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<small>''We '''can''' share a '''realistic''' vision of ''world peace'', promoting and celebrating '''diversity''', creativity and kindness. Contrary to what many often quickly presume, ''global unity'' needs not translate into homogony or conformity; quite far from it in fact.''</small>
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Say we could ask a genie in a bottle for a few wishes, could we even imagine what our ideal utopian world would look like? 

Or how about this, picture a white backdrop and ten thousand pregnant women gently giving birth to newborns. Think, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boss%20Baby Boss Baby]; factory in clouds magically producing babies and getting them ready for their new families and homes. Only this time, try to envision a world into which YOU would want these babies to enter. 

What can you dream up? What sort of world would you want these babies to enter, if you wanted them to live the best lives they could possibly live? Consider these babies to be either your children, siblings, nieces, nephews or cousins; people you care for. Try to reimagine even the concept of ''family'' and ''home'' if you need to; a blank slate or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula%20rasa ''tabula rasa''].

We've become so used to things the way they are, that I don't think many of us could accomplish an act as simple as ''picturing'' a different world. 

If you think you do, think of the sorts of people that would exist in this imaginary world - do you think you would have the same people? If you do, you'd be wrong. Ask any development or education expert on the effects of the environment - or nurture - on an individual, and you may be surprised to know just how dramatic an effect it would have on the person. So, reimagining the environment, by definition, requires the ability to reimagine ourselves, our neighbours - pretty much everything we've come accustomed to.

Test it out! Can '''you''' imagine a world such as the following:

⇒ No countries = No politicians = No lobbyists = No corruption = No deception/manipulation = No (modern day, useless) wars

This surely sounds absurd, even to a troglodyte. A wise and evolved, modern day human would consider this thought to be naive, ignorant or a utopian dream. 

Ok. Let's take it even further. 

If we inspect this imaginary causal chain and assess it (eventually through more detailed discussions, is the ultimate aim here), we find that it has the potential to empower individuals everywhere and nurture diverse communal and municipal cultures. Still a bit dreamy at this point, but if we consider our universal basic need for food, water and shelter, some of us might remember an old anecdote about teaching a wo/man how to fish (rather than giving him/her/anon a fish) as a wise solution to imparting help effectively. 

It would then be beneficial for everyone to reach a minimum level of understanding of themselves and the world they live in. To this aim, we can imagine a complementary humane and universal approach to free quality human learning experiences for everyone, we could mitigate hunger, poverty and fear, and perhaps most pressingly, eradicate modern day warfare. I made it my life mission to create ''at least'' the skeleton for such a solution. I'll need everyone's help in building that too, so we can make it species-wide, accessible by, and applicable to all, customizable to any subjective needs anywhere on the planet - who knows, eventually anywhere in the galaxy or universe... :)

In other words, these few modifiable factors have the potential of changing everything we already (think we) know about how the world '''already''' works (e.g. evolution vs destruction), or how people '''already''' tend to behave (e.g. selfless/selfish). This inherently means that we literally know nothing of how anything would work or what anyone would be like if the world functioned in an entirely different way!

So then, what is stopping us from envisioning something different from the status quo? Ourselves? Our preconceived notions and jaded feelings?

I believe we can do better. At least, that's if we want to continue classifying our species as civilized and intelligent. Otherwise, we may as well pass off such glorified titles to the elephants, or any other species that better reflect or represent such traits; because, we don't.

'''My life is not worth more than yours. Nor yours, worth more than mine. The leaf on the tree making oxygen for us is perhaps worth more than both our lives put together. This is an opportunity to make our choices worth more than that leaf.'''

If we want real change, we all need to agree on what that's going to look like. We all need to understand one another. All of us. 

We now have the tech to build '''and''' implement what could be the first ever Global and Universal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy Direct Democracy], and truly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20government Open Government]!

Yes? No? Do you disagree? 

Great! Let's competently validate - or refute - this seemingly ''dreamy sentiment'' with logic and facts in our [[One House#THE BLUEPRINT | ''Blueprint Discussion sections'']], together!

Shall we?