SYSTEMIC CRISIS

We’re not just facing one crisis. Our political, financial, media, military, food, health and corporate systems are woven together; locked into a failing trajectory towards a looming collapse that is already resulting in mass human suffering and species extinction around the world. Together these systems are failing us, failing to deliver their promise of a world that is healthy and free, decreasing liberty and extracting life from society and nature to funnel power to few. 

We are complicit with, and responsible for these systems, when we accept the systemic failures as normal. Watching, purchasing, consuming and voting without thinking for ourselves about the impact of our choices. 

Our society’s biggest problems are interconnected in a web of corrupt systems. These systemic challenges may have previously felt too overwhelming, too big, too immovable to change. But now, as civilization collapse is more real than ever before, we have a new choice to rise up and take focused, strategic and consistent actions that accelerate systemic transformations. 

We can’t gradually reform our way out of this crisis. We have the responsibility to turn this systemic crisis into a re-birth of our civilization, enabling something new to emerge through the chaos and disruption. 

The tragic pain and loss of systems failure doesn’t need to be in vain. Out of the ashes of the dying era, a new civilization can emerge. If we choose to create it. 

CIVILIZATION REDESIGN

Quick fixes, half-measures, reforms and temporary solutions have proven insufficient to produce a world that is fair, just and free. This is our time to get to the root of why our civilization still produces so much suffering and destruction, and understand it so we can redesign it and integrate the best of modern technology, ancient wisdom and planetary stewardship.

In our future, how will we want to experience government, money, community, food, technology, energy and individual work? Like the Apollo project, a massive interdisciplinary undertaking to get a man to the moon and back, we can choose to create a Civilization Project to redesign the operating system of our world, experiment with new modes of organizing society, share what we are learning with each other, and begin to scale up the best of our human intelligence and creativity in a multi-decade journey of discovery in service to creating the most thriving human civilization imaginable. 

To design a world that works for all, we need everyone. We need local communities, states and nations to join forces in an unprecedented coordination of human creativity. As concerned citizens of our world, it is up to us to ensure our governments’ full participation in designing, implementing and stewarding our best possible future.

MOVEMENTS SHAPING HISTORY

There was a time when women couldn’t vote. Now they can. 

There was a time when explicit racial segregation was legal. Now it’s not. 

What we now understand as massive injustices were once normal.

How could such massive transformations take place? 

Social movements across history have organized the general public around a strategy to create structural change, implemented deliberate tactics designed to shift the system, and remained persistent in building mass social movements until the targeted societal transformations were achieved. 

Non-violent groups of well-organized citizens have liberated nations from colonization, replaced oppressive dictators with democracy, and transformed policies designed to subjugate one class under another.  

Movements with strategy, precision, and coordination have reliably transformed what was previously imagined to be impossible. 

We don’t have to settle for feeling stuck, powerless and incapable of breaking the cycles of systemic oppression. Every aspect of our world can be transformed if we choose to organize with courage and unrelenting passion; following those who have come before who showed us how to turn visions of a better world into reality.