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If this trend continues it is likely that vast industries will emerge that carry no employees at all, in the traditional sense, but are run by highly motivated and highly skilled participants in a common enterprise. The only model along this line is the sovereign nation-state that brought unprecedented prosperity whenever its fundamental principle in support of self-development of the society was applied. The model and its application, of course, cannot be isolated from each other. It may be said, therefore, and truly, that without that growing, scientifically based, individual responsibility that is slowly beginning to unfold in the job market, the nation-state cannot function. It must disintegrate without it, into financial inflation, speculative disintegration, and tribalism or worse.
The book series, therefore, deals not with irrelevant issues. It deals with an exploration of fundamental principles that are of vital import to anyone who works for a living: who explores reality, develops technologies, creates art, music, literature, operates a business, builds infrastructures, produces food, operates transportation systems, staffs industries, provides health care, cares for a home - in short everyone who employs the human potential to maintain and enrich what is called "civilization."
The renaissance influence.
During mankind's last period of renaissance the general society had gained a much higher perception of itself than ever before. This demanded a corresponding acknowledgement. In North America, this renaissance incited people to declare themselves independent from empires. The institution of nation-state is the product of this renaissance that raises the dignity of the individual to a level that can never be attained in an imperial state where the individual is nothing more than a subject. One can find this uplift, to some degree, in every society; in which, periods of renaissance have lifted human existence out of the sphere of feudalism and imperialism. Logically one must expect that this trend will continue and expand in scope as the individuals of society recognize an increasingly greater worth in themselves.
Of course, dramatic regressions in perception have also occurred throughout history. Dismal failures of fledgling nation-states have occurred when the strength of the elevating process had been destroyed, the society's substance been looted, and its development process disrupted. Such destructive interventions by the empires and their agents must be seen as natural responses of imperial rulers who saw their status threatened by the dynamics of a renaissance. Empires must react destructively against any notion of a renaissance in order to save their looting system that is doomed by a society's self-development. But despite the most brutal disruptions the empires could interpose against the awakening of mankind, one can notice a long historic upswing in this awakening which is deeply effecting the way people live.
It is also true that the upswing of civilization could have been increased by several orders of magnitude if the historic trends had been intelligently enhanced as many people have now begun to do in their own life. For this, however, some specific mental efforts are required. The historic trends can be accelerated when one becomes aware of what they represent. Further, this acceleration can be made more secure when one understands the science of the principles on which the advances are founded. The word freedom, for instance, is being written in many colors today, and not all of these are golden. Thus, the principle that the term represents must be understood.
In Roman times, for instance, many slaves had been given their freedom once the feudal masters had found it too costly to maintain them. Except they were not granted any true freedom. The former slaves, now free agents (probably with some strings attached), were graciously given the 'opportunity' to provide service to their former lords in order to earn their living. The end result was that the lords got more work out of them than ever before.
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