SURVEY - Designing a Lasting World Peace
Co-operatively.
Please read
the "Designing a Lasting
World Peace Co-operatively" first, as it would make
answering the questions in the survey easier, more to the
point.
The purpose of this survey is to gather people's ideas about what
an ideal world that they would like to live in should look like; to
collect a few individual "recipes", if you'd like, that could
actually be used to make a model of an ideal world "from the
scratch", as if.
Feel free to come back and fill out a new form, or just email me -
modelearth, gmail, - if you have any new ideas. I am also thinking
of starting a forum--please let me know whether this should be
needed.
The responses should be clear, easily understood, and detailed
enough so that by following those "recipes" a world (or, at least,
your corner of it) could be constructed, a world in which it would
be possible to live in. Please use terms that are easy to
understand, so that even young people could use those
"recipes"--the younger a person would be who could follow these
"recipes", the better. Please try to avoid ambiguous generalities
that could be interpreted in different ways by different
people.
Very important--keep on mind that the objective is to design a
world in which a war would be an impossibility. This means that
there are very few features in our world that we currently live in
(social structure, distribution of resources, etc.) that would be
usable in designing a lasting peace on Earth. After all, so far
nothing in this world worked yet that would ensure a lasting world
peace! Perhaps all the features of the design have to be thought
out completely anew!?
After there are enough many individual designs gathered, the
challenge will be to compare all the "recipes", pick out the best
features of those, and unify all the best features in one final
design--a design that would have to be judged by all the
participants as being optimal and acceptable by all. This is
because we cannot live in our own individual worlds, but have only
one to share at a time.
This whole enterprise could be seen as Utopian, but there is one
important difference. Most Utopias were the product of idealistic
individuals; The lasting world Peace "Utopia" would be the product
of virtually all who would share the Earth.
Designing a world in which any kind of differences, controversies,
and any conflicts would be resolved by, if need be, a constant
co-operative designing of the communal co-existence has to
happen with the participation of all who are to share such a
world--if only a few people would be barred from the designing
process that would already engender future controversies and
conflicts, giving a rise to even violent confrontations. It has to
be made sure that all participate in the design--reconciling our
differences in models (of any kind--from mental ones to
computer-based ones) would be incomparably more efficient and less
costly than doing it in real time/space with a horrendous waste of
lives, time, and resources!
By the time that all locally based communities decide to live truly
sustainably (because living sustainably is a transparent process,
one that doesn't create problems for the future--who would ever
want to consciously include any problems in the design?), no
hi-tech tools would be necessary for resolving all the differences,
controversies, and any conflicts, because all those could be dealt
with locally, by just getting together and resolving them to
everybody's satisfaction
I'll try to devise a way how to keep everybody informed; it would
not hurt to check Google Groups-ModelEarth - from time to time to see
what, if anything, is going on. Again--would a forum be
needed?
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