Wednesday, January 2, 2013

A Vision for the New Year and Beyond, Part 1


A vision for the new year and beyond.

 

A vision, a sense of the possible, a sense of hopes, dreams and values realized, a set of intentions, a desired future, and a vision of the strategy to achieve the vision. It is not a fully operationalized, totally practical step-by-step, do this then that view. It is a vision, a dream a set of desired outcomes and strategies.

 

The vision/outcome is a world that works for everyone and everything—a sustainable world that works compassionately to bring out the full potential and best for everyone and everything.  At its heart, this vision is based on a benign world view, one based on cooperation, not competition, on both community and individuals, both spirit and science. This vision is based on values other than the dog-eat-dog, exploitative, original sin view of life that have created, sustained and maintained much of traditional western, capitalist, christian civilization.

 

How can we re-arrange our current political, social and economic relationships so that they contribute to a sustainable world that works compassionately to bring out the full potential and best for everyone and everything in it? How can we look at our current political, social and economic relationships, not in isolation--each with its own set of rules, principles and outcomes, but as a whole, valuing them only if they contribute to a sustainable world that works compassionately to bring out the full potential and best for everyone and everything in it and tweaking them and changing them if they don’t.

No comments:

Post a Comment