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How Powerful Evolutionary Forces are Transforming Seven Billion Individual Humans Into a Single Harmonious Social Organism

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller   ()>)(      
“Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.” – John Lennon ()>)(
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead   ()>)(
“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction booklet came with it.” – R. Buckminster Fuller   ()>)(
“The finally victorious way of looking at things will be the most completely impressive way to the normal run of minds.” — William James    ()>)(
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating a problem in a way that will allow a solution.” – Bertrand Russell          ()>)(           
“The desire to question and change things comes from the healthiest part of you.” – Gene Tashoff           ()>)(
“The essence of The Coalescence is connectivity.” — Walter Szykitka                ()>)(
“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” – Bob Dylan                ()>)(
“This ain’t no foolin’ around.” – David Byrne                ()>)(
“Money is the root of all evil.” – Jesus                ()>)(
“Love conquers all.” – Virgil                ()>)(
“All you need is love.” – The Beatles            ()>)(
“Music will be thefinal uniter.” — Walter Szykitka

WHY THE WHOLE EARTH DESIGN PROJECT?

The objective of the Whole Earth Design Project is to design an ecologically and environmentally sustainable economic system capable of providing every individual on the planet with all of life’s essentials.

Why? Here are two excellent reasons:

Because we must.

And because we can.

Why must we? Because the present arrangement is not sustainable. If we don’t come up with a Plan B, the situation will continue to deteriorate, and eventually, sooner than you expect, it will have a dire effect on you personally, if it has not already done so. It has already done so on the planet itself. And if not reversed, think apocalypse.

Perhaps you don’t believe it can get that bad, at least for you. Even so, you must surely agree that the widespread suffering of others is reason enough to at least consider a better way of doing things, which is precisely the intent of the Whole Earth Design Project.

The principle on which the existing social structure is founded and that on which the WEDP is being designed are diametrically opposed. In its starkest terms, this is an attempt to demonstrate the difference between competition and cooperation as a driving social force, between the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into by competing with one another and the vision of a wondrous social arrangement possible if we would only cooperate with one another.

For me, this effort is in response to a challenge from the Beatles that I took personally. In 1968, newly arrived in Greenwich Village at the height of the counterculture revolution, I, along with millions of cohorts, did believe at the time that we had discovered the solution. It was love. But not so fast. It turned out to be much more complicated than that, as the Beatles reminded us in their White Album:

“You say you got a real solution.

Well, you know, we all want to see the plan.”

 The objective of the Whole Earth Design Project is to produce such a plan, with the expectation that the social vision of a society based on cooperation that emerges will be so attractive as to result in its adoption.

After exploring this concept in THE COMING GLOBAL COALESCENCE, I appended an Afterword in which I asked the following questions: “What was that? A serious prediction of things to come, or an outburst of wishful thinking? Was it a thoughtful proposal of a realistic plan of action or a misguided fantasy that defies common sense?”

Meanwhile, for a bit of nostalgia, here’s Bob to remind us that the times are still achangin’.

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Updated: December 13, 2019 — 5:28 PM

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  1. The Coalescence Project – comments by Frank Owarish

    “Thanking Wallter Szykitka for forcing us to think, in the box or out of the box as we see it.”
    “We need to have a vision to strive for to make this world better”
    “In most situations, we do not make progress in a rational manner. Rather, we muddle our way through making decisions often under pressure. Most of the times we accept the factors as given, rarely do we question them or try to change them. Few have the luxury of time to think and act and therefore can afford to have ideals. Those who are in a privileged situation rarely think of changing the game so that the underprivileged would have a chance to do better. Often we blame the underprivileged for not doing as much to help themselves even when we know that there may not be much that they can do unless there is outside help.”
    “We have to thank people like Alvin Toffler, Daniel Bell, Amitai Etzioni, Walter Szykitka and other visionaries for taking time to develop a macroscopic picture futuristic in nature providing headlights for us to navigate our way in the future. Without these front bearers we would be lost navigating without any compass.”
    “Why is the highest degree in leading universities a Ph.D.? Because at the peak of knowledge there is a clear need to be philosophical. However we can be philosophical at all levels in addition to being technical, professional or managerial.”
    Frank Owarish, Ph.D., Executive Director, IISRT (think tank) previously Director of Training, UNITAR, New York, March 2013

  2. Arthur J williams

    Walter,
    What a great project and a fantastic read it is. congratulations.
    I’m with you all the way! ajw

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