Seed: A New Philosophy [Paperback]

Steve Glickman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 2000

The Fair System promotes a vibrant, innovative, and truly original system of government where poorer people get proportionally more power when voting.

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About the Author

Steve grew up in Toronto, but has spent the last 15 years living in British Columbia. Along with several part time jobs in restaurants, deli's, hotels, construction sites, and ski schools; he has also been the owner and manager of a successful window washing company for three years and the owner of a successful computer software business for 10 years.

Steve is a recent winner of the BC Festival of the Arts : otherwords 2001 emerging writing program for scriptwriting; where he was awarded a full scholarship to the Vancouver Film School for their writing for film and television program. This program was completed in the winter of 2001. He also trained with the Ivana Chubbuck Acting Studios for a year before that.

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There are two inventions and two institutions that we as human beings have created to regulate and encourage our development. As a society we operate under a system of capitalism and democracy. As individuals we participate in that society by using money and votes.

Although both of these systems allow us to benefit from the world and each other, and to protect the world and each other from harm; we have come to a point where the majority of power is determined by how we spend our money, and the way we spend our money is having a negative impact on the world and the people who live in it. The problem is that the people with money have become so separated from the realities of life that they are now driving an economy which harms society instead of nurturing it.

The solution to this problem is to invoke a curve on elections, so that the poor have a larger proportion of votes and, thus, more of a say in how the world is governed. This vote scaling can be accomplished without dismantling any of our current institutions or our access to a free market; and could be put into place immediately with no changes whatsoever to the current political system.

This new philosophy is not some kind of magic spell that will change the world overnight. Instead, it proposes a gradual and controlled shift to a system where we can exercise more control over our lives, and where we are no longer alienated from the environment, each other, and ourselves. As we become better able to meet the needs of our poor by allowing them a more equitable chance to be heard, then hopefully we will have less craving for a life of escapism, insulation, and excess that is so resolutely promoted by the wealthy today.

Product Details

• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Pali Publishing (January 11, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0968865801
• ISBN-13: 978-0968865804
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)