Chapter 5
Economy for a new era
In the previous chapter we have seen that in a high entropy culture the prevailing aim in life is to maximize the use of energy resources to create abundance and to satisfy every conceivable human desire; thinking that human freedom coincides with the accumulation of ever greater riches. (35:1)

The present economic system, having banished the concept of God from life, has attempted, and still attempts, to create heaven on Earth. Man and woman have placed themselves at the center of the universe and have identified the ultimate goal of life as satisfying every possible material need. Reality has been limited to what can be measured, quantified, verified, forgetting spiritual and quality values [19]. By doing so we have degraded families, community, true friendship, absolute feelings and values. Only blind faith in our physical and intellectual capacities remains. (35:2)

Now, these concepts and the related social system which we live in are becoming victims of their own future. Thus we continue to struggle just to save ourselves at any cost in the growing chaos, and by doing so, we have enabled man to overpower man. But, as we have all been created from the same dust so that no one can prevail over another [20], we must achieve, without a doubt, an imposing institutional modification. Our social structure, in it's present state, can't resist for much longer [21]. (35:3)

Therefore the most urgent necessity of our time still consists in the need to "rebuild" man [22]. (35:4)

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