Three different prophecies
Three prophecies for human progress are seriously proposed around the world.
Prophecy 1: Robots take over
Ever since Orwell’s “Big Brother” in his book 1984 we see robotics taking over our lives. We are being “served” by all kind of institutions that supply us all our needs in a virtual reality called consumer economics. The only way we can get the robots to provide us wellness and luxury is by putting money into their systems. The money we need is managed by banks and governments and provided against a debt. This individual debt can be settled by serving the functioning of the robots. The servant institutions are being managed by people who have become experts in getting these robots to earn as much money as possible.
Automated facilities surround us increasingly and technology even goes further every day. One of the argument is that we have such a large global human population now that we need automated processes to keep us going. From a consumer economic point of view the more fragmentation occurs in robotizing our needs, through artificial and money based robot intelligence, the more growth the economy shows. The analysts look for ways to keep us connected to the system by innovating the financial debt system through dependencies that already mortgage our lives for decades. Even money itself is a virtual system that is given virtual values through manipulation and speculation. Material scientists, economists, politicians, bankers, etc rule this world. Food, medicine housing, clothes, energy, etc forcefully (by law) need to be purchased. Governments give human health credits to financially based virtual systems. They defend it with strong arguments backed by the growing populations in city environments, attracted by this servant environment of perceived securities. These cities are concentration points for economics with the related robotics, as we can observe by analyzing city dynamics and human mobility. And humankind loves it. In a way we only have to worry about having enough cash. Everything else has been taken care of by the money driven robots providing us with a sense of abundance all the time. People have never lived as long before as they do now and we have never had such a wide selection of goods to choose from at the distance of the closest shop.
Prophecy 2: Sustainocracy
This prophecy is of course the one I incline to, even though I supported and worked for a long time in the “prophecy 1” system of consumer economics. However when I had to make a profound choice between the safety of my children and my executive career I became aware that money and robots cannot solve everything. Heath and safety are responsibilities that cannot be substitute by a coin slot machine. There are certain things that I have to take care of myself. When I wrote the blog “the universe and me” I realized that I AM the universe. From a molecular point of view I am the same and life has gotten into those molecules for God knows what reason. The only difference between my garden and I is that I am a conscious being that can walk, talk and think about it. When my surroundings gets polluted I get polluted. So when I realized that my key responsibilities are health and safety, I understood that robots can help me but cannot BE me. So from an evolutionary point of view I remain dominant and robots are servant, even if they are large and powerful, institutionalized and rationalized in our world. A human being is not just a compulsory, lazy, all consuming service and tax number. I am inclined to believe that we are a bit more than that, even though I understand perfectly well the mechanism of risk and fear avoidance by surrounding ourselves with luxury and services.
The human being is a purpose driven evolutionary miracle of a certain physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual complexity. We have become aware of that and realize that our health and sustainable progress is much more delicate than an insurance policy for healthcare. One out of three persons has cancer, many people die prematurely of lung and heart problems, behavior is altered due to environmental unbalance etc. It has become clear that our health has to do with the health balance with our natural surroundings. Else we become sick and disappear, not just as an individual but also as humankind. The global pollution is not just leaving behind a footprint on the face of the Earth that future scientists and archaeologists can explore as Anthropocene, it is also leaving a footprint in our own genetic DNA. Our genes reflect for generations to come our irresponsibility causing people to be genetically coded already for all kinds of deceases. That is the reaction of nature to our robotics and we are becoming aware of it. We expelled nature, our universe, from our lives and surrounded us with a virtual world of simulated wealth. We have forgotten that we ARE nature and need that to prosper in a sustainable way. If we eliminate nature we eventually eliminate ourselves and nature remains.
So when we refer to heath and safety we refer to taking one own responsibilities as a living species of the universe. If I am so responsible then I should behave that way and I do. That’s how Sustainocracy got alive because now more and more people realize that we cannot leave such key issues of life to instruments. The instruments need human hands which are preferable guided by standards of universal ethics rather than economic standards. In Sustainocracy applied wisdom and universal awareness through consciousness (open awakened mind) rules.
Prophecy 3: Death and destruction
The third prophecy has been made known in 1972 by the Club of Rome, in 1990 by the Club of Budapest and in 2000 by the Earth Charter. They all agree that if we continue our human system of over-consumption, pollution and destruction of natural resources, three out of four human beings will die by starvation, war, chaos and crises by 2050.
Again I agree on this prophecy just like I agree on the first one of robotics. The third is the consequence of the first. It has happened so often before in history. The Mayas or the Roman Empire for instance. They lost their powers due to blindness to their surroundings and speculation as a matter of fact. When you neglect the human being and the universe you will be overruled by both.
The second prophecy is an odd one out because it skips the traditional path through renaissance, the era of enlightening that follows periods of chaos. But as said before human evolution is about applying knowledge and conscious awareness, not just the imposition of greed. History has shown us how disastrous the consequences are for humankind when greed dominates common sense and universal ethics. So Sustainocracy does not skip renaissance, it just places it in perspective with systems of greed, inviting the human robotics to become sustainable themselves by accepting universal ethics and co-creation as a guiding factor. It addresses the sense of human responsibility and global awareness of those who carry responsibility and authority. Their own position of power is in jeopardy if the do not go through their own enlightenment, producing a personal renaissance before the systems do. We need to allow complex co-creation to allow our greed to renew itself too. They then use their position of authority to make the difference.
Human complexities
The model I use for the translation of abstract ideology and practical understanding through awareness, is a result of divine inspiration. The human complexities that I have drawn up, including the historic processes of trial and error in our human evolution, can show the prophecies in the picture.
Co-creation feeds sustainable progress
Top 7 readings after 5 years blogging and blueprint for prosperity
Change
Someone who wants “to change the world” has an easy job. He or she simply has to change oneself and the world has changed. All you have to do thereafter is to show people how you are by being yourself. This serves as inspiration to some and may eventually spread…..In times of internet, with the possibility of blogging, to express our ideas and show the world the changes one has made, this process gets a modern unprecedented dimension. The problem people face is the huge amount of information that becomes available and the selection one makes for one’s own inspiration. By doing so one creates his or her own world of information and personal progress.
My own progression
After 5 years of blogging I see a progression in my own activities and also in the way I share this with my surroundings. I also see a steady and even exponential progression in the support I receive from you. The amount of readers has exploded in recent months and my practical contribution to the world through Sustainocracy is becoming a serious source of inspiration for people across the world. When I look at the blog items that drew most attention I see a certain tendency too, obviously provoked by myself through social media and public presentations, but also by a growing interest by you around the different views that I present. WordPress advises, through its statistics, that I should pick up these items and continue that line of inspiration for you.
The top 7 readings and topics are:
1. Why people avoid spirituality – This post was extensively read by the academic world after my presentation during the scientific encounter on Sustainability and Spirituality in September 2012 in Hungary.
2. Alternative definition of Sustainable Development – This post is key because it is used all the time to define the ethical basis of Sustainocracy. So every time I address and audience I need to clarify this point first to create the right mindset to follow my statements. The post is there extensively used by me as hyperlink.
3. Feminizing masculine cultures in crisis – This post appeals much to female groups who see a justification in it for their own emancipation. The masculinity of current manipulation and speculation of economies is often despised and purposely negated by masculine authorities but strongly recognized by the feminine structures causing an interesting Yin-Yang also among my readers.
4. The day after economics – I found that this post was appreciated by a broad audience that saw it as an eye opener to a trusted paradigm that was falling apart without anyone really knowing what was happening. “Economics” is a word that is seen as eternally connected to human development. To project it as a finite thing with a “life before and after” got readers to open up their mind to new worldviews.
5. Kondratieff versus Close – This recent post was re-blogged various times by people who like the analytics of human and economic systems.
6. Anthropocene I and II – Many people do not realize the effect we have on our surroundings and that this even is being defined as “an era” that will leave a lasting print or scar on the face of the Earth just like other natural disasters of the past.
7. Why only Sustainocracy can save the human world – This post is especial popular among the growing list of supporters of Sustainocracy as a solution.
Blueprint for prosperity:
I will certainly come back to these in forthcoming posts, as the trusted old world collapses and we all need to put our shoulders under the renewal. From the above posts, and observing the line of progression I made in my own work, we can define the key ingredients for a stable society:
- Ethics should rule (eg. Sustainocracy), not money
- Higher human purpose should lead the democracy, not economies of growths
- Self-sufficiency should prevail in primary requirements (food, housing, energy) to avoid dependencies
- Co-creative craftsmanship should provide sustainable local human progress
- Harmonious partnerships should connect self-sufficient neighboring regions for safety and sharing prosperity
We still have some work to do before this blueprint will be accomplished. What goes for societies, goes for us individually too. We are back again where I started. Change the world by changing first oneself by taking the above blueprint at heart. The rest will come automatically.
Warm regards,
Jean-Paul
We communicate differently when we travel
“Where do we go?” someone asked me when we were talking about the financial crises around the world and the suggestion that everything would break up into one big bang. There are two ways of looking at the question:
- by sitting back in the chair at home and talk about it,
- or while on the road heading for somewhere ourselves.
In both cases we tend to reason differently.
In the chair
When we meet and sit in our chairs to talk about the world, other people, politics, problems, etc we tend to observe and reflect using our own past. We project the items in the discussion on issues stored in our own mind. We use examples of what once happened to us, or was done in the past to us. We mmay refer to a situation when we had to make a decision and compare that again with the way the subjects in our debates take theirs. They are mostly wrong and we were nearly always right. They tend to behave unethically, without consideration and with great self-interest, while we made our decisions back then fully aware of everyone, with excellent balancing of facts and taking decisions with full inner support.
We talk about people and circumstances with prejudism and judgement using ourselves as perfect mirror image to compare to. In fact what we do, we look continuously back. The future is nearly always brought to us by a set of wrong decisions of other people, nearly always in a position of power. We would most certainly do it differently. Of course we admire people too but they deal mostly with a single small part of the complexity of everything, yet that part is repeated over and over again by us as perfect example on how things should be done. It is great to watch the world go down the drain and blame others for it. There is always someone to blame and we have many hours to fill doing so. There is always something to discuss, a chair to sit and someone to discuss it with.
When travelling
With travel I do not refer to a holiday tour or a weekend out with the children. I refer to the personal voyage of going somewhere with an objective, a dream fulfilling exercise getting from A to B. Like me. I am a traveler. Not that I take the car or train or plane a lot these days. Those times of catching a plane nearly ever day are behind me now. Even though I traveled a lot for the companies I work for, in executive sales or marketing, I flew around the world without really getting anywhere. Now I stay home and travel a lot. The difference is in the objective, the A to B. Sales of products or establishing distribution lines may be interesting but I did this for the A to B of the company. My own A to B got me back home every time, not much further though, only maybe higher up in the chain of command. Now I dream of a better or different world. I try to get to a humanitarian dot on the horizon which has to do with human complexities, behavior and organization. I do not have to go far to view the changes I would want to make and start working on it. That is the kind of A to B I refer to with travelling. These A and B are mine, both in origin and destiny.
When I meet people who also have such mission in life we talk about the mission, the destiny and the voyage itself. “What made you depart?”, “Do you travel alone?”, “What have you experienced along the way?”, “How did you get around this or that obstacle?” “Shall we travel together for a while?” etc. The conversation is about the road ahead and what my dream destiny looks like. When we look back we do so to learn, not to criticize. We pick best practice to try it again and see if it still works. We don’t talk about others who have their own voyage, even if they are powerful and sometimes block ours. We tend to try to figure out a way to go about it. It is our destiny that matters not the obstacles, they are there to be dealt with. The talks tend to be constructive, interesting, always with new insights and experiences, optimistic and passionate.
Get up and travel
At STIR we travel all the time since we have a far away goal but we make many pit-stops to see if we are still heading forward and make progress, adjusting our voyage accordingly. We then meet all these sitting people who look at us and tell their mirroring stories how they would have done things. We get read to set off again and invite everyone we meet to come along on our route, our destiny being promisingly better then where we come from. Some come along, others stay behind. But when they join suddenly they talk different too, they look ahead and around, adjusting to the group and offering their own talents along the way.
We surely talk different when we travel.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 