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Fabian Elleder
Apr 18, 2012, 8:35:26 AM4/18/12
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Hallo an Alle,
Ich leite hier das Neujahrsstatement von Gary Davis
weiter. Er ist der Gründer des AWC, Association of WorldCitizens, welche den
Weltbürgerausweis ausgibt und organisiert.
Er ist ein betagter Mann, war im zweiten Weltkrieg
Bomberpilot und war 1968 der wichtigste Aktivist in Europa, welcher die
europäische 68-Bewegung zu einer föderalistischen Bewegung machen wollte.
Er selbst íst US-Amerikaner.
Sein größter Coup war: In einer Aufsehen erregenden
Campingaktion demonstrierte er 1968 wochenlang auf einer Brücke in Straßburg um
zu zeigen, wie es einem geht, wenn man keinen Ausweis hat. Gefangen zwischen
zwei Ländern. Er selbst sagt, dass nicht Sozialismus oder Kapitalismus die
entscheiden Frage sei. Sondern, wann sich alle Länder zusammen tun, damit keine
Menschen mehr zwischen ihnen gefangen werden.
Er ist, meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach, einer der
ganz großen Helden des Weltföderalismus und wird mit Sicherheit mal mehrere
Denkmäler bekommen.
Als Mensch habe ich ihn persönlich als bärbeissigen
Falken kennengelernt.
Freundliche Grüße,
| Fabian Ralf Elleder |
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Mr. Fabian Elleder
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Mr. Fabian Elleder
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From: Garry
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Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 4:58 AM
Subject: [WorldCitizen] Garry Davis' New Year Message: "Top Down and
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TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP!
Subsidiarity: The principle that political power should be exercised by the smallest possible unit of government
Garry Davis
Among the myriad problems facing our human race and indeed
each one of us as we turn the yearly clock is that of “ownership” of the planet
itself on which we all live. In short, the major issue on which most minor
issues are based is territorial!
Where all action takes place: local and global. Or relative
and total.
But whose territory is it, the nations’ or humanity’s? OR
EACH CITIZEN’S? Without territory, there is no such species as humanity or
political entity as a nation or you and me as individual humans not to mention
every other living “being” on planet Earth. But if we consider that only nations
“own” the planetary turf, then we, humanity are doomed. And deserve it just like
the struggling silkworm in a suffocating cocoon neglects to break out into the
clean and limitless air.
But we humans better claim it NOW before some brain-warped
cocoon-leader pushes the BUTTON!
BOOM! There goes the neighborhood!
Planetarily-speaking.
The metamorphasizing of citizenship before the national
doomsday machine implodes alone can justify our human existence on this home
planet.
Besides, now we’re legally on world territory! The
International Criminal Court’s [ICC] Statute cites “enemies of humanity” for
indictment. Consider the implication. What heretofore was only a fact (humanity)
is now a recognized element of global jurisprudence! (If an international
criminal court can claim in its Statute the existence of humanity, it has
legitimized it!) Humanity, however, is defined as “all human beings
collectively.”[1]
And we, you and I, are members of total humanity, are we
not?
So, already a de facto human being, now you and I have become de
juris humans!
But we, as individuals, must claim it! That is, bond
civically to our humanity, our species as
we are already bonded generically.And we do that simply by exercising the
fundamental right of political choice[2] by claiming world
citizenship as an addition to
our lower levels of citizenship down to the city or town we live in
locally.
And guess what! You’ve just made a “global civic
contract of world peace” with every other human who has made the same
claim![3]
This then joins together in a true social pact both
“bottom up” and “top down” unity.
All nations, of course, claim an exclusive part of world
territory. But that claim is not only fictional but illegitimate condoning and
perpetuating a condition of anarchy between them.
Result: war, the latest being a lawless condition called
“terrorism” unwinnable and eventually destructive of all social codes leading to
totalitarianism.[4]
Think back to 1789, for instance, when the United States government was formed. Its founders also claimed a part of the world territory naming it “The United States of America.” The actual land, however, was still “sovereign world territory” but now partly circumscribed by United States law, deemed “exclusive” of the rest of the world’s territory and ”owned” by the newly-endowed “United States citizens.” In that pre-industrial, pre-electronic, pre-nuclear and pre-space world in which the horse was the fastest mode of transportation, when 98% of the population were farmers, “territory” was relative to both local and national needs, views and loyalties yet while certain sages like Tom Paine claimed that “My country is the world,”.
“Top down” allegiance stopped at the nation’s shoreline or other man-made national frontiers up to the 20th century
But now in this 21st century coming up to its
11th year, with THE BOMB ticking away over our collective heads, with
open space reaching the stars also over our collective heads now populated in
the speeding airbus circling the planet every hour and a half, “Top down”
government is survival-relevant for humanity itself.
Because that’s where you and I live. (one single world
territory) – minus fictional national (18th, 19th and
20th century) frontiers.
(If you have trouble with the word “fiction,” just think
about the universality of nature and problems like “global warming,” Carl Sagan’s “nuclear winter” and solar
power promoted by Buckminster Fuller as unlimited untaxable energy[5].
Moreover humanity is sovereign. It obviously has political choice. But
who speaks for it? Answer: you and me….as humans with a voice….and
global awareness.
Now do you understand why, if you want to live through this
and the next few years, you MUST I.D. yourself as a “citizen of humanity,” i.e.
a “world citizen” (probably the most ancient idea in the history books).[6]
It’s no big deal. Socrates claimed it. Erasmus claimed it.
H.G.Wells, Mahatma Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Luther King, etc., even
Ronald Reagan claimed it. Choosing your political allegiance is the essence of
fundamental human rights. All the UN member nations have already sanctioned that
choice via the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ”All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights, etc.”
And all human beings are living on world territory! (Look down once in a while to check).
So what are you waiting for? Fear? Ignorance? Don’t know
how?
Today, over 1,000 towns and cities throughout the world have “mundialized,” that is, declared that they exist on “sovereign world territory,” and that their citizens are legal world citizens as well as citizens of their local constituencies. The first town was Cahors, France in July, 1949. [7] Indeed many cities in the United States--the first being Richfield, Ohio, followed by Akron, Oberlin, Boston, Amherst, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, etc.--as well as Burlington, VT, next door, have likewise “mundialized” since 1949. (See the list at www.worldservice.org/mundcity.html
Millions of us have already claimed it. (“Bottom up”
authority). And we have official documents to prove it: World Citizen cards,
World Passports, World I.D. Cards. The lot.[8]
The fateful and decisive moment has come with the advent of
a new year to make the evolutionary leap, the “metathesizing” transformation
from the “cocoon” of 18th
19th and 20th century, dysfunctional nationalism to the freedom of world
space surrounding the planetary soil to and on which we all have arrived at
birth.
You don’t have to be a prophet or a sage to understand this
demonstrable if challenging truth. Every child over ten sitting at a computer
going “online” knows it’s one world and he/she is part of it. Every mother no
matter where, what skin color or religion knows with the miracle of birth the
truth of the one human family of which she is a sacred source.
Every aware human.
So, it’s time to live “Bottom Up with Top Down” political
thinking.
Two final thoughts:
We humans are both conceptually and perceptually endowed. We evaluate metaphysically while
functioning physically. The first is identified by such qualities as “spirit,”
“understanding,” “wisdom,” “reason,” “love,” “fairness,” justice,” “kindness,”
and the like. The second is identified by “DNA,” “species,” “physical,”
“organic,” “biological,” “earthly,” “systemic” and the like. The universal code
identifying all social intercourse is the dynamic relationship between the one
and the many. “Do unto others, etc.” is a “code” of social behavior. “E pluribus
unum,” “Liberté, fraternité, Egalité,” In short, the “geo-dialectic” of human
activity wherever and whenever humans congregate.[9]
Viewed “vertically,” (or ontologically) the oneness of the
human species is self-evident (as seen from the Space Station, for instance.)
Viewed “horizontally,” (or teleologically)
the “we-they” aspect dominates “dividing” humans culturally, socially and
civically.
World law then combines both the vertical and horizontal (ontological and
teleological) aspects of human civilization. Our political thinking
therefore must encompass both methods.
Example: the mayor of a city represents the total civic population as a whole
yet must also represent each citizen within the code of civic justice and
personal responsibility. The code word then for world law is a “meta” politics
deemed “systemic.”[10]
A new and revolutionary technique of communication and
problem-solving utilizing both “bottom up and top down” thinking combined with
the frontierless medium of cyberspace, thanks to the internet, known as
“syntegration” was inaugurated in 1993.
Based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome structure[11] and reconfigured
by the eminent cybernetician Stafford Beer as a dynamic tool for humans to reach
valid and reasoned solutions to complex problems, the “Syntegrity Project” was
then created, tested and practiced by 30 teams throughout the world in answer to
the single question: “How can we, as sovereign world citizens, govern our
world?”[12]
This coming year and 2012 promises to be one of joyful
global coherence and fulfillment given such programs as “mundialisation”
combined with “the Syntegrity Project” where in both “Top down and bottom up”
thinking and participation allied with the ongoing and power-oriented
identification of world citizenship[13] for the general
world public join “not to fight the
existing reality“ as Buckminster Fuller sagely advised, but to “create a new
model to render the old model obsolete.”
We are “the new
model”, “bottom” and “top” linked gloriously together, and looking out at the
smiling heavens
[2] “Everyone has the right to a nationality and everyone
has the right to change his nationality,” Article 15[2], Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
[5] “Big government
can see no way to collect taxes to run its bureaucracy if people are
served directly and individually by daily cosmic-energy-wealth income.
Money-makers cannot find a way of putting meters between people and the wind,
Sun, waves, etc. (Critical Path, p. 219,
St. Martin’s Press, 1981)
8 See www.worldservice.org
[10] “Our so-called ‘contemporary political systems are
copied from models invented before the advent of the factory system…They were
designed in an intellectual world that is almost unimaginable—a world that was
pre-Marx, pre-Darwin, pre-Freud and pre-Einstein.” The Third
Wave, Alvin Toffler, Bantam Edition, p.
414
[11] Icosahedron
[13] A documentary and feature film on world citizenship is
projected this year to “change the story.” See www.OneFilms.com
TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP!
Subsidiarity: The principle that political power should be exercised by the smallest possible unit of government
Garry Davis
Among the myriad problems facing our human race and indeed each one of us as we turn the yearly clock is that of “ownership” of the planet itself on which we all live. In short, the major issue on which most minor issues are based is territorial!
Where all action takes place: local and global. Or relative and total.
But whose territory is it, the nations’ or humanity’s? OR EACH CITIZEN’S? Without territory, there is no such species as humanity or political entity as a nation or you and me as individual humans not to mention every other living “being” on planet Earth. But if we consider that only nations “own” the planetary turf, then we, humanity are doomed. And deserve it just like the struggling silkworm in a suffocating cocoon neglects to break out into the clean and limitless air.
But we humans better claim it NOW before some brain-warped cocoon-leader pushes the BUTTON!
BOOM! There goes the neighborhood! Planetarily-speaking.
The metamorphasizing of citizenship before the national doomsday machine implodes alone can justify our human existence on this home planet.
Besides, now we’re legally on world territory! The International Criminal Court’s [ICC] Statute cites “enemies of humanity” for indictment. Consider the implication. What heretofore was only a fact (humanity) is now a recognized element of global jurisprudence! (If an international criminal court can claim in its Statute the existence of humanity, it has legitimized it!) Humanity, however, is defined as “all human beings collectively.”[1]
And we, you and I, are members of total humanity, are we not?
So, already a de facto human being, now you and I have become de juris humans!
But we, as individuals, must claim it! That is, bond civically to our humanity, our species as we are already bonded generically.And we do that simply by exercising the fundamental right of political choice[2] by claiming world citizenship as an addition to our lower levels of citizenship down to the city or town we live in locally.
And guess what! You’ve just made a “global civic contract of world peace” with every other human who has made the same claim![3]
This then joins together in a true social pact both “bottom up” and “top down” unity.
All nations, of course, claim an exclusive part of world territory. But that claim is not only fictional but illegitimate condoning and perpetuating a condition of anarchy between them.
Result: war, the latest being a lawless condition called “terrorism” unwinnable and eventually destructive of all social codes leading to totalitarianism.[4]
Think back to 1789, for instance, when the United States government was formed. Its founders also claimed a part of the world territory naming it “The United States of America.” The actual land, however, was still “sovereign world territory” but now partly circumscribed by United States law, deemed “exclusive” of the rest of the world’s territory and ”owned” by the newly-endowed “United States citizens.” In that pre-industrial, pre-electronic, pre-nuclear and pre-space world in which the horse was the fastest mode of transportation, when 98% of the population were farmers, “territory” was relative to both local and national needs, views and loyalties yet while certain sages like Tom Paine claimed that “My country is the world,”.
“Top down” allegiance stopped at the nation’s shoreline or other man-made national frontiers up to the 20th century
But now in this 21st century coming up to its 11th year, with THE BOMB ticking away over our collective heads, with open space reaching the stars also over our collective heads now populated in the speeding airbus circling the planet every hour and a half, “Top down” government is survival-relevant for humanity itself.
Because that’s where you and I live. (one single world territory) – minus fictional national (18th, 19th and 20th century) frontiers.
(If you have trouble with the word “fiction,” just think about the universality of nature and problems like “global warming,” Carl Sagan’s “nuclear winter” and solar power promoted by Buckminster Fuller as unlimited untaxable energy[5].
Moreover humanity is sovereign. It obviously has political choice. But who speaks for it? Answer: you and me….as humans with a voice….and global awareness.
Now do you understand why, if you want to live through this and the next few years, you MUST I.D. yourself as a “citizen of humanity,” i.e. a “world citizen” (probably the most ancient idea in the history books).[6]
It’s no big deal. Socrates claimed it. Erasmus claimed it. H.G.Wells, Mahatma Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Luther King, etc., even Ronald Reagan claimed it. Choosing your political allegiance is the essence of fundamental human rights. All the UN member nations have already sanctioned that choice via the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ”All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, etc.”
And all human beings are living on world territory! (Look down once in a while to check).
So what are you waiting for? Fear? Ignorance? Don’t know how?
Today, over 1,000 towns and cities throughout the world have “mundialized,” that is, declared that they exist on “sovereign world territory,” and that their citizens are legal world citizens as well as citizens of their local constituencies. The first town was Cahors, France in July, 1949. [7] Indeed many cities in the United States--the first being Richfield, Ohio, followed by Akron, Oberlin, Boston, Amherst, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, etc.--as well as Burlington, VT, next door, have likewise “mundialized” since 1949. (See the list at www.worldservice.org/mundcity.html
Millions of us have already claimed it. (“Bottom up” authority). And we have official documents to prove it: World Citizen cards, World Passports, World I.D. Cards. The lot.[8]
The fateful and decisive moment has come with the advent of a new year to make the evolutionary leap, the “metathesizing” transformation from the “cocoon” of 18th 19th and 20th century, dysfunctional nationalism to the freedom of world space surrounding the planetary soil to and on which we all have arrived at birth.
You don’t have to be a prophet or a sage to understand this demonstrable if challenging truth. Every child over ten sitting at a computer going “online” knows it’s one world and he/she is part of it. Every mother no matter where, what skin color or religion knows with the miracle of birth the truth of the one human family of which she is a sacred source.
Every aware human.
So, it’s time to live “Bottom Up with Top Down” political thinking.
Two final thoughts: We humans are both conceptually and perceptually endowed. We evaluate metaphysically while functioning physically. The first is identified by such qualities as “spirit,” “understanding,” “wisdom,” “reason,” “love,” “fairness,” justice,” “kindness,” and the like. The second is identified by “DNA,” “species,” “physical,” “organic,” “biological,” “earthly,” “systemic” and the like. The universal code identifying all social intercourse is the dynamic relationship between the one and the many. “Do unto others, etc.” is a “code” of social behavior. “E pluribus unum,” “Liberté, fraternité, Egalité,” In short, the “geo-dialectic” of human activity wherever and whenever humans congregate.[9]
Viewed “vertically,” (or ontologically) the oneness of the human species is self-evident (as seen from the Space Station, for instance.) Viewed “horizontally,” (or teleologically) the “we-they” aspect dominates “dividing” humans culturally, socially and civically.
World law then combines both the vertical and horizontal (ontological and teleological) aspects of human civilization. Our political thinking therefore must encompass both methods. Example: the mayor of a city represents the total civic population as a whole yet must also represent each citizen within the code of civic justice and personal responsibility. The code word then for world law is a “meta” politics deemed “systemic.”[10]
A new and revolutionary technique of communication and problem-solving utilizing both “bottom up and top down” thinking combined with the frontierless medium of cyberspace, thanks to the internet, known as “syntegration” was inaugurated in 1993. Based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome structure[11] and reconfigured by the eminent cybernetician Stafford Beer as a dynamic tool for humans to reach valid and reasoned solutions to complex problems, the “Syntegrity Project” was then created, tested and practiced by 30 teams throughout the world in answer to the single question: “How can we, as sovereign world citizens, govern our world?”[12]
This coming year and 2012 promises to be one of joyful global coherence and fulfillment given such programs as “mundialisation” combined with “the Syntegrity Project” where in both “Top down and bottom up” thinking and participation allied with the ongoing and power-oriented identification of world citizenship[13] for the general world public join “not to fight the existing reality“ as Buckminster Fuller sagely advised, but to “create a new model to render the old model obsolete.”
We are “the new model”, “bottom” and “top” linked gloriously together, and looking out at the smiling heavens
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
[2] “Everyone has the right to a nationality and everyone has the right to change his nationality,” Article 15[2], Universal Declaration of Human Rights
[3] See www.worldpeaceisyou.com
[4] War Is A Crime, David Swanson, 1969
[5] “Big government can see no way to collect taxes to run its bureaucracy if people are served directly and individually by daily cosmic-energy-wealth income. Money-makers cannot find a way of putting meters between people and the wind, Sun, waves, etc. (Critical Path, p. 219, St. Martin’s Press, 1981)
[6] World Citizenship and Government, Derek Heater, (St.Martin’s Press, 1996)
[7] See http://www.mairie-cahors.fr/actualite/BAT_LIVRET_MUNDI%20BD.pdf
8 See www.worldservice.org
[9] See www.worldservice.org.mem/html
[10] “Our so-called ‘contemporary political systems are copied from models invented before the advent of the factory system…They were designed in an intellectual world that is almost unimaginable—a world that was pre-Marx, pre-Darwin, pre-Freud and pre-Einstein.” The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler, Bantam Edition, p. 414
[11] Icosahedron
[12] See www.worldservice.org.syn.html
[13] A documentary and feature film on world citizenship is projected this year to “change the story.” See www.OneFilms.com
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