Design Revolution
Develop our ability to work with others to redesign the world in meaningful ways.
it will take an enormous effort to design and build a World That Works and a healthy Flourishing Earth; clearly no individual, group, or even nation can do it alone.
“There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. […] All the world, properly informed of the significance of the design and invention revolution, would welcome it.” — R. Buckminster Fuller, I Seem to Be a Verb
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As with all three movements, the design revolution is well underway.
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A revolution is initiated by people who see an opportunity to make things better and take the initiative to make it happen. It’s not so much that we need to agree on what the future should look like exactly, but that we need to share in the building of it. It needs to be a collaborative effort; even if we differ on the details, we should be all working on the problem.
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Political revolutions, like the French and Soviet revolutions, have been about the poor rising up against the rich. But knowledge-based revolutions, like the industrial revolution or the information revolution have been peaceful and have lifted everyone up. A design revolution is a knowledge-based revolution.
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Revolutions need people to participate and contribute, but not all in the same way. We don’t all have to build a new financial system. Some of us can grow as humans so that we’re willing to participate in a new financial system because we understand it’s along the infinite path.
Therefore:
Take the initiative and join the design revolution by focusing your time and energy on creating better ways to operate our Spaceship Earth; collaborate with others so that eventually we will have thousands or millions of people working together to redesign the world in meaningful ways.
This revolution is already underway, and we need to move quickly—Transitional Decade