We the people
Every solution presented here is a proven, and available technology. The reasons we are not seeing them implemented and our lives made better and safer is unregulated and unmanaged capitalism. Every solution here will require the will of the people to drive into adoption, a grassroots movement that provides consistent pressure, education, inclusion, and expansion. The truth is that until we can come together and create a better solution than capitalism, we need to use the tools provided in a way that drives change. This does not mean that we should not work to find a better way, it means that the movement mentioned above creates a market driver that creates change.
A Conundrum on globalization and localization
Black and white are concepts of a construct designed to keep people at odds to better control the outcome. Good or bad, right or wrong, there are many shades between such two dimensional thinking. On and off thinking works for computer programming, but is limiting for human consciousness and creativity. Finding a solution that works needs a tool beyond the two dimensional approach that our cultural construct drives into us since before we begin to talk. On such issues, this has time and again become a hot button for divisive politics. Igniting a political base over Globalization vs. Localization; it is never either or, but both. Whenever someone or some group is selling isolationism or rabid globalization, look very closely at what they are getting out of it, because there is almost always a profit motive. Mostly, the issues are around who and how we approach globalization and localization is more a myth (delusion) or talking points than anyone's reality. It mostly comes down to money, and not human need. This is an issue that needs close scrutiny and a great deal of work, and soon.
Interconnected
We cannot go back, that is the simple truth, so we need to find a way forward together that meets the needs of our humanity. Why? Because we are all interconnected, how can we not be? We live on one planet, which we are depleting at rates that are found only in dystopian science fiction books. We are facing extinction as a species this century, all for the short term profits of the few. How are we interconnected? Here is the punchline... when the systems fails us, we all go down together. No bunker, no island, no place on earth will be unaffected, and in 400 years there will be no sign left that we even existed. We destroy the soil due to factory farming and nobody has food. We fowl and overuse the water for developing the desert, nobody has clean water. We deplete the resources and continue to create mountains of trash and we have nothing to build with. Moving our trash around to other country's does not deal with it even if we call it recycling, burying it in somewhere else does not make it go away and not looking at it as a resource to be reutilized is just plain stupid for our species. Bottom line, we fix this together, or we end together, that is as interconnected as it gets.
We cannot go back, that is the simple truth, so we need to find a way forward together that meets the needs of our humanity. Why? Because we are all interconnected, how can we not be? We live on one planet, which we are depleting at rates that are found only in dystopian science fiction books. We are facing extinction as a species this century, all for the short term profits of the few. How are we interconnected? Here is the punchline... when the systems fails us, we all go down together. No bunker, no island, no place on earth will be unaffected, and in 400 years there will be no sign left that we even existed. We destroy the soil due to factory farming and nobody has food. We fowl and overuse the water for developing the desert, nobody has clean water. We deplete the resources and continue to create mountains of trash and we have nothing to build with. Moving our trash around to other country's does not deal with it even if we call it recycling, burying it in somewhere else does not make it go away and not looking at it as a resource to be reutilized is just plain stupid for our species. Bottom line, we fix this together, or we end together, that is as interconnected as it gets.
Some things need to be localized
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- The average produce you get at the grocer travels 900 miles.
- Climate change is affecting regions that have traditionally been agriculture centric via extreme weather and flooding.
- Water is at risk in many areas due to overmining or pollution.
- Power generation is centralized due to investment in generation facilities, preventing adoption of cleaner, more secure local microgrids and renewable application.
- Communication and internet connectivity is managed by monopolized markets, multinational providers and barley managed, in the ground infrastructure that is both costly and limiting.
- Homelessness is on the rise and is one of the largest signifiers of our continuing collapse of human connection. The solutions will need to be developed locally due to the lack of political or corporate will and resources.
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project based solutions
The Puzzle analogy
Throughout these pages we have referred to the "Jigsaw Puzzle" in which you are a piece. It is the best metaphor we have found to help you visualize the process of coming together. You own a piece of the puzzle whether you know it, or acknowledge it, or not, the question is will you find the will to bring it to the table? Representative means that you have a voice and must use it! That voice is based on your life experiences, your life in total, nobody else has your perspective, they can't. Which means that unless you come to the table, the picture the puzzle creates will not represent you and will therefore be incomplete. Your interacting with others creates a synergy that lets us all see things we could not otherwise see. This is how we create a human future. So, in the immortal words of James Brown, 'Get up offa that thing', and bring your piece to the puzzle!
grassroots political action
The carrot and the stick is a metaphor for our toxic culture. It permeates all levels of interaction with the single concept that somebody wins and somebody loses and the winner gets to set the consequences. It is how our government functions, our business', our relationships, and our religions. We can hear you thinking about how this cannot be right, though in more base words. You only need a little distance and some greater perspective to see that we are not wrong.
Is this how humans are supposed to be? That is a broader question than we can address here. Suffice it to say that we are this way now, but that we were not always this way, and we cannot continue as we are going into the future. How does that work? We are still working on that, we need more pieces to the puzzle do come join us and bring your piece.
What we do know is that we do not need to change the system of government we have, we need to fix the things that are broken and we can only do that together.
Here are some ideas we have that can work if we approach it together!
Is this how humans are supposed to be? That is a broader question than we can address here. Suffice it to say that we are this way now, but that we were not always this way, and we cannot continue as we are going into the future. How does that work? We are still working on that, we need more pieces to the puzzle do come join us and bring your piece.
What we do know is that we do not need to change the system of government we have, we need to fix the things that are broken and we can only do that together.
Here are some ideas we have that can work if we approach it together!
humanism, not socialism
This is a core message that we can deliver and use to lay the foundation of change. A simple rewording to remove the political stigma of socialism by replacing it with what it is "humanism", caring for all humans.
Fixing Politics and Representation
- Complete overturn of Citizens United
- Term limits on the Supreme Court, with impeachment process for bias ruling
- Dark money out of politics, complete transparency
- End professional politics and life benefits, elected officials must come from the working class to fully represent the people
- All benefit packages are to be voted on by the public
- Close all back doors and end lobbying
Referendums and ammendments
Tools to get to a government that is transparent and can recover the trust of the people.
Build grassroots networks based on human commonality, looking at the "human" need, talk, decide, set priorities, create a clear message, work together to solve local issues. As the networks grow and work together, most projects will have significant commonalities and push to fix state and then federal issues. This can eventually be used to create Constitutional Amendments, making laws to protect our humanity.
Build grassroots networks based on human commonality, looking at the "human" need, talk, decide, set priorities, create a clear message, work together to solve local issues. As the networks grow and work together, most projects will have significant commonalities and push to fix state and then federal issues. This can eventually be used to create Constitutional Amendments, making laws to protect our humanity.
Regulation and paying an equitable share
While the goal is to fix politics and government, it will take many steps and constant pressure to accomplish. That said, many goals can be achived in part while the larger goal is in mind.
Human Rights
UBI, shelter, food, water, healthcare, education. Medical rights, equal treatment, rehabilitation not incarceration, social services for all. Jobs for all, income equality act, people over investment. Climate protection. Basically putting human rights as a priority.
Department of Education
Education must be raised to the foundation and rebuilt for skills and knowledge base. All education is at no cost to the public and must provide a full range of learning from agriculture to engineering and the sciences. The more diverse the education, the more informed the student, the better our whole society thrives. The Department of Education will also be tasked with educating the public with PSA (Public Service Announcement) on critical and needed understanding on issues like climate, food security, poverty, etc.
FCC and the Media
Truth in media, funding of non-corporate journalism, regulation of all media outlets requiring truth and fact checking to be called news or journalism. Review of corporate owned journalism for bias of reporting with stiff penalties. Return of "real" free press in the United States. The FCC is also to be tasked with providing Public Broadcasting, with news that provides transparency of government and governing operations.
