WORLD PEACE: meaning, people who are friendly, sharing, communities, dancing and singing in the streets, abundance for all, fruit trees and gardens everywhere, fair trade, communication, positive resolve of conflict without violence, funky clothes!

Street musicians on every corner!

Organic food as the ONLY option.

Everybody free to be themselves on the street, everywhere, topless, whatever... kinda like Black Rock City, but EVERYWHERE.

www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104


I came across this talk on facebook, sustainability group. It is a bit slow to start but i love his ideas for cities. i always imagine cities reclaiming green spaces and producing food, becoming cleaner, large solar powered green houses........anyways seems like it is possible, is it?

well, this would be a start:

people.tribe.net/lola-la-l...644cc67a04

and i like all of your ideas.

but i kinda think we have to go back to smaller communities where everyone knows everyone and you could trust your neighbour to watch your kids and leave your doors unlocked and see the direct results of the everyday work that you do.

quality, equality, progress, and beauty...

a set of speakers that were built by people who cared about what they were building. buildings that make sense and don't neglect aesthetic quality... no more cookie-cutter housing developments and strip-malls. food grown and prepared by people who love doing it. people being appreciated for doing what brings them joy. new and alternative technologies supported and made available because they're good for us and the world instead of being left to rot because it's not "profitable". everyone being appreciated and receiving their fair share for their contributions to our culture. ideas being shared. people talking to strangers. relationships that break limitations rather than enforce them. diversity. progress and happiness as the gauge of profit. free expression.

Global telepathy for everyone on the planet.

To let go !

For me, the best place to start is with cultural practices that value people going inside and evolving on their own. When people raise themselves internally, it's easier to become autonomous and figure out things that benefit all.

I'll just put my email sig from Ken Wilber, as he explains it better than I do:

"Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach that worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence."
-- Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything

If you've never read integral theory, I highly recommend Wilber. A Brief History of Everything is a great place to start. Dense and complex, but an excellent model for evolution both of the species and us as individuals. Boomeritis is a fun, fictional version of these theories as well.

Another one of my favorite visionary books: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. I love her utopian future. Just one idea, quickly: in the future, humans have decided that in order for men and women to be truly equal, women have to give up their ability to bear children. As such, all children are test-tube babies. Each child born has three parents, any combination of men and women. Two of the three parents are given hormone shots, so they can nurse. When the child decides s/he is old enough, s/he goes off on a vision quest. When the child comes back, s/he is not allowed to talk to her/his parents for three months. This is done so that when they do begin interacting again, the parent/child bond has been interrupted, and the parents and the child can now relate to each other as adults.

She also says that one of the few things oil is used for is doing the dishes, because everybody hates doing the dishes. Similarly, every human being does admin work for 6-12 months during their lifetime, because no one likes that sort of work! Oh yeah, and you get a sabbatical every 7 years (like college professors).