The New Architecture of capitalism is based upon Four Pillars. Every new vision, every new doctrine, every New Paradigm ought to be based upon Four Pillars. Three would make the structure fall on its knees. Five would be redundant.
The Four Pillars are Dream, Love, Cornucopia and Eutopia. We must dream and love to reach the world of Cornucopia and Eutopia. Those that do not dream, those who do not love will lag behind and become dwellers of the Prison of Thought, and become dwellers of the cage of the orthodox.
We must dream. If we do not dream awake, a better world will never materialize. Only if we dream will we be able to defeat the Pirates of Heartless Capitalism, that strongly argue in favor of returning to the old Washington Consensus, that prioritize the market above human dignity, global justice and environmental sustainability.
We must love. If we do not love, we will continue to ignore those among us who live in extreme poverty. If we do not love, we will perpetuate an income and inequality gap, we will continue to allocate wealth disproportionately, we will not share the rewards of globalization in a fairer way.
Dream and Love will channel our best efforts and thinking to the proposal of solutions to the great evils of our time. Dream and Love will prepare an environment in which a New Paradigm can take off. Dream and Love will conquer the hearts and minds of the dwellers of this world, a majority of whom believe that poverty will be eternal. Dream and Love will set the path to start the Journey of our Lifetime that will take us to the world of Cornucopia and Eutopia.
The World of 2050 is a world of Cornucopia and Eutopia. Cornucopia is global food abundance. Eutopia is the delivery of Global Public Goods, the delivery of a Universal Welfare state that reaches the extreme poor. We have to invest today to realize the returns of our investment in the next forty years. We must start the Glorious Forty that will take us to the World of 2050. We will make progress in 40 years equivalent to what many thinkers thought would happen in two centuries. The world of 2050 is the world of World Government and Terra, the world’s currency.
The Four Pillars of the New Architecture will help global society write the History of Tomorrow. The journey that starts on the Decem Date will take us to Decemland, the land of ten percent, where the New Institutions emerging in the New Paradigm will be based.
Only if we invest in the developing world shall we obtain long-term, sustainable returns. We must start the Journey of our Lifetime. We will create the Decemfund, which becomes the Poor’s Endowment, able to finance the Universal Welfare state from the Decem Date to 2050. Welcome to the new era of Global Public Goods, welcome to the era of Global Redistribution in which we say why not instead of why.
I embrace the four new pillars of the New Architecture. I dream and love, therefore I am. I found the Expert Dreamers who dream and love. Only a world of Cornucopia and Eutopia will prevail. Only a world of Cornucopia and Eutopia will guarantee that our children and grandchildren have the opportunities we inherited in the West from our parents and grandparents. It is time to leave the fears of the baby boomers behind. It is time to look ahead and imagine a better future. It is time to get to work.
The United States’ President Barack Obama’s four pillars were enumerated on The American Spectator as follows (Shattan, 2009): cosmopolitanism, soft power, appeasement and global meliorism. What does each of the four pillars mean and how do they interact with the Four Pillars of the New Architecture of capitalism?
Obama is the United States’ first cosmopolitan President, as it is “already evident from his trips abroad”. Obama’s soft power “doesn’t just mean giving the U.N. a larger say” but also “by pursuing greater economic justice and redistributing wealth”. Obama’s appeasement has much to do with its willingness to sit down without preconditions with the leaders of countries that his predecessor included in the Axis of evil. Last Obama’s global meliorism was first embraced by President Truman and his Point Four program launched in 1949, “a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas”, Truman said (Shattan, 2009).
Obama’s hope and change message that catapulted him to the Presidency of the most powerful nation on Earth have much to do with the Dream component of the New Architecture. Obama’s soft power could be associated to the Love component of the New Architecture. His cosmopolitanism and likely global meliorism could contribute to reaching Cornucopia and Eutopia thorugh Global Redistribution and the delivery of Global Public Goods.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort, Aspiring Candidate to Chief Dreamer
