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Here are some more visions that have been submitted. Send in your visions
of what a new civilization is going to be, or what it IS.
- Flemming
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** Roland N Verrier <verrier@solutions.mb.ca>, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada **
What I see, is our children to seniors of the world, starting and
finishing their years in happiness.
The exodus from the asphalt cities, to single, 2,000 person, domed
structured, self sustainable, village communities. Generating it's own
power and surplus for the surrounding area, with it's glass coated solar
cell, hemisphere. Most would be the size of the base of the great pyramid,
but rounded not square, 3,000 feet in circumference. Living inside and
outside, at the base of it's perimeter wall, the inside center can be
designed, to any eden. Seniors would enjoy these homes the most, while
sharing the open space, with the same cultural friend. Transportation in
the area, would be by small, plug in electric vehicles, to electric transit
system and to other same or larger structure and open recreational parks
areas. This would give people a large automated environment, from the harsh
and uncontrolled outside planetary imbalance. Whether these are situated in
the cold climate or hot regions, the extremes are functional, for all
human being on our planet today .
But all this is a dream, for the few, if there is no foundation for
it's realization to life. We have, condition our selves, that money is the
solution and the problem in our lives. Ideas, volunteering, motivation and
commitments are the keys, to the result, of this inevitable future, sooner,
then later.
The end result, has no money exchange for the basics of life, credit is a
form of above average life goals and business. The answer to this
realization, is 2By2, a transformation from this old way of conducting our
exchanges and affairs, to a base equelazation, through the whole known
world.
Starting by forming 2,000 person village communities around local
shcools, in ones own exiting city and or country area, all over the world.
As a starting projects, with the young and engineers of one's area,
calculating on maps, the best groupings, from 1,000 to 3,000 person
village. These are for getting back to conscious area living, for taking
care of one's surroundings and helping and
sharing each others needs. A 10 member commity, with a 2 year revolving
term, volunteering for spicific needed project, in ones village.
The 2By2 Base Foundation, is a simple 2$. A computer program would be
available to all banks around the world and linked to each other, working
in unison and keeping an equalized function. People in their area banks,
would put their 2$ or more in their name and village area name, in an
already specified, no withdraw floating bank account. The one's who have
given more 2$, are floated to neighboring villages, thereby rippling to
difference area's of the world. These first 2$ level in your village bank,
is put in the longest savings term deposit, interest paying account,
waiting for the next level jump, all over the world to 4$. If all people,
from your village has given 2$, the total would
be 4,000 dollars, interest paying account, for your village. To best
utilize these interest, is by separating the 2$ in half. To start the first
project Milk, the interest for the 1$ stays in the village area for the
purchase of milk only, for the local school, seniors home, food lines etc.
The interest for the
other 1$ goes to and throw United Nation, again for the purchase of Milk
only. When all the people of the world, have their 2$, and functioning
villages, by utilizing those moneys for their village area needs and
progress, thereby equalizing the world in our basic needs. Seven main
projects or in mind.
Thereby you have a shared involvement and commitment by all the People
of the World. The people with more to give will give much to feed the pot.
There are more details and function at the 2By2 Web Site:
http://www.OneWorldSolution2By2.MB.Ca/verrier/
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** Gregory Hansell <ghansel1@www.swarthmore.edu>, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania **
This is just part of my vision, a part which concerns the reformation of
relationships, including friendships and romantic endeavors. My vision is
the elmination of the labels which ultimately destroy relationships or at
least keep them from reaching their utmost potential. In any relationship,
it is the implicitly transfered feelings and emotions which create the
need, want, and desire to be with someone and share one's self with them.
Absent of contricting and conflicting labels, such a relationship can
quickly and easily become the ideal described by James Redwood's The
Celestine Prophesy, in the chapter entitled "The Interpersonal Ethic."
Here Redwood describes a "super-person," or two self-completed people who
connect romantically to act not as two halves, but as two combined wholes.
The labels that prevent such combinations are those which the status quo
metes out to two people as the move through different levels of a
pre-defined social relationship structure. More simply put, as two people
"get serious" (i.e. Spend most of their time together; get involved
romantically or sexually; etc) they obtain the labels of dating, going out,
commited, and so on. Each of these labels carries with it pre-set
limitations and expectations which in turn cause the conflicts between two
people. Such conflicts include fear of "commmitment" and the sudden need
to "see other people," simply because they become suddenly aware that given
their current situation, they're "not supposed to." Therefore, with the
elimination of such labels, people can explore eachother and themselves
through other more freely, as they have no limitations or constraints.
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** Art Wolfe <CPCKWolfe@aol.com>, USA **
I envision a society having:
Democratic world government -- no nation, nor group of nations, to have
super-power -- the U.S.A. needs to remove its military forces from the 100+
nations in which it is currently active.
Earth pilot program -- an organization needs to be formed to detect and
monitor asteroids and comets that may be on a collision path with earth,
with means to divert such objects (to avoid accidental extermination of
earth life forms and of human civilization.)
Economic democracy -- every citizen to have the right to economic as well
as political determination.
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** Steve Moyer <nodes@rhombus.net> **
My vision of the New Civilization involves the creation of a
new kind of intelligence, a symbiotic intelligence between people
and computer software.
The Internet is giving us the ability to augment each other's
intelligence. Using specially designed software called "collaborative
ratings software" we can begin to discern "quality" ideas, values and
products. Over time, a collaborative ratings system, used
by millions of people all over the world, will let us discern
what the best "solutions" are for any given problem. We don't
need leaders who are "elected" to serve a term, we need to
have quality LEADERSHIP, which is an entirely different matter.
In a collaborative ratings system such as I am suggesting,
everyone could rate ANY RESOURCE on the Internet, any product that
has a UPC code (bar code), or any individual registered with
the system. In such a way, we could identify the ideas, individuals,
and products that are "quality" in terms of our purpose.
To a large extent we have the government we deserve. We have a
system which profits from the ignorance of the people. That is
why the Internet is so signficant a development for humanity; it
is the first time we can "pool our intellectual resources" and
overcome our collective and individual ignorance. Imagine yourself
as an "enlightened consumer" in the global marketplace of ideas.
The Internet is making it so.
A collaborative ratings system which lets anyone rate ANY THING
will create an enormous amount of data. But computers are good
at crunching data into meaningful information. Eventually,
we will find the people and the ideas that we should be attending
to, and who we should ignore. It may take time, but eventually
we will be able to judge by consistent results. Some people will
be good evaluators of ideas in a particular area of life. Their
judgement can be trusted because it has been shown to be "true
and valid" and consistently correct. These are the people who
should be leading us, rather than those who have "conned" us
into thinking they are good people.
Never mind whether they smoked pot in college or were arrested for
bathing in the park fountain at midnight. It's not material to their
judgment of how to run the economy. If they have proven their good
judgement over a long period of time, then we should listen to them.
Moreover, we will look at "where the consensus is emerging"
among the many people who have demonstrated good judgement in the
past. It is this "enlightened consensus" which will rule, rather than
a few select individuals. Once we know what that consensus is, we can
each take personal responsibility to "make it so."
This is what I see in the future for the New Civilization.
For more info, read my document:
NODES: The Intelligent Internet
http://gen.com/solutions/nodes/
Peace, love and harmony,
Steve Moyer
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** Ajay.A <ajay.a@bigfoot.com>, India **
I am Ajay, a member of NCN. I live in Bangalore, India. I am a graphic
designer, artist ,writer & poet.
I am not so pessimistic about the food scene. I beleive we have passed
the worst. It is not the scarcity of food that is causing hunger to
persist but the lack of opportunity to earn enough to feed oneself, that
is causing it now. My beliefs about this are in alignment with those of
The Hunger Project (THP)
They have been working towards ending the persistence of hunger for
the last 20 years. I know that they have achieved unimaginable results
thus far.
This is their vision:-------------------------------
A Future Free from Hunger
The vision of a world free from hunger does not look like our present
reality minus the problem of hunger.
Our vision of the future is not based on everyone achieving a
Western-style, high-consumption lifestyle, which we know to be
environmentally unsustainable even for the 1 billion people who now live
it. Nor does it permit one-fifth of the human family to continue to live
in abject poverty.
The Hunger Project is committed to transcending this polarity -- to
creating a future that rejects the inevitability of hunger and
recognizes the limitations of a consumeristic society.
Achieving the sustainable end of hunger means nothing less than creating
a new future for all humanity -- a future where:
* Every day, every person has enough of the right food to be healthy
and productive;
* Babies are born healthy and strong, and girl babies are prized as
much as
boy babies;
* Women and girls are full partners in society;
* Children stay alive, so parents can choose to have smaller
families;
* People are restored to control over their own lives and destinies,
and
* All individuals have a chance to contribute;
* The cultural values of honoring human beings and nature flourish.
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I end with words of Federico Garcia Lorca:
" The day that hunger is
eradicated from the earth, there
will be the greatest spiritual
explosion the world has ever
known.
Humanity cannot imagine the
joy that will burst into the
world on the day of that great
revolution. "
This letter is complete, but the conversation is not. I am willing to
have it continue.
love,
Ajay
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** Evan Brooks <e521@hotmail.com>, Southern Ontario **
Cities are for bankers and prostitutes Frank said. I see a
future of smaller communities with natural architecture. Small
power sources. The celestine prophesy is good.
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** Carl <afrj60a@prodigy.com>, Kentucky **
The creator sends the message: LOVE ONE ANOTHER
The messengers have come to many parts of the world, in many ages, in many
cultures, in many times. Jesus of Nazareth, Rama, Budda, Mohammed, and
others. Those who accept and live the message live through all eternity.
The neworld and new age is now, has always been, and will continue forever.
All are invited to join the world of love here on earth, and through
this... life eternal. The creator and the creation.
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** John Antoine Labadie <labadie@nat.uncp.edu> **
Indeed a wide diversity of visions.
I submit mine. As a visual artist in the digital age my work in
traditional media continues but painting with light has evolved
...perhaps as it needed to. Some of my current works can be viewed at
<http://wncp.uncp.edu/ArtGal/index.html>
Will share more images, or dialogue, it someone wishes. My work
suggests that virtual visions can be our experience ... and can form the
works themselves.
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** Charles Davis <loonatic@pacbell.net> **
... this is sort of a "how to" concept.
The Internet, although it is technology should be used as a tool
to enlightened and connect the globe. The next generation will depend
upon the Internet as a "source" for the next "world view", so it is
important for persons concerned with peace, nature, and the new attitude
should put up a Web Page promoting thier new vision. Those less
creative could support a World-trans-Web Master webpage construction
group, this group would find people (via a vote?) who have good and
creative ideas and then offer them free technological help in
constructing a Web Page (as many people with good ideas and information
lack the computer skills to construct a web page on their own). Each
site constructed would be provided with a link-page to all the other
sites advocating spiritual and environmental issues. Thus, as they put
computers in all the schools the new generations could access MANY WEB
PAGES that would promote harmony (etc) and this would expand the
on-going interest and activity in transformational ideas. This could be
done if sources like Geocities allowed Web Construction companies a
"temporary pass word" which would allow enough time to put the site
together, once the site is constructed and approved by owner then the
source, such as Geocities (just as a example) would void the "temporary
work pass" and only the owner with the real pass word could enter to
make changes. Also would safeguard the owners pass-word.
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Send in your visions to ffunch@newciv.org
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