How well is our socio-political-economic system doing?
Does it ...
Does it ...
- Facilitate us toward collective wisdom … or collective stupidity?
- Distribute wealth fairly … or in an L-curve, where a very few have most of the resources?
- Help us achieve peace … or promote war?
- Help us responsibly manage our planet's resources … or trash the planet?
- Evoke the best from our people … or subvert their creative passion to commercial ends?
- Promote individual freedom … or encourage ever more government and corporate intrusion and coercion?
- Involve all of us in addressing the big issues in society … or just the elite? ... or are we just on auto--pilot?
- Promote spirituality, community, family and human values … or winning commodities in a money-based competition?
Let’s face it ... our system is performing horribly. Yet despite this, people commonly assume our system is the best that's possible. They hold onto this idea hoping that education, different laws, eliminating the terrorists, electing new leaders, or more radical steps like creating a new political party or seceding from the union will make the needed difference. Others speak hopefully of an upcoming collapse in society, presuming this will allow an opportunity ... finally ... for deep systemic change. But none of these different schemas for saving society can provide what's needed. They are all contained by the existing System of Thinking that is structured into place.
So what to do? ... What’s needed is for all the people to regularly come together in a "We the People” conversation, where We face our most pressing issues and co-create intelligent choices that everyone supports. Not only does this provide for solving each problem but it also provides for transforming our System so it no longer creates these problems. ... Achieving this new conversation probably doesn't sound possible to achieve. It is but it requires certain understandings by a small group of people ahead of time: See "Essential Wisdom for Solving Society's Biggest Problems".
One strategy is for us to independently convene a global Wisdom Council on issues like climate change. And a national Wisdom Council on issues like “Institutional Racism” or “Healing the Partisan Divide.” Other Wisdom Councils can be applied at the state-level, like education or restructuring taxes.
Below is a recent talk (27.5 min) by Jim Rough to retirees of Simpson Timber Co. on “Step Back! So 'We the People' can solve society’s problems“, Sept 12, 2017
So what to do? ... What’s needed is for all the people to regularly come together in a "We the People” conversation, where We face our most pressing issues and co-create intelligent choices that everyone supports. Not only does this provide for solving each problem but it also provides for transforming our System so it no longer creates these problems. ... Achieving this new conversation probably doesn't sound possible to achieve. It is but it requires certain understandings by a small group of people ahead of time: See "Essential Wisdom for Solving Society's Biggest Problems".
One strategy is for us to independently convene a global Wisdom Council on issues like climate change. And a national Wisdom Council on issues like “Institutional Racism” or “Healing the Partisan Divide.” Other Wisdom Councils can be applied at the state-level, like education or restructuring taxes.
Below is a recent talk (27.5 min) by Jim Rough to retirees of Simpson Timber Co. on “Step Back! So 'We the People' can solve society’s problems“, Sept 12, 2017
Also here is a 7 min video describing how activists in the UK might act to establish a national constitution:
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