MAO the UNTOLD STORY

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(1893-1911 H age 1-17)

Mao tse-tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader. He was born into a peasant family in a valley called Shaoshan, in the province of Hunan, in the heartland of China. The date was 26 December 1893. His ancestors had lived in the valley for five hundred years.

This was a world of ancient beauty, a temperate, humid region whose misty, undulating hills had been populated ever since the Neolithic age. Buddhist temples dating from the Tang dynasty (ad 618-906), when Buddhism first came here, were still in use. Forests where nearly 300 species of trees grew, including maples, camphor, metasequoia and the rare ginkgo, covered the area and sheltered the tigers, leopards and boar that still roamed the hills. (The last tiger was killed in 1957.) These hills, with neither roads nor navigable rivers, detached the village from the world at large. Even as late as the early twentieth century an event as momentous as the death of the emperor in 1908 did not percolate this far, and Mao found out only two years afterwards when he left Shaoshan.

The valley of Shaoshan measures about 5 by 3.5 km. The 600-odd families who lived there grew rice, tea and bamboo, harnessing buffalo to plough the rice paddies. Daily life revolved round these age-old activities. Mao's father, Yi-chang, was born in 1870. At the age of ten he was engaged to a girl of thirteen from a village about 10 kilometres away, beyond a pass called Tiger Resting Pass, where tigers usedto sun themselves. This short distance was long enough in those years for the two villages to speak dialects that were almost mutually unintelligible. Being merely a girl, Mao's mother did not receive a name; as the seventh girl born in the Wen clan, she was just Seventh Sister Wen. In accordance with centuries of custom, her feet had been crushed and bound to produce the so-called three-inch golden lilies that epitomised beauty at the time.

Her engagement to Mao's father followed time-honoured customs. It was arranged by their parents and was based on a practical consideration: the tomb of one of her grandfathers was in Shaoshan, and it had to be tended regularly with elaborate rituals, so having a relative there would prove useful. Seventh Sister Wen moved in with the Maos upon betrothal, and was married at the age of eighteen, in 1885, when Yi-chang was fifteen.

Shortly after the wedding, Yi-chang went off to be a soldier to earn money to pay off family debts, which he was able to do after several years. Chinese peasants were not serfs but free farmers, and joining the army for purely financial reasons was an established practice. Luckily he was not involved in any wars; instead he caught a glimpse of the world and picked up some business ideas. Unlike most of the villagers, Yi-chang could read and write, well enough to keep accounts. After his return, he raised pigs, and processed grain into top-quality rice to sell at a nearby market town. He bought back the land his father had pawned, then bought more land, and became one of the richest men in the village.

Though relatively well off, Yi-chang remained extremely hard- working and thrifty all his life. The family house consisted of half a dozen rooms, which occupied one wing of a large thatched property. Eventually Yi-chang replaced the thatch with tiles, a major improvement, but left the mud floor and mud walls. The windows had no glass--still a rare luxury--and were just square openings with wooden bars, blocked off at night by wooden boards (the temperature hardly ever fell below freezing). The furniture was simple: wooden beds, bare wooden tables and benches. It was in one of these rather spartan rooms, under a pale blue homespun cotton quilt, inside a blue mosquito net, that Mao was born.

Mao was the third son, but the first to survive beyond infancy. His Buddhist mother became even more devout to encourage Buddha to protect him. Mao was given the two-part name Tse-tung. Tse, which means "to shine on," was the name given to all his generation, as preordained when the clan chronicle was first written in the eighteenth century; tung means "the East." So his full given name meant "to shine on the East." When two more boys were born, in 1896 and 1905, they were given the names Tse-min (min means "the people") and Tse-t'an (tan possibly referred to the local region, Xiangtan).

These names reflected the inveterate aspiration of Chinese peasants for their sons to do well--and the expectation that they could. High positions were open to all through education, which for centuries meant studying Confucian classics. Excellence would enable young men of any background to pass imperial examinations and become mandarins--all the way up to becoming prime minister. Officialdom was the definition of achievement, and the names given to Mao and his brothers expressed the hopes placed on them.

But a grand name was also onerous and potentially tempted fate, so most children were given a pet name that was either lowly or tough, or both. Mao's was "the Boy of Stone"--Shisan yazi. For this second "baptism" his mother took him to a rock about eight feet high, which was reputed to be enchanted, as there was a spring underneath. After Mao performed obeisance and kowtows, he was considered adopted by the rock. Mao was very fond of this name, and continued to use it as an adult. In 1959, when he returned to Shaoshan and met the villagers for the first--and only--time as supreme leader of China, he began the dinner for them with a quip: "So everyone is here, except my Stone Mother. Shall we wait for her?"

Mao loved his real mother, with an intensity he showed towards no one else. She was a gentle and tolerant person, who, as he remembered, never raised her voice to him. From her came his full face, sensual lips, and a calm self-possession in the eyes. Mao would talk about his mother with emotion all his life. It was in her footsteps that he became a Buddhist as a child. Years later he told his staff: "I worshipped my mother . . . Wherever my mother went, I would follow . . . going to temple fairs, burning incense and paper money, doing obeisance to Buddha . . . Because my mother believed in Buddha, so did I." But he gave up Buddhism in his mid-teens.

Mao had a carefree childhood. Until he was eight he lived with his mother's family, the Wens, in their village, as his mother preferred to live with her own family. There his maternal grandmother doted on him. His two uncles and their wives treated him like their own son, and one of them became his Adopted Father, the Chinese equivalent to godfather. Mao did a little light farm work, gathering fodder for pigs and taking the buffaloes out for a stroll in the tea-oil camellia groves by a pond shaded by banana leaves. In later years he would reminisce with fondness about this idyllic time. He started learning to read, while his aunts spun and sewed under an oil lamp.

Mao only came back to live in Shaoshan in spring 1902, at the age of eight, to receive an education, which took the form of study in a tutor's home. Confucian classics, which made up most of the curriculum, were beyond the understanding of children and had to be learnt by heart. Mao was blessed with an exceptional memory, and did well. His fellow pupils remembered a diligent boy who managed not only to recite but also to write by rote these difficult texts. He also gained a foundation in Chinese language and history, and began to learn to write good prose, calligraphy and poetry, as writing poems was an essential part of Confucian education. Reading became a passion. Peasants generally turned in at sunset, to save on oil for lamps, but Mao would read deep into the night, with an oil lamp standing on a bench outside his mosquito net. Years later, when he was supreme ruler of China, half of his huge bed would be piled a foot high with Chinese classics, and he littered his speeches and writings with historical references. But his poems lost flair.

Mao clashed frequently with his tutors. He ran away from his first school at the age of ten, claiming that the teacher was a martinet. He was expelled from, or was "asked to leave," at least three schools for being headstrong and disobedient. His mother indulged him but his father was not pleased, and Mao's hopping from tutor to tutor was just one source of tension between father and son. Yi-chang paid for Mao's education, hoping that his son could at least help keep the family accounts, but Mao disliked the task. All his life, he was vague about figures, and hopeless at economics. Nor did he take kindly to hard physical labour. He shunned it as soon as his peasant days were over.

Yi-chang could not stand Mao being idle. Having spent every minute of his waking hours working, he expected his son to do the same, and would strike him when he did not comply. Mao hated his father. In 1968, when he was taking revenge on his political foes on a vast scale, he told their tormentors that he would have liked his father to be treated just as brutally: "My father was bad. If he were alive today, he should be 'jet-planed.' " This was an agonising position where the subject's arms were wrenched behind his back and his head forced down.

Mao was not a mere victim of his father. He fought back, and was often the victor. He would tell his father that the father, being older, should do more manual labour than he, the younger--which was an unthinkably insolent argument by Chinese standards. One day, according to Mao, father and son had a row in front of guests. "My father scolded me before them, calling me lazy and useless. This infuriated me. I called him names and left the house . . . My father . . . pursued me, cursing as well as commanding me to come back. I reached the edge of a pond and threatened to jump in if he came any nearer . . . My father backed down." Once, as Mao was retelling the story, he laughed and added an observation: "Old men like him didn't want to lose their sons. This is their weakness. I attacked at their weak point, and I won!"

Money was the only weapon Mao's father possessed. After Mao was expelled by tutor no. 4, in 1907, his father stopped paying his son's tuition fees and the thirteen-year-old boy had to become a full-time peasant. But he soon found a way to get himself out of farm work and back into the world of books. Yi-chang was keen for his son to get married, so that he would be tied down and behave responsibly. His niece was at just the right age for a wife, four years older than Mao, who agreed to his father's plan and resumed schooling after the marriage.

The marriage took place in 1908, when Mao was fourteen and his bride eighteen. Her family name was Luo. She herself had no proper name, and was just called "Woman Luo." The only time Mao is known to have mentioned her was to the American journalist Edgar Snow in 1936, when Mao was strikingly dismissive, exaggerating the difference in their ages: "When I was 14, my parents married me to a girl of 20. But I never lived with her . . . I do not consider her my wife . . . and have given little thought to her." He gave no hint that she was not still alive; in fact, Woman Luo had died in 1910, just over a year into their marriage.

Mao's early marriage turned him into a fierce opponent of arranged marriages. Nine years later he wrote a seething article against the practice: "In families in the West, parents acknowledge the free will of their children. But in China, orders from the parents are not at all compatible with the will of the children . . . This is a kind of 'indirect rape.' Chinese parents are all the time indirectly raping their children . . ."

As soon as his wife died, the sixteen-year-old widower demanded to leave Shaoshan. His father wanted to apprentice him to a rice store in the county town, but Mao had set his eye on a modern school about 25 kilometres away. He had learned that the imperial examinations had been abolished. Instead there were modern schools now, teaching subjects like science, world history and geography, and foreign languages. It was these schools that would open the door out of a peasant's life for many like him.

From the Publisher

Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao’s rule--in peacetime.

Combining meticulous research with the story-telling style of Wild Swans, this biography offers a harrowing portrait of Mao’s ruthless accumulation of power through the exercise of terror: his first victims were the peasants, then the intellectuals and, finally, the inner circle of his own advisors. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao’s court and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao’s character and the enormity of his behavior toward his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time.

This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.

The New York Times Sunday Book Review - Nicholas D. Kristof

… this is a magisterial work. True, much of Mao's brutality has already emerged over the years, but this biography supplies substantial new information and presents it all in a stylish way that will put it on bedside tables around the world. No wonder the Chinese government has banned not only this book but issues of magazines with reviews of it, for Mao emerges from these pages as another Hitler or Stalin.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

Not only does their book demolish many of the myths Mao perpetrated about himself - myths that were believed by a host of Westerners, ranging from Simone de Beauvoir to Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon - but it also serves up a far more scathing portrait of the Chinese leader than those laid out by recent biographers like Philip Short and Jonathan Spence.

The Washington Post - John Pomfret

In short, if you're hoping for staid, balanced scholarship, don't read this book. It's not history; it's a screed, albeit a screed on the side of the angels…Even screeds have their place, however, and this is an extremely entertaining one. Indeed, sometimes an emotionally charged account—one written with obvious biases—can reveal the truth better than ostentatious, morally numbed objectivity that cloaks a lot of Western scholarship on China. Chang and Halliday's point is very simple: Like a small group of scholars in China, they believe that Mao wasn't a revolutionary but a monster. He wasn't a communist but a bandit king. The result is a page-turner with a point.

Publishers Weekly

Jung Chang, author of the award-winning Wild Swans, grew up during the Cultural Revolution; Halliday is a research fellow at King's College, University of London. They join forces in this sweeping but flawed biography, which aims to uncover Mao's further cruelties (beyond those commonly known) by debunking claims made by the Communist Party in his service. For example, the authors argue that, far from Mao's humble peasant background shaping his sympathies for the downtrodden, he actually ruthlessly exploited the peasants' resources when he was based in regions such as Yenan, and cared about peasants only when it suited his political agenda. And far from having founded the Chinese Communist Party, the authors argue, Mao was merely at the right place at the right time. Importantly, the book argues that in most instances Mao was able to hold on to power thanks to his adroitness in appealing to and manipulating powerful allies and foes, such as Stalin and later Nixon; furthermore, almost every aspect of his career was motivated by a preternatural thirst for personal power, rather than political vision. Some of the book's claims rely on interviews and on primary material (such as the anguished letters Mao's second wife wrote after he abandoned her), though the book's use of sources is sometimes incompletely documented and at times heavy-handed (for example, using a school essay the young Mao wrote to show his lifelong ruthlessness). Illus., maps. (Oct. 21) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

KLIATT

Jung Chang, acclaimed author of Wild Swans, and her husband, historian Jon Halliday, spent a decade conducting interviews and archival research to deconstruct the myth of Chairman Mao, a myth that is on the whole still perpetuated by China's current Communist regime. Chang and Halliday's method: to consult every available archive, to listen to every cable they could find between Peking and the Kremlin before and during the 27 years Mao ruled, and to interview every living soul somehow connected to Mao in and out of mainland China, including the exiled Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, Mao's daughter Li Na, George H.W. Bush, and such esoteric sources as Shi Da-zheng, son of the film director who was the first famous cultural figure to commit suicide after the Communist takeover. Their list goes on and on, and makes this biography the magisterial work that it is. The authors' most pressing contention, painstakingly substantiated, is that Mao, during his nefarious reign, starved and overworked 70 million of his people to death. Over half perished during the Great Famine of 1958—1961, a period Mao deemed the Great Leap Forward. These people died during peacetime because Peking mandated exporting vast amounts of food to countries capable of providing Mao's military with nuclear weapons. It was this Superpower Program more than anything else that fueled his ambitions, that made him instill terror and hate campaigns that created a nation of hundreds of millions of petrified, brainwashed, starving people. Meanwhile, the Chairman himself lived a life of extreme comfort and extravagance in grandiose villas built specifically for him all across China. The authors tread harshly on themythology of Mao, revealing a man with little if any ideological passion. Instead, he had a love for bloodthirsty thuggery. Mao's China was "run by terror and guarded like a prison." Chang and Halliday's book is both the fascinating revelation of Mao's improbable rise to power and the fierce, long-awaited condemnation of his deadly practices once he got there. At times they seem a little too quick to denounce every single one of his actions and sometimes present him as so much of a solipsistic psychopath that we wonder how he was possibly able to conquer the biggest country in the world. Nevertheless, their research indelibly destroys any claim to Mao's legitimacy. The narrative gives minute-by-minute details of famous events and is truly chilling in what it uncovers.

Library Journal

In Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Chang detailed the experiences of her parents, early revolutionaries and high officials in Communist China, and her own adventures as a rabid Red Guard in Mao's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s (when Halliday was likewise a Mao enthusiast). Their disillusionment with Mao paralleled the party's conversion in the 1980s to Deng Xiaoping's "market socialism." Chang and Halliday make devastating use of insider gossip, published scholarship, and archives to build a detailed story of a mad, lusting Mao with neither ideals nor scruples. Scholars may see this as a prosecutor's indictment that does not explain Mao's successes, however perverse, and blames him as an individual for all woes. Some charges seem exaggerated or tendentious-for instance, the dramatic opening statement that Mao was "responsible for well over 70 million deaths," more than any other 20th-century leader. Yet the thrust of the argument is necessary and rings true. The book, while officially banned in the People's Republic, will undoubtedly be widely read there. A controversial, highly significant, and compellingly readable biography that should be in every library.-Charles W. Hayford, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

In the spirit of The Black Book of Communism (1999), this grand narrative aims to show that Mao Tse-tung was among the greatest mass murderers in history-if not the greatest of them all. "Mao Tse-tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader," write China-born memoirist Chang (Wild Swans, 1991) and British historian Halliday in their provocative opening. Mao's rise was improbable, argue the authors, because he was a rotter and an opportunist, and everyone knew it. As a young man, Mao read diligently, and the conclusions he took away from world history were that he was above the law and that "giant wars" were the normal order of things. Just so, late in life, having whipped up the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, Mao warned a palace guard, "Don't cultivate connections. . . . Don't have photographs taken with people." He lived by such rules. Self-serving and secretive, Mao was ostracized by the Soviet-led leadership in the early days of the Communist Party; far from leading the Long March, by this account, Mao was borne into the mountains on a litter, half because of illness, half because it suited his imperial character, though he almost didn't get to go at all. Still, amazingly, he managed to play off rivals and scheme his way to absolute rule, and woe to anyone who crossed him. Chang and Halliday document at length just how willing Mao was to kill innocents for presumed crimes or mere expediency, how quick he was to concoct schemes against even such essential comrades as Lin Baio and Chou En-Lai-and how willing the leaders of theworld, among them Richard Nixon, were to bow to Mao's wishes. A startling document, one that will surely occasion revision of the historical record. First printing of 75,000

What People Are Saying

"Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book."
--Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, in The Times (London)

"Chang and Halliday cast new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life...a stupendous work and one hopes that it will be brought before the Chinese people, who still claim to venerate the man and who have yet to come to terms with their own history..."
-Michael Yahuda, The Guardian

"Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about Mao. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of The Unknown Story provoke another reaction. Mao Tse-Tung's evil, undoubted and well-documented, is unequalled throughout modern history."
-Roy Hattersley, The Observer

"A triumph. It is a mesmerising portrait of tyranny, degeneracy, mass murder and promiscuity, a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research."
-Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Sunday Times

"Jung Chang and Jon Halliday enter a savage indictment drawing on a host of sources, including important Soviet ones, to blow away the miasma of deceit and ignorance which still shrouds Mao's life from many Western eyes...Jung Chang delivers a cry of anguish on behalf of all of those in her native land who, to this day, are still not free to speak of these things."
-Max Hastings, The Sunday Telegraph

"Demonstrating the same pitilessness that they judge to be Mao's most formidable weapon, they unstitch the myths that sustained him in power for forty years and that continue to underpin China's regime--I suspect that when China comes to terms with its past this book will have played a role."
-Nicolas Shakespeare, Telegraph

"The detail and documentation are awesome. The story that they tell, mesmerising in its horror, is the most powerful, compelling, and revealing political biography of modern times. Few books are destined to change history, but this one will."
-George Walden, Daily Mail

"decisive biography--they have investigated every aspect of his personal life and career, peeling back the layers of lies, myths, and what we used to think of as facts--what Chang and Halliday have done is immense and surpasses, as a biography, everything that has gone before."
-Jonathan Mirsky, The Independent, Saturday

"written with the same deft hand that enlivened Ms. Chang's 1991 memoir, 'Wild Swans'"
--The Economist

Simple:  Restore Human Robots to being Human Beings via use of Real Robots now available
Challenge:  email any objection you have to sysop@TeamInfinity.com so it can be dispelled post haste.
You really must get on board and quick, your life depends on it, literally, tick tock...
Be a part of the future now, or vanish into history, it is your choice valuable blessed friend.

If Communism is merely Capitalism perfected, which it clearly is in the minds
of the Capitalists who in fact created Communism, where EVERYTHING & EVERYONE becomes "plant
& equipment" owned by a small group of Ultra Capitalists: what does that say about Capitalism, Socialism & Communism ?

Not much...  These 3 faces of Capitalism share a common track record littered with destruction...

and Now for something completely different...

See, be, say:  the better way:

ROBOTISM© Will Succeed for PRECISELY  the Reasons Communism Failed...
...People Intelligently CHOSE to NOT Work as Human-Robots under Communism, 
real ROBOTS will have no such choice under ROBOTISM©

Capitalism = Socialism = Communism, always fail without lies and deception,
because the TRUTH is, no one wants to do the work each system requires, repeat...

Therefore, the current systems, all just different forms of Capitalism as demonstrated above,
ALL clearly incentivize anti-social, hypocritical & criminal behavior by implicitly punishing innocent behaviors.

Only The RWE© can incentivize innocent behaviors, because no one in
their right mind would risk their ability to bask in its splendor, freely available to all: via systemically
eliminating the perceived need to engage in  risk for advantage, advantage that is available without risk to anyone in a virtual sense,
without harming anyone else in reality, i.e. if your ego requires it, that illusion will be granted to the illusion you have of yourself, you can experience
that experience until your need to feel superior without being superior becomes apparent to you too.  In other words, feeling and being superior are
not the same thing, yet many fool themselves into believing they are superior to others by harming others to the point of actually becoming superior in a physical
sense, this is not fair, and now we have a way of dealing with it, without harming anyone, even those with such dangerous illusions of grandeur.

In fact ALL criminal behavior today and in the past can be thought of as premature selfish attempts to create & horde
precisely the circumstances we will ALL be blessed to be living in once The RWE© arrives in all its resplendent glory: said
behaviors were indeed counter-productive in getting us there sooner, despite being the "right" idea, i.e. the goal was laudable, only
if shared with all, otherwise the methods were, well you know enough history to know what keeps happening over and over again.

Especially today, when we are so close, we must all insist on fairness & mercy in all matters
without exception, including, of utmost importance, honest pay with real money, i.e. inherently
valuable money, which is essentially barter,  until The RWE© is completed, making money irrelevant.

Ironically, real money is only necessary to create The RWE©, for once it is built, the make-believe money we use today is fine,
but not before then, or The RWE© may never arrive for all, only those who have already achieved one using real people as their robots.

It is obvious that many feel we do not need  The RWE©
but that is only because they either already
have one based on human robots, or
are one of the human robots
and do not understand
they are
one
.

1. The robotic network is up and running, do we pay the robots for their work ?
2. The geo-thermal & Algae power plants producing FREE electricity are up, who do we pay for the electricity to power the robots & everything else requiring power when power is free ?
3. The robots are up, out & about, collecting & processing raw materials into other robots & everything else, who do we pay to collect & process raw material & distribute finished products these same robots will make & distribute ?
4. The Computer systems are up and running, who do we pay to make the decisions they will make ?
5. To answer these questions become part of the freight train of thought & action as revolution known as:

1. Humans are endowed with inalienable rights ipso facto
   
2. Current system of economy denies these rights to vast majority of humans due to its premises
3. Resolution demands fundamental change to the premises upon which current system operates
4. Current wage based economy must and will be replaced by the "ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY"
5. Society's Passive "income" will exceed its "expenses", so its members do not have to "produce" or perish.
   
6. Money exchanged for material or services will be FORBIDDEN under new system since:
1. Robotics can perform all physical labor, and
2. Computers can perform all mental labor, and
3. Material is everywhere in Universe and unlimited and,
   
4. Energy is unlimited and it's TRUE COST is ZERO
1. ERGO, cost of manufacturing   is ZERO
2. ERGO, cost of distribution      is ZERO
3. ERGO, cost of EVERYTHING  is ZERO
5. Since Cost of ALL Goods & Services is ZERO
1. ERGO, no longer shall Money be necessary since COST of everything is ZERO
2. ERGO, no longer shall humans have to "work" for other humans, when systems can do all work
   
6. Each Human's full time occupation will be to develop their own:
1. Physical  Health
2. Mental    Health
3. Spiritual  Health
4. i.e. The Age of Re-Creation - or recreation is what we are talking about 24/7/365
   
7. The majority of human's current activity is "busy work" to prop up the current facade of fairness for all
1. You know it
2. I know it
3. Start telling the truth and showing the way to true life for all where there are no losers
4. We are not talking about redistribution of wealth from one to another, which is after all a ZERO SUM GAME
   
5. We are talking about, WIN-WIN, FREE for ALL, where everyone is as Royal and as free as they want to be without hurting others
6. All other strategies are short-sighted since:
   
1. They do not address the fundamental issue of disengaging humans from the machinery of economy COMPLETELY. 
   
7. All other plans have one thing in common, they simply re-arrange the deck chairs on a sinking ship.
   
8. WARNING:  The changes we are talking about are so SUBTLE and COMPREHENSIVE that many will not understand
9. COMPREHENSION is the KEY - details follow...
   

Leopards break into the Temple and Drink the Sacrificial Chalices dry... 
This occurs repeatedly, again and again... 
Finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony...

KAFKA the Magnificent


BOTH "Faith" and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect.  

Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, while "Faith" obtains its more or less voluntary surrender.  

In both cases the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is -automatism.  

BOTH "Faith" and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be
manipulted at will.

Eric Hoffer

• Just suppose Politics is merely "The Fine Art of Taking Credit for the Inevitable..."  think about that...
• Tell yourself, "I  can help bring about  The Inevitable Age of Recreation via ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY, SOONER..."
• Politicos can then take credit for The Inevitable Age of Recreation via ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY, thats fine !
  
• Taking credit for The Inevitable is one thing, making The Inevitable arrive sooner, is quite another!
  
• Give Politicos something WORTH TAKING Credit for,  The Inevitable Age of Recreation via ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY
• Right now, most are simply playing the same very old game, with same very old rules from early Roman times.
• Never before in Human History has it been possible for anything, OTHER THAN SYSTEMS of HUMANS , to elevate one group of people over another, i.e. create an elite leisure class
  
• Until today that is....   No longer is it necessary to coerce or otherwise trick SYSTEMS of HUMANS to do what SYSTEMS of ROBOTS  & COMPUTERS  can do today
• Give Politicos something useful to do, they really do want to do what is right, & are waiting for, YOU,  SO CALL THEM
• Free Humans from the nasty Production/Consumption Cycle by replacing their production, with 100 % Robotic production
• All human "income" will be PASSIVE INCOME, just as the elite have always done it, but this time, on the BACKS of ROBOTS
  
• ALL HUMANS will be elevated to the "Elite" level of 100% passive income, instead of just the few.
  
• INCOME will be redefined. "Money/Wages" will no longer have meaning since all work will be done by Computers & Robots.
• Capitalism & Communism only work for Capitalists & Communists !  True or True ?
  
• Can you really call yourself a Capitalist if you have no capital, or equipment etc besides your own body ?
• ROBOTISM© works for EVERYONE since, under it,  no one works.  Either FREE means FREE or it is hokum.
  
• Have you settled for a deal less than you deserve in life ?  
  
• Can you REALLY call yourself a human ?                                Or are you REALLY more like a ROBOT than Human ?
  
• Or is the deal you have signed up to fine with you, but is causing others to suffer in ways that are too subtle for you to even recognize ?
• How many thoughts are truly YOUR THOUGHTS ?  or are you carrying out someone else's plans & goals, day in, year out ?
• Is it fair to your children that you cannot spend more time with them, what is this state of affairs doing to them ?
• Are your children just another crop to be harvested by the machine ?
  
• Are you a "Human Being" or a "Human Doing", i.e. ROBOT ?
  
• What if you could, HAVE MORE FREE TIME
  
• Could you, BE MORE EFFECTIVE, and, help everyone  else, in the process
  
• "THE ECONOMY" is a huge machine/robot/THE BEAST...    and as such...
  
• You are already being controlled by a huge machine/robot and all its little machines/robots, "THE ECONOMY"
  
• NOW is the TIME to ENSLAVE the MACHINE, because it is only becoming more entrenched daily, with so many "leaders" asleep @ wheel of destiny
  
• NOW is the TIME to TRANSFORM  the "LATENT FLESH-ROBOTIC ECONOMY" into an "ACTUAL WAGELESS NON-FLESH ROBOTIC ECONOMY"
• GOOD NEWS, NOW is the TIME since, never before was it possible for ROBOTS to DO ALL WORK.  EDUCATE YOUR LEADERS to EXPECT MORE
• You were born to reach your full potential, everything anyone has done to this point is leading to the ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY
• Let your leaders know you are SOVEREIGN, & you WANT MORE, EXPECT MORE, INTELLIGENCE from them in the transformation to the new ECONOMY
  
• Should you wait till your LEADERS  ask you, or should you, TELL THEM you want them to transition us to the WAGELESS ROBOTIC ECONOMY NOW
  
• Are you so well indoctrinated that you identify yourSELF with your JOB, & that to LOSE your job, you would lose your self ?
• Are you the perfect flesh-robot and this is why this is not making sense to YOU ?  Are you asleep right now ?  How would you know ?
  
• ENSLAVE the MACHINES before it is too late...    BE a BEING, not a FLESH-ROBOT !  Perfect slaves believe they are FREE !!
  
• TRUE or TRUE ?  Read what follows 10 times verbatim, 2 days between readings. Let no one tell you what is good enough for you.
  

1. Acquire our first Island, as test bed, between 400 & 10,000 square kilometers with:
1. good representation of natural resources from periodic table's lower 93 elements
   
2. temperate zone
3. between 4 to 10 people per square kilometer average density
4. think of the Danish SAMS0 Island that today produces all its own energy [1 important piece of our puzzle]
   
1. http://w2.djh.dk/international/2001/samso/AboutSamso/index.html
5. Cuba is an excellent candidate as well
6. Virgin's CEO Sir Richard Branson's Islands of Necker, and Moskito are already moving in the MC5 direction !
   
7. Puerto Rico
8. Isle of Man, later Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia, the Earth
   
2. Enlist the help of Hollywood to produce a movie depicting:
1. the new world we will build with its "ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY & GEOTHERMAL & ALGAE ENERGY"
   
2. tell & "sell" the story
3. make it as understandable as possible to as many as possible
4. think of the production techniques in the movie "The Truman Show", starring Jim Carrey, not hard to imagine
   
3. Develop computer model to simulate algorithmically and graphically:
1. every aspect & scenario of the new economy algorithmically.  [see SIMULEX CORPORATION ]
   
2. solicit the help of recent college graduates in the following fields:
1. Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Space Sciences
   
2. Robotics
3. Physics, Chemistry, Nanotechnology, genetics, genomics, civil engineering
   
4. Sociology, Psychology, Political Science
3. Work with Computer Game industry to  produce a Simulation along the lines of SimEarth [see SIMULEX CORPORATION ]
4. Offer membership opportunities to interested participants:
1. Private individuals
2. Private & Public Institutions
1. non-Profits
2. for-profits with proviso that once in there is no more buying/selling
3. Government & non-governmental organizations NGOs
4. Academia
5. Deploy the Computer AI systems to:
1. design the operational support systems
2. design the robotic systems which will built all the robots
3. coordinate activities of the robots and support systems
4. design the entertainment and recreational facilities for the humans
5. continuously collect & coordinate input from the humans to decide what to do next, and next etc
   
6. Deploy the robots to build other robots that will:
1. build the "near-mantle" GeoThermal Power Plant
2. build the recycling subsystems
   
3. manufacture all physical items
   
4. perform all farming operations
5. transport all goods & raw materials
6. perform all law enforcement actions
   
7. perform all medical & rescue services
8. tend all systems of:
1. Power production
2. Water & Air purification
3. Communications
4. Manufacture
5. Transportation
9. build the centers & systems for human activities:
1. entertainment
1. comedic sciences
   
2. non & performing arts, please see: http://www.theartistsforum.org
   
3. cinema & theater
   
4. VR 
   
2. education
1. arts, languages, humanities, history
2. Astronomy
   
3. mathematics & sciences
4. spirituality
1. yoga
2. meditation
3. contemplative
4. other non-coercive & non-violent spiritual pursuits
   
5. naturalism
6. ROBOTS, possess INFINITE PATIENCE thus, they are well suited to TRAIN HUMANS
1. ROBOTs can teach new social skills and languages to:
1. AUTISTIC CHILDREN http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/09/195209
2. The Handicapped
3. The anti-social
   
3. recreation
1. parks, nature & eco-preserves
   
2. physical sports facilities
   
1. competitive and non-competitive
   
3. mental sports facilities and systems
   
1. competitive and non-competitive
7. Partner with WALMART [if this sounds crazy to you now, that is only because you do not understand yet.]  Why ?  proceed to find out...
   
1. In spite of itself, and perhaps without even knowing it, WALMART is headed in the ROBOTIC MAGNA CARTA NOVA© direction:
   
1. Walmart pays its workers almost nothing -
   
1. under MAGNA CARTA NOVA©, wages are eliminated, so Walmart is headed in correct direction with their pay practices
2. Walmart charges almost nothing for its products -
1. under MAGNA CARTA NOVA©, everything is free, so again Walmart is headed in the correct direction here with prices approaching ZERO
3. Walmart CEO stated  August  15, 2007 in NY TIMES that its customers are "running out of money !!" anyway !
1. According to:  WALMART CEO Claims "Our Customers are Running out of Money !!"  August 15, 2007 NY TIMES http://TeamInfinity.com/Communique_12539.html so it appears the trend of money ""going away" is already occurring...
   
4. Walmart is optimizing distribution, logistics & manufacturing practices with Computers and Robotics
1. under MAGNA CARTA NOVA©, ALL manufacturing, logistics & distribution will be automated and wageless with no humans involved
2. WALMART, to their credit, is rolling out GREEN STORES with integrated and GREEN TECHNOLOGIES including:
1. Solar, Wind Power  [please see NANOSOLAR - http://www.nanosolar.com/]
   
2. Solar Lighting
3. Pervious Pavement
4. Rain Water Capture for irrigation
5. Burning used motor oil as diesel for power generation
6. See: http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=34647
3. WALMART is the worlds largest RETAILER, and as such serves as an interface between PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION
1. This is precisely the interface that we will be redesigning, it is the engine of the current economy, where the rubber meets the road under the current reality
2. Redesigning this interface with slight and subtle modifications is key to instituting MAGNA CARTA NOVA©
3. WALMART has the critical mass, the gravitas, this is where the tweaks must occur to bring MAGNA CARTA NOVA© to reality.
8. Once our test Island has succeeded for 5 years, replicate on New Zealand, then Australian, then across globe & into space
1. Into Space with Space Hotels, Universities etc, expanding humanity's big picture awareness
2. The New York Times has story of a new SPACE HOTEL being built called the GALACTIC SUITE
   

• The Age of Recreation via the Emancipation of Humanity from the Machinery of Economy via ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY