The first priority here is to comply with the criteria of sustainable development of society. In particular, the elimination of negative human impact on the environment and the achievement of a sustainable demographic situation. This means sustainability for centuries and even millennia to come. To get acquainted with the fundamental principles of society development, it is recommended to study the whole Program.
It is obvious that in the era of post-industrial society, on the threshold of the next industrial revolution, technically literate people, visionaries, who have a deep enough understanding of modern technological aspects, who clearly see new opportunities to optimize processes and the long overdue need to modernize society and the economy, should enter politics. Frankly speaking, today the EU looks like it has lost its long-term orientations.
If we plunge back in time and compare this Program with Plato's "State" (360 BC) [ 1 ], who believed that the state should be governed by philosophers who are able to contemplate ideas that are eternally identical to themselves, then I note: a modern politician should be able not only to "contemplate ideas", but also to successfully implement this "contemplation" in reality. For example, for example, the genius of our time Steve Jobs perfectly realized the ideas of "universal simplicity" and "universal beauty" into reality through the creation of revolutionary gadgets, which gained recognition all over the world.
I won't deny that Steve Jobs' personality inspires me too. But not only him, here's a list of the greatest contemporaries I'd like to recognize: Steve Jobs, Ilon Musk, Jimmy Wales, Sam Altman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pavel Durov, Iar Elterrus. And a few historical figures: Mikhailo Lomonosov, Carl Gustav Jung, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Einstein, Plato.
Be free, dream boldly!
Notes:
Many references to internet sources are cited throughout the text of this Program. Due to the fact that web pages may be unavailable at some points in time and their content may change over time, for each source a graphic copy (PNG replica) created at the time of writing the text of the Program is available.
Of the many sources cited, references are to Wikipedia, among others. There is an opinion that "Wikipedia references are not trusted in the scientific community". Blind adherence to such a generalization is in itself a sign of an unscientific approach. Obviously, we should distinguish at least two types of Wikipedia articles: the first is historical and political topics, which can indeed be distorted due to the subjectivity of the presenter or other external circumstances (and not only in Wikipedia, but also in any other sources) [ 2 ]. The second type is articles of a scientific nature, describing objective data and facts, statistics, scientific research, mere disclosure of concepts, and so on. Articles of this kind on Wikipedia are in the vast majority of cases objective and of high quality. They are as good as, and often better than, similar articles in the world's leading encyclopedias. The sources in this Program belong to the latter type of information.
The original of this Program is written in Russian, which is the native language of the author. Translation into foreign languages was made with the help of DeepL Translate [ 3 ]. For Youtube videos in a foreign language it is necessary to enable automatic generation and automatic translation of subtitles.
The authors of the articles referred to by the author of this Program are not indicated due to the low importance of this kind of information.
Materials of this Program are regularly supplemented and corrected.
Copying of materials of this site is allowed only with a link to this site.
Program in theses
Solving the demographic problem in the EU countries
The goal is to create demographically sustainable European countries.
Solution: 700€ per month for the third and fourth child in the family.
Such a measure will encourage families to decide on the third and fourth child, which will make the demographic situation in the EU long-term manageable and stable. It is important to note that a stable demography is also a guarantee of a stable pension system based on the continuity of generations, as in Germany, for example.
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Nowadays such socially important work as bringing up children in families is not considered a real job, but is done "for nothing", almost for free. But in fact, it is the most important job on which the future of the European Union depends. The essence of the reform is that spouses bringing up more than two children should be considered as people with additional employment and receive a salary from the state. In monetary terms, this can be realized as an additional payment of 700€ net per month for the third and fourth child until the age of majority. At the same time from these sums are calculated and deductions are made to the pension fund, health insurance, etc. It is also assumed that child benefits for each child will be maintained in full.
It means that in the European Union only EU citizens and labor migrants, i.e. people who do not live on benefits, will be able to count on the above-mentioned assistance from the state.
With the above reform, parents (at least one of the parents, usually a woman) will have the opportunity to fully devote themselves to raising their children by quitting their jobs. In such cases, as the children grow older and benefits cease, such people need to be reinstated to work. This can be accomplished either through direct reinstatement or through state-funded reinstatement/refresher courses.
On the basis of marriage and divorce statistics [ 4 ] it is necessary to forecast the possible future development of this sphere. It is necessary to deal with the problems of climate in families in order to reduce the number of divorces. Also, the author of this Program believes that it is necessary to exclude indoctrination of children at an early age with doubts about their gender roles, as it happens now in some European schools. In any case, in order to achieve a sustainable demographic situation in the EU, it is necessary to be prepared for the transformation of society.
A bit of theory:
A clear picture of fertility, both in the world as a whole and for individual countries, can be obtained by looking at the world population counter [ 5 ]. One can see how rapidly the population counter is increasing for the whole planet, but at the same time the population is decreasing in many EU countries. Childbearing should keep the EU population constant or lead to a manageable increase. The table [ 6 ], which the author of this Program compiled on the basis of open sources, reflects the demographic situation in the EU countries at the beginning of 2020. It can be seen that for about half of the EU countries the mortality rate exceeds the birth rate.
The reasons for the decline in fertility in developed countries are well described in the article "Demographic transition" [ 7 ]. The main three of them will be listed below:
- transformation from agrarian to urbanized societies: in agrarian societies, children were seen as additional laborers and a guarantee for the continuation of the family. With the development of urbanization and industry, this economic sense is lost, resulting in a decline in fertility;
- changes in education and upbringing of children: in developed countries, children have to study for long periods of time to obtain qualifications, which makes them a burden on parents in terms of time and finances. This leads to a desire to have fewer children;
- increased education and independence of women: educated women with career ambitions often choose to have fewer children or give up motherhood altogether;
This is a natural objective process, and in the long run, if nothing is done, all countries will have to face a decline in fertility and population. The problem is that most couples who have one or two children do not usually think about the fact that it is precisely because of this number of children in their families that the population is rapidly decreasing. The number of people who do not have children for principled reasons, the so-called "childfree", is constantly increasing. Here are two informative articles on this topic [ 8, 9 ]. It should be understood: today more and more people realize that in modern realities having children is a very long-term loss of freedom, nerves and money.
The financial side of the question on the example of Germany:
In Germany, the birth rate for 2022 amounted to 739,000 new people [ 10 ], while the death rate was recorded at 1.06 million people [ 11 ]. At the same time, the number of families with three or more children for Germany is 1.524.000 [ 12 ]. After the realization of this thesis of stimulating the birth rate, the number of families with many children may double to 3 million. Unfortunately, the author could not find statistics separately for families with three and four children. But let's simplify the task and imagine that the average payment for a large family will be 1000€ per month. From here it is easy to calculate the required budget as 3.000.000 x 1000€ x 12. The total amount needed is an additional 36 billion €. This is an impressive amount, but everything is relative. For comparison, the spending on refugees for the same Germany in 2023 will be exactly the same [ 13 ] with a budget of more than 400 billion € [ 51 ]. Wouldn't it be better to reallocate funds from refugee spending to doubling the country's own birth rate? But on this topic we will discuss in the corresponding thesis of this Program devoted to migration policy.
accomplished:
Migration policy and LGBT policy
- migration policy: introduction of a five-year moratorium on the admission of refugees in favor of increasing the country's own birth rate;
- lGBT policy: respecting gays and lesbians by birth, preventing society from nurturing "artificial" LGBT people, refraining from experimenting on children;
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Migration policy
In view of the exceptional situation with the reception of refugees in the EU countries and Germany in particular, the author sees the need for a five-year moratorium and suspension of the Geneva Convention.
At the moment, due to the excessive and uncontrolled influx of refugees in Germany and many other EU countries, there is a threat to national security. This is evidenced by overloaded state institutions, social tension in society, the potential threat of radical parties coming to power, a surge in crime, and the emergence of "parallel societies" with values different from those of EU countries.
In the future, after the expiration of the moratorium on the admission of refugees, it is necessary to introduce a strict and controlled migration policy focused on maintaining economic growth and social stability.
It is obvious that labor migration of specialists, i.e. motivated and educated people, contributes to economic growth. While refugees contribute to social instability and the economic effect of their integration is difficult to predict and may be generally negative.
The author believes that instead of seeking to invite as many refugees as possible to their homes, i.e. to the EU, it would be much more effective to seek to improve living standards and security "on the ground". This is a prerequisite for a long-term stable world. More details about it are described in the thesis of this Program "Assistance in the establishment of countries with the lowest GDP per capita".
It is also clear that if wars break out, the flow of refugees is inevitable. War causes incredible suffering to people, depriving them of shelter, livelihoods and often life itself. Iraq, Libya, Syria? Who starts these wars? The answer lies on the surface - most of the wars of the last decades were unleashed by the US. When the US decides to start another war, they are supported by some EU countries.
The author emphasizes that less violence within authoritarian regimes is much preferable to real bloody wars with the intervention of third countries and the death of huge numbers of people. The EU's involvement in the war in Syria to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad ultimately resulted in a million dead. Do you think the Assad regime could have killed that many people on its own? The practice of engaging in wars initiated by some EU allies to overthrow governments must be stopped. Moreover, such scenarios should be prevented.
Refugees fleeing war should be singled out as a separate group. It is necessary to strive to create conditions for accommodation of such refugees in neighboring countries, creating acceptable housing conditions, thus excluding their mass movement to the EU countries. Such a measure will contribute to social stability within the EU countries.
In 2023, for example, in Germany, an impressive amount of 36 billion € was planned to be spent on refugees [ 13 ]. These expenditures cover various aspects including housing, integration programs, health, education and social benefits.
The author believes that it is much more sensible to spend the above funds on stimulating a doubling of the country's own birth rate in order to achieve an excess of deaths and to stabilize the demography of Germany and the EU as a whole in the long term.
LGBT policy
Given the historical context, namely that gays and lesbians have been and are still being persecuted and treated unfairly by society in the past and in some countries today, and given the equality of all living beings before the fact of the divine origin of consciousness, efforts must be made to achieve full equality in rights and relationships for gays and lesbians all over the world.
At the same time, it is necessary to prevent society from fostering "artificial" LGBTs. To do this, propaganda must be eliminated. In essence, LGBT is a minority with no advantages or value to be adopted by the rest of society.
Child experimentation is unacceptable. Legalizing the possibility of transferring a child into a same-sex family is an experiment. And an experiment with an obvious range of consequences. After several decades, adults raised in LGBT families who have only now realized the influence of such an environment on the formation of their personality will inevitably sue the states and leaders who legalized such experiments. In order to prevent the raising of "artificial" LGBT people and to eliminate potential risks in the development of the individual, this practice should be abandoned.
accomplished:
Help in becoming the countries with the lowest GDP per capita
What kind of assistance does the author have in mind? It is the transfer of basic technologies necessary for accelerated development. Such technologies include, first of all, the Internet, the education system, recycling technologies, technologies for building comfortable and efficient housing and infrastructure, organization and support of food production that meets the requirements of sustainable ecosystem development.
This thesis is closely related to the thesis on migration policy. The author believes that instead of seeking to invite as many refugees as possible to their homes, i.e. to the European Union, it will be much more effective to strive to improve their living standards and security "on the ground". This is a prerequisite for a long-term stable world.
Technology transfer refers exclusively to the training of local populations in the above technologies. Acceptance of this kind of assistance from countries will be purely voluntary.
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Educated people can ensure the long-term sustainability of a country and its economy. In some African countries, the cost of education is about one euro per person per month. This amount stems from the often low social standards of living on the continent. Schools may lack electricity, water supply, sanitary facilities, libraries, laboratories, computer labs, etc. [ 14 ]. The author even met such a comparison: if one smoker in Europe gives up this habit, the money not spent on smoking can be used to organize school classes for a whole class of children in the countries with the lowest GDP for a month.
Unlike the US and UK, education in Europe (including higher education) is predominantly free. While the system of European education, which has been practiced for centuries, is the best on the planet. In this case, it is maximally effective to use the opportunities of online education, including the broadcasting of lectures from the best European universities.
An equally important aspect is waste recycling. The fact is that there is a huge problem of ocean pollution. It is connected with the export of products and goods in plastic packaging from European countries to countries without an established recycling system.
Training the local population in efficient high-rise building and infrastructure technologies will help to improve living standards in the shortest possible time.
Supporting the production of food products that meet the requirements of sustainable ecosystem development. This thesis is described in more detail in the paragraph of this Program "Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Pollution".
Wikipedia has a list of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita [ 15 ]. It is possible to move directly down this list in reverse order, allocating efforts in inverse proportion to the current state of affairs in these countries. What is important here is the openness of the projects.
The author certainly sees many potential difficulties in this direction. All of them will be related to the language barrier, the gap in the level of education and culture of the local population, the difference in the average IQ across countries, as well as the increased crime index. Nevertheless, as it has been said above, realization of this thesis is a necessary condition for long-term stable peace on the whole planet. And the language barrier will be overcome by simultaneous realization of the corresponding thesis of this program.
accomplished:
Introduction of the unified system of electronic polls
The system of electronic polls is potentially much more effective than usual "paper" voting or referendum. Of course, it implies an open-source application for a smartphone. The main advantages will be centralized provision of related information (for example, about presidential candidates) and low cost of conducting votes, referendums and population polls (hereinafter simply polls).
This technology absolutely must be implemented as soon as possible. Even if we have to reinvent the Internet to ensure the security of electronic voting. The author is convinced that fast and qualitative interaction of governments with their citizens is a necessary condition for sustainable development of society.
The system of electronic voting is an element of "direct democracy" [ 16 ] [ 16 ] in which there is no need for protest demonstrations. For example, Switzerland has been living in direct democracy for about 150 years [ 17 ].
One of the first surveys of EU citizens that could be conducted through an electronic system could be a survey on migration policy, specially prepared by the author [ 18 ].
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Several levels of audience coverage are implied: the whole world (e.g. a survey on the introduction of a single universal language for all people on Earth as a second language), a grouping of countries (e.g. the EU or NATO), a country, a region of a country, a city, and any other group of people, such as employees of a company or a class in a school. The app should be truly universal yet easy to use. There will be limitations, such as the frequency of surveys for each level should not exceed one survey per day.
The standard will be to assess the quality of each survey. For this purpose, two additional questions will be automatically entered at the end of the survey. Based on the answers to them, a survey rating of survey initiators will be formed. These additional questions are:
- rate on a 10-point scale the overall balance and relevance of the questions in this list. Possible answer: 7 points;
- rate on a 10-point scale the possible potential manipulation of opinion in this list of questions. A score of 0 means no manipulation and the topic is fully covered; a score of 10 means there is no manipulation and the questions should be worded completely differently. Possible answer: 3 points;
The style of the questions themselves, aimed at developing statistical thinking, should also be a standard. Answers to questions should mostly involve numbers. You may also add your own comments. You can indicate relevance for each of the specific questions. For example, you could simply write: the question is inappropriate, I will not answer it. For each question, a possible answer is given that serves as a basis for forming your own answer. Here are a couple of examples:
- please rate, on a 10-point scale, the importance of long-term forecasts in politics. In this case, we are talking about a 30-year forecast. Is it important for you to understand the state of society in this perspective? Possible answer: 8 points, it is definitely important;
- estimate, both as a percentage and in absolute numbers, the upper maximum limit of the budget that Germany can spend on the maintenance and integration of refugees, including deportation, border protection and prison costs. Possible answer: 10% or about 40 billion € (real averaged figures for 2023, 2024);
For reference, the 2017 Bundestag elections cost taxpayers €92 million [ 19 ]. Added to this is the substantial additional complexity for the citizens themselves during the elections. Obviously, with such a spending spree, even a few polls a year will cause difficulties. At the same time, it is probably possible to "order" an appropriate smartphone application on the market for a tenth of that amount.
Access to the unified service of polls will be provided to everyone, including mass media and public organizations. For each level of audience coverage there will be a different level of access required.
Technical part
For personal identification and activation of the application, it is possible to use a citizen's passport.
Traffic in the system should be encrypted by a method that excludes the possibility of obtaining encryption keys by a "man in the middle". To implement this project, it is necessary to use the experience of the developers of the messenger Telegram, which for the first time in the industry used innovative encryption methods that make it fundamentally impossible to intercept and decrypt messages [ 20 ].
It is necessary to provide for the possibility of reconciliation of the submitted votes through independent channels. This will exclude the possibility of fraud if the voting device is hacked and a software or hardware implant is installed in it [ 21, 22 ]. Moreover, the corresponding equipment (for independent verification of the votes cast) should be purchased from an independent trusted manufacturer, since today implants can be embedded in processors at the stage of their design. Reconciliation points could be installed in places where "paper" voting is done today. Note that reconciliation is not a mandatory action. But even those few reconciliations, which will be made by active citizens, will be enough to detect possible fraud.
The program code of the voting system should be open. This makes it possible to identify all vulnerabilities in time with the help of independent security experts (including for a fee).
In Germany there is an interesting example of "Wahl-O-Mat" service [ 23 ]. The essence of the service is that after receiving answers to a specially prepared list of questions, the system will calculate your political orientation as a percentage of each party or candidate.
During elections and referendums, the current results of vote counting should be demonstrated online. This will increase confidence in the voting procedure itself and presumably increase voter turnout.
accomplished:
Reforms in labor legislation
- flexible working hours as an alternative to an unconditional basic income;
- fair working hours: breaks are mandatory and included in the working day;
- a four-day working week at the will of citizens;
Citizens will have the opportunity to earn good money with enough free time to realize their ideas and creative projects or just to have a good rest.
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Flexible choice of working hours as an alternative to an unconditional basic income
The idea of unconditional basic income (UBI) is widely discussed. In the author's opinion, it has a significant flaw. Namely the loss of people's incentive to work. The author is confident in the potential mass character of such a phenomenon in case of launching programs on OBD. This will be followed by such negative phenomena as homelessness, depression, loss of meaning of life and others.
An alternative to DBS, but without the disadvantage described above, would be a flexible choice of working hours. In the labor contract it can be set as 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 hours. The minimum duration will be 4 hours per day. That said, people working 4, 5 or even 6 hours a day could theoretically share the same physical workplace with an employer.
As a person who moved to Germany from Russia in 2009, the author realizes that the standard of living in Germany with a reduction in the number of working hours and a proportional reduction in wages will be significantly higher than in Russia, and even more so relative to citizens from countries with the lowest GDP per capita.
For this reason, the author believes that EU citizens should be given the opportunity to choose the length of their working hours and, accordingly, a sufficient income. In this case, those citizens who spend less money, realizing the meaninglessness of consumer lifestyle, will be free to conclude an employment contract with the employer to reduce the length of the working day.
In other words, the same basic income is already achievable for many citizens today with four, five or six hours of work per day. Obviously, over time, with the consistent growth of the economy, the standard of living at four hours of work per day will equal the current standard of living at eight hours. This is one of the goals of this Program.
Here is a historical reference that gives an idea of the benefits of shortening the working day (work week) [ 24 ]: "... An unexpected step was taken by Henry Ford, founder and owner of Ford Motor Company. on January 5, 1914, he changed the labor agreement with the staff of his company, reducing the workday from 9 to 8 hours and, which was generally unthinkable by the standards of any American industrialist - simultaneously raised wages from $3 to $5 per shift. Automakers raised Ford to laughter, but time proved him right - experienced mechanics from all over the country went to work for Ford Motor Company, allowing him to dramatically increase productivity and double profits in just the next two years ... ".
Fair working hours: pauses are a must
What is meant by The author suggests that the eight-hour workday should be made a truly eight-hour workday.
The fact is that at the moment, the duration of the working day specified in the labor contract, in most cases does not correspond to the necessary time of the employee's stay at work. This is due to the pauses. For example, for an 8-hour day, the actual time an employee is at work, as a rule, should be at least eight and a half hours.
Now, however, pauses will be legislated to be included in the length of the working day. In the case of an eight-hour day, this will be one long lunch break of half an hour in the middle of the day, plus two shorter breaks of 15 minutes every two hours of work. For other lengths of working day, the pauses will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
A four-day work week is optional for citizens
In many cases, citizens will find it convenient to work four days a week and have three days off accordingly. Three days off is like a little vacation. Every week. That would be fine.
accomplished:
Reforms in the field of finance
- eliminating cash;
- eliminating opaque financial flows;
- creation of an independent EU payment system;
- doing away with annual tax returns;
- introduction of a single tax rate;
- abandoning the practice of negative interest on citizens' deposits;
- restriction on transfers of funds in support of political parties and election candidates;
- the author's opinion on global digital currency and bitcoin;
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Moving away from cash
It is obvious that increased transparency of cash flows will make financial fraud, money laundering and tax evasion more difficult, which is undoubtedly a good thing. Moving away from cash will help in the fight against terrorism and organized crime, as well as improve labor efficiency and reduce environmental footprints.
Some people have a fear that if we go completely cashless, the state will be able to restrict the freedom of citizens through arbitrary blocking of their accounts. Laws would need to be enacted to eliminate such behavior on the part of the state. After all, digital money is the inevitable future. Let's take a bold step into it.
There will need to be special safeguarding of capital for rich people. When cash is converted into digital form, there should not be any investigation into the origin of the funds. There should also be no deductions, "legalization taxes", etc. For such people, everything will start from scratch, with the transfer of all capital into the visible realm. It should be clarified that we are not talking about protecting criminals, we are talking about the fact that because of the current possibility of hiding illegal capital through cash and offshore zones that allow anonymity, the regulator may not see this part of the money supply in its field of vision. In order to create incentives for the voluntary transition of capital into the fully transparent world of electronic money, citizens must be given immunity from government harassment. If, after the transition to electronic money, someone decides to violate the law, then, of course, there will be no immunity.
All the technical means to switch to electronic money already exist - electronic cards and electronic payment systems (Apple Pay, etc.). All that needs to be done is to stop printing cash.
Eliminate non-transparent financial flows
It is necessary to refuse to work with firms that are registered in offshore zones and other places on the planet, where there is an opportunity for committing financial crimes and money laundering. I note that some actions in this direction have already been taken [ 25 ].
Creation of an independent EU payment system
It is necessary to create its own fully electronic independent payment system of the EU. For the first time German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas spoke about this initiative [ 26 ]. It is absolutely necessary to bring this initiative to realization.
Abolition of the annual tax return
The next logical step after the transition to electronic payments will be to do away with the annual tax return. This should be done at least for people who are employed. The need to file annual tax returns has created a gigantic bureaucratic monster. As it stands, the tax return in Germany is a very inconvenient way of organizing subsidies to the public through tax deduction reimbursements. A large part of these are travel expenses for commuting to and from work. Therefore, doing away with the annual tax return would be a natural step after the introduction of free public transportation (see related thesis) and the transition to electronic money. Financial tax authorities should automatically receive the information necessary for calculations.
I repeat: compulsory declarations are a huge bureaucratic apparatus forcing citizens to beg the state for small compensations - it would be much more correct to raise the general standard of living of citizens and stop the practice of declarations.
Introduce a single tax rate
Or abolishing the diversity of tax classes. Germany has six different tax classes. After more than ten years of living in this country, the author of this program came to the conclusion that such a variety of tax classes leads to unnecessary inconveniences and difficulties for citizens. I propose to introduce a single tax rate or a single tax class.
Refusal from the practice of negative interest on deposits of citizens
... no comment ...
Restriction on transfers of funds in support of political parties and election candidates
The aim is to reduce their dependence on big donors and reduce the influence of money on politics. Each citizen or organization will be able to transfer as political support one-time or on a regular (monthly) basis no more than 50€. It is also supposed to ensure transparency of sources of funding for election campaigns in order to prevent corruption of the political system and the influence of oligarchs.
Author's opinion on the global digital currency and bitcoin
Bitcoin, announced in The Economist in September 1988 as a world currency, has a number of significant drawbacks. Let's enumerate them in a list:
- a gigantic ecological footprint and meaningless computing. Billions of processors perform calculations for the sake of calculations, consuming huge amounts of electricity and water - in two words: total inefficiency;
- the need to pay a "tip" for every transfer, making payments for inexpensive goods meaningless;
- low transaction throughput;
- the need to store a large amount of transaction history data (and not only yours, but all participants of the payment system) on each device;
- opacity for financial institutions in democratic countries. This fact stimulates criminal elements or countries with totalitarian regimes to use cryptocurrencies in their activities;
- undeveloped mechanism for returning funds in case of fraud;
But in general, the very idea of a world currency seems attractive to the author. It potentially stimulates international tourism and business.
accomplished:
Reforms in transportation
- transition to free electric public transportation;
- additional development of infrastructure for electric bicycle transportation;
- widespread installation of autonomous electronic signage at every public transportation stop;
- abolition of the division into first and second classes;
- incentivizing the development of autopilot systems;
- additional measures to improve the quality of passenger transportation;
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Transition to free electric public transportation
Purpose and benefits: convenient and efficient movement of people, reduction of emissions into the atmosphere, unloading the road network, solving the problem of traffic congestion, reducing the number of car accidents, freeing up space occupied by parking lots.
I mean not only free intra-city public transportation, but also suburban and regional trains.
Endless planting of cars and, accordingly, parking lots and garages for them is an incredible redundancy in terms of material intensity and consumption of resources, including living space. It should be understood that the transportation system, or the movement of people and goods in general, ensures the vitality of the economy. Therefore, the less resistance (tolls) and clots (traffic jams) in this system, the more active the economy develops. It is necessary to clearly understand where development should come at the expense of business and competition, and where it is necessary to show state initiative. Additional burden on the budget in the implementation of this thesis will result in increased revenues from other sectors of the economy. It is difficult to predict exactly how much the budget revenues will increase, but the author believes that it will be quite comparable to the additional costs of free public transportation.
It should also be taken into account that "paid" public transportation involves inevitable additional costs for the salaries of controllers and infrastructure, which includes ticket vending machines, including those selling tickets for cash, and which requires regular maintenance. Obviously, this is not an efficient use of funds.
Imagine that to get to where you want to go, all you have to do is point your finger at the right point on your map service on your smartphone, plot a route and then, just go there. No more figuring out which app to use and how to buy a ticket, no more wasting a minute of your time at all, just get on public transportation and move to your destination. This is the real experience of traveling in Luxembourg. This European country has already introduced free public transportation. At the same time streetcars and buses are clean, not overcrowded, pleasing to the eye with beautiful graphics.
Here it is necessary to support the arguments with figures. Thus, from [ 51 ] we learn that the expenditures of the German Ministry of Transport in 2019 will amount to 29 billion €, revenues - 9 billion €. That is, in order to cover all the costs of free public transportation, we need to allocate an additional 9 billion € from the budget. With a total budget of 356 billion €, I don't see this as a big problem. But, as said above, the benefits of this step are obvious.
It is worth noting that in Germany (I often compare it to Germany because I have been living here for over 10 years) there has been talk of free public transportation since 2018 [ 27 ]. There are both critics and supporters of this idea. On the part of critics such arguments as the financial side of the issue and possible overcrowding and littering of public transport are given. I am sure that if public transportation is switched to a free basis, all the problems that have arisen can be solved at a proper level. Moreover, in most developed countries, keeping cleanliness and order is an established norm of life.
When implementing this thesis, the first priority will be to restore the accuracy of public transport (particularly relevant for Germany). This indicator should be brought to not less than 95% of accurately arriving transport. At the same time it is necessary to bring electrification in this sphere up to 100%.
It is clear that car production will decline in the car-producing countries, particularly in Germany. We will have to go through this in order to end up with a renewed society that does not suffer from an overabundance of private motor vehicles. A greener, more efficient, happier society. We must realize that excessive production of environmentally harmful, metal-intensive products is counterproductive.
It should not be forgotten that any private car, including electric, after the end of its life cycle will be about two tons of garbage. And the number of car tires, which in the process of their wear and tear also pollute the environment, is simply astronomical.
Additional infrastructure development for electric bicycle transportation
The modern electric bicycle, having made a "quiet" revolution and changing the view of many citizens on travel, active recreation and even on transportation of goods [ 28 ], is able to overcome up to 150 km per day. Therefore, it is necessary to further develop both roads for bicycle transportation and a network of autonomous rapid recharging points based solely on solar panels. The calculation [ 29 ] shows that the energy consumption per 1 km per person for an electric bicycle is 10 times less than for an electric car. This mode of transportation does not waste energy, almost everything goes into motion.
The widespread installation of autonomous electronic signage at every public transportation stop
In Germany, as in many other EU countries, convenient digital signage displaying real-time traffic can be found at public transportation stops. At the moment, not all stops are equipped with such devices due to installation and connection difficulties. It is proposed to make these electronic boards fully autonomous through the use of ultra-low consumption screens and solar panels installed vertically, so that they are not covered with snow in winter. Each such signage will be easily installed at any public transportation stop without the need for physical connection to the power grid and data transmission channel and will immediately display the required information.
Abolition of the division into first and second classes
In trains and airplanes there is still a division into first and second class. This is a relic of the past: aristocrats and the poor, slaves and their masters, remember? Class division in transportation corresponded to class differences in society. It's high time we abolished this outrage [ 30 ]. The point is that trains and airplanes should be equally comfortable for everyone. If this is not already the case somewhere, it should be made so. Especially since rich people always have the option of traveling by private transportation. The point is also that today, for example, on regional trains in Germany, the first-class compartments are often worse than those in second class. At the same time, first class is almost always empty. Wouldn't it be better to use this space to increase the overall capacity of trains?
Here it is appropriate to recall Ludwig Erhard, the architect of the German economic miracle [ 31 ]. For him, the market, market economy was not an end in itself, but a means to achieve social goals, in particular, to overcome class differences in society and maximize the development of the country's creative forces (from the preface to the book "Welfare for All" [ 32 ]).
Stimulating the development of autopilot systems
Stimulating the development of electric car transportation, free public transportation and autopilot systems should be one of the government's priorities. Autopilot and free public transportation will lead to a significant reduction of private cars on the roads, which will relieve both car traffic and parking spaces. In turn, the reduction in car production will have a positive impact on the environment. It goes without saying that the main achievement from the introduction of autopilot will be the reduction of deaths on the roads.
Additional measures to improve the quality of passenger transportation
There is also an idea to revise the principle of garbage collection in trains: now in many German trains small garbage cans are fixed on the side panels opposite the tables and seats. Undoubtedly, this is a certain convenience for passengers, but on the other hand, it is extremely unhygienic: firstly, such containers lack a special waterproof bag, which leads to the spilling of liquids, for example from discarded coffee cups, directly inside the container. Secondly, and this is terrible in general, when the janitor walks around all the cars and, leaning over the passengers, with hands in the dirtiest gloves rakes out the garbage from these containers. Solution: leave one centralized garbage collection point per car.
It is necessary to install more convenient screens in trains to display information about stops, time, speed of movement. In addition, where appropriate, a visual map of the journey should be shown.
It is necessary to abandon the practice of displaying advertisements on trains through information screens.
It is also desirable to abandon the practice of coupling different trains, going a certain part of the route in a coupled state and then separated into two parts, each of which then goes in different directions. This is misleading for passengers, especially foreigners, and it is impossible to get used to. Here I will also include the simultaneous stay of trains on one platform - very inconvenient for ordinary citizens. In general, transportation is one of those areas where people who can make complex systems simple for the end user are in great demand. After all, the goal is the same - people should not have difficulties when they want to move from "point A to point B".
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Energy reforms
- what should the energy of the future look like?
- difficulties of transition to hydrogen;
- possible energy solutions;
- the potential of deep drilling geothermal energy;
- thermal accumulators for the whole heating season;
- the era of thermonuclear energy;
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What should the energy of the future be like?
To answer this question, let us start from the present situation. First of all, it should be noted that about 70% of the energy consumed by mankind is thermal energy. The remaining part of the world energy balance is electric energy. As it happens, the issue of transferring only sources of electric energy to renewable sources is on the agenda in most EU countries. Today we have a rapid development of both renewable environmentally friendly energy sources and thermal power plants that consume coal and gas and pollute the atmosphere of the planet. There is somehow very little information about the conversion of heating and hot water supply in cities from gas to something else.
Nuclear power stands apart - it produces no carbon dioxide emissions, but it produces radioactive waste that remains dangerous for thousands of years. Is it even possible to do without nuclear power and hydrocarbons? Is it possible to build an energy system based only on renewable clean energy sources?
Solar power in Europe is practically not produced in winter, on cloudy days and at night. Wind farms are also characterized by unstable power generation, depending on the availability of wind. In winter, they may freeze and not participate in power generation, although these are rare cases. Hydropower is stable, but small in capacity.
It is obviously necessary to somehow store the energy generated in summer to smooth out peaks and use in winter, including for heating. Germany has come to the conclusion that hydrogen can serve as a means of energy storage. Indeed, the environmentally friendly hydrogen produced by hydrolyzing water in summer could be pumped into underground storage. Then, in winter, the hydrogen can be converted back into either heat through combustion or electricity in fuel cells. In both cases, we get pure water as the end product of the reaction. What's left for us to do is to do the math. How much hydrogen should be stored in underground hydrogen storages to be enough for heating and electricity needs in winter?
Difficulties of switching to hydrogen
The author of this program has made a calculation for Germany [ 33 ] and made the following conclusions: to store hydrogen necessary for heating and supplying electricity to the country in winter time, we will need at least 13.5 times more underground storage facilities than already exist in Germany. Storing energy in electric batteries to supply the entire country during the winter is impossible because of the prohibitive cost ($325 trillion). Thus, there are the difficulties of hydrogen energy and energy from clean energy sources such as wind and solar alone. Although the use of hydrogen is not excluded in some separate spheres of life, for example, for long-range passenger airplanes and space rockets. It is known that in the future there will be another type of clean energy, it will be provided by fusion reactors. But until that moment, which can be postponed, in all likelihood, for 50 and 100 years, we will have to look for other solutions.
Below we will list possible solutions in the energy sector:
1. One option is to temporarily engage nuclear power. The author considers Germany's decision to completely abandon nuclear power by 2022 to be premature in terms of environmental impact. The right thing to do would be to first stop burning coal and gas in the boilers of thermal power plants, and then gradually shut down nuclear power plants, shifting the balance towards environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. It is clear that it is possible to meet the thermonuclear energy of the future using hydrocarbon fuels, but this is fraught with consequences for the environment. In general, nuclear power involves the intractable problem of radioactive waste and the risk of contamination of the area in the event of an accident. This is a huge disadvantage. Although just at the current moment it seems that the problem of radioactive waste can be solved with the help of fast neutron reactors capable of "after-burning" the spent fuel of nuclear power plants. But at the moment these technologies are in their infancy.
It should be noted here that there is such a little-known indicator as population mortality per each kilowatt of electricity generated. This indicator is calculated by analyzing premature mortality from diseases mainly related to the human respiratory system and from the number of natural disasters caused by climate change. Thus, for NPPs this indicator is incomparably lower than for coal and gas power plants, which emit a huge amount of harmful substances into the atmosphere, which, in turn, leads to the aggravation of diseases of both people and animals, as well as to climate change on the planet. The mortality rate of the population depending on the type of power plant is given in a report by the European Science Center [ 34 ].
2. Another interesting solution to the energy dilemma is the supply of solar electricity from the Sahara desert: in the desert the sun is active even in winter, this opens up the possibility for the EU to heat with electricity purchased from the desert regions of the planet, abandoning heating with gas and coal. This would be a very significant contribution to reducing emissions into the atmosphere. I am talking about the further development of the Desertec project [ 35 ], which started in 2009 in the EU but is currently experiencing difficulties. In terms of the risks of locating energy outside the EU and also because of the political instability in the African region, the Desertec project is unfortunately a very risky endeavor. And it is not a sustainable development for generations to come. The author of this Program, for the sake of interest, calculated the parameters of a power plant equivalent in capacity to the world energy consumption and consisting only of solar panels located in the Sahara Desert [ 36 ]. The reader may also be interested in the calculation of a 1 TW and 15 TW power transmission line [ 37 ] to deliver electricity from the Sahara to the European continent.
The potential of deep drilling geothermal energy.
3. The third and, in the author's opinion, the best solution for the present is the widespread use of geothermal energy. We are talking mainly about deep (up to 10 km) drilling of the Earth. Wikipedia [ 38 ] gives the following figure: the energy stored underground at a depth of up to 3000 meters is enough to supply the entire human race for 100,000 years! These are incredible figures and it means that only a thousandth of this energy can supply mankind for 100 years. So far, dozens of deep wells have been drilled in Germany, with a maximum depth of up to 7 kilometers. The temperature of the underground rocks at the bottom of these wells ranges from 40°C to 374°C, and the available thermal power ranges from hundreds of kilowatts to tens of megawatts per well. Thus, one deep well can already today provide hot water and heating in the winter period to a whole neighborhood in the city, i.e. thousands of apartments. And it all works without any heat pumps - hot water from underground can be directly supplied to residential buildings. And geothermal energy, unlike the energy of such sources as the sun and wind, is quite stable, i.e. does not depend on the time of day and season. In geographical terms, geothermal energy is available almost anywhere on our planet.
It should be noted here that deep drilling wells are capable of generating steam directly for steam turbines of electric generators. But the efficiency of such conversion is extremely low (about 25%), and in the warm season a lot of heat has to be discharged into the atmosphere. Therefore, it makes sense to generate electricity using steam from deep wells only in the cold season, when the waste heat can be used for heating buildings. In addition, this would compensate for the reduced electricity generation from solar panels.
Geothermal energy has two main disadvantages: firstly, the high cost of drilling - currently millions of euros per well. This disadvantage is easily overcome with the proper involvement of government incentives for the industry. The second disadvantage of geothermal energy is more serious - it is rare cases of provoking underground tremors, small earthquakes. As far as it is known, this is caused by the very technology of heat extraction from the depths of the earth. At the moment this technology implies an open water circuit, i.e. pumping water into a well under high pressure and getting (squeezing out) hot water from another well. The author proposes to minimize the impact on the underground soil layers and implement a fully closed water circuit. This implies the creation of a new technology. And it is worth it.
At the moment (end of 2023) we can witness the creation of a breakthrough technology of deep horizontal drilling capable of providing mankind with both thermal and electrical energy for centuries to come. The project is a 3.5 MW geothermal power plant with horizontal drilling from the startup Fervo Energy from the USA [ 39 ]. The power plant powers one of Google's data centers. Technically, it is a vertical drilling to a depth of just over two kilometers and then horizontal drilling to a distance of one kilometer. Fervo has previously said that if this project is successful, it intends to build an order of magnitude larger geothermal power plant in Utah.
Thermal accumulators designed for the entire heating season
4. Here we are talking about the creation of an energy complex designed to supply an entire city with heat (heating + hot water supply) and partially with electricity during the cold season. At the same time, hot water supply is provided all year round. The complex includes a thermal energy accumulator, a solar panel power plant and a steam turbine with an electric generator.
The thermal energy accumulator is charged continuously from its own solar panel power station located both on and outside the flat roof of the accumulator. It is a thermally insulated container filled with purified sand. The sand is a heat storing substance. A steam turbine with an electric generator is designed to partially supply the city with electricity during the cold season. The implication is that the thermal accumulator stores energy during the warm season and releases it to the city's central heating system during the heating season.
The initial inspiration for the author was the Finnish company Polar Night Energy. It is a startup that has developed an innovative way of storing thermal energy using sand [ 40 ]. Polar Night Energy's thermal battery uses sand as the material for storing energy. The sand is heated to high temperatures (approximately 500-600 °C) using electricity that can come from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind farms. Sand has a high heat capacity and is able to store heat for long periods of time with minimal loss. When energy is needed, the heat is extracted from the sand and used to heat buildings, produce hot water or for other industrial needs. Polar Night Energy has realized the first commercial installation of such a thermal accumulator in Finland. This installation is connected to the local district heating system and provides heat to a part of the city.
The author has calculated the energy complex, which is essentially a Polar Night Energy installation scaled up to the size of an entire city. The calculation is performed in Excel and is available for review on Google Sheets [ 41 ]. It is possible to select from a list of cities, sand type, insulation and other parameters. The recalculation is done automatically after selecting the parameters.
The final figures for the German city of Konstanz with a population of 85.000 inhabitants are as follows:
- thermal accumulator: total length of the side of the square base of the thermal accumulator 447m, height 10m, percentage of the area occupied by the thermal accumulator in relation to the total area of the city 0.4%, total cost 222 million €;
- solar power plant: required length of the side of the square base of the solar plant 1712m, percentage of the area occupied in relation to the total area of the city 5,3%, total cost 303 million €;
- central heating system: total cost €123 million;
The total full cost of this project will be about 650 million €. The author has calculated that phasing out gas and other "dirty" fuels and switching to fully renewable energy sources for the city of Konstanz will pay for itself in about 15 years. The fact is that 650 million € is exactly the amount that, based on current energy prices, the citizens will pay for energy from the thermal accumulator for 15 years. And beyond that, pure profit for the city.
The era of thermonuclear energy: transition to efficient heating with electricity.
When the time comes and inexpensive and powerful fusion reactors are used in our everyday life, then, according to the author, it will be possible to make the transition to efficient heating with electricity. Using electric underfloor heating may be a better solution in terms of material, ease of installation and the space required for additional equipment. Yes, it requires more electricity, but the ease of installation with cheap electricity is worth it. Another great idea, again for the future, to use taps with electric heating for hot water supply: no need to take care of hot water supply, almost instant heating. Low material and space requirements compared to the use of boilers, boilers or heat exchangers. By the way, Amazon already has quite a rich selection of such devices [ 42 ]. Thus, only electricity and cold water would need to be connected to each house. This solution seems quite elegant.
Conclusions: geothermal energy should be developed rapidly. Energy from deep (up to 10 km) wells can fully cover the needs of the European Union in hot water supply and heating, as well as partially compensate for the reduction of electricity generation by solar panels in winter. At the same time, it is necessary to build thermal accumulators that store solar thermal energy in summer and give it to the city's central heating system in winter. If the choice is to use nuclear power plants or coal and gas power plants, it will be much more reasonable to choose in favor of nuclear power plants because of their almost complete neutrality in terms of emissions of substances that lead to climate change. In the future, with the advent of fusion reactors and cheap electricity, it will be possible to switch to heating and hot water supply through direct conversion of electricity into heat.
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Reforms in construction
- construction of high-rise comfortable buildings;
- designing cities from start to finish: the Civilization project;
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Construction of high-rise comfortable buildings
Skyscrapers today are the shortest and most efficient way to provide people with comfortable and inexpensive housing. The innovations that will make the proposed high-rise buildings the most outstanding high-rise buildings in the world will be listed below:
- the first innovation is complete self-supply of electricity, hot water and heating. Excess electricity will be used to charge electric vehicles. This innovation makes our building truly a building of the future: heating, water heating and electricity will be generated by the earth's heat using deep horizontal drilling technology without the use of heat pumps;
- the second innovation is the construction technology: our skyscraper will be assembled from various pre-prepared blocks like a Lego set. This will significantly increase the speed of construction. By the way, the construction of the whole building should last no more than a year. At the same time, its service life should be at least one hundred years. After that it will be relatively easy to completely dismantle the building and erect a new one in its place;
- the third innovation is the relatively low cost of construction: our high-rise building will cost in the range of 100 million €, which will revolutionize the mass construction of affordable housing;
- the fourth innovation is a canteen located directly in the building with a cheap food offer. This solution will reduce electricity consumption by reducing individual cooking in the apartment. In addition, a supermarket, kindergarten, elementary school, gym and office space are planned to be located directly in the building;
TheThe brief technical description may look as follows: the building has a storey of 60 and a base of 45 m x 45 m, which corresponds to a free arrangement of 16 apartments of 90m2 per floor. The first 10 floors are 4 m high (stores, canteen, kindergarten, elementary school, offices, gymnasium), the remaining 50 floors are 3 m high, making the total height of the building 190 m. With its storey height, the building will be relatively low. The number of residents will be about 2500 people. It also implies a three-level underground parking lot for cars and one underground floor for bicycle parking. Moreover, with the transition to free public transportation and the arrival of the era of autopilot cabs, the need for underground floors will decrease.
It should be said at once that the excuses practiced nowadays in the EU for the construction of high-rise buildings, such as the impossibility of exceeding a certain height of existing buildings, look old-fashioned and ridiculous. The need to build a skyscraper is dictated by the high demand for housing on the one hand and a vision of the future on the other. The proposed skyscraper will be an example of efficient farming due to its innovative innovations.
What needs to be done? First of all, it is necessary to introduce legislative incentives for skyscraper construction. In growing cities and even in small towns, it is worth concentrating exclusively on high-rise buildings. It should be emphasized that the author is by no means suggesting that all people should be moved into skyscrapers. To live or not to live in such buildings is a purely voluntary decision of each citizen. But, in view of the prevalence of low-rise buildings and the almost complete lack of choice today, I propose to abandon the construction of low-rise buildings in the short term and concentrate on the construction of high-rise buildings and the improvement of related technologies. After all, it is clear that many people will like such a house. And this is the efficient use of space and resources, and low material and energy intensity compared to an equivalent number of disparate low-rise buildings.
Numerous intermediaries in the process of finding and renting housing should be eliminated. A centralized web-based apartment search service should replace all unnecessary layers. This will ensure convenient apartment search and regulated rates. At the same time, each rental unit should be accompanied by 3D models of its interior, as well as 3D exteriors of the building itself and the surrounding area.
Designing cities from start to finish: the Civilization project
It should be noted that some aspects of the city structure can be solved optimally only if you design a whole city from scratch. These aspects mainly include the low cost of housing, which is achieved through the efficiency of construction technologies. And also, for example, a high-class system of separation, collection and utilization of household waste based on pneumatic garbage chutes [ 43 ]. So, having a revolutionary technology of high-speed construction of high-rise buildings, described above, it seems logical to design a whole big city on its basis. The project "Civilization" from the author of this Program [ 44 ] is designed to make this dream a reality.
Thus, if we imagine a city consisting mostly of skyscrapers, we can talk about a very large area of parks, green spaces and reserves located between high-rise buildings. It should be borne in mind that the need to move between high-rise buildings in the city will partially disappear, because in the skyscrapers will function and firms that provide jobs, and stores that provide food and other goods, as well as some types of entertainment and even schools and branches of universities.
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Education reforms
Unlike the US and UK, education in Europe (including higher education) is predominantly free. While the European education system, which has been practiced for centuries, is the best on the planet. Nevertheless, the author can suggest some improvements.
- countering propaganda: informing the population about the methods and dangers of propaganda;
- teaching concision of thoughts as a key to the development of intelligence;
- cognitive distortions of thought - need to be studied at the stage of primary education;
- study of the universal principles of simplicity and beauty;
- strengthening the focus of education on the development of intuition, taking into account the principles of Richard Fuller;
- mass online education;
The results of human education and intellectual work can be fixed in the next generations due to the mechanisms of epigenetics [ 45 ] and possibly other, not yet discovered, mechanisms of transformation of hereditary information inherent in nature. Thus there will be accelerated human development at the level of heredity.
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Countering propaganda: informing the population about the methods and dangers of propaganda
The author emphasizes the following signs of propaganda:
- it is a mandatory regular coordination of the media infoprovodstvo with the dictatorial regime;
- it is the financing of propaganda media activities from state funds;
- it is blatant lies mixed with remnants of truth;
- inflating insignificant news stories into significant ones and, on the contrary, "masking" undesirable facts;
- media coverage of issues exclusively or predominantly from one side;
In fact, in terms of the development of humans as a species, what propaganda does to them is a real phenomenon. At this stage of human development, it is enough to bombard them with a powerful stream of pre-coordinated and specially shaped information through the media, and they will have thoughts in a strictly limited mental corridor. In other words, the absolute majority of people are not able to counteract propaganda, it is like a corrosive poisonous suspension that gets into their heads. And vice versa, a rare person is immune to propaganda, able to regulate and analyze infopoints independently.
Thus, with the help of propaganda it is easy to make a person, for example, a carrier of fascist ideology and he will not even realize it. The dots over "and" will be set later in the historical context, as it was in Nazi Germany. And now, for example, Russians support the massacre led by Putin and talk about the greatness of Russia. At the same time, the people of Russia are so poor that for a third of a deputy's salary they are ready to go to kill the inhabitants of a neighboring country and be killed themselves.
This means that the autocratic leader of the country, who imprisons his citizens in the infopole of propaganda, is a criminal. After all, in this case, people's right to form an objective point of view, to think freely, to receive information from independent journalism is taken away from them. In fact, this is a mass experiment on people, which is a crime against humanity.
It is suggested here that a course on the methods and dangers of propaganda should be introduced in high schools. The aim of the course is to develop immunity to propaganda, the ability to independently regulate and analyze infostreams. The author is sure that it will be very useful for people to partially borrow the methods of training of special services agents in this direction.
Training in conciseness of statement of thoughts as a guarantee of intelligence development
Conciseness is the ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely without losing their depth and significance. Developing this skill plays an important role in a person's intellectual growth for several reasons:
- deepening comprehension: to state a thought succinctly, one must fully understand the essence of the topic under discussion. This requires analysis, synthesis, and critical thinking of information. Thus, the pursuit of brevity stimulates a deep understanding of the material;
- effective communication: in today's world, information overload has become commonplace. Communicating ideas clearly and concisely allows you to get your message across faster and less likely to be misunderstood;
- developing critical thinking: brevity requires selecting the most important aspects of a topic and eliminating secondary details. This process promotes critical thinking by allowing you to focus on key elements and make connections between them;
- improving memory and concentration: reducing information to its essence makes it easier to remember and improves concentration;
- respect for the other person: being concise demonstrates respect for other people's time and attention. This promotes more productive communication and strengthens social ties;
Cognitive distortions of thinking - a need for study at the primary education stage
It is obvious that human beings as a species are imperfect. This is evidenced, among other things, by the extensive list of cognitive distortions of human thinking [ 46 ]. Emphasizing the study of the weaknesses of human intelligence will allow them to be addressed over time.
Exploring the universal principles of simplicity and beauty
Several times in his life, the author has come across devices with terribly illogical user interfaces. Working in his specialty the author had an opportunity to get acquainted with many types of devices, including several types of spectroanalyzers. So, the external control interface of one of them (I forgot the manufacturer, but it doesn't matter) was so illogical that my colleague and I had to search for the function we needed in the manual for about 15 minutes. When we found it, we wondered for a long time why this function was attached to these buttons and not to others. After all, it seems completely illogical.
On the other hand, a similar device from Hewlett-Packard had a completely intuitive interface. The manual for such a device could not be issued at all. It is obvious that the ability to create simple, intuitive interfaces increases the productivity of end users.
It is clear that this applies not only to measuring devices, but also to any device or program with which people interact. The principle of interface simplicity and intuitiveness should be applied in all areas to facilitate the use of technology and improve user efficiency.
Strengthening the focus of education on the development of intuition, taking into account the principles of Richard Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller [ 47 ] was an American architect, inventor, philosopher and futurist. He is known for his innovative ideas in design and education. Fuller developed unique educational principles to foster creative thinking and solve global problems of mankind. Below are the main ones of these principles. It is worth noting that much of this is already embedded in the European education system.
- learning through experience: Fuller believed that the best way to understand the world is to interact with it directly. Hands-on experience and experimentation allowed students to internalize knowledge more deeply;
- systems thinking: he promoted the idea of exploring the interrelationships between different disciplines. This helps to see the complete picture and understand how changes in one area can affect others;
- anticipative education: Fuller emphasized the importance of anticipating future needs and problems. Education should prepare students to meet challenges that have not yet arisen;
- synergy: he emphasized that working together and sharing ideas leads to results greater than the sum of individual contributions;
- global consciousness: Fuller believed that education should cultivate an awareness of global issues, such as environmental and social issues, and encourage responsibility for the planet;
- innovation and creativity: he encouraged going beyond traditional approaches and encouraged innovative thinking to solve complex problems;
- sustainability: Fuller emphasized the need to teach sustainability, resource management and waste minimization;
- continuous learning: he believed in the importance of continuous development and self-education throughout life;
- empathy and social responsibility: Education should foster empathy and a desire to improve the lives of others;
- technology as a tool: Fuller saw technology not as an end but as a means to improve lives and solve global problems;
These principles aim to create an educational system that not only imparts knowledge but also develops critical thinking, creativity, and responsibility to society and the planet. Fuller believed that through such education, humanity could meet the challenges of the future and create a sustainable world for all.
Mass online education
The fact is that the ability to transmit information over the internet allows people's education to be scaled without the cost of over-expanding the faculty. This is very efficient. Therefore, it is necessary to develop mass online education.
The Coursera project [ 48 ] can be considered as an example. As of February 2017, Coursera had 24 million registered users and more than 2000 courses and 160 specializations from 149 educational institutions. There are similar projects in Germany too. We need to actively develop this direction.
Any employer should be able to get a qualified specialist. For this purpose, the requirements for a job posted on the labor exchange should specify what online courses an applicant for this position should take and what his minimum score on the exam can be. People should be able to retrain and get the job/position they want at any point in their lives.
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National security reforms
- emphasis on defensive and surveillance forces, cyber security;
- elimination of the EU's lagging behind in some technological spheres;
- development of commercial space: private missions to the Moon and Mars;
- building high-speed satellite internet;
- it is necessary to create its own operating system;
- it is necessary to create its own quality search service (competitor of Google) based on artificial intelligence;
- development of artificial intelligence systems and efficient supercomputers;
- media reform;
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Some reforms from the list do not require additional explanations. I don't think it is necessary to explain that lagging behind in technological areas is a threat to national security for the EU.
Development of commercial space: private missions to the Moon and Mars
Instead of mindless stamping of private cars, the industry should reorient itself towards building spacecraft, rocket engines and related technologies. The space industry should be profitable and generate revenue for the budget. Ilon Musk's achievements clearly prove that even one person can create innovative rockets, spaceships, rocket engines, which are many times and even dozens of times cheaper than the existing analogs made at the expense of taxpayers. But it is also important to understand that behind Ilon Musk is a whole state, which has developed a long-term program of support and development of private space. We cannot lag behind here. It is desirable for the European Union to catch up and overtake NASA and Ilon Musk! We do not need an arms race, we need a space race!
I note that the first steps in this direction have already been taken: the European Space Agency (ESA) is launching its own commercial space program, under which companies will be given the opportunity to make paid flights into orbit [ 49 ]. This is certainly welcome. It is necessary to support and develop this direction in every possible way. After all, in the coming decades, mankind will enter the era of private cosmonautics. This industry will eventually create jobs and bring significant revenues to the budget.
For organization of communication between planets (Earth - Mars) or planets and their satellites (Earth - Moon) very promising looks the use of the effect of entangled photons [ 50 ]. It becomes possible to organize audio or video communication without time delays even at such large distances.
Creation of own operating system in the EU
Architecturally such operating systems as Windows, Linux, Android are not secure. They require the presence of antiviruses. This is due to the almost complete access of each application to the file system. The focus should be on iOS, the mobile system for iPhones, invented by a team of developers led by Steve Jobs. The basic principle that provides unrivaled security is the isolation of applications in so-called "sandboxes". I'm sure for many people even now it will be a revelation that there are no antivirus programs for iOS. They are not just not needed there and besides, they would not be able to run on this OS.
Media reform
It should be noted that, in general, the standards of European journalism are quite high. But still the author was often convinced of the one-sidedness of informing the media within the framework of following trends. What needs to be corrected here:
- The media should go exclusively electronic in order to use resources efficiently and become more environmentally friendly;
- introduce a rating system for assessing media activities. In this case, each article or report should provide for the possibility of quality and objectivity assessment by citizens. Based on these assessments, the rating of the given media outlet will be calculated. This rating must be published in a prominent place;
- the transition to quality meaningful statistical data. The statistics necessary for the disclosure of the topics of articles and reports should be presented in a simple and at the same time informative way. Demonstration of surveys of three random passers-by chosen by the media editorial board should be a thing of the past;
- sources of funding, political preferences of media owners, and indirect political influence should be fully transparent to the reader. Each media outlet should have an appropriate standardized information page;
- an independent commission should assess the line between free speech and a slide into propaganda. The components of propaganda are described by the author in the paragraph on education reforms;
The financial side of reforms
The financial side of the issue let us take the example of Germany, whose budget for 2019 is 356 billion € [ 51 ]: defense spending in 2019 in Germany will be 43.2 billion €. This is 5 billion.€ more than in 2018 [ 52 ]. The author is not an expert in the subtleties of the budget, but believes that 10-15-20 billion $ from the military budget line can be used not for the creation of lethal machines, but for the above-mentioned purposes.
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Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution
- reduction of emissions in the energy sector;
- switching to packaging made of degradable plastic;
- informing people about the huge ecological footprint of animal agriculture;
- supporting the production of food products that meet the requirements of a sustainable ecosystem;
- avoiding the production and import of products related to the killing of animals;
- a single European Internet resource on recycling;
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Reducing emissions in the energy sector
The website ourworldindata.org provides a diagram of the distribution of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by technology sector [ 53 ]. It can be seen that the energy sector accounts for almost three quarters of the emissions contributing to global climate change. Measures to reduce and eliminate these emissions are well described in the theses "Energy Reforms" and "Transport Reforms" of this Program. Here I will only summarize the conclusions of the respective theses:
It is necessary to develop geothermal energy rapidly. Energy from deep (up to 3 km) wells can fully cover the EU needs in hot water supply and heating, as well as partially compensate for the reduction of electricity generation by solar panels in winter. At the same time, it is necessary to build thermal accumulators that store solar thermal energy in summer and give it to the city's central heating system in winter. If the choice is to use nuclear power plants or coal and gas power plants, it will be much more reasonable to choose in favor of nuclear power plants because of their almost complete neutrality in terms of emissions of substances that lead to climate change. In the future, with the emergence of fusion reactors and cheap electricity, it will be possible to switch to heating and hot water supply through direct conversion of electricity into heat.
Stimulating the development of electric road transport, free public transport and autopilot systems should be one of the government's priorities. Autopilot and free public transportation will lead to a significant reduction of personal vehicles on the roads, which will have a positive impact on the environment.
Switching to degradable plastic
The development of plastic packaging and containers that fully decompose within 5-10 years under natural conditions is a top priority. No less resources should be devoted to this area than to the development of batteries for electric transportation or to the development of artificial intelligence technologies. After all, the problem of "plastic traffic" to developing countries and the lack of proper waste treatment there contribute to total and irreversible pollution of both soils and oceans. News about this kind of environmental pollution and achievements in the direction of eliminating this problem should not disappear from the information field until the complete transition to a new type of plastic packaging.
Informing people about the huge ecological footprint of livestock production
Estimates of the contribution of global livestock production to climate change vary somewhat. The article [ 54 ] provides different values of such estimates with an explanation of the reasons for the discrepancy. In 2013, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Division estimated that livestock production was responsible for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Although the analysis was based on data from 2004 and 2005, it remains the most widely cited estimate of livestock production's global carbon footprint. This is the value from which the author of this Program will draw.
Specifically, the following quote is attributed to James Cameron (creator of such remarkable films as Titanic, Terminator and Avatar): "...annual greenhouse gas emissions from livestock farms account for about 14.5% of the total greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by human activity. That's more than the entire transportation sector on the planet produces (13.5%) ... We can make big changes immediately by simply empowering people to change their lifestyles. It doesn't require huge investments. It doesn't require new innovative projects, new engines or new energy sources ... More than 70% of the crops grown in the U.S. are given to animal feed. 70% of available water is used to grow crops, most of which goes to animals, not people. It takes 13 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat ... not to mention the horrific cruelty of the livestock industry, which takes about 100 billion innocent lives every year."
The author of this program recorded a YouTube video [ 55 ] where he tried to explain all the important aspects of veganism. To date, numerous studies have already been completed (some of them, by the way, lasted for decades), which prove the existence of the possibility to give up products associated with animal husbandry, and this, of course, without harm to health. Scientists already know exactly what elements at the micro level (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, trace elements) and in what quantities the body needs. And what food sources you get these components from, animal or vegetable, does not play a role, but determines your dietary culture. The one element that has not yet been discovered in plants, but is essential for humans, is vitamin B12. Revolutionary vegan products that harmonize all the essential plant elements have already begun to appear, but more on that below.
Wikipedia contains ample information on this subject [ 56, 57 ]. In general, it is important to note that it is in our century that there is a historical opportunity for everyone to switch to vegan food culture. Even half a century ago (not to mention earlier times), switching to veganism would have been associated with health risks due to lack of scientific knowledge.
After all, let's explain to people protesting against climate change [ 58 ] that it is their eating habits, as well as those of their parents, that are responsible for a significant proportion of harmful emissions into the atmosphere. It is necessary to bring this information to the attention of all EU citizens, because not all of them know about it (!). Currently, children associate environmental protection with green spaces, but not with the way of eating and avoiding animal husbandry. This needs to be corrected. People's attitude of treating other lives as a price per kilogram needs to be corrected.
It may be effective to include livestock farming in the EU emissions trading system [ 59 ].
Summarizing the above, it can be seen that people adopting a vegan lifestyle will be beneficial:
- for the environment (potential to reduce 14.5% of total greenhouse gases);
- for the efficiency of the economy: reducing energy consumption for the production of agricultural materials and fodder, avoiding the expansion of pastures for grazing animals and arable land for growing fodder crops, reducing water consumption;
- for conscience, because the realization that it is no longer necessary to kill other living beings to sustain your existence clears the conscience and warms the soul;
- for world peace, because if each person realizes that it is not good to harm other living beings, there will be no one and no one to fight with. Let us remember here that one of the most important discoveries of mankind in its history was Charles Darwin's discovery of the fact that humans once, a long time ago, descended from monkeys, i.e. we are obviously animals ourselves. Only we are unspeakably lucky, we are animals with a more developed ability to reflect and communicate. That is why we have more freedom of choice - let's choose just "Peace in the World" (!), let's choose a vegan way of life, let's take this responsibility, and let it be not a burden but a joy for us;
- here, I am sure, many will say: I am ready to give up animal food, even if it is not good for my personal health, but fortunately, vegan lifestyle with the right approach is also good for your personal health (!) - you just need to choose such a diet of plant products that its composition at the micro level (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, trace elements, vitamins, fiber) has not changed compared to your current diet and, of course, do not forget about the additional intake of vitamin B12;
Supporting food production that meets the requirements of sustainable ecosystem development
It is necessary to take measures to develop and disseminate food products that meet the requirements of sustainable ecosystem development. We are talking about innovative products that have only recently appeared on the market, just a few years ago. These are powdered mixtures or drinks containing all the necessary components for human activity, and exclusively based on plant components: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, microelements, vitamins and necessary types of ballast substances. The fact is that every country or union of countries has its own Ministry of Health or an analogue of this organization, which exactly knows and recommends to each person depending on the age group a strictly defined amount of calories and microelements. But only recently people came up with the ingenious idea to mix the original natural, exclusively plant components so as to get the necessary ratio of calories and micronutrients. The first such revolutionary product called Soylent was developed in the US in 2013 [ 60 ] and was initially non-vegan. Soylent's analog in the EU is Mana [ 61 ]. These kinds of products have several advantages: the first is the enormous saving of cooking time. If Mana is consumed while studying in any educational institution, or at work, the need to organize canteens will simply be eliminated. It also makes sense to take Manu on various hikes and trips. Secondly, the fact that Mana is made solely on the basis of plant products leads to a reduction in methane and other greenhouse gas emissions associated with animal husbandry, while reducing water and electricity consumption, as well as deforestation for pasture. Mana complies with EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) [ 62 ] and adheres to its recommendations for the necessary micronutrient composition in the diet for each individual.
Now let's digress and imagine ourselves on a huge space trans-galactic ship (!). Or, let's take a closer future, imagine people building a settlement city on Mars (!). Can you imagine raising cows and pigs there? (!) at the same time plant-based food based on fruits from your own "vegetable garden" can be easily imagined. That's the whole point - the Multiplanetary Species of Man will be exclusively Vegan.
Refusal to manufacture and import products related to the killing of animals
As part of the protection of the environment and the animal world, the production and import of products related to the killing of animals must be abandoned. These are mainly leather products, the production of which itself involves the use of many harmful chemicals.
Single European Internet resource on recycling
It is not easy for a foreigner to understand all the intricacies of garbage separation in the EU. The author felt it on his own experience, having moved to Germany for permanent residence. In order to make life easier for all citizens and to improve the quality of waste recycling, every garbage can should have a sticker of sufficiently large size with the indication of one single Internet resource. We are talking about a single European recycling service, where, by entering the name of the product, one could get clear recommendations on its utilization. The search should be carried out not only by the name of the product, but also by its photo or by a special bar code on the product.
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Introduction of a single universal language for all people on Earth as a second language
The goal is unimpeded mutual understanding of all people on the planet.
It is difficult to enumerate all those areas of human existence where the introduction of a common language for all people will make life much easier. On the whole, it will increase labor efficiency, facilitate unimpeded movement and integration of people, which, in turn, will become an additional stimulus for the growth of the world economy.
Imagine that any business document, book, movie or song would only need to be translated into one single language ... how much time and money would be saved ... how much less time and money would be spent ... and, if you are a businessman, how much your sphere of influence would expand ... The world will truly be a much closer place for everyone.
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According to Wikipedia [ 63 ], there are currently just over 400 languages in the world that are considered endangered. The 40 most common languages are spoken by about 2/3 of the world's population. Chinese, Hindi, English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Portuguese are the most spoken.
Imagine that, 40 languages and 400 languages! So if I want to go anywhere in the world and I need to be able to speak to anyone on Earth, knowing 40 languages will not be enough! It is obvious that in the future the number of languages will decrease, and as we approach the number 40, the extinction of languages will slow down significantly. If nothing is done, a single language will probably form by itself, but it will obviously take at least several centuries until the cherished moment.
In case of an advanced transition to a common language for all, in a couple of generations it will not matter how mankind came to it, but the fact that people from different countries all over the world can communicate with each other in a coherent, beautiful, grammatically and logically verified and polished language will be important. At the same time, it goes without saying that it is very important not to forget one's mother tongue. After all, natural language carries a centuries-old history of its origin and origin. For example, it is interesting that the names of most days of the week in German and English have a direct connection with the Gods of Germanic-Scandinavian mythology [ 64 ].
I also wanted to consider such a widespread opinion as "language is a cultural code, therefore, in the transition to a universal language people will lose their culture and national identity". This statement is fundamentally wrong - people throughout history have lost the languages of their ancestors. But as a result, the culture of peoples has not disappeared, and humanity is now in a much better position compared to even the recent past. Culture is a timeless concept, besides language it includes traditions, upbringing, education, as well as all forms and ways of human self-expression and self-knowledge [ 65 ]. Culture, as well as national identity, can change over time, but in no way be lost. Therefore, if humanity will know one common language for all, it will not lose culture and national identity, but only acquire new features and characteristics.
It should be noted that in hundreds of years a single universal language, having been initially introduced as a second language of communication, will become the mother tongue for the majority of people. This is inevitable, and there is nothing tragic about it. You don't feel nostalgia for several thousand languages that used to exist but are now extinct, do you? In the present time of globalization, weaker natural languages are rapidly dying out, so the future of the languages of mankind in any case looks like some residual number of the most "strong", influential languages. And such a future seems to come without the special introduction of a single language. But in order not to wait for this moment for centuries and even, perhaps, millennia, while constantly experiencing language barriers, it seems very logical to adopt a single language of communication for all people on Earth as a second language already today.
In general, I propose to make a common language of communication just as it is seen in the distant future, having formed naturally. As a practical realization of this thesis I see the creation of a new language according to the following rules: the vocabulary of the new language can be determined by borrowing from other languages on the basis of their modern spread in the world. It also makes sense to borrow words from non-living languages that played a significant role in the past (Latin, Ancient Greek, etc.). Grammar and sentence construction rules should be simple and without exceptions. Here we can use the experience of such an artificial language as Esperanto [ 66 ] and its like.
A common language for all people should be free from the disadvantages inherent in existing languages. For example, the disadvantages include differences in spelling and pronunciation in English or the use of several letters of the alphabet to describe a single sound in German ("sch" for "sh", "tsch" for "ch", etc.).
A necessary requirement for a new language is that it is fast and easy to learn. By the way, according to Wikipedia, learning Esperanto takes 10 times less time than learning English: 150 hours and 1500 hours respectively (comparative studies of the speed of learning some languages were conducted at the German University of Paderborn). These numbers are simply mind-boggling (!). Indeed, if you don't spend time studying tables of strong and weak verbs, transcription and pronunciation, exceptions to the rules, etc., it becomes possible to achieve huge results with minimal investment (!).
There is an idea (and it is only an idea for discussion) to use an analog of Huffman's algorithm [ 67 ] and assign the main semantic load of the language to words consisting of two, three or four letters. In theory, this will increase the speed of communication and reduce the volume of documents and books, increasing the speed of reading.
For information: at the end of 2016, Google Corporation introduced a new online translation technology, Google Neural Machine Translation [ 68 ]. As a result, the quality of online translations has increased significantly, but still leaves much to be desired. Simultaneous speech translation can not be talked about at all yet. Nevertheless, when the power of neural networks increases thousands of times, I am sure that we will get high-quality machine translation of both written and spoken speech. It is necessary to stimulate this direction at the state level. But I don't see any sense in waiting for the appearance of technical means of perfect translation of spoken speech, because it will by no means replace the natural mastery of a universal language.
In conclusion, I would like to criticize the European approach to solving the problem of multilingualism. This approach and its background are well described in the article "Mother tongue and two foreign languages" [ 69 ]. We discussed above that 40 languages would not be enough to be able to move around the planet without language barriers. The European plan implies learning foreign languages throughout one's life, which I strongly disagree with - one is not born to learn foreign languages throughout one's life, it should not be a necessity in one's life. I think it is wasteful to spend time and resources on learning many foreign languages instead of one universal language. At the same time, the introduction of one language for all people on Earth as a second language will reduce the hours allocated today to the study of two compulsory foreign languages in EU schools. The freed up time can be used, for example, for learning to play musical instruments, because music is also a universal language in its own way [ 70 ].
I will give a tentative sequence of actions for the realization of this thesis: the first thing that should be done is to gather a group of specialists and confirm the fundamental possibility of creating a new artificial language that would allow to express one's thoughts and build sentences in a simple, coherent way, based on a small number of rules. To work out a strategy of its creation, based on the accumulated experience. Then it is necessary to hold the world's first global vote for the adoption of a common language for all people as a second language of communication. It is important that every person should take part in this. Having secured the support of the majority of the world's citizens, it is necessary to create the final version of a single world language in the shortest possible time, compile the relevant dictionaries and further ensure that this language is taught in schools around the world. In parallel, it is necessary to create institutions for the preservation of natural mother tongues. At the same time, due to the global nature of the action, both the world vote itself and the publication of dictionaries of the common language should be made exclusively in electronic form (based on ecological considerations).
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Increasing citizen security through the introduction of civil security automata and program modules
© «Civil Security Automaton";
© «Open program modules of civil security";
The purpose of such devices is to record law and order violations and crimes and to assist police officers.
A civil security machine is a small physical device installed in public places. Its task is to automatically recognize and inform police officers about the following types of events: threatening with weapons, appearance of masked people, fights, unusually large crowds of people, unusual human actions (e.g. sudden fast running), car accidents, search for a person suspected of a crime by special request.
Open source civil security software modules are fully software products based on neural network training. The word "open" in the name means open source software. These modules can be of two types. The first one is designed to work as part of civil security automata. The second is for integration with messengers and social platforms.
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Civil Security Automaton
In normal mode of operation, such an Automat is a high-resolution video camera, the image from which is continuously analyzed by an open software module of civil security. If the above events are identified, an immediate transmission is made to the responsible police station. These are additional eyes for police officers. Thanks to such devices it will be possible without expanding their staff to significantly increase the efficiency of response to violations of law and order.
Automats should be fully autonomous, supplied with electricity from solar panels located in their immediate vicinity (on a pole or a building wall). In addition to the above events, the dispensers must respond to an attempted hacker attack and to an attempt to jam the signal.
Access to information from such multifunctional Automats can be obtained, if necessary, by public organizations as well. In some cases it will help in the fight against fake news.
At the same time, as already mentioned, the Program Module functioning inside the machine should be publicly available so that every person could make sure of its "purity". It is important that people do not think that they are being "watched", but understand that the Automats perform a strictly defined function and work with completely anonymized data. Such automata can be indirectly compared to the ubiquitous motion sensors installed at building entrances and turning on lights (at night) when motion is detected.
Initially, professional programmers in cooperation with police officers will be involved in writing the Software Module. Then the "Open Source Civil Security Software Module" will be made publicly available on the Internet. Because of the openness of the Program Module, many bloggers will be able to cover its functionality in a way that is accessible to ordinary citizens. Bloggers and programmers will help find flaws and bugs that will be fixed over time. Eventually we will have a virtual police officer indistinguishable from the most responsible and unbiased person.
Civil security automata can also help in counting the number of people participating in demonstrations. This is important because often the results of counts from different sources (usually of opposing political views) differ many times over.
Open source civil security software modules
Let us understand in detail the current situation with messengers. On the one hand, we have the approach to security realized in the popular messenger Telegram. The author of this software product, Pavel Durov, would like complete privacy for all his users. But this approach obviously suffers from a significant disadvantage, because in the mode of complete privacy will thrive crime. But if, under the pretext of fighting crime, privacy is allowed to be violated, there will be a risk of arbitrary behavior by the authorities and intelligence agencies. Edward Snowden in his revelations of the US intelligence services [ 71 ] speaks about this.
This situation will be successfully solved by the "Open Software Module for Civil Security". Let's consider a specific situation; let's say someone has sent someone in a messenger forbidden content (terrorism, drug trafficking, child pornography, etc.). The Telegram messenger's approach in this case is to block the channel or chat (and even this does not happen in all cases). Is this the right thing to do? No, it's wrong. A person who is making child pornography or other criminal content should be isolated from society, not just denied access to a chat room or channel. It would make much more sense to inform the police and intelligence services at the time of sending this type of content without the knowledge of the potential perpetrator himself. The responsible security authorities should be able to analyze all the messages of the chat room/channel in order to understand the situation. It is possible that a whole group of criminals is operating.
Let me remind you that the initial source of information to start an investigation is a program algorithm, not a human. This excludes the possibility of arbitrariness of the authorities and special services. I should also note that the possibility of building "Open Program Modules of Civil Security" has appeared only recently, when the power of mobile processors has increased to the appropriate level. After all, this module should work for the most part on a mobile device, as an integral part of applications for content exchange.
Interestingly, a similar concept, proposed by the author of this Program back in 2019, is now being discussed in the EU Parliament [ 72 ]. Whether the EU authorities intend to adhere to a fully transparent and open program code is unfortunately unknown. If the code of the civil security program module is made closed, this circumstance will break the already thin thread leading to the establishment of trust relations between the authorities and citizens.
How is the situation being handled now? on August 24, 2024, Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris. Practically none of the media personalities on the Internet offers a solution to the current dilemma of freedom of speech.
There will inevitably be difficulties and criticism in the realization of this thesis. But the author relies on people's rationality to find compromises. False positives will be valuable material for pre-training the neural network. "An open source civil security software module" should be in the public domain so that everyone can verify its purity and participate in its improvement. In time, the impartiality and objectivity of this program module will reach the highest level. When this happens, we can expect at least a tenfold reduction in crime rates. At the same time, the level of privacy will also be unrivaled due to the module's minimal false positives. In fact, this will result in a means of communication being taken away from criminals. While all other people will be provided with it to the fullest extent. Isn't this a dream come true for people and governments!
The philosophical and biological aspect of freedom of speech
The author wanted to touch upon the philosophical and biological aspect of this issue. Let's try to look deeper: why limit freedom of speech at all? Can society exist normally with absolute freedom of speech, without censorship? What should be the permissible level of censorship while respecting freedom of speech in a democratic society?
The answer lies in the properties of human beings themselves. People can succumb to propaganda by adopting false narratives. Within the framework of this Program, in the thesis on educational reforms, the author revealed the signs of propaganda. But it is not just about propaganda. People are relatively easy to deceive, easy to impose false values, easy to convince of the necessity of illegal actions, etc. Everyone has their opinion leaders. The fact that the opinions of these very opinion leaders, whom other people listen to, are often diametrically opposed proves the above-mentioned properties of people. It follows that any information, including false and calling for illegal actions will influence them. Most people are not immune to this kind of information injections. But nobody wants to live side by side with criminals. That is why there is a need for censorship. The very properties of human beings push us to it and it will obviously be for the good of our species.
Another thing is that some information is obviously malicious (terrorism, drug trafficking, child pornography, proven fakes), and other information is not always obviously harmful. For example, calls for retaliatory violence can sometimes be justified by violence already committed, especially in times of war. Manifestations of racism, chauvinism and anti-Semitism are not always obvious either. But on the other hand, if we look at the power of ChatGPT, we can be sure that in time the AI will be up to the task of subtly analyzing multiple degrees of the above non-obvious information patterns. In the latter case, it would be appropriate to categorize the non-obvious potentially harmful information factors (racism, chauvinism, anti-Semitism, calls for violence, etc.) into 10 gradations. Alarms should be sounded (police officers should be informed) when a certain level is exceeded, let's say, when a grade exceeds five points in a category.
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Abandoning paper documents: moving to a fully electronic workflow
The widespread use of digital documents has significant potential to increase efficiency. An obvious additional advantage is the reduced consumption of paper, stationery, printers/scanners/shredders, and there is no need to organize space for paper archives.
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This is especially true nowadays, when the number of paper documents and books has increased many times compared to the recent past. The development of the world economy has led to unprecedented availability of technologies for printing documents and books. The flip side of the coin is the shrinking of forests, which has a negative impact on the environment.
However, if we continue to think in terms of the outdated paradigm of paper-based document management, it will be a long time before we are able to take full advantage of the benefits of the transition to digital documents.
The goal can be considered achieved if electronic document management is introduced in all government agencies and non-government enterprises, and if printed publications move to a fully electronic basis. Also, the need for regular mailboxes should completely disappear, because all correspondence can be received by email.
Here we should say a few words about the German universal e-mail service "De-Mail" [ 73 ]. This service was conceived as a highly reliable e-mail service for the exchange of messages and documents between German citizens and all public institutions. The idea is good, but the implementation is just disgusting. First of all, double domain names like "@de-mail-t-systems.de-mail.de" are simply unacceptable. You could have just chosen the universal name "@mail.de". Secondly - paid functions. In the age of digitalization, one should have thought of paid e-mail (!). Thirdly, you have to inform government agencies about your e-mail account, because initially they don't know anything about your e-mail. The fourth disadvantage of the German e-mail service is that registration is optional. As a result, not all citizens of this country have e-mail.
For the convenience of users, I propose to create a universal e-mail for the whole EU on the domain "@mail.eu" and eliminate all the disadvantages of the German realization of this good idea. The mail should be completely free, and public institutions should know the e-mail of their citizens. At the same time, all EU citizens and public institutions should be given a universal e-mail box of the form "имя.фамилия_123456@mail.eu" or "фирма/учреждение_123456@mail.eu" (where the digits are a random six-position number). Before sending a message, both the recipient and the sender are verified (all senders and recipients are entered in a special register). Two-factor identification via cell phone will be responsible for the security of access via the Internet. A mobile application will ensure user-friendliness on a mobile device. The application of end-to-end encryption will additionally secure correspondence.
Again, once these measures are implemented, all mailboxes can simply be dismantled. After all, all correspondence, including newspapers, can come exclusively in electronic form. This will significantly reduce the burden on the environment.
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Optimization of the processes of development and manufacturing of electrical circuits and printed circuit boards
The lack of universal databases of electronic components leads to the fact that each company has to spend quite a lot of resources on individual optimization of the processes of development and manufacturing of electrical circuits, printed circuit boards and products based on them. This increases the final cost of the product, reducing its competitiveness.
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The universal solution is to legally oblige all manufacturers of electronic components operating in the EU to enter data on each component into a universal database. A special group should be set up to keep this database operational. Data on electronic components will contain a list of parameters by component type, simulation model + thermal model, 3D housing model with support for tolerances and material identifiers, manufacturer recommended Layout data, weight, certification, compatibility, Lead finish, MSL level, ESD level, Manufacturer reliability data, radiation resistance, packaging options, etc. The data should be available in a universal database.
With such a universal database in place, existing circuit and PCB design tools (CAD-Software), as well as software for machines to automatically install components on the PCB, will need to be finalized. All of these would need to be synchronized with a single database of EU electronic components.
In addition to automation and ease of component selection, instant simulation of electrical circuits and construction of high-quality 3D models of printed circuit boards, now we get as a bonus new functions: it is a quick optimization of the device by weight (you can select elements with similar parameters, but less weight), by operating temperature range, by resistance to radiation, etc... The most interesting thing is that if we add another column "recommended price" to the database, we will be able to quickly optimize by cost. It is clear that the final price depends on the volume of the order and the cost of shipping and packaging, and this should all be taken into account.
Speaking of packaging: the electronics industry is rapidly moving away from THT elements and moving to SMD components. Almost all SMD components can use universal reusable packaging and thus get rid of many tons of plastic waste. And if it is not a bobbin with elements, but a special SMD-Tray, it is possible and necessary to make it so that this Tray could be immediately (without additional shifting) installed on the machine for arranging components on printed circuit boards. This will greatly facilitate the task of manufacturers of electronic devices of low serialization and reduce labor costs for manufacturing of pre-production samples of products. It is also necessary to realize recycling of standard SMD-Trays with the possibility of their return to suppliers or manufacturers.
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Support for platforms that compare products based on parameters and characteristics determined by experts
The goal is to increase literacy and environmental responsibility of the population in the choice of mass consumption goods as a counterbalance to unscrupulous marketing. Thanks to the realization of this thesis, noticeably higher quality goods will prevail on the market, and their producers will benefit accordingly. There will be a transition to a more efficient use of resources.
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The problem with advertising and dishonest marketing is that if their budget is large enough, it becomes possible to sell lower-quality goods in larger quantities and at a higher price than great technical things.
Here's a simple example: in a conversation with a buddy, we once broached the topic of "which smartphone is better". My opponent said that the camera in his smartphone had many more megapixels and the battery had more capacity, so his smartphone was better. This is an example of how a person can be influenced by dishonest marketing and advertising. At the same time, this approach to product evaluation on the part of my opponent shows that he had no opportunity to get reliable technical information about really important parameters of the device.
To increase the general technical literacy of the population and to stimulate technical progress it is necessary to create a service where goods will be compared according to the parameters that the expert community will consider really important for this type of goods.
For example, for all kinds of computers one of the most important parameters will be the energy consumption for solving different kinds of tasks, for electric cars - the battery degradation rate, for almost all kinds of goods the real life, resource and ecological footprint are important. In other words, that important technical information about the device, which is under-told by marketers and which in some cases is quite difficult to extract on your own, needs to be laid out in a prominent place.
The principles of universal simplicity and beauty in the design, production and subsequent evaluation of goods should be basic. It is also important to understand what should be produced and, just as importantly, what should not be produced. In general, these are the principles bequeathed to us by the great Steve Jobs.
I am sure this service will be in great demand. Ordinary consumers will be informed in time, and manufacturers, who develop great technical things, will benefit.
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Dynamic tax in the system of free distribution of copyrighted content
The idea is simple: everyone in the EU pays a special tax and has access to any copyrighted content. The value of the tax changes dynamically and depends on the amount of content, the number of participants and the average market prices. Adding content to the system by authors will be voluntary.
The goal of the free content distribution system is to distribute user money to content authors in a simple and transparent way.
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To begin with, only books, music and movies are meant to be handled. Later this principle can be extended to all other content, and even to the entire Internet. In the latter case, it means that the owners of web content will receive monetary remuneration depending on how much time people spend watching this or that content.
All ancient (and not so ancient) books and sources which are no longer under copyright [ 74 ], i.e. which have become public domain, should also be represented in this system. Moreover, if there is no electronic original, it is necessary to create a high-quality electronic copy - this will allow to abandon the content of all kinds of libraries, leaving only a few as museums.
All ancient (and not so ancient) artifacts that have become public domain should be scanned by 3D scanners in high enough resolution and also be available via the Internet. Services such as "Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek" [ 75 ] and "Europeana" are already working in this direction [ 75 ] and Europeana [ 76 ]. These activities will remove barriers to quality scientific research, making it less expensive and more accessible to a wide range of researchers.
If non-EU countries join this project, the value of the dynamic tax will decrease in proportion to the new number of users of the system. On the other hand, if the amount of content in the system increases, the tax will have to increase.
If we look at the current trend, we can see the emergence of many services like Netflix and Apple Music/TV. Each of these services is trying to win their own, as large an audience of content consumers as possible. It is obvious that in the course of this competition the end consumer will be the loser, having to tear between similar services and eventually, possibly, to pay for several services at once.
The basis of the system will be an open source application. For each unit of content (it can be a book, audio or video composition, etc.) will be assigned money accounts of right holders with an indication of the percentage of participation or percentage of "authorship". Funds will be credited to these accounts depending on the time spent by the user listening to or viewing the content.
If, let's say, a person pays a 10€ tax per month to a free content distribution system and during this period watches a couple of movies, reads a book and listens to some music, his 10€ will first be distributed in proportion to the time spent between the above content (possibly with coefficients according to the type of content), and then according to the percentage of "authorship" between the creators of a particular unit of content.
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Some aspects of EU foreign and domestic policy
- differences between the European Union and the United States of America: positive;
- differences of the EU from the United States of America: negative;
- conclusions;
- double standards of the west;
- resolution of the contradiction of theses in the world law on the territorial integrity of the state and the right of nations to self-determination. The example of Crimea and Catalonia;
- the right of the leader of a democratic country to be re-elected an unlimited number of times;
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Differences between the European Union and the United States of America: Positive
Any country has only two criteria for its evaluation: 1. satisfaction and happiness of its citizens; 2. usefulness for the world. Here we will touch on the second criterion. The USA in this century is the undisputed leader in creating breakthrough technologies and devices that have gained worldwide popularity. This became possible thanks to such modern geniuses as Steve Jobs, Ilon Musk and Sam Altman. I deliberately do not mention the products of such corporations as Microsoft and Google. After all, popular does not mean the best. Let's say the best translator in the world (in terms of translation quality) is DeepL, which few people know about, but the most popular, you know - Google Translate.
Differences between the European Union and the United States of America: the negatives
The United States of America differs from the European Union in many ways. Here's a list of some areas where this difference is on full display:
Vacation entitlement: in the US, ordinary citizens are not entitled to vacation by law [ 77, 78 ]. Only congressmen are entitled to vacation by law. Often employees have a subconscious fear that if they take an "excessive" vacation, which is usually less than two weeks a year, they may be fired/replaced. In this case, the length of vacation is determined by the firms or corporations themselves. For comparison, the guaranteed vacation in Germany is 20 working days. But, as a rule, companies add an additional 10 vacation days to this.
Firingrights: Under US law, an employee can be fired at any time without notice or severance pay, simply discarding the person as unwanted junk.
Health Insurance: the US is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee its citizens a universal and all-encompassing health insurance system. In 2012, the U.S. ranked only 37th in medical care and 33rd in overall health [ 79 ]. This is despite the fact that spending on the health care system there is the largest in the world. According to a 2009 Harvard University study, lack of health insurance in the United States causes 44800 additional deaths each year, about 2% of the total number of deaths.
Higher Education System: the system of higher education in the US, provided exclusively on a fee basis [ 80 ], contributes to stratification and perpetuation of inequality in society. The cost of education in the US ranges from $1,500 to $5,000 per month. It is clear that young people and their parents, in case of insufficient skills in the sphere of earning money, have a high chance to get in addition to a social gap in education. In comparison, in Germany, higher education is free for everyone, including foreigners [ 81 ]. This decision was made because the national government and representatives of the federal states believe that all people should have equal opportunities to access higher education.
Transportation Infrastructure: The United States has relied on market-oriented infrastructure development. As a result, air transportation infrastructure, private air transportation, and automobile infrastructure look good. However, railroads are in decline and public transportation is underdeveloped. In Europe, on the other hand, all modes of transportation are developed quite harmoniously.
International Criminal Court: the United States is the most vocal opponent of the International Criminal Court [ 82, 83 ]. The Bush Jr. administration, under the pretext of protecting its military personnel, completely rejected the Rome Statute, calling it a violation of U.S. national interests and sovereignty. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that ICC employees could face visa restrictions and sanctions because of investigations against the U.S. military. It follows that US "national" interests are at odds with the establishment of world peace. This phenomenon must be strongly opposed.
The US blocked a UN Security Council statement calling for an independent investigation into the shooting of some 50 Palestinians by Israeli soldiers during a protest to move the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem [ 84 ].
Persecution of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden: The United States, together with some other countries, is persecuting the hero of our time, Julian Assange [ 85 ], using false accusations against him, and, judging by their actions in the legal field, showing the immaturity of their democratic institutions. After all, it is obvious that it is the exorbitant scale of disregard and abuse of the principles of democracy and human freedom by the United States that motivates people like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden to tell the world the truth about the scale of these abuses for the sole purpose of protecting the citizens of their country and the world from illegal actions. I recall that Hillary Clinton, a former US presidential candidate, called for Julian Assange to be destroyed by drone [ 86 ]. This circumstance under other conditions could have been considered a call to extremism.
Prisons with the ability to torture people: it will be recalled that it was the US that created a network of prisons with the ability to torture people [ 87 ]. Here it is also appropriate to recall the US secret program "MK Ultra" [ 87 ] [ 88 ] in the framework of which people were massively tortured and various chemical preparations were applied to them without the consent of the victim. And all this went on in the USA for decades in the already peaceful time after the Second World War. Noteworthy is the fact that the man who headed this CIA program was a Jew who fled the horrors of Nazi Germany. His name was Sidney Gottlieb. Well, if we take into account these facts, it seems that the need for mass torture of people for the U.S. intelligence agencies and governments is simply "sewn into their DNA". They apparently cannot live without it at all.
Degree of brutality of crimes: in one of the periods of his life the author periodically watched videos about investigation of various criminal cases. For Germany it was the reality show "Auf Streife", for the USA - youtube channel "Dnevnik Kriminalist" (in Russian). It was quite informative. The author found it particularly remarkable that thanks to DNA comparison technologies it was possible to solve long-standing crimes. And the age of the crimes was up to 40 and even 50 years. Sometimes it was found that a person who had been in prison for decades turned out to be innocent.
In general, it was possible to note at once different levels of cruelty of crimes. In Germany, on average, the degree of brutality of crimes is lower. So once on the channel "Diary of a Criminalist" the author watched a video clip that shocked him with the deepest degree of brutality. What a group of black youths (one of them was a girl) had done to a young couple was so brutal that it was unimaginable. Since this incident, the author has stopped watching these thematic channels. And the trace in his soul will remain for many years to come. But at the same time it is obvious that in Germany such crimes are simply impossible. Although the trend in this direction both in Germany and in the European Union as a whole is negative.
Plastic garbage: the US has been exporting plastic garbage to Asian countries for years, claiming that it is properly recycled there [ 89 ]. That was the news of 2019. Now let's move on to the news of 2024: negotiations for a global agreement on plastic failed due to the fact that the US and several other countries sobotaged it [ 90 ].
Conclusions
The above-mentioned facts show that despite its status as a technological power, the USA cannot be the benchmark for building a democratic society at least in the above-mentioned aspects. The US should reflect on the fact that its methods of world leadership do not meet the civilizational criteria of our time. Having had an unprecedented chance for this purpose in history, the USA has not become a world center of positive influence. Here the author calls on the US to abandon the practice of aggressive "struggle for leadership" and try to turn into one of the "centers of world positive influence", along with the EU.
Double standards of the West
Democratic countries need to get rid of double standards. As an example, there are countless praise songs for Navalny, but a completely opposite attitude towards their own heroes like Navalny: Assange and Snowden. One was imprisoned in the UK awaiting extradition to the US, the other found protection from prosecution in Russia.
Supporting journalism that exposes the crimes of countries and regimes promotes democracy. The US has a clever idea: you can commit crimes, classify this information, and, if it is published by lone hero journalists, accuse them of revealing state secrets and threaten them with life sentences. The EU will not go this way, and in time, the author is sure, the U.S. will abandon such practices.
Another example is Khodorkovsky. At the beginning of Putin's rule, this oligarch was accused of financial fraud in order to sell most of Russia's resource extraction industry to US handlers. The businessman was also accused of contract killings. After Khodorkovsky was released after serving about ten years and immediately flew to Switzerland, he was greeted as a great oppositionist and political prisoner unjustly accused by the Putin regime. In an interview with the famous Russian blogger Dudy [ 91 ] on May 22, 2024, Khodorkovsky frankly admitted that the curator of Yukos, who had the power to appoint its executives, was none other than Jacob Rothschild (!). We remember well how under the leadership of this influential American citizen the court in The Hague tried to take away 50 billion dollars from Russia (and actually from the Russian people) [ 92 ]. So maybe at least part of the accusations (if not all of them) against this respected oppositionist in the West were true?
Western double standards undermine the foundations of democracy around the world. Double standards make the world appear gray. It is difficult to distinguish between completely white and completely black. All participants are seen in gray tones: EU, USA, Russia, etc. It is only a question of someone being perhaps lighter gray and someone being darker gray.
Resolving the contradiction of theses in world law about the territorial integrity of the state and the right of nations to self-determination. The example of Crimea and Catalonia
The author sees the following solution: the thesis on the territorial integrity of the state can be applied only in the context of external influence or aggression. The right of nations to self-determination, in turn, should be interpreted without change. I will explain the nuances with two examples: Crimea and Catalonia.
In the case of Crimea, we are obviously talking about external influence. A referendum was held, but ... The referendum was organized and held by an external state, in this case, Russia. According to the author's interpretation, such actions are unacceptable. It is also obvious that Putin cannot be trusted. Putin lied about the poisoning of Navalny, under his leadership fakes were made about the shooting down of the passenger plane flight MH17 [ 93, 94 ], he conducted a disinformation campaign for the Russian society about the atrocities of Russian fascists in Bucha. Therefore, the results of the initially illegitimate referendum are not credible. In what case would Crimea's transition to Russia be possible and fair? If there are leaders in the region who can convince the majority of the people to live independently, they should have the right to organize a referendum and, if its results really show the people's desire for independence, the region should be able to secede according to the will of the people.
For Spanish Catalonia there was no external factor. In this case, the Catalans have the right to a referendum and autonomy in case of unambiguous results. But there is one subtlety. The leader of the region, which claims potential secession, as well as the people in his entourage, must be fully transparent. This applies to the financial side and the communications side. In other words, the movement of funds in accounts affiliated with such people should be in the public domain. Also, all meetings of the leaders of the secession movements and their composition should be available to the public.
The right of the leader of a democratic country to be re-elected an unlimited number of times
Currently, many democratic countries have adopted a legal restriction on the number of terms a country's leader can be re-elected. The author sees this as depriving citizens of their right to a good leader. Would Singapore have been Singapore if such a restriction had been implemented in this country? Lee Kuan Yew served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, a total of 31 years. Under his leadership, Singapore moved from the third world to the first world. Lee Kuan Yew chronicled his leadership and reform experiences in a unique book, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. While he was constantly criticized by the US and some other countries for not being in power.
What measures should be taken in democracies to prevent the leader from devolving into authoritarianism or totalitarianism if he or she can be re-elected for an unlimited number of terms? Let us list them below:
- strengthening the role of parliament in controlling the executive. Parliament should be able to initiate investigations, demand accountability and, if necessary, vote a vote of no confidence;
- guaranteeing the independence of the courts from the influence of the executive. The judiciary should be able to challenge and overturn government actions if they contradict the constitution or the rights of citizens;
- simplification of impeachment procedures for cases of abuse of power so that parliament or other bodies can respond quickly to actions that threaten democracy;
- legislative measures to protect the independence of the media so that the press can freely report on and criticize government activities without fear of reprisals;
- creating conditions for the development of civil organizations that can act as a "fourth estate" and monitor government actions;
- introducing strict rules to ensure transparency of sources of funding for election campaigns to prevent corruption of the political system and the influence of oligarchs;
- restrictions on single and regular transfers of funds (no more than 50€ monthly) in support of political parties and election candidates to reduce their dependence on large donors and reduce the influence of money on politics;
- legislative measures to ensure that all citizens have equal access to the electoral process, including transparent and fair elections;
- the introduction of legislation that limits certain aspects of a leader's power, such as the right to unilaterally make important decisions without the approval of parliament or the council of ministers;
- distributing power among several institutions (e.g., strengthening the role of the vice president or prime minister) to prevent excessive concentration of power;
- adopting constitutional amendments that would explicitly prohibit anti-democratic actions, such as canceling elections or abolishing the parliamentary system;
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Combating anti-Semitism and chauvinism. Evolutionary approach
The fact that anti-Semitism is pervasive is undeniable. Both geographically and historically. At the same time, one can observe the absence of similar stable manifestations of people's negative behavior towards any other nations. It can speak that the reason of antisemitism lies both in interaction of the world with the Jewish people, and in interaction of the Jewish people with the world. Having studied this topic, the beginning of the research of which can be considered the reading of the Bible (full version: Old and New Testaments), and having familiarized himself with the Jewish culture, the author came to the following original conclusion:
The root cause of anti-Semitism is Jewish chauvinism [ 95 ]. In other words, anti-Semitism manifests itself as the dislike of ordinary people for Jews who suffer from latent chauvinism. Chauvinism usually leads to specific behavior, subconsciously rejected by ordinary people. But there is a subtlety here: the fact is that, due to human imperfection, the chauvinism of a certain group of Jews can lead to the fact that the reciprocal anti-Semitism of non-Jews will be directed against many or even all Jews, including those who do not suffer from chauvinism. This phenomenon can be attributed to a number of cognitive distortions of thinking.
But that is not all. In the process of reading the material on this topic, the author has made some pretty significant discoveries about world order. When you click "more", the world will be divided into "before and after" for you as it was for me earlier. Please hold on tight to your chair!
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In the course of evolution, when the turn came to man, the following happened:
- A few thousand years ago, man first realized that the rules of sheep selection were also suitable for man. After all, they are the essence of the same thing - life and evolution. It is known that ideas about "transmission of essence" through "wisdom" and "reason" originated long before the birth of such sciences as genetics and epigenetics;
- Similar to the sheep, he selected a group of people and for several generations, in isolation, he actually "instructed" and observed how personal qualities were passed from generation to generation;
- Moses further left, within the oral (secret) Torah, an instruction to this people to watch for generational changes and work to improve their qualities;
- Within the written Torah, you already know - lend to the nations, but don't lend to yourself and you will rule the nations, but they will not rule you;
- Thus began self-selection within a limited but sufficient population of people. It happened according to the laws of life on the Earth and natural laws of evolution with the only difference that a man consciously chose those qualities which he needed to develop;
- In a few thousand years from this group of people came the man whom we now know as Jesus;
- Parallel to the process of accelerated self-development of the species, the Bible was written. The Old Testament, then the New Testament;
- The Sfirot in Kabbalah are qualities of character that can and should be developed in a person. This is done with an understanding of how hereditary information is transmitted;
- As a result of thousands of years of self-selection and tireless work on oneself, a group of people have achieved unprecedented superiority over other people. Intellectual superiority is easiest to understand from the paradigm: manipulator - victim of manipulation. The manipulator, picking up verbal and nonverbal cues from the victim, dialogues with her in such a way as to control her. In fact, the manipulator in a sense thinks for the victim;
- Now imagine that intellectual superiority has reached such heights, and the difference in understanding between different kinds of people (yes, we are talking about different kinds of people) has reached such a level that some group possessing the gift of intellectual superiority (having developed it during the last few thousand years of accelerated conscious evolution) has adopted a special method of informing its members. Now pay attention! - the movies "The Matrix", as well as its explanatory animated movie "Animatrix" by the Wachowskis, "Wild West World" (TV series), and "Prometheus" carry a double meaning. For the goyim (non-Jews) it is popcorn and entertainment, for the new species of people it is information about the state of affairs, possible further programs of action and an attempt to comprehend their place in the universe;
- We are within evolution and you and I are not the crown of creation;
- The information created by humans programs the whole world;
Javier Miley once said: "I don't want to lead the lambs, I want to awaken the lions." I want to awaken every human being.
I should note at once that I do not pretend to the hundred percent accuracy of the above theses. I can only claim that about 75% of this information corresponds to reality. Variations are of course possible.
The volume of the text is quite large. Please be patient.
Self-selection among people
I will allow myself here to divert the reader to the topic of animal breeding. Take, for example, the German Shepherd Dog. The German Shepherd Dog was bred in Germany in the late 19th - early 20th century to create an ideal working dog for shepherding service and protection. Breeding work is conducted in the following order. First, specific breeding goals are established. For the German Shepherd Dog, these were working qualities (intelligence, trainability, endurance), physical characteristics (breed standard) and health. Next, selection of breeding individuals, litter planning (taking into account pedigree analysis and pair compatibility), control and evaluation of offspring (puppy observation and testing), registration and documentation, training and socialization, and ethical considerations. When breeding the German Shepherd, breeders selected individuals with high intelligence, strong instincts for guarding and herding, excellent physical fitness and stable temperament. Using strict selection and planned breeding, they fixed these qualities in the breed. By the way, plant breeding is done in a very similar way. It's just that it's even simpler.
Let's put this question: why not apply the above method of selection to humans? The inquisitive reader may immediately have an additional question: and who, excuse me, will act as breeders? A superhuman? This is an absolutely correct question. Here it is necessary to give credit to human ingenuity and ability to observe. Obviously, only humans can breed among humans. But how? More on that later. And, of course, no eugenics. This material is about something else entirely.
Moses, the man in the Bible, actually did it. About three and a half thousand years ago, purposefully isolating his people in the desert for a long period of time (about 40 years), he calculated how many in one generation appear enough intelligent people capable of managing the economy and other people. This simple knowledge, expressed in a few numbers, was contained, according to my assumption, in the secret oral Torah. It must have included also the instruction to keep a constant watch on the world around and on the community and the instruction to look for tzadiks [ 96 ], i.e. pious spiritual leaders.
Here I will give some additional information for context: Judaism has a concept of two souls in man: the divine soul strives for God, spirituality and the fulfillment of the commandments. The animal soul is associated with material desires and selfish pursuits. The constant struggle between these souls determines the inner life of man. Beinoni is an ideal to which everyone can aspire. Unlike the righteous man (tzadik) who has completely overcome his animal soul, the beinoni still experiences temptations, but successfully copes with them.
It is clear that in those times there was no clear knowledge that today gives us genetics and epigenetics. Everything happened as if by feel. Tzadiks, according to Moses' order, had to "pull up" the rest of the people to their level. For this purpose they were obliged to instruct people (but only representatives of their people), correcting their behavior and teaching them their wisdom. The highest level of hierarchy in the Jewish people is the council of sages. The wisest of the Tzadiks "pulled up" and "kept in tone" the other Tzadiks. By analyzing one's qualities of character and one's behavior as a result of working on oneself, one can achieve correction and improvement of one's personal data. This topic is given considerable attention in Judaism.
Further, in the next generation it would be possible to select the same number of tzadiks and the wisest of them. But they, according to the currently known rules of epigenetics, would already be smarter than the Tzadiks of the previous generation. Although this difference would not be very obvious. It is clear that we should compare the average intelligence of the group and the same age data. By the way, in Judaism there are no prohibitions on the creation of families for tzadiks, as for Catholic priests or bishops in Christianity. On the contrary, reproduction among religious Jews is encouraged. This is the mechanism of self-selection. Thus was set in motion the further evolution and separation of a new species of man.
I have given here a generally ideal scenario of self-selection. It is clear that in real life, especially during thousands of years, there were difficulties and deviations. Moreover, the hierarchical structure described by me, most likely, was not formed at once. But it can be definitely observed in Judaism in our time. The laws of genetics and epigenetics, or otherwise the laws of the Creator in Judaism, assume the appearance of "individuals" with low indicators. Among such people could be those who did not understand the meaning of Judaism and could deviate from the strictest prohibition of intermarriage outside the community. Thus, in parallel to the intensified evolutionary process within the community, genes were exchanged, albeit slowly, with the rest of the population. An important point is the emergence of the strongest motivation to preserve the customs of the community in view of notable successes in their own development after a few generations.
What do we have today as a result of the above evolutionary impulse? The fact of the significant intellectual superiority of Ashkenazi Jews is undeniable. It is confirmed by modern studies [ 97 ]. Ashkenazi Jews are about 80% of the entire Jewish ethnic group in terms of numbers [ 98 ]. Superiority in IQ simply means that not everything that high IQ individuals understand can be understood by other people.
A side effect of the emergence of the gift of superiority was such a vice as chauvinism. There are many examples of Jewish chauvinism in modern life, but I will limit myself to two illustrative examples [ 99, 100 ].
Remark: The author wanted to emphasize that he does not consider anyone superhuman. Except for Steve Jobs and Ilon Musk) And moreover, if we talk strictly from a biological point of view about another kind of people, there is certainly no such phenomenon in a completed form at this stage. Here the essence is different: the concept of human development proposed by the author is an extraordinary approach not only to solving the problems of anti-Semitism and chauvinism, but also a way to improve the quality of life for all people. It is about, among other things, ending the phenomena of violence in the world. And not just against people. As long as people eat animals and consider it completely normal, there is no question of ending violence in the world.
Let us ask ourselves a clearer question: where to evolve next? This question is easily answered by realizing our animal nature, shedding, so to speak, the halo of the crown of evolution. In essence, man is an animal, but in some ways more advanced. So, if we put any earthly creature next to man, we would like to emphasize only two distinctive aspects besides appearance: a) much more developed language skills, and b) very developed ability to reflect. But not only the development of biological intelligence should be accelerated. The very animal nature of man must be fully realized and set aside.
Judaism contains techniques along these lines. In particular below, in the section on primary sources, the book of Taniyah will be emphasized.
Quote, "May Thy grace descend upon all forms of the mind," Animatrix.
The four circuits protecting the Jewish people
The curious reader may have a question: how was it possible to hide all this for thousands of years and continue to hide it in our time? It's a good question. As part of researching the topic, a few years ago the author came across some very interesting information about the contours of Jewish protection. The information came from an influential person in Israel. I have not been able to find this source on the internet at this time, but I will give the context here. The outer (or first) contour of protection of the Jewish intellectual center is ordinary Jews, with whom ordinary people come in contact and who make a generally favorable impression. In part they are no longer religious, in part they no longer suffer from chauvinism. Next come the second and third circuits of defense. These are the connecting links between the outer contour and the actually isolated and hidden intellectual center.
There is at least one more factor that helps to hide the great secret of self-selection and self-development: the very gift of intellectual superiority of the group makes it possible to find special ways for this purpose.
What is also striking is the fact how far the rest of the people are from the idea that evolution continues among them today. This fact is completely off the agenda. In addition to this, disciplines far removed from the sciences that study human evolution are in the foreground. I mean here that physics, astrophysics, astronomy and other sciences with their unsolved problems and questions are much higher than epigenetics, about which, by the way, in wide circles nothing is heard at all.
Only after millennia from the moment of branching of a new species of people, other people timidly begin to realize that biology and study of consciousness are not less important than physics and astrophysics. Thus, Robert Lanza [ 101 ], an American physician and scientist, in his breakthrough book "Biocentrism, or Why Life and Consciousness are Keys to Understanding the Universe" attempts to draw attention to the fact that modern science is completely disconnected from the study of human intelligence and consciousness. In Lantz's opinion, biology should be placed above other sciences, because it is human abilities that drive the sciences themselves.
Information created by people programs the whole world
Of the 12 theses above, the most important are the last two. This is the quintessence, the rest are steps on the way to it. The author can be said to have felt how information programs the world due to numerous coincidences of patterns that flashed at one moment in his consciousness. I will try to reveal these two most important theses using the concepts of the Creator in Judaism and neural networks.
The Creator endows the world with the potential for development by establishing fundamental principles that determine the evolution of matter and consciousness. Humans are created in the image and likeness of the Creator, possessing the capacity for creativity, self-awareness, and possessing free will. Thus, human beings can participate in the process of creating the world by contributing through thoughts, words and actions. Human beings in this sense are themselves the creators to the extent of their understanding of the world. It could also be said that the entire universe is at work in each of us to make us aware of ourselves.
Information created by human beings - be it brilliant movies, books, music or scientific discoveries - is an expression of the human spirit and intellectual potential. Such information has the power to influence the minds of others, to shape culture, values and even to change the course of history. Information acts here as an instrument of creation. When information is disseminated and perceived by a large number of people, it becomes part of the collective consciousness. This is reflected in changing societal norms and technologies.
From a spiritual perspective, when people create information that carries deep truths, beauty and the pursuit of perfection, they are acting in harmony with the Creator's design. Their work becomes an extension of the divine act of creation, enriching the world and contributing to its evolution. There is an interaction with the ideas of the Creator. Sometimes one can notice this directly through the effects of synchronicity [ 102 ] or apophenia [ 103 ].
In today's world, technology allows for instantaneous dissemination of information across the globe. This increases the influence of human ideas and raises questions about how to utilize this power in accordance with divine principles. Conscious creativity inspired by divine principles allows people to not only influence reality, but to participate in the process of creating the world, guiding it toward harmony and perfection.
I will now briefly touch on the concept of artificial neural networks and their training by back propagation of error. Now it is school level [ 104 ], but in my school days it was not talked about in classes at all. The author has some experience in training neural networks of various types, up to GPT-2.
So, we have layers consisting of elementary cells - neurons. Each artificial (program) neuron has many inputs and one output. Also, each neuron on a higher layer is usually connected with all neurons of the previous layer. The weights (values) of these connections are different for each neuron. Therefore, each neuron will have its own unique contribution to the overall output after training the network. At the output of one single neuron at the topmost layer, we get the result of the entire neural network. During training, we use the data from the training sample. The concept of "epoch", as applied to neural networks, is a complete training cycle: one full run of training data through the neural network in its entirety and one cycle of error back propagation. Several units to several thousand epochs are required for sufficient training of a neural network. In each training cycle, the output result is compared with the expected result given in the training sample. The calculated error allows the weights of connections between neurons in layers to be adjusted as part of the back propagation algorithm.
Interestingly, the very structure of self-selection among humans described above (humans > tzadiks > sages) is actually analogous to a giant neural network. The error for backpropagation in this case is determined by tzadikim and sages. An epoch is one generation of people, i.e. about 20 years. Thus, the number of completed epochs since the beginning of "evolutionary neural network learning" is already more than a hundred.
The human brain is obviously a huge neural network in itself. With the advent of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the similarities between the results of human and artificial neural network thinking are striking. Actually humanity and the whole biological world is in fact a huge neural network consisting of separate biological neural networks. But unlike artificial neural network, all representatives of biological world have consciousness.
Here I have to give a clear definition of consciousness: in spite of the fact that this question is still considered to be open today, the author can say the following: consciousness is everything connected with experiences. Consciousness is responsible for the whole range of feelings, from primitive feelings such as pain or smell to complex feelings related to attitudes towards other people or events. The neural network itself is not capable of feeling or experiencing, it is a computing machine in its purest form. A neural network is the embodiment of intelligence. The process of thinking is the awareness of mathematical operations taking place in the neural cells of the brain. In essence, thinking, understanding, realizing are all peculiar feelings. Consciousness inputs information into the brain like a computer and outputs it, receiving the result of calculations. Consciousness sets a task and intellect solves it. The gift of consciousness is obviously connected with the Creator. Consciousness is not artificial. Human consciousness controls both its organic neural network (in the head) and artificial neural networks like ChatGPT in the outside world.
This clear boundary between consciousness and intelligence, between the living and the non-living, allows us to free ourselves from misconceptions and organize the chaos in the issue of consciousness and neural networks. One of the misconceptions in this regard is the belief in the possibility of consciousness in artificial intelligence. Neural network intelligence is artificial and will remain so. It will never become alive. Our human consciousness will control it just as it controls the neural network in our own brain. That's my belief.
Interestingly, the analogy with the neural network can also be made on the scale of the entire universe. Thus, cells for recording parameters (connection weights) are elementary particles in the state of uncertainty (particle or wave). The links between such cells are fundamental interactions: electromagnetic, gravitational, strong and weak (perhaps there are still undiscovered forces).
Here, apparently, it is necessary to draw some conclusions by concluding this section and returning to its main topic. But let that work be left to the reader.
Quote: the whole universe is at work in each of us.
List of primary sources
Next, I will list the main primary sources (books, articles, brochures, videos) whose study led me to such stunning discoveries. I will try to reveal the reference points for each of them. I will especially note that without familiarization with primary sources, the respected reader will not be able to make an objective independent conclusion. In this case, you will have to take my word for it) Well, let's go!
TheBible: Old and New Testaments. The best Bible translation in the world at the moment is by Jehovah's Witnesses. It's a modern language. The author studied the Russian-language version. This translation is known for its commitment to accurately conveying the meaning of the original ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. This translation of the Bible reads easily like a normal book. The Bible is a must-read.
Michael Lightman, Kabbalist: Here is one short informative video featuring Michael Lightman [ 105 ]. Michael teaches Kabbalah [ 106 ] to all comers, including non-Jewish people. In doing so, he has overcome considerable resistance from the Jewish elite. This is a major contribution to the fight against anti-Semitism around the world.
Jewish Culture: on Andrei Burenok's channel there are several videos with Sergei Avstrub. Here is one of them [ 107 ]. The video is quite informative. It is about numerous features and differences of Jewish culture from other cultures. It discusses, among other things, how Jews work on their character traits in order to eliminate personality flaws.
The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion (hereafter referred to as the Protocols): Wikipedia has labeled this document as a falsified anti-Semitic document [ 108 ]. On the other hand, on August 19, 2020, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declassified the document of the same name. As a result, the Protocols were automatically published online on both the FBI's website and a related linked Twitter account (now X). Here is one of the links to that news [ 109 ]. The Protocols were classified for exactly 100 years. It should be noted that the link to the document itself was removed after outcry from the Jewish community.
Now to the essence of the document. This is an example of a super-intellectual program of actions, designed for a period of about a hundred years. It is about manipulation of peoples by means of introduction of ideas for the purpose of achievement of world domination. The secret of success of the Protocols, mentioned in passing in the text, is reduced to the fact that the goyim (non-Jews) do not have access to such deep strings of the mind as the authors of this text. The following passage from the Protocols also has a profound meaning: "when we finally reign, the goyim will only begin to listen to Moses' sermons". In addition, and you can see it for yourself by studying the original Protocols, there are quite radical means of eliminating those who disobeyed. Namely special means of causing fatal diseases in a person. Thus the executions of apostates are disguised as death from natural causes.
The fact that a secret FBI document managed to be labeled in the open Internet space as a falsified anti-Semitic document speaks of the intellectual superiority of the group of people who carried it out. Here the author would like to urge the reader not to rush to accuse anyone, neither me nor the Jews. Read carefully what follows. I want to show you that within the framework of the formation of the human species and before the face of the Creator it is pointless to accuse anyone. It is much more correct to focus on self-development and passing on to the next generation, the children, a corrected version of ourselves.
"Memories of a Stock Speculator" by Edmin Lefebvre: This is a terrific educational book on the subject of investing. It outlines the biography of Jesse Livermore, an early 20th century stock speculator of Jewish descent. Jesse Livermore is famous for the fact that at a young age, watching stock quotes that he himself wrote on a blackboard while working as a stockbroker, he was able to catch the patterns. This allowed him to further as several times to earn, and then to lose fortunes of millions of dollars. He bankrupted more than one brokerage firm by making extremely successful bets. He is also known for his short selling during the stock market crashes of 1907 and 1929.
Why am I bringing this book here? The point is that for me there was an obvious correlation between the cold calculating mind of this Jewish young man competently shown by the author on the pages of the book, and the style of presentation of the "Protocols of the Sages of Zion". At the same time Jesse Livermore demonstrated his superiority in reality. Of course, this is not to say that absolutely all Jews have outstanding intelligence. Jesse, by the way, eventually committed suicide due to depression. This suggests that intellectual superiority does not always correlate with superiority in the amount of happiness in life. But to suggest that this nation produces some of the most intelligent people can be assumed. This would be consistent with the laws of genetics and epigenetics for populations. And if we add to this the mechanism of self-selection, presumably laid down by Moses in the oral Torah (i.e. careful observation of changes in generations), then the emergence of a certain superiority of the Jewish group, accumulated over thousands of years, is quite explainable.
The Matrix trilogy: it's a movie with a double context. Agent Smith's key phrases (quoted from memory): "Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. And humans are dinosaurs", "The revolution happened when machines started thinking for you", "The Blind Messiah is the symbol of your species", "We are the masters here".
"Animatrix": an expository animated movie from the creators of The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers (now sisters). The movie consists of several episodes in which several important theses are set. The most important of these is the indication that the machines (and agents in The Matrix) are Jewish people. This follows from the brief insertion of swastika and Nazi symbols in the context of the machines destroying humans. In one of the episodes, two researchers, talking to each other, note that they have intelligence, implying that others do not. Also important is the thesis in Animatrix: "Thy grace be upon all forms of intelligence", implying the existence of different forms of intelligence.
"Wild West World": this is a series with a double context. Androids in this TV series are ordinary humans who do not evolve further in the course of evolution. We belong to this species of humans. We are characterized by short (even ultra-short) historical memory and focus only on current events. As a result, we perform the same actions from generation to generation like robots. Even whole nations repeat the same mistakes. In one of the seasons of the series demonstrates a supercomputer, which, among other things, predicts and controls the fate of ordinary people. I note that having the gift of intellectual superiority, manipulation of people and nations can be entrusted to a supercomputer. At some point in the future, people receive a message about the real state of affairs. It comes as a shock. Panic, suicides and uncontrolled massacres begin. Watching the show for ordinary people is entertainment, but for initiated viewers a possible outcome is demonstrated.
The author realizes that this item of the Program is also an information bomb in its own way. At least for those people who are ready to perceive reality as it is. For such people this information will be a revelation. I will immediately limit the fantasies of anti-Semites. For them, first of all, it will be useful to understand the enormity of the course of evolution and to have the patience to read this text to the end.
Tanya [ 110 ]: - is the foundational book on Hasidism, the main creation of the Old Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur-Zalman (1746-1813; 5505-5573 in Jewish chronology), the founder of the Hasidic teaching of Chabad [ 111 ]. Chabad, in turn a Jewish religious movement, is also called Lubavitch Hasidism. Chabad's network of branches has spread throughout the world. For example, in Germany Chabad is represented in 18 cities [ 112 ], in Russia in 46 cities, in the United States about 100 cities. In total there are about 1500 branches of this organization.
The book of Tanya is freely available on the Internet [ 113 ]. According to the materials stated in Taniya, in the branches of the Chabad organization classes are organized where both children and adults can attend, but only Jews. In this connection it is obligatory to watch the interview of journalist Tatiana Krotova [ 114 ], who worked for several years as an assistant rabbi in the Chabad center of Perm region (Russia). Tatyana shared her observations and impressions from several years in a Jewish religious organization. Among other things, the journalist touched upon the idea of ethnic superiority of Jews actively cultivated among Chabad members, which undoubtedly fuels latent Jewish chauvinism and, accordingly, the negative reaction of ordinary people. Among other things, as shown in the interview, in the schools of the Chabad organization (in Russia) on holidays children play with gallows and natural animal sacrifices take place.
However, the Taniyah is recommended to be read in its entirety. It contains the deepest meaning in the direction of human self-development. The book describes ways for man to come out of the animal state. But one should be prepared for the fact that the author of this book has not counted on beginners. It is the quintessence of thousands of years of hard mental labor of many generations of people. Such a combination of knowledge of human qualities (sfirot), description of their interaction and simultaneous striving for knowledge of the Creator can be found nowhere except in Judaism. This book contains direct and indirect confirmations of the concepts presented here.
The concept of the interaction between Divine light and the vessels (in Tanya and Kabbalah) that receive it explains the existence of different levels of reality. I will make the assumption that the levels of reality are just the maximum possible amount of perception (vessel) for a particular kind of being. The perception of, say, intestinal bacteria is one of the smallest. They are unable to understand what their host is doing and why. For animals, such as sheep, the world is more diverse, but their perception is unable to understand the intentions of more evolved beings, humans. There is even an appropriate saying: "all my life a sheep was afraid of wolves, but the shepherd ate it". In the same way, the perception of ordinary people is not able to understand the intentions and management styles of more highly developed people. Actually this material is intended to open the curtain on this topic.
"Prometheus": a movie with a double context. It is an attempt to comprehend its place in the universe and its possible origin. A notable fact from the movie: an android servant while traveling on a spaceship watches the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" in his spare time. This is a biographical movie about the fate of Jewish-born British intelligence officer Lawrence, who worked during World War I in Syria in active cooperation with Arab nomads and was nicknamed "The Arabian" for this reason. Lawrence actively infiltrated the Arabs, imbibed their spirit and essentially led the Arabs' guerrilla war against the Ottoman Empire (the so-called "Desert War"). The screenplay is based on Lawrence's autobiographical bestseller "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," as well as historical research by Lawrence's biographers.
"Give a Sign": a thriller set in 2024. Here, the pattern about ordinary people with ultra-short historical memories and a focus only on current events is played up with the help of women invited by a wealthy businessman to his own island. When people start to remember "their real history" (in the movie this is achieved by taking an antidote), in a fit of anger there is an uncontrollable massacre. The protagonist, the owner of the island, who remembers himself "from his childhood," takes it all calmly. In the final scene of the film he apologizes repeatedly (the apology scene itself is quite unusual) but still says that forgiveness does not exist. The author adds that forgiveness, in the context of evolution, really does not exist. After all, if you look at the animals that eat each other alive every day, what forgiveness can we talk about? There is only purification and self-development in the pursuit of the Creator. This is where man differs from animals. Let me repeat the above here: Beinoni is an ideal to which everyone can aspire. Unlike a righteous man (tzadik) who has completely overcome his animal soul, a beinoni still experiences temptations, but successfully copes with them.
The title of the film "Give a sign" in sum with its contents can be interpreted as a search for the Savior. After all, according to legends, a man must be born who will unite the whole world, reconcile all peoples and ensure the further harmonious development of all mankind.
"Avatar": avatars are humans, humans are a super intelligent race ... just kidding) Avatar is a brilliant movie with no double context. So how do you recognize movies with high-level messaging after all? First, it's a pattern on the theme of short memory and focusing only on current events, performing repetitive robot- or android-style actions. This is a consistent characteristic of our species. And from a scriptural perspective, these can be completely different storylines. Second, key veiled phrases or ideas about evolution, development, intellectual superiority, DNA. All of this will be presented with scripted reference to different kinds of beings, most often humans, androids, or robots. Thirdly, it could be veiled Old Testament motifs or it could be modern technology aimed at altering human abilities.
So why doesn't Avatar qualify as a dual-context movie? It's down to the personality of the director. James Cameron, who was given an advantage by nature, is in search of the best use of it. It is clear from his statements that he is quite aware of his gift, but he is not always sure where it will work best.
The youtube channel "Dawn": this is an excellent opportunity to look behind the scenes of world politics. The possibility of existence of a seemingly isolated channel on youtube is dictated by the fact of extreme segmentation of infospace of social networks and services. It is about the fact that even a very sociable and curious person is not able to know and be subscribed to all known bloggers, even with a number of subscribers over a million. The Dawn channel is intended for viewing by a limited interested audience, whose members receive individual invitations. The channel's direction is based on the dialog between Igor Berkut and Mark. Mark always stays behind the scenes and asks questions to Berkut. Igor Berkut [ 115 ] is an example of a radical chauvinist and a former Ukrainian politician and public figure. He is best known for being the author of the idea and executive director of the Heavenly Jerusalem project [ 116 ]. I.e. the creation of "New Israel" in a part of Ukraine, consisting of Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Mykolayiv regions. I note that the above information pages on allll.net were created by the author back in 2019. That is, before the moment of my discovery of the concept of evolutionary development of man and the division into two kinds of people has already taken place.
So, till the end of 2029 it is planned to arrive to the New Homeland about 5 million Jews for building of New Jerusalem. Prime Minister of Israel B.Netanyahu has already discussed the organization of resettlement and settlement of Jews, as well as possible economic and political assistance in the implementation of the project, with the current (at that time) Prime Minister of Ukraine V.Groysman, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation D.A.Medvedev, senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump and a member of the influential Jewish organization Chabad Lubavitch, Jared Kushner. Polish Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz is advising the project. The project receives support from well-known public figures, political scientists and analysts: V. Pozner, J. Cadmy, V. Solovyov, E. Satanovsky, D. Gordon, D. Dzhangirov, M. Pogribinsky, R. Bortnik.
Despite the scale of the project and its coordination with high-ranking people, it is not covered either in the world or even in the local Ukrainian press. The exception is the Israeli press. Almost all information about the project realization comes from its executive director Igor Berkut on the Rassvet channel.
Igor Berkut, among other things, was directly involved in the filming of the movie "Korban's Heart". The movie was conceived with the purpose of informational influence on Ukrainians, who after watching it, and according to the idea of its creators, were to elect Svyatoslav Vakarchuk as President of Ukraine. In the process of coordinating the budget of this movie with the Russian Cinema Support Fund, V. Medinsky said, in particular, the following: "based on the script, the movie will be about the future president of Ukraine". As a result, the movie was never released. Roman Vasilishin shared the following information in an interview with the Rassvet channel: "after Svyatoslav Vakarchuk himself watched this video ("Korban's Heart" on the Rassvet channel), his "psychological catastrophe" began. You know the ending of the story: in the end, another movie was made. More precisely the TV series "Servant of the People" and V. Zelensky became the president.
Let me explain how I see this historical episode for Ukraine and its background. I.Berkut and many other participants tried to make the president a person who could be further manipulated through advisers and a whole network of influence. This attempt failed because although the Rassvet channel was oriented to a specific audience of the initiated, it was freely available to the invited viewers via "telephone radio" and finally came to the eyes of Vakarchuk himself. After the disruption of this presidential project with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, the initiative was taken over by other influential participants, but without publicizing their plans on open media platforms.
The author has nothing against making movies or even TV series about presidential candidates. On the contrary, it would be great if each party had the opportunity to openly inform the public about its candidate in such a format. But with the Rassvet channel it is obvious that through the series a fictional idea of a brave and just man, a hero, was "poured" into the minds of Ukrainians. The goals of the series production were hidden. This is a good example for understanding the concept of manipulating entire nations through ideas. It is a powerful confirmation of the very possibility of information transfer through popular (and popularity tends to be artificially fueled in the press) movies with a double context.
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It is after the esteemed reader has reached this point that his awakening, of which I spoke above, may begin. But don't jump to conclusions, read to the end.
Here I conclude the enumeration of primary sources. Their thorough study will help you in comprehending the reality. I should note that in order to grasp the connections between all of the above sources and come to the same conclusion, it is necessary not only to be familiar with them, but also to have curiosity, well-developed intuition and sensitivity.
It is also clear that the very subject matter discussed in this paragraph, i.e. the evolutionary approach and the concept of intellectual superiority of a group, does not always imply that there is clear and convincing evidence for what is going on. The clear evidence that is available can only confirm a piece of information. Sometimes there is only circumstantial evidence. It is the dual context movie sequence that is only indirectly corroborated at this point.
Quote:Tanakh.Sophony 3:13 - "The remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness..." The verse describes the remnant of Israel who will be righteous and will not do unrighteousness, lie or have a deceitful tongue.
About the previous version of paragraph 20 of the Program
I understand your mixed feelings. In early October 2024, thanks to providence, I was fortunate enough to understand what was happening, at least in part. After that point 20 of this Program was completely rewritten. The first version referred to the adoption of the "Law on Historical Sources Inciting Intolerance and Contempt for Other Peoples". According to this law, all information sources, books, which influence and bear the potential of inciting interethnic and interethnic discord in our era, should be republished and accompanied by comments against all controversial statements and quotations. Such sources as the Bible, Talmud, Taniya, Koran and other literature were meant.
The author saw the solution to the problem of chauvinism and anti-Semitism in the creation of critical editions of these historical sources. A good example in the proposed direction, which created a precedent, is the reprinting in 2017 of the book "Mein Kampf" [ 117 ]. This work in the original is extremist in nature, but in the new critical edition all misanthropic statements are accompanied by comments.
The author believed that only in this case it would be possible to make the EU truly multicultural. And the adoption of the above-mentioned law will help to free people from chauvinistic and anti-Semitic views.
In general, this proposal is still relevant in the light of the new context. But it is not possible to elaborate on it here.
Combating anti-Semitism and chauvinism
Let us return to the subject of the 20th point of this Program, namely to the method of ridding the world of anti-Semitism and chauvinism. For this purpose, I will briefly describe the nature of anti-Semitism once again using the evolutionary approach. As it is known, the formation of new species of living beings occurs also in the moments of the emergence of their exclusive behavior. For humans, these were, in particular, the transition to erectness and the replacement of strong alpha male leaders by individuals who exhibited more reasonableness instead of strength. The transformation of species may have lasted millions of years. But with the appearance of the first man, who realized his unity with all living things and felt in himself the spark of the Creator (we can call him Adam), everything changed. The course of evolution already takes thousands of years, not millions of years. The laws of genetics and epigenetics allowed one ethnic group to stand out, which has not lost its uniqueness to this day. In the course of "conscious evolution" as stated above, the Jewish group gained a significant intellectual superiority.
Now to quote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "When a man thinks deeply and seriously, he does not do well among the general public." So, to some extent, this may apply to an entire nation. In such a situation, "biological chauvinism" naturally arises. Anti-Semitism is a consequence of Jewish chauvinism. I hope I have managed to show at least partially the enormity of the problem of anti-Semitism. But at the same time it is simply a fascinating story of humanity.
The author is sure that if people familiarize themselves with and accept the concept of evolutionary approach and the concept of self-improvement of society in the pursuit of cognition of the qualities of the Creator, the world will finally become a joyful place for everyone. Generalized: anti-Semitism comes from misunderstanding, and chauvinism, on the contrary, from understanding. Both phenomena are personality defects.
As a result, as a cure for anti-Semitism and chauvinism, the author proposes the following:
- To adopt from Judaism the structure: people > tzadikim > sages detailed above. This will give an evolutionary impetus to society based on the laws of epigenetics.
- It is necessary to study the Bible, the Tanya and the Kabbalah. The Bible (especially the Old Testament) is useful as a valuable historical document. It is not about religious teachings, Tanya and Kabbalah are about self-development. Note: Judaism focuses on collective salvation and world improvement, while Christianity often emphasizes individual salvation and eschatological events.
- There is a need to adapt the texts of the above and other relevant books for a wider audience. This can be done within the framework of the "Act on Topical Historical Sources of a potentially chauvinistic nature or inciting intolerance and contempt for other peoples or ethnic groups".
- The study of history needs to be made engaging, interdisciplinary, holistic, concise. A good approach has been suggested by Yuval Noah Harari. His book "Sapiens. A Brief History of Humanity" is aimed at a wide audience. Harari combines data from different fields of knowledge: history, biology, anthropology, psychology, sociology and economics. This makes his approach more comprehensive, allowing human history to be viewed not only as a series of events, but also as a process of interaction between biological and cultural factors. This synthesis helps explain global phenomena, such as how the cognitive revolution gave Homo sapiens an advantage over other species.
Quote:Tanakh.Jeremiah 31:33 - God's law will be written in the hearts of men
Additional philosophical-dialectical motivation for self-development
Background / facts:
- all people are born, i.e., arise as if from nowhere;
- all people die, i.e. disappear as if from nowhere;
- a great number of species of living organisms exist on the Earth simultaneously: animals, birds, fish, insects, bacteria, etc...;
- the consciousness of humans and any other living organisms are separate;
- life on Earth does not disappear anywhere after the death of individuals or living organisms, life continues;
A very interesting conclusion follows from these initial data/facts: as long as we are alive, we are somehow protected from reproducing in other kinds of living organisms. Conversely, after death, there is a high probability of realizing ourselves in any other kind of living beings. And we are not talking about "transmigration of souls" or "afterlife" here - it is just a dialectical task for the mind.
This text correlates with my post "What is the probability of being human?" [ 118 ]
So, life is so arranged that all kinds of consciousnesses (or souls) intermingle in the reproduction cycles of individual consciousnesses. These natural mechanisms sort of cause you to live out many "roles" again in the reproduction cycles of life. It means that if you cause pain or suffering to someone now (the opposite is also true: joy and happiness), then after the cycle of your life is over, you will realize yourself in the role of the second party due to equal probability. The only positive way out of this cycle of life is to make everyone more or less happy. Then after the next reproduction of life you are guaranteed to be protected from pain and suffering.
Hence the conclusion: study history, "remember yourself from childhood", remember what you "born before" went through, remember what all mankind went through. Correct, develop, improve yourself. Eliminate all your personal shortcomings. Bring benefit and happiness to people around you. Know that it is possible!
World centers of positive influence of the future
Of course, naturally and according to the laws of nature, the individuals who have both inherited and nurtured the best character traits, powerful intellect and the most powerful influence on people should govern mankind. This would be fair. Two (or three) world centers of positive influence seems to be the ideal picture of sustainable humanity.
A riddle
With your permission, let me give you a riddle. Imagine that you have to take out and throw away a small bag of garbage. Under what circumstances could this trash be the most valuable thing in the universe? View answer >>- Only if that trash were your sins and personal shortcomings.
The author hopes for support in implementing all the points and theses of this Program.
Quote: "What you can perceive calmly, no longer controls you"
accomplished:
Stages of the Program implementation
- Creation of a webpage displaying the status of the Program's theses implementation. This web page will be a provider of objective information about the actions towards the implementation of this Program and their progress. Available progress up to 10%.
- Party Creation. Announcement of intentions on the Program theses by the EU government. Available progress up to 20 %.
- More detailed elaboration and preparation of the plan for implementation. The work should be distributed among motivated people and experts in relevant fields. This stage should take no more than three months. Available progress up to 50%.
- Sequential implementation of the Program theses as the legislative framework is ready. Further development of legislative acts. Further elaboration. Another three months are allocated for this stage. Available progress up to 80%.
- The next six months are given to control over the implementation of theses of the Program and jewelry adjustment. Progress up to 100%.
- another 4 years to control the implementation of the Program theses.
The author of this Program is grateful to Janka Partisanka for constructive criticism.
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