One House

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?

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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?

1. Administrative Regions to identify global regional needs based on topology, weather and other environmental factors
2. Energy Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
3. Food Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
4. Water Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
5. Other Natural Sources including Regional Needs and their Dispersion
6. Property Ownership including Equity, Equality and Meritocracy, with a globally accepted and humane min and max
7. Value Exchange Systems including Markets, Economies and Incentives, with a globally accepted and humane min and max
8. Taxation flat and consistent as a globally accepted and humane value, based on the newly envisioned value exchange system
9. Infrastructure such as Public Works and Shared Services that include Transportation, Communication, Healthcare and Welfare
10. Policy and our overarching approach to global consensus, replacing all existing trade agreements
11. Legislation basic universal human law similar to the golden rule with community-based amendments
12. Enforcement to police, defend, serve and enforce the application of the universal human laws and their community-based amendments
13. Human and Environmental Prosperity including Research and Development, and our Collective Human and Humane Advancement as a whole
14. Personal Growth including Learning Experiences, Healthy Lifestyles and Personal Development
15. 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.