We Need A Game Plan To Deploy

The Modern Age Has Been Characterized By A Promethean Spirit, A Restless Energy That Preys On Speed Records And Shortcuts, Unmindful Of The Past, Uncaring Of The Future, Existing Only For The Moment And The Quick Fix. The Earthly Rhythms That Characterize A More Pastoral Way Of Life Have Been Shunted Aside To Make Room For The Fast Track Of An Urbanized Existence. Lost In A Sea Of Perpetual Technological Transition, Modern Man And Woman Find Themselves Increasingly Alienated From The Ecological Choreography Of The Planet.

James Watt Patented His Steam Engine On The Eve Of The American Revolution, Consummating A Relationship Between Coal And The New Promethean Spirit Of The Age, And Humanity Made Its First Tentative Steps Into An Industrial Way Of Life That Would, Over The Next Two Centuries, Forever Change The World.

It Is Not Uncommon To Suppose That The Free Exchange Of Property In Markets And Capitalism Are One And The Same. They Are Not. While Capitalism Operates Through The Free Market, Free Markets Don't Require Capitalism.

Economic Activity Is No Longer An Adversarial Contest Between Embattled Sellers And Buyers "in The Distributed Economy, Where Collaboration Trumps Competition, Inclusivity Replaces Exclusivity And Transparency And Openness To Others Becomes Essential To The New Way Of Conducting Business, Empathic Sensibility Has Room To Breathe And Thrive. It Is No Longer So Constrained By Hierarchies, Boundaries Of Exclusion, And A Concept Of Human Nature That Places Acquisitiveness, Self-interest, And Utility At The Center Of The Human Experience."

A Half Century From Now, Our Grandchildren Are Likely To Look Back At The Era Of Mass Employment In The Market With The Same Sense Of Utter Disbelief As We Look Upon Slavery And Serfdom In Former Times. The Very Idea That A Human Being's Worth Was Measured Almost Exclusively By His Or Her Productive Output Of Goods And Services And Material Wealth Will Seem Primitive, Even Barbaric, And Be Regarded As A Terrible Loss Of Human Value To Our Progeny Living In A Highly Automated World Where Much Of Life Is Lived On The Collaborative Commons.