Further than Before- Pathway to the Stars

by Matthew Opdyke

  Eliza’s mid-range plan for taxes would be such that they would mature into more of a commitment toward demonstrating personal involvement in humanity’s mission to advance in scientific knowledge, capacity, and understanding to preserve life, longevity, peace, and even happiness. It would begin as more of a dividend system, where 10% would be paid to the government, including sales, and local, state, federal, and all other forms of tax using the current economic system. Dividends would generously be given providing private domain, housing, or ownership of real estate to any citizen, so long as the laws of Universal Ethics were honored.

  Forming her political party involved a lot of processes. Yet, having held many meetings and documented them since 2009, by June of 2010 all steps necessary had been taken and measures had been applied to ensure the “Universal Party,” as Pathway citizens had named it via their democratic process, could be established in every state and in every plausible nation, according to the laws that governed formation of political parties. Eliza knew there would be obstacles along the roadway ahead, especially in regions where the balance of individual and human rights was still an issue, but through persuasion and genuine intent, she would see it through to a change worth every effort made.

  She began campaigns of all manner, worldwide, encouraging “healing not harming.” She prepared fully, both in front of others and within the Virtual Universe, and she gave public speeches addressing advancements authored by herself and her Pathway LLC Delegates with elocution and clarity regarding the roadmap to a better reality. Her speeches addressed social issues, quality of life issues, preservation of life, the Planet, the solar system, and ultimately physiological and neurological optimizations being made available to all citizens worldwide while honoring the laws of consent. This would see humanity through to the most celebrated of pursuits known to mankind. She did this with the acknowledgment that as laws were, her only capability to influence others was from within, and all with her own financial resilience and fluidity.

  “Change must come from within.” Eliza’s message came from a genuine source as she explained to the masses how much she desired to “revitalize hope, bring clarity to purpose, meaning to life, and energize the drive in focus of human energy toward the well-being of others as well as themselves.” She shared her message while contributing in one form or another to the “universal mission of life, longevity, compassion, happiness, clarity of mind, and consent.”

  She taught how every Universal Party member in every state throughout the US and even worldwide had an opportunity to participate in this process. In every aspect of building and maintaining her political party, Eliza had conducted meetings, created realistic scenarios, and joined minds with others in the Virtual Universe. She did so to move forward with clarity on decisions with successful results, and then she had them expressed in a manner that was available for study by anyone throughout the world, via the internet on the Universal Party’s webpage.

  Eliza and her party members had done some amazing things and had many untold yet beautiful accomplishments. Going through the nuance of developing a political party had required the taking of attendance at meetings, making official documentation of minutes, and the provision of and receipt of donations. Her favorite aspects of the political party initiative were the charity drives to house the homeless, feeding the hungry, and providing organized opportunities for instruction allowing them to produce food, shelter, and higher education for themselves. Thus, and in many other ways, Eliza and her party sought to enrich, through higher learning, the lives of those who suffered most, all the while not doing so for ulterior motives. Instead, shelter was offered with a choice that allowed Pathway LLC Citizens to enjoy life whether near or far away from any voting booth or need for clemency. Refuge throughout the solar system would be provided free of charge, along with sizeable individual debit accounts, and delightful and exciting methods of enhancing one’s education, health, and morals, within the Virtual Universe.

  Eliza and her Universal Party expanded on their goals through as many charities and efforts as possible. They did all of this while juggling the ever-growing responsibilities of maintaining the existing twenty-thousand tech cities, throughout the solar system.

  They had financed and built homes for those in need in the tech cities, long before they had arrived. They had provided top-quality medical services worldwide and had begun multi-teared environmentally-friendly and healthy organic and healthy food growing systems, with clean meats, nutrient-rich soils, and more. Most of their help was done in private, due to the nature of the technologies that Eliza’s Pathway LLC had produced.

  She didn’t want to destroy any worldwide or state economy, but unfortunately, her smooth and automated cures, if adapted right away among the masses, would tank the medical, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries, and thereby the current economic system itself. Although the current economy was currently destroying itself, the masses had to learn, and they needed to shape their perception of the way things ought to be through persuasion, perseverance, and long-suffering. She certainly had no desire to grandstand her accomplishments, which if revealed too soon would result in a period of time where people would be unnecessarily left without jobs or the basic necessities and securities of life-based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the which she was acutely aware of. People needed to assert themselves, work hard, think beyond themselves and the environments they grew up in, and evolve beyond what they were, otherwise they would become dependent and weak, rather than independent and mighty.

  Eliza desired to bring hope to the masses, allow a process with which to alleviate suffering to help others effectively, and then persuade them by providing a positive example of the appropriate influences necessary to make the changes that would simplify the growing bureaucratic establishments. She wanted to bring out the good in those around her, and create laws that protected the people, rather than condemn them. She wanted to ensure the laws served the well-being of the citizens throughout the country as well as throughout the world, with proper incentives for each participant, rather than solely for the investors or shareholders.

  The Universal Party was about the basics, helping people heal, and proliferating high-quality education so that they too could be armed with the ability to navigate through life in peace and joy and contribute to the advancement of civilization. Pathway LLC would step in legally and provide employment if employment was not available or offered elsewhere to citizens and members who agreed to be fully read-in—for there were always new sciences to learn, new issues to resolve, and new problems to mitigate. It was time for real solutions and results by those in power—it was time for those in power to genuinely care, and it was evident that Eliza and her Delegates did and were very much needed in positions of swift and effective political influence.

  Eliza made her party’s principles clear. Her party made sure the masses had the transparency they yearned for, and the steps that were fundamental to progress were as clear as day. The Universal Party made sure that their constituents knew what the party planned on improving, what it was that set the party apart from the others, and why Eliza’s party was worthy of support in every localized and free region throughout the world. Eliza and all of her delegates brought clarity to and shared with the public each aspect of the political stances taken, through using the same format that she had applied to any system of governance, both in the Pathway Tech Cities throughout the solar system and on Earth. Together, each new party member helped fine-tune each policy in the Virtual Universe and made them available on the Universal Party’s public website.

  Eliza’s party’s Universal Ethics consisted of a motto which was, “Life, longevity, quality of life, clarity of mind, well-being, and innovations to preserve life and our Universe indefinitely.”

  She had presented the Universal Ethics finalized guidelines and details of her other ideas to her party and Universal Party delegates. The Universal Party had in exchange unanimously voted, based on the laws of th
eir geopolitical homeland, in favor of supporting improvements in so many areas, to include educational, medical, correctional, and economic systems.

  What set Eliza’s party apart from others was that each member did not engage in, nor did they need to participate in, attacks on other parties or other party members. The members of the Universal Party worked together to develop and deliver straight up answers and solutions to each question or issue of the day. They considered each perspective and grievance for topics and presented solutions that were far superior to those provided by any other parties which were deeply entrenched in mediocrity and seething in red bureaucratic tape. The Universal Party was there to serve each individual as well as the masses. Well-being was not mutually exclusive between a single person and the majority. Solutions were a win-win for everyone and not the party alone.

  Eliza’s party had established a tried and true method for resolving problems rather than creating more significant issues or creating enemies. No matter the depths other parties or their iconoclasts were willing to plummet to, mostly due to years of increased bureaucracy and convoluted legalities. Instead, all delegates of the Universal Party, including its founder and leader, Eliza, would point out the good qualities of each of the existing parties. Furthermore, they would illustrate how the Universal Party and its delegates would integrate those ideas into one party with win-win solutions to any issue presented, controversial or not.

  Within Eliza’s party, as with anything else that had the necessity for discipline and order, bylaws were discussed, and theoretical results were presented in the Virtual Universe and then tailored for review and informational pontification on the party’s real-world website. Following that, each Universal Party member voted on what would be the final result of a bylaw, ensuring it maintained the spirit of Universal Ethics and was implemented and published with graphics, imagery, and taxonomies of each resolution, so it could be exhaustively explored by the masses.

  The delegates managing the Universal Party website ensured that it was easy to navigate and intriguing to behold, both on the regular internet as well as available via biopod within the Virtual Universe. Each aspect of the Universal Party was developed via the Virtual Universe for structure, total-immersion, shared comprehension, and neurological-integrational experience and then made available via the Virtual Universe for depth. The Universal Party website was ready and on the worldwide web for the public to read, examine, challenge, and improve upon.

  Universal Party nominations and the vetting of character were done by giving each potential delegate a variety of scenarios that were analyzed based on choices made, where cumulative results meeting the highest of what was defined as Universal Ethics would lead to elections that were held party-wide and adapted for transparency. For the balance of privacy and transparency, each Pathway Citizen or Universal Party member would participate in elections using their unique and encrypted neurological identification. Non-Pathway LLC members who were not read-in could join by registering for a common access card with a chip that encrypted their proof of identity, legal proof of citizenship, birth certificate, and driver’s license to ensure voter integrity.

  Various committees were set up. Universal Ethics, Planetary Preservation, Physiological and Neurological Optimization, and Longevity Committees were essential. Economic, Healthcare, Correctional, Educational, Geological, and Scientific Exploration and Theory Committees were fundamental. Social and Historical Sciences, Astrobiology, DNA Databasing, Neural Imagery Database Backup, and Space Exploration Committees were robust. Asteroid Historical Study, Asteroid Biopsy, Asteroid Mining Committees and many more were everything that only great minds could imagine. All of these committees were established by Eliza and her leadership teams within the Virtual Universe and made available for scrutiny in the real world.

  Each committee had a series of elected scientists who were willing and subsequently trained in the Virtual Universe. The scientists would in-turn train, and brief delegates on the latest, and in many occasions become delegates as well. Each facet of the political matrices from the Virtual Universe was assimilated into regular internet web pages for visitors. Accessibility and legalities within the scope of localized laws throughout the various regions of the world were provided to ensure protection and the safety of those interested who were not optimized. Everything necessary for party transparency was on real world servers with brief explanations linking to more detailed statistics, articles, and journal entries. Universal Party and Pathway LLC insights, histories, biographies, and more, including global, national, and local aspects enlightened anyone who wished to visit or even critique the information shared.

  Opportunities for anyone who wanted to participate in the “UP,” as the Universal Party came to be known, and Pathway LLC, were encouraged to make themselves available, and their nominations would be received by localized university legal teams of experts. In cases where multiple delegates were nominated in a particular constituency, then each contender highlighted specific items for their emphasis, focused on the objective sections of each issue they would address, and demonstrated how their solutions would do well to help their constituents. Due to their links, no matter who would win, despite their unique views, they shared the same goals. Thus, optimum results afforded other candidates the ability to build their skills while working on committees of the winning candidates. The goal was to advance civilization, preserve life, and comb the Cosmos, and they worked together in that regard. Suggestions for improvement by anyone, member or non-member, were genuinely considered and in many cases implemented with acknowledgment provided to the group or the individual that made the suggestion. If a contributor requested, anonymity was granted to protect those living in hostile circumstances from harm.

  There were opportunities provided with financial and protective incentives for anyone who wanted to become full-on and read-in citizens of Pathway LLC, who could go about life as regular terrestrial dual citizens of both Pathway and their homeland. This also opened the door for James and his crew to return to Earth as desired and to continue to work as honorary members and delegates with dual-citizenship in any tech city and any homeland location of their choosing. YY Corp was glad to have James and his crew back. They had teetered on the brink of bankruptcy but survived, and despite all, Eliza and James walked into the corporate offices, relieved the owners with a hefty retirement bonus, and provided the proper paperwork and funding to buy them out completely, which they did. Immediately at the helm, Eliza and James made adjustments to the shifts, set everything up in the same way James had done when he had worked there previously, increased the quality of life for every employee, and finally Eliza and James converted it to a member-owned business. James balanced the economics of this newly private and member-owned business, brought it back on the public market, and decreased the percentage of gains that were afforded to investors and shareholders in a way that would benefit the workers in the long-term.

  YY Corp effectively became Pathway Construction and was infused with phenomenally more effective and ethical management. The employees began to garner a sense of loyalty, since for any worker, from blue-collar to the whole gamut, this was considered the most desired employer to work for hands-down. Working at Pathway an individual would receive the highest pay and the best benefits available anywhere. Every Pathway workcenter included dining facilities, siesta rooms, maternity rooms, Virtual Universe on-the-job training, gyms, and complete vacation packages. Concerns were addressed respectfully and potential employees from the first day of employment were given a tour of the corporate head office as well as a warm introduction by any and all prospective co-workers. Jobs were listed in the billions. If someone applied, they were hired immediately, with a choice as to when they would start training with full pay and benefits.

  Eliza delegated this new Pathway Construction Corporation to James since he had spent so many years enduring the drudgery at YY Corp. He ensured that it grew to build more aesthetically engaging, architectura
lly sound, creative, and fully-purposeful buildings than even found in the most advanced and innovative city of Dubai, for pennies on the dollar and for the masses instead of solely for the privileged or the elite. His reputation also gave confidence to investors worldwide for massive upgrades to US national as well as global infrastructure by winning contract after contract. Each project was coupled with cost-to-cost savings to each nation’s tax-payer, all while promoting advancements and introducing common sense back to each of its programs, processes, and associated industrial collaborations.

  As Pathway LLC became the largest investor and employer on or off the record, instead of investor and shareholder payouts, there were employee dividends as well as reinvestments in research and development. Any employee could volunteer to become fully read-in to Pathway LLC, and everyone willingly chose that route, especially when they saw the ease and joy with which those who were read-in prosecuted their duties.

  Meanwhile, back in the UP, whenever there were disagreements a delegate from each diverging entity would be selected, along with three differently located citizens of Pathway LLC. They would then meet within the Group Virtual Universe Interface and neurally link with one another to fully see, comprehend, and understand all aspects of the differing views. This would be followed by the delivery of integrated and collectively winning solutions, where all parties would return to meet within the Virtual Universe to provide a visually and viscerally balanced clarity as to the vision or future each person had in mind with their idea. They would then submit these ideas for all party members to vote on.

  Once this was done, and optimal scenarios were provided to each party constituent, there were seldom disagreements about mitigation of any issue that had been discussed. In fact, this turned out to be an iron-clad method of resolving all problems, to include diplomatic relations from one region, culture, identity, country, or language to another. Once an agreement went to the party members for votes, there were always unanimous resolutions to the disagreement in question. Because of this, the UP’s stances resonated with masses worldwide and with leadership alike, all while adhering to the standards of Universal Ethics.