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Egyptian or world chaos?
For days in a row we have been able to see the masses in Egypt step up onto the barricades to challenge the leadership of the dictator that has reigned the country for decades. The Egyptian people are fed up to live in poverty, without work while being exploited by an imposed system. They want self determination, freedom of choice and the liberty to develop the values of their own lives.
The country has been in chaos ever since the population started demanding the departure of the dictator and the initiation of in depth change. It is an extreemly risky situation as the dominant leadership system in Egypt is very much woven into the countries culture and structure. I myself still remember the street fights in Barcelona and the struggles of a young democracy in Spain after the death of dictator Franco in 1975. The coronation of King Juan Carlos I had been prepared thoroughly by Franco himself and still the dominant military force tried a coup just a few years later by Coronel Tejero.
In Egypt it is the voice of the people that speaks and nothing has been prepared. What happens if the dictator remains in place? Chaos! What if he goes? Chaos! And within chaos anything can happen. A new dictator can step up, the military forces can assume temporary control until democratic elections can be organized (by whom? No one knows how this works …), a temporary shadow government can be installed to rewrite the constitution according whatever standard… And meanwhile, what do the people do? It will not be easy and large groups have tasted now the power of the public voice. Screaming for the end of dictatorship is a common, unifying goal but finding a solution for the route of the nation can have many faces. And those different voices will group and let themselves be heard loud.
Many see Egypt as an isolated drama with the extremely difficult potential of a positive outcome and the tremendous risk of affecting the entire middle east. I see Egypt as one of the first steps towards the global abolishing of dominant leadership. Egypt may have been reigned by a dictator but the entire world is being lead dominantly by dictatorship, the dominance of speculant financial systems, in the hands of a few. The cry for self sufficiency, self determination and freedom of choice is being heard all over the world since the bank crisis opened up the eyes of many to what world we had created for ourselves. The greed of the financial systems at the expense of humanity and our planet are dictating the behaviour of our governments, multinational business structures and banking, and yes….even our own mentality.
Consider that 80% of the large currencies around the world now consist of speculative values (i.e. hot air) based on no true collatoral at all. We are all sitting on a time bomb of a global magnitud that multiplies the Egyptian chaos into a global one. Already three years ago I predicted that China will enter in a chaotic crisis well before 2020 due to the unsustainable growth of its economy acting as a black hole on the finite global resources. Financial analysts now start to second my prediction and also begin to realize that our money and monetary systems do not represent any value anymore. The true values of human society have be abolished by many years of speculation and need to be gained back. Those true values are represented by entrepreneurial creativity serving (not using) humanity and our planet, and the genuin caring way we interact among eachother. If we abolish family life for equality in economic independence we create a feelingless, individualistic and competitive society, the one we have now. If we do not care for eachother anymore then humankind disappears.
How can we change this? Just like in Egypt we have grown dependent on our own dictatorship in the shape of money. Our entire society has been built up around the same and hence extremely difficult to change. If we abolish the system we enter into chaos, if we maintain it we will enter in chaos and self destruction also. The movement across the world has started even though we do not yet walk the barricades but the fighting of the system is in full progress. This we call the Global Shift, or the process of Transformation to Sustainable progress. It starts with the individual like you and me, letting go of our own dictatorship around money, searching for the true values of and within our own lives (becoming self aware and responsible for our lives and that of our loved ones close to us). We need to re-invent the value of human interaction, love and care for eachother, without translating everything into hard currencies but finding the soft currents of giving rather than taking. This can be done with our neighbors, our friends, our own next of kin, creating warm and social communities which become rich by cohesion.
We use innovative technologies to become self sufficient in water, food and energy production on individual and community level (neighborhoods) and cut our ties with monopolists and dominant leaders who control those basic life lines. We learn to value our true creative and caring values in different value systems than money and we can use those valuesystems to exchange caring and goods among eachother without leaving our values in the hands of unworthy power structures that misuse the trust we placed in them.
The Egyptian chaos is also the world chaos by recognizing dictatorship and becoming aware that we want to be freed from it. The chaos leads to insight and insight leads to awareness, which in turn leads to a purposeful enlightenment for a new society. This new society is based on true human values of equality, safety, trust and cooperation. Just like the Egyptian dictator can be isolated in his palace we can isolate our own global dictators by turning around and learn to be independent and human again, not a robot in a system, joining forces to peacefully extend our hands and create a society based on true values, not money.
We have entered the era of the disappearance of dominant leadership.
Point of Singularity
When you look up “singularity” on Wikipedia you’ll probably hit the page where people try to explain that Artificial Intelligence is developing so fast that it will take over from humankind. MY definition of the point of singularity is different:
“The point of singularity is that moment of instant chaos and collapse caused by the inability of humankind to keep organizational and moral pace with its own (technological) developments.”
This does not mean that robots take over, it means that we grow so stupid that it seems as we have been taken over. In fact this already has occurred. Think of our education system. We are educated right from day one in our life to become an active part of a system. We are not asked to question that system or to create another one. We are simply educated to perform, full stop. Look at money! It is a human invention, a robot, which we worship and cherish even knowing that it represents nothing more than the value we attribute to it.
Now consider our political & social systems. We think that we live in a democracy when we can vote every so often. But we created systems of welfare and social security that only allow us to vote for maintenance of the system, never for change. We have no choice! And when one cannot choose there is no democracy. Choose for what? One who can best maintain a system that has proven to be corrupt and obsolete?
Artificial intelligence already dominates our lives but it does not contribute to stability or positive evolution. It just grows and grows until it collapses. That is what is happening right now. The banking systems collapsed in 2008. The economic systems on which country expenditure is based are collapsing. Billions are injected by governments in a robotic system that is outdated and cripple. World leaders invest in keeping up artificial bubbles that keep bursting in our faces. We have collectively grown more stupid than the systems that we created ourselves.
Time has come that the robots (money, politics, hierarchies, power systems) collapse. The chaos is one for our own. We have forgotten to live a life without these artificial intelligence that turned out to be human stupidity. We are facing the crude reality that we will have to learn again to think for our selves! We are facing the point of singularity that true intelligence is called for, human intelligence, to assure a sustainable future for us and our children.
Artificial intelligence will always serve humankind until humankind gets lazy again, just to fall back in collapse and painful chaos again in order to rediscover again and again the unique, irreplaceable capabilities of our species. That point is about to come.
Sustainability needs to accept death
This title sounds like a contradiction but it is deadly serious. In the discussions around sustainability all turn around the eternal lifetime of everything. In fact a lot of our current problems and crisis turn around unjust sustainability of human systems that cause severe unbalans in the world. The sustaining of a financial system for instance, that tries to keep up powerpositions that collaps one after another. Or a health organization that keeps people alive no matter what. Or an educational system that contradicts with everything children have to cope with on the internet or society. Sustainability is not about keeping systems in place. It is about keeping the human existance in place.
To do that we need to accept that old ways of thinking are abolished, die a natural death and are not kept alive for sustainability sake only. As a human being it is tough to die with present medical attention, let alone a system invented by humans. Death is needed to allow renewal to florish.
Nature functions already for billions of years like that. Everything that grows too big disappears. It is allowed to die to sustain life as a whole. So when we talk sustainability in our society we need to accept death of our systems, our habbits and our politics as a process that allows continuous renewal.
To be sustainable as a human race we need to challenge ourselves continuously adjusting us intelligently to new circumstances as we go along, letting go of old solutions and finding new ones all the time, balancing them socially, ecologically and economically all the time. We need to allow death in order to be sustainable.
