The mission of the New Culture Initiative is to support humanity in applying reinventing culture. It’s to illuminate culture as software so that we have the opportunity to make changes in that which has been the source of our problems.
Partners in the NCI are currently engaging in the process of assessing and developing the ideas of illuminating, reinventing culture, global leadership and other strategies. Since we wouldn’t want to impose these strategies even if we could, the developed ideas need to be packaged in as many media as possible. This includes articles, books, videos, audios, bumper stickers, t-shirts, and every other medium available to share and promote the ideas and strategies.
Of course, we’ll be able to sell many of these communications, just as ideas have always been sold. We’ll be building a brand of hope for people around the world. Partners developing these communications will be able to earn royalties. The non-profit will assure the congruence and quality of communications as well as develop the brand. Ultimately, we hope to produce thousands and thousands of profitable communications in hundreds of languages.
The end result we hope to achieve is for the NCI and its imitators to produce and popularize a critical mass of strategies, the implementation of which will trigger a global transformation; a world where every human is nurtured and cultivated, where human society is vibrant and sustainable, and where life on our planet is robust and secure.
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So, what will your endgame look like? This is all pretty heady stuff. When this incredibly ambitious program becomes wildly successful, what will your world look like? Sure, you say “trigger a global transformation; a world where every human is nurtured and cultivated, where human society is vibrant and sustainable, and where life on our planet is robust and secure” which is well and good (duh!). But I want to a vision that drops down to our streets and neighborhoods and schools and stores and farms. Sounds like some tough rows to hoe, to me!
Wow, Phil. This is a tough one. The goal is to empower people, not to tell them what to do. It’s sort of like doing our best to cultivate our kids. The goal is to help them be successful and good, but leave the “at what” to them.
I can say that I’m confident people are better than we tend to think they are. I attribute most of the deficiencies ascribed to human nature (greed, violence, cravenness, etc.) to the social imperative imposed by the remnants of autocracy.
I don’t mean to wiggle out of answering your question. If it seems like I am, please keep pushing. Thanks for engaging!
I also want to say that I feel a little trepidation in saying how I think the world will turn out. I think that currently, as a society we engage in some magical thinking, like that technology can fix everything and that economic and population growth can go on forever.
I’m confident that Global Leadership will cause a dramatic improvement/maturation of our public discourse. I’m sure we’ll be less likely to bet the farm on wishful thinking.
Life is so good. The rewards of family and community are so deep. As the vast majority of us learn how to achieve these we’ll lose some of our interest in gizmos, gluttony and strident competition to get them.
So how’s this going to look on our streets and neighborhoods and schools and stores and farms? I don’t really know. But I bet it’ll be lower stakes (smaller difference between rich people and poor). I think there’ll be more focus on public goods (public places, art, education, rentable stuff, etc.). I think there will be huge peace, safety (lowered crime) and honesty (lowered corruption) dividends. I think we’ll choose to drop our own population by over half. I think we’ll eschew a portion of our machinery, and limit its uses. I think we’ll choose to share physical work more widely. I think the scales of our economic activity will be more deliberately specified. I think our markets will be deliberately designed, segmented, and more evenly competitive. I think our places will be more integrated with the natural environment. And in my wildest dreams I imagine humanity participating and taking a role in an inter-stellar or galactic society (now there’s a pedestrian view for you ;-)).