What is a human world?
Co-creating a humancentric future where we all want to live!
A future where our children can thrive, a future where we can achieve the promise of the American Dream, the Human Dream?
As Humans, we are not wired to do it alone, yet our cultural construct tells us that we must be independent and strong… the messaging tells us that it is best not to work with others, being a champion, to make things better. At the same time, we are doing pointless team building exercises and told team work is the way… Yep, we get mixed messages every minute of every day, one of the most destructive is that we are not enough.
So here is a clear message, lets get together and build the future we need, instead of keeping our heads down in our lives of fear and desperation. Together we can solve almost any issue, overcome almost any problem and we can feel great about it along the way. What would that even be like?
This is an invitation to become a part of a human future; to engage, to participate, to connect, to bring your piece of the puzzle, to build the future our children need!
A future where our children can thrive, a future where we can achieve the promise of the American Dream, the Human Dream?
As Humans, we are not wired to do it alone, yet our cultural construct tells us that we must be independent and strong… the messaging tells us that it is best not to work with others, being a champion, to make things better. At the same time, we are doing pointless team building exercises and told team work is the way… Yep, we get mixed messages every minute of every day, one of the most destructive is that we are not enough.
So here is a clear message, lets get together and build the future we need, instead of keeping our heads down in our lives of fear and desperation. Together we can solve almost any issue, overcome almost any problem and we can feel great about it along the way. What would that even be like?
This is an invitation to become a part of a human future; to engage, to participate, to connect, to bring your piece of the puzzle, to build the future our children need!
Laying a foundation
Our future lay on the table like an unfinished jigsaw puzzle, the edges mostly put together, waiting for people to bring their pieces and construct the picture of what our future will become.
Up until now our story has been drawn by the few who continue to profit from the rest of us by manipulating the cultural framework, and controlling our voices and representation. We have failing infrastructure and a planet whose climate is changing every minute. An economy that depends on an ever expanding base of customer and resources... A system that is failing as we watch. One planet, fixed resources.
There are many efforts across our planet working on everything from addressing the symptoms of our toxic culture, racism, inequality, classism, sexism, ageism, etc., to fomenting revolution. These efforts are pushing us toward a tipping point and all the while we are not communicating, not working together, not working toward the human goal.
Before we go plunging into the unknown, having torn down the old, we believe that taking a moment to consider where we want to go is a vital step. Laying a foundation for a human future is critical in preventing us from falling into the same cycles we have been in for thousands of years. All of the steps we have identified in this process are to take the wonderfully diverse input from community to community and lay a foundation on which to build a strong and human future, safeguarding from the turmoil of our past and the unknowns of the future.
Up until now our story has been drawn by the few who continue to profit from the rest of us by manipulating the cultural framework, and controlling our voices and representation. We have failing infrastructure and a planet whose climate is changing every minute. An economy that depends on an ever expanding base of customer and resources... A system that is failing as we watch. One planet, fixed resources.
There are many efforts across our planet working on everything from addressing the symptoms of our toxic culture, racism, inequality, classism, sexism, ageism, etc., to fomenting revolution. These efforts are pushing us toward a tipping point and all the while we are not communicating, not working together, not working toward the human goal.
Before we go plunging into the unknown, having torn down the old, we believe that taking a moment to consider where we want to go is a vital step. Laying a foundation for a human future is critical in preventing us from falling into the same cycles we have been in for thousands of years. All of the steps we have identified in this process are to take the wonderfully diverse input from community to community and lay a foundation on which to build a strong and human future, safeguarding from the turmoil of our past and the unknowns of the future.
A Barn Raising
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An Amish Barn Raising is a perfect metaphor for what working together for the good of the greater community can look like!
Take a few minutes and watch this video from You Tube by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and understand that the way we look at value and time may need some readjusting. Throughout these pages we have talked time and again about our broken social contracts and toxic cultural construct. Time to see how this prevents us from working together for the betterment of all, ourselves and families included. The barn is a metaphor, look beyond it to the possibilities of community driven change! Whether in time of crisis, or in times of comparative calm, building community and resilience will make it better. We are better together. |
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten.” ~Jessie Potter
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Beau said it better than we ever could!
It is time to make choices, it is time to come together, it is time to become champions of our world, our humanity, our future! Are you up to the challenge? |
Beau of the Fifth Column has in no way endorsed this project, or Resilient Ecosystems in any way. We do not mean to imply that there is by sharing this, only that the information is relevant.
a future worth building together!
We need solutions, we need them now and we need them in almost every category we can conceive!
Our infrastructure is failing, this should be no surprise to anyone. The electrical grid has not been updated since it's inception in the 1960's, the deregulation of power launched for profit utilities whose goal is shareholder profit, not providing efficient service. Water, transportation, communication, are all based on technology from the past century. Innovation and updating is expensive and has a negative impact on shareholder earnings. Local governments have far fewer resources than in the past and poverty is growing at exponential rates, forcing them to look to the cheapest available solution, not the best. At this point, it is becoming clear that centralization has profound weaknesses, from distances transported to putting all of our eggs (so to speak) in one basket, to the commercialization and commoditization of food, water, power etc. This does not speak to the industrialization of organic processes like food production, where monoculture and chemically augmented growth has put both nutritional value and soil health at risk. Our future looks a lot like dominos cascading in really challenging ways and it is up to us to step in, show up and bring our pieces to the puzzle of our human future.
This means that we the people need to come together and create the future that we need, and that is the challenge!
This is your invitation to step up and become part of creating the human future we need going forward!
We are the Grassroots Community Resilience Movement!
Our infrastructure is failing, this should be no surprise to anyone. The electrical grid has not been updated since it's inception in the 1960's, the deregulation of power launched for profit utilities whose goal is shareholder profit, not providing efficient service. Water, transportation, communication, are all based on technology from the past century. Innovation and updating is expensive and has a negative impact on shareholder earnings. Local governments have far fewer resources than in the past and poverty is growing at exponential rates, forcing them to look to the cheapest available solution, not the best. At this point, it is becoming clear that centralization has profound weaknesses, from distances transported to putting all of our eggs (so to speak) in one basket, to the commercialization and commoditization of food, water, power etc. This does not speak to the industrialization of organic processes like food production, where monoculture and chemically augmented growth has put both nutritional value and soil health at risk. Our future looks a lot like dominos cascading in really challenging ways and it is up to us to step in, show up and bring our pieces to the puzzle of our human future.
This means that we the people need to come together and create the future that we need, and that is the challenge!
This is your invitation to step up and become part of creating the human future we need going forward!
We are the Grassroots Community Resilience Movement!
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." ~Albert Einstein
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At the core, humans have some very specific needs. Those needs are not being very well served in this culture, people are hungry, homeless, unemployed, and it is not getting better.
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Our infrastructure is outdated, collapsing and no longer serves our needs of today, let alone our future. We have technologies today that would exponentially improve performance and ease expansion.
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We need a new social contract, one where we live together in humanity! We need people who are more knowledgeable than us to bring those pieces to this jigsaw puzzle.
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