The Tuba Doctrines - Part 1

The real struggle for world control…takes place…in trying to gain control over the minds of its 6.9 billion inhabitants.  It is in this arena where the war for world mastery will be fought and won…or lost.

Dr. Istvan Stephen Tuba

Introduction

Tuba, Etele, and Uda (2005) record The Tuba Doctrines in a book titled The Third Resource: A Universal Ideology of Economics.  Since the mid-1970s, when he formed the International Technology Institute (ITI), Dr. I. Stephen Tuba (initially president, now executive director) has systematically stated certain doctrines, which are believed to have major significance for the evolving global order.  For the first time, these doctrines constitute an ideological system to combat those who try to gain world domination through promoting the well-known and widespread ideology of Marxism-Leninism.

When stated, these doctrines appear to be trivial and self-evident.  Yet, as of this moment, one of the most obvious beneficiaries, the U.S. government, has neither recognized nor taken steps to use these doctrines to its own advantage in its struggle against the tide of totalitarian (fascism, Nazism, and communism) expansionism.  This is the case because these doctrines have not yet reached the appropriate intellectual circles.

The importance of terms such as “ideology” and “ideological advantage” are difficult to understand by those who have never been exposed to the powerful arguments of the other side.  Believing in democracy, freedom, apple pie, and the virtues of motherhood as well as promoting the same is not enough in today’s harsh world.  This is particularly so when one has to deal with fanatic demagogues who have been brainwashed for decades with an allegedly “infallible ideology.”  Possessing an overwhelmingly superior military force is not sufficient either.  Such a force is useless against both terrorism and overwhelming “world opinion.” 

The latter (i.e., world opinion) involves a sizable portion of the 6.9 billion people of today’s world … most of them are exceedingly envious of American achievements.  Hence, totalitarian and dictatorial governments easily manipulate them.  The real struggle for world control, therefore, takes place not so much in the area of atomic weaponry but rather in trying to gain control over the minds of its 6.9 billion inhabitants.  It is in this arena where the war for world mastery will be fought and won…or lost.

Victory, however, can only be achieved by recognizing both strong points and soft spots of our ideological adversaries.  We then need to counter them on their own plane with similar ideological weapons that are (1) based on truth, (2) presented rationally, and (3) comprehensible to most of the world’s population.  We must teach the world to think and act rationally and invite the world to abide by the same rational rules that are both quantitatively and qualitatively measurable.

Listing of the Tuba Doctrines

The United States should articulate its own successful ideology and sell it to the world.

Dr. Istvan Stephen Tuba

In its simplest, precise form, the Tuba Doctrines are as follows:

Doctrine 1—Resources

There are three basic kinds of resources: natural, human, and human-generated.

Doctrine 2—Wealth Generation

The wellness of the human race or any segment thereof depends on its ability to use the available resources for wealth generation.

Doctrine 3—Distribution of Wealth

Most wealth is either consumed or decays with time.  The distribution of old wealth, except for the fair availability of natural resources to everyone, cannot solve the world’s current social and economic problems.

Doctrine 4—Organized Use

The organized use of available natural resources is both necessary and unavoidable.  If all natural resources available to the human race were divided equally among persons alive today without any additional resources for the future, the human race would become extinct within a short time period.

Doctrine 5—Ability to Use

The wellness of society depends on its ability to use its natural, human, and human-generated resources for “continually creating new wealth.”

Doctrine 6—Technology and Techno-economy

As demonstrated by historical facts, progress has always been associated with humanity’s willingness and ability to maximize the use of all available resources.  This is true today.  However, in our lifetime, we have witnessed the birth of a new human-generated resource—technology.  We contend that this new resource more dramatically affects the progress of the human race than either of the other two resources.  We call such a resulting economy a techno-economy.

Doctrine 7—Using Technology

Technology is a valuable resource, which generates new wealth at a much greater rate than before.  We can generate, own, buy, and sell technology as we do with any other resource – natural or human.  We can depreciate and replace technology but only with more advanced versions of itself.

Doctrine 8—Technology Transfer

Technology can be distributed.  It can be transferred from one area of human endeavor to another and from one geographic area to another.  The geographical dispersal of technology is equivalent to the dissemination of the means to generate new wealth.  This generation and dissemination of new wealth-making potential, in turn, undercuts the need for violent revolutions as a means to redistribute old wealth.  The success of the American experience, i.e., the rise of the United States to preeminence in the world and now as the only superpower, was the result of the founding fathers’ focused goal of creating new wealth.

Doctrine 9—ESTs and Technocracy

Engineers, scientists, and technologists (ESTs) comprise a special breed of people.  They generate, possess, and implement most of the means for creating new wealth in the world.  They are intelligent enough not to seek world domination (technocracy), like the proletariat.  However, they do desire recognition in the form of a fair share of representation in governmental bodies and significant stature/esteem in society.

Doctrine 10—Atmosphere for Effectiveness

The United States and other first-world countries established high standards of living and world economic dominance by using their natural and human resources more effectively then did the other countries of the world.  They achieved this by creating an atmosphere where human-generated resources, such as inventiveness, entrepreneurship, risk taking, management, and management of “capital as a strategic resource,” played important roles.

Doctrine 11—Leadership

In recent years, the United States has been the center of excellence for creating and using the most important human-generated resource, i.e., technology (several other nations were quick to follow suit, e.g., Japan, China, etc.).  The resulting American pre-eminence spawned the myth that the United States is an exploiter of the world’s resources.  This view must be changed.  It is true that the United States is the world leader in generating and applying this newest and most powerful of all human-generated resources.  However, this is a positive phenomenon, for using technology provides the only hope for the continued existence and improved way of life of the human race.  The United States can provide leadership to the rest of the world by showing how to use this new resource gainfully.

Doctrine 12—Ownership

How owners generate and use new wealth is very important.

Doctrine 13—Money as Catalyst

As a strategic human-generated resource in a free society, capital is always included in generating new wealth.  By itself, however, “money” does not and cannot generate new wealth.  This is why the Marxist-Leninist ideology despised it.  The followers of this ideology fail to or refuse to recognize that money acts as the most powerful, effective catalyst to coalesce other human and human-generated resources with natural resources to maximize generating new wealth for humanity.

Doctrine 14—Free Market Society

The collective wisdom represented by risk taking, human innovativeness, and human organizations in a free market society is infinitely greater than that of any centrally controlled economic or political system.

Doctrine 15—Rational Thinkers

The world needs rational thinking leaders.  Engineers, scientists, and technologists are trained to think and act rationally.  Hence, along with other representatives of society, they should take a more proactive role in world affairs and aspire to leadership positions in various governmental organizations.

References

Tuba, I. S., Etele, A., & Uda, R. T. (2005). The Third Resource: A Universal Ideology of Economics. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., ISBN 0-595-34450-X, 304 pages.

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