Introduction
To building a clear picture of a future I would like to live in, I thought it would be helpful to write a text with the most important conditions. These are written from a perspective that, I believe, is valid for everybody, as it is build on the basic principles of my perspective on systems theory. It’s a mix of values and cognitive conditions, and other aspects that I think are important to discuss.
Where everyone can be themselves
Everybody, has at least the ability, to be themselves if this doesn’t harm the existence of others in an unsustainable way. People should not feel a sense of being constrained, fear, shame, or boundedness. Being open, able to share, to be transparant about feelings and desires is supported in this world. People are accepted as who they are and should feel a sense of freedom and self-acceptance. They should be able to act freely unless this does constrain the freedom of others.
Where everyone has the ability to change
While on the other hand, changing who you are is also not a bad thing at all in this world. People should be able to be ever-changing and feel like a flowing fluid. Playfulness, creativity, curiosity, and experimentation are encouraged in this world. Learning, listening, and receiving feedback are there to understand the world better, to self-reflect and attune towards each other. This all serves the holistic fit with the (ever developing) environment.
Where we are helping the multi-scaled system to be in relative stability, but work towards complexity
Wow, big words. So I want things to sustain (but maybe a part of the behavior and or feeling of things that currently exist). By finding relative dynamic and (therefore spatial) stability. For example, I want life to sustain, but live is never in a complete balance.
I do not necessarily directly care if a rock is split in two or not (or do I? A question to be answered later I think),
But it matters how that/we impacts the living things around it. I generally do not like “things” being used as simple means. Because everything is simply an end in itself (even that rock). This can be associated with the word “respect” for their loved ones, or maybe everything. I love how the native indians for example paid respect for the prey that caught and killed. We need some balance and interdependence there. Which there is.
Where we realize:
We are (a (nested) part of) everything
We are an outcome of everything
We are intrinsically connected and depended on our environment, and eventually the whole universe.
The environment, and eventually the whole universe, is dependent on us.
Everything always exists. Nothing ever really disappears.
Nothing is inherently more worthy than others. Worth is a subjective property.
We perceive the world through our subjective perception
