Tomorrow
Yesterday was the era of the horse-drawn carriage, the walking plough and the grain binder. Today is the era of power, speed, competition, poverty and affluence, homeless people and mansion dwellers.
Tomorrow has a promise of a new and better day, the day for which we all yearned, but thought would never come; that day when mankind at last would be truly free.
When we draw aside the curtain we will catch a glimpse of this tomorrow, the day we had all voted for in National Referenda.
Here we see individuals in all parts of the world registering and receiving their all-new I.D. card known as their “Share Card”. This durable wallet-size card, not only replaces all other wallet cards, but also has a double purpose. It is first of all the holder’s personal identification card identifying the holder by name as well as a personal bar code as a legitimate World Citizen. As such, each person is entitled to his or her proportional share of the world’s limited resources, whether natural or fabricated, through the co-operative activity and sharing on a daily basis throughout the life of the cardholder.
Those old worn-out institutions associated with the operations of the now defunct Money Price System, such as Insurance Companies, Mortgage and Loan Institutions, as well as all National and world Banks have quietly dissolved. Their office buildings, large and small are being converted to suit the needs and functions of this new society. Those grandiose, massive public buildings formerly occupied by the many National Governments and their employees are taking on a new look to suit the various needs of this new world concept.
Everyone is experiencing a new sense of security and freedom. Gone forever are those bugaboos of Taxes, Insurances, Mortgages, etc. Those all went when we voted to abandon that idea of Money in any form in favor of a Care and Share method of distribution, using the latest in High Tec communication systems. The Computer Evolution has at last found its rightful niche in society. Industries of all kinds are being organized, operated and controlled by the people– the equipment operators, the technicians, and the professionals– in a true democratic fashion.
The street people, those down trodden Neighbours who had deserved much better, have left the streets and the gutters for those comfortable, warm beds and nutritious meals in adequate housing, created by some of those who used to be classed as the perpetually unemployed workers. Those long neglected human beings each now have his or her own “Share Card”, giving them their rightful place in society along with the rest of their neighborhood.
The abandoned slum areas are flowering with hobby gardens, for those who have longed for the feel of the good earth. Each of the several billions of Good People on this Good Earth is finding his or her own “fig tree”, under whose shade he or she can be comfortable and, yes anxious to share with others the happiness he or she has found.
Violence, Crime and International Conflicts resulting in War, now would have no place in this ‘Tomorrow”!
This vision of “Tomorrow” can become the reality of “Today”! It is up to each one of us, working with each other with this “Unification Idea” as our goal, to bring about the realization of this vision of “tomorrow”!
Timothy Haystubble (Grass Roots Philosopher)