The New Prince
Once upon a time there was…
A king! — My little readers will say immediately.
But, no, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a civilization, struggling in its path toward its destiny.
As the saying goes, some walk alongside their destiny others are forcibly dragged and pulled by it, and in this article we shall attempt to explain where mankind is headed toward, and namely the emergence of The Prince.
Welfare and hardship
Not too long ago we spoke of an ideal currency system, its design is quite naturally perfect since it allows:
1) The abolishment of taxes whilst allowing the support of basic social services and infrastructures.
2) Accommodation for ZERO inflation targets whilst allowing for natural currency base expansion and contraction in line with macro trends.
3) A natural redistribution curve of welfare among all the citizens.
It is a work of art, flawless, sublime, a triumph of human knowledge and wisdom equaled only by its monumental failure at a practical, fundamental level: The lack of hardship!
Mother Nature is inherently efficient; it does achieve quite a lot whilst minimizing expenditures of resources.
Our very human body is made by about 60% of water, however what the human body can achieve within a lifetime is much greater than a bunch of gallons of water and some carbon, oxygen and traces of other elements mixed within.
Our body can stand upright (which water would never do naturally), it can move around, change the environment around it, and when the accumulated burden demands its tool, the human body passes on the baton of life to a copy of itself in order to continue this seemingly endless rat race called life.
Genes and brains
Our bodies, and likewise animal and vegetable ones, were forged by forces of Nature which are inherently forces of scarcity, meaning not necessarily the survival of the fittest, but the survival of the most efficient; The one capable of achieving the most out of its 40% non-water content multiplied by its lifespan.
Just to make it clear, our bodies need to be able to:
1) Survive hardship of the environment in the form of famine, floods, fire, losses, aggressive bio hazards such as viruses and bacteria.
2) Repair themselves and restore their functionalities after getting accidentally getting damaged per point one.
3) If you make it through point 1 and 2 then you might “get lucky” enough to join the breeding program, with all the challenges it entails to ensure the survival and correct programming of ensuing offsprings.
4) Being capable of having AND raising an offspring requires said individual to be smart enough to interact with the environment and society around it so to be able to gain access to resources to attain the magnum opus of life.
This last point is important because it refers to the underlaying layer of information life is based upon: Our genes!
They are at the base of the natural development of our material bodies and brains, they cause us to spontaneously do all the things listed above, almost mechanically, by the force of the very information within our cells to develop a body around it, capable of modifying the environment around it, just for the sake of ensuring the genetic information outlasts Time.
If it was just for our genes, we would look very much like the other animals out there, roaming around and executing very basic genetic programs and behaviors with very limited capability of changing the environment around to their genetic time survival needs.
At some point in time the Homo Sapiens Sapiens specie made an evolutionary step in which the genetic information layer passed on the baton to the informational/cultural layer of the brain.
Our culture, and knowledge (female and male), our capability of passing these on and copying them over onto other brains and individuals, so that they can expand and improve upon them, eventually elevates our species from the daily struggles of survival AGAINST the forces of unforgiving Nature, to the act of creatively BENDING the forces of Nature to our will.
This shift from genetic/survival information layer, to a cultural/knowledge layer allowed for an incredible gain of efficiency compared to other species on Earth.
And since the genetic, brainy, nerdy winner takes it all, mankind has been relentlessly bent on modifying the environment to his needs, whilst destroying entire ecosystems and displacing all other not-so-efficient-species away.
If you don’t use it, you lose it
The elevation of human species from daily struggles of survival to an environment too easy to live on does comes with its own struggles, namely that our genetic and brain pool gets diminished and weakened by atrophic tendencies, because machines and modern medicine are doing all the work to keep us alive and well, to the point that we don’t need to be overly efficient and capable: We have it too easy, we are too inefficient, Mother Nature looks back horrified at its very own creation!
Not that there is anything bad about playing zombie videogames to chill out after a day’s work, but these tendencies sow the seed of societal softness and ultimately enable its very collapse, should an unforeseen stressor cause a change in the status quo and people fail to adapt efficiently.
Which is why a healthy and long(er) lasting society should somehow include elements of scarcity and hardship within its functions, despite machines and perfect predictive software and autonomous banking systems could one day very well take over most if not all of the menial tasks of survival required by us through work.
Layering knowledge and emergence of newer purposes
Evolution is like a step ladder, it builds upon previous achievements, explores the new floor and its possibilities, and then moves on to the next evolutionary step with an entire new set of challenges and possibilities.
Likewise Nature built upon the available physical layer of available water and other possible compounds to build self-replicating molecules.
Once that game of genes and smart molecules was well established and fully adapted to its environment, then the informational layer became the next new thing to play with, which lead to the complex society we are now living on.
Eventually society and technology also plateau to a steady state of the art with well-established rules and playbooks, which is what the essay on the ideal currency system was all about.
Still things don’t remain statics into steady states for too long, and once society is stabilized, then out of sheer boredom and necessity a new layer emerges, which is what we will call: The Prince layer!
The Prince represents an evolutionary step of society and mankind, it lives within and it uses human society in the same way our brain maintains and uses the body it commands and its parts, giving them an added purpose and capability to build or achieve new things.
Rise and fall of fake Princes
We have seen goofy attempts at Princes in the past, when the subconscious collective of a society or population gets hallucinated by personality or ideological cults such as communism, fascism, wokeism along with their dark flesh representatives (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the Great Prophets… Trump?).
The Prince is the ultimate psychological and sociological archetype of a Great Leader who knows what needs to be done, who knows how to guide us all to a Greater Future, who will rejuvenate and reform society!
Once a society is ensnared by this archetype, then there is very little we can do to stop this but to let the system go through its historical conclusions for Good or Bad.
Still society doesn’t fall for the same tricks too many times and it keeps exploring the new layer, its possibilities and outcomes, and people ultimately develop mental antibodies to politicians, to fake people, to fake news and this is when the Emperor (or shall we say the Fake Prince) ultimately appears in all its embarrassing social and moral nudity.
The New Prince
Eventually society matures in such a way to allow the ascent of a New Prince, both a moral, spiritual and social leader immune to the treachery, falseness and pitfall of human nature and stale societal constructs.
This “entity” or group of people represent a sort of social evolutionary step from The Homo Sapiens Sapiens into a Homo Sapiens Emphaticus.
After the Great Struggle, when old structures of the past are cleared, then the New Prince will take the throne of human society and it will use it like its extension and body, to achieve its Greater Purpose.
In that time, a new form of cooperative democracy will arise, in which random people are elected to serve for some years before going back to their jobs, and in these years of public service they shall fine tune the legislative details of the Law in accordance to their experience and life specific experience, or be called to apply the Law, thus allowing the New Prince and his empath emissaries to focus on progressing mankind toward the Greater Purpose.
Human society has already gone through other great cycles of Princedom in the past and this new cycle is expected to last about one thousand years.
