One World Dream

I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation lately.   Primarily because it is the single most important challenge I see with a utopian society that is prosperous enough to provide for free the basic means of life for every individual in the world.   I firmly believe that for our one world dream to occur we need to ensure that everyone everywhere is provided the basic necessities and is free to pursue whatever dreams and endeavours they are most passionate about. The worlds explained in the Venus Project  and at paradism.org are some of my favorite portrayals of a utopian world that could work for us.   However, they both lack detailed explanations about motivation and incentives for work.    Once all our basic needs are completely accounted for by automation and robotics, what will we do with ourselves all day?   Some will likely sit around and gorge themselves on all forms of entertainment and gluttony but I would like to believe that many of us will see beyond that to a greater

The Face of the Enemy.   Earlier I mentioned I believe a majority or humanities problems relate back to the one basic root cause of "Free Pollution".   A basic system that has for millennium allowed select groups to profit by taking advantage of any person or resource they can and leaving the garbage behind for someone else to clean up.   I realize this is a very broad definition and it can be looked at from many different angles. The basic premise of the better world which I seek is really that of the “Golden Rule” and coming up with worldwide policies, systems and positive incentives to encourage and educate everyone everywhere to live by this rule. Everyone regardless of ethnicity or upbringing deserves the basics of food, water, shelter, health care, education and protection from abuse; or at the very least an adequate chance to provide these things for themselves and their families. So with that goal in mind, I set out to understand the barriers to achiev

The Greatest Enemies of Progression I started this Blog almost two years ago with a dream of changing the world one idea and one person at a time. I remember wanting to send out the blog to all my friends and hoping to write in it every week with new ideas and build upon the discussion. Obviously that never happened.  I told myself it wasn't good enough yet to send around.  I needed to fine tune it more and make sure it would be interesting enough to read and wouldn't offend anyone. After a few weeks I got busy with other things like work and family and hobbies and I set my dream aside.  I figured, what's the point?  I'm sure no one will really read it or care and it will just be a waste of time.  There are so many other ways I can spend my time and my life is really pretty good anyway, so why worry? These types of thoughts are the greatest enemies of progression.  If we truly want to create a better world where billions of people aren't starving and abuse

In order to fix any problem you need to begin by truly understanding the source. Now, part of me agrees that there are millions of little sources out there so it's so hard to ever really understand the true source.  So why bother trying? Another part wants to shrug it all off like some others and just call it basic human greed which is so much a part of our nature that we can never hope to overcome it. However, the bigger part of me still believes strongly that there is a very definite and definable source to the majority of our current world problems and by really understanding that one problem we can do so much more to conquer it once and for all! Now, I'm sure many others before me have written entire books on this or tried to define it in so many different and complicated ways, but here it is in two simple words: "Free Pollution" There is so much to be said about these two words that it's really tough to know where to begin.  The deeper you get int

About 5 years ago I started thinking a lot more about the future of our world and the type of earth we want to leave to our children.  After extensive research and contemplation it became frighteningly clear that if we don't make some very dramatic changes to our way of life very soon we likely won't have any world to leave to our children at all. So where does this leave us?  The task is clearly too big for one person although every little bit will always help.  However, even with the green movement picking up more steam every day, the question is always there as to whether it will be enough.  Can we avoid passing the environmental, economical, and social political tipping points that will be the harbingers of our Apocalypse? So the question really comes down to what position do we want to take?  How much are we willing to do to become a part of the solution rather than part of the problem?  As the sources of our demise become increasingly clear do we continue to walk the