Main Points and Theoretical Foundation
** Overvalued Monetary system or excessive power of money, is the core problem. Money is ruling and shaping our lives automatically as the main motive for governmental policies and powerful incentive in people’s day to day decision making.
** Societal problems of poverty, corruptions, tensions, unstability... and subversive characteristics of lies, greed, v
iolence... shall continue until we create a new system of economy close to `Ideal. Idealism is not naivety but a necessity for our time.
** Ideal society is accessible through;
1-Economy Core Value Change: Changing the core objective of economy from `profit-making to well-being of people.
2-No Social Power For Money: Eliminating excessive power or social value of money.
3-Basic Needs Met For People: Removing the factor of financial insecurity from people’s lives by providing all their basic needs met whether through government sponsored programs or free enterprises loyal to the mission.
**Proposed Thesis:
Dr. Moslehi’s thesis for a trial city reads as follows:
`Under specific systems of economy, education, family and governing, when the basic needs of people for the entire life is secured and in return people are expected to be economically self-sufficient or produce a certain number of time units from their choices of work, the progress and economic productivity will grow even more than what is expected from a capitalist system, but the existing societal problems and subversive characteristics will decrease substantially.
**Trial City Project: The proposed thesis will be tested in small-scale city. One thousand volunteer individuals will be selected to live under certain conditions of economy, family, education and administration, described in the book Man-Ruling Society.
** Free Enterprise: Entrepreneurs loyal to the mission, could develop and manage this project if the government fails to do so:
1-Real state contractor agency, to provide the needed land and city infrastructures development for the trial city through...
2-Placement agency, to match the skills and work interests of city residents with those of the community needs and demands, in return for 5% worth of total committed productivity of participants (One thousand city residents).
3-Residential placement agency, to match the residential requests of participants with those of the availability and provide furnished units for participants in return for 30% worth of their total committed productivity.
4-Insurance agency, to provide the defined ongoing basic needs of participants (Food, clothing, medical care, education, recreation, travel...) in return for 65% worth of their total committed productivity.
** Human Nature: People are creative by nature and like to produce, develop and bring good changes. This self directed desire could be the base for economic development. However, there are two obstacles to be controlled; environmental factors (Overvalued monetary system and continues financial insecurities), and inherited human nature (Desire to control and selfishness).
** Commitment: On a yearly basis, each individual will lay a plan as how to meet his or her productivity share of 1000 hours of production contribution, guided by the list of in-demand jobs or production lines, in return for all their extended basic needs to be met.
**Healthy Society: By putting desired condition of financial security in place, the conditions of marriage, parenting, relationships, preserving true selves, integrity, honesty, and trust among people and within society will all improve, leading to totally different kind of healthy society.
**Anticipated results: Better characters, flourishing creativity, and more economic prosperity. Details in Money-Business section of www.appliedhumanism.com , and the book Man-Ruling Society
Could your legacy be creation of the first Ideal City, a Trial City?
** About The Author/ Founder of Applied Humanism:
Shahnaz Moslehi, Ph.D, www.appliedhumanism.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Shahnaz Moslehi is a writer and humanist. She has been advocating applied humanism (Bringing humanity into our systems of economy, government, family and education) since 1980s through her website www.appliedhumanism.com, public speeches and written public Calls. She has published multiple books and had been a guest speaker to World Affairs Council, Press Club, and Columbia university, also is former board member to United Nations/US/LA. She is a Psychotherapist by profession. Originally from Iran, she moved to United States in 1979. As a Psychotherapist and university professor in Iran and clinical director in various mental health agencies in the United States, and as someone familiar with both Western and Eastern cultures, Dr. Moslehi has developed much interest and sensitivity towards today’s social issues and understanding of people in different socioeconomic levels of the society. Her analytical yet simple style in thinking has been reflected in multiple pieces of work including seven published books, a short film, and multiple audio CDs. List of Published books and creative products:
1-Man-Ruling Society (Ideal society and the first one thousand people) Author House, 2006. Described separately below.
2-An Introduction to Iranian Culture
This very interesting book gives a brief and simple overlook to understand Iran and the Iranian people. It describes how major Iranian historical-social events from the time of Zoroastrianism to the post-revolution time, have affected the collective psychology of Iranians. It also provides the necessary tips and basic conversational phrases to assist communicating with Iranians.
3-Ask me About Me, the older version of the above book (focusing on the history and psychology of Iranians.)
4-The Search (Jostejoo), a philosophical novel about romance and modernity, written in Farsi language...
5-The Iranian immigrants, a research based book with the focus of: `Iranian network of Los Angeles.
6-Accessible Utopia, (Arman shahre dast yaftani) same as Man-Ruling Society written in Farsi language
7-Painful Wedding (Arousi-e-Dardnak), a true story of a groom and bride who along with all their wedding guests were lashed for not complying with Islamic laws, written in Farsi language and with limited distribution. Main topics of her presented ideas:
*** Overvalued money is the core problem: Removal of financial insecurities from people’s lives, facilitates longevity in adherence of people to good character. ...
*** Trial City: Describing in details a Trial City with characteristics most close to ideal (Described briefly in her website and comprehensively in the book Man-Ruling Society)
*** New Definitions: Suggesting new definitions for significant words such as; freedom, love, faith, mental health, wellbeing, civilization, ideal, ... She believes such new definitions are needed to match our perspectives with today’s changed societies and minds. (Section on What is your philosophy, in the mentioned book)
*** Face To Face With Women: Claiming women are responsible for what is happening around the world due to their roles in character making of world’s Citizens, Mangers, and Politicians.
*** Imaginary Good Character Club: A personal honorable game of catching self through out the day for how and why one would or would not adhere to the universally known good character (Honesty, courage, optimism, love, acceptance, contribution, ...)
*** Polishing human nature: Suppressing human subversive characteristics, is a significant part of the civilization.
*** Questions for twenty-first century; Presenting a list of questions such as; Why still most of people’s energy and time should be spent on survival issues and taking care of basic needs? Should people with less level of intelligence, assertiveness or willingness to compete, be pushed aside to the periphery of society or sink? ...
*** The Right to Joy of life: Joy of life should be considered a basic human right. In any given society the true measure for level of civilization is how joyful people could live. ...
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