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Designing the Earth Anew Together

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We have to know what kind of a world we want to live in, if the one that we live in now we don't like. The challenge is to come up with an idea of a world that would optimally suit us all; an ideal that all of us on Earth could focus on and strive for--a harmonious, truly sustainable co-existence of us all on Earth. It has to be an ideal accessible, discussable, and amendable by every- and any- body at all times--the germ of a true global (and, of course local at the same time) governance--a government where the governing would be done by the means of a "vision"1/model in common worked on, held and striven for by all continuously. The valid competition would be to improve on the ideal (vision/model), and to find better ways of achieving this ideal, instead of competing for advantage over others to the detriment of the whole, as has the prevalent practice been till now. There would, eventually, cease any need for "leaders" and "followers"-- everyone would have the potential to take a part in embodying their own ideas (in concert with the wishes for an ideal existence of all others) in the continuously being shaped collective vision/model. The resulting collective vision/model would not be static--an ideal could not remain an ideal without the possibility of improving on it perpetually. It would be a space to resolve any differences, controversies, conflicts, and any complaints that there ever might arise among us; it would become a superior way of a collective self-rule.

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