The goal is to create an informed populace that doesn't easily give in to scare tactics or superstition--and that can help make others' problems better as much as ours.
Ideas For A New Society
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
#20
Science and thinking rationally are taught early on, and arts and thinking creatively are taught at the same time. Flexibility and creativity and dedication to solving problems and knowing or finding facts will be a basic mindset.
#19
The main exports will be cultural and artisanal--local food, drink, and handcrafted products, or art, literature, plays, movies, music, Olympic athletes, philosophers, inventors, and scientists and other people who think and create. Not raw materials that could be found somewhere else cheaper, bankrupting the country.
All of these would be a natural outgrowth of a community / country based on hand making, arts in life and public space, free and innovative thought, and dedication to improvement of people, space, systems, and the world as a whole. An artsy, forward-thinking, creative society.
#18
Money is de-emphasized.
Internally:
Everyone who is a member if the community is given the same amount for regular work, and extra work is rewarded with extra benefits rather than more money. Food, water, shelter, and power are all taken care of just by being part of the society, and all come from inside, so that no one need to pay for them with anything other than work-time. A lot of stuff is community property--food, most entertainment and tools, etc--so personal property needing money is mostly just stuff we can't make at home.
The rest of everyone's income goes into the community fund for upkeep and expansion and improvement.
Externally:
There is always a fund for a certain number of people to go to school or travel or work outside the community, so long as they bring their knowledge and experience back. People who work outside mostly do so to feed the fund and the community bank, or to acquire stuff we can't make ourselves.
In daily life, the goal is to not need money for regular interactions, and for the community as a whole to mostly check out of consumerism, except where we would choose--in selling exports, for example, or for funding travel to other countries.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
#17
The society is founded on conservation and stewardship, not conquering or using it all up. Leave more and better for the future. Improve the space you inhabit.
#16
Marriages are mutual, never arranged or pressured, and can be as permanent or impermanent as the couple decides--from a year to eternal. Divorces are allowed and not punished, and there's a ceremony of unbinding to give closure and even out any grudges.
Marriages are between whoever wants to be married, any number, any gender, as long as they're considered adult and everyone is consensual. Probably some lead-up ceremony and coinciding to be sure they want it. Same with divorce.
#15
Fostering.
In cases where parents and kids aren't compatible, or when parents can't care for their kids, a kid can find someone else who will suit them better--so long as they all stay useful and do their work and learn their lessons. It's a way to keep peace and avoid unnecessary conflict, and to keep people integrated and useful to the community, rather than angry, sullen, withdrawn, or violent.
#14
A built in system for expansion / founding further communities when populations get too high to support the goals of the community and the functioning--and the environment's ability to support it.
Also for how the new communities will relate to the mother village.
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