The Big Bang Project: Creating Humanity’S Best-Case Scenario

By Luc Goulet

It seems like every day humankind has a new problem to face. If we are honest about it, we as a group are responsible for many of those problems. Most of us are fairly intelligent, but as a collectivewellthere may be a tendency to act less than intelligently.

It doesnt have to be that way. Author Luc Goulet presents his plan for the positive evolution of humankind in his book, The Big Bang Project: Creating Humanitys Best-Case Scenario. The author shares humankinds most important failures and presents concrete solutions to many of our problems. The projects unique approach analyzes how we can best evolve as individuals and as a society, and how we can best use democracy and capitalism to the betterment of all. A bonus chapter on religious peace is enlightening and, according to the Author, will likely change how you look at religious conflict.

Positive evolution is only possible if we take a step back and recognize that many things must really change. Then the fun part is trying to reinvent ourselves! The Big Bang Project: Creating Humanitys Best-Case Scenario offers a blueprint to let the best of mankind prevail!

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491764459

Luc Goulet

Luc Goulet earned an MBA and operated a successful business. He has devoted himself full-time to his young family and enjoying his passions since he pseudo-retired at age thirty-five. He now offers others his lifelong vision of a better world. His vision has evolved into an ambitious mission and a great action plan supported by a website: www.thebigbangproject.com.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

INTRODUCTION

The Vision

The Mission

CHAPTER 1 HUMAN EVOLUTION: CAN WE DO BETTER?

CHAPTER 2 PREMISES FOR A POSITIVE EVOLUTION

The Humble Human Perspective

CHAPTER 3 A BETTER ME, A BETTER WE—AND VICE VERSA

What Comes after the Me, Myself, and I Era?

The Great Power of Giving

One Platform—All the Options

Idea for a Super Reality TV Show

Education versus Knowledge

CHAPTER 4 SHOULD GOVERNMENTS AND DEMOCRACY EVOLVE?

Management

Competence

Transparency, Accountability, and a Strict Code of Ethics

Responsibilities

Political Parties and Independents

Neutrality

Party Funding and Advertising

The Voting System

Electoral Process

Up-to-Date Technology

Voting for the Right Reasons

Voting for Important Issues

A Proper Majority

International Interventions

CHAPTER 5 CAN GOVERNMENTS PLAY A BETTER ROLE TO IMPROVE ECONOMIES?

A National Debt for Legacy?

Performance Indicators

Evaluate Public Services and Cost Sharing

Every Dollar Counts

Day care and Kindergarten

Primary School and High School

College and University

Shared Costs for People with Special Health-Care Needs

Private Insurance for Surgery—More Personal Responsibility for Regular Care

CHAPTER 6 CAPITALISM: IS THE RIGHT ON THE RIGHT COURSE?

The Game Changed, but Who Has the Advantage?

Too Big to Fail Equals Too Big to Exist As Is?

The Right’s Social Responsibilities

Avoid the Void; There Are No Jobs There.

Who Benefits the Most without the Responsibility?

Evolving from Win-Win to Win-Win-Win

CHAPTER 7 CAN CAPITALISM BE SAVED?

Rethinking Our Behaviors

The Great Cost of Savings

Buying Is Voting

Can Labels Change Your Vote?

The Best Models for Spreading Wealth

Technology and Service

CHAPTER 8 THE BIG BANG PROJECT’S REVIEW AND ACTION PLAN

The Big Bang Project’s Action Plan (Phase 1)

Chapter 9 Religion—Sadly, an Important Issue

The Great Plan for Peace

The Summit of All Summits

Letter from Humanity to Religious Extremists

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people have played very important roles in the creation of this book and project. You all have a special place in my heart. Thank you. My incredibly beautiful life partner, wife, and best friend (all in one), your precious devotion was key to realizing my dream. I will be eternally grateful. I love you and thank you for sharing my life. My boys have been quite patient through this long process. Thanks, guys. I love you so much. I wrote The Big Bang Project mostly for you.

My parents, brother, and sister made me a blessed man. I have such a great family that provided the perfect environment of love, respect, and building great things by working together. We use our differences to our advantage.

My teachers taught me so much. Thank you, Mr. Pollender, for sharing your passion for chess with me. It taught me to work with logic and imagination, and always try to predict a few moves ahead.

To my precious buddies, our conversations and arguments were a fantastic help. Thank you, Nathlou and Blou, for your peaceful home, the perfect place for inspiration, and breaking the blank-page syndrome.

Eric, from Descormiers et Associés, your contribution of examples of performance indicators is much appreciated. Véronique Hamel, I’m very grateful for your beautiful illustrations.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

My ambitious goal is to trigger mankind’s next phase of evolution. I believe that humans can evolve in a positive way. I spent the last thirty-five years asking myself how we can best progress as individuals, society, and species.

It all started with a commitment I made myself one sleepless night, at the age of fifteen, during the summer of 1979. I had just accomplished the improbable by getting rid of the heavy stutter I have had all my life, thanks to the practice of self-hypnosis. I had learned that I can reprogram myself—and that I can use this technique at will, for anything. I understood that there are no limits to our capabilities if we truly believe it and have a strong positive focus. I learned as well that for positive change to happen, you need to use positive suggestions and thoughts. That forces oneself to reinvent many new lines of questioning. Asking the right question in a positive manner can be transposed in everything you do. My first vision that night was that I would one day write a book to help people achieve the best they can be and to explain that anything we want to change, we can.

As I developed a national retail chain of franchised stores with my sister and brother, I kept my project on the back burner. Always adapting to new markets requires an open mind, research, and respect for different cultures. Managing a fast-growing company makes you great at understanding priorities, training, delegating, and motivating. In order to succeed, you understand that it can only be done by teamwork and that every member is important.

Throughout the years, these thoughts of sharing self-improvement methods evolved into social questioning and ideas about human evolution. Being an insomniac gave me lots of time to ask myself if there can be better ways for democracy to be expressed and whether capitalism can evolve in a positive manner to better create and spread wealth.

After selling my shares to my partner at the age of thirty-five, I devoted myself to my family and my passions while completing my MBA. Again, all those best principles of management may be used in many other spheres of our lives, personal and social.

I then experienced how volunteering helps others and is an important aspect of becoming a better human being. After a few years, I decided to go ahead with my lifelong mission. All my life’s experiences made me feel confident and ready to share my vision for humanity’s best path of evolution.

I am not a politician, and I do not represent any private organization or religious group. I’m not a specialist; I’m a generalist, someone with a global view.

Bono sings One Voice, inspiring us to speak out. That’s what I’m doing. I’m simply the voice of a fellow earthling, guided by a genuine love and respect for people, imagination, and common sense, with an extraordinary vision of a better world.

Instead of going into great details, I chose to treat more concepts, ideas, and subjects so they may be developed later on, with your input. The details and specifics are not part of this exercise. The Big Bang Project needs to be a simple, quick read. The first phase is meant to propose a common platform of expression, to begin a process of positive change. Experts and amateurs from different fields are encouraged to confirm or refute my ideas, or even propose better solutions.

I certainly do not claim to have all the answers, but I do ask better questions, leading to better solutions. You will probably not agree with all my views; that’s to be expected. My goal is to initiate a reaction from everyone who wants to get involved in the process of positive change.

Thank you for your curiosity, open mind, and desire for a better world.

Luc Goulet

INTRODUCTION

I often find myself wondering how a truly evolved society would function. We all agree that humans have a lot of work before getting there. There are so many aberrations for a supposedly evolved species: widespread poverty, political