by Jonathan Wesley

Created on: January 03, 2007   Last Updated: April 30, 2007

Certain socioeconomic conditions must exist before people can eliminate the consequences of corruption, avarice, crime, poverty and inequality associated with money. With few exceptions, money was the principal cause of failure in nearly all experiments in communal living. The second most common cause of failure was the placing of higher status on skilled professions over the more common labor functions required to sustain a communal society. These caste divisions caused envy, malice and, eventually, the dissolution of nearly every communal experiment to date. Nevertheless, truly equitable societies have existed in the past, as recorded in ancient historical texts, from both the Old World and the Americas.

Temporal Equality was never achieved through the use of money, nor can it be as long as one considers himself superior because of his abundance, only through the exercise of spirituality embodied by self-discipline, self-reliance, honest labor, interdependence, temperance, humility, selflessness, compassion and generosity. The governments of men over the millennia and, not the least, over the last century, had several flaws in common to the detriment of human freedoms. Specifically, they had stringent social and economic controls with a strong centralized government, and policies of belligerent nationalism usually headed by a dictator, as in Fascism. True communism has never been more than an idealist theory and has never been achieved outside tribal-societies. Modern industrial societies currently practice either capitalism or socialism. In both cases there are strong centralized governments which, in fact, impose social and economic controls. The former has a president, the latter, a dictator. In both cases there is a disparity between wealth and poverty. Individuals and governments predictably seek for wealth and power either by corporate intrigue, or revolution and coup, despite philosophical ideology.

The freedom of the people of the United Stated of America has been severely compromised and degraded since the Bill of Rights was penned. The next seventeen amendments that followed, with the exception of emancipation and voter suffrage, are suspect because they are written for the intent of consolidating power to a centralized government. The sixteenth amendment, which is perhaps the most damaging to the liberties of a free person, states, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment

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