We can do even better.
If you are reading this, you live in a cultural system with ancient roots in Mesopotamia. Today, ten thousand years after its birth, this culture has grown to cover most of the world with its canopy. The fruits of this global culture have been many and incredible. like our technologies of travel, communication, and health. But there seems to be something wrong with the way we relate to each other under the shadow of this culture. Like good gardeners, every successive generation has done its best to care for this rapidly growing system. Yet an illness persists.
Thankfully, the fruits of our global system have also nourished an incredible broadening of our perspective. Today it is possible to see that while a sickness in the branches of a tree can be pruned off, if it is in the roots, it will continue to affect the whole tree.
We must uncover the deep roots of our world wide ideological system in order to heal them.
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The system is built with
Stories
Thoughts
The huge human world, full of meaning and knowledge, only really exists in our minds. Skyscrapers and smartphones are just different types of minerals without humans to think about their uses. Our networks of meaning are held together by stories, and together those stories make up our ideologies. So, to change the world, we must change minds with a good story.
The mind that must change is the one that holds that systemic inequality is inevitable and that the way things are now is the best we can do. Those who believe that “there is no other way for this tree to grow” must be swayed. The story we tell must therefore inspire confidence in alternative growing strategies.
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To build a world on loving principles, we need
A New Origin Story
The health of any tree depends heavily on the network of roots that joins it to other plants in the forest. Our global culture, on the contrary, has roots which aggressively steal resources away from others and which does not join a mycelial network, rather expanding itself to independently conquer the forest.
This has been detrimental to the other members of the ecosystem. As we fight against balance in favour of domination, we also cause internal pain to ourselves, like eating toxic food. The source of our drive for globalized control and standardization is to be found in the ideological foundations, deep in the roots.
The 100% is a proposal for an alternative origin story which we can collectively choose to use to evolve our current situation and improve the health of our world tree and the rest of the forest.
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