The Art of Beating Politics The Theory

I. Why This eBook?

1. Politics Is A Curable Disease

Despite the numerous and extraordinary scientific and technological advances made by humanity in the last few centuries, Politics, which we call Old Politics, still make life miserable and dangerous for the majority of people and even threaten our survival as a species.

Despite appearances to the contrary, this is an abnormal situation our modern society can easily correct.

All aspects of life like health, education, religions, work or travelling are subject to differences of opinion between people but Politics automatically engenders the most murderous instincts which are easily triggered with words targeting our emotivity and broadcast on a large scale.

The inevitable and profound reality is that improving, even protecting modern life can only be achieved by society being in control of Politics rather than Politics having society under its domination.

The book explains what is wrong with Politics because having been subjected to it for thousands of years, we are often tempted to erroneously conclude that it may be inherent to the human species and inseparable from it.

We are born under Politics, we spend our life under it, we see it worsen at every opportunity and many ask themselves at least once during their lifetime: Will I or my children die under it? Or for it? Or because of it?.

But Old Politics is only a bad habit by which society allows its parasitical members to live parasitically.

Society always thought that these parasites were only sucking a bit of blood.

But, with evolution, the human society is beginning to realise that what was necessary to continue to live at its expenses becomes increasingly detrimental to man's survival as a species.

Explaining it is not enough because most of us (the non-politicians) want to change Politics as we become aware of the implications of allowing its adepts to continue to live and prosper from it.

To do so, we have created a website where you can become a member, www.beatingpolitics.org which, amongst other limitations, is forbidden to advertise in an attempt at exercising complete honesty and integrity from the beginning.

2. Caution Makes Progress Slowly

The website www.beatingpolitics.org only has a limited functionality, the organisation it represents is under construction.

Unlike organisations that only launch when they are fully prepared because they sell something to you for a profit, this organisation is not-for-profit and will be built only by the work of its members.

Because the organisation created to apply the principles explained in this book must be fully ethical, the book itself must comply to the same level of ethics and will only be promoted when a reader who has found substance in it informs other people of its existence.

This book, the website and the organisation can not be promoted with self-advertising.

However and without advertising, the speed at which a new book becomes known is unpredictable and is likely to be very slow in this case because the success of this book depends entirely on word of mouth.

If you hope that society can peacefully transform Old Politics into a modern, honest and humane system of government, this book is for you.

If you disagree on how its author sees the world, your idea of it may be a better assessment to follow.

If you are of the opinion that a modern society should not only listens to its professionals but gives them authority to apply their knowledge, this book is also for you.

This eBook explains no more than situations of life under Old Politics which, as an average citizen, you have experienced and resented or disliked or objected to without success.

It also explains how to prevent such situations for ever.

We do not have to reinvent the world, we only have to free it from Old Politics.

We only need to ensure that the true professionals become predominant in public life just as much as we want them to predominate in our private life.

As the saying goes: It is not rocket science.

3. New Politics Quickly Becomes Old Politics

The terms Old Politics and New Politics are abundantly used in one form or another every time the current politics are blamed for their limitations or for their bad influence or their bad behaviour.

But although the advocates always have convincing explanations justifying the use of these terms in their optimistic forecast of the future under their leadership, nobody has ever explained why any applied theory of New Politics only reinvigorates the practices of Old Politics.

This is because Politics and Big Business are inextricably intertwined so much that one can not live without the other.

This is even so when, to save their image, they must convince the voters or the consumers that Politics and Big Business are almost mortal enemies.

Inevitably, Old Politics will always be reinvigorated under any old political system claiming to be new.

This is because how to build a partnership for Politics and Big Business to dominate society and exploit it has not changed through history.

Domination and exploitation of society only succeed in the same old partnership.

You need big money to get power and you need power to get big money.

Politics, new or old, has always been leadership exercised by a minority for its own benefit and imposed on the majority.

This is a situation still perceived by modern media as 'normal'.

New politics, as proposed under Old Politics, is invariably the proposition that the current leadership, whose incapability has inevitably become a preoccupying national subject, must be replaced by a new leadership claimed to be capable and good.

And society is full of groups of people who claim to have such leadership groomed and ready to overtake the old system and save the world only to plunder it for their own profit.

New or aspiring politicians, who have yet to be found to be incapable, are then able to claim to have the unified leadership team that the public craves and the cycle repeats itself indefinitely.

4. True Leadership Makes Politics Obsolete

But true New Politics can only exist when leadership is exercised by the majority of people.

Although this appears to be very difficult to achieve, the difficulty is only in clearly establishing its necessity and how it can be done because it is vitally necessary.

If one observes one's surroundings, one can see that prosperity and harmony in public life are only possible when society is aware of what is justifiably taking place and why.

This is because life is often the simple process of knowingly allowing something we do not really like to happen.

Harmonious social life under true New Politics only requires one to act when what is proposed to change it is not justifiable or not acceptable.

True leadership by the majority simply resides in the individual power to object when those who pretend to know propose to do something bad or inferior which is exposed by those who really know who can then object, on everybody else's behalf if applicable, and prevail.

However, this capacity to object is systematically repressed under Old Politics and objection is made impossible if not illegal or claimed to be unconstitutional and reprehensible.

True New Politics is not proposing new politicians as new leaders because the current leaders are failing.

It is proposing the only form of leadership able to succeed through true knowledge expressed by the majority of professionals.

It is important to understand that what needs to be changed is the system itself, not the people in control of it.

This book is all about explaining clearly why and how.

5. Old Politics Are Political Sciences

This book is not about what is commonly termed Political Sciences, it is about the effects of Political Sciences and Old Politics on society.

Political Sciences is about how to exploit people, Old Politics is the exploitation and we want to remove both.

Political Sciences are the theory and Old Politics is its practice.

Our objective is to replace with a modern system of government the moribund political system we have inherited from the rulers of the Roman Empire, a political system enshrined in Political Sciences.

This book explains in details, with examples, how Old Politics (the old political system) works which is often very different than what people are led to think.

What the book explains is often no more than what the non-politicians: the wage-earners, the salary-earners, the housewives and the househusbands have witnessed or endured but did not consider to be the systematic and inevitable consequence of this political system.

The book also explains what New Politics should be when you know that the aspiration of every person on earth is happiness, respect and prosperity through peace.

The Art of Beating Politics: The Theory is an eye-opener endeavour made as simple as possible.

It also requires complements in the form of The Art of Beating Politics: The Practice which explain how to do it and the website www.beatingpolitics.org which allows you to join similarly-minded people and actually do it.

PART 1: New Politics Explained

The Philosophy

The Replacement

The Questions

People Power

Old Leadership

Collective Leadership

The Replacement

Ending Old Politics implies introducing New Politics.

New Politics is not a cultural revolution and has no similarity to Old Politics in which the priority of a newly formed government is to undo as much as possible everything done by its predecessor.

New Politics consists of reusing what is reusable of Old Politics, removing injustices, correcting errors, generally improving Old Politics and making it a New Politics acceptable to society.

New Politics is rejuvenating a form of societal administration (government) whose main purpose so far has always been to allow a minority to exploit the remaining majority.

New Politics is ensuring that government becomes the best tool for a modern society in the knowledge that government will always be necessary and perfectible.

New Politics must be entirely based on professional expertise, not on popularity.

The Questions

Is New Politics Radical?

Is New Politics A New Invention Or Is It Complicated?

Is It Difficult To Make The Change?

Is Success Certain?

Will We Be Opposed?

Frightening! Let's Not Do It Then

It Is Important To Observe That:

Is New Politics Radical?

No.

The best explanation is an analogy.

Old Politics is not an enemy making a frontal attack with a baseball bat giving you a fractured skull and a broken leg.

Instead, Old Politics is an extremely insidious foe disguised as a smiling friend approaching you from behind.

Old Politics is much more like being stung routinely by unseen small pests.

People who do not belong in Old Politics quickly nurse numerous sores of various importance which become a natural part of daily life, while those who belong pay someone who does not, to face the stings.

New Politics is like gradually preventing the stings and reducing the need for new band aids as old ones simply fall off.

Is New Politics A New Invention Or Is It Complicated?

No.

The old political systems are complicated - and very artificial.

Only the politicians understand Old Politics and find beauty in the infinite variety of machinations it allows.

Only the politicians think that the many grotesque and fetishist traditions of Old Politics justify its preservation because they know that, despite its long history, Old Politics has never had any scientific basis.

Politics, being mainly social interaction, does not have to be explained in terms that people find difficult to understand.

When the politicians adopt such attitude, it is invariably to hide their objective from the public.

New Politics is entirely based on human needs, it is natural and there is absolutely nothing you need to learn to understand it or be part of it.

If there is one thing in life that everyone easily understands, it is one's own needs and your needs, which are the same for anybody else, are what makes politics.

New Politics allows you to do what Old Politics forbids by not offering it.

New Politics also follows true democratic principles in order to be fully ethical and provide a solid foundation.

As an example: imagine a voting system in which you can make at any time of your choosing the vote you are only allowed to make every few years on the day of the General Elections.

That also means you can make that vote any day or night of the year, and change your vote if you want.

This is not a novelty, the old general elections are never final, they only give a result applicable for a small number of years and sometimes a much shorter period of time.

In this example and to summarise:

The 'negative' aspect is: We abolish the old General Elections.

The 'positive' aspect is: The General Elections take place any day many people or enough people decide to vote in a certain way.

Imagine the impact on Old Politics.

Is this not based on human needs, when weeks or months after these general elections, you find you have been deceived and you wish you had an opportunity to change your vote, or lodge one if you had abstained?

Is this not based on the scientific (psychology) fact that human situations are never closed (Old Politics closes them between 'general elections').

Is it not ethical?

But this is only an example because in practice electing people to govern society is a very bad idea which we really have to abolish in New Politics.

And electing them in power for a number of years is even worse.

Is It Difficult To Make The Change?

No, but there is a lot of work to do and there is a number of major misconceptions to avoid along the way.

The first misconception is to confuse a lot of work with difficulty which are not the same thing.

The second misconception is that this work will have to be done by a small number of dedicated volunteers willing to face much sacrifice.

There is more than seven billions people on earth, most of whom want to contribute during their existence to the betterment of life simply because most have a fair idea of what is wrong when they are subjected to political injustice or abuse.

The most unexpected issue will always be of interest to thousands of professionals able to propose a good remedy.

Is Success Certain?

Obviously, if another very large meteor hit the earth or a nuclear war erupts, or famine becomes global, the surviving humans may have other priorities although a good form of government would certainly give them the best chance of recovery.

However, in the present political circumstances, yes, success is certain.

The reason is the archaic political systems of Old Politics are crumbling, specially the democratic systems.

And our archaic politicians are becoming more distrusted and more disliked every day.

But more importantly, success is certain because humanity has the capacity, the will and the urge to progress at every opportunity.

The more chaotic the circumstances are the stronger its urge is to progress.

Man is an opportunistic animal and if he sees an opportunity, he will seize it.

It is also more realistic not to wait for our old political systems to fully disintegrate before we act because we do not know what consequences this disintegration could bring.

Brexit is only a hint, a very mild presage, of what any nation could face internally due to crumbling politics.

But externally, the dictators are watching with glee at the developing prospect of conquering and dominating more easily a democratic world fracturing itself to their advantage on imaginary perceptions.

Because something bad is disappearing or waning (Old Politics) does not mean that what will replace it will automatically be better.

It could easily be worse.

It is up to people to ensure that the dying political systems make room only for a better system.

Will We Be Opposed?

Yes, considerably, powerfully, pitilessly, in any way possible and - with your money.

Considerably: most politicians and most of those making large profits from big business will unite in this opposition and although they are a minority within society, they still represent a large number of people.

Remember: it is not what they will say in public that counts, it is what they do, officially or secretively, which is regularly the opposite of what they say or promise.

Powerfully: They will use your money first to control you but they can also use their own money if necessary and they have a lot of it.

Pitilessly: They do not mind if people die in riots or even in wars they trigger for the only purpose of distracting you and crushing your aspirations.

In any way: They have no rules on how to do it.

Frightening! Let's Not Do It Then

That is allowing yourself to be exploited more - not less.

It is also allowing a minority of humans to profit now and let you and your children and your grand-children pay for it now and later.

This is demonstrated in these two simple examples that no politician or big business would ever bring to your attention:

In economics: the public debt to GDP ratio which is a concern to the politicians and big business only if a country becomes unable to repay its debts.

This means that how much has to be repaid is not important to them as they rollover the loans which only non-politicians and small business repay as big business has learned how to avoid paying taxes.

In the environment: global warming that Old Politics simply can not resolve and is a growing problem that has perpetually to be left for later - after the next elections.

It is also postponing action that your children or grand-children will have to face in much worse circumstances.

This could possibly be under public laws designed by dictators of foreign countries and adopted in your country.

This would be the result of decaying Old Politics which has been allowed to survive, regroup, correct its weaknesses and get stronger than ever.

Delaying cancer treatment only allows cancer to spread faster and wider as the victim becomes weaker.

It Is Important To Observe That:

When Old Politics is decaying - at the time of this writing:

Only its public appeal is decaying.

Not its grip on society.

Not its grip on the public purse.

Not its control over the police and the military.

Not its share of big business revenues.

Not its reliance on big business for its own survival.

Simply by making our intention known, the public expectation will change irremediably without doing anything else.

The public mindset will not be the same again because something looking better than Old Politics is now possible when, until now, Old Politics always seemed to be eternal, unchallengeable and hopelessly immutable.

Old Politics will react defensively, presumably by tightening its grip on society, and this will affect everybody.

Old Politics will only abandon an adversarial reaction if our progress is demonstrably unstoppable.

Old Politics of democratic countries may have to copy and adopt the methods used by the dictatorships to survive.

Humanity is at an important turning point in its evolution.

People Power

People Power, or any other version of it, has been claimed many times to be the solution but it is only a slogan.

Giving political power to the people can only be used as a marketing strategy because political power is in Old Politics a self-serve-no-pay or a self-serve-others-pay attitude.

This self-serve attitude can not be confiscated from some to be modified and redistributed among many others.

It is also futile and even dangerous to give anybody a power that one can not naturally and responsibly exercise.

This means that the power you are able to exercise for your own benefit and that of others close to you is the power that you already have.

It is the power inherent to your true personality.

Our natural is to decline any proposed responsibility for which we do not have a sufficient knowledge or understanding.

It is not natural for us to demand or expect powers that we can only handle with difficulties if at all.

However, people need the power to live their own life the way they want and that is a power that is taken away by their leaders, by Old Politics, every time these leaders fear that their own uselessness or their incompetence or their abuses could be brought to light.

This means that no one wants or needs new or extra power.

People only want and need their natural power to be freed or restored and allowed to be exercised, individually or collectively.

Human evolution and indeed, human survival as a species demand that New Politics restore those powers.

Contrarily to common beliefs, people are much more likely to do good things by being themselves than doing bad things.

Old Leadership

Having a public life without Old Politics seems almost impossible.

But this is only because the idea or the concept of Leadership of the masses has been majestically exploited for thousands of years.

Leadership is still easily and very successfully distorted as you read this.

This is despite our modern society having every possible access to all the facts or clues demonstrating that old political leadership is fake and can not work to the satisfaction of those led.

Old leadership (and Old Politics) survives on a false claim made by leaders (politicians) and a false belief held by the masses.

The false claim is that finding the truth (their political truth that is) is very difficult.

It is that only rare humans are able to dig it up and apply it, as truth evolves and is always hidden by hypothetical and powerful enemies of good.

The claim also includes the promise that, once found, this new or improved truth will then be revealed to the masses by this leadership which will then govern the masses for their own increased benefit.

But the truth is that, in a modern and communicative society like ours, everything that is possibly knowable is known by anyone interested in knowing it.

This applies especially regarding every single aspect of your daily life.

These are aspects you know very well, for which you do not need any revelation and for which you expect in vain reasonable and satisfying policies put in place by these leaders.

These are policies protecting you from organised abuses and exploitation.

Then, you can concentrate your attention on things more productive and more enjoyable than fearing an added political nuisance (or sting) every time something unclear takes place in Old Politics.

If your society or your country has an issue in Health or Education for example, nobody would find it normal to suggest that this issue has to be resolved by the professionals in the tourism department (Tourism) or the professionals in the housing department (Housing).

Yet, society seems to accept as a logical proposition that the same issue can only be resolved by the decisions of a proclaimed leader who may be a qualified physicist or a singer of past fame or a trained police officer.

But, most importantly, it is a leader who is free to impose on any resolution his own views of life - and of himself.

The concept of having a leader (as opposed to having an arbiter), at any level, always brings inferior or bad results.

This is because, inevitably, the main objective of this leader is to ensure her or his own continued tenure of the position against competitors.

Serving the interest of somebody else, including society, will always come at the very best as a second priority.

The reason is that nobody who is in a position of leadership would ever be willing to suggest or highlight one's own deficiency.

One would never highlight the necessity to make room for somebody else better qualified or more knowledgeable, if only temporarily or regarding a particular subject.

Almost invariably, even the truly honest needs to be alerted by others to notice having reached one's own Level Of Incompetence because we tend to be blind to our own limits.

Leadership, or the focus on one individual, leads inevitably this individual to self-protection first.

Our instinctive reaction when discovering we have acted based on our own misjudgement is one of wanting to go back in the past so we could erase or undo the negative or undesirable result we have created.

Our reaction is not to wonder if we are capable of misjudging more and acting on it again and whether we should do something to prevent it.

Only people of a high ethical calibre are able to consider the second option.

Nobody in a position of leadership would ever tell you that yours is a situation in which the same leadership (as opposed to the expertise) is better obtained from someone else or is not even necessary.

Our leaders, our politicians, behave like the male individuals of many species of animals.

They spend exponentially more time and energy keeping the competitors away from the reward than they do in successful mating.

Leadership by an individual always involves the elimination of competitors.

This is a situation which can not ever be to the advantage of those led.

However, true, anonymous and collective leadership is almost indifferent to the result.

Therefore, it is impartial, because there is no individual glory or individual benefit to be expected from it.

This leaves only collective leadership as a true and efficient solution in New Politics.

Collective Leadership

Again, all the clues and facts are there for anybody to see.

If you have a water leak under the kitchen sink, you do not ask the electrician to look at it and if your high-fidelity sound system stubbornly remains silent, you do not ask the plumber or the mechanic to look at it.

But modern society allows Old Politics to do just that and worse by electing an actor or a lawyer or a market analyst or a mining engineer to become the leader of a nation and investigate and resolve all the social or public problems that could arise.

There is a number of necessary elements for a true type of collective leadership and to be effective, these elements must be compulsory and unavoidable.

Element 1: Anonymity In Brief

Element 2: Quality In Brief

Element 3: Quantity In Brief

Element 4: Ethics In Brief

Element 5: Voting In Brief

Element 6: Keeping The Job

Element 7: The Costs In Brief

Element 8: New Politics Is Global

Element 9: No Religion

Element 10: No Laws

Element 1: Anonymity In Brief

As a simple example, your employer can dismiss you if you make in your social media post an unfavourable comment linked in any way to your job.

But your employer can also reward you if you make favourable comments instead in the same media, assuming you are or have become popular enough somehow.

And it has not become a common practice but it is an organised industry to publish fake favourable reviews.

There are many reasons why it is vital for new government policies to be formulated or recommended anonymously.

The main reason being that many professionals would be too fearful to publicise their own true feelings, professional or personal, under their true name and address.

The fear would be too great of any adverse reaction from their employer or their clients or customers or even from the unknown next-door-neighbour.

We unfortunately live in a world that is corrupted so much that anonymity is becoming the only way to tell the truth to the world regarding public life.

Consequently, New Politics must be formulated strictly through a system in which personal information is never made public.

The best way to ensure of this is simply not to ask for the information and not collect it.

Element 2: Quality In Brief

When a professional has to assess a claim, this professional wants to decide whether the claim is correct or not.

When a politician has to assess a claim, the politician wants to find what impact on the voters the claim may have.

The politician wants to know whether or not it is popular to make the same claim or support it or contradict it, regardless of whether the claim is correct or not.

On the basis that professionals can decide if a claim is correct or not, we can safely assume that professionals are also capable of deciding which of two similar and correct claims on the same subject is the