THE TITANIAN LAW PROJECT
A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO LEGISLATORS, JUDGES, ATTORNEYS,
PARALEGALS, AND BOTH FORMAL AND INFORMAL STUDENTS OF THE LAW

When government by law was first invented, eight thousand years ago in Sumer, the basis of law (and hence government itself) was “might makes right”. The kings and tribal chieftains who could afford to field armies saw it was to their advantage to form a power-brokerage cartel to manage their shared monopoly of power over their neighbors. The mechanism that they invented to accomplish this feat, we know today as hierarchy. It is the central feature of almost all our institutions today, including those of Business, Organized Religion, and Government (BORG).

Today it is generally understood, at least in the developed western world, that the “might” of military and police forces does not, in fact, confer the “right”, upon those who wield such coercive power, to command the lives of those who lack these powers. Accordingly, most of the world’s governments give lip-service to the notion that they exist to serve the interests of those whom they govern.  And indeed, in an ethical human society, this concept would represent reality.

Unfortunately, for most of the people of the world, government that serves the interests of the public is just a myth, perpetuated by those who use the lie to facilitate their manipulation of those less resourceful than themselves. By believing the lie we permit our own enslavement.

In reality the nature of government has not changed since the days of Sumer.  It remains a power-brokerage cartel that truly serves only its own interests:

• Maximization of its members’ profits,
• Maximization of its powers of coercion, and
• Stabilization of its monopoly role in the power-brokerage marketplace.

The rest of society, with few and insignificant exceptions, complies with the demands of government, even to the extent of mirroring one of its worst features, the use of hierarchy as a mechanism for power-brokerage, within the structures of virtually all our institutions, both public and private.

Thus it is that humanity today labors under the burden of a vast parasite, which, left unchecked, will do what all parasites do: it will destroy its host, even though its own survival depends upon the health of its host.  Today the parasite of government has the power to turn our entire planet into a radioactive cinder, unfit to sustain any kind of life as we know it.  As things stand now, it is likely to do this.

But maybe it’s not too late. Maybe, by using HoloMatic institutions comprised of ethical Octologues, we can pull ourselves back from the brink of disaster and transform human society into a sustainable thriving whole.

Whether you are a legislator, a judge (active or retired), an attorney (practicing or not), a paralegal, or merely a justice-minded law student, your participation in the development of Titania, your personal effort, your creativity could be crucial to the future of humanity itself.

To understand what is needed, let’s take a quick look at what is wrong with our current legal systems.  Such systems today, the world over, are prone to the following obvious flaws, foibles, or weaknesses:

1. Many laws forbid ethical acts.
2. Many laws require unethical acts.
3. Many laws take money, property, financial opportunity, privacy, or freedom away from those to whom it belongs and bestow it upon those to whom it does not belong.
4. Many laws, regardless of their merit, are passed by legislators to curry favor with voters or with the lobbyists who pay for their election campaigns.
5. Many laws continue to be enforced long after it is obvious that they do not produce the behavioral results that they were intended to produce – or even when they produce the opposite effects.
6. Many laws are passed and enforced in the name of “protecting the public” when, in fact, they primarily serve to give a group of influential people protection against the market encroachment of another, less influential, group of people. In this the public is the loser.
7. Many judges openly forbid jurors from considering the merits or legitimacy of the laws being enforced in their courtrooms. This serves to bureaucratize the legal system by immunizing it against corrective feedback. In this case everyone is the loser.
8. To be legitimate, by modern standards, a law must serve the best interests of the people – all the people – who are supposedly being protected by the law. When this principle is violated, the resulting law is not legitimate and cannot be ethically enforced.
9. Enactment of a law is, by its nature, a delegation of authority from the legislators enacting the law to the legislative body that those individual legislators comprise. When a group of legislators enact a law that delegates authority that those legislators do not possess as individuals, the resulting law is not legitimate and cannot be ethically enforced.
10. Mindful of the fact that governments are power-brokerage cartels whose true purposes are purely self-serving, it is clear that laws that support and/or enforce the true purposes of government are never ethical. The vast majority of laws in the world today fall into this category.

From the foregoing description of the “Foibles” of government-enacted law, and from what we have shown elsewhere in this website concerning the E₊ Ethic and the “Comforting Lies”, we can draw the following logical conclusions, which comprise some of the principles of just law:

1. Government, as we know it, is incapable of enacting and/or enforcing just (ethical) laws.
2. Political systems, at best, determine who gets to participate in the power-brokerage cartels that we call “governments”; but nothing in any political process enables the people governed to alter the unethical nature of government. Majority Rule contributes to this fact.
3. For a society to thrive it must have a legal system that is entirely independent of government.
4. Such a legal system must be privately funded and privately operated by a group of people committed to the principles of just (ethical) law.
5. Just laws must be enacted solely to serve the ends defined by the E₊ Ethic or an alternative ethic that is the logical equivalent of the E₊ Ethic, and must be further be constrained to embody the principle that ethical ends can only be achieved by means that are ethical ends in themselves.
6. Any law, rule, regulation, or procedure sanctioned by the Bill of Ethics qualifies as an artifact or embodiment of just law.
7. Any law, rule, regulation, or procedure not sanctioned by the Bill of Ethics is not an artifact or embodiment of just law.
8. For a society to thrive, its unjust laws and the rules, regulations, and procedures that support and enforce them must be repealed.
9. The exercise of (coercive) power over others is never ethical except  in the case of the defense of self or others against unethical acts – and then only when all available non-coercive means have failed – and even then limited to the application of the minimum amount of coercive force required to prevent further occurrence of the unethical act or to provide redress of the harm done by the unethical act or acts already perpetrated.

It is the intention of Titania to create and operate an alternative legal system to which the public can turn for the arbitration of conflicts, the redress of grievances, and the establishment and enforcement of just laws. To that end:

1. The Titanian Legal System (TLS) will be built upon the definitions and principles provided by the Bill of Ethics.
2. The TLS will be privately owned and operated, entirely independent of government, and will be funded entirely by voluntary payment of service fees and subscriptions by persons wishing to avail themselves of the services afforded by the TLS.
3. Organizational elements of the TLS will be structured as HoloMats of Octologues according to the definitions provided by the Constitution of Titania.
4. Over time, and as its means permit, the TLS will define and codify just law in the fields of contracts, business, torts, the environment, and criminal law.
5. On the same basis, the TLS will offer services that may include, but not be limited to the following:

a.Mediation,
b. Arbitration,
c.Education,
d. Consultation,
e. Expert testimony,

f.  Judicial services,

1. Defense of persons unjustly accused of criminal charges under government-enacted laws in government courts.
2. The writing of legal briefs arguing for the repeal of unjust laws and the redress of grievances for persons against whom unjust laws have been enforced.
3.  Development of a system of legal defenses against the enforcement of any and all laws providing for the practice of taxation by government at all levels.

If you understand the foregoing and are prepared to make a significant investment in bringing the TLS to reality, then you may be in a position to “play” in the Titanian “Legal Sandbox”.

Now let’s consider some of the other ways you can PARTICIPATE IN TITANIA.

GAIA’S DREAM

An Excerpt from Make It So!

By Robert Podolsky

The planet’s biosphere is alive; or so say our modern experts; it’s a living entity.  The planet itself may be part of that entity.  Together they demonstrate many of the properties of other living beings.  We call the Living Earth “Gaia” after the mythical Earth Goddess.  But it seems to me that if the planet is alive and aware (and I tend to agree she is) she is surely aware the way a person sleeping is aware.  Like the sleeper, Gaia stirs, reacts to certain stimuli, adjusts her metabolism to deal with our changes in her chemistry, and perhaps…she dreams.

In their Midéwiwin medicine rituals the Ojibwas say, “The circle of the earth is the head of a great drum.  It moves upward with the day…booming.  It moves downward with the night…booming.  We are but particles of dust as we dance upon the drumhead.  Some of us move upward with the day…booming.  Some of us move downward with the night…booming.  Only those who dream of leaping to the stars from the head of the great drum attain the grand medicine of the Midéwiwin”[1].   Only those who dream…

If Gaia dreams, where are those dreams?  Are they in the stone beneath us; in the bones of the earth?  Are they in the oceans, our “Googol-Great Grandmother”?  Are they in the genes of the planet’s flora and fauna?  Are they holograms in the planet’s magnetic field?  Are they ripples in a holographic universe?  Pondering these and related questions we amuse ourselves; we doze; we imagine ourselves as Gaia, somnolent and fecund.  Our vision attenuates, wavers, and re-clears.  We hear our heartbeat; then we hear many heartbeats; then the beat of many hearts, the sound of a great drum.  Our breath becomes the tide; our aura, the Milky Way.  Our vision seems unlimited in dimensions we’ve never seen before.  Time fragments; Causality is suspended; and suddenly our bodies are everywhere at once…and nowhere too.

Have you ever noticed how it feels to dream?  The dream seems to take over, as if it had a life of its own.  Is it obvious that the self we dream isn’t the dreamer?  The self we experience in a dream has been dreamed by someone, but by whom?  I have often wondered this.  At last as I contact Gaia I know the answer: I am Gaia’s dream…and so are you.

Now I have Lucid Dreams; wherein I know I am dreaming, yet continue to dream.  Such is life.  Such is reality.  During a lucid dream we can choose reality and experience many things otherwise unavailable to us.  We can peek over the event horizon.  It is a highly creative state, where we have the power to forge a new reality, a better future for Gaia.

You can follow along with me now; for as I am Gaia…so are you.  We dream together whether we choose to or not.  Either we do it outside of consciousness, as in a conventional dream; or we can choose to do it lucidly, in full awareness.  If we dream together lucidly we can raise Gaia’s level of awareness to that of consciousness.  And finally we can dream Gaia fully conscious and aware of her own awareness.  Then we merge with God and all things are possible.

The fabric of Gaia’s dreams is the fabric of all dreams, including yours and mine.  To dream of a better world, a better humanity, a better social structure is to permit Gaia to dream with greater awareness.  Perhaps she dreams of being awake, conscious, fully aware.  What does she dream?

We know what she dreams.  She dreams our reality.  She dreams our deepest fears and our highest aspirations.   She sees a world of possibilities and we choose between the reality of hope and the realities of fear, despite, and despair.  Dream with me now a world of peace, harmony, and love…

In Gaia’s shadow the winds of Time are stilled; Causality is unnecessary; and Einstein slumbers.  We can set aside our doubts for now; we will need them later.

The year is 511 BOE, Bill Of Ethics, which corresponds to 2,506 AD by the old calendar.  On “Spaceship Earth”[2] much has changed over the past five hundred years.  The air and water are clean…as pure as they were 1,000 years before.  The forests have expanded their boundaries.  Once again the wildlife thrives in every corner of the world.  All species are safe from Mankind’s earlier depredations.

Looking closer we see that humanity numbers only 1.0 billion souls, a light burden for the planet to support.  The population level is stable; and humanity is healthy and long-lived.  A life expectancy of 200 years is typical.  Soon that number will rise even higher as one by one the debilitating diseases of aging are conquered.  As the human life-span expands the birth rate diminishes so that the population remains stable, in keeping with a long-term plan.

There is no War on this planet; no hostile factions eager for one another’s demise; no inter-racial, intercultural, inter-religious, international conflict that isn’t settled peacefully and to mutual satisfaction.  Racism, Sexism, Religionism, Nationalism, and all the other “isms” that used to foster hatred and despite are now things of the past.

The interpersonal communications know-how and the values and beliefs that make peace possible are learned in our workplaces, in our homes, in our spiritual institutions, and in our schools; and life is sweet for our children.  Today the primary focus of early education is making sure that every child has a place in our society; that no one feels left out…alienated. Because of this culture, education is at last in its ascendancy.  Our education is “student-centered”, existing for the benefit of the student rather than for the purposes of prospective employers or other institutional beneficiaries.   No one lacks this resource and therefore human society is universally supportive of lifelong learning by all people.  More than half of all education takes place outside the classroom in the homes and businesses of participating members of the community.  The community has thus become the extended family of every child.  No child feels alone or unwanted for more than a few minutes and every child has loving adults to turn to for support at any time of the day or night.  This fact alone has profoundly altered the course of human history.

People travel freely everywhere on the planet and off without concern for national boundaries, which are today as transparent as state boundaries were in the United States of 500 years ago.  No one is embargoed. There are no tariffs on trade.  All commerce is conducted freely and without protectionist restraints.

There is no Poverty on this planet that is not self-imposed.  All persons have economic opportunities sufficient to ensure their prosperity if they choose to avail themselves thereof.  There is also no “financial slavery” that was once so commonly imposed on the majority by the wealthy few who owned the megalithic corporations of the early 21^st century.  Today’s business entities are comprised of very small groups of individuals; rarely numbering more than eight.  Decisions within such groups are always made unanimously using consensus formation methods that have been taught publicly since 2004.

When a big project is embarked upon, many such “Octologues” band together contractually  as a HoloMat to cooperate in accomplishing the project.  This way it is rare that an enterprise, once mature, isn’t owned and managed by those whose creativity and productivity are the source of the organization’s wealth.  For this reason largely, bureaucracy, that is the systematic elimination of corrective feedback within an organization, has been all but eliminated; and a host of other ills eradicated along with it.

There is little drudgery in the world.  When asked, people explain that their chosen work gives meaning to their lives.  It is at the same time financially rewarding and emotionally fulfilling.

Crime is almost non-existent since there is such a wide range of financial opportunity available to everyone; and everyone has better things to do with their time.

And what is more, the meaning of “crime” has changed as the meaning of “law” has evolved; and this in turn has resulted from a profound change in the nature and function of “government”.

Today’s governments bear little resemblance to those of five hundred years ago.  Today “government” means “consensus”, an activity in which almost all people participate actively and which is universally trusted as benign and supportive.  Only those who seek to injure, control, or exploit others have anything to fear from government today; as government takes nothing away from the individual against their will and safeguards the rights of all citizens.   In exchange for this extraordinary service the citizens of the world have taken on the responsibilities of self-determination, initiative, and enterprise which former governments have (but no longer) sought to usurp in order to control and exploit their own citizenry.

Seven hundred and twenty five years ago a creative and well-meaning group of individuals dreamed of a society in which government was, “…of the people, for the people, and by the people.”  In hopes of achieving this end they had fought a bloody revolution and won their independence from a tyrannical monarchy.  Then they established a constitution and amended it with a Bill of Rights.  The resulting societal experiment was glorious…but badly flawed.

So, five hundred years ago a new experiment was begun… with a Bloodless Revolution.  Having learned many lessons from the first experiment, this one was substantially less flawed.

As we waken from this dream its power and memory persist; and we realize we are living in a special era of time, an era of catalytic change.  Humanity’s current way of life is not sustainable.  It will either lead to human extinction or to massive change in our social fabric…or both.   I vote for massive positive change.   To that end I dedicate my life to the Bloodless Revolution, which is already beginning.  The foundation stones of a viable plan have already been drafted.  A “mastermind group” (á la Napoleon Hill) is already being recruited.  The past will not be the future.

To realize any great dream it is necessary to have a sensory-based definition of the dream’s eventual outcome.  In other words we have to know what we will see, hear, and experience when we have succeeded.  The forgoing pages are, for me, the beginnings of such a definition.  But there is one subtler criterion that I think must apply.  When Gaia’s Dream is truly an emerging reality, the decisions that humans make collectively, whether in small groups or large, must be generally recognizable as wiser and more ethical than any decision that could be made alone by any member of that group.  When this is the prevailing truth we will know that Gaia herself is a participant in the decision making process.

Meanwhile, aspiring to realize this dream, we have to face a really BIG PROBLEM.

The Desired Outcome

Since the dawn of humanity, humanity has craved and dreamed for the advent of a just, verdant, and peaceful social order. A society that is truly thriving and most individuals would have rich, full, creative lives. A society where all men and women are truly EQUAL.  Some people might have more responsibility than others; no one or no group would be able to coerce another person or group using fraud or force!   A society where peace is the norm, crime was non-existent and all people have easy access to healthy food, clean water and non chem-trail laced skies. A society where humans lived in harmony with each other with the earth and all its creatures.   Such a society is hard to describe because such it would be everything that the society of the 21st century earth is NOT! Are we closer to that kind of society today than we were EIGHT THOUSAND years ago – when government, as we know it, was invented? I think not.

The Great Question

For about the past twenty years I have sought the answer to one Great Question: What has to happen for such a desirable world to be manifest? To find an answer to this question I have applied a wide variety of intellectual tools, including:

The exciting upshot of this lengthy search is a potentially valid answer to the Great Question. It may not be the only answer – but it is very likely a good answer – certainly, an answer worthy of your serious consideration.

The Big Problem

In order to understand my answer to the Great Question, it is necessary to grasp the nature of the Big Problem – the obstacle that has kept our species from really thriving since we emerged from the forests and caves millennia ago. My analysis reveals that such evils as war, terrorism, hunger, poverty, genocide, race-hatred, widespread addiction, inter-personal violence, and the like, are actually all symptoms of the same phenomenon – namely: Inadequate Socio-cultural Evolution.

Unlike genetic evolution that has thus far been beyond human capability to control, or even influence, socio-cultural evolution is extra-genetic – and therefore susceptible to human choices and decisions. Unlike the tremendous advances of technological evolution (which is also extra-genetic), our socio-cultural evolution hasn’t advanced significantly since feudal times. While the names of our institutions have changed, the basic methods by which they operate, and the principles underlying those methods, haven’t changed at all in at least eight thousand years – and possibly much longer. In a nutshell, our species’ institutions continue to make very unethical decisions on the same basis that they always have in the past.

Of special interest in the field of socio-cultural evolution is our grasp of ethics. The general lack of understanding of the most basic principles of ethics is manifest in almost all our institutions – particularly big businesses, organized religions, and governments. The result is that law-makers routinely enact laws that coerce us into obeying laws that forbid us to act ethically – or what is worse, require us to engage in acts that are unethical. Governments (all of them) are thus reduced to mere power-brokerage cartels that benefit a very small number of individuals at the expense of billions of others. In the analysis that follows I explore the fundamental ethical principles that drive our societal development, the effect our ethics have on our laws, and how our laws serve the hidden purposes that underlie the way our governments and other institutions function. Following this analysis, I propose a Grand Experiment (for which I am asking your support) that could potentially alter the course of extra-genetic human evolution in a most desirable way – and I provide evidence supporting the decision to proceed.