By Chas Holloway
Politicians argue endlessly. Republicans want lower taxes and homeland security. Democrats want universal health care and civil rights. Conservatives want to fight terrorism and preserve traditional marriage. Liberals want energy independence and a controlled economy. The right wants this, the left wants that, and all the agendas become gridlocked worse than the freeway traffic in Los Angeles on a holiday weekend.
Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Which policies are progressive? Which ones are retrogressive? The fact is, in all of politics, there are really only two possible points of view.
The first is centralized control, the idea that society should be managed by an strong hand at the top. Leaders are the supreme authority and the people are forced to obey. An elite group controls everything, similar to an aristocracy, that TV commentator and best selling author, Glen Beck, calls “The Political Class.” If you or I break the rules – and get caught – we pay the consequences.
Well known examples of central control include the Church of the Dark Ages, Nazi Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union under Stalin and China under Mao. In its extreme form, this type of government is called “tyranny.”
The second philosophy is that people in society should be free. Instead of a few “elite” individuals using police to control everyone else, people should be left alone to interact with each other voluntarily. As voluntary relationships branch out and grow, a diverse civilization is created based on contractual relationships. In such a society there’s no need for a central authority, at all. This was the idea behind the Declaration of Independence, and a modern example of such a voluntary society is the internet.
These two philosophies are opposed ways of organizing a society; they are at opposite ends of a spectrum.
Today, in the 21st century, all political philosophies – republican, democrat, the independent party, the Green party, the Reform party – are shifted far towards the centralized control model of society. They don’t argue whether or not a central authority should control the people; that’s a given. They only argue about how. There is one exception: the Libertarian party. Libertarians want to move in the direction of freedom. But, unfortunately, few have successful methods for doing so. This is because they lack the critical science, which is explained in the V-50 course.
The V-50 Discoveries explain how society can be moved away from tyranny. However, it’s important you realize that this is not a political program. It is a scientific set of ideas that are 100% outside the domain of politics.
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By Chas Holloway
Imagine a world in which freedom no longer exists. Instead of free societies, the world has become populated by petty tyrants and religious dictators, each one fighting the other for territorial gains, as we descend into a new Dark Age. As one weak nation battles another, tactics escalate. Eventually, a dozen comic opera tyrants are throwing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons at each other for dubious gains.
In a scenario like this, modern weapons technology could easily destroy humanity. As astrophysicist and mathematician, Andrew J. Galambos observed:
“A hundred years ago what was the worst that people could do to each other? Shoot each other with low firepower guns and cannons. A couple centuries ago they didn’t even have that. They had bows and arrows and spears … Today we have weapons that are capable of exterminating ten, twenty million persons at one stroke. We have weapons that are capable of contaminating the entire atmosphere of the planet … We now have the physical science, the technological capability at our disposal, to wipe out every human being on this planet.”
It is for this reason that the science of freedom is the most important topic a person can study today. The traditional ways of society won’t stop the destruction of humanity – in fact, they are assuring it. We all need to look at the problem in a new way. We need a paradigm shift. Thus, the goal of The V-50 Discoveries is to provide a completely different way of understanding society.
One of the biggest problems in societies all over the world is that politicians are giving us the same old ideas repackaged and recycled, while technology has moved ahead and made those ideas obsolete, irrelevant and dangerous.
That is what is tearing the American dream apart.
When you take history in high school or college you hear about “The decline and fall of Greece” or “The decline and fall of Rome.” If you ever wondered what it’s like to be alive during one of those declines, look around. This is it. The breakup of a once great civilization is happening right now.
The only solution is to view society in a fundamentally new way – in a scientific way. That’s the purpose of this course.
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By Chas Holloway
Western nations are disintegrating because the methods used by politicians have become obsolete in a digital world.
A politician attempting to fix some social problem, today, is like a 14th century craftsman using a hammer and chisel to repair the motherboard in your computer. It can’t be done. He may have the best intentions but good intentions are not enough. When he whacks the circuit board with his iron hammer all that will happen is damage to the system.
In The V-50 Discoveries, you’ll learn why the old political methods no longer work, and you’ll learn what society needs to do instead. But before we begin, we need to make a strong statement about what this course is and what it is not.
V-50 is not about politics.
It is also not about religion. It does not offer a new age philosophy. It is not about UFOs or conspiracy theories where secret organizations – like the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergs, the Council for Foreign Relations, et al – control the world.
This course offers a scientific view of society. It uses scientific reasoning, which is and has always been the great evolutionary advantage of humankind, to illuminate the nature of society. Just as we used science to build the industrial age, the electric age, the age of flight, and the digital age, we’re going to use it here to explain how to build the age of freedom.
It is important to clarify the difference between science and politics:
In science, you make intellectual models of nature, test them, use your successful models to build technology and accomplish goals, and you discard useless ones.
Politics, on the other hand, uses coercion. In politics, force and deception to are employed to accomplish goals.
Jay Snelson, who created The V-50 Discoveries in 1964 explains:
“This is not a political movement, it’s not a religious movement, because the goal is not to find converts who will go out and sacrifice for some glorious cause. You will not be asked to make donations. The goal of V50 is not to foster opposition to anyone or any group. You will not be asked to go march in the streets, or go on strike, or burn down banks, or blow up airports. The goal will not be to indoctrinate you, and you will not be expected to accept the principals that are being presented here on blind faith. You will find that this is not a right-wing political movement. It is also not a left-wing political movement. It is not even a middle-of-the-road political movement.
“V50 is the opposite of politics. Now, the opposite of the political method of approaching problems will be demonstrated to be the scientific method of approaching problems. We will demonstrate that these are opposite concepts, the political method and the scientific method, and I’ll explain why.”
When you understand the science in The V-50 Discoveries you become part of the solution to society’s problems. Concept by concept, you’ll leave the politics of the past behind and embrace the future.
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By Chas Holloway
The host of woes that plague society today – crime, excessive taxes, slavery, poverty, famine and war – have existed since the dawn of recorded history.
Many people think the answer is tougher controls, harsher penalties, longer prison sentences and a more brutal police force. In sum, a stronger central authority. The trouble is, tough centralized control is what humankind has tried since the beginning of history, and it’s never worked.
Here is an excerpt from the book, History Begins at Sumer by Samuel Kramer, describing a civilization four-and-a-half thousand years ago in an ancient Mesopotamian city-state called Lagash.
“The inspector of the boatmen seized the boats. The cattle inspector seized the large cattle and the small cattle. The fisheries inspector seized the fisheries. When a citizen of Lagash brought a sheep to the palace, he had to pay 5 shekels if the wool was white. If a man divorced his wife the King got 5 shekels and the Executive Officer got 1 shekel. If a perfumer made an oil preparation, the King got 5 shekels, the Executive Officer got 1 shekel, the Palace Steward got 1 shekel. Even death brings no relief. When a dead man was brought to the cemetery, palace officials made it their business to tax the family quantities of barley, bread, beer, and furniture. From one end of the State to the other, there were tax collectors…”
There was centralized control in this ancient city-state, and the people resented it, all except, of course, for the palace employees. The clay tablets on which this passage was inscribed, discovered by a French archeological expedition in 1878, reveal that a new king came to power, named Urakagina, and he removed the taxes.
“There was then no tax collector. Urakagina restored freedom to the people of Lagash.”
This is the first recorded use of the word freedom in history and it was in the context of individual liberty versus centralized control. These ancient Mesopotamians, like us, tried to control their society by using strong central government. As a result, the authoritarianism became harsh, bureaucratic and corrupt.
This is the same problem we have today in “modern” America. There is no record in 4,500 years of recorded history that this problem – of how much control is good and how much control is bad – has ever been solved.
In fact, the damage that the State inflicts on society has only gotten worse, and we’re now at a point where, because of the rise of technology, the inability to solve this problem could destroy us all.
Some 37,000 people were killed during the American Revolutionary war. During America’s Civil War, 650,000 were killed. World War One killed 8.5 million. World War Two killed over 70 million. These numbers are rough estimates but they illustrate the correlation between the rise of technology and the destruction that the State can inflict on civilization. One glance at these figures and it becomes clear that our very existence is at a crisis point.
The next global war could wipe out all of humanity.
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