FAIRISM

By R P.W

A short, concise, political manifesto presenting a path to an elevated, sustainable American democracy. Imagined in the mind of an Australian. Powerful in its directness and call to arms, FAIRISM is both personal and deeply, philosophically political. The language is intentionally geared towards the 'everyman and woman', his Aussie humour a wonderful breather throughout. FAIRISM will • End inequality • Rescue our ecosystem • Robin Hood some of the wealth in our society • Rid the world of fossil fuels • Create an equal playing field for all.
It’s time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716508332

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

I want to be clear, 110% clear, from the start that I am a total believer in democracy, freedom of the individual and an economy based on capitalism. Capitalism being where industry and trade are conducted by individuals and private enterprises not the government.

I think both democracy and capitalism are being abused and polluted currently for the benefit of the few rather than the many.

In this book, I will introduce and suggest a new form of democracy which I call Fairism. A philosophy of sustainability whereby the environment and the animal kingdom are respected allies within a democratic, capitalist society.

For the scare mongers out there, it is NOT communism or socialism in sheep’s clothing but a more sustainable way to live whilst enjoying the competitive free lifestyle we love.

I believe strongly that the USA is on the threshold of a new golden era if it seizes the moment and the opportunity presented. It can lead a global renewal. Thanks to the sometimes taken for granted personal freedom and the creativity it nurtures we have an incredible chance to improve our own living situations, create whole new industries and to raise the standard of living for many people both nationally and around the globe whilst in conjunction returning our environment, the planet and the animal kingdom to thriving health. To reverse our heavy footprint on our ecosystem whilst becoming a more just and inclusive society. We need to allow biodiversity to rebuild and take steps to avoid a mass animal extinct1ion which is well underway thanks to human activity.

As you’ll see in the following pages, I blast through billions of years of our planet’s life and reduce mankind’s early history to a few pages highlighting macro trends and the big picture events that delivered us to the here and now.

I prefer to explore what we need to and can do to take us forward. I feel we do not have the luxury of time to be looking in the rear-view mirror questioning and pondering the past. Let's take lessons from it but move on with real urgency. It is a time to take action for our children and their children’s future. It is not a time for pontification and political point scoring. To continue much of our current economic, agricultural and industrial activity is not sustainable.

As a broad statement, the last 300 years have seen a period of incredible innovation, invention and advancement in science, engineering and medicine that have dramatically improved our standard of living and increased our life expectancy.

It has also been a time of incredible wealth creation but also a time where powerful white men have aggressively dominated the working-class, people of color, Indigenous populations, the land and the animal kingdom.

As a result, there has been an ongoing class struggle producing tremendous political discussion and debate about how the average citizen’s life could be improved spawning differing philosophies and movements.

Socialism, capitalism, communism, fascism, democracy, and more were born. As one would expect, some people were for these new ideas and some against which is the human way. But we need to recognize these movements for what they were - new ideas, untested theories, some destined to fail and

some to succeed. Sometimes sadly ending in violence or suppression or both.

I like to think, even though their motivations may have been different, what all the protagonists and activists had in common, when forming their ideas into philosophies, was a desire to create a better deal for average folk and to raise the living conditions of the masses. To create hope. And they did. Sometimes just by resisting a movement, society was improved by the competition of ideas and philosophies.

It has been a period where fine intellect came to the fore in such people as Thomas Cromwell in Tudor England, Otto Von Bismarck with his German pensions and mass education, Thomas Hobbs with his definition of government, John Stewart Mill with his Nightwatchman state and shorter working week, William Gladstone and health care, Beatrice Webb and welfare, Milton Friedman and the privatization of government assets, Karl Marx and his people versus the establishment, Franklin D.Roosevelt and his New Deal. A common thread was a desire to ensure the wealth of a country was not controlled by, and benefitting, too few.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1987, there appeared to be one winning philosophy - capitalistic democracy which is now under renewed scrutiny as it has not served all its citizens evenly and fairly. Wealth has once again concentrated in too few hands with greed and the lust for power rampant in many societies.

Elected government is like everything in life - there are cycles and the pendulum swings from big to small, from good to bad, from liberal to conservative but democracy is the constant foundation as it protects the individual’s freedom. This guaranteed freedom is the core building block of a democratic society but we should not take it