OrganicDesign/Vision statement

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Our vision is to see the world, its inhabitants, and resources governed by a global unified system which has the maximum peace and well-being of all inhabitants and the environment as its bottom line. This system evolves toward ever closer alignment with its bottom line by its architecture being open and by providing the ability for people to independently modify any aspect of it and assess the value of those modifications with respect to its bottom line.

Full openness includes maximising the accessibility and understanding of the relevant information and concepts. Combining this principle with the ability to change any aspect and the procedures to test how aligned a system is with the vision and values allows us to govern ourselves as a planet for more effectively by applying the vast spectrum of available knowledge and expertise toward the achieving the vision in an objective and unbiased way.

Self governance: When a trust group collaborate on their shared vision and work together to actualise it in alignment with their defined values, they need to have methods and tools available for making decisions together, resolving conflicts and managing resources in their system. Self governance is the ability for a trust group to do these things without requiring any external parties, and in general, is how a group's system can undergo change in response to feedback from its members and stakeholders and from changes in the environment it operates within. The manifesto to which Organic Design is aligned follows the bottom-up principle that organisation at the global scale is achieved by organisation beginning with individuals and local regions, rather than being determined from larger centralised institutions downwards. From this global context, self-governance in alignment with the values allows the best known options to be found and selected for all aspects of the social mechanism. This is achieved by making more effective, unhindered use of the totality of available knowledge and expertise. [more]

Robertson's "Natural Order"

Robertson, describes (p. 394-5) the natural order as follows (links to equivalent concepts added in brackets):

Such a conception of society follows the natural order. In it the dominating power of finance is destroyed; and since money would be free and not negative, debt would cease to exist. And with the disappearance of the debt would cease the centralisation of power which at present deprives men of their sovereignty. In it also consumption would determine production, and a united social policy would prevail without arbitrary pressure from any quarter. The confusion of ends and means would cease since the end of man (the bottom line to maximise the well being of the environment and all inhabitants) would be truly served. Leisure would become the test of efficiency in industry, the fewness of laws the test in politics, and the smaller the Administration and Sanctions the greater the excellence of government (our self governance). The criterion of all would be the security with freedom.

The seven mechanisms constitute the organism of society serving integral man by fullest and freest provision for all his needs, and thereby the prevailing pressure would be towards co-operation and unity rather than competition and disunity (fragmentation)."

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The expansion of the individuality through the natural order would be achieved by organic growth from within and not by planning imposed from without. It would provide the one and only basis for stability in society. And just as unity is not uniformity, neither is stability stagnation. A stable society is not static but one steadily progressing towards its objective (vision).

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The aim of society is to provide a field for the perfecting of individual existence, which it does by the provision of the Basic Needs through co-operative effort and differentiation of function, and by creating a suitable field for the exercise of the higher human faculties.

Platform

A suite of free, customisable software applications that can run on any computer in any language. What this means in practice: Download a software package or burn a DVD ROM that can be installed on any computer, which includes a continually-updated operating system, email, office and collaboration software.

A portal to a network of people to communicate, do business and debate matters of governance with. What this means in practice: Being able to select a legal and financial framework in alignment with your values, to pursue your goals within, with the ability to question and change any aspect and to connect with peers who abide by the same governance.

A turn-key organisation based on continually updated, proven best practices for personal organisation and setting up businesses. What this means in practice: Fill in a number of electronic forms to set up your personal and business goals, projects and manage resources.

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