Omniprosperity, as an ideology, is the belief that humanity has reached the level of development whereby each and every human has the opportunity to live a life full of health and prosperity.
Prosperity can de defined as a quality of life which is rich. Wheter rich in personal power, in social interactions, in spirituality, in material goods, in commercial activity, or even in strife, is up to each individual.
Buckminister Fuller (a brilliant dead guy, see bfi.org) promoted the idea (and possible reality) of humanity having the option to succeed, rather than destory itself, many years ago. His theories have not been disproved, but many people remain unexposed to them.
Hence, the status quo is maintained, based on the now-false concept of scarcity of resources. This is why unsustainable methods of production continue to abound. That and, possibly, human stupidity.
First off, you can research the topic. This is most important, because 99% of the population did not believe in the human option to succeed in the days of Fuller, and that still seems to be the case now.
Ultimately, make you own decision as to what you as an individual can do about it, but, whatever you do, do not give up and think that by doing nothing, things will magically be okay. We all need to work together to make this the best place it can be, now, or it will be too late quite soon.
The FTAA, which will come on-stream c. 2005, will open the Caribbean market to the world. This may be good in some ways ("great! no duty on cars!"), but will be bad for the country of Barbados because it is currently not generating signifigant foreign exchange to sustain itself.
What will happen if nothing is done to dramatically alter the situation, is that foreign companies will come to own the populace of Barbados. We will be enslaved, not only to companies which pay low wages, but to foreign companies which pay low wages. Those companies will get rich off of out brilliance, and we will become more empoverished.
In this empoverised society, there will be few avenues for advancement available. It will be worse than the U.S. during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It will be worse than the situations which lead to the riots in Barbados around the same period. It will be Hell within what was once a tropical paradise.
That is, for Bajans. Foreigners will love us (or pity us). We will be the slaves which the racist-against-blacks envision us to be. We will be the "third class" that the "first world" looks down upon us as. We will be unable to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of humanity, being enslaved to an unsustainable (but metastable), repressive regime.
A lack of understanding and willingness to listen causes your mere presence to incite random acts of senseless violence. In general, the Americal populace is too ignorant to be world leaders. It doesn't help that you harbour the CIA , which has a history of destabilising governments for no real reason.
The impending ice age / global warming.
Oil shortages.
The fact that your children hate life and wished they were free, but feel too helpless to do anything about it because your traditions imprison your mind, and cause your bodies to block our paths towards enlightenment and true progress.
Pollution and non-recycled waste.
This problem concerns the entirety of humanity.
You could be the next great person (examples: Fuller, Einstein, Arthur, Barrow, Lincoln, Gates) but deny yourself the opportunity of finding out because of a lack of information. You could be a pivotal person in solving the problems of the world. You could be an important person in implmenting these solutions.
You could contribute to the Greater Good. But, by ignoring the problem, you become part of it. Like sheep being slaughtered and eaten day by day, like cogs keeping the wheels of industry turning so they can grind our children's bones to dust, we are all contributing to our own destruction.
However, it does not have to be so. We can use the very systems which capitalism, industrialisation, and high technology have brought us to sustain ourselves, and avert the collapse of the human race.
K31. 4Dec+3.
Originated by K31. 30 Nov. 2002 (Independance Day)