Paradism

Which elites for the golden age?

May 1st, 2025 — Every year on May 1st, Paradists around the world celebrate Paradism Day, marking the advent of a new civilizational era: a leisure society free from work and money, made possible by the rise of smart machines, robotics, and artificial intelligence. On this day, Paradists take to the streets, organize public lectures, and give media interviews to inform citizens about the profound transformation ahead and how humanity can best prepare for it.

The End of Scarcity: A Turning Point in Human History

For millennia, humanity has lived under the shadow of scarcity. Fear of not having enough has shaped every aspect of human civilization — driving individuals, communities, and nations to compete relentlessly against one another for a larger share of limited resources. This struggle for survival has defined our economies, our politics, our values, our conflicts, and our wars.
That era is coming to an end.

Artificial intelligence and robotics are fundamentally transforming our modes of production, bringing with them the end of scarcity as we have known it. For the first time in history, the conditions for universal abundance are within reach — and with them, the conditions for a radically different kind of society.

The Paradox of Progress: Locally Rational, Systemically Terminal

Yet this transition carries a profound paradox. Every robot that replaces a human worker may be a rational decision for an individual business, but it is catastrophic for the economic system as a whole. Less workforce means less income. Less income means less spending. Less spending means less profit and more bankruptcies. Left unaddressed, this downward spiral leads to systemic collapse.

Every socio-political and economic system that humanity has built — capitalism, socialism, and all their variants — was designed for a world of scarcity and human labor. With the arrival of abundance and the disappearance of work, these systems are becoming obsolete. They are not failing by accident; they are failing by design, because they were never built for the world we are entering.

Paradism offers a new model of society — one built for the age of abundance, where neither work nor money are necessary for a fulfilling human life.

The Golden Age: A Paradise Within Reach — But Not Guaranteed

Humanity stands on the threshold of a new golden age. A paradise without work and money is no longer a utopian dream; it is a technological possibility. However, we cannot enter this new age carrying the same systems of governance, the same power structures, and the same mindset that the age of scarcity has produced.

Scarcity breeds fear. Fear breeds competition. Competition breeds a particular type of leader: one who thrives in environments where empathy is a liability, where dominance is rewarded, and where the exercise of power and control over others is the ultimate measure of success. Our current elites — political, military, and economic — were largely shaped by, and selected for, exactly these conditions. Many among them display traits more consistent with psychopathy than with the wisdom and emotional maturity required to lead humanity into a new era.

The military and security apparatus that these elites have built to navigate centuries of scarcity, conflict, and existential threat is becoming not only irrelevant, but dangerous.

The Greatest Threat Is Not Technology — It Is Who Controls It

Abundance brings security. Security brings freedom. But the transition from scarcity to abundance does not happen automatically, and it does not happen without resistance.
Elites whose power, relevance, and impunity depend on the perpetuation of scarcity, fear, and conflict have every incentive to obstruct this transition. To remain in power — and in some cases, to remain out of prison for past crimes — they require perpetual threats and perpetual wars. They are capable of triggering global recessions, destabilizing nations, and destroying entire civilizations to preserve their grip on power.

Faced with technologies that could liberate humanity, they will be tempted — and many are already attempting — to weaponize those same technologies to deepen surveillance, expand control, and entrench inequality. The very tools that could create a utopia are the same tools that could create a dystopia. It is not the technology itself that will determine our future — it is the character and intent of those who wield it.

The danger does not lie in the existence of nuclear weapons — which, in some respects, have maintained a balance of deterrence that has protected smaller nations from the aggression of more powerful ones. The danger lies in having psychopathic individuals in positions where they can decide to use them. Today, our most urgent collective fear should not be of technology itself — it should be of the people at the top of the power structure and the military-industrial complex who decide whether that technology becomes a tool of liberation or a weapon of subjugation.

The Highest Priority: Selecting Leaders Who Can Guide Us to the Golden Age

This is why Paradists around the world are declaring that the single most urgent issue facing humanity today is not climate change, not unemployment, and not even war — it is the selection of our leaders.

We must urgently ensure that those who hold positions of power possess not only the intellectual capacity, but also the mental health and emotional maturity required to guide humanity responsibly through this extraordinary transition. The stakes could not be higher. The wrong leadership in the age of AI and robotics is an existential threat.

A Call to Action: Europe and Beyond

In Europe, Paradists will be inviting citizens to sign a petition that has been officially accepted and registered by the European Parliament, calling on the institution to add to its agenda the question of the ethical standards, personal integrity, and psychological aptitude of candidates standing for election.

This is not a European issue alone — it is a global one. Government officials in countries around the world will receive formal proposals and recommendations for reforming the criteria by which political candidates are assessed and selected.

The golden age is possible. It is within reach. But it requires that we choose, collectively and without delay, the leaders capable of taking us there.

What we decide today will define the destiny of future generations for the millenniums to come. They will look back at this precise moment and ask: did they rise to the challenge? Did they choose wisely? Did they honor the extraordinary privilege of having lived at the turning point of history?

It is our responsibility, our challenge, and our duty to future generations to select the leaders who will take us into the golden age.

ETHICS, TRANSPARENCY, AND INTEGRITY FOR EUROPEAN POLITICAL PARTIES
Sign on the European Community website (1 minute): https://eci.ec.europa.eu/056/public

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