The Committee commandeers the sleigh and takes the reins; both Erik and your humble substitute teacher have been belted into the back seat, huge pacifiers stuck into our mouths as The Committee cracks the whip and pursues answers to three good questions asked in the previous post. Watch out, Dasher! Steady there Dancer, Prancer and Vixen! Easy there Comet, Cupid, Donner and let’s go, Blitzen!! Whew….and Christmas is still more than five months off…..
BMQ = Blog member question, C = The Committee
Commerce
BMQ: “Some things I haven’t sorted out yet–after the shift, it seems we’ll still need plenty of commerce. The discussions have mentioned schools, hospitals, doctors, nurses, and the like. It seems manufacturing may shift from luxuries to necessities. We’ll still need products to build hospitals and schools, to train doctors and whomever else is employed. We’ll still need farms to produce the apple trees and other food items. But I don’t sense we’ll have anything resembling “full employment.” What will drive some to be doctors, teachers, or farmers while others simply rock on their porches? Who will feed, house, clothe, teach, and nurse the rockers? I seem to be missing a big piece in this puzzle.”
C: “If the world is to remain as it operates now, the ideas of luxuries, necessities and employment, all a concern would they be. The ideas and attitudes that as humans you have, will not be the same as you now hold them. The changes to the way the world operates will be significant and from these ideas will rise a new point-of-view and new way to see your surroundings, your societies and your role in life.
What is produced and consumed, and what you deem a luxury or a necessity will all come to have new definitions. Look at the most recent history of your Earth, from the years just before your First World War until this moment now; what devices, tools, technologies and methods have been developed and what services deemed luxurious then are now a necessity? And so shifts in ideas and attitudes will continue, they will.
You ask what might drive the doctor, teacher or farmer in the future where others would sit idle? To this we say what drives these activities now? The motivations will not shrink and fade; the way you all see what surrounds you today will not be as this, in your future. This is the reason you came to Earth, all of you. It is the reason we are here to contact you.”
Parasitic Bankers
BMQ: “Yes I was thinking globally as well though. I would think that with the collapse of the parasitic international banking system people would have access to their resources and be able to have enough food and water. However perhaps Erik was referencing droughts; I am hoping that the collective consciousness can make it so droughts and destruction of food sources doesn’t happen though.”
C: “Interesting the description of international banking as parasitic yet it is not this way. Unlike a parasite, feeding upon hosts for sole benefit, banking has provided a service from which gain it derives. No advance in society on your Earth there has been where the lending, holding and managing of money were not a necessary component. Service was provided, for benefit and gain of all. To describe banking as parasitic would mean that all customers are manipulated against better interest for sole benefit of the bank. Is there not competition to whom customers can move as they discover dislike for what they have? Do the employees believe the bank is bad and why would they remain then? To describe a business as parasitic must likewise examine history, growth and the reasons it became this way; were customers tricked and fooled and was service received inferior? If true, why did the enterprise propser and grow?
Advances in travel and communications over the last 150 of your years have greatly expanded inter-nation commerce, not so long after sovereign nation inter-relations arose. The results have brought previously unknown things to a region, largely to benefit inhabitants. Much development, employment and charity have resulted; is perfection to now be a requirement in all cases and will local benefits, employment, development and reinvestment never be considered also?
Are businesses to be run as charity for no gain and if required, how far would any advance, if even begun? Complaint of the international bank should fairly include the factory built to produce the device consumers now have for the price more attractive than if made in their nation of residence, a device used to protest the business that provided the finance for it, without which the device would not exist or be too costly? Is it reasonable to expect any business to operate for free; no gain?
Against recent economic turmoil , businesses have attempted survival and prosperity and gained mistrust for it; in some cases, well earned distrust, of this we know. If the business can be made to disappear, what then of the employees, their personal obligations and what of investor owners that took risks and invested? Less faith in working for or investing will there be. Is this a preferred route?
We do say you shall all see these questions answered and most important of all will be the rise in attitude and awareness of your societies and role of business. There is much ground to cover and we can assure you all, it will be an interesting journey you all shall see.”
The Travel Experience
BMQ: “ ‘Society on Earth will be much more localized and little desire will there be to travel as is done now. There will be little reason to do it for commercial purposes and little desire for what is called tourism.’
This makes me sad and confused. I am a big proponent for cultural exchange and directly experiencing the many wondrous natural landscapes and manmade architecture/art across the planet. I’ve made friends in different countries—many of whom I’ve yet to visit in their homes due to work/family/financial constraints but during my poorer youth I managed to travel economically by youth hostel and through foreign exchange host family/study abroad programs. When I read this and previous posts related to significantly decreased travel, I can only imagine two scenarios—that the global economy is so poor and unstable that traveling is perilous and out of reach for most, or that we’re either too consumed and self absorbed or too narrow minded with our own local issues that we lose our desire to experience the cultures and landscapes of others (i.e. we adopt small town mentality). I realize we are more connected globally through social media–sitting at home in front of a computer screen though just isn’t the same. Can anyone offer a more positive scenario for why we would lose our desire to explore and experience through travel? Watching the travel channel to me is fun—but only when I can envision or fool myself into thinking I may someday get to see it in person. Are we just all going to develop into such great astral travelers that we won’t need to physically travel to get these experiences?”
C: “We thank you for this question and do say it emphasizes the key aspects of what is to change on your Earth; ideas and perspectives and approaches. The inability travel by current methods will drop off but in time alternate methods will replace them. This is not to say tourism and travel will resume a pace and rhythm that exist at this moment; because they will not. The desire arises from humanity’s perceived ability to travel and visit; the idea of a vacation halfway around the Earth did not exist before aircraft. Society evolved and advanced before this, certainly.
Two of your weeks of each solar rotation – an Earth year – is between three to four percent. Visiting other nations for this amount of time will provide a certain effect but is it a diversion for entertainment or will it become enlightenment on a different level? Consider 4 years of education, 1/5 of the lifetime of a 20 year old, and for a 25 year old person with 16 to 18 total years dedicated to study, this fills one quarter. How much influence will 4% have relative to the 20 or 25%? The effect depends much on the ideas and attitudes such visitor invests in what is seen.
The notions of self absorption and narrow minds are relative; does a different idea naturally default to a self absorbed definition and what is the definition? If a mind is narrow, what broadens it? The desire to visit and explore Earth through travel will not be lost; the ability to embrace and learn a different idea will not require it, as travel is perceived to be today. Yet travel you will.
The notions of narrow versus broad, self absorbed versus expanded will all be altered and the view taken now will not be as the concepts are viewed; the operation of your Earth will be overhauled.”
