Chapter 2: Puzzle Pieces

Aloha this is the second week of a weekly podcast, Sixminutes to savetheworld, where I’m going to spend six minutes of sound addressing the worlds big issues, our big issues.

There happens to be work in progress on software that sheds a whole new light on the way we see technology and our own communities.

This podcast is aimed at opening a public discourse on what are our problems, what are your problems, and how we can use our ingenuity, friendships and a little algorithmic fiesta to start solving them.

So last week I introduced some of the thinking involved in creating The Guide.

Let’s talk more about these puzzle pieces and how we can get them to fit just so.

Because there are a lot of them, and this is only a six minute podcast so I'm going to try and show how a lot if not all of these really big problems can actually be traced down to missing one ingredient. One piece, that I think most of us feel so deeply in our bones we don't even look that direction for the answer. But there it was. And then the missing link that brings that very ingredient to life. Makes it viable for 7, 8 , any billions of people.

I think there are a lot of intelligent folks providing discourse and evidence for some of our big issues, Oil, Air pollution, Fracking, Co2, War, poverty, hunger, disease.

Ok, most of these things are logistical issues that take careful planning, time, evidence , and there are a lot of solutions out there yet, really,..we all know the only problem is resource allocation.

If there were enough resources and manpower and willpower to make a thing happen, we pretty much make it happen, cross oceans, build bridges, build upwards, build to fly, build to drill, even building walls.

We allocate our resources collectively where they can be put to use for things of that nature.

Like a beehive with an evil queen.

We all stay busy while the real movements of things, the real holders of the keys, even in the best of democracies, is swayed by individuals trying to make decisions that may benefit or just trick at least half, and not even half of everyone, just half of the people stable enough in their lives to even think about voting.

The thing is. I mean the real kicker here is that we aren’t bees, and this isn’t a hive,

What if each community had access to a mayor? To decision making or sovereignty, a team of lawmakers, 1200 hours a year, a stipend around 100 grand for research and community participation, a group of phd’s in each field able to answer their questions and provide dialogue on a regular basis? Whoa, I mean we could add a lot more variety into this fun little fiction, but let’s keep it simple

Well, that’s ridiculous, of course. That’s resource allocation out of this world, no one could dream of having that kind of access, well, no one could dream of having that kind of access and be able to share it with everyone in the world.

But, ok, let’s play this game for a minute, in this fantastical world, if that were possible

Is it a stretch to think that people would start organizing better? Becoming healthier? Wanting a healthier environment for themselves, maybe their friends and family? And now that experiment Facebook happened, we all know that we are all connected just a few friends out. Would we even be able to organize communities with enough food production, activity, social movement and housing fluidity that they wouldn’t even have to trade money anymore? Even if just their community, that would be huge, everyone around the world would start feeling the effects of communities being able to export and import more effectively, less reliant on a dollar value but ecological impacts, things like transportation and land use would take on entirely different meanings.

Would that be the next step in getting us back into an age of enlightenment?

Is that part of the missing ingredient, building real community, supporting real leaders and organizing without a management class through technological logistics innovation>?

Welcome to The Guide

Please visit the website, leave feedback, comments, questions. It’s us, right now, building the future we need for our children’s health and safety. Don’t be shy, don’t be afraid. And don’t make excuses because there’s nothing holding us back when we can organize at this scale. The sky isn’t even the limit.

Dream with me and let’s make it happen. The guide is real.