The Genesis of Guts
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THE GENESIS OF GUTS 1 FOREMENTIONS (Foreword & Aforementioned) OVER THE YEARS A VACUUM HAS REMAINED UNFILLED… “The critical issues of our time are neither Left nor Right, neither male nor fe- male, neither black nor white. The challenge for new millennium activists is to find the courage to let go of all their old orthodoxies […] and to commit to a “ruthless criticism of all that exists.” And after that, the big challenge is to bring revolutionary consciousness and contestation back into the modern world […].” —Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam, 1999 “The past [fifty] years have demonstrated that uncontrolled economic power de- stroys the organic basis of human society, causing insecurity, depletion of earn- ings, the unraveling of family connections, the rise of inequality, poverty, vio- lence and crime, and the malignant neglect of our social and natural habitat. We make things worse by blaming each other, attacking symptoms rather than causes, abandoning our principles and ideals, and attempting an impossi- ble return to the past […we need] a more intelligible picture of our world and a more penetrating diagnosis of our malady [… showing] how efforts at reform, including the counterculture and mainstream liberalism, failed not because of unattainable goals but because of reliance on a false map of reality—a map shared with today’s conservatives. Once this map is discarded, we regain our ability to imagine a far better and more hopeful future.” —Charles Reich, Opposing The System, 1995 “If we are to escape our present downward and destructive course, we must learn from the failure of past efforts at reform, revolution, and renewal. The greatest weakness of the ‘60s [90s & 2000s] protest movements was lack of strategic thinking about how to accomplish its goals. For the nineties as well as for the sixties, the most difficult challenge concerns the means of change. We need an adequate theory of social change. We need to diagnose the malady that afflicts our society, and on the basis of that diagnosis, we need to fashion an appropriate remedy. We need a strategy that understands the obstacles that have been placed in the way of change—a strategy that can overcome these obstacles” [and has been missing for decades if not centuries]. —Charles A. Reich, Opposing The System, 1995 …UNTIL NOW 2 THE GRAND UNIFIED THEORY & STRATEGY (GUTS) A GRAND SYNTHESIS FOR RADICAL EVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION I. PHASE ONE: CULTURAL EVOLUTION (Challenges Societal Codes Through A Paradigm Shift For Comprehensive Cultural Change That Supplants Superstructure & Subverts Social System) A) CONTINUUM X: SEPARATION—Cultural Divergence From Dominant Modernist Status- Quo Society Of Infinite Growth (I, It) (Change of Consciousness “I,” Behavior “It,” Promote Alternative Culture “We,” & Create Preconditions For Collective Behavior “Its”) 1. Individual Transformation: Inner Departure, Setting Out, Confronting Critics, Values Into New Lifestyle (I, It) 2. Interpersonal Activism: The Revolution of Everyday Living Through A New Integral Life Practice & Path (I, It, We) 3. Redefining Progress Through Experimental Innovations With Cultural, Social, Political & Economic Alternatives (We, Its) 4. Resocialization of Society: Massive Mindshift By Exposing False Map of Reality & To Break Materialist Trance (I, We, Its) 5. Swaying Dissatisfied Leaders: Fostering Discontent Among Intellectuals To Diminish Support For The Govt. (We, Its, I) 6. Raising Expectations of the Masses: Inciting Hope for a Better Quality of Life & Belief To End Their Oppression (We) 7. Resistance & Defiance: Converting Crisis as Illustration of Govt. Illegitimacy But Movements Stuck In MAP Stage 5-Loop (Its) B) CONTINUUM Y: TRANSITION—From The Great Unraveling Of Empire To The Great Turning Of Earth Community—Consciousness, Code of Conduct, Worldview, Ethos & Culture (I, It, We) (Dynamic Decalogue Breaks MAP Retrigger Loop By Radically Re-imagining The Future From Late th Sensate To Early Ideational Culture & An Transgenerational Integration To Maximize The 4 Turning) 1. Accurately Assess Our Current Condition/Predicament (Pillar 1) 2. Analyze Categorical Root Causes of Converging Crises (Pillar 2) 3. Identify Obstacles & Opposition Through Integral Mapping National & Local Power Structures & Stakeholders (Pillar 3) 4. Combine Mitigation Methods, Alternative Solutions & Sustainable Models That Form New Integral Memes & Mandates (Pillar 4) a) Create National Directory/Electronic Database To Map Cumulative Assets Movements for Strategic Planning b) Organize Regularly Scheduled Local, Regional & National Change Agents Summits For Solidarity & Synchronization c) Coordinate All Alternative Communications To Create A Citizen-Based, National Mass Media Network: Print, Television, Radio & Internet (Social Media: You Tube, etc.) d) Decentralize Implementation Of Strategic Framework Through National Network Of Convergence Center Nodes e) Creative Expressions (Visual, Audio & Performance Art) Of What Society Would Look Like In Envisioned Future 3 5. Combine Problems, Root Causes, Power Mapping, Millennium Mandates Into One Integral Global Goal & Synthesize Change Theories To Create A Grand Unified Strategy (Pillars 5 & 6) 6. Integrate Spiritual Experiences, Secular Knowledge From Past Mythos, Future Scenarios, Post Metaphysical Truths & Intuitive Wisdom For New Cosmology, Ethos & Vision (Pillars 7 & 8) 7. Create Policies, National Unifying Purpose, Interdependent Initiatives, Integral Leadership, Organization, Movement & Campaign As Engine To Enact Cultural Change (Pillars 9 & 10) C) CONTINUUM Z: INTEGRATION—Convergence Of Evolutionary Change-Agents To Build Logistical Support System For Change (Its) (Interweave Most Movements To Create Counter-Organizations With Alternative Building Institutions & Sustainable Activist Infrastructure) 1. Create Convergence Centers For Integral Leadership, Organization & Community Resilience Development For A Nationwide General Strike & Creation Of New Integral Culture & Society 2. Build Various Collaborative Infrastructures For Coalescence 3. Cultural Transmission Of Our Values Into Mainstream Society 4. Build An Alternative & Integral Social System Of Art, Activism, Business, Spirituality, Youth & Elderly Alliances For Cultural, Economic, Social & Political Self-Development & Sovereignty 5. Create New Formal Social Institutions To Nurture & Sustain A Unified Mega-Movement Campaign For Comprehensive Change 6. Build New Integral Political Force Outside Of The Two-Party System Based On A Unified Citizen Empowerment Agenda 7. Break The Feedback Loop Of Retrigger Events From Social Movements: Successful Advancement Through MAP Stages 6-8 II. PHASE TWO: STRUCTURAL REVOLUTION (Redesign Social System Into Sustainable Society For 3rd Millennium) (Its) A) CONTINUUM A: DECONSTRUCTION POLICIES & B) CONTINUUM B: RECONSTRUCTION LEGISLATION (Systemic Cleansing Of Maladaptive Social Institutions & Reengineer Our Societal Structure Through Jeremy Rifkin’s Post Carbon Third Industrial Revolution) 1. Simultaneous Execution of Ecology, Energy, Economy & Equity 2. The Mass Media 3. The Political System (Creating Crowdocracy) 4. The Legal System 5. The Health Care System 6. Education, Science & Technology 7. National Security & Foreign Policy III. PHASE THREE: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION A) CONTINUUM C: DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM (I, We, Its)—Ecologically Sustainability 1. The Oil Depletion Protocol 2. The Post-Carbon Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) 3. The Venus Project (Natural Law/Resource-Based Economy) 4. The New Millennium Development Project 5. The New Declaration of Universal Human Rights 6. Global Initiative For Creating A New [Empathetic] Civilization 7. The Alternatives For The Americas & New Global Marshal Plan 4 INTRODUCTION “Protest is broken,” this according to Micah White, former editor of ADBUSTERS magazine, co- creator of Occupy Wall Street and author of the 2016 book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. “Recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a crossroads: Innovation or Irrelevance.” Occupy Wall Street marks the end of protest as we’ve known it and the beginning of a fundamental- ly different approach. We achieved a global movement that fulfilled all the most difficult requirements that the citizenry of democracies have been told were prerequisites for political change. Occupy was mass, modern, secular (with a universalist spirituality) and overwhelmingly non-violent during its peak. It included people from across the political spectrum, which the sociologist Thomas Greene explains as necessary: “Revolutionary movements do not succeed where only the workers are mobilized, or only the peasants, or only the middle classes. They succeed only when a critical mass of most or all of the major classes in the society is mobilized in the revolutionary process.”[19] We spoke publicly in unison, declaring We are the 99 percent and rallied mostly around a primary demand: Stop the influence of corporate money on our elections! Occupy was nearly a textbook example of a movement that should work—and for a few beauti- ful weeks, nearly everyone believed it would. And then we were defeated. Activism is in crisis. Occupy was the strongest, most sophisticated and broadly based social move- ment in fifty years—and yet we were completely unable to sway the balance of power. The lesson of Occupy’s constructive failure goes deeper than our inability to overcome the violence that was deployed against