Social Visionary Foresees Pending Shift in Political, Economic Climate
Eugene, OR, -- Social visionary and philosopher Troy Cochran, author of “Genesis: A Social Vision. Forensic Essays on the Psyche, the World Mind, and the Body Politic,” foresees significant shifts pending for world governments, economies, and their societies. Citing the anomalies of heightened solar activity in recent years, which Cochran believes is responsible for driving climate changes and human neurology, the author forecasts significant societal changes to occur over the next few generations.
“The biggest change,” said Cochran, “will be a shift in power from centralized governments to much smaller, specialized groups of citizens looking after the interests of their own communities.” These specialized groups he calls “stewardship guilds,” foreseeing what he calls the “recolonization of America,” with a similar metamorphosis occurring in other countries. “Governments are not designed,” he said, “to resolve the fundamental problems of their societies, such as greed in the marketplace, or servility in the population; that is the burden of the citizens themselves. But they first have to assume a political and economic might of their own, instead of delegating it away, and simply carrying on in a work-a-day routine locked into a chronic anxiety about their own survival. As I say in my last book, a society can only look after itself by looking after each other.”
These prognostications suggest enormous challenges for present and future legal entities, including courts and governments, at all levels, if Cochran’s social vision proves to be even marginally accurate. Current legal actions, for example, are designed to identify and penalize culprits, to pin full responsibility in a dispute upon one party only. Non-responsibility, or the “victim mentality,” says Cochran, “is rewarded in the present legal system. But this does not sit well at all with a sovereign-based citizenship, where 100 percent responsibility is claimed.” It is the sovereignty of the individual, he believes, not of the federal or national governments, that foreshadows the most dramatic political and social changes that lie ahead.
“Sovereign immunity,” Cochran claims, “will be the catchword of the day as more and more people realize that the old laws, written in another day, cannot be made to apply equally, like a blanket, upon all heads. Many people today have given up their rights in exchange for state-granted privileges. They are not the same thing.” He gives as examples the widespread use of driver’s and business licences. All this will phase out, he claims, as societies gradually mature and reclaim their eroding rights. Advocating a more direct form of democracy, with more citizen-involvement, less delegation to representatives, he writes: “A privilege is not a right. A vote is not self-governance.”
And what about the effect of “public stewardship,” on world economies?
Reminiscent of Michael Tellinger’s “contributionism,” in the jargon of the Ubuntu Party in South Africa, “Stewardship,” Cochran explains, “basically refers to the prevalence of public service motives over, or alongside, the profit-motive of modern enterprise. As the concept of sovereignty expands, political apathy and servility in the workplace will come under even greater strain and transformation as people seek for more meaningful ways to employ themselves and make a difference.” The repercussions this may have on profit-driven industries and financial markets are dizzying to contemplate. ”There will evolve a totally new kind of business model and marketry, and it will not be built on the backs of a complicit workforce. That mentality is phasing out, and it’s business model is already collapsing. It’s dehumanizing and debt-riddled. It’s not a sustainable economic model,” says Cochran.
In his book, “Genesis: A Social Vision,” Cochran strongly advocates the separation, yet coordination, between the political, economic, and cultural sectors -- or what he calls a “threefold social order.” Many social problems today, he explains, stem from the confusion and overlap between the economic and political spheres, which should be kept as distinctly separate as Church and State. “The cultural interests of a people,” he argues, “are no less vital to the interests of a society on the whole than are their economic and political interests.”
“Ultimately,” Cochran writes, “a society is better served when its people can hold their own against economic leaders who basically just want to use them, and political leaders who feel it their responsibility to protect them as if they had no other kin.”
When it comes to defending the rights of the individual, Cochran nearly waxes poetic -- no surprise, as he is also a noted poet, and author of several books of verse. His penchant for turning a phrase is evident throughout his prose as well:
“A conscious mind is a nation’s best and most abundant natural resource.”
“There is but one legitimate government, and it is not a ‘mediocracy.’ It is a conscience.”
“Truly, a civilization is built on human dignity, to say the least. The fall of civilizations can always be traced back to primal causes in the demoralization of individuals by their own beliefs.”
And it is this theme of changing beliefs that underscores Cochran’s social vision of a new genesis. The social mindset, he claims, is gradually giving way to an upsurging “spirituality”; and the chief problems of modern societies -- servility in the people, greed in the marketplace, and presumption in government -- will eventually and inevitably have to come to terms with this underlying metamorphosis.
But, in his characteristic fashion, he quips: “It’s not that we are shipwrecked. It’s that we are fundamentally spiritual. We just don’t know the difference.”
Troy Cochran is currently elaborating on a model of cooperative economics in his forthcoming book, “The Secret Commonwealth.” His books are available through Amazon.com.
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