One House

The Big Question(s)

Do we know what world peace looks like?

Can we envision an entirely different approach to life on earth than the one we currently accept as the status-quo?

How would our planet function if we wanted everyone to have a good standard of living and quality of life?

Who gets to define a good life for everyone with precision?

Can any single person or group of persons have such answers ready for the entire world to accept and adopt?

The Call to Action
Though a seemingly ambitious objective, you and I can make it our mission to define such a world. An unprecedented, globally defined and accepted blueprint of what life on earth could and should be like.

The How
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.

The Alternative
We could also leave things as they are, with war and destruction randomly spurring up around the world, hoping it stays distant and far away from us and our families. We can continue to wait for our governments to figure things out. We can let people like George Soros and Balaji Srinivasan design the Open Society or the Network State for us respectively, and then accept our fate as to how we should live however it is others continue to design and decide for us.

Or, we could think, what is really stopping us from designing an alternate reality for ourselves? Putting together all that we have learned from failed systems and creating an entire new way of life? Is this not even worth an attempt at a global conversation? Wikipedia did it using this very platform, bringing together over 47 MILLION volunteered voices, to build the most thorough encyclopedia ever created by humanity. Can't we do the exact same thing, only now discuss our (unknown) future as opposed to our (known) past?

We Can Do Much Better
You know it. I know it. We all know it.
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 were all led to believe that "that's just the way it is; things will always be the same; it's human nature; those people over there are the problem."

...and we continue(d?) to believe this. I don't. Not anymore. Not for a long while now.

I hope you too will one day see what so many folks I meet all around the world already see - that change is easy in unity. Change can only happen when we (you and I) care enough to understand each other by carefully listening to each other. As in, the very thing we tell our kids to do: not judging a book by its cover, or letting the media and our so-called leaders continue to do the judging for us. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that they have failed miserably at doing so.

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(Ping me if and when you decide that you want to start contributing to this conversation. I had to temporarily disable automated login creation due to endless bot attacks on the server - I will figure out what extensions I need to configure so I can re-enable this feature and automate the process. Help is welcome if you're familiar with mediawiki on linux/nginx.)

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 currently 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 ourselves?

How can we maximize our human potential? At what point does human health or cognition begin to form? We already know that the parents health have a direct causation of a child's health at inception and throughout a mother's pregnancy. According to some child development theories, a psychopath that lacks trust and empathy can be created as early as ages 0 to 2 when not tended to as a baby crying for attention. This would mean that we would need to start from the very beginning of a human life and define how to nurture it to the best of our abilities to ensure everyone, everywhere has truly equal access to opportunity in maximizing their full human potential.

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

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

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.

A Good Life Lived Truly Free

Curiosity leads to discovery.
Discovery sparks new feelings.
Feelings inform our learning.
Learning feeds our growth.
Growing urges creation.
Creation provides meaning.

So Living without Curiosity, Discovery, Emotion, Learning, Growth and Creation may lead to a mundane existence, perhaps devoid of meaning. Perhaps this is when we are most susceptible to manipulation. To believing others' stories as our own.

Life does not have to be a fight. We can all choose to make our life a never-ending dance. We just need to be curious enough to discover the frequencies around us and learn to surf them together; to grow together; to create together; to live freely, together.

It all starts with you and I respecting ourself enough to value our existence, without the need for anyone else validating or affirming this for us. You and I are important simply in existing, not because anyone tells us that we are. Not our priests. Not our politicians. Not our teachers. Not our role models. Not even our parents, guardians, caregivers or any other person we trust.

We value our existence by living our authentic selves, by being, ourselves at all times, and by trusting ourselves before anyone, or anything else. That is how we form a personal identity. One that directly and indirectly impacts our environment, whether we like it or not. Our environment will shape us, but our choices dictate whether we remain static with a fixed mindset, or we self-actualize through a growth mindset. The choice is ours, and ours alone to make.

We are all teachers. We are all students. Be curious. Stay curious. Don't just observe. Don't be shy. Participate. We all need you to jump in, if we are ever going to figure this out together.