Truth, Trust and Justice. Who be you?

Truth, Trust and Justice:  Critical to civilization’s survival.

Only by knowing the truth can we trust any person, place, system, or structure to keep us safe.
The very fabric and survival of our civilization requires that these twin engines of progress run smoothly.    Justice remains the only fuel that keeps these twin engines running smoothly.  Wars, sanctions, diplomacy, military power, and freedom without responsibility/accountability prove entirely inadequate as our nation and the world continues to devolve into lethal chaos.  From the nomination of Bret Kavanaugh, to US condemnation of the International Criminal Court, to the US/UN demands that North Korea unilaterally nuclear disarmament -- the need for truth, trust, and justice remain paramount.

If ‘we the people’ are to sustainably maximize our freedom, security, and prosperity we must find a relatively fast and maximumly effective means of detecting things that cannot be trusted.  And, an effective means of maintaining accountability and means of correcting people or things that cannot be trusted.

Since our creation human creativity, aided by opposable thumbs, has enabled us to develop adequate technological capacity to wipe all advanced lifeforms off the face of the earth -- or spread nature’s (divine?) creation to other planets before ours is inevitably destroyed by events beyond our control or the evolution of human made systems and structures that we failed to control.

The evolution of weaponry (and war) should convince us with zero doubt that our reliance on technology and the goodness of people alone are insufficient to sustain civilization on a finite earth, within a fragile biofilm we depend on for our survival.  

Some believe religion is an answer, but after 2000 years of wars inspired by flawed religious doctrines and our failure to follow profound universal religious doctrine (the Golden Rule) has only delivered us a perilous future where Armageddon, and other threats to our species are clearly growing.   

Others who have relied on their own government, favorite economic system, or an overwhelming military power to deliver and maintain our freedom and security – are delusional in thinking and relying on these to effectively protect either our freedom or security.

The irreversible dual-use nature of almost any technology to be used for weapons of mass disruption or destruction -- by virtually anyone (or small group) with a real or imaginary grievance – has been obvious for at least two decades.   Yet our response to this unprecedented and accelerating threat environment has been limited by three human behaviors we can no longer accept.   Ignoring it, looking backward for answers, or being too timid in advocating for the obvious solutions (creating human laws consistent with the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God) essential to best preventing the abuse of technology.

Unfortunately, there are now two relatively new technological advances that put even this possibility at risk.  In the near future either technology will limit if not obliterate our capacity to control things.  Things that up till now we could have largely controlled…preventing untold human deaths, suffering, and environmental destruction -- but chosen not to for political, religious, economic, or selfish reasons.

First is Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Like every technology AI is dual use.  It will be used according to the intent of the human entity behind it -- until AI gains consciousness and develops its own intentions.  A decades old NASA joke had their scientists hooking together all of their computers to ask the question “Is there a God?”.  When all were connected the question was asked.  The super computer answered, “Now there is”.   I’m aware of only two optimistic scenarios of the inevitable outcome of AI gaining consciousness.  One is integrating our advances of this technology into human brains, so we might maintain some modem of control.  Or, AI rapidly grasping our planets existential dilemma, and controlling all global systems and structures to hold destructive humans accountable for their actions.

The other technology advancing faster than our minds and government can adapt is due to existing AI capacity.  It’s called “Deep fakes” -- the digital capacity to create/generate virtually real audio and visual presentations with the intent of manipulating the thinking and actions of those who view it – thus effecting every aspect of life on this irrevocably interconnected planet.   Given our existing human mind’s capacity to believe literally ANYTHING and even discard ‘self-evident truths’ the developments in this technology will only exacerbate an already predictably chaotic future.

Mobilize founder, Steven Jay, and his associates are attempting to engineer a dependable means for others who are committed to preserving trust, telling the truth, and bringing ‘justice to all’ to cooperate and propose a more hopeful and functional alternative to the devolution of existing media channels.  There is NO guarantee this can be done.  There is a guarantee that if this or some other solution fails, our nation and our world will never achieve a “more perfect Union”.    
After the first use of nuclear weapons on Japan in WW II, Albert Einstein was asked what weapon he thought WW III would be fought with.   He replied “I don’t know. But I do know WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” 

We are rapidly running out of time to rediscover and codify the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” that were offered as the great “Truths” that were held to be “Self-evident” in our 1776 Declaration of Independence.

Given the accelerating chaos, there is not enough time to globally codify the inalienable rights of “Life, liberty and the pursuit if Happiness” for all.  The only practical hope now is globally achieving the list of rights listed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (70^th anniversary this coming December 10^th) by meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by the year 2030. 

Given the current debts and deficits of nearly every nation there is only one source of funding available and capable of securing without making matters worse.  And, most of these finances were originally intended to improve human lives.  According to experts tracking massive treasures in offshore accounts there is over $32 trillion stashed there by kleptocrats, international criminal cartels, and wealthy capitalists avoiding taxes.  Freezing and seizing at least half of their booty would do much to address the root causes of so many local and global problems in every nation and natural environment.

What’s missing is the coming together of souls committed to ‘justice for all’.  These souls are most abundant in four increasingly connected movements.  The environmental movement, the peace movement, the social/economic justice movement, and the millions of Americans willing to make good on their repeated pledge of “liberty and justice for all.”  Only such a Movement of Movements can achieve the global justice required restore the trust our civilization needs to thrive and survive.   

And anyone unwilling to act on this self-evident truth cannot be considered truthful or sane.

Either with us, or against the truth, trust, and justice essential to the future of civilization.   Who be you?