A Tiller for Tomorrow
Tiller for Tomorrow is a true adventure tale and a reminiscence about a life lived at extremes—one-half in the dying culture of the Emberá natives in the dying Darien Rain-forest, and the other in the high-tech world of America during the last fifty years.
The story is full of danger, and tragedy and intrigue, but the adventure grows philosophical as the author traces the origins of his growing realization that the loss of rain-forests and the decay and decline of countries and institutions are merely reflections of the very dynamic which underpins life itself—and that the machinations of wealth and power and politics are merely the obvious vehicles enabling a process which underlies the eventual decline of all living things.
The author sees in action the phenomenon described by thinkers from Machiavelli to Einstein, that in human endeavor wealth and government often conspire to block transcendent creativity, even when it is critical to future vitality. He sees that, again and again, in education, in prison reform, in environmental conservation, in government itself, in global conflict, and in dozens of other problem areas, power and politics mostly choose self-serving accommodation and the status quo rather than effective resolution, He sees that in leaving core issues unresolved, society has contributed to a polarizing friction which is today reaching critical mass—a perfect storm of conflict which now threatens stability everywhere. And he decides to try to do something about it
With his friend Bolungo, chief of the Emberá, for example, he designs a counter-intuitive solution for rainforest preservation based on human avarice which they call Kaimókara (The Dream).
He points out that four times during the last forty years in America, mammoth efforts to correct our country's corrosive healthcare trajectory have only compromised the effectiveness of healthcare itself and undermined the nation’s overall vitality (and unity and viability) and he is appalled that America is about to make the same mistake…again.
“When we ask the fox and the ferret to design our healthcare hen-house, whichever way the chips fall there is zero likelihood that the outcome will be optimal for our healthcare chickens.
“Today’s technology can now replace healthcare’s century-old bureaucratic dynamic entirely.” he insists “And it can provide us with the simplest, yet most comprehensive healthcare system the world has ever seen—but because the true solution implies the exclusion of the fox and the ferret, this can never happen via political or conventional means.”
And then he proceeds to show us what a transcendent healthcare solution might look like—and more importantly, how it might end-run the opposition of power and politics and cushion the wrenching effects of disruptive change—and then he loads a design for an interactive solution onto the internet and invites us to check it out.
Then he suggests that if we apply this and other transcendent solutions to profound problems facing humanity, the renewal of global harmony and American exceptionalism is indeed attainable.
And finally he offers five more transcendent solutions including:
A techno-industrial lifeline for middle-class America.
A global education initiative which uses emerging technology to supercharge motivation and elevate the level of learning while reducing cost by a factor of 10.
And of course the Kaimókara approach to environmental conservation.
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