This book ventures a suggestion for a better and fairer way of turning work into wealth, based on alternative concepts of family and community, which are neither capitalist nor socialist. In so doing, the author forsakes the conventional knowledge of sociology and law, preferring instead to apply ideas from such disciplines as chaos theory, quantum theory, consciousness, philosophy, theology, mathematics and theoretical physics.

The essence of this 350,000 word book is perhaps best captured by the author's poem of the same name, and in his proposed draft manifesto for this fairer society. A few of the challenging topics covered in this book are outlined below:

Quantum Society

The corporate elite, and their puppet governments, nowadays employ mass-media spin machines to shape public opinion. This creates a society in which individuals collectively follow a behaviour which, in some ways, appears to exhibit quantum mechanical properties.

Relative Society

Society promotes - often enforces - a collective point of view. But a point of view is, by definition, a view from one point: a single position in time and space, a place in the social order. The only valid point of view is therefore that of the individual.

Relative Poverty?

I am told that, compared to the poor of the Third World, my poverty is only relative. But that does not justify my poverty. Neither is it true. Human needs are absolute. They are also extremely complex. We are both poor, but in different ways.

Quantum Wage

The minimum wage is a natural quantum. It exists independently of political expedience. Nevertheless, its value is extremely fuzzy. It depends on the very subjective notion of what is acceptable. But acceptable to whom - they who decide it, or they who endure it?

Misunderstanding

For true communication of a point of view, writer and reader must share not only the same language, but also a common perception of reality. Since no two people can ever experience life identically, perfect communication is impossible. Is misunderstanding therefore inevitable?

A Higher Reality

In today's society, one is either overworked or unemployed. One either has no time or no money. In the struggle to hold a job or make ends meet, most permanently shelve the most important thing in life: namely to seek answers to the questions posed by the very existence of human consciousness.

Road to Chaos

Has life under late twentieth century capitalism started to exhibit the characteristics of chaos? Is the global economy fibrillating towards self-destruction? The future is becoming increasingly unpredictable. Events are starting to take everybody by surprise.

Chaotic Society

It is well known that the only perfect analogue of anything is the thing itself. Analogies are therefore bound always to be imperfect. However, the position and role of a molecule within the atmosphere seems to bear a similarity to the position and role of an individual or family within the global socio-economy.

A Fair Society

6,000 million human beings collectively share this planet's 130 million square kilometres of habitable land. Natural justice suggests that this bounteous heritage should be apportioned to each of us in a way that would ensure that the needs of life were provided in fair measure to all.

Robert J Morton

The author is neither a physicist nor a sociologist in any professional sense. He was a systems analyst, programmer and technical writer. He worked in the IT industry 25 years. Through a combination of circumstances he became long-term unemployed and has had to live on welfare since 1991. This fired him to turn his skills to an incisive analysis of the society in which he lives - the subject of his book. Email: robmorton@clara.net.