Dear Spaceship Earth

Dear Spaceship Earth,

Our Context. Our Roots. Sometimes it is all connected. We try to understand something, we meet with like minded, and we design as a means to reach our goal. In these times, for the individual it is far more interesting to think deep and find his or her added value in the bigger picture. Once you understand the whole a bit, you see some empty spaces, you have the vision to look for your own place.
In small tribes, this idea is simple; if you did not master a complementary tribal survival or luxury skill, you are a burden to the community. In the animal cultures this principle still prevails. In human culture, yes, we have evolved to create carbon driven tools and have cheap labor abroad, so we can afford ourselves not to abandon our sick and less fortunate. Though today also the healthy and fortunate behave like the tribe should take care of him or her. Make sure there is a job, make sure there is food, make sure there is a roof above our heads.

And so today we start to commonly panic. We freeze. We distrust as the Trustville community is motivated upon into existence. Our job is at stake, so is our home and without a nearby supermarket we do not know how to survive. Aiming to hold on tight on what we still can hold on to, our primal instinct has awaken; I will take care of myself and my loved ones, no matter what it takes. You see it currently starting in many companies, many governments, fallback hoods, and we all see no way out… yet.
As long as humans have been able to understand the patterns in our history, primal instinct (much stronger than community values) always prevailed. Me, my family, my loved ones above the rest. Us and them in primary needs crisis; our most simple primary school history lesson.
We know this, and we have all the means to communicate and collaborate on local and global scale, why do we still freeze and only dream about a great future ahead of us? Some governments and so communities in the world understand again, it is time, time to listen to the right brained who have the complementary skill to see the whole, first in abstracts, later in detail together with the left brained. These regions are slowly finding a new balance. Regions who do not understand and not use or abuse the complementarity of minds, are meeting on swamps, design till their last breath tools which are unable to keep up with the needs of place and time.
Spaceship Earth, today it is October 28th, 2010. Let this be our little manifest;
We all know all is within one atmosphere, one nature. we living things have a point of view, a horizon, coming together in plant, animal and human cultures to survive and possibly live in luxury. We will try again to understand you, than we will meet in little groups, than to design meaningful solutions with the best complementary skills. We believe it is possible as many of us are beyond the ‘well-having ego’ cycle of this century. We trained ourselves to think with a free and clear mind and go beyond the easy fulfillment of discussing discussions. We know we need to be radical, we will play the game of redesign design itself exactly one of your solar cycles from today. In one year from now you are on the same spot from the sun; we played the game, collected the data, made choices, finished our story, reached the highest level. If we fail, a simple ‘game over’ message will do. To quote a famous wolf clan leader; you have all the time in the world, and we don’t. Just reboot without us.

That the 6 elements may be with us.

Have a safe sun trip this year!

Big hug,

A small tribe in one of your jungles.