In this new age, we have created technology that can support us without worry. Although this technology is not all very highly used yet, it will eventually be extremely important to our daily lives. There are also areas of the world that don't even have what we take for granted, forget about the things that make us enjoy life. They don't even have what we have been calling basic needs, and they've been surviving.

 

So, what happens when people with the bare minimum in life get hit with a disaster? Of course, they die. Some people may be disturbed at the matter-of-fact way I state it, but it's been happening since the begining, and it will continue to happen until the global aid foundations get to them. In addition, there are also disasters that people at the top will still die from, and of course, they are mourned, and we all get on with our lives just as before. In fact, civilizations throughout history have been playing the waiting game that completely relies on peoples misfortune and death. When a plague comes through, the farmers die and can't sell their crops, and the neighboring city or country comes in to invade.

 

In the current era, there has been a huge increase in global awareness. People who have previously been hidden by remote locations and isolated by lack of trade are now exposed to the entire world. Whether or not their geographic outlook has changed, we are able to see them, day or night, in good times and in bad. All of the people who have never known hunger or oppression, and all of the people who only know such things, can now look at eachother, talk to eachother, and whatever else they are allowed to do.

 

In every part of the world, people are realising that we are all the same. No matter what color of skin, any person can survive in any culture, eat the foods, live in the same conditions, work in the same jobs, and think the same ways. People now understand that everyone has the same basic needs, and quality of life is based on the same exact things, such as health and environment and education. People are begining to understand that life can be made easier for a vast majority if everyone is given the same opportunities and attention.

 

For a long time, people have been getting very strange ideas. People are noticing that other people over across the globe are having trouble, and many of them are making the effort to help those who were left with nothing to get back on their feet. The strange idea here goes against all of what history portrays about the human race. Once a civilization becomes large enough, it usually goes into a rough competition with all settlements around it, but now, people are no longer trying to compete, but to level the playing field, to make everyone equal. As any child can understand, you can't win or lose a competition if everyone is equal, and when your opponent can no longer compete, it means that you have a greater chance of winning.

 

This is where the aid mentality comes into play. People are no longer competing with eachother, they are competing with other big businesses. People have completely de-humanized these businesses, while at the same time, they have humanized people all across the planet, people who used to be evil monsters with bloodlust are now real people, but the businesses they work at are the monsters. Now, whenever one business becomes successful enough, and when all of their competitors are beaten, people do not cheer for them as the conquering heroes as they would have in the past, they scorn them for having destroyed the lives of the people who have previously worked in competing businesses.

 

There is another impact of the aid mentality, an impact toward the people who are giving all of the aid. These are people who insist on higher standards of living, and no matter how small their budget, they will continue to meet their minimum needs and usually put it on credit cards. These are people who have been touched by misfortune in the past, and may still be struggling to survive. People who have lived with nothing are very powerful people. They can do more with less, and when they come together, they can do much more than those who are living rich. This compassionate attitude will not get these people to become rich, in fact, they will grow to be suspicious of rich people, and may even fear to be rich on some level. They will give money to all sorts of charities to keep from becoming the monsters that they perceive the rich to be, and often rightly so.

 

Here is where it really gets interesting. Now, there is a very strong global quality of life improvement effort. According to the rich, people are putting themselves in compromised positions in order to help someone who is just taking up space, possibly even someone who could be a potential competitor. People are learning that you need more than just food and clothing to live happily, you need security and sanity. You need friends, and you need a purpose in life. You need exercise and you need some minimum amount of order and law to keep people in line. This is exactly what these humanitarian efforts are doing, they are not simply bringing religion and morality as the humanitarians of the past, they are bringing the science of the good life.

 

Eventually, this activity will not be sustainable. Selfish people with the money and power will eventually get tired of all of the humanity, and attack the people in general. There have always been selfish people who have wanted things done their way, and they have always found a way to get power, and there have always been other people happy to help them get it. Back then, there were not so many people living, so it was easier to control 'those who did not use weapons' and make them support the ruler for fear of their lives. When a population became too large to control this way, they would simply branch off, and with bloody results. Now, there is nowhere left to go, and there will never again be enough selfish dominating people around. The only answer is a completely different way to live, an environment where everyone supports everyone else. An environment where there are many hard workers, and many people hardly working.

 

There are already communities where this is happening. Here, it is not the controllers with power, but the leaches. The people who know how to work the system to get the most return for their complaining. In a society that helps everyone in need, there are professionals in the department of homelessness and uselessness. These are people who not only refuse to work because of the benefit of aid, they like it that way, even in hard times when aid is scarce. It has become a society that lacks the strong dominating types, and wishes to cast off or reform its lazy and rebellious members. It will be a completely new type of world, with new problems, and new opportunities. It will no doubt be a global society, a society with free information and lack of jobs. A society with quick solutions to age old problems, but no end in sight. A society where unimaginably large things happen every day, and life spirals out into the far reaches of space.

• Astronomy
• MacroEconomy
• MacroEcology
• MacroAgriculture
• MacroEngineering
• MacroInfrastructure
• MacroSociety
• MacroPolitics
• etc etc etc

Many people, although mostly for either impractical or selfish purposes, believe that the macro civilization is important. They understand that if one component of any one of these becomes too large, it will cause the destruction of all of the rest, and if one becomes too small, it will lead to its destruction. They also understand that sudden growth or shrinkage of a component means instability, which will eventually impact all of the surrounding ones. It is also important that there exist a way to renew and recycle an old component without creating a major disturbance. Lets look at a branch of MacroCivilization for an example of this.

In MacroPolitics you have a view of the world of governments. You can see that a president or dictator gets old and weak minded, and people become unhappy, and that leader is eventually evicted from office and replaced by someone fresh and new. You can also see that when a country is doing very well for itself, and it reaches the point when it produces more than the world can buy, that it may decide to expand its borders just a bit, using all of the excess product to fuel a free expansion. You can also find a small country that is in decline, struggling to keep its independence from its neighboring countries, who decided to invade because its neighbor was weak. You can also see that some countries don't make a large disturbance when an old leader is replaced by a new one, just look at the difference beween a country that votes for its leader for an office lasting only a few years versus someone who has to die first.

In MacroSociety we see the effects of culture, nationalism, and quality of life as the deciding factors for what people are like. You can see that people with common interests tend to group together and support eachother. Special interest groups tend to pool their resources in order to fight the activities of other special interest groups. You will notice that when a group becomes too small to support its spending, it dissolves, often only for a while until enough people can be recruited again. Eventually, each group gains a level of stability, and every special interest is taken care of in a way that doesn't disturb anyone else. Of course, people come and go all the time, often with new ideas and new resources to burn, and they have a grand idea that will make all opposition useless. There are also dangerous groups, ones that exist only for the destruction of all others, ones that think they are all that matters and all others are simply taking up space they could be using better.

MacroEconomy has been around, in obscurity, for the longest amount of time. People have always been concerned with the general way to produce goods or services that are marketable to people from anywhere, and then afford goods and services from those people. This is the most finessed and balanced system that exists as a field of study. Even instability is tolerated, simply because there are more suppliers of any goods or services for anything bad to happen as a result. The only areas of worry are on the global scale, and this is where it gets complicated. The global economists are constantly trying to figure a way to increase resources within their own countries and limit the amount of goods and services being purchased. These days, it is nearly impossible to do that job because of the internet, and drastic measures are conceived of and set into motion in order to supposedly stabilize the global economy.

MacroAgriculture is a practice that many governments use as an excuse to limit the production of their farmers. Since prices go down when supply goes above demand, it often takes a government to keep things under control. The problem with this view is that food is life, and if you limit the life giving nutrients, you often start wars. In many cases, a major civilization will notice a small poor country is growing out of control, and they immediately increase the price of food to that country. The problem with that scenario is that a country needs a certain minimum population in order to take care of all of its needs, so it will increase that population without the funds to support the growth, and pay for it later by overproducing goods and services. Unfortunately, there are areas of the world that are too harsh, or where people don't understand this process, and they keep failing over and over.

Of course, there are many more studies of the big picture, often with the term "macro" before their names, and they are all quite interesting and quite well shrouded in mystery, and usually not managed well. People with a lot of money are usually in charge, guiding the creation and destruction of nations, with nobody to stop them. Although there is no room for personal agendas or grudges in the Macro Sciences, the group of people managing them are so few and so elite that it doesn't matter. There is one way to tell when the MacroCivilization is in balance. That is when all people are fed and clothed, when noone is in debt, when all technologies are made as efficient as possible around the world, and when it does not matter how small or large any country or group is for its concerns to be heard and for its needs to be met. This does not really mean to have a global ruler over the planet, it simply means that they all work as a single ruler, which is pretty difficult for rulers of today, with their god complexes and their inferiority complexes and their constant spy games.