What does it mean? One version of its intended meaning is that a united world [()] is better than [>] a divided world [)(]. Encourage those who agree with that sentiment to draw it in the sand, wear it on a button, stick it on a bumper, put it on a T-shirt, and include it in email messages.
Next, armed with all the facts and a powerful message, launch the fiercest public relations, promotion, publicity and proselytizing campaign the world has ever seen. Let it be known that - beyond the shadow of a doubt - under the proposed economic system there will no longer be cause for economic anxiety. No one will lose their home. Everyone will have enough to eat. No one will die of malaria. Everyone will have clean and safe water to drink and air to breathe. And so on, through the whole list of life's necessities.
By now we will have developed the project's virtual world in cyberspace, using Geographic Information System software, and made it available to the public for inspection via the Internet in much the same way that Google Earth is available to the public. They can zoom in anywhere on the globe for a closer look at local conditions or pull back for the larger picture. In this way the world can follow the design project's progress, as Fuller imagined.
And by now we will have also developed an avatar program with which individuals can represent themselves while exploring their possible roles in the new economy. The beauty of the Whole Earth Design Project and the key to its success is that each individual's participation will be discussed and agreed upon and then foreshadowed in the project's virtual world.
Thus, the new society will be collectively designed in cyberspace before being recreated in the real world, having had all the details, including each individual's role, worked out agreeably in advance. There will be much exciting and rewarding work to do during the one-off period of global reconstruction to bring everyone up to a humane standard of living. Thereafter, there will suddenly be so little work that for many adjusting to a life of leisure may prove to be the greater challenge.
When finally the vast majority of the population - 99 percent? - has signed on to the program, we will set a date, have a fantastic planetary celebration, and then get to work. There's an entire planet that needs healing and a whole new world of possibilities ready to be explored.
Thus, we will have produced what the Beatles wanted to see, that is, a plan for a solution that would result in a world-changing (r)evolution. Dare we call it love?
Bertrand Russell said, "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
I believe the WEDP meets that challenge. I invite you to join in its launch by participating as a volunteer journalist/researcher in one of the ten Stage I surveys that will lay the foundation for the great coming together, the advent of the coming global coalescence.
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