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.
The Short List, A Beginning
We acknowledge that we do not know what we do not know, how can we? That is the beauty of the puzzle metaphor, everyone has a piece.
Infrastructure
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Developing Human Resources
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Getting Change Adopted
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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. More importantly, we have elements that could be game changing. All that is needed is innovation. Find ways to make out lives better and our infrastructure secure.
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"We the People", the first three words of the Constitution of the United States, is the key to getting the future we need to not only survive, but to thrive. What is needed is influencers, educators, and story tellers. We need to raise questions, empower people, and bring us all together. We need to find the commonality of our humanity and embrace it.
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We have innovation, we have the will of the people, now we need to get through the hurdles of bureaucracy in order to make it all happen. We need those whose minds can navigate the maze of policy, procedure, and make the case for adoption.
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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
America's Infrastructure Scores a...
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
America's Infrastructure Scores a...
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.
Dominos and Dots
The following pages include a section titled Dominos and Dots, these are news articles and studies showing the cascading issues that we often see as one-offs, and ignore. Falling Dominos are cascading in complex patterns while we live our lives. Here we attempt to connect those dots so you can see the extent of the problems we face and the urgent need for solutions.
