Collective Whole

Society is currently modelled to serve the best interest of the individual, while considering the collective whole. A new system must be put in place to serve the best interest of the collective whole, while considering the individual.

This can be witnessed as one individual, family, corporation or nation can hold enormous wealth while other individuals, families, corporations or nations hold relatively little in comparison. If this system was reversed, or re-engineered to serve the collective whole, then land-use allocation, principals of commerce, systems of education and governance, and general valuation of human and physical resources would be drastically different than what is considered normal in the world today.

When referring to the best interest of the ‘collective whole’, we refer to the best interest of a world nation, where each individual had equal rights to the basic necessities of life as well as the intellectual, spiritual and other developmental pursuits privy to individuals of a privileged socioeconomic bloodline.

The barest truth of the matter is that the world today doesn’t reflect our potential as intelligent creatures with the capacity to communicate, work together, and apply strategic foresight in the abstraction of the minds eye. With the total accumulation of information, experience, consolidated resource and spiritual wisdom we could end poverty, ongoing pollution, war and other distructive and discordant practices of behaviour in a matter of a few years.

The challenge is that so many individuals are addicted to life as we know it, and lack the experiential understanding to clearly imagine a world any other way. This blind faith in the way things are perpetuate a compliance with a way of life that is not sustainable beyond a few more generations, to be generous.

Another challenge is that shifting course in such a large and archaic ship may cause a series of other problems if the world population in general isn’t on board with the new wave. Attitudes of capitalization manufacture a culture of opportunists who seek to profit at weaknesses in system design, and attitudes of capitalization have been dominant in the paradigms that govern daily life all over the industrialized world since the beginning.

Therefore a sudden course correction towards egalitarianism is a paradox for most, because in attempting to do the right thing on a global platform we may consequently forgo our ability to maintain advantageous positioning in a world where others seek to dominate.

Just as this paradox exists on the Global stage, it also exists for individuals who seek to behave in a environmentally and socially conscious way, but find that this behaviour on it’s own isn’t sustainable economically.

Therefore, most individuals must volunteer their time, energy and often resources when seeking to serve a greater good, and then balance their remaining available time with other economically driven careers and personal responsibilities of daily life.

I believe the art, opportunity and challenge awaiting us, as a human species, is re-integrating a livelihood that serves a genuine social and environmental purpose as well as generating an economic flow.

After some time, however, if our species ever truly evolves, then we will disregard the current economic model all together. Where currently people must work at jobs in order to survive, the future will take care of each individual by default, and work related ambitions will be to provide a more substantial social and environmental benefit. In this context, I believe a spiritual nature and general aim for personal improvement may also begin to prevail in the individuals of this planet.

Education paradigms aimed to facilitate a transformation into true health, wellness and spiritual development will inevitably superceade indoctrinations that aim to create a workforce. A global civilization, cross cultural and international, post industrial and post capitalistic, governed by decentralized yet federated nodes of administration all adopting a set of guiding values will emerge.

I see the number of organizational nodes on this planet, on their various scales of influence, reflecting the number and density of intersections that occur when laying the 5 platonic solids on-top of one another over a sphere. The global board will then consist of individuals both elected and appointed by the # major intersections.

A hierarchy remains in the prioritization process, as well as final say on administrative decisions. However, the prioritization will be reversed from large multinational profit based enterprises to the general welfare of the planet, beginning with those least fortunate. This includes restoring the balance of natural ecology – the planets, the animals, the oceans, lakes and streams. … AND, the future generations in all departments.