One House

Is peace really so fleeting and utopian of an idea that we won't even try to resolve our differences? How, you might quickly jump to ask, or where do we even begin?

Well, we already know that peaceful conflict resolution requires open lines of communication. So the question then becomes, where is this open communication taking place right now? The media? Our theatrical politics? NATO? Yeah, I don't think so either. We're far too aware (I hope) of how we've been getting duped over and over again with that false-promise, do-good-wannabe nonsense.

We just don't seem to think that there's a better way to do things than to vote for new faces and cross our fingers. Apparently, the world is too complex for us to solve anything by ourselves. Is it though?

Perhaps it's time we evaluate our dividing differences and stand by one of the many lessons we whole-heartedly teach all of our kids: united we stand and divided, we fall. The best leaders lead by example, do they not? So, why are we not leading our own children by example? Why are we not even trying to work out how we can stand united?

All constructs in use of today (e.g. currency, nations, governments) are based on a wo/man-made concept. This inseparably means that we can change anything currently in place!

Wanna shake up the status quo?

I do.

The Vision in 30 seconds or less

"An Open Invitation to Reinvent Our Reality" ⇒ ⇒ Go directly to THE BLUEPRINT ⇐ ⇐

One House is all we have. So, why haven't we yet figured out how we can live in it?

Through free access to quality learning, we now have the tools we need to empower all those around us to ensure they can earn their basic human needs. This means that we can finally have an adult conversation about what we all want our Earth to look like for everyone!

This platform aims to provide the space to do just that: at anytime, anyone anywhere can create an account and join what may be the largest and most inclusive human conversation that has ever taken place - a monolithic human dialogue on How to Reinvent Our Reality, together!

Tech help: Check your spam folders - my email notifications kept getting stuck there, so I'm sure yours will too. If you have any questions while I continue to configure and optimize the server for this dialogue, feel free to reach me at epangea.info@gmail.com or +13438822015

Let's Validate our Thinking and not Just Sing Kum Ba Yah

Many decades ago, a Brazilian philosopher named Paulo Freire underlined the importance of individual expression. He said that the word, the ability to verbalize our thoughts, is our path to personal freedom. He also stated that Dialogue is the basis for a social contract, regardless of whether it is democratic or socialist in nature. Such sentiments echoed the likes of Wittgenstein who uttered "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world", and continue to be uttered by the likes of Jordan Peterson who convincingly argues that free speech permits thought!
Quick Disclaimer: Whether you're a fan of JP or RB or JR or feel your skin rise when you read their names, I'm of the neutral camp referee, where I prefer focusing on the tangible arguments that can be validated or refuted, regardless of whose mouth they come out of.

Science tells us we can't feel or discuss intricate emotions before we learn the vocabulary that helps us identify them. Test this out for yourself. Google words about emotions; find a couple that you're unfamiliar with, and read their definitions. Reflect back to situations where you may have felt in such a way and weren't fully aware of the fact. If you can't relate yet, you'll eventually feel the difference the next time you experience this newly acquired vocabulary. Please don't just take my word (or any expert's word) for it; try it.

Sort of eye opening isn't it?

If we embody this vision and its intended mission - really own it - we can become an unstoppable and contagious wildfire; a universally self-aware movement. We can be the unrotten apples who influence and inspire those around us to actively and considerately pursue our inherent entitlement to owning and driving the circumstances of our (short and finite) life!

Who are You, Really? Do you Even Know?

In short, I need you. We need you. We need your voice.

Even if others may have told you that your voice doesn't matter; it does. Your identity isn't unique because of your beliefs or your flags, it's because of your VOICE. The way you think and act is your only, ever-learning, ever-growing, and ever-morphing identity. No one can ever place any sort of label on THAT. Not even you!

Not a single one of us is a static thing - a consistent emotion or unchangeable personality, or persistent belief, or <insert wo/man-made concept here>. Isn't that exactly what makes each and every one of us entirely different and uniquely beautiful? What gives us worth and belonging?

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 the first Direct Democracy ever (google it):
No countries = No politicians = No lobbyists = No corruption = No deception/manipulation = No (modern day, useless) war

If we inspect this causal chain through more detailed discussion, we find that it empowers individuals everywhere and nurtures diverse communal and municipal cultures. Its humane and universal concept of free access to quality human learning eventually mitigates hunger, poverty and fear, and most importantly, eradicates modern day warfare. Again, we can competently validate this seemingly dreamy sentiment with logic and facts in our The Discussion section.

Shall we?

Leverage Technology; Fear Those Who Make False Promises Instead

Let's finally put our tech to good use. This MediaWiki platform is the medium that I suggest we use for however long we need it. I will manage it for us pro bono until any one of us comes up with a better idea. Everything in here is transparent and open for debate - full disclosure, and outlined on the Technical and Financial page.

When ChatGPT was released, I was relieved to know that I know longer have to build such an engine by myself. I think we still need to ensure that it is free of biases if we're to leverage it to provide free, quality, universally inclusive human-centric learning, build an intuitive interface (which I believe is being worked on) to help users find the right questions and prompts (there's a general consensus in that it's far more difficult to pose the right question than it is to provide the right answer), provide an avatar to indicate personal learning progress, provide an actions and skills interface to determine what learning experiences are still required before we can perform certain tasks that we're interested in accomplishing, and so on (build details can be elaborated on under The Blueprint section: Personal Growth.

When you feel ready to contribute to this dialogue - as opposed to complaining and ranting on endlessly about the supposedly unchangeable (like most of us often do, and that's ok, it makes us feel better - temporarily), create an account (always free) and participate by adding to or modifying whichever parts of your reality that you care to change!

Stop hesitating and just get to it!

The Mission in Point Form

STEP1: We design a BLUEPRINT for an alternate reality based on everyone's vote; that is, a reinvented and redefined vote: Your voice; your thoughts and your opinions. A vote no longer needs to be some random person's name who will speak on our behalf. No thank you. We all have the capacity andor resources to speak for ourselves now.

STEP2: We put together pilot, migration, transition and exit/revision plans for each part of this blueprint, to ensure that we can move everyone safely and seamlessly from the status quo to our universally-aware and ideal way of living.

STEP3: WE Execute. WE evaluate. WE tweak plans accordingly, if deemed necessary. WE proceed until everyone is satisfied.

STEP4: WE enjoy Life. Eventually, probably very quickly, WE will deal with new problems; only because we are human and are impressively vulnerable when it comes to creating problems for ourselves. At least, we will know that these new problems will never be the same old archaic nonsensical problems that the mass majority of us today are willing to accept any longer.

As all projects begin with initializing and careful planning, so should this project. This means that all stakeholders need to be considered, those directly involved, and those indirectly affected. Since this project involves everyone who has the capacity to communicate their thoughts and share their needs and opinions, as well as those who cannot, then it involves you. Every last one of you; and me; and all speechless life forms around us.

Beauty in Simplicity

Any troglodyte can complicate things. There is beauty in simplicity. Let's simplify our existence and make it enjoyable for everyone already.

If this all sounds idealistic, utopian and unachievable to you, then please read through all of the contents of this site until you have had all of your questions and concerns answered and satisfied. I've tested these thoughts for over a decade with a multitude of individuals from all walks of life. They all eventually end up pondering the possibility and hoping we can achieve this. Thing is, I don't simply "believe" or "have faith" in our ability to do this, I know your potential because I studied human behaviour and I know for a fact that we can do this!

By no means am I calling myself an expert on anything, no one ever is; even the so-called experts who are honest with themselves know the endless limitations of their understanding. I've simply been privileged enough with time and access to certain scientific facts that have been long identified, but have not yet been efficiently, nor freely, dissipated to the masses. Consider only how primary and secondary sources such as scientific journals have come at a cost, as have so many tertiary sources such as books. Though such associated costs may seem minor to some, they render access to information unattainable to many.

Perhaps copyright restrictions need to be revisited and the compensation model revamped in favor of human progress over centralized profit? All while respecting authors and their contributions, but more than their publisher counterparts in all fairness. Open Source concepts are aligned with this line of thinking, which certainly help avoid friction such as the current debate over whether new technologies like ChatGPT should be allowed to leverage copyrighted content to generate well-informed responses. I for one would want to share knowledge that I acquire for I wouldn't know anything had my predecessors not done the same for me.

Typical Reactions

If you're absolutely pessimistic about humanity, consider Abraham Maslow who is reputed for the Hierarchy of Needs, but is far less often credited for his other research findings. He as well as many well-respected psychologists like him confirmed that humans are born neutral or kind in nature, not evil (for lack of better term at the moment). I'll be the first to argue that we all have the potential for evil within us; I certainly know that I do. Just think of someone inflicting extreme harm or injustice on a loved one and you'll immediately start to feel what evil I am referring to.

Existing societies cultivate undesired behaviour through divisions and dichotomies, fear mongering and other appeals to emotion, as well as a multitude of well-known and well-researched control tools that manipulate our innate cognitive biases. Our poor decisions and responses then spread the same way a rotten apple ruins the entire lot. We can do better than that. We just need to have a proper, comprehensive discussion on how - and provide the quality learning tools for everyone to be able to freely join this conversation.

Another tendency is for people to say that we can't all be the captain of the ship. Well, what exactly is a captain? A good leader isn't one that tells others what to do, but rather one that listens to, and understands what everyone needs in a given situation. A leader knows that only collaboration and clear communication will get us where we need to go. Perhaps most importantly, a leader knows when to step out of the way and let others lead the way. All of us can learn to be leaders if given the tools and opportunities to develop the necessary traits. This isn't heresy, this is fact. Lookup Child Development and you'll see for yourself that I'm not making this up. Yes, you can also teach an old dog new tricks, even if it may take more time; it's called neuroplasticity.

THE BACKEND WISHBONE

• Technical and Financial OneHouse Project Setup, Configuration, Management Costs and Sustainability
• Purpose, Mission and Vision (Some of) The (long-winded and less essentially detailed) thinking behind the mission
• Author Just another nobody human being like you, but synergistically and naturally awesome when we all learn to stand together

The Status-Quo is Evidently Unsustainable

Our votes are failing us. Easily put, are there any governmental structures anywhere in the world that are regarded as highly satisfactory to the majority of their citizens? Are there any public servants who are actually serving the majority of their public in a highly satisfactory manner? Do we typically see action that we ask for, or do we only read or hear elected representatives and experts utter what we want, only to later face disappointing or deceiving outcomes from their policies and administration? These elected individuals are supposed to be our employees; working to make all of our lives better. Is there a mass population anywhere that sees efficient or effective labour generated by their state authorities, people who we entrusted and paid to do such work for us?

I, a 45 year old who was born in Lebanon and raised in Canada since 1987, and who has lived in West Africa and East Asia for over a decade, have certainly felt less than impressed by all government bodies that I have been exposed to so far. So the logical question that follows (no, that is not begging the question - lookup logical fallacies) is, what good does the concept of nations still serve us, the people? Isn't it high time we give up on the archaic notion of electing someone to speak on our behalf? What good is the Internet if we can't put it to our service and use it for what our forefathers and predecessors could not possibly dream of - mass communication, collaboration and coordination! We finally have the tools to speak for ourselves - so the only question is, what are we waiting for???

We can't POSSIBLY do worse than our governments seeing as how they STILL cause wars and destruction when our collective understanding reaches far beyond the intelligence and compassion necessary to avoid such illogical and universally unproductive self-harm. Let's take this opportunity to reinvent our reality. Redesign it exactly how we envision it to be - together, peacefully. There are no limits to our creativity - let's just get all our heads together and design the most relevant, modern, intelligent global reality we can possibly design for ourselves. It starts right here. With you voicing your thoughts on the matters that matter to us all the most.

It's time we drop all the existing veils and matrices that we were shaped into absorbing, believing, accepting and, currently living, without ever considering a united, humane and collective approach to radical change.

I worked (am working) on an artistic approach (lyrical, instrumental, visual, etc) to sharing this vision with the world. As with all else I'm writing here, it is open for elaboration, collaboration, and all other recommendations anyone may have to make this message a universal call to action!

     ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ A Guide to Your Own Personal Dimension ⇐ ⇐ ⇐ 

     Here is a Shorter (even cheezier?) Lyrical Intro (to the concept of free Human Learning) 

Imagine, A Borderless World

What exactly is a nation? Is it a unity formed amongst a people that share a particular set of languages, arts and traditions? When we dig a little deeper, do we not find that such cultural traits differ from one region, or even one community, to the next? Do these pockets not find themselves disassociating themselves from each other as different, unique or “better” than their neighbour?

It seems as though community pockets have more than enough reasons to divide themselves from each other already, that one must wonder once again – what is a nation and what does it represent? Perhaps the flag is simply a representation of the central tax bank treasury which provides the shared services for collective needs, such as managing infrastructure or defending the nation?

So then, is a nation or state indifferent from its governing bodies that represent and work for the people, to provide such needs?

I propose we dig deeper and see what we uncover.

THE DISCUSSION

Whether we call these first principles, axioms, fundamentals, elementary root definitions of what we're trying to understand or just philosophical tooting of the horn, let's get them written down and agreed upon.

1. The Overarching Questions
2. Townhall Meetings and Topics
3. The ChatGPT Solutions
4. The Lyrical Rendering of OneHouse
5. The Lyrical Rendering of ePangea, which was initially created to reinvent Learning

THE BLUEPRINT

We all need your vote - yes, your thoughts and opinions - on each and every element of the blueprint that matters to you.
Such a collaborative approach ensures relevance and inclusion for everyone. This inherently promotes further engagement and participation, and makes us all fully accountable for, ready, and accepting of, the choices we all eventually agree on. Revisions are unavoidable, so amendments will certainly play a part too. I believe we call this a living document.
For the sake of clarity: None of this is 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!

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. Human and Environmental Prosperity including Research and Development, and our Collective Human and Humane Advancement as a whole
13. Personal Growth including Learning Experiences, Healthy Lifestyles and Personal Development
14. 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 to bring us from the existing state to our more desirable objective.

THE GUIDELINE, NICE AND SIMPLE

Keep your contributions civil, constructive and collaborative. There's zero room and zero tolerance for indecency andor abuse. Zero.

Free resources are available on sites like Opencourseware.org, Coursera.org and 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.