Buckminster Fuller, one of the 20th century’s most prolific, productive and innovative thinkers, designers, and engineers, defined an objective for humanity based on his mathematical research that proposed that all human beings on earth could survive and achieve a genuine standard of living beyond it, if we could figure out a way to play a world game, rather than a war game . This was not posed as an effort by governments, but as an alliance of people recognizing not only the legitimate right of survival for everyone, but the available resources and means, mathematically, for it to be realized, by collaboration, technology, and science. A promising number of people around the world believe that is possible.
A number of them have come together in action to recognize a simple truth of sustainability that can be immediately applied to making the world work better. Wealth is not built on resources, land, commodities, jewels, bitcoin or collectibles. It is built on agreement. That truth means everything that can change changes by #agreement, something humans have not been historically good at and certainly not enough for where we are today.
Agreement is elusive because we are all descended from warriors in one way or another. For most of our history, war has been a normal part of life, a glory at that, where people gave their lives nobly for their country or their people. Medals and honors were passed on from one generation to another preserving its meaning. We carry stories of war. So does our language of winning in business or art. Killing it, crushing it, blowing it up, swipe file.
If we choose to accept responsibility, on an individual level, to change that one aspect of culture, we can make a difference in what life is in the future. Each of us can dip our hand in that pool. Through this campaign, each of us can express a culture of agreement. We can express solidarity on something that is just as meaningful to our identity as war was, by expressing its opposite today, by taking few minutes to sign your own personalized copy The Treaty of Humanity. Some may dismiss what your one vote in this culture means, but you cannot dismiss what millions of votes like yours will do to make conflict a lot less attractive and agreement a lot more achievable.
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