The development of any organization results from commonly held beliefs, philosophy, principles and concepts. Once formed, active participants identify opportunity for change by analyzing the environment in which they exist and by selecting topics for action to better that environment. They then design plans to realize the opportunities and proceed to action phases. Finally, results are reviewed for intended and unintended outcomes, and the process repeated from as high a level as warranted to achieve overall success and meet overall organizational objectives.

Destiny will not be realized without the above approach to societal change. It is implicit that a large number of individuals will make contact with each other to define and refine different aspects of Destiny as an applied philosophy for human advancement, as an ideology and as a highly integrated global organization. If you are interested in participating, seek out your counterparts via the Internet. Provide a brief description of your reasons for wanting to join your group and a description of the talents you will provide to promote Destiny. You might also ask questions or make comments via email.

There are many topics for action identified in earlier chapters. Those and additional topics are provided in this chapter to stimulate your awareness and interest in moving ahead. The list is certainly not all-inclusive, and some of the discussion relates to specific action steps to realize general opportunities discussed earlier. You certainly are invited to add to this list and to recommend steps to accomplish these objectives, for the summary ideas presented here are only a beginning:

1) Legislation to contain, and later reduce, worldwide human population via a reformed and enhanced United Nations

2) Legislation to reduce job discontinuities resulting from international trade initiatives

3) Legislation to redirect federal and state budgets to enhance formal education for everyone

4) Legislation to rewrite federal and state laws to contain scope of government and reform tax laws

5) Legislation to implement international and national proposition systems, lobbying reforms and improved public access to legislative committee deliberations and voting

6) Legislation to remove laws that reflect religious bias or local prejudice

7) Legislation to require media representation of conflicting views on any broadcast or printed topic and total truth in advertising

8) Elimination of government sponsored lotteries and control of individual expenditures in casinos

9) Legislation to contain business profit, including banking usury practices

10) Legislation to promote all feasible areas of scientific research in human development and evolution

11) Legislation to contain individual wealth and eliminate estates

12) Legislation to gradually remove all socialism programs that underwrite non-contributors

13) Legislation to replace present criminal and civil law and promote penal reform and enhanced legal processes, e.g., drug enhanced lie detector use to replace juries

14) Legislation for global, physical, repeated military elimination of all mind-altering drug sources, through a newly formed United Nations force.

15) United Nations legislation to physically manage countries and the education of their citizens where ethnic or religious wars and/or terrorism are chronic.

16) United Nations legislation to create a limited vocabulary global language that will be taught to all children.

The above list is by necessity brief and general. Some topics related to the list are discussed below to provide some "golden rule" detail for subsequent action.

Worldwide population control cannot be effected in a humanitarian way now except through compulsory sterilization of individuals who have reproduced themselves, one for one. This topic is probably the most politically explosive, for it addresses an irrational belief that we have an inherent right to reproduce as we please. We used to. We do not now. The signs of our personal unwillingness to recognize the problems caused by excess population, and to act on population limits, indicate that legal, forced limits are mandatory, globally. We do not have any concern about limiting the gene pool when we number in the billions. However, we have a great concern about the quality of life for those of us who are here. No one has ever explained or provided a good reason why we need more people. The examples of population control now practiced by China and Singapore are fine starting points. We can overcome any concerns about loss of children through tragedies via banked genetic materials. It is likely that we will need a newly formed United Nations to vote on that policy and to drive its realization through UN voting privileges and economic stimuli.

The roles of business certainly include more than making a profit. Jobs for citizens of any country need to be protected, or the government has failed to control business greed at the expense of the citizenry. Shifting production overseas to take advantage of low labor rates is just as wrong as having union influence here fuel inflation. Both must be stopped.

Education is the paramount responsibility of any society that wants to grow and prosper. Our experience in the USA has been that the functioning capability of most of our citizens has severely degraded in the past 40 years. We still have a number of well-educated people to drive research and industry, but the percentages that these people represent of the total population are dismally small, and getting smaller. And little is being done to develop the overall citizenry to grow to an "adult" worldview or cosmic view of life. This is simply wrong, and our budgets and human resources must be directed at reversing that problem. All of our citizens have a right to receive the best that is known, not what local school boards decide to provide from limited budgets and non-educational fascination with issues of socialism. Ignorant people cannot contribute to the present or the future, nor can they understand or appreciate the wonderful range of experiences we call life, for they are allowed to self-destruct within their own communities by using primitive survival behaviors. That must be stopped.

Regardless of motivation, the Congress, and numerous state and local governments have reliably demonstrated their inability to manage our financial health as a nation. Debt structures from continuous, excess expenditures are proof of their inability and/or unwillingness to behave responsibly. These are our presumed leaders of society. Balanced budget considerations are only the tip of the iceberg. We need to control the decision processes that allowed for pork barrel expenditures and runaway social welfare programs, with a penchant for developing checks and balances that will remove the opportunity from Congress, et al., to behave in that manner.

Consider the lost opportunity to spend welfare and military revenues from 30 years ago up to now in areas that could actually have advanced our society. We must change the tax structure to reduce the negative influence of irresponsible government spending on our national development. Such funds as are made available will be determined by proposition laws and popular vote as to where the collected revenues may categorically be spent. It is the role of legislative bodies to provide us with the best information we can have on any topic that might require expenditures, so that we can both understand and act on those recommendations and use the legislators to effect our decisions.

We are mired with laws that serve the prejudices of the church bodies and special interest groups nationally, and at state and local levels. That there could even be a court case earlier in this century regarding the teaching of Darwin's evolution theory, or, a Supreme Court decision on prayer in schools, is utterly absurd. The issues are personal, marginally societal and certainly not legal. That a topic like abortion could even appear at any court level is another example of the minority demanding legislative control over your personal life choices, and that is totally inappropriate. Similarly, efforts to legislate sexual behavior, either for gays, lesbians or, much earlier, Georgia's laws defining heterosexual oral sex as "sodomy," are examples where we have allowed personal or religious prejudice to enter our legislative bodies on topics that no legislature ever had any right to create a law to manage.

You are not told how you can breathe, you are not told what you must eat, you can select the type of shelter and clothing to please yourself within your budget, but you cannot engage in the equally fundamental act of copulation without concern regarding violation of laws. Does that make sense? Does anyone, anywhere in the legislative process, have any right to decide with whom or how you will copulate if your partner is equally desirous of so doing? Do you realize that the state of Washington made marriages between Whites and American Indians illegal, i.e. a felony, and that the law was still in place in the 1950's? Are not these matters of personal preference and conscience? Clearly, we need to clean house and undo the categorically wrong intrusions represented by these types of laws. We must take the additional step of denying all legislative bodies access to our private rights of decision by limiting the scope of what they are allowed to make laws about.

One excellent example of our "well intentioned" but foolish laws is the Mondale Law passed in 1974. That law requires that medical professionals, like physicians and psychologists, notify law enforcement officials whenever they encounter a patient whom they believe has engaged in sexual activities with a minor. If they fail to do so, they are subject to losing their license to practice their profession. On the one hand, we do not want active child molesters anywhere. On the other hand, public awareness of that law has assured that a child molester will not seek medical or psychological help. That law spelled the end of doctor/patient confidentiality protection, and it guaranteed that for every sexual offender so identified and prosecuted through that process that we would have many more that would remain untreated, undercover, and continue to damage our children. What we needed, but did not get, was a law that would attract sex offenders to receive medical treatment to halt their destructive behaviors; for example, medications and counseling and sometimes access to forms of sexual satisfaction that will not hurt others, and in extreme cases, voluntary castration.

All forms of media engage in methods to attract our attention without rational reflection. The means for doing that are based on studies of human psychology. Vance Packard wrote a book titled The Hidden Persuaders in the 1950's to illustrate the psychology of advertising and its effectiveness in directing our purchasing decisions. So the media, whether engaged in advertising or developing entertainment formats for shows like "Hard Copy," know in advance how to tweak us at gut psychological levels to hear, see and act on their messages without rational or objective reflection. We do not realize that our apparently well-considered decisions are implanted, not rationally derived.

Most of us are so used to being manipulated that we do not even consider the fact that we are manipulated. This human weakness allows for abuse in political campaigns and virtually all other areas of life where you at least appear to have the right of decision. Unless you are one of the few individuals constantly on guard against manipulation, you will blow off the entire subject and fail to recognize that you are trained to own someone else's ideas about your life choices. Thus, as you might expect, manipulation and deception as practiced by all the media are not consistent with the goals of Destiny, for they disempower you. Legislative action is required to stop psychological control, and, your personal action is required to counter the worst examples of manipulation with critical exposure. Perhaps the Internet is the ideal medium for wide broadcasting of exposed shams on the part of media and advertisers.

Government sponsored lotteries are a perfect example of exploitation of the poor and uneducated by those who know better and who are wrongly perceived to represent the common good. Smart money does not buy lottery tickets. In essence, the poorest segments of the population, some of whom receive welfare and/or food stamps, are conned into investing their small amounts of survival money into a legalized swindle with an extremely low probability of making a profit. They do not understand game theory, independent trial processes or odds. They do, however, irrationally believe in lucky numbers, and even a faint hope of rising above their poor life is enough to overpower what little logic they do possess.

There are many ways to play a lottery, with odds ranging from about one in one thousand for small payoffs, to one in one billion or more for large payoffs. As you might expect, the poorest, least educated people are dazzled most by the large prizes and they invest accordingly. When you understand the amounts of money advertised as the un-won prizes grow, you can see that lottery participation is indeed high. The payoffs, however, are not.

At a statewide level, a maximum of 50% of collected lottery revenues is returned as prize money, which is later taxed at the federal level, and awarded over many years when the size of the prize exceeds about $100,000. Thus, inflation effects and failure to pay interest to the winner on the unawarded part of the prize dilute the prize over time. States frequently claim that retained lottery revenues are used for very good purposes, like funding the educational system. This is a paramount insult to the uneducated people who buy the lottery tickets. The least capable part of the population is being used to subsidize education that all parts of the society are enabled to use. This is clearly disproportionate, regressive taxation of the poor, and it is blatantly illegal and immoral, regardless of what our legislatures have decided. We have allowed our legislatures to make a mockery of our Constitution.

Similarly, casino owners exploit our need to right the errors or unfortunate consequences in our lives in order to be financially secure, and more, to have fun. They do it much as a leech feeds on a host. A little bit of blood at a time, over a long time, feeds the leech very well and diminishes the host in vitality, though not in any great amount at any one time. Perish the thought that the host would become aware of the robbery of their lifeblood!

Again, legislation is in order to correct the exploitation problem. Destiny empowers people, so the casino leeches must be controlled to contain the damage they do, or eliminated. The earlier statement about the knowledge of game theory and odds applies as well to individuals who frequent casinos. The small subset of individuals, perhaps 100 people in any decade, who have found ways to win consistently, like card counters at blackjack, have invariably been banned from casinos and been the reason for changes to the games, like multiple decks of cards in play for blackjack, to make winning very unlikely. Payoff odds for the classical games like roulette, poker, craps and the plethora of slot machines have also been modified from the original, simple gaming rules. For example, you no longer get odds of 3 to 1 (your original bet and 3 times that bet). Instead, you get odds of 3 for 1 (three times your original bet but the house collects your original bet).

Finally, the theoretical odds of winning any gamble based personal choice, like blackjack, are most misleading, for the assumption that players will exercise optimal card judgment is wildly optimistic. Thus, the actual casino revenue from those games is much higher than the theoretical odds of winning would suggest, for most gamblers make illogical decisions. If you doubt this, try playing blackjack sessions against one person of playing skill equal to your own. You will find the odds of winning will not appear to match the theoretical odds, unless both of you are actually playing perfectly or with functionally identical imperfection. The difference is a matter of who makes the most mistakes. Now repeat your experiment with the dealer following the precise rules followed by casino dealers. See what happens and reflect on the illogic component of house winnings. Unless you are an experienced and knowledgeable blackjack player, and thus play perfectly, the dealer will win at least six out of ten hands, due in part to your mistakes.

We no longer seem to understand the feudal concept of noblesse oblige. While altruism may be foolish, premeditated financial rape of the unwary is an entirely different matter. Can we permit banking institutions and retail stores to continue their usury practices? Is it now clear that the federal government is responsible to us to stop that practice?

The entire experience in the USA regarding mind-altering drugs is disgusting also. Talk about disempowering people! Can you believe that your federal government cannot willfully stop the flow of drugs into this country? Was little Singapore able to do something that important and we cannot? Is it possible that our leaders simply pay that activity lip service, in the full knowledge that nothing practical is being accomplished towards resolution? Is it impressive to see drug sniffing dogs checking out individual travelers from foreign destinations in airport baggage claim areas, when you know very well that tons of drug products must be delivered by ship and private aircraft from China, Columbia and elsewhere? Or trucks from Canada and Mexico? How else could our consumption be so high?

At the best, foolhardy improper emphasis on enforcement methods leads us to believe that our government is at least doing something. However, it is insulting to anyone who thinks that there is any real effort to stop drug trafficking. If this is the best protection our government can provide, we are indeed in great trouble. This issue is not like Prohibition, which did not have the support of the majority of the population. Could you support immediate, no trial, lifetime prison sentences for individuals caught transporting commercial quantities of drugs into or over USA territorial waters or borders, as well as within the USA? Would you be willing to include ship's captains, crewmembers, and your less enlightened acquaintances? Could you support permanent impounding of all vessels and aircraft found with commercial quantities of drugs onboard? Oh, yes, those steps will help to stop import of drugs into the USA and transport within the USA. Unrestricted UN search and destroy forces will complete the solution.