Save Our Species – S.O.S.

Framework dictates the rules of any game and limits the possible outcomes of the game. Despite requiring immediate and radical change in the world in order to survive as a species, we are currently held firmly in place by the enormous inertia of our existing framework. We have pushed the current Framework to its logical conclusion and the current systems are self evidently unsustainable. What is required now to safeguard the future of humanity is an immediate profound change of the Framework in which we operate. Change either with or without our consent is inevitable. If we wait for the change to occur naturally, we will have little or no control over its outcome. So what are we waiting for?

It seems that we are waiting for world leaders to realise the error of their ways and make the necessary changes to safe guard our future before it is too late. Whilst we can safely expect our leaders to make changes within the Framework, is it reasonable to expect them to be able to make changes to the Framework in which they are so well established and successful. If you had worked so hard to get where they are now could you? It is fundamentally against their short-term best interests to change the Framework in which they are proving so successful and the system in which we are currently operating does not promote or more importantly, reward long-term vision. For fear of losing ground in our competitive economy, our leaders will not be able to consider making the required changes to the Framework, until the failure of the system is too obvious to ignore anymore. The problem being that by the time the failure can no longer be plausibly denied, it will be too late to do anything about it.

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There is a positive feedback mechanism (cumulative causation) occurring between the effects of Representational Democracy and Capitalism which unless interrupted will lead to catastrophic failure of the whole system. My goals are focused on how we can relatively quickly and peacefully modify the democratic decision making process. Unless we find away to get more peoples voices heard, we will be at the mercy of the highly concentrated power held by vested interest to implement the changes that are needed to undo the system which lead to the vested interest in the first place.