Ellen Hadley

Broschiertes Buch

One Dear Land

A Better World Through Information, Universal Basic Income, Community, World Government, and Infinitism

Beschreibung

Imagine in your next life you might be in any random situation (ignorant, poor, unhealthy, living with war or a mentally-ill family member, etc.) and you can't predict it. What changes would this make you want in our systems of information, economics, community, government, and religion? If you decide to work for one of these changes now, which should you pursue? It might seem prudent to focus on one in isolation, but it wouldn't be enough. Other systems could work against it. And, though you might initially get more allies than if you talked about other systems, you could lose those allies if they began to suspect your overall vision conflicted with theirs. By looking at how changes in many systems fit together from as many perspectives as possible, you might be able to reach deeper agreement with others on a big-picture vision. Then, you could move the components forward together with greater trust, watching each system changing and facilitating change in the others. That's what this book, first written in 1990 yet amazingly relevant, tries to do, both in essay and in novel form. The essay discusses the internet, free enterprise enhanced by universal basic income (UBI), community centers with publicly-funded workers providing universal basic services at UBI-affordable prices, world government, and a religion that helps people identify with the plights of others. The novel tells an inspiring human story of a couple as they marry and become grandparents while helping to develop these systems. This second edition has a new foreword to help integrate these ideas into the real world. It will be wonderful if any of the ideas in this book stimulate you. Even better, this book may help you develop a cohesive worldview, perhaps even one you can share with others in moving our world forward.

Autor

Ellen Hadley, a graduate of the University of Rochester, has had a decades-long interest in religion, economics, and world peace.

Born shortly before the Great Depression, she eagerly walked to church services every morning as a child, moved when her parents could no longer afford their home, and saw her four brothers go off to World War II. As a young mother in the 60's, she watched race riots and social upheaval. She studied Russian as a hobby throughout the Cold War. She was middle-aged during the Viet Nam War and the U.S. debates whether a basic income guarantee should give everyone should a fair shot while preserving private enterprise.

Her memories of the catastrophic consequences of economic failure, world conflict, and social inequity made her yearn for a belief system that would help people want to make the world better not only for themselves, their own descendants, and their own people, but also for any random individual born in the future into any circumstances in the world. She did in fact develop such a belief system, naming it Infinitism.

Then, following her own Infinitist ideals, she thought hard about how the systems of the world could be changed so that whatever lot a person was born into, that person would have his best possible life. Her solutions hinge on universal basic income (UBI), which both aids and is aided by the changes in community and world government she also proposes.

She is now in her 90's. Although she wrote this book three decades ago, she still hopes fervently that its ideas will help people. She's publishing this second edition, along with a new Foreword to put it into historical perspective, in hopes that you will join in on imagining, and working toward, the creation of One Dear Land.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781665542142
• ISBN-10: 1665542144
• Artikelnr.: 63089924