16. Conclusion

The Hopi (Native American tribe) have a term for our present predicament: Koyaanisqatsi which is defined as:

1. crazy life; 2. life in turmoil; 3. life disintegrating; 4. life out of balance; 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

[1] Is today’s world, with its imbalanced distribution of required resources, wars of scarcity, unbridled materialism, and hyper-competition, the best world we can envision and manifest? The coming of utoponomics promises more – perhaps not a true utopia, but a giant step in that direction.

Maybe someday we will arrive at an updated version of Gimbutas’ egalitarian, cooperative, peaceful, and prosperous post-civilization to our mutual benefit. A world of infinite abundance, a new sensibility for spiritual values, with voluntarily (and gratefully) limited needs and wants. By following James Allen’s teachings (As a Man Thinketh), we can leave the obsolete definitions for economics and the associated paradigms of scarcity, struggle, and competition behind, and focus instead on our desired outcomes, an utopia of infinite wealth and a more balanced life.

[1] Koyaanisqatsi, Directed by Godfrey Reggio, Zoetrope Studios, 1983.