Chapter 1
Introduction
“The Way you can go
isn’t the real way
The name you can say
Isn’t the real way”
Tao Te Ching “, p1 Ch 1

Part 2

A high proportion of value is now driven by such knowledge but knowledge has features not evident in other cost drivers such as materials, land and machinery:-

1. It has no obvious limit to its extent,

2. It is very difficult to own

3. To be useful it needs shared.

Each of these has huge implications. If it has no limit it is not ultimately scarce the economic dilemma of shortage disappears. If it is difficult to own, private property is in question. If it needs shared its control is likely to be communal.

However private enterprise seems to be the best creator of knowledge. It is private enterprise – North America and Europe – that has success here not communal – North East Asia. However the latter seem to exploit existing ideas better. There is a huge potential for mutual benefit here based on these comparative advantages.

The amount of matter and energy in the universe is infinite. The only factor creating a need for economy is our ignorance of how to access it. Dispel this and the economic basis of conflict disappears.

This work raises the veil over the processes achieving this. If one understands these one can understand how our world is being transformed. To see this one needs to focus on the process generating diversity in form not form itself.

If ones does, the relationship between social and wider evolution, “The Way”, is clear. To see this judgment needs put aside. “this is good that bad”, “this should be”, “this ought to be” “this must happen” need to be let go from our language and thoughts . If one does one finds perception of actions transformed.

People pursue what fit with their perception of self. What has meaning for them is what they do. It could be building a happy family, a great commercial enterprise or charity or attacking those whom they believe are pursing false beliefs

With great effort one can sometimes change immediate behaviour by admonishing people to do so but longer term people follow their own star. In the end unless what is sought is meaningful to people their fundamental behaviour will not change. People always pursue their own perception of interest not others.