From Dystopia to a Utopian Reality… as Soon as Now
A Post-Capitalist, Post-Scarcity World is No Longer Science Fiction
It is my hope that this essay speaks to the concerned global citizens who are not only thinking about the future of humanity, but actively working to bring about a future that is so much better than what is currently being offered to us. In conjunction with this essay, I highly recommend listening to a profound interview with the brilliant futurist Daniel Schmachtenberger. He describes not only the systemic existential risks that threaten our very survival, but also the amazing world that we can build, if we choose, that will be better for everyone than even the billionaire quality of life today, and in sustainable harmony with the biosphere. Once you fully comprehend the win/lose game that Daniel talks about, the game that is built into the very fabric of our societal structures, then you will more fully appreciate the hopeful opportunities I will describe in this essay :)
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I will humbly attempt to weave together the following ideas that I think could form the beginnings of an actual transition plan to get us to this better world:
Universal Basic Income — Instant Distribution — Self-Driving to the Future — Tunneling Breakthrough — Hyperloop Transport — Global Internet Accessible to Everyone — Nuclear Fusion Reality — CommoNifying Industry — The Final Great Merger — A Post-Capitalism, Post-Scarcity and Post-Monetary Reality
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The $217 trillion dollar question seems to be this, “How do we transition from the world we have now (which some might say is already a dystopia) to the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible?” Is there some utopic vision of a new society that is really achievable? First of all, I should clarify my meaning of Utopia — there is no such thing as utopia since there will never be a perfect world. There will always be new emergence and new challenges. So, while I envision a new world that is far from perfect, it would be far better than what we have now. And is it still considered utopic if it is so near that it is literally right at our door step?
About a year ago I wrote an essay entitled From Cyberpunk to a Post-Scarcity Solarpunk in which I argued how critical it is for us to change the stories we tell ourselves. Instead of the harmful fear-based, techno-dystopian sci-fi stories that falsely project into the future a flawed, negative understanding of our human nature, there is a new creative movement telling stories and painting visions of the future based on a more accurate understanding of our true nature, that we are inherently good, altruistic, cooperative and caring. From this fresh vantage point, we can liberate our true power to recreate our dysfunctional systems and manifest the new and better world which I will be pointing to.
In my second and forthcoming book “The Next Copernican Revolution: A New Narrative” I will be synthesizing the ideas from several “social sci-fi” novels that I think offer a new story for humanity, a guiding mythos towards a new world, but also provide some insightful transition ideas on how we may peacefully get from here to there. So, in this essay I will provide a glimpse of the ideas found in just one of these books and show how they compare with some recent developments in our current reality that make the fiction part of this “social sci-fi” closer to fact.
Looking Backward from the Year 2000 — The Plot
Mack Reynolds wrote a “social sci-fi” book in 1973 entitled “Looking Backward From the Year 2000” that was quite prophetic to where we are now. The premise of Reynold’s story is that a young multi-million-dollar business mogul, Julian West, is facing imminent death due to heart failure. During a time (1970's) when only a third of heart transplant patients lived longer than three months, Julian turns to a radical solution in the form of suspended animation, or hibernation. He puts his life into a fringe doctor’s hands to bring him back to life when technology will be advanced enough to give him a new heart and a new chance at life. He opens his eyes nearly thirty years later in the year 2000, to a different doctor, Doctor Leete and his family. In their role as his host family they cautiously explain the radically different, and wonderful, new world that Julian would soon discover. He has a hard time believing how much the world and human society have changed, but the Leete family patiently share their in-depth knowledge of the major turning points in history, policy changes that shifted trends, and the barbaric ways of his time, all which ultimately, and almost naturally, culminated in a peaceful transition in less than a generation to a peaceful, sustainable world and a truly civilized humanity.
Foreseeing the Future of Now
Reynolds foresaw many technological advancements that have indeed come into being such as smart phones, the internet, and self-driving cars, with other technologies that appear to be right around the corner, such as nuclear fusion power, high-speed tunneling technology and hyperloop travel. But more importantly he envisioned how humanity could reorganize society and evolve beyond the dark, seemingly intractable characteristics of our human nature brought about by our scarcity-based socio-economic system. This was the aspect of the new world that his protagonist Julien West had the most difficulty with, because he had been so culturally conditioned to think that there was no other way to organize society beyond capitalism. He thought, like many people still do today, that there are no other options. A recent example of this thinking was provided by the Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, a progressive democrat, when she said, “We are capitalists, and that’s just the way it is.” For Julian, having been a wealthy capitalist in his previous life, this notion of a post-capitalist society was what caused him the most culture shock.
Author Mack Reynolds was a little off the mark in the timing of his utopic visions. In Looking Backward his utopia would arrive by the year 2000, yet the world which Julien West left behind in the seventies bears more resemblance in many ways to today than did his year 2000. I believe there are some good reasons for this, namely that our socio-economic system has hindered us from developing faster. I’ve heard it said that we are about a hundred years behind where we could be. However, there are some recent developments that are starting to make it look like we are not that far away from Reynolds utopia after all. So, let me start by providing a summary of the world Julian West awoke to in the year 2000. There are many more interesting concepts in Reynold’s book that are beyond the scope of this essay, so I will address the ones most closely linked to the current developments that I think will provide some important transitional ideas.
Finally, a Truly Civilized Society
In Reynold’s story humanity made a peaceful transition to a world of abundance beyond money, debt and ownership, where people have access to everything they need, almost literally at their fingertips. Healthcare, education and transportation are free; actually everything is free. People are free to pursue their passions, without regard for any need to get a job. There are no wars, no politicians, no corruption, no police. There are no states, or cities, or even democracy, as the people have evolved to a higher form of society. Women are treated as equals in every way and they are not dependent on men to provide for anything, which totally changed the relationships between men and women.
Almost all jobs are automated and everything they need is produced in underground factories. Less than two percent of the people of working age are needed to produce an abundance. People are eager however to work with no pay for the betterment of society in something that they are skilled at and passionate about.
Everyone has a “transceiver”, which is their pocket TV phone, voting booth, international data bank, debit card, and voco-typer (a typewriter you speak into and it types out your words). When they need something they slip their transceiver into the slot of the delivery box and the computer debits their account. They received an annual universal basic income until they eventually did away with money all together.
There is an entire underground system of transportation with self-driving electric cars and trucks and trains. They put the superhighways and the railroads underground and went about the task of beautifying the countryside. Transportation is totally free and so efficient that very few wish to have a privately-owned vehicle. Many people choose to live in the cities in beautiful high-rise apartments surrounded by lush green spaces. In the basement of the apartment buildings there are “ultramarkets”. Residents simply push a button and get the things they need, almost instantly. They don’t go shopping, the shopping comes to them. And they no longer manufacture products of low quality.
In the previous decades, many of the rural areas had been losing population because people where moving to the cities to find jobs. When given a universal basic income they no longer had to worry about jobs, which were disappearing anyway, and the flood turned and started in the other direction. Many people choose to reside in the more desirable rural areas of the country side.
The concentration of industry and agriculture had the most profound influence in changing from the old to new society. Corporations did what they tend to do, which is to seek monopoly power. But then companies grew and grew until they became multi-national “cosmo-corporations” that had no concern with boundaries, national interest, local cultural pride or regional idiosyncrasies, except only as they favored or hindered the performance of the corporation. The cosmo-corps had facilities spanning multiple countries, which created an unforeseen byproduct…less incentive for countries to go to war, since corporate profits would be negatively affected.
Here’s what ultimately happened with industry and government, “These super-corporations finally squeezed out just about every other enterprise in the country, and at the same time the government was taking over increasing amounts of their common stock, both to float a backing for the national currency and to raise money for such projects as guaranteed basic income tax, slum clearance, antipollution drives and the rest. It’s rather moot whether the government took over the corporations or the corporations took over the government. They just sort of merged.” But with the introduction of an aptitude quotient and the elimination of money, all the corrupting influences fell away and they ended up with a “Congress of Guilds” that was managed by the most skilled people. “The actual civil government shrank and became increasingly less necessary as the threat of war fell off and the need for courts, police and prisons largely disappeared. Many of the departments of the civil government simply atrophied.”
Julien West finally asked Dr. Leet the big “C” question, “Would you call the present socio-economic system communism? I can’t imagine the American people I knew ever resorting to communism.”
Dr. Leet responded, “There are elements of socialism, in the various senses of the word. There are elements of collectivism and of syndicalism and perhaps technocracy. It might even be said that there are elements of anarchism, if you mean by that the anarchism of the nineteenth century Proudhon and of the poets Shelley and Blake. Elements too, of meritocracy.”
Dr. Leet continued, “But there was no civil war…Extremists of the right and extremists of the left and crackpots in general ranted and raved but it was to the interest of the overwhelming majority to establish the new society — and it was established.”
Our Current Reality — A Better Future is Here
Do any of the developments that transpired in Reynold’s story sound like some major changes that are emerging today? They should. Let’s look at specific examples.
Universal Basic Income
Let’s start with a once seemingly radical idea that is now being discussed, and proposed, and tested in mainstream circles…the notion that we will ultimately need to provide people with a universal basic income (UBI) to counteract the elimination of jobs by technology and automation (technological unemployment). Many prominent business moguls including Richard Branson and tech CEO’s such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and many other Silicone Valley capitalists have spoken out in support of the idea. I wonder why. Is it because they see an opportunity to maintain their profits in an era of dwindling consumer purchasing power, or are they in a position, better than others, to see what’s coming down the pipeline? Maybe both.
Evil Capitalists or Humanitarians Bringing Us to What’s Next?
Not being a fan of capitalism, I don’t say this lightly…maybe the capitalists are playing a pivotal role in transitioning us to a whole new paradigm. When the time comes, which could be very soon, perhaps the titans of capitalism, with a little prodding and social pressure from the people, will make the right decision to shift their business models towards maximum benefit to society without regard for profits, bringing about the post-scarcity, post-capitalistic world that’s coming anyway. We could then put away the pitchforks and these titans would go into the history books as true heroes who helped us build a world far better for everyone, one with a quality of life far better than even what the billionaires enjoy today, and one that is in sustainable harmony with the biosphere.
A recent short video put out by Bigthink flips upside down the perspective that so many of us have about the big evil multinational corporations and CEO’s that are seemingly taking over everything. “Despite the fact that many view the technologists as mercenary megalomaniacs, in fact these are the folks who are closest to seeing the destruction that their work may visit upon the population. I don’t know any nine, ten or eleven figure individuals that I’m familiar with who isn’t worried about what we’re going to do to take care of those who may not be able to meet their expectations with training and jobs…So the technology is forcing those who are most familiar with it to become the most compassionate.” We shall see very soon how compassionate they are.
So, let’s look at some other recent developments that are aligning nicely with Reynold’s year 2000.
Near Instant Delivery of Goods
I’m sure you heard that Amazon bought the Whole Foods chain and how they lowered prices right away. With the economies of scale achieved by Amazon and other powerhouse companies, are we moving from “Whole Paycheck” (derogatory reference to the high prices at Whole Foods) to the zero-marginal cost society as proposed by Jeremy Rifkin, “speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism”?
We also know that Amazon is rapidly increasing its number of distribution points around the world so it can expand its same-day and even one-hour delivery service. Is it that far-fetched to imagine, as Reynolds does in Looking Backward, that we could eventually enjoy almost instant delivery of food and clothing and any other items delivered by drone or self-driving cars or the automated chute that’s connected with your apartment building fulfillment center?
Cars Driving Themselves Into the Near Future
I don’t need to say much about self-driving cars because I don’t have to. There are so many news stories about all the companies developing self-driving cars that it has become a self-evident truth that they are literally right around the corner. And it’s going to disrupt everything in a positive way — if we can come to terms with our outdated jobs-based economic paradigm. In Looking Backward the transition to the free world of the year 2000 was greatly facilitated by making transportation free to all people, and this was made possible by self-driving cars and efficient buses and trains. Very soon we will begin approaching zero-marginal cost with self-driving taxi’s and the day will come when totally free transportation will be considered a human right.
Tunneling to the Future — The Boring Company and Hyperloop are Putting Transportation Under (and Above) Ground
In Reynold’s year 2000 almost all transportation was put underground due to a tunneling technology breakthrough. This made room at the surface for parks and natural greenspaces and communities that were not divided by lanes and barriers.
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company and Hyperloop One are bringing Reynold’s vision into reality. “Imagine travelling nonstop at up to 670 miles per hour above land or underground. Hyperloop One will be automated by the most advanced systems in the world, allowing for a safe and efficient journey that’s never delayed or overbooked. Hyperloop is the first new form of public transportation in over a hundred years. Fundamentally it will change the way we travel, work and live.”
This new form of transportation could eventually transport goods and people across continents and underwater so efficiently and safely that airplane transportation might be relegated as a dangerous relic of the past.
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Facebook and Internet Drones Are Connecting the World Community
A recent article entitled How Long Until Facebook Takes Over the World discusses how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to continue building communities through his platform, and “several initiatives the social network has launched in recent years point to his plan to connect the entire world to the internet.” They have even been experimenting with solar-powered internet drones that could provide internet to remote areas of the world. Mack Reynold’s correctly timed his forecast of the internet with his “international data bank”; actually it’s been a reality now for over two decades. But what’s different is that today in 2017 half of the world’s people still don’t have internet access. And it’s estimated that it will take another thirty years to connect everyone on the planet. But this is based upon a linear growth model under the monetary restrictions of capitalism. In Reynold’s year 2000 there were no monetary restrictions, because there was no money. In reality today, we have the technical ability to exponentially increase internet access to everyone on the planet in short order and provide unlimited free education, which would create a global Collaborative Commons to fully harness our collective intelligence. But right now, we simply don’t have the money.
Breakthroughs in Nuclear Fusion are Happening Now
In Looking Backward the coming of nuclear fusion power as a clean and almost unlimited energy source enabled the exploitation of resources that were impractical before. Combined with remote-control, high-speed tunneling technology, they could drill down into the earth as far as needed to find an abundance of basic minerals. They could even mine minerals from sea water, let alone desalinate it. Nuclear fusion provided enough energy for all their transportation and industry needs and fossil fuel usage went away like the dinosaurs that created it in the first place. Just imagine Musk’s Boring Company powered by nuclear fusion.
In real life, just in the last few months there have been scientific breakthroughs with nuclear fusion. Researchers operating fusion reactor experiments at MIT, along with partnered scientists in Brussels and the U.K., have developed a new type of nuclear fusion fuel that produces ten times as much energy from energized ions as previously achieved. German scientists recently developed a nuclear fusion machine that could solve the world’s energy crisis problem. “Nuclear fusion is one of the most promising sources of clean energy…and it leaves no radioactive waste or by-product. Since our sun is also powered by nuclear fusion there is no doubt that nuclear fusion can satisfy our energy needs as long as we need it.”
Even Google is involved in a nuclear fusion project in California, and their researchers recently announced they netted a 50 percent reduction in energy loss, taking us one step closer to a future of unlimited clean energy.
Today’s Cosmo-Corporations
Are we not already in the era of the all-powerful Cosmo-corps as accurately predicted in Reynold’s story? Despite all the anti-trust regulations, today fewer than 10% of the world’s public companies account for more than 80% of all profits. And these are the world’s 10 biggest corporate giants: China Mobil, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, Facebook, Amazon, Exxon Mobil, Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Apple. You probably also saw this, This Infographic Shows How Only 10 Companies Own All The World’s Food Brands. But there’s other infographics that show a surprisingly small number of corporations that control massive global market shares in other sectors such as banking, media, food & beverage, and oil. There’s a huge debate about whether some of these companies are evil, as this video entitled “10 Companies That Secretly Control The World” seems to suggest. I have no doubt that under a profit motive, many of these companies are leading us down a path of environmental destruction and potentially the extinction of our species. But this is not necessarily evil; it’s just what our system incentivizes. And is this not a far greater centralization of power than the governmental centralization that’s so strongly feared by right-wingers? One might also make the case, as I do, that the state and market are basically one and the same.
Game Over — The Final Monopoly — The Merger of Industry and Government
This is the part that might just hold great possibility for the transition from where we are today to the kind of world that Reynold’s envisioned in Looking Backward. It is also the most contentious and controversial, since it no doubt will trigger our cultural conditioning regarding communism. The reality is that today there is very little distinction between governments and industry. Corporations wield tremendous power within governments everywhere on the planet. Extreme income equality and governmental corruption are built into the monopoly game, no matter if you call it capitalism or communism. But here’s another perspective, as proposed in the Reynold’s story. Instead of fighting back the natural monopolization tendency of industry that happens under capitalism, what if we were to instead harness that force to bring us to a final monopoly, where the government merges with or “commoNifies” all industry. What I’m referring to here is quite different than “nationalizing” industry which puts ownership in the hands of a nation-state, thus centralized government ownership.
I know what you’re thinking. How is this different from the communist plans of the past that failed so miserably? Well first let me give you my definition of “Commonify”. Unlike “commodify” which turns every aspect of our world into a commodity that can be bought and sold, I refer to “commonify” as the act of breaking free of the belief that the market rules everything in our lives, and awakening to our power and right to take back our “commons”, those cultural and natural resources that rightfully can’t be owned and instead are the common heritage of all people and living beings on the planet, things such as food, water, air, and a habitable earth. Even the internet and social media should be considered commons. As former Greek economics professor Yanis Varoufakis said recently in an article [Facebook reference added by me], “Firstly the technologies were funded by some government grant; secondly every time you search for something on Google, [or post something on Facebook] you contribute to Google’s [Facebook’s] capital,” he said. “And who gets the returns from capital? Google [Facebook], not you. So now there is no doubt capital is being socially produced, and the returns are being privatized. This with artificial intelligence is going to be the end of capitalism.”
This Is Not Communism
I don’t like labels and “isms” and any term we choose will no doubt have plenty of baggage and misconstrued meaning. But if we must, perhaps we can call it “Commonism”. In my interpretation of commons philosophy, there is no ownership at all, only access. We are clearly moving to a society beyond the confines of ownership altogether, because individual ownership is not only unsustainable but it’s also a burden. Complete and free access to goods and services is what people would really need and want, not ownership. So instead of thinking of the means of production being owned by capitalists (capitalism) or owned by the state (communism) we simply share access to resources, and the means of production are held in common for the betterment of all humans, the environment, and all other sentient beings.
Another reason this is not communism is because the human labor issue is being solved in a way that Karl Marx never foresaw. Labor has always been at the heart of class struggle. But what happens if automation and robotics can do just about everything? For the first time in human history we are able to break free from the shackles of human labor — from either wage slavery, debt slavery, or actual ownership of human beings — and the resulting class struggles we have been fighting over for millennium. We are already moving quickly towards a future of very few jobs, so we are going to have to do something radically different anyway. If we were to consciously embrace this new paradigm, we could accelerate the process of liberating humanity. And it shouldn’t be that difficult to do since about 70% of jobs are bullshit jobs anyway that contribute very little to society in any meaningful way.
Here’s a final reason that what I’m advocating is not communism…the absence of money. All the communistic experiments in the past were operating under an ownership model and a monetary system. The struggle was always over which class owned and controlled the means of production and how resources and wealth where to be distributed. But if we are entering a post-scarcity era where everyone has access to everything they need, then we won’t need money to ration scarce resources. The only thing that will be scarce is scarcity itself.
Yet I must admit, merging industry with government is a scary prospect. But what’s even more scary is the monetized political and economic systems we are living under now and have for a long time. For five thousand years our debt-based monetary system has corrupted everything, including our governments, whether under capitalism or communism. But what if we could remove the corrupting power of money altogether? What if we could “commonize” industry outside of a monetary system and our bought-and-paid-for politicians? In Reynold’s Looking Backward money was removed from the equation. The new leaders who stepped up to serve did so for the greater good and were not paid…and they had to pass an aptitude test to make sure they were technically qualified to lead in solving the world’s problems, which were mostly technical in nature. Would you vote for a person running on a platform to remove money from politics altogether? In actuality today there is a Money Free Party that was founded in new Zeeland by Richard Osmaston and is now an international political party actively campaigning in 16 countries based on the promise to transition, if elected, to a “resource based economy”, a money free socio-economic system developed by Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project. There is another global political organization called Ubuntu Liberation Movement, which organizes the Ubuntu political party. With chapters popping up all around the globe, they are hoping to flip local governments to its “One Small Town” initiative to start operating communities based upon the non-monetary “Contributionist” model developed by South African author Michael Tellinger based on the African philosophy of Ubuntu (“I am what I am because of who we all are”).
So, what if we could develop and embrace a comprehensive transition plan, working within our current governmental structures, sans money, that could help us merge government with industry?
Here’s what they did in Looking Backward:
“The solution was finally found. One year the federal government requested that the five hundred largest corporations pay one-tenth of their corporation taxes in common stock of the firm involved. This stock was merged into what amounted to a huge mutual fund which was dubbed United States Basic. Some of this was made available on every bourse, every stock exchange, in the world, to seek its level. United States Basic, of course, paid dividends based on the returns from the stock of which it was composed. Any individual or any nation holding American paper dollars could demand payment in United States Basic shares.”
Each year the government continued to collect ten percent of corporation taxes in the form of common stock. This, of course, also led to new revenues for the nation. The stocks drew dividends, and those quantities kept in reserve against paper dollar demands from abroad enriched the treasury. This just in time, since the newly instituted negative income tax [or universal basic income] was now in full effect, as were the housing and road-building boom, and the medical and especially educational boom. The government could use all the money it could put its hands on, and while originally this expedient had been expected to be utilized for only a year or two it stretched out and the new tax law wasn’t repealed. The conclusion is obvious. The federal government gained larger and larger amounts of voting stock in the top corporations of the nation.”
In case the conclusion is not obvious, the government gained larger and larger shares of corporations’ stocks and gained more and more power over them, until they eventually took control of them, or more precisely, merged with them to became one. Does this sound outlandish or damn near impossible? Well this is pretty much exactly the same idea that the Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis recently mentioned in the aforementioned article, “He suggested one effective policy would be for 10 per cent of all future issue of shares to be put into a “common welfare fund” owned by the people. Out of this a “universal basic dividend” could be paid to every citizen.”
The other reason this may not be as unachievable as we might think, is that it came darn close to happening already with the 2009 economic crisis, and could again if/when we have another big crash. Here’s what happened in Looking Forward, “There is just one other aspect that should be covered here. That is, the extent to which the government was already participating in the economy. Government spending had risen from $ 10.2 billion in 1929 to $ 168 billion in 1963; that is, from 9.8 percent of the gross national product to 28.8 percent. In short, federal, state and local government accounted for more than a quarter of all economic activity. This far exceeded supposedly socialistic India, Sweden and Norway. It even exceeded supposedly communist Poland, which was, of course, an agricultural country, and the farms privately owned.” It’s important to highlight that the U.S. government spending after the economic crisis in 2009 rose to $6 trillion, or 42.4% of GDP. The government was propping up nearly half the economy. What might happen during the next economic collapse, which many experts think will be much worse than 2009? Could the merger of government and industry just become a natural survival mechanism to a fatally flawed economic system, especially if consumer purchasing power diminishes because of the elimination of jobs? What if we were to simply cut out the middle man of corporations, “commonize” and automate all industry and just provide for what humanity needs without having to pay for it?
I am not at all certain that a merger of industy and government is the right way to go, or if attempting to affect positive change within our existing political system is even possible. But the novel Looking Forward makes it seem somewhat plausible as a transition plan. Another possibility might be if we could somehow bypass our failed governments and economic systems altogether to create entirely new structures that make the old ones obsolete. As I’ve heard it said by Peter Joseph, social activist and founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, “Instead of trying to get a seat at the table, maybe we need a whole new table.” Perhaps better yet, what if we were to take a two-pronged approach, working both within and outside the system simultaneously?
I am involved with a new organization called the World Summit that intends to completely bypass our governance and economic systems altogether, peacefully. We are not asking permission to create new structures and new ways of “being the change” we wish to see in the world. We do not register with any governments and we have no bank accounts. We operate on different models and principles such as sociocracy and non-violent communication and gift-based economics. We are not waiting for any type of UBI (Universal Basic Income) — we are creating our own GBI (Gift-based Income) to facilitate our model of exponential change.
We see that the real problem preventing humanity from addressing our challenges is the fact that we are so divided…the root cause of this division being our failed and outdated governments and economic systems. For us to mature as a species in time to avoid our own extinction we must unite as one humanity, beyond the imaginary boarders and inhumane systems we’ve created. We are building a World Summit event to “unify the unifiers” — all the different groups, protest movements and conscious organizations around the world who are ultimately working towards, and want, the same thing…a peaceful sustainable planet that works for everyone. But If each group continues to work separately, we will fail to take true advantage of the critical-mass power of our numbers. Instead if all the different tribes can come together beyond our differences to create a World Summit event, while recognizing and appreciating our diversity, then we are simultaneously building the new models of governance and economics that will obsolete the old systems. Then we can begin implementing the regenerative solutions that already exist. Imagine a global “Manhattan Project” where we finally unite and come together in creating the first truly “civilized” geo-tribal society to live harmoniously on a diverse, flourishing planet.
