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About The Work

Forms of cultural organization have been disagreeable, unstable, and all-too-frequently oppressive and deadly for all of human history, with periodic, incomplete and fragile respites. This is in large part due to lack of awareness about what's been inherited.

The people of planet Earth need to undertake some fundamental discussions about how humans can interact with one another. What is your basic philosophy of human interaction, and how did you arrive at it?

What kind of world do you want to live in?
How might it work? (and this is not about how it ‘ought’ to be)
What principles would it be striving to honor?
Can you get everyone else to agree, and since that's not likely, does your plan allow for, or otherwise de-conflict alternate views and dissidents? What kind of people make it all work? Are you willing to be one of them?

Do not presume that the answers are limited to only those things already tried. Don't even presume that you've already encountered all the questions.

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