Life in the 22nd Century

In this book, the author recommends a project that will ensure a crime-free, abundant 22^nd century. He has aptly called this project “Project Minus Four”, which is intended to describe the four elemental concepts that need to be removed from a civilised society in order to free it from crime, poverty, social and national conflicts, domestic violence and needless tragedies, such as acts of terror, wars, buildings going up in flames, killing all who live in them, as well as all kinds of “accidents” that result on account of people being too anxious, too angry, too frustrated, or too tense—all of which are a direct result of the pressure that the economic and/or the social system puts on them. In this book, the author has set down the details of how these problems are to be solved and what the society in the 22^nd century can expect to be like if his Project Minus Four is implemented now.

Italian-born Jim (Luigi) Scarano migrated to Australia at age 13 with his mother and two younger siblings in 1956. From no knowledge of English at all, we find him passing his ‘leaving certificate’ exam by the time he is 19. At age 30, he obtains his BSc in Electrical Engineering, is married, and will spend the rest of his working life as an Electrical Engineer and Technical Writer, while in his spare time, he continues his relentless academic pursuits: obtaining a BA in Psychology and obtaining a Diploma in Sanskrit. He becomes a part-time teacher of the Alexander Technique while continuing his study of esoteric philosophy, yoga, meditation and various other ‘self-knowledge’ type of practices. It’s only in his retirement years that he looks back at world events over the previous 50–60 years only to find that crime, economic problems, national as well as domestic issues have not changed for the better, but continue to become headlines in the daily news. As a result of his cogitation and objective analysis, he discovers the basic-root causes of all these problems and hence his current work.