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How Is Manufacturing
Determined? Q: In the book, on the chapter about economics, you talked about, and I am
going to quote, “Under the guidance of the Brotherhoods, the manufacturers
will decide on the most capable and efficient way of reproducing any given
item.” This board of engineers and manufacturers, how would they be chosen?
what would be the checks-and-balances that they would have to ensure that
they are fairly ? of everyone? who would be responsible for setting up the
standards? RK: I
don’t know exactly how it will occur. For such a board to operate, all you
need is people who are not trying to promote their own self-interest of the
expense of somebody else. It requires a different attitude of mind that what
we find in our industrial society in How Is the Markup Determined? Q: In the book, you talk about the
markup of 12%, and how that each firm is responsible to pay the ten percent
tithe. What happens to the other two percent? RK: That
is the profit. Q: That’s the profit. The
company/corporation keeps that? Is that where the money comes from for growth
and expansion? RK: And,
for bonuses and things like that. A corporation has no need of growing at the
expense of some competitor. The main way is to redistribute that which people
have earned back to the people who earned it. The object of a corporation is
for people with various skills to combine their efforts to maximize a
monetary return on their efforts. There
will be no way a corporation or family can setup a dynasty to eventually come
to be in competition with the people who are members of the nation. And,
furthermore, when you have all you need, why do you need more? A tycoon or
plutocrat, I can’t see would even fit in. That is a highly patriarchal kind
of concept that you have to have so much power to even cause other people to
do what you want just the way that you want them to do it, or to take their
job away from them or cause them economic privation or send them off to war.
Those kinds of things would not be there. That
all comes from insecurities built into a child when he doesn’t have the love
and nurturance that gives him a sense of being secure, loved, and really
happy in his society. Those are the kinds of situations that allow a person
to feel secure. In today’s society, one-upmanship is very important among
contending males. It doesn’t take long before it expands to the females, too.
In matriarchal societies that is totally foreign to them. They can’t even
understand what we are talking about when we say such things. All of Lemuria
recognizes that people are all born the same way, and no one has any inherent
power from another source that this person must do this and this person must
do that, and everybody has to be controlled by a human. There are no ways to
force people like that. They just won’t go along with it. Today’s
society programs people to obey. You program them through their parents, your
teachers in the school, your professors, your legislators, your mayor, your
president; you are programmed to obey and not necessarily think for yourself.
Many specialists—doctors, educators, lawyers—are all educated to tell people,
“You can’t handle this. You are not competent to handle all of these
different things. You don’t know how to teach your child. You don’t know how
to learn the law by yourself, you can’t heal yourself, you don’t know how to
help yourself. This is important, so let’s turn this over to us: we, who are
your specialists.” And, they all manage to get legislation to reinforce that
more and more, so that you become more and more dependent on specialists. You
have been conditioned to obey all of these things. I
don’t mean that you are supposed to go out and have civil rioting and things
of that sort to overcome that. Just think for yourself. Think out all the
basics all by yourself. It takes a long time and it is a drag, but we here at
Stelle are doing this by reexamining all the things that somebody said, “Well
this is just prima facia evidence.
It is a priori. What else can you
do? It has always been that way.” But, when you look at other cultures and
other ways of thinking about things, they don’t adhere to any of those ideas.
Somehow or other, they have a happy existence. So, a lot of people think for
themselves. It gives rise to some interesting kinds of discussions, but at
the same time, because you have been conditioned to obey, you are in an
entirely different attitudinal space than the person does that which is
needed to be done because it is there before him and he does it. (04-1981) |
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