"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in." ~MLK
Section PSA
The problems we have listed here are in no way a complete list, they are the ones we have researched having to do with direct human need. These are not new problems and are reflective of an ongoing degradation of our social contracts and our focus on profit over humanity. If you cannot look at this without an awareness of the continuing failure of our culture to support our humanity, feel free to not read this section.
American Society of Civil Engineers
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The ASCE evaluates the state of America's infrastructure in 17 categories, applying a school report card style A-F grading system. The report card also includes recommendations to raise the grades. You can look at each state independently as well, just click the ASCE Logo, or the link below to go directly to the Report Card webpage.
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A Failure to Care
The most meaningful failure is the failure to care. The system is failing us and “we” need to realize that.
Not that we are uncaring. We are programmed to respond in an uncaring manner based on the status of those needing care. Worse are the systems that are in place to address our growing needs, where funding, procedure, process and bureaucracy are layered with reasons that people cannot be assisted. This also goes for our outdated infrastructure, which is putting our lives at risk.
We are all labelled, sorted by economic viability, education, social status, skin color, age, and a million other variables, all leading to us being lifted or othered, to being kicked down upon. There are a million ways that we all get judged and separated, all coming down to our worth to the societal system that we all respond to. Some of us are not as affected by this, or are affected in different ways at different levels, allowing us to see the failure of a system that does not meet our basic humanity at any point.
If you think of our cultural/societal framework, you can see how it could resemble a machine controlled by an organic artificial intelligence, in which we are all just parts of the machine and processor. If you think of our experience in this way, things begin to make more sense. The end result is a failure to care, the results of constant messaging (programming) over our entire lives. This had been going on for centuries, refining over time until the ‘information age’ created the means for it to expand more rapidly than the system could support. This is why so many things in the past 70 years have become obvious failures in the structure.
We will leave it here with the following thought, ‘Why is profit more important than our Humanity?’
Not that we are uncaring. We are programmed to respond in an uncaring manner based on the status of those needing care. Worse are the systems that are in place to address our growing needs, where funding, procedure, process and bureaucracy are layered with reasons that people cannot be assisted. This also goes for our outdated infrastructure, which is putting our lives at risk.
We are all labelled, sorted by economic viability, education, social status, skin color, age, and a million other variables, all leading to us being lifted or othered, to being kicked down upon. There are a million ways that we all get judged and separated, all coming down to our worth to the societal system that we all respond to. Some of us are not as affected by this, or are affected in different ways at different levels, allowing us to see the failure of a system that does not meet our basic humanity at any point.
If you think of our cultural/societal framework, you can see how it could resemble a machine controlled by an organic artificial intelligence, in which we are all just parts of the machine and processor. If you think of our experience in this way, things begin to make more sense. The end result is a failure to care, the results of constant messaging (programming) over our entire lives. This had been going on for centuries, refining over time until the ‘information age’ created the means for it to expand more rapidly than the system could support. This is why so many things in the past 70 years have become obvious failures in the structure.
We will leave it here with the following thought, ‘Why is profit more important than our Humanity?’
KEY ISSUES... THE BEGINNING
We are, ever so slowly, killing ourselves. We are doing this because our cultural indoctrination does not have the survival of our species as a priority. We are striving for the wrong things, at some level we all know this, and it is past time to start addressing these issues and the multitude of other issues that stem from our failed social contract that puts wealth generation above human survival. Part of the puzzle inherent in the resilient community process is engaging people who can innovate, people who can drive adoption, people who can address policy, and people who can engage people in an education process. Here is a starting point for understanding this process.
THE ONE ISSUE THAT SUPERCEDES ALL OTHERS!
The current level of disengagement in the United States is at an all time high! Congratulations, our system of education has been wildly successful at breaking the bonds of family and community... It manages to accomplish this while providing almost no learning, and it takes a species with a core curiosity and drive to discover and turns them into unquestioning workers that need to be distracted by a box with a screen to get through the day. Of course, it is not our schools alone that have managed this, but every aspect of our toxic culture and broken social contract. Corporations have their part, what is left of family has theirs, media and messaging theirs, and of course social media and religion. We teach people from the time they can walk to believe that someone has the answer and they do not need to be bothered with it. We provide tasks to be performed that essentially dumbs them down and strangles their curiosity and creativity. We set them on a treadmill with promises of a good life and they end up with mountains of debt, and piles of broken promises. We sell them illusion and lie to them at every opportunity, all for the profit of the few. Welcome to a world with humans facing extinction at the end of a failed social experiment.
How do we overcome this issue? One person at a time... Not all of us are successfully indoctrinated in this process, about 20 to 30% are free of most of it, unfortunately they don't wear signs to identify them. The good news is that a tipping point can be reached with around 15%, we just need to keep reaching out until we find them. Back to the things we can address more easily.
Challenges to our humanity
Interconnection
Nothing stands alone, everything is interdependent, that is a fact. What happens if we lose power? No internet, no refrigeration, no cell service... with no water, you have no food, your car does not run, your waste does not flush, you do not survive long. Everything is linked, even though we see it as separate, each is a domino that can cause a cascade of failures. It is time we looked at the whole system and addressed it with an eye to our needs today and tomorrow
Nothing stands alone, everything is interdependent, that is a fact. What happens if we lose power? No internet, no refrigeration, no cell service... with no water, you have no food, your car does not run, your waste does not flush, you do not survive long. Everything is linked, even though we see it as separate, each is a domino that can cause a cascade of failures. It is time we looked at the whole system and addressed it with an eye to our needs today and tomorrow
Infrastructure
There are answers out there, but not enough. We need to find more and we need to be inventive, persistent and committed to create them, to find them, and get them adopted. We need to rethink our approach, together, and reprioritize our humanity over the profits of the few. This is the real battle we face, not one of blood and ash, but of creation, persistence, and change.
The links below will take you to pages exploring the need and the challenges we will face to create a future worth living in.
There are answers out there, but not enough. We need to find more and we need to be inventive, persistent and committed to create them, to find them, and get them adopted. We need to rethink our approach, together, and reprioritize our humanity over the profits of the few. This is the real battle we face, not one of blood and ash, but of creation, persistence, and change.
The links below will take you to pages exploring the need and the challenges we will face to create a future worth living in.
If you are still with us, follow the links below.
Food
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Water
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Power
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Shelter
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Connection
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