When most people think of evolution (if they think of it at all) most tend to think of competition.
Yet while competition is undoubtedly an important factor, it is also true that all major advances in evolution are characterised by new levels of cooperation.
It seems clear to the author that the next major development in human life will be empowered by a new level of global cooperation.
Markets and money are great tools for allocating scarce resources, and competition is a great tool for driving innovation, yet markets cannot deal effectively with real abundance. Markets cannot incentivise the production of abundance, and nor can they value abundance. To assure yourself of this, just consider how much money you are likely to get for a bag of air if you take it to market. Oxygen in air is one of the most valuable things to human beings, it is an absolute necessity for life, yet because it is abundant, its monetary value at a market is zero.
Consider that we are rapidly developing the technical capacity to create any good or service that any human needs for survival via fully automated processes (including the manufacture, repair and maintenance of all machinery), yet there is no economic incentive to delvier it to all people (even though it would meet human needs).
This website asserts that the future of humanity relies on us developing techniques and technologies to transcend markets, and provide the essentials of life to every individual.
There is much more to consider, and this is it in a nutshell.
More work will follow.
We are, in a very real and scientific sense, all one big family living in the same place, and our survival may depend on us recognising this.
It is intended to get past the idea of national barriers, and to go beyond cultural barriers of real or imagined historical grievances and misunderstandings.
It is intended to indicate that first and foremost, we are all far more similar than we are different, however different we may be, and however important those differences may seem.
This site champions several ideas:
That we (self aware consciousnesses) are all valuable - irrespective of our economic contribution; and
That what is most important is to create systems that support every individual in self actualising to whatever level they choose.
In order to self actualise several things are important:
Money and monetary systems are valuable only in so far as they support these goals, and not as ends unto themselves.
My Standing for Mayor of Kaikoura in the 2016 Local body elections.
Ted Howard, 1 Maui St, Kaikoura, NEW ZEALAND