We all have imagined a solution for all those problems affecting our world. War, misery, poverty, hunger, pollution, crime and endless forms of suffering, affects all living beings and ecosystems.
What we have not imagined is that all of these negative consequences can be part of the same deep cause.
And this chief problem we have to take consciousness is the way we organize our lives in society.
In our recent history, the same model of organization appears everywhere, the hierarchical system.
Hierarchy organization accumulate power and influence in a few individuals, ordered and categorized, who write, plan, decide and organize the past, present and future of all individuals in the inferior levels of the classification, building a vertical relationship represented graphically as a pyramidal structure.
Any example of organizing assuming this structure, fails in satisfying the expectative of wellbeing assumedly granted for everybody in it. This brings us to the democracy concept. A system of organization where all parts and individuals share the power, without superiority or inferiority relationships. No inequality, opposed to the actual reality, where the implicit hierarchy of power provoke more unfair and unequal distribution of global wealth over time.
The few, at the top of the pyramid have more and more, while the many have less, tough also increases in number thought time.
Globalization is spreading this egoistic way of living, capitalism. With a free market vision, based upon individualism, competence, infinite accumulation and unlimited growth, where more is better and if it is now the best. Generating a greater production for greater consumption, involving continued exploitation of all available resources, and even overcoming human and natural consequences in favour of capital and their products.
Isn’t contradictory that a system likes that is still operating? Where the value of life and people is below money and things.
Where things are loved while people are being used.
Where the separation of yourself (Ego) from the others with individualism, or separating an intern group (We) from an external one (They), leading to comparisons, prejudices and discriminations of entire collectives of individuals, creating categorization, marginality, exclusion and oppression. Giving rise to hate, wrath and feelings contrary to a vision of live based on love, solidarity, cooperation, and compassion as the dominant values.
It is true that we are moving in this direction, and all social and popular movements fought and fight against the injustice.
But in most of the cases, the systemic problems are still revealing itself to a lesser extent or implicitly. Not all forms of slavery, racism, gender and sexual orientation discrimination are gone.
If we want to truly eradicate these and all other avoidable problems, the moral values will have to spread over the consciousness of all cultures.
The moral circle is expanding, and more people learn that organization can be better, and unlearn the values (established or inherited) that are not working well for everyone. Our moral sense brings to the realization that our behaviour and organization in community life can be adapted and transformed by decision.
Reason and a more evolved consciousness allow us, differently than other animals, to let go of violence and hierarchy as model of organizing, going beyond the genetic egoism, in the struggle for survival (honor culture nowadays), and considering any conflict resolution via war, violence or competence between the parties implicated, as incorrect, immoral and unethical.
And it’s logical that these individuals will have to join for the transformation of a system ruled by those who want to hold that powers. The “divide and rule” principle is letting the few powerful to maintain their dominance and control all the way to the present.
Then, what can be done?
Keeping up this awakening of a more human and moral consciousness. Accelerating this evolution, which inevitably will have to transform the established, otherwise will finish with our own extinction. This planet is not ours alone.
We start to understand that everything is connected, that all parts are necessary, where the whole is the sum of its components. Organizing a network model of interrelationships where we individually build and shape to the global together, integrating, caring and respecting all participants.
With alternatives existing planning economies more interested and focused in the common, and politic done in common, with real and direct democracy.
Transforming the economic and politic systems, the other fields, now subjected to them, will also benefit by the systemic changes.
The proposition for these solutions for the system, failing around us and have failed for so much lives will not come from the powerful. Despite the efforts of lots of philanthropists, or the advances and findings of science and technology (funded by the same as always), or the compensating of disparity with punctual helps or charity and beneficence, perhaps we should change our final goal.
We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking used when we created them. Critical thought must be used, not only a mere moderation of the eternal progress of growth (austerity and periodic crisis). Even civil disobedience against unfair and oppressive laws and rules. Remember, we are the majority. The machine is depending on us.
We Are The System.
With our acts and actions we keep the system running, without these labor and working contribution, it stops. Without unlimited exploitation, production and consumption chain, the market collapses, as we have seen many times, and then needs more to survive.
You can’t expect to see change if you never do anything differently. After all, every time you spend money, you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
We have to respond to the profound challenge of our time.
An increasing number of proposals, projects, movements, initiatives for transformative change are emerging suggesting that it is possible to build another system beyond the failed systems of the past and present, and indicates that the traditional thinking domination has already started to weaken.
With this human species consciousness, collectives not limited by frontiers, flags, nationality, social class, and not subject to the pacted symbolisms of money for example, will finally show that we are all humans. And demonstrate that local, global, and cooperation in all in-between levels, works better and more efficiently than competence and egoism showed by nations-states and corporations with their own interests and profit seeking.
A decentralization of power makes organization independent at local level, with better self-management and self-sufficient projects, with initiatives more concerned about the human and environment. In most cases searching harmony with these ecosystems, taking example of its natural organization and self-reliance, pointed out by permaculture, bio-mimicry and bioregionalism.
Ecologic movements and activism join the voices of the indigenous communities, for the protection and preservation of the resources of the land, from the relentless advance of the extraction and exploitation of our home, mother Earth.
This global movement wont be listened without everyone implied in it. If we connect, communicate and organize the transition to stop this hurried and mad world. If you choose to do nothing, you become part of the problem.
One of the first things to do, is be critic with all the information coming to us in multiple ways.
Its logical that mass media and diffuse and emit what interests them (plus economic and politic interests behind as always), reporting about certain news, biased and partial mostly, and occulting, distorting and even creating some of that information.
That’s why filtering and pondering is necessary. And learn how to access and select more independent and objective knowledge.
Embracing the true potential of Internet and virtual social networks.
Sharing and building a common knowledge without secrecy, available for everyone, not just designated elites, free to manipulate and influence on the world point of view of the masses addressed by the media.
An apathetic and passive vision, diverted from the politics and economics field. Hooked into consumerism of all kinds. Even entertainment industries and show businesses like sports or music, TV and cinema contribute to this population disconnection.
Changing everyday activities and routines is the key point of this revolution. Acting different locally for a global change.
It is time to explore the alternatives. Our goal is to give voice and debate. Raise public awareness and empowering people. Searching for consensus. Searching a convergence in the organization of this big issue, maybe one of the most vitals in our lives.
We are exactly who we are waiting for.
Knowledge is power,
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Economic alternatives examples: cooperativism, alternative currencies, local economies, Transition Movement, the sharing economy, the caring economy, the solidarity economy, the restorative economy, the sustaining economy, the resilient economy, participatory economics…
More politic and activism initiatives: 350.org, The Next System Project, Xnet, DemocracyOS, Anonymous, We Are Change, Earth Guardians, World Forum for Alternatives, Collective Evolution, Alternative News Project, NuMundo, Kosmos Journal , Naomi Klein, , Charles Eisenstein, Noam Chomsky, The Venus Project, World Public Opinion…
