Executive Summary
We have a problem — a really BIG problem!
We live in an unwise and unsustainable world. Our world is the product of countlessmany generations of leadership who have eschewed the higher universal wisdom and purpose of sustainability. The reasons for this neglect are widely covered in many other parts of this website, and therefore will not be covered in this summary.
Sustainability
In the broadest sense, sustainability refers to the ability to maintain or support a process continuously over time. This website uses the term Light & Life as a signature phrase for a planet wide approach to the kind of universal wisdom, stability and planet wide sustainability needed to overcome the grave mistakes of the past and present, and to propel us safely forward into a brave new world grounded in love, peace, equality and unity.
Light & Life = Planetary Sustainability
A divided civilization that lives under the constant threat of war and destruction does not logically make any plans for the distant future while it operates in a defacto survival mode, using narrow self-centred intelligence that promotes narrow, short-term and unsustainable goals. This is not healthy for a civilization’s longevity. Our civilization, as we currently cultivate it, lives for the present and the past, and does not worry about the future generations. It can be summed up in one word: unsustainable.
Our Light & Life Timeline offers a broad, logical, and historical overview of the lateness, as well as the overall imbalance of our current civilization, and contrasts this with what we could be as a wise and balanced civilization. It provides the essentials for designing a long term plan that can bring about the kind of balance, which can lead to unity, which can achieve sustainability.
A wise civilization will cultivate the continual improvement of its collective mental capacity and direct its thoughts more and more into the future while it operates in a cooperative and mutually agreed upon sustainable mode, using broad intelligence that promotes all-inclusive, long-term and sustainable goals. This kind of unity can ensure a civilization’s longevity and indefinite survival. It aims to create a stable civilization on a clean planet, where the balance of man and nature can be maintained for unlimited time; where people live for the future, and expect great things from it; where people are constantly occupied with making the world a better place in which to live. This can be summed up in one word: sustainable.
It's time for a Planetary Transformation
We need a Planetary Transformation that will propel us out of this:
UNSUSTAINABLE mode guided by: Deception > Greed > Division > War
and into this:
SUSTAINABLE mode guided by: Sustainability > Wisdom > Intelligence > Modelling
A framework grounded in wisdom
The framework for a successful Light & Life transformation strategy begins with 10 broad categories that serve as the foundation for a healthy and flourishing civilization on the path to indefinite survival. These categories are:
- Race & Biology
- Family
- Culture
- Language & Education
- Religion
- Ethics
- Governance
- Science & Technology
- Economy & Finance
- Personal Spiritual Growth
- Identification of a main problem or proposition (timeline), the lateness as well as the overall imbalance
- Analysis of a problem or proposition, with supporting facts and figures (overview of each L&L category and its problem)
Race and Biology
Family
Culture
Language & Education
Religion
Ethics
Governance
Science & Technology
Economy & Finance
Personal Spiritual Growth - Possible solutions and their justifications
- Clearly defined conclusions
Most forms of efficiency depend on narrow intelligence promoting narrow, short-term goals. This is not healthy for the world or our civilization’s longevity.
Normally, it is not considered effective - or realistic or even possible - to engage with "the whole" or even take it into account. From the perspective of narrow, short-term goals and the narrow intelligence that effectively pursues those goals, thinking of the whole is just too big, and definitely inconvenient.
Consensus process that seeks to take into account all concerns, needs and potential consequences involved in a decision naturally takes a lot of time. But it usually addresses factors that would come back to haunt the group later, if they weren't dealt with, so its defenders consider it wiser or more effective, from a long-term perspective.
EFFICIENCY
The idea of efficiency has a narrow boundary and wide boundary lens from which it can be viewed.
Efficiency usually entails getting rid of “unnecessary things” - steps in a process, redundant functions, non-essential expenses and people, and so on. But the holistic concept of RESILIENCE often requires the presence of exactly those things to be there. If you have at hand several sources of or resources for a vital function (like energy or food or communication), then if one of them goes down, you can call on another one.
If efficient just-in-time production makes it unnecessary to keep a warehouse full of parts for your assembly line, it saves your company a lot of money and manpower. But if the supply line for a part breaks, your whole assembly line stops.
If a new technology makes a process much more convenient but opens up new avenues for hack attacks, then we can and should ask if that is really more efficient in the long run.
True efficiency entails “the optimum engagement of all aspects of a whole for the long term well being of the whole”.
So we’re talking about trying to rally and invest all relevant entities, relationships, resources, elements, capacities, qualities, and dynamics of wholeness (like synergy and vitality) - and even disturbances, waste, and excess - in the ongoing healthy co-creativity of the whole. It’s pretty obvious that doesn’t come near to describing how we usually try to get more with less. But it points us in the right direction.
We tend to think about narrowly defined problems that affect specific people or situations, using specific metrics to demonstrate certain direct effects. It’s easier to “make progress” on narrowly defined “virtuous goals” than it is to take into account the long term well being of the whole.
CRIMINALITY