{Dream: Of young girl gymnasts}[24th March 1990]

[Redbook7:101-102][19900324:1612]{Dream: Of young girl gymnasts}[24th March 1990]

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I remember clearly only the end of a dream this morning, an earlier part of which had something to do with (moving along a series of?) balconies looking over a street or other open space (or, in retrospect, an open theatre??). But at the end* I found myself among, and becoming (at their instigation, not mine) part of the performance of, a large group or crowd of young girl performers dressed in red swimming or gymnastic costumes. They were a fairly loving company, towards me and in general. Their performance was fairly physical: gymnastics; acrobatics; even aerial displays, two of them sliding down a high wire.

I then seemed to see (there?) two repeat this high-wire performance naked, with the suggestion that they worked unclothed when not in public; but I am uncertain of the authenticity (ie independence) of this last episode, as I was not far from waking up. There was, however, even at that stage, no sexual content or quality to my dream, nor were there any apparent sexual distinguishing marks on the girls at any stage.

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What comes to mind from this dream (and from this sort of dream) is something of the sense of integrity, of wholeness and completeness (but not in a static sense) which I recall from earlier dreams** of a significant kind.

*[of the dream, presumably, rather than the balcony)]

**ref II [eg [Redbook2:183-184][19810420:2230]{A Dream-Event Connection: Abort Take-off}[20^th April 1981];

[Redbook2:189A-190A][19810704:0500]{A Dream of Forgetfulness}[4^th July 1981];

& cf [Redbook2:195][19810811:2320]{A Dream of the Devil; A Dream of the Soul*; A Dream of the Church}[11^th August 1981];

[Redbook3:20-21][19860907:0612p]{Dreams and Prophecies [continued(5)]}[7^th September 1986]]

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{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2) [continued (4)]}[23rd March 1990]

[Redbook7:100-101][19900323:2330c]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2) [continued (4)]}[23rd March 1990]

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[continued]

The Conservative [party] response would be to ask how production will be achieved if workers do not have to work.* But the difficulty will not be to get Men to work, but to get them to stop working. Such work as there is must be shared out:** a Man could earn another £20pw by working (say) a 6-hour shift once a week.

I am convinced that manufacturing production will keep as high as its former levels, or higher – the whole trend in manufacturing in the developed world as a whole has been to increase output and reduce employment, hence the stress on services (and the unemployment in many areas). In this scheme, as manufacturing productivity continues to rise, so the surplus*** will be distributed by Government as a higher basic State income for each Individual (and as better State housing, furniture etc.).

The industrialists can still make their profits: quite possibly, bigger profits from a smaller employee base. Competition and incentive can still run production efficiently.

*[Artificial-intelligence-powered robotics – see [Redbook7:95][19900321:1016g]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (7)]}[21st March 1990], fn=#]

**[Among those who are both capable and willing in relation to work generally and any particular job; see [Redbook7:96-97][19900321:1016i]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (9)]}[21st March 1990]]

***[Presumably, that part taken in taxation, leaving (as now) enough profit to allow incentive]

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{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2) [continued (3)]}[23rd March 1990]

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[continued]

That figure of £51,000m* is staggering – working out at nearly £1,000 for every man, woman and child in Britain per year, or £20 per week,

– naturally (per p95**):

	£10	food
	£5	clothing etc
[Sub-total]	£15	cash
/	£2	energy
Direct payments***	£2	maintenance
\	£1	furniture etc.
[Total]	£20

With housing, health, education, and basic local communication and transport covered directly, it would be possible (if not comfortable) to live on this; and a family of four could manage on £60 per week. (I know – we have:

Food	£30-£40
Mags****	£5
	#{….?}

*{for Social Security}

[See last previous entry but one]

**[[Redbook7:95][19900321:1016f]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (6)]}[21st March 1990]]

***[But see [Redbook7:95][19900321:1016e]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (5)]}[21st March 1990], fn=**]

****[Sic; magazines? – see # below]

#{....?}[This table appears to be unfinished]

{Currently:

Food	£40pw
#*Petrol	£10	(Clothing)[sic]#**
Schools &c	£10
Papers &c	£5	(General)#**
	£65[pw]

#*Energy c£800pa, c£15pw, but much higher (like petrol) because of where we live.}

#**For petrol read clothes. For papers, read general. <900701>

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{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2) [continued]}[23rd March 1990]

[Redbook7:99][19900323:2330]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2) [continued]}[23rd March 1990]

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Looking back at p95* I am {pleased} to see how close** some of my guesses were – on the sums spent for Health, and Education; and by a curious co-incidence, the guessed total for basic living (furniture etc, energy, food and clothing) works out at almost exactly the same as the actual total for current spending on social security benefits. My estimate may well be too low to be practical; then again, it might well suffice simply to live on, in a very basic way.

The capital cost of building, estimated at [£]20bn,*** the major outstanding item, might be found from a reduction in defence spending by ¾ (ie within a European security framework) giving

[released from defence]	c£15,000****
existing housing expenditure	c£2,000
and extra taxation	c£3,000
	£20,000

(The figure of £10bn for transport, v. £4.5bn now, is simply a guess)

*ref [[Redbook7:95][19900321:1016e]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (5)]}[21st March 1990],ff] 95

**[See last previous entry]

***[per year; [Redbook7:95][19900321:1016e]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (5)]}[21st March 1990]]

****[million. This seems less plausible now than in the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Current practice for such capital expenditure would presumably be to borrow (at current historically rock-bottom interest rates) and expect to repay the loans and interest from rental on the property built. But under this plan there would be no rent, and we have already spread the capital cost of housing over 25 years,*** so that option makes little sense. Only finance out of taxation would seem possible. On the other hand, the cost envisaged*** took little or no account of existing housing stock (per last previous entry), much of which should be capable of upgrading at considerably lower cost (some of which would by incurred by private home-owners)]

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{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2)}[23rd March 1990]

[Redbook7:98-101][19900323:1500]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (2)}[23rd March 1990]

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The correct figures* for current Government spending (for funding the basic wage and provision outlined above)** are:

(per ‘Britain 1990’)***

		1989-90	c£million
ibid p107		Defence	20,100+
ibid p111	(88-89)	Criminal justice	6,000
/		Health	25,000	\
/		Personal social services	4,800	/ (15% of government expenditure)
ibid p141		Social security benefits	51,000	(31% of government expenditure)
ibid p176		Education & Science	23,800

Housing (ibid p207ff):

There are 14.7 [million?] owner-occupied homes.

Total 22.5m[illion] dwellings.

National Income (ibid p239) £345,637m

G[ross] D[omestic] P[roduct] £463,933m

Unemployed 2,3m (ibid p356)

ibid p374

ibid p375

* ref [[Redbook7:95][19900321:1016e]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (5)]}[21st March 1990]ff,] 95

**[[Redbook7:92-97][19900321:1016]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1)}[21st March 1990]ff]

***[‘ibid’ = ‘Britain 1990’]

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{1 Ch[ronicles] 22: 8-11}[21st March 1990]

[Redbook7:97][19900321:1732]{1 Ch[ronicles] 22: 8-11}[21st March 1990]

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1 Ch[ronicles] marks a literary* turning-point in the O[ld] T[estament]** history of Israel: David is credited with believing that he is not to build the Temple because (Yahweh has told him): ‘You have shed much blood and fought great wars; it is not for you to build a house for my name, since you have shed much blood in my sight on earth’. The Temple is to be built by Solomon, for ‘He will be a man of peace’ says Yahweh.***

([The] N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible] suggests that Chronicles was written at about the beginning of the Greek period, before c300BC[E]: in that historical sense, it is presumably not such a turning-point!)

*[Word inserted contemporaneously; underlining inserted subsequently]

**[Underlining inserted subsequently]

***1 Ch[ronicles] 22:8-11 (N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible])

****N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible].506

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{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (9)]}[21st March 1990]

[Redbook7:96-97][19900321:1016i]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1) [continued (9)]}[21st March 1990]

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[continued]

The point about this* is not to impose uniformity but to provide a basic living standard of a fairly uniform kind upon which a Society [sic] could naturally develop its own inbuilt strengths and diversities, without the sort of distortion imposed by the requirements of capitalist or communist ideologies (or by the natural poverty of pre-industrial times).

The administrative structure developed earlier** (now based on the Circle structure)*** is a convenient one for such a provision – but I do not now expect [it] to enforce local part-ownership of all industries, since the same result (redistribution) would be achieved by different means. But if Wards**** wanted to set up co-operatives, or joint ventures, of this kind, they should certainly be encouraged.

*[See last 8 previous entries, [Redbook7:92-97][19900321:1016]{Financing a C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] Utopia (1)}[21st March 1990]ff]

**ref ‘Locality Plan’ and more recent variations

[eg [Redbook2:68A][19750701:0000]{Locality Plan}[1^st July 1975][Aged 24];

[Redbook3:155][19870409:1345j](SPIRITUAL ETHICS [continued(4)][:Locality Plan])[9th April 1987];

[Redbook3:177-178][19870412:2137b](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued])[12th April 1987];

[Redbook4:132][19871018:2352c]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (3)]}[18th October 1987]]

***[eg [Redbook3:177-178][19870412:2137b](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued])[12th April 1987]&f;

[Redbook4:33][19870710:0855f]{COMMUNITY}[10^th July 1987]]

****[local communities, eg parishes, villages; see eg [Redbook2:322-323][19831217:2015f]{The Brahan Seer [continued]}[17^th December 1983];

[Redbook3:177-178][19870412:2137b](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued])[12th April 1987];

[Redbook4:33][19870710:0855f]{COMMUNITY}[10^th July 1987];

[Redbook4:126-127][19871014:2155d]{Generalisation and Specialisation [continued (4)]}[14th October 1987];

[Redbook4:132][19871018:2352c]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (3)]}[18th October 1987]]

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