The Need and Feasibility of the UN to Lead the Human Community in Creating a Digital Planet(009)
— An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres and Global Sages
5,Cognition of Self-Rescue
In order for the United Nations to self-rescue and avoid being devoured and strangled by the morally corrupt old financial behemoth of capitalism, it can only become a stronger new financial behemoth that prints and uses its own money. If the financial system under capitalism is a “Tyrannosaurus Rex,” then the new financial system that the United Nations seeks to achieve in order to self-rescue should be no less than a “Cangosaurus.” Moreover, it should be a giant “Cangosaurus” that is in line with morals and benefits human society.
But how is this possible? Under the current capitalist system, global financial oligarchs have already divided up their respective financial spheres of influence, and they will not tolerate others taking even a single slice of their pie, let alone allowing the United Nations to create a new financial system and print new money. This is indeed a fact.
However, what if the new money printed by the United Nations for the new financial system is different from the old financial system’s money?
Or, what if the United Nations prints money without touching the vested interests of the old financial system?
Furthermore, what if the old financial system is not aware of the money printed by the United Nations yet?
Moreover, what if the money printed by the United Nations not only does not touch the vested interests of the old financial system but also expands the old financial system’s profit channels?
In the year 1023, before the Chinese Song Emperor Renzong issued the world’s first “guan jiao zi” (official exchange certificate), no one could have imagined that a piece of paper could replace silver. In 1606, before the world’s first stock was issued on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, no one could have imagined that a piece of paper could be worth 6.5 million Dutch guilders. In 1971, before Nixon announced the US dollar would no longer be tied to gold, no one could have imagined that humanity could freely print money without being anchored to any precious metal.
Human Cognition understanding of money has been constantly changing. Each transformation has brought about a qualitative leap in the global economy. Our Cognition of money today is still formed hundreds of years ago. Is it time for us to change this?
Printing money for the United Nations is not difficult, nor is it difficult to make the printed money valuable. The most difficult part is changing the Cognition. The vast majority of the following content and concepts may be unheard of, and may seem unimaginable. The purpose of discussing these is not to make people believe, which is impossible, but to make everyone clear about the deductive logic of the entire cognitive system. It is how we arrived at the conclusion of constructing a digital earth, printing moral money on this digital earth, and ultimately allowing the United Nations to achieve self-rescue and humanity to achieve self-rescue.
Whether the logic, reasoning, and examples used here are valid, and whether the deductive process is self-consistent, is up to each person’s judgement. If you think my logic is not self-consistent, then take me as an example and try to deduce a more self-consistent understanding or story of your own. As more and more people adopt this understanding, a digital earth will be built imperceptibly, and moral money will be continuously created. The self-rescue of the United Nations, as well as the self-rescue of human society, can be achieved smoothly.
5.1 Framework of Cognition
The framework of cognition refers to the understanding of the overall trend, including the trend of era development, social development, economic development, and so on. Once we can see these trends clearly, our cognitive framework is established, and subsequent core and substantial cognition will have a foundation. The basic logic of this cognitive framework is that:
To print new money and create a new financial system, there must be a corresponding new wealth system or value system. Without such a system, whether it is new money or new finance, it is a tree without roots or water without a source. It is not sustainable, nor can it form a healthy and sustainable new economic ecosystem. The development and progress of the new era, new society, and new economy will inevitably bring about changes in the wealth system. As long as we can correctly understand the trend of the times, the direction of society, and the overall economic trends, we can create a new wealth or value system that conforms to human civilization and progress.
Bitcoin and Ethereum’s digital currency are also new money printed in the new era. Over the past decade, the reason why they have struggled and experienced ups and downs is precisely because they have not yet established a corresponding new wealth or value system. The crux of the problem lies in the lack of “trust-based cognition.”
5.2.1 Civilization Transformation
More than 40 years ago, Alvin Toffler’s “The Third Wave” was published, and its ideas continue to resonate today. He believed that the first wave was the agricultural revolution, which gave rise to agrarian civilization; the second wave was the industrial revolution, which gave rise to industrial civilization. We are now experiencing the third wave, the information revolution, which will once again give rise to a new civilization. Many of the predictions in the book, such as the electronic revolution, working from home, DIY, big data, multimedia, fragmented culture, and integrated production and marketing, were previously unheard of concepts. Today, they have miraculously come to fruition one by one. However, there is still no formation of definitive conclusions on what the new civilization that the third wave will give rise to is and what its value and significance for human society’s development and progress are. More than 40 years have passed, and humanity seems to have not reached a consensus on this issue.
This Cognition is extremely important, as it determines whether we can create a new wealth system in this era, what the new wealth system will look like, and how to create it. There is no doubt that this has profound implications for the self-rescue of the United Nations, human self-rescue, and the self-rescue of the Earth.
On September 26, 1792, the British government sent a delegation led by Lord George Macartney to China under the pretext of celebrating Emperor Qianlong’s 80th birthday. The British delegation presented the Emperor with the most advanced industrial civilization achievements of the time, including “celestial globes, terrestrial globes, Herschel telescopes, Parker lenses… industrial machines such as steam engines and looms, as well as weapons such as rifles and repeating pistols.” Unfortunately, Emperor Qianlong did not realize that human society was undergoing a transformation from the agrarian civilization era to the industrial civilization era. This led to a missed opportunity to recognize the industrial revolution and embrace industrial civilization, which in turn led to China, which had dominated human society’s wealth for more than 2,000 years, falling into the ranks of impoverished and weak backward countries in just 100–200 years.
This example illustrates that when human society begins to enter a new civilization, no matter how powerful an empire built on the foundation of the old civilization may be, its collapse is almost instantaneous. The speed and scale of the rise of the new civilization will far exceed the imagination of the old civilization. Here, speed and scale primarily refer to the growth rate and growth scale of the new civilization’s new wealth system.
If what Toffler said is not unfounded, human society is undergoing a transition from the industrial civilization era to the information civilization era. As the representative of the industrial civilization era, the United States, along with its capitalist economic system and financial system, is bound to decline. The new civilization will inevitably have its own new economic system and financial system, which is the new wealth system and value system we mentioned earlier. As long as the United Nations recognizes this, it can not only save itself, but also lead human society to a comprehensive transformation to a new civilization. Isn’t this the greatest mission and value of the United Nations?
Whether Toffler’s description of the third wave exists and whether human society is indeed entering a new civilization era are questions that have been studied continuously for more than 20 years. We have made many new discoveries and cognition through our research. The civilization, civilization era, and civilization transformation we are referring to here are based on Adam Smith’s “Four Stages Theory” which divides human social development into “hunting society, pastoral society, agricultural society, and commercial society”. The hunting and pastoral society stages are attributed to the “primitive civilization” era, the agricultural society stage is attributed to the “agricultural civilization” era, and the commercial society stage is attributed to the “industrial civilization” era. The transformation of these social stages is defined as “civilization transformation”.
(To be continued)
The English translation is mainly done by AI and is inevitably not accurate enough. Please refer to the original Chinese text below for a more accurate understanding.
5，自救的认知
联合国要想自救，要想不被资本主义这头道德沦丧的旧金融巨兽所吞噬、所扼杀。只能成为一头比它更为强大的新金融巨兽，那就是：自己给自己印钱，自己用自己印的钱。如果说，资本主义体制下的金融体系是“霸王龙”。那么，联合国自救所要成就的新金融体系，至少要不亚于“沧龙”。而且，还应该是一头符合道德、造福人类社会的巨型“沧龙”。
但是，这怎么可能呢。在当今资本主义体制下，全球金融寡头们早已划分好了各自的金融势力范围，哪怕一杯羹都不会容忍他人分走，怎么可能让你创建新金融体系、印新的钱。这的确是一个事实。
但是，如果联合国创建的新金融体系，印出来的钱与旧金融的不一样呢？
或者说，如果联合国在不触动旧金融体系既得利益的情况下去印钱呢。
进一步说，如果联合国现在印出来的钱，旧金融体系还没有意识到、还没有认知到呢？
再进一步说，如果联合国印出的钱，不仅不触动旧金融体系的既得利益，还能扩大旧金融体系的获利渠道呢？
1023年，在中国宋朝皇帝宋仁宗发行世界上第一张“官交子”银票之前，谁也想不到，一张纸竟能取代银子。1606年，在阿姆斯特丹交易所发行世界第一张股票之前，谁也想不到，一张票据竟能值650万荷兰盾。1971年，在尼克松宣布美元与黄金脱钩之前，谁也想不到，人类可以不锚定任何贵金属而自由自在的印钱。
人类对金钱的认知，其实一直在不停地转变着。每一次转变，都给全球经济带来了质的飞跃。我们现在对金钱的认知观，还是几百年前形成的，今天，是不是到了该转变的时候了。
联合国要印钱不难，要让印的钱有价值也不难，转变认知最难。接下来的绝大部分内容和概念，可能以前闻所未闻，可能听起来匪夷所思。讲这些，目的并不是要人们信，那是不可能的。而只是想让大家清楚，这整个认知体系的推导逻辑是怎样的。是怎么推导到要构建数字地球，并要在数字地球中去印道德的钱，最终让联合国完成自救，也让人类完成自救。
这里面的逻辑、道理、案例是否成立，推导过程是否能自圆其说。每个人都有自己的评判。如果你认为我的还不能自圆其说。那么，就以我为鉴，去推导出更能自圆其说的、你自己得认知或故事。当有这种认知的人越来越多时，数字地球就会在不知不觉中构建起来，而道德的金钱也就会源源不断地被创造出来。联合国自救，包括人类社会的自救，也都能顺理成章的实现。
5.1 认知的框架
认知的框架，是指对大趋势的认知。包括时代发展大趋势、社会发展大趋势，经济发展大趋势，等等。一旦我们能看清楚这些大趋势，我们认知的大框架就建立起来了，后面的认知，无论是核心认知、实质认知，就都有了依托。这个认知框架的基本逻辑在于：
要印新的钱、打造新的金融体系，必然要有与之对应的新财富体系，或者说新价值体系。没有这样的体系，无论是新钱，还是新金融，都是无本之木，无源之水，既不可能长久，更无法形成一个健康可持续的良性新经济生态。而新时代、新社会、新经济的发展和进步，必然带来财富体系的变革。只要我们能正确认知时代大潮流、社会大方向、经济大趋势，我们就可以创造出符合人类文明进步的新财富体系或价值体系。
比特币、以太坊的数字货币，也算是新时代新印出来的钱。10余年来，它们之所以举步维艰、一波三折，正是因为它们还没有构建起与之对应的新财富体系、新价值体系。症结就在缺乏“信的认知”。
5.2.1 文明转型
40多年前，托夫勒的《第三次浪潮》问世，思想震撼至今不绝。
他认为，第一次浪潮是农业革命，引发了农耕文明；第二次浪潮是工业革命，引发了工业文明。我们现在正在经历第三次浪潮的信息革命，将再次引发出一种新文明。书中的很多预言，譬如，电子革命、在家工作、DIY、大数据、多媒体、碎片文化、产销合一…… 这些以前闻所未闻的新概念。今天，都神奇般的一一应验了。但是，第三次浪潮引发的新文明是什么，它对人类社会的发展和进步究竟有着什么样的价值和意义。40多年过去了，人类似乎并没就此达成共识。
这个认知极其重要，它决定着我们在这个时代，是否可以创造新财富体系，新财富体系是什么样，以及如何创造新财富体系。毫无疑问，这对联合国自救、人类自救和地球自救意义深远。
1792年9月26日，英国政府以贺乾隆帝八十大寿为名，派马嘎尔尼带团出使中国。英国使团向乾隆皇帝展示了当时最先进的工业文明成果。包括“天体运行仪、地球仪、赫歇尔望远镜、帕克透镜……蒸汽机、织布机等工业机器，以及“步枪、连发手枪”等武器装备。遗憾的是，乾隆皇帝没有意识到，当时的人类社会，正在由农耕文明时代向工业文明时代转型。错失了认知工业革命、拥抱工业文明的机会。从而，也导致占据人类社会财富主导地位2000多年的中国，在短短100–200年间，沦落到积贫积弱的落后国家行列。
这个事例说明。当人类社会开始进入一个新文明时，无论构建在旧文明基础上的帝国多么强大，它的崩溃，几乎就在顷刻之间。而新文明的崛起速度和崛起规模，会远远超过旧文明的想象力。这里说的速度和规模，主要指新文明新财富体系的增长速度和增长规模。
如果托夫勒所言不虚，人类社会正在由工业文明时代向信息文明时代转型。那么，美国作为工业文明时代的代表，连带它的资本主义经济体系、金融体系，衰落是必然的事。新文明必然具备自己新的经济体系、金融体系，也就是我们前面说的新财富体系和价值体系。联合国只要认知到了这一点，不仅可自救，还能引领人类社会全面转型新文明。这不正是联合国最大使命和价值所在吗。
托夫勒描述的第三次浪潮是否确实存在，人类社会是否确实正在进入一个新文明时代。如果是，那这个新文明又究竟指什么，该如何命名。我们对此进行了20多年的持续研究，有了很多新的发现和认知。随后的系统内容，就是我们这些年的研究成果。
我们这里所指的文明、文明时代、文明转型，是基于亚当·斯密将人类社会发展，划分为“狩猎社会、游牧社会、农业社会和商业社会”的“四阶段理论”（ FourStages theory）。将狩猎与游牧社会阶段，归属为“原始文明”时代，农业社会阶段归属“农耕文明”时代，商业社会阶段归属“工业文明”时代。将这些社会阶段的转型定义为“文明转型”。
（未完待续）
