We are a Seafaring Nation. The British Empire was an Ocean Empire constructed in a Sea Ocean World. The entire pattern of the world’s cities and their positionings grew out of the commerce and communication flows of the Water Ocean World.

Whoever commanded the unsinkable ships (islands) commanding the mouths of the local bays, harbours, estuaries, channels and passages, and commanded the islands and capes which governed the entrance to the Seven Seas governed the world.

The entrance to the Seven Seas was understood only by the Creators of the British Empire and they built their empire on this knowledge. The great one Water Ocean World pattern was unseen by world people. It was and is in fact one ocean with one central island - Antarctica - clockwise around which ever races west-to-eastbound the winds and waters.

This gigantic merry-go-round - called the roaring forties…entered into at Forty Degrees South Latitude…is known as the Southern Hemisphere’s Jet Stream area. Ships out of the Atlantic, Indian or Pacific Oceans were swiftly borne west-east by the merry-go-round to choose their re-entries into those oceans and their local lands.

The Real World that we have inherited is not the One World of Tomorrow which new emperors will doubtless construct upon the new Air Ocean World centred upon the North Pole, around which counter-clockwise west-to-eastward races the Northern Hemisphere’s Jet Stream at 200 to 400 miles per hour, but upon the interactions of this emerging Air Ocean World with the traditional established patterns of the Old Water Ocean World. The Water Ocean World has established the fundamental pattern of Today’s World Cities.

Water Trails represented the shortest distances between otherwise remote lands and peoples. Water routes represented the most economical lines of communication. Long distance communication consisted of written or face to face transmission…most swiftly completed by water. The tonnage commerce of inorganic and organic world resources could only be accomplished in Water-Borne Vessels. Only token commerce and slow messages could take place on the backs of men or animals travelling the long way…via the plains and mountains around the headwaters.

Centuries ago the masters of the unsinkable British Isles established fortified bases at the southern extremities off South America, South Africa and Austral-Asia and with the unpeopled Antarctica at their back they came from the south upon the soft-bellies of the essentially northern hemisphere dwelling people. It was the Masters of the British Isles who held secret and commanded until World War One this WaterOcean World.

But many other peoples were quick to follow along behind the Merchant Venturers from these islands. And wherever they went trade followed and great sea-faring cities grew up on the shores of the oceans. To these cities flocked all the most enterprising elements from all the peoples in the sparsely populated Land World of the time.

The Greatest Cities were those where Freedom and Tolerance won the day…often only after a bitter struggle from the entrenched land owners descended from the earlier arrivals. The Great Liberal Cities became Confederations of Tribes and each World Tribe eventually remembered its cultural roots and as these pioneers in the New Lands and the New Cities opened up by the Water Ocean Routes of the Imperial Traders grew ever more prosperous so their children and their children’s children reconnected with the families and the communities they left behind.

Twenty years ago I wrote that the Nation of Tomorrow is the Circle of your Friends but these are no longer the people in your own town or the girl on your block. Your friends are likely to be your family and likely to be friends of your family. They will be friends you met first locally in your school and then friends that you made at some other place around your local ocean where you travelled or went to college.

Webs of personal, family, ethnic and religious bonds were weaved across the Earth’s oceans…between the Old Communities in the Old Land World and the New Pioneer Townships and Cities Dwellers in the New World growing up apace at the end of the Water Ocean Trade Routes.

This is the pattern of the Real World we inhabit today. It is a series of Water Ocean Worlds around each of which are clustered great cities with their own Diversity of Tribal Community and their own particular pattern of political power which enables that diversity to be welded into a Unity.