An Overview of the Threefold Idea

there will be three sectors for Economic, Political, and Cultural affairs, each with their own leadership. The three sectors will be as structurally independent from each other as foreign countries are today. There will be three executives, three capital cities, and three flags in each country. Each individual human being in the country will be a member of all three sectors: as an entrepreneur, worker, and consumer in the Business sector, as a citizen in the Political sector, and as a free participant and patron in the non-profit/non-governmental Cultural sector. The Economic sector will run the economy without Government interference. The various For-Profit Businesses and their Industry Associations and Chambers of Commercein association with the Labor Unions and Consumer Associationswill embody an Economic Forum, which will select an executive Economic Manager to serve as the human face of the Economy. All economic powers and departments of the present-day Government will be transferred to this Economic Executive, including the Central Bank (The Fed in the U.S.), the postal service, and the Departments of Commerce, Transportation, and Energy. This is not some kind of state-planned economy, but a business-formed, entrepreneurial Association of Associationsand so may be called an associative economy. This associative Economic Forum will be responsible for issuing currencies, for negotiating trade agreements with other countries, for infrastructure and utilities, and for all aspects of our economic livelihood and prosperity. An Associative Economy is more capitalist and libertarian than present-day American-style corporocratic capitalism, because in an Associative Economy there is literally no Government regulation or ownership of any economic activity, including currency issuance. On the other hand, economic activity is freed to fulfill its original mission of fulfilling human needs (food, clothing, shelter). This return to a humane, liveable economy might be called Mutuality, Solidarity, Co-operation, Social Justice, Altruism, Fraternity, or Brotherhood/Sisterhood. These qualities are not in conflict with Professionalism and the striving for Success, Prosperity, and Abundance. The Political (Rights, Legal) sector is the continuation of what we now know as Government. It is drastically streamlined to become a pure Rechtsstaat (Rights-State). It retains the constitutional powers of law and human rights Governance, including police, jails, working conditions, environmental quality of life, and what military is necessary. It divests all economic powers and cultural powers (including education and healthcare) to the other two administrations. The Political sector also legislates what basic rights or benefits the Economic sector and the Cultural sector must provide citizens, such as the Right to a Dignified Livelihood (in the Economic sphere) and the Right of School Choice (in the Cultural sphere). The Political sector consists of the Political Legislative branch (the U.S. Congress in America) and Political Executive branch headed by the President

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(or Prime Minister in parliamentary countries). Such practices as voting, town meetings, substantial consensus, direct democracy, and referendums are fitting for this sector. The guiding principles of the Political sphere are Democracy and Equality. The Cultural (or Civil Society) sector is composed of the non-profit/non-governmental organizations of the country. To be a part of this sector, the organization must accept no Government money and no Advertising moneyit must be funded solely by freely given donations. And it must be working in a Cultural field such as education, art, science, religion, health, sports, media, and so forth. In a full-blown Threefold Society, the Judicial branch (the court system itself, not the police and jails) is transferred to the Cultural sector. A country-wide Cultural Council will select an executive Cultural Leader to serve as the face of Civil Society and Culture. The Cultural administration is not a Governmentit is an Initiative of Initiatives. No cultural initiative even has to participate in the Council, and they will be free to form competing Cultural Councils. Competition is appropriate in the Cultural sphere. The service areas of Cultural Councils of two different countries could even territorially overlap. Freedom, Liberty, and Individualism (even Anarchy in its benevolent sense) are key qualities.

One salient feature of a Tri-Sector Society is the structural severance of Nationality (cultural identity) and Citizenship (political identity). The ownership of all the cultural programs and assets which are divested from the Government (such as the National School System, the National Park System and Monuments, the National Library) is transferred to a new kind of NPO/NGO called a national-cultural organization (NCO), which will serve as the body of the National Identity, and will retain the national flag as its organizational symbol. The NCOs (such as The American People) will then be free to offer cultural initiatives throughout the world and depict their cultural territory on maps however they wish. National homelands will freely overlap in the same way that the ecclesiastically territories and provinces of the various religious denominations have been free to overlap since the Separation of Church and State. The stateless nations such as the Basques, Kurds, and Indigenous peoples will be free to declare cultural independence, while their individual human members remain Citizens of a single Political State. A Threefold Society structurally transcends the Nation-State model. This concrete Plurinationalism will end many wars.

THE SEPARATION OF NATION AND STATE

in America through three constitutional amendments describing the Separation of Business and State (which is the unspoken aim of the Occupy Wall Street movement), the Separation of Culture and State, and the Separation of Economy and Culture. Travis Henry | https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldnow

THE THREEFOLD IDEA WILL BE ACHIEVED