THERE IS A UNIVERSAL WAY FORWARD.
“ “Happiness flows from inspiring a beautiful world in harmony.” A universal need-led democracy enhancing all in synchrony with our planet.”
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2. How does it fit with Compass’ core beliefs of equality, solidarity, democracy, freedom, sustainability and well being?
These core beliefs require a focus on our common denominator, interdependent need. Need’s purpose (Maslow)is to evolve us to our true potential and to recognise that enabling others, enables ourselves. This requires a new, encompassing infrastructure seeking to transform what is into what it can become. A rewiring of conflicting energies; liberation, rather than imposition of ideas; understanding that fulfilment is a journey we all share, not myriads of opposing destinations.
Integrated integrity can be achieved through channeling our natural diversity into creative, cohesive, social patterns, constantly adapting to changing needs in unpredictable contexts. Social evolution!
3. How does it build the institutions of social democracy, like social groups and collective and cooperative forms of ownership and control?
A dynamic, inclusive infrastructure working in tandem with existing configerations, which harmonises diversity into individual, thence social integrity is required. This will be need-led, cohesive, coherent and holistically evolutional. History has produced structures, of all persuasions, that are ideas-led, fragmented, conflictional and holistically inhibiting.
The model has five interactive elements. Local meetings, nationally and globally linked stimulating need-led dialogue; a supporting web site; an inclusive research capacity based on identified need; a responsive ideas network and a transforming agency to advocate and support need-led change across all sectors.
4. How much will it cost or raise and where will any cost come from?
Minimal initial cost; publicity and a small core, best from independent subscription (expertise or donation) to the model. The model is sequential (ripples in a pond) and will attract people and organisations from all walks. It persuades a new focus on socio-economics.The ’shadow’ need-led infrastructure will collect and collate data through it’s interactive elements to evaluate real costs and benefits across sectors in new ways including quality of life and social cohesion indicators. This approach will enable positive living, and, thus, enhance social cohesion and reduce costs.
5. Which groups in the electorate are likely to support or oppose this measure? Is there any polling evidence you have on this?
It is not a matter of support or opposition but of stimulating engagement to mutual benefit. This is about informed dialogue and practical, sustainable ways forward for all in harmony with our environment. It dosn’t impose values, it elicits them. It encourages diversity through collabaration.The ‘polling’ evidence is overwhelming. Dissatisfaction with existing democratic and capital structures, pressure groups in all forms of social need, conflicts between religions and factions of all sorts. This model does not beg people to give up thier beliefs or focus, it asks to them to unite thier uniqueness to mutual enhancement.
6. Is there a place or country where it’s worked? Please provide some information.
Need-led tribes evolved us and artificial constructs divided us; numerous ‘philosophers’ have strived to put it right since! There is much, similar, activity in health, education, welfare, dedicated pressure groups and, indeed, business around the world. Need-led is global and we now have Information Technology. This needs a mutually enhancing model to effectively connect all the many existing positive elements. Local meetings could grow into modern versions of the Greek ‘agora’,with the model’s elements making Socratic dialogue universal and turning proposed solutions into practical, enhancing reality.
7. What are the three main arguments in favour/against it?
Against: “This is too idealistic, you can’t change human nature”
For: “OK, let’s find out what our true natures and ideals are first.”
Against: “The world is too complicated for this.”
For: “Drop a pebble in a pond and watch the ripples flow.”
Against: “This is dangerous to the status quo.”
For: “Leaving the status quo intact is very dangerous, the evidence is everywhere. A shadow status quo is the best way forward, we are all included and we can adapt according to our experience.
Comments
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TonyPraill
In response to informal comments on this submission, I thought it may be helpful to clarify how the ‘need-led’ model may actually work in reality. It is a mixed-economy model based on interdependent need. That means creating constructive dialogue amongst varied people in many localities to understand our inherent connectedness, then create ways to enhance it. The expertise, and networks, of those bought together will provide, free-thinking, interdepentant solutions that cannot be achieved from self-constrained top down models, however altruistic. This model’s core elements of meet, inform, discover, inspire and transform will evolve self-sustaining, co-ordinated projects in all fields through personal and group commitment, business development, research grants,direct government support, charitable, co-operative and social enterprise activity. A key element is attracting IT developments to adapt a need-led research infrastructure. It is crucial that the model is national and international from the outset.
As a prototype here, in Medway, we are currently establishing an embryonic model, including a mental health social enterprise (’mental health’, a la Maslow, meaning us all striving for integrity), with the intention of stimulating sister groupings across the UK and globally to give birth to the idea. There are so many positive movements around evolution, enlightment, political integrity, religious integration etc.. If we centre this energy on our needs from the ground, we can all evolve, in harmony with the planet from there! It is time to drop this pebble in the pond! -
Tony Praill
Another way of looking at this model is as a new synthesis. If we take the status quo as the thesis and the multitude of, largely disconnected, positive alternatives as the anti-thesis, then we need a common core to provide the effective synthesis. This means that people can connect around universal themes in an unthreatening, practical, purposeful, enjoyable way; then become gradually aware of useful alternative views and options, which hitherto appeared impractical, invalid or even zany in day to day life. Thus a new emergent property of cohesive social progression can be evolved successfully rather than imposed unsuccessfully. This may help stimulate the quantum leap in personal and social awareness that events indicate is now truly required of us all.
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stuart eyers
If you feel a need for love. If you feel a need for consolation. Where better to go then the actual peole that kno you. Why do we have think tanks for gods sake, we have been doing this for years as earth animals.
I would like, a group of people to discuss these matters more. The whole world is screwed due to lack of communication and lack of integraty. Let start talking and being a little more close to each other.
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stuart eyers
I agree, the ones that are not so well educated need to be taught, if not by conventional means then by others. The general consus is that, we all go to school, we all learn. This does not take into account people that are not up for a bit of good old advice.
The only way to combat, I feel is to have dialogue and an understanding of a situation of any situation would be donating
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Tony Praill
This is submission will now be combined and resubmitted with Darran Trurte’s submission ‘A Policy for Gross National Happiness’. So if you are reading this, read that too (filed under ‘wellbeing’). Ideas of how best to combine the synergy of the two submissions are welcome here, these ideas are for and need to be formed by us all. You can also join the ‘pebbles’ group on my (Tony Praill) facebook site to get more involved in a ‘Universal, Happy Way Forward. Thank you
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March 18th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
In response to informal comments on this submission, I thought it may be helpful to clarify how the ‘need-led’ model may actually work in reality. It is a mixed-economy model based on interdependent need. That means creating constructive dialogue amongst varied people in many localities to understand our inherent connectedness, then create ways to enhance it. The expertise, and networks, of those bought together will provide, free-thinking, interdepentant solutions that cannot be achieved from self-constrained top down models, however altruistic. This model’s core elements of meet, inform, discover, inspire and transform will evolve self-sustaining, co-ordinated projects in all fields through personal and group commitment, business development, research grants,direct government support, charitable, co-operative and social enterprise activity. A key element is attracting IT developments to adapt a need-led research infrastructure. It is crucial that the model is national and international from the outset.
As a prototype here, in Medway, we are currently establishing an embryonic model, including a mental health social enterprise (’mental health’, a la Maslow, meaning us all striving for integrity), with the intention of stimulating sister groupings across the UK and globally to give birth to the idea. There are so many positive movements around evolution, enlightment, political integrity, religious integration etc.. If we centre this energy on our needs from the ground, we can all evolve, in harmony with the planet from there! It is time to drop this pebble in the pond!
September 27th, 2009 at 11:29 am