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Pronounced One 'Ouse (without the 'H') when uttered by my percussionist friends in Sierra Leone, on the western coast of Africa. The Vietnamese, all the way out on the Eastern coast of Asia, say "Mot Nha," which means... you guessed it, One House! The Senegalese parallel is "On Est Ensemble", meaning "We are together". Expressions such as these are common for folks around the planet, all sharing in a sense or feeling of unity. We are drawn to this behaviour regardless of how little we may understand it ("survival in numbers" or tribalism is the neuropsychological explanation). Regardless of how ambitiously we may be striving for excellence on our own individual paths and journeys, it seems as though the collective and the individual are not mutually exclusive entities. They may as well be as intertwined and interdependent as a human brain and its vital organs.

The Big Question: Do we know what world peace looks like? Can we envision an entirely different approach to life on earth? How would our planet function if we wanted everyone to have a good standard of living and quality of life? Has anyone ever thought to define world peace with precision? Can any single person or group of persons have such answer(s) ready for the entire world to accept and adopt?

History Repeating Itself: The following (appeal to emotion) video is of the once famous Charlie Chaplin, calling us out on our kindness (and blindness), almost a century ago now. Bring up the transcript and translate it if you need to, and consider replacing the reference to God with Life or Existence if the term bothers you.

Do you think this message is wishful and dreamy? If so, have you ever stopped to ponder whether you were taught to think exactly that?

Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator Speech If needed, you can download the Text/Transcript directly from Youtube

The Call to Action: Though a seemingly ambitious objective, you and I can make it our mission to define such World Peace, an unprecedented globally defined and accepted blueprint of what life on earth could and should be like. We can start right here, right now, until we're all good and ready to do whatever it is we all decide we need to do to get there, including all plans and strategies on how we will transition to this shared vision. The more voices participate, the less bias, and more universal and inclusive our objectives will be. It truly is that simple.

We could also wait for people like George Soros to design Open Society concepts for us, and then accept our fate as to how we should live however it is others continue to design and decide for us. Think, what is really stopping us from designing an alternate reality, except us? Every existing story we cease to believe in, strips away all power attributed to the authority in that story. From money, to nations, to sects and institutions, all those entrusted to lead are only in charge because we gave them that right, simply by believing that we need them. We can do much better. You know it. I know it. We all know it. We were all led to believe the ultimate story, that "that's just the way it is; things will always be the same" - and we continue(d?) to believe it. I don't. I hope you will see what I see.

#YouAndMe #ToiEtMoi #TuYYo #NiHeWo #IntaWAna #BanVaToi #LetsDefineWorldPeaceTogether

THE BLUEPRINT

This will be a living document and shapeable however we see fit; none of it is meant to be forever static; every part of this Blueprint is open to (and welcoming of) debate, critique, and most importantly, change.

The Discussion and Debate Kickoff
Imagine being a newborn baby with no knowledge of what life is like; only that you will (likely) live your entire life on this planet we call Earth. How would you want life to be? What would you create, build, engineer, design, explore, or how would you spend your time? How would you want your mother or father or daughter or son or friend or neighbour or stranger to be spending their time? How would you help them live, if you cared to?

We need to start somewhere. So, why not start with how we currently divide it? Why is it divided the way it is, what's the use of such divisions or more importantly, how do these divisions improve our lives? Can we do better? If not, why not, and if so, what do we envision? What can we envision, especially if we can allow our mind to roam free of its preconceived notions?

Administrative Regions to identify global regional needs based on topology, weather and other environmental factors
Energy Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
Food Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
Water Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
Other Natural Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
Property Ownership including Equity, Equality and Meritocracy, with a globally accepted and humane min and max
Value Exchange Systems including Markets, Economies and Incentives, with a globally accepted and humane min and max
Taxation flat and consistent as a globally accepted and humane value, based on the newly envisioned value exchange system
Infrastructure such as Public Works and Shared Services that include Transportation, Communication, Healthcare and Welfare
Policy and our overarching approach to global consensus, replacing all existing trade agreements
Legislation basic universal human law similar to the golden rule with community-based amendments
Enforcement to police, defend, serve and enforce the application of the universal human laws and their community-based amendments
Human and Environmental Prosperity including Research and Development, and our Collective Human and Humane Advancement as a whole
Personal Growth including Learning Experiences, Healthy Lifestyles and Personal Development
Culture as an umbrella for all forms of Arts, Humanely Evolving Traditions, and Celebration of Diversity

Each of these will evidently require Pilot → Migration → Transition → Exit/Revision plans (Preliminary Migration and Transition Plan) to bring us from the existing state to our more desirable objectives.

This collaborative MediaWiki approach to dialogue can help us ensure relevance and inclusion, especially as translation and accessibility software keep improving. Engagement and participation can inherently make us fully accountable for, and accepting of, the world we eventually rebuild together. Not one of us can figure this out alone - it must be a collaborative effort.

THE BACKEND WISHBONE

The backend functionality, sustainability, theories and perspectives; the vision and mission, should we choose to accept it.

Purpose, Mission and Vision What is One House and why? (Some of) The (long-winded, but impactful) thinking behind the mission
The Drive, The Push, The Pull More on why we need this platform (Working on video; ping me if you want to help)
Perennial Illusions More of the opening lines, moved into subsections for easier processing.
A Time for Change Initial call to action.
Guideline: Keep it Simple Free tools exist that can develop our dialogue and debate.
Technical and Financial One'Ouse Project Setup, Configuration, Management Costs and Sustainability
Author Just another human like you, great alone, but synergistically awesome if/when we stand together

    Curiosity leads to discovery.
    Discovery sparks new feelings.
    Feelings inform our learning.
    Learning feeds our growth.

    So Living without Growth is likely to Feel like a mundane, plateau of existence devoid of any meaning.

    In other words,
    Discovering, is Feeling;
    Feeling, is Learning;
    Learning, is Growing.
    Growing, is Living.

    Life is not a fight. It's a dance. We can all enjoy surfing these frequencies, together.

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-== A NATION IS BORN! ...BUT WHAT DID IT COST US? ==
+<small>''Pronounced One 'Ouse (without the 'H') when uttered by my percussionist friends in Sierra Leone, on the western coast of Africa. The Vietnamese, all the way out on the Eastern coast of Asia, say "Mot Nha," which means... you guessed it, One House! The Senegalese parallel is "On Est Ensemble", meaning "We are together". Expressions such as these are common for folks around the planet, all sharing in a sense or feeling of unity. We are drawn to this behaviour regardless of how little we may understand it ("survival in numbers" or tribalism is the neuropsychological explanation). Regardless of how ambitiously we may be striving for excellence on our own individual paths and journeys, it seems as though the collective and the individual are not mutually exclusive entities. They may as well be as intertwined and interdependent as a human brain and its vital organs.''</small>
-The century old Israel-Palestine conflict is all of a sudden the new hype in 2023; it only took a disaster on the Israeli side of the border to trigger it ([https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-amid-humanitarian-disaster-in-gaza-sanders-urges-world-to-act/#:~:text=Then%20came%20the%20October%207th,including%20young%20children%20and%20grandparents. October 7th, 2023]).
-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine Goodbye Ukraine]! Hasta La Vista [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97qRUqYLNu0&t post-covid excess deaths]. The newest and latest talk-of-the-''global''-town is here; no different from the use of buzzwords like ''The Cloud'' and ''AI'', while the majority of ''debaters'' hold a prestigious degree in ''Youtube-TikTok-Certified Understanding'' of the given matter.
-...and so just like everyone else in this self-proclaimed ''informed citizens'' majority, all of us who are quick to get sucked into ''being in the know'', I too had to try to inform myself on this new hype! A friend eventually shared this seemingly objective [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Q2t5r5o_k&t YouYube documentary (oh the irony) recounting the views of Israeli and Palestinian individuals] (officials and civilians) who were there in 1948.
-Now if we (the people; the masses; the 99.9%) can somehow manage to avoid sympathizing with either side for only a moment, reason and logic alone would tell us that this cyclical (if not circular) endeavour appears to be endless (if not pointless) in nature.
+''' The Big Question:''' Do we know what ''world peace'' looks like? Can we envision an entirely different approach to life on earth? How would our planet function if we wanted everyone to have a good standard of living and quality of life? Has anyone ever thought to define ''world peace'' with '''precision'''? Can any single person or group of persons '''have''' such answer(s) ready for the entire world to accept and adopt?
+<br><br>
-'''...and then we may ask, how can ''good'' young men ''anywhere'' exercise such a devastating form of brutality against life? '''
-No, sorry. It's not because ''they'' are monsters, and ''we'' are good. That's just what some very influential psychopaths want you to believe. Don't just take my word for it, in 1988, Noam Chomsky (who some of my young, slightly more ignorant and yet supposedly-well-educated Canadian friends call "a loon") co-authored [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing%20Consent Manufacturing Consent]. This book was so threatening to these psychopaths that it was forcefully pulled off the shelves by the umbrella media conglomerate that owned the small publishing company at the time. Chomsky hit back up dozens of well-researched publications, including the mindboggling content in Profit Over People (1999) and Failed States (2006), just to name a select few that dared to challenge the Goliath that the U.S. of A. has proved to be.
+''' History Repeating Itself:''' The following (appeal to emotion) video is of the ''once famous'' Charlie Chaplin, calling us out on our kindness (and blindness), almost a century ago now. Bring up the transcript and translate it if you need to, and consider replacing the reference to God with Life or Existence if the term bothers you.
-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daron%20Acemoglu Acemoglu is another brilliant writer who co-authored Why Nations Fail (2012) and The Narrow Corridor (2019)], underpinning the frailty that is involved in spawning and maintaining a well-balanced nation (or a "Shackled Leviathan", as they called it); a nation that can truly champion freedom and justice for all its citizens.
+Do you think this message is wishful and dreamy? If so, have you ever stopped to ponder whether you were taught to think '''exactly''' that?
+<br>
+{{#ev:youtube|J7GY1Xg6X20|640x360|center|Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator Speech If needed, you can download the Text/Transcript directly from Youtube}}
-One might consider, what about the authors' incentives behind authoring these books? Were they working for the Russians or the Chinese? Well, a professor of mine at Carleton University, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal%20Marlin Randal Marlin], also published ''Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion'' (2002) discussing the various manipulation techniques that have been in use for millennia. His course wasn't only eye opening; it was well needed wide-awakening slap in my face. Randal, whose classes I attended in the flesh, also happened to be part of the Clinton Administration back in the 90s; so, even if my younger friends want to label him another basket-case, Goliath himself certainly did not.
-Endless other authors like them have written on such topics and yet their proposed perspectives and arguments remain almost entirely absent in the typical ''educated'' conversations that seem to take place, as if unbeknownst to the average citizen. Perhaps [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%20Against%20Fire Black Mirror's ''Men Against Fire''] presents the most modern and crystal clear approach to how collective illusions can be weaponized and targeted to generate individual perceptions that are completely rooted in inculcated myths, aiming only to cultivate intolerance, hate and division. I recommend everyone watch at least this episode (if not all of them) and then reflect on our comparable, inconsistent and often questionable human tendencies and behaviours. That's all, just, reflect.
+''' The Call to Action:''' Though a seemingly ambitious objective, you and I can make it our mission to define such ''World Peace'', an unprecedented globally defined and accepted blueprint of what life on earth could '''and should''' be like. We can start right here, right now, until we're all good and ready to do whatever it is we all decide we need to do to get there, including all plans and strategies on how we will transition to this shared vision. The more voices participate, the less bias, and more universal and inclusive our objectives will be. It truly is '''that''' simple.
-Back to the seemingly unresolvable Pal-Israel conflict(s), I had to wonder, how are nations formed in the first place? I mean, did it look any different when settlers took over indigenous lands? Does the creation of a nation always entail devastation? It turns out that Columbia University professor and historian Rashid Khalidi had already examined century old primary sources behind this particular conflict and thought to ask these very same questions ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years%27_War_on_Palestine see his title ''The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'', 2020]). Obviously, this author was criticized for minimizing the Palestinian aggression.
+<small>''We could also wait for people like [https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/george-soros George Soros to design Open Society concepts for us], and then accept our fate as to how we should live however it is ''others'' continue to design and decide for us. Think, what is really stopping us from designing an alternate reality, except us? Every existing story we cease to believe in, strips away all power attributed to the authority in that story. From money, to nations, to sects and institutions, all those entrusted to lead are only in charge because we gave them that right, simply by believing that we need them. We can do much better. You know it. I know it. We all know it. We were all led to believe the ultimate story, that "that's just the way it is; things will always be the same" - and we continue(d?) to believe it. I don't. I hope you will see what I see.''</small>
+<br><br>
-As a third party observer, I just finished watching the a council meeting of concerned nations alarmingly requesting a cease fire of the ongoing brutal Israeli retaliation, labeling it as an inhumane war crime, guilty of unjustifiably murdering thousands of innocent children (I write this passage now, on 11 Nov, 2023; over a month since the 7 Oct Hamas attack). I'm no theorist, but I think I'm equipped with enough neurons to recognize that Israel's ''current'' behaviour, today, right now, aligns perfectly with Khalidi's claims. No, it's not as complex as you're made to believe or think.
-Read such historical books for yourself - not theology but history - including Daniel Cordis' contrasting perspective ''Israel'' (2016), then form your own opinions - not the ones you pick up from your friends, parents or Tik Tok videos. War is never a solution; not for the people. It's not about Islam vs Christianity or Capitalism vs Communism. These are seeds that turn our lizard brains into hate machines, feeding the oldest ''Us vs Them'' tribal mentality, playing into the dichotomous nature of the ''Divide and Conquer'' tactic of the ruler. The people are weakest when divided.
+''#YouAndMe    #ToiEtMoi     #TuYYo    #NiHeWo    #IntaWAna    #BanVaToi    #LetsDefineWorldPeaceTogether''
-Maybe we have been duped into playing a losing game all along? Maybe, there's been a better way to do things but, we just never stopped to think.. '''how'''? A starting mindset that I would encourage stems from an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20 old speech made by Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator]. Black and White ancient and yet very relevant today - soldiers need to put down their weapons. Have a listen, it's only a few minutes long.
-I've also heard of the [https://thenetworkstate.com/ Network State] amongst other pilot programs attempting at sustainable societies. I'm a fan and contributor to the [https://LinkPower.eco LinkPower] movement that's just taking fruition in Vietnam. I love what Wikipedia and Open Source are about, and how Jimmy Wales refuses to take the billions that he could (although there may be a darker side to his story that I'm oblivious to? If so, please enlighten me).
-What do you love? What are you a fan of? Is there a way that we can bring all of our good ideas together to make something absolutely, unprecedently, monumentally amazing - something that works for '''all''' of us?
-Why not start right here and right now? Until we come up with something better, together.
-== A TIME FOR CHANGE ==
-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?
-We've become so used to things the way they are, I don't think many of us could accomplish an act as simple as ''picturing'' a different world.
-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! What would a (hopefully) much wiser and evolved, modern day human think? Naive, ignorant or dreamy?
-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. If, we can imagine a complementary humane and universal approach to free quality human learning experiences for everyone (which is a project that I have turned into my life's mission, going on 8yrs now), we could eventually mitigate hunger, poverty and fear, and perhaps most pressingly, eradicate modern day warfare.
-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 [[#THE BLUEPRINT | ''Blueprint Discussion sections'']], together!
-Shall we?
 == THE BLUEPRINT ==
-We all need '''your''' ''vote'' - yes, '''your thoughts and opinions''' - on each and every element that matters to you.
+This will be a living document and shapeable however we see fit; none of it is meant to be forever static; every part of this Blueprint is open to (and welcoming of) debate, critique, and most importantly, change.
-Such a collaborative approach ensures relevance and inclusion for everyone. This inherently promotes further engagement and participation, and makes us all fully accountable for, and accepting of the choices we all eventually agree on.
+'''The Discussion and Debate Kickoff'''<br>
+''Imagine being a newborn baby with no knowledge of what life is like; only that you will (likely) live your entire life on this planet we call Earth. How would you want life to be? What would you create, build, engineer, design, explore, or how would you spend your time? How would you want your mother or father or daughter or son or friend or neighbour or stranger to be spending their time? How would you help them live, if you cared to?''<br>
-Revisions are unavoidable, so amendments will certainly play a part too. This is by definition and necessity, a living document.
+''We need to start somewhere. So, why not start with how we currently divide it? Why is it divided the way it is, what's the use of such divisions or more importantly, how do these divisions improve our lives? Can we do better? If not, why not, and if so, what do we envision? What can we envision, especially if we can allow our mind to roam free of its preconceived notions?''<br>
-Remember that none of this initial proposal was meant to be static. Every part of this Blueprint is open to debate, critique, and most importantly, change!
-Not one of us can figure this out alone - it '''must be''' a collaborative effort!
 # [[Administrative Regions]] to identify global regional needs based on topology, weather and other environmental factors
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 # [[Personal Growth]] including Learning Experiences, Healthy Lifestyles and Personal Development
 # [[Culture]] as an umbrella for all forms of Arts, Humanely Evolving Traditions, and Celebration of Diversity
 Each of these will evidently require '''Pilot → Migration → Transition → Exit/Revision plans''' ([[Preliminary Migration and Transition Plan]]) to bring us from the existing state to our more desirable objectives.
-== THE GUIDELINE, NICE AND SIMPLE ==
+<small>This collaborative MediaWiki approach to dialogue can help us ensure relevance and inclusion, especially as translation and accessibility software keep improving. Engagement and participation can inherently make us fully accountable for, and accepting of, the world we eventually rebuild together. Not one of us can figure this out alone - it '''must be''' a collaborative effort. </small>
-<big>Keep your contributions civil, constructive and collaborative.
-There's zero room and zero tolerance for indecency andor abuse.
+== THE BACKEND WISHBONE ==
-</big>
+The backend functionality, sustainability, theories and perspectives; the vision and mission, should we choose to accept it.
+* [[Purpose, Mission and Vision]] What is One House and why? (Some of) The (long-winded, but impactful) thinking behind the mission
+* [[The Drive, The Push, The Pull]] More on why we need this platform (Working on video; ping me if you want to help)
+* [[Perennial Illusions]] More of the opening lines, moved into subsections for easier processing.
+* [[A Time for Change]] Initial call to action.
+* [[Guideline: Keep it Simple]] Free tools exist that can develop our dialogue and debate.
+* [[Technical and Financial]] One'Ouse Project Setup, Configuration, Management Costs and Sustainability
+* [[Author]] Just another human like you, great alone, but synergistically awesome if/when we stand together
-Free resources are available on sites like [https://Opencourseware.org Opencourseware.org], [https://Coursera.org Coursera.org] and [https://Edx.org Edx.org] if you need to learn the art of constructive communication and collaboration. Once you're ready, your thoughts will always be welcome on here, no matter who you are or where you currently stand.
       Curiosity leads to discovery.
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       Feelings inform our learning.
       Learning feeds our growth.
-      So Living without Growth is likely to Feel like a mundane, plateau of useless meaning andor existence.
-      Therefore we can say that,
+      So Living without Growth is likely to Feel like a mundane, plateau of existence devoid of any meaning.
+      In other words,
       Discovering, is Feeling;
       Feeling, is Learning;
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       Growing, is Living.
-== THE BACKEND WISHBONE ==
+     Life is not a fight. It's a dance. We can all enjoy surfing these frequencies, together.
-* [[Purpose, Mission and Vision]] What is One House and why e-Pangea? (Some of) The (long-winded) thinking behind the vision and mission
-* [[The Drive, The Push, The Pull]] This was the opening content on the site, but just too much to read for many of us
-* [[Technical and Financial]] OneHouse Project Setup, Configuration, Management Costs and Sustainability
-* [[Author]] Just another nobody human being like you, but synergistically and naturally awesome when we all learn to stand together