Do you want to help spark the necessary deep change in society? ... Most people consider only normal solution strategies, like top-down, or bottom-up approaches ... e.g. demonstrating in the streets, teaching mindfulness, new technologies, etc. At best these can only improve the existing System. But this System is causing the problems in the first place. The ToBe Project is how we, just us, can facilitate the necessary transformation of our global System and the re-solving of today's impossible-seeming existential issues.
Are you one of "just us"? ...
1. Are you concerned that our civilization is threatened by Monster Issues?
We are facing existential, impossible-seeming issues at the global and national levels. These Monsters include:
2. As these Monsters seem impossible-to-solve, are you concerned our civilization is collapsing?
Electing new leaders and enacting new policies is not going to solve the Monsters. Nor will the free market. In fact, all the "solution" options our System provides can't make the needed difference ... e.g. education, changing the culture, raising consciousness, new technologies, establishing new types of organizations, demonstrating in the streets, changing our consumer habits, adopting a new religipm, teaching holistic thinking, changing the rules of corporate governance, etc. These could all be helpful. But they don't address the ultimate cause. (See “To solve climate change We need to … WAIT! … Who is 'We'?")
3. Do you recognize that our System is the ultimate cause for this Human Predicament?
Our current System (i.e. capitalism and what we call "democracy") is designed for a situation where we are in-dependent actors in a fair competition. We are structured with a set of "rules of the game," like laws, treaties and constitutions. Basically, our System assumes a competition of special interests, that each of us seeking what's best for ourselves will automatically generate collectively intelligent results. But today the results approximate collective stupidity as we trash the planet upon which we depend.
4. Do you recognize that there is a simple way out of this mess? ... to facilitate the missing collective thinking process?
The ToBe Project is a set of 8 steps by which we (just us) can facilitate all the people to face the Monsters creatively together; impact each Monster intelligently and in the process transform our underlying System to be a "Wise Democracy." These steps facilitate all of us to think together as "We the People" as an ongoing process. This creates a new ultimate authority to our System, where "We" can establish a global constitution for example. These 8 steps also elevate the level of people's understanding, reshape the story of who we are, help people appreciate diversity, raise individual consciousness, etc.
5. Can you see that we (i.e. just us) can set this in motion?
6. Are you saying to yourself "YIKES! This must happen!"?
We are facing existential, impossible-seeming issues at the global and national levels. These Monsters include:
- global examples: climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, L-shaped distribution of wealth …
- national examples: authoritarian threats to democracy, partisan gridlock, money dominating politics, L-shaped distribution of wealth ...
2. As these Monsters seem impossible-to-solve, are you concerned our civilization is collapsing?
Electing new leaders and enacting new policies is not going to solve the Monsters. Nor will the free market. In fact, all the "solution" options our System provides can't make the needed difference ... e.g. education, changing the culture, raising consciousness, new technologies, establishing new types of organizations, demonstrating in the streets, changing our consumer habits, adopting a new religipm, teaching holistic thinking, changing the rules of corporate governance, etc. These could all be helpful. But they don't address the ultimate cause. (See “To solve climate change We need to … WAIT! … Who is 'We'?")
3. Do you recognize that our System is the ultimate cause for this Human Predicament?
Our current System (i.e. capitalism and what we call "democracy") is designed for a situation where we are in-dependent actors in a fair competition. We are structured with a set of "rules of the game," like laws, treaties and constitutions. Basically, our System assumes a competition of special interests, that each of us seeking what's best for ourselves will automatically generate collectively intelligent results. But today the results approximate collective stupidity as we trash the planet upon which we depend.
4. Do you recognize that there is a simple way out of this mess? ... to facilitate the missing collective thinking process?
The ToBe Project is a set of 8 steps by which we (just us) can facilitate all the people to face the Monsters creatively together; impact each Monster intelligently and in the process transform our underlying System to be a "Wise Democracy." These steps facilitate all of us to think together as "We the People" as an ongoing process. This creates a new ultimate authority to our System, where "We" can establish a global constitution for example. These 8 steps also elevate the level of people's understanding, reshape the story of who we are, help people appreciate diversity, raise individual consciousness, etc.
5. Can you see that we (i.e. just us) can set this in motion?
- We can start the process by identifying a first issue and gathering a first "Wisdom Council" of randomly selected people; by Dynamically Facilitating them to reach unity, and by organizing them to present their conclusions in a new kind of global ceremony; and then to repeat the process regularly.
- Notice, we need money and media help, but in large measure we don't need anyone's permission. We can just begin the conversation and invite people to get involved at their own pace. Plus, as each new crisis arises —like the Covid 19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, or the next climate disaster—people will seek out this new meaningful conversation where "We the People" reach shared conclusions.
- Also note: All these steps are already proven to work at large scale!!
- Each step is a benefit to society, without much cost or risk.
6. Are you saying to yourself "YIKES! This must happen!"?