![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A Vision of Hope
Dec. 4th, 2015 12:53 pmI'm tired of anger. I'm tired of shame. And I am damned tired of being afraid of the future, of watching things get worse and worse, and of watching hate get more air time than love ever seems to. And so, I have a plan.
We're going to do something about this.
Tonight, I am finally launching the Keyspace Project. The aim of this project is to first determine, and then seek to create, a safer and more inclusive world. In so doing, the project necessarily recognizes that civilization, society itself, has grown organically since the dawn of our species, and will continue to do so. This is not an attempt to change that path wholesale, or to enforce change through force of any kind. Careful planning and study will be required, and our byword will be empathy and example, even in the face of violence.
Why is this project required?
Because we lack a vision of hope — and it is killing us.
We know where we are and where we seem to be going, but we lack a coherent vision of the society we actually want to live in. Folks (including myself) push specific policies or responses, but we don't stop to imagine a complete picture of what the world will look like afterwards. It seems silly to have to say this, but if you're trying to achieve a goal, it pays to know what that goal actually is!
So... that's stage one of the project. Let's come up with some goals. It's guaranteed that different folks will have different views here, especially when it comes down to the paths to get us to that goal, but that's actually not a bad thing. We need a diversity of ideas here, because we will miss things that are outside our own experiences. Needless to say, this is going to be a work in progress, but it's about damned time we started. This may even result in multiple iterations of the project running simultaneously with different goals, some more conservative and some more liberal. That's fine! One solution does not fit every problem, even this one.
Stage two is to start working towards that goal. Political involvement can affect some of the types of changes we'll be looking at, but that will not be the primary, or even a significant, focus of the Keyspace Project. (It is far too easy to become distracted and spend time fighting battles of policy minutiae.) The intent here is to focus on empathic, human solutions that are primarily expressed in how we interact in relationships with other people, friends, family, and strangers alike.
Make no mistake, this isn't going to be easy, and it certainly isn't going to be fast, but if we make the effort, we can make a difference. It's a sad fact that we likely have dark times ahead before things start to get better, but we /can/ decrease both the impact of those times, and the timeframe required for recovery.
The future is worth building, and it's worth building together. So let's get a move on, shall we?
We're going to do something about this.
Tonight, I am finally launching the Keyspace Project. The aim of this project is to first determine, and then seek to create, a safer and more inclusive world. In so doing, the project necessarily recognizes that civilization, society itself, has grown organically since the dawn of our species, and will continue to do so. This is not an attempt to change that path wholesale, or to enforce change through force of any kind. Careful planning and study will be required, and our byword will be empathy and example, even in the face of violence.
Why is this project required?
Because we lack a vision of hope — and it is killing us.
We know where we are and where we seem to be going, but we lack a coherent vision of the society we actually want to live in. Folks (including myself) push specific policies or responses, but we don't stop to imagine a complete picture of what the world will look like afterwards. It seems silly to have to say this, but if you're trying to achieve a goal, it pays to know what that goal actually is!
So... that's stage one of the project. Let's come up with some goals. It's guaranteed that different folks will have different views here, especially when it comes down to the paths to get us to that goal, but that's actually not a bad thing. We need a diversity of ideas here, because we will miss things that are outside our own experiences. Needless to say, this is going to be a work in progress, but it's about damned time we started. This may even result in multiple iterations of the project running simultaneously with different goals, some more conservative and some more liberal. That's fine! One solution does not fit every problem, even this one.
Stage two is to start working towards that goal. Political involvement can affect some of the types of changes we'll be looking at, but that will not be the primary, or even a significant, focus of the Keyspace Project. (It is far too easy to become distracted and spend time fighting battles of policy minutiae.) The intent here is to focus on empathic, human solutions that are primarily expressed in how we interact in relationships with other people, friends, family, and strangers alike.
Make no mistake, this isn't going to be easy, and it certainly isn't going to be fast, but if we make the effort, we can make a difference. It's a sad fact that we likely have dark times ahead before things start to get better, but we /can/ decrease both the impact of those times, and the timeframe required for recovery.
The future is worth building, and it's worth building together. So let's get a move on, shall we?
