Upside-down World

Living in an upside-down World

No, I am not referring to people living in the southern hemisphere. Nor am I talking aboutscience-fiction. Instead I would like to analyse the world we live in, the here and now. The world wehumans have constructed and that has become our outside world, the environment in which weneed to thrive. To any living organism its outside world has to be a feeding ground. It has to containmore than enough supporting elements to sustain life, even when circumstances within the outsideworld temporarily change. I am interested to know how well our human society stands up againstscrutiny in terms of being a supportive environment for all individuals, all humans, living within it.

The main four pillars of society - economy, education, healthcare, the justice system -highlight the components needed to create a prosperous and healthy community. Each of thesepillars provides essential services required for a well-functioning society.

Economy

An economic system is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goodsand services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions, agencies,decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of agiven community.

I can’t find any reference to the needs of the individual in this description. An individual onlyseems important as far as his or her ‘pattern of consumption’ is concerned.

The factors of production, such as land, capital, labour, and physical resources, are regulated by economic systems.

Production, by whatever means, is regulated by the economy, not by the needs of the individual.

There are various economic systems, none of which are based on the needs of the individual.

They only differ in who is in charge of economic activity.

The traditional economic system is founded on exchanging goods, services, and labour, following well-established patterns. Societies with traditional economiesdepend on agriculture, fishing, hunting, gathering, or some combination of these. Economists and anthropologists generally believe that all economies originated from traditional economic systems. As a result, many experts expect the remaining traditional economies will eventually transition into other types of economies.
In a command system, a powerful centralised authority – usually the government – is in charge of a large section of the economy. Either the government or a collectiveowns the land and the means of production. This central authority typically determines what goods should be produced, how much should be produced, and the prices at which the goods are offered to the community.
The principle of free markets underpins market economic systems. A market economy is an economic system in which individuals, rather than the state, own most of the resources. This includes land, labour, and capital. In a market economy, individuals control the use and price of these resources through voluntary decisions made in the marketplace. Supporters of market economies argue that these economies have led to unprecedented development and growth. Critics say market economies can disenfranchise vulnerable groups and lead to inequality. Ownership is a privilege enjoyed by very few.

Hence, whatever economic system is used, the individual is not only not in charge of it, but is under the command of either the government or individuals with means and power. Such individuals may join together to strengthen their collective power over the economy. The economy is owned by either the government or individuals.

Economic growth is an increase in the production of economic goods and services in one period of time compared with a previous period. It can be measured in nominal or real terms. The most common measure of economic growth is real GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Real GDP takes into account the effects of inflation, while nominal GDP does not.

Economic growth benefits the owner of the economy.

Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, which follow a curriculum. Non-formal education also follows a structured approach but occurs outside the formal schooling system, while informal education entails unstructured learning through daily experiences. Non-formal education refers to a wide range of educational initiatives in the community, ranging from home-based learning to government schemes and community initiatives. It includes accredited courses run by well-established institutions as well as locally based operations with little funding.

Simply put, education enables children to acquire knowledge and skills that will help them to become successful members of society. This core purpose of education can be broken down into four basic purposes.

Personal: Education should enable young people to engage with the world within them as well as the world around them. It is about cultivating the minds and hearts of living people.

Cultural: To put it more bluntly, it is “the way we do things around here”.

Economic: Education should enable students to become economically responsible and independent.

Social: The empowerment of individuals has to be balanced by practicing the values and responsibilities of collective life, and of democracy in particular.

In short, the aim of education is to ensure that young people are moulded to fit into society. This means that education is absolutely essential in shaping and maintaining a society.

Society is formed by a group of people who have agreed to work together. They make laws and decisions. However, when an individual is born, he or she is born into a society. There is no question about whether or not that individual agrees to join the society. He or she is, by birth, a part of that society. Education is a tool that is used to make this individual accept and support the society he or she is born into. With this purpose in mind, governments made education compulsory. Compulsory education refers to a period of education that is required of all people and is imposed by the government. This education may take place at a registered school or at home or other places. Compulsory school attendance or compulsory schooling, on the other hand, means that parents are obliged to send their children to a state-approved school, which means that non-formal and informal learning are no longer being considered as a valuable educational process.

Children, indeed, need to be educated in one specific way. The definition of education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, which the child will get from the moment it is surrounded by adults who guide the growing child into their community. Another meaning of education is an enlightening experience, which refers to the step from knowing something cognitively to real knowledge. One can learn things simply by copying others but own experience leads to the real ‘knowing’, to having gained a deep understanding of the subject matter. However, submerging children in a selected knowledge, in a very specific way to view reality, accepting and adhering to very specific values and judgements, paves the way for a pre-set interpretation of their experiences. Those who hold power, be it political or economic, found in the school system the most effective tool for the training of subjects or citizens to become what they want them to be.

Compulsory education benefits the existing society.

Healthcare

The definition of healthcare is the organised provision of medical care to individuals or to a community. An individual caring for his own health is not considered healthcare. According to the World Health Organisation a healthcare system consists of all organisations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health. As with other social institutional structures, healthcare systems are likely to reflect the history, culture and economics of the states in which they evolve. These peculiarities bedevil and complicate international comparisons and preclude any universal standard of performance. The management of any healthcare system istypically directed through a set of policies and plans adopted by government, private sector business and other groups in areas such as personal healthcare delivery and financing, pharmaceuticals, health human resources, and public health.

Hence, all healthcare systems are created and run by governments and/or private businesses. Governments, in general terms, finance a healthcare system through a compulsory social insurance programme (taxation). Many commercial health insurers control their costs by restricting the benefits provided, by such means as deductibles, co-payments, co-insurance, policy exclusions, and total coverage limits. They will also severely restrict or refuse coverage of pre-existing conditions. In other words, healthcare systems are big business!

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. Public health professionals try to prevent problems from happening or recurring through implementing educational programmes, recommending policies, administering services and conducting research.

Public health, the main concern of governments, is about implementing education and policies. They impose their will upon the entire population. They promote what they have determined to be healthy lifestyles. The same advice for everybody, irrespective of who you are, where you live and what your personal circumstances are.They research disease, not health, and yet they decide what is healthy for you.4They react to infectious diseases, based on their theory of how these occur. Scientific research over almost two centuries has proven their theory to be completely false.

Healthcare delivery systems typically include healthcare providers, insurers, and government regulators.

Health care delivery is measured in terms of cost, method of payment, regulation, and quality of care. The healthcare providers are private organisations, being paid by governments with public funds. These organisations can only continue working when their business is profitable and governments remain willing to pay the asking price for their services. Insurers are private businesses, that can only continue to deliver payments for healthcare services for as long as the financial contributions of their clients outweigh their cost for healthcare services. The purpose of the regulation of health and social care professions is to protect the public from the risk of harm from the provision of health and social care services. This indicates that the government expects healthcare services, which are all provided by private institutions, to cause harm to individuals. And yet, they allow this kind of healthcare service to continue, in fact they promote and protect it, through regulation, by banning all other, non-approved, services.

Healthcare delivery to a population, a governmental task, is fully focused on cost, on how to pay private companies with public money and on regulating and protecting the private organisations that deliver the healthcare the government has deemed to be beneficial to all of their subjects.

Compulsory healthcare system benefits governments by giving them power over the health and freedoms of the population, and benefits the healthcare delivery organisations financially as well as given these power over governments decisions with regards to healthy lifestyle and approach to diseases.

Justice System

The criminal justice system serves a multifaceted role in society, primarily aimed at maintaining public order, ensuring justice, and upholding the rule of law. Its core purpose revolves around the prevention and punishment of criminal behaviour, which is critical for the stability and safety of communities.

There is no specific definition to explain the contents of the notion of ‘public order’. It is generally understood to include both legal and physical guarantees of freedom, security, and peace of mind, which are necessary for individuals to live together in society.

Freedom is defined as ‘the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants’. However, freedom has its inherent restraint to act without harm to others and within the accepted rules of conduct for the benefit of the general public, which is determined by the government.

Security is defined as ‘the state of being free from danger or threat’. However, not being in any danger doesn’t mean one feels safe and secure. Governments can decide certain conditions or situations are safe and secure, but they cannot provide individuals with a safe and secure feeling.

Peace of mind is defined as ‘a feeling of calm or not being worried’. Once again, it is not possible for a government to provide an individual with peace of mind as this is a feeling, and all feelings are generated by each individual.

Justice systems aim to provide public order through implementing laws that determine what individual freedom entails and how individuals are meant to feel about their environment and living circumstances.

Ensuring justice is to ensure that people are dealt with in all fairness. What does that mean? Fairness is the quality of treating people equally or in a way that is right or reasonable. What is meant by ‘treating people equally’? What is ‘the right way’? What is ‘reasonable treatment’? Who decides these things? Those in charge decide what is fair. Governments for many things, parents for some, employers for others. Perhaps it is fair to allow the people who supply the resources to decide what’s fair. So, it is about who decides, not what is objectively fair as such a thing doesn’t exist.

The justice system is in charge of providing and imposing the law, so they decide what is fair in society. Their idea of fairness has no bearing on the fairness an individual feels.

To uphold the law is to defend or keep a principle or law, or to say that a decision that has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct. The law is the system of rules which a particular country or community recognises as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

The law regulates the allowed actions by the population and uses penalties to enforce those selected actions.

The justice system is one of the three branches of the state. The other two branches are the executive (responsible for putting laws into effect), or the government, and the legislature. A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws. They are a member of a group that makes decisions about what is allowed and not allowed in that community. Then there is a government that puts these decisions into effect. The justice system itself consists of the police, the courts and the corrections.

The major task of the police include selectively enforcing the law, protecting the public, arresting suspected law violators and preventing crime.

The courts, the judiciary, are responsible for assuring that suspected criminals receive fair trials and for determining the guilt or innocence of the accused.

The goal of the correctional subsystem is to rehabilitate offenders or alter their behaviour so that they are socially acceptable and law abiding.

The role of the justice system is to force every individual to comply with the law and to bring offenders back into line with the rules of society, which the system that is in charge of the society governs. No individual is allowed to act outside of the implemented ruling.

The justice system ensures that governments maintain their grip and control over every individual of the population.

So, a well-functioning society is built on these four pillars: economy, education, healthcare system and justice system. Interestingly, it makes no difference what type of society one looks at, it’s always these four that form the four corners of that society. The conclusion is that these are absolute requirements to create and sustain any type of society. The reason why people live in organised societies is to foster the economic and social development of the community, to strengthen the cohesion of society and to enhance national tranquillity.

For economic growth – Everybody contributing to the needs of the government

To bring people together – Everybody accepting the same values, same rules, same authority

To keep people quiet – Everybody afraid to be punished and blemished for not complying

Society plays a vital role in shaping the lives of individuals and providing a framework for their interactions, beliefs, and behaviours. And as we have seen, the four main pillars of every society is for the benefit of ‘the owners’ of that society, not for the individuals living in that society.

Who owns the economy? Crucial ownership of key types of scarce assets - such as land, intellectual property, natural resources, or digital platforms - is all-important and dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals.

Who owns school learning? The very first school concept arose against a religious backdrop: guru-schools in Ancient India and Christian schools in medieval Europe. Itwas a religious education, aimed at teaching the relevant scripture and increasing the number of loyal followers. This was later extended to the modern concept of schools, which is held together by a specifically controlled teacher’s training programme and laws that make school education compulsory. In the modern era,the national curriculum is outlined by the Department for Education. Hence, the government owns the school learning and they determine what a child is required to know.

Who owns healthcare? Governments buy healthcare using public funds. They buy the goods and services from the medical profession, a completely separate society within society. Everything within this society requires a licence, an official approval from the owners of that society. This reaches from the products they make to the people working for them. It is the medical authority that provides those licences, the education and the control over all the allowed practices within the healthcare system, which is then sold to governments, who implement it within the population.

Who owns the justice system? The justice system, the government and the legislature are three parts of one social control system. Who determines what laws are going to be written? Who determines how and when the government has to execute those laws? Who decides what decisions and actions the courts have to take? It should be obvious by now that there is a power behind this three in one system for them to be able to function coherently.

And since these four pillars need to work together to develop the society and strengthen it, all four need to be under the control of one power. The shape of a society and how it functions is determined by one power source. We can speculate and argue about who that might be but one thing is for sure: it isn’t the individual citizen of that society.

Individuals within nature are responsible for their own survival. They will have to make the effort, because without their own input it is definitely not going to happen. In order to have a chance of surviving there are some essential requirements. Sunlight, water, air, habitat, and food are the basic needs of all living things. Without one or more of these, living things will not be able to survive. No living thing will be able to survive without one of these needs. And in case you may have forgotten, human beings are living things.

“The ultimate goal of society is to promote good and happy life for its individuals. It creates conditions and opportunities for the all-round development of individual personality.”

Apparently, the main focus of society is the individual. Everything society is trying to achieve is for the benefit of the individual. Thank God someone is looking after us individuals. Let’s start with the things that are very basic to my survival, the things I can’t do without.

Sunlight – A global effort is being made to block the sunrays from reaching the surface of the earth, so called because the earth is becoming too hot and that is deemed to be a health risk.

Water – Water is supplied to the individual by large companies who control the amount and the quality of the water the individual is receiving, and water is no longer freely available to the individual.

Air – The atmosphere is purposely being changed through the use of chemicals in order to alter weather patterns, so called for the prevention of extreme weather conditions.

Habitat – Large numbers of individuals are gathered to be housed in small units, completely isolated from natural elements, being supplied with air and heating by large companies. Large numbers of individuals no longer have access to a natural supporting group as a result of the many divisions that have been created within society, based on creed, colour, social status, racial background, age, sexuality, weight, likes and dislikes. Large numbers of individuals no longer have any idea what their natural habitat as a human being is. Nature is being portrayed as dangerous to human health and wellbeing.

Food – Food is produced, enhanced and supplied by large companies. Natural foodproduction is seriously being restricted by law and various rules, recommended bythe same companies and agencies and implemented by governments. Food is nolonger freely available to the individual.

No living thing will be able to survive without one of these needs.

The ultimate goal of society is to promote good and happy life for its individuals.

Society is moving towards its ultimate goal by way of denying the individual direct sunlight, direct access to water, food and a natural habitat, as well as altering the air the individual breathes. Apparently, society doesn’t take any risks of not achieving their goal by taking over the control of one of the essential needs for the survival of the individual. No, society takes away all the basic needs.

Either the goal of society, as told to us - by whom, I don’t know –, is not what we believe it isor we are doing everything the wrong way around. Either we are told an outright lie by the people and the organisations that claim to take care of us, or they are doing everything the wrong way around.

If whoever is organising and running our society is deceiving us then we urgently need to stop following any advice that comes from them or is supported by them. If we are doing everything the wrong way around then it is high time for us to wake up to that truth, so we are able to turn everything around again and head back to a natural reality. But why aren’t we waking up to the fact that everything is upside down?

Because almost everybody is still not convinced that everything is upside down. We still believe in some words and concepts we are being told. We still listen to ‘people’, whilst we haveforgotten how to listen to nature, to our inner nature, to our natural self. Society organisers have managed to hold the entire population hostage. People have fully submitted to their kidnappers andfreely declared dependency on these perpetrators.

We won’t own anything.

We won’t do anything to survive.

We won’t know anything. But we will be happy.

We should not demand clean water, but demand free water.

We should not demand affordable housing, but the freedom to protect ourselves from the elements in the way we ourselves choose to.

We should not demand quality food, but free land and the freedom to produce our own food in the way we ourselves choose to produce it.

We should not demand good healthcare, but the freedom to look after our own health in the way we ourselves choose to do so.

We should not demand clean air, but the cessation of large scale interference in the atmosphere.

We should demand cessation of all attempts to interfere with the sunlight reaching theearth’s surface.

January 2025

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