We seem to have fully accessible potential to improve everything about our experience in this world.
I think collective can mean a lot more than what history shows us. Like other topics, there is a good variety and a bad one.
“It seems to me so fundamental that the challenges we face in the future are so unpredictable, so unforeseeable, that we have to invest in our creative power. And that’s not whimsical, it’s a hard headed attitude.” “It is through feelings as well as through reason that we find our real creative power, it is through both that we connect with each other and create the complex shifting worlds of human culture.”
My theory is that if we put concepts that Sir Ken Robinson and others describe into action life would be easier instead of harder.
If weaknesses in leadership, hierarchy, division of labor or any related intent is threatening our world it is the same weakness that led civilizations to war for several millennia. (2) A manipulation that has been going on so long that it is not acknowledged by anyone (We are all born with it)
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A competing economic ideology may be part of an answer but it also depends on the individual to become active....
In the ideology I advocate it seems that an individual worker would be more encouraged to own his activity rather than any location or commodity.
An example of change is to turn work around so we are doing it by choice instead of by necessity.
I would like to find out if I would be able to get some conversations going about a vast array of topics that I don't know how to separate or they already are separated more than what seems healthy to me and I naturally want to think of them in whole concepts to the extent that each of them are affected by other related topics.
My personal goal is to arrange for an allowance of better consciousness and personal growth using entrepreneur type activities and attitudes, employment and monetary arrangements and to re-develop a life style for more natural tendencies to flourish all with a group of at least 8 people who also want to do the same.
Five basic environments are important, employment, education, spirituality, social and residential but right now work (employment and other work of daily life) is what takes up most of my time.
To the extent that our systems and arrangements are based on nature we may be more successful long term. To the extent that they are based on man’s ideas, or from a few men, detached from nature, our natural systems for coming together to make life easier and better are in decay and last only as long as the choices of the people are more healthy than detached. This detachment makes choices and affects hard to interpret.
Until we learn to model our systems and arrangements after nature we won’t be able to interpret how to handle ourselves about change. Systems can be based on nature while the arrangements of men are more often based on the desires of men such as avoiding labor or gaining wealth (which may originate with avoiding labor). Systems in nature are more likely to already exist though we have to recognize them and convert them into activity. The most basic concept to copy is moving product instead of starting with the complicated topic of hierarchy.
Introductory questions: What came first, ignoring ourselves about avoiding labor or money or abundant abuses in hierarchy?
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Would you be interested in participating in a study or work group if you were a labor worker?
...or even if I'm just a theoretical labor worker? Sure!Wow, somebody else feels the same as me. I think about this stuff too, and realize that much needs to change. There is a vision of the future where people work (labor and manage resources) around the house/property to generate the basic value that makes their life worthwhile. Value is generated by building a healthy citizen, healthy environment, and healthy economy.
If a person can find more productive (and rewarding) work (in the free market), then they are free to pursue that either as a supplement or a substitute for the basic "property management" labor opportunities around the home.
In other words, people could be paid a minimum living wage for taking care of themselves and their home/property. There are many technicalities that need to be accounted for to develop true value for such work, but there are "sustainability" jobs that need doing--and these can be distributed around to individual homes. [...worth a topic in itself!]
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I organize the problems based on a mnemonic "the 4 E's" which cover Economy, Education, Energy, and Environment (+ Health Care). The whole idea is to find single solutions that solve multiple problems. Too often we tackle single problems by choosing a single "best" solution, but we fail to realize that the selected "best" solution often makes other problems worse.
Health (+ Health Care) is the perspective through which solutions need to be evaluated, as we determine if they solve multiple problems (and don't promote or exacerbate other problems). Finding solutions that synergize to promote healthier individuals, healthier socio-economic development, and healthier local and regional and global environments is a goal that generates the most value over the long term.
Creating value is our task. I develop small presentations to inform people about some of the basic issues, so that they will be better prepared as change becomes inevitable. Here is one of my favorite quotes (and some slides follow):
"We recognize that ultimately the transition to ecologically sound, sustainable food production systems that meet human needs will be complex and will require fundamental changes in cultural values and human societies as well as the application of ecological knowledge to agricultural management."
--p.148
The Rhizosphere [2007] As you say, this covers a "vast array of topics that I don't know how to separate or they already are separated more than what seems healthy;" so where do we start? Sustainability issues come to mind if we are to think about maintaining civilization and not just some remnants on our species.
Doubling food production and solving the Millennium Development Goals would be a good start. Are you familiar with these issues? What about the gross distortion to the relative ratios of the various economic sectors that make up GDP? Addressing that first point needs to bring those ratios back to a sustainable mix also!
Pick a starting point and we can see how much reality and civilization need realignment and readjustment. It is a great opportunity for economic development and wealth creation, so tell me if this sounds worth pursuing.
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...yes, I imagine the hierarchy comes first; which then allows for the ignorance.
Localization ...for global coordination, seems to be a solution for that problem. Now that we have Information and Communication Technology, we can
be very local, act locally, and yet coordinate on a regional national or global level!
...and you write well; much too well for most people to read quickly or casually, unfortunately. To help, try adding a bit more white space (paragraphs or separators, of emoticons to indicate flow or importance), or whatever seems appropriate;
but not too much! Good going, teachers! We should try to make those investments pay off as much as possible, imho. You've got some good, seemingly sound, ideas and perspectives; and are motivated to express them, so go for it!
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But "in my humble opinion" (imho) doesn't matter, it seems to me (istm), so let me know the same. Does this make sense? Do we have the makings of a new "think tank" here?
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