Independence and Cooperation

Crucial Questions

Question 1
What has gone wrong in modern societies so that they cause more sickness and are 400 times more deadly than all the wars put together? Where do we find the systemic causes?

Question 2
What has gone wrong, so that scandalous forms of work like forced labor or bullshit jobs occur to the extent that they do? What are the systemic causes? Where are the deeper roots to be found?

Question 3
Only 10 percent of the worlds population own almost as much as the remaining 90 percent of the population all together. The accompanying imbalance of power has grave effects on democracy. These numbers mean a social disaster for millions of humans. Which systemic circumstances are at the core of such unequal distribution? Do we want to accept this, or can we change it? And if we can change it, how?

Question 4
What systemic error leads to the fact that democracy does not prevent war, but rather more or less continues uninterruptedly to wage wars? In other words, how can democracy be developed so that it becomes an instrument of peace?

Question 5
Why have we not been able to keep the oceans clean? Why do we keep depleting and even poisoning the soil and underground water? What is wrong with our political, economic, and cultural system, so that destruction comes first, and then the repair, which compared to prevention comes at a very dear price?

Question 6
Where are the systemic causes for the erosion of principles of law and for the apathetic acceptance of this development in the broad population?

Crucial radical questions arise. These are questions about how the three organic systems function and what their conditions for living are, so that they can do what they are meant to do with as little disruption as possible.

These are the questions:
What living conditions does spiritual-cultural life need to thrive, for example, research, education, and schooling. And what restricts spiritual-cultural life?
What living conditions does economic life need to thrive, and what restricts it?
What living conditions does legal life need to thrive, and what restricts it?

And finally, there is the deciding question of how the organic systems work together:
How do the three areas cooperate? Which form of cooperation is fruitful, and which is contra-productive and destructive?

You will find the answers in the exiting book.