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One Brain

My birth certificate shows that I was born in London at the start of WW2.
I vividly remember the sights, sounds and smells of this Human conflict.
My age, date and time of birth were based on the Roman-Catholic system.
My popular forename means: I was named after a saint and archangel.
My unusual surname means: my ancestors impounded stray animals.
As the war ended I was sent to school and was soon being brainwashed.
They began by teaching me this alphabet and digital numbering system.
They taught me multiplication tables and to speak and write English.
They taught me the Imperial System and pounds, shillings and pence.
They taught me the Anglican religion’s chronology, calendar and clock.
Elsewhere: kids were given different names, taught different languages, different scripts, different measurement systems, different currencies, different religions with their different chronologies calendars and clocks.
These make Us seem different when We all have ten digits to count on.
Our left cerebral hemispheres are for language, maths and reasoning.
Our right cerebral hemispheres are for emotion, recognition and music.
We were all brainwashed by our elders, teachers, preachers and leaders.
We had to trust them but as We grow older We learn to suspect them.
Our World is quite different from that of Our parents and grandparents.
We can phone anywhere and reach the opposite side of the globe in a day.
Many of Us have learned to use a new language, script, currency and measurement system but We still use different ages, dates and times.
Most of Us are taught different religions instead of one philosophy.
Memorising these systems is very hard but forgetting them is harder.
We must all try to use exactly the same system throughout Our Planet.
Otherwise, We will continue to fight, maim and kill each other, forever.
Digital computers have been rapidly developed during my own lifetime.
Most have QWERTY keyboards, however this is not the global standard.
Their operating systems are based on a BASIC program with AD years, Gregorian months, 7-day weeks, 24-hour, 60-minute, 60-second days.
There are many options for displaying temporal and spatial information.
They have memories that can be wiped clean and reprogrammed but they are unable to think creative thoughts or build better systems.
The Internet and Worldwide Web allow Our computers to communicate.
They no longer need their own memories, so they can be much simpler.
We could end-up with a gargantuan computer and billions of terminals.
We may soon be able to access any global radio or television programme.
We use billions of mobile phones incorporating ages, dates and times.
Our ultimate aim must be to use one language, one script, one system.
We will probably have to resort to this English language and script but this does not mean that We have to use any other existing systems.
This comprehensive book suggests a Worldwide global-digital-decimal measurement, management and government system for everyone to use.

One Idea

When I was ten I asked: "Why not use digital weeks and decimal days?"
All I wanted to do was to simplify the lists that We hang on Our walls and the gizmos that We strap on Our wrists, but I found that most people were extraordinarily sentimental about these everyday objects.
In one day I devised my global-digital-decimal World Time System.
I found that neither the Imperial nor Metric systems were satisfactory and that most people dislike one or the other, so I went back to basics.
In one day I devised my global-digital-decimal World Space System.
World Time + World Space = The Worldwide Measurement System.
Writing this book took far more tenacity than I originally anticipated.
First, I needed to research the 3c’s: chronologies, calendars and clocks.
Next, I needed to research the 3d’s: distances, directions and dimensions.
Then, I needed to know more about many different academic subjects: from the 3r’s taught at school to many ending in y taught at university.
I started by asking a simple question - now I want to change the World.
Ideas have done this before and they will do so again - so why not mine?
They are not really my ideas, of course, but those of many others, which I reassembled into a more logical order, then discovered the Holy Grail of chronology, calendrology, horology, metrology and even philosophy.
Innovation is often the result of being able to see the wood for the trees.
However, the cheapest, simplest and most obvious solutions are usually rejected for traditional reasons, or because they are too early or too late.
In order to make further progress We now need to reassess all of Our traditional practices and so it is now very timely, for many reasons, to reconsider and rebuild Time and Space, Our fundamental traditions.
The French Revolutionaries had the same idea when they adopted the Metric System with a revolutionary age, digital date and decimal time.
Yet, Napoleon Bonaparte soon put a stop to this revolutionary thinking, after he crowned himself emperor and reverted to Roman-Catholicism.
Although the Metric System is now used throughout most of Our World, the second is now based upon the speed of light - but this is arbitrary - the metre is now based upon the second - so this is arbitrary as well.
The seven-day week was supposed to have been commanded by God.
It is now used by most of Us but its Sabbath and weekend waste so much Time and Space that Our Planet and Our Human Race are dying.
We were misled into believing: He would protect Us if We used His week.
It is time to go back to first principles and reconsider the entire system for measuring, managing and governing Our Time and Our Space.
I feel like the captain of Titanic who knew there were icebergs ahead.
The owners would not listen because they thought she was unsinkable.
I am hereby warning all passengers that Our pilot-less Space-ship Earth has wandered way off-course and is now firmly stuck in a Time-warp.

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