Forum Post: Restructuring the global social/economic structure

Today we live in a global society structure that runs like a complex machine, a clockwork; analogous even to an organism.  A system of complex networks of communication, transport, cultivation, distribution of resources, etc.  This system was devised some time ago for the benefit of mankind. It worked well, insofar as it's ability to raise the standards of living for a portion of the human population.  Industry has bequeathed on us, both salvation from the unrelenting struggle for survival for some, as well as a life indistinguishable from slavery, wrought with poverty for others.      So why should I care? If I don't belong to the latter group.  One reason might be because, if we use the analogy of an organism, efficiency and effectiveness require that the system as a whole regard it's individual parts equally in order to perform at it's full capacity or potential.  Take a cheetah for instance, if the internal structure of the organism was fighting with itself for resources, and say, the muscles won the fight over the lungs for extra food, we would be left with an organism unable to perform because its muscles expanded while reducing the lung capacity to provide enough oxygen. Hence an organism that, overall,  performed worse than the one we started with.      This simple example illustrates how human society, as a whole, operates much like an organism and is therefore subject to the same parameters required for survival. If we expect human 'society' to survive, we are forced to recognize the requirements this survival depends on.      Now, a paradigm-shift.  Just as single-celled organisms evolved from individual survival tactics, to community structures for mutual benefit and protection, (all the while competing with eachother), to a miraculous transition - they discovered a way of networking communication across vast numbers of themselves and in it, discovered a sense of unity that bore the first emergence of a multi-celled organism.  We as humans are now at the stage where we get to decide; do we unite, and together become something greater than any individual can achieve, or do we fall prey to competition, devouring everything in our path, including our competitors?

A Proposal      How do we take what we have and make it something we "All" can, more or less, happily live with? Perhaps the time has come for the next major transition in the development in human civilizations. We have the opportunity, if we stand together, to put an end to poverty, an end to hunger, and most importantly an end to the blatant disregard for human liberty and the environmental disposition of our planet. What I propose is to re-create our system of government and not simply to change policy or elected officials. The Occupy Wall Street movement is giving us a unique opportunity to make changes far greater than any protest has ever bestowed upon us. What we can achieve through a global coalition of protesters can mark history with a point where our grandchildren will look in their history books to this day and say, "this is how our world was saved. This is a testament to the courage and conviction of our ancestors that brought equality, liberty and justice to us all." This is my aim. This is my goal. I personally believe In the human race. I know we are all individually different yet believe we share more similarities than differences. If we work together, if we work for each other, we will wake to the day when the single-celled individual human being stops competing with its fellow individuals and unite to form the first emergence of the multi-celled united human race.