Two BIG projects that need your help are ...
1) Addressing the Human Dilemma ... How can we (just us-global) facilitate all of us to turn humanity around from our current self-destructive path ... so we can survive and thrive in a new paradigm of wise stewardship of the biosphere. Please support the ToBe Project .
2) Stopping America's slide to autocracy quickly ... How can we (just us-- national) facilitate all the people to address and solve Monsters like the rise of autocracy, reestablish and improve the Democratic Republic, and establish a new system of Wise Democracy? Please support the Wise Democracy Project.
2) Stopping America's slide to autocracy quickly ... How can we (just us-- national) facilitate all the people to address and solve Monsters like the rise of autocracy, reestablish and improve the Democratic Republic, and establish a new system of Wise Democracy? Please support the Wise Democracy Project.
Please support the Center for Wise Democracy ...
We need to keep developing these social innovations and supporting people in applying them. We need your help to do this.
Here're a few ways you can help
#1 ... Stop listening to words of experts who deny your creative capacity.
When experts say "There are no easy answers." or "There is no silver bullet", or basically "there will never be a creative breakthrough" ... don't go there! Even the Serenity Prayer starts out, "God give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change." Think again. ... OK maybe 95% of the time this attitude of "I can't solve impossible-to-solve problems" is helpful. But notice, everything around you was once an impossible-to-solve problem. It is part of nature to solve impossible-to-solve issues. We are offering one of those Breakthroughs that people have already discounted. Don't get sucked in. Yes, these projects really can accomplish what most people think is impossible. It's OK that you "get it" and they don't yet. But you can help them.
#2 ... Recognize that the BIG IMPOSSIBLE problems you care about are likely caused by "The System"
Our System structures a pursuit of self-interest, competition and exponential growth and blinds us to accomplishing miracles. Newsflash! Corporate profits are not the ultimate value in life, but we are stuck in a System serving values that will trash the planet. So, look favorably on all the good things people are doing within the System to address climate change, etc. But know that we can't really solve this issue (or the others) until we transform our System.
#3 ... Note that normal solutions are not enough. Society's Breakthrough MUST HAPPEN!
It's as though all of us are on the deck of the Titanic addressing pressing problems like homelessness, prejudice, inequities, malware, etc. with love and compassion for our fellow humans and the planet. Of course, "Make the world a better place," is good. But increasingly we must notice that the ship is heading inexorably toward an iceberg. We can no longer rely on the design of our System (i.e. the "invisible hand") to protect us from Monster Problems like climate change, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, etc. We can no longer "pursue our happiness" as good people and assume the deck we are standing on is safe. Society's Breakthrough offers a way to get off the ship and into real life. When someone seems depressed or hopeless about the dissolution of human society, hopefully you can share this perspective with them. Refer them to ... www.WiseDemocracy.org.
#4 ... Recognize that a natural reaction to any BREAKTHROUGH is to resist it.
Although this System-transforming strategy has NO identifiable downside. And offers IMMENSE benefits. It's normal that people's first reaction is to seek out flaws, resist it, and dismiss it. Just listening to a System-transforming strategy can FEEL like a death threat. ... But over the past 30 plus years of bringing this strategy forward these normal resistive reactions are lessening. More people are realizing that our System isn't working like it should and reacting with curiosity. ... Please, let's help these people, especially philanthropists, who are open to a breakthrough strategy for addressing the climate crisis, the loss of democracy and other Monster Problems.
#5 ... Stay curious as you investigate this "Holution"
Another common response to the ToBe Project is to meet the idea with critical thinking rather than curiosity. We've been taught to look for the fatal flaw. So this feels like a good response. But not for a Breakthrough. First comes curiosity, "Hey, can this really work!!?" .... Then critical thinking is helpful. "What about X? what about Y?" ... Please seek to understand more deeply that this really works. And practice building your own understanding by telling others. See the free 5-part seminar "Essential Wisdom for solving society's biggest issues:"
#6 ... Sign up to be one of 'Just Us'?" ...
One big advantage of Society's Breakthrough (i.e. the ToBe Project and the Wise Democracy Project), is it's a facilitative approach, a holistic model for how society can be transformed. We don't need to have the powerful authorities behind us to begin, nor do we need lots of people. If you and I understand the nature of choice-creating and Dynamic Facilitation, we can convene the essential missing "We the People" conversation. We do need a small number of people to understand that this can work and must be done, a few millions of dollars and a few media partnerships. Check to see if you are one of "Just us—global version" or "Just Us—U.S. version" and sign up.
#7 ... Help in your unique way
If you are reacting to this, like we think you should ... i.e. "THIS MUST HAPPEN!" ... please help. Sign up. Hopefully soon we'll tell you about weekly zoom calls. Or maybe you can help us set these up or create your own, or contact people who express interest, or help rework this website, or write to media about this approach, or help us gain the attention of philanthropists, or climate experts, or politicians, or high school students. Heck, we should be talking to the people who are afraid about what's really going. Heck this is really good news!!