How might we cultivate equity governance to co-create a fair-free-flourishing future on a healthy planet for the benefit of all?
How might we call out the futility of debates and call in generative dialogues and civil discourse to solve our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st-century?
How might we restore the original meaning of equity?
Equity is the sacred virtue of fairness. Equity preempts the need for justice. This sacred virtue prevents the injustices of BIPID: biases, isms, prejudice, inequities, and discrimination.
Equity governance is about co-creating fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for the benefit of all, on a healthy planet.
How might we negotiate the meaning of fairness and moral freedom to co-create equity governance?
Freedom is a moral, amoral, and moral value: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Values divide us. Virtues align us.
How might we use the ethics and equanimity of equity to liberate moral freedom needed to speak truth to the abuse of power and redress the heinous abuses of amoral and immoral freedoms?
Liberate equity, freedom for all
Fairness doctrines based on equity governance are peace antidotes to the never-ending cycles of power abuses, chronic post-traumatic stress injuries, civil strife, terrorism, and wars.
The Israeli-Hamas war is escalating global dysfunctional polarizations that ignite tinker boxes of digital neo-terrorism, hate crimes, political disruptions, and much more. Neo-terrorism is the sociopathic war of words. Neo-terrorist propaganda machines have no regard for the integrity and transparent accountability to seek truth.
This war incites the blame games of religious and political scapegoating. These dysfunctional dynamics epitomize our failures in cultivating the the ethics and equanimity of equity governance,
How might we:
Transform destructive dysfunctional triangulations of divisive coalitions into constructive functional triangulations of healthy alliances?
Co-create peaceful co-existence across all racial, ethnic, cultural, national, religious, political, and gender identities?
The ultimate quest for humanity
Equity Moonshot is about co-designing and building an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future on a healthy planet for the benefit of all. This quest calls for implementing the Rhodium rule of equity governance.
Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
How might we adopt and deploy the Rhodium rule to build networks of launching pads for Equity Moonshot?
Why are debates futile in solving our wicked problems?
Debates can be captivating and entertaining. Too often, they serve the prowess, narcissistic, and extrovert needs of the debaters who demonstrate their rhetorical skills, as a means to establish their sage positions of authority. This is a colonial vestige of academic elitism.
Debates may help to develop critical thinking skills, but not for solving our wicked problems. These problems have no simple, single, definitive, or final solutions, without ever knowing whether the best solutions were adopted and deployed.
Working on wicked problems involves taking on a dynamic exploratory process of iteratively, innovating, experimenting, and discovering what works and to what extent.
Debates are not a means to an end in solving our wicked problems, for the following reasons.
Debates are framed around taking one of two sides around a contentious issue or a controversial question, and not on collaboratively working together on common causes and co-creating solutions for the greater good.
Debates focus more on how clever the debaters are than on how clever the solutions are.
Debates focus more on asserting a point of view than on listening to, and understanding different perspectives.
Dichotomous debates set up zero-sum games of winners and losers that are dysfunctional for collaborating on how to innovate and solve our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.
Two-sided debates prevent exploring the upsides and downsides of taking multi-perspectives needed to co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future on a healthy planet for the benefit of all.
The divisive reductionism of debates violates the holism of the Rhodium rule for cultivating equity governance: Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
Debates are more likely to prevail with the mainstream power structures and biases than to co-create empowerment networks of distributive leadership needed to open, inspire and align our mindsets for Equity Moonshot?
Debates fail to build the middle ground to co-create catalytic innovations and do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet.
Debates reinforce extroverted talkers to talk too much and introverted listeners to listen too much. Talkers fail to listen to listeners, and listeners fail to talk to talkers.
Debates risk evoking divisive, polarizing thinking and emotional reactivity that disable the equanimity of rationality and long-term thinking needed to solve our wicked problems.
Debates trigger competitive alpha-amygdala brains to emotionally dominate over collaborative, beta-neocortical brains guided by the ethics of equity governance.
Debates evoke the one-up-manship of combatively attacking ideas, propositions, and ideologies that depreciate the rigor of discernment, verification and truth-seeking in assessing the nuanced spectrum of upsides and downside that arise from different perspectives.
Debates risk evoking divisive, polarizing thinking and emotional reactivity that disable the practices of equanimity needed to solve our wicked problems.
Debates risk silos of tunnel vision about wicked problems that reinforce narrow-minded, cult thinking.
Debates reinforce and exaggerate inside-out group dynamics of elevation-adulation on the one hand, and marginalization-denigration on the other hand.
Debates risk underestimating the complexities of understanding context, culture, and different perspectives about how to redress BIPID issues.
Debates can create a premature and naive consensus, without appreciating the underlying systemic causes, complexities, and consequences of BIPID.
Debates risk imposing indoctrinations that influence people to take only one side over contrasting perspectives in addressing wicked problems.
Idolatry of authority figures evokes a loyalty that suspends discernment and critical thinking skills.
Debates are often superficial and abstract, without considering the specific contexts and the cultures of different people.
Debates reduce the aperture and scopes of inquiry, curiosity, exploration, creativity, discovery, improvisation, and innovation.
Debates overlook the historical, structural, and systemic causes that perpetuate and perpetuate systemic BIPID.
Debates risk evoking the fast-thinking reflexes of our reptilian brains and activating the emotional reactivity of our self-righteousness amygdala brains that disable the executive functions of our neocortical brain.
The toxicities of divisive debates disengage and marginalize the voices and experiences of those who have been most disadvantaged by BIPID.
Debates lack the integrity of transparent accountability to co-create equity governance.
Debates lack a process for co-creating shared understanding, goals, metrics, and mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the impact of equity governance initiatives iteratively over time.
Debates are ineffective and inefficient becuase they are not designed to develop and implement equity governance into policies, practices, and behaviors.
Debates consume time and resources that could be better used in developing evidence-based approaches to cultivate and evolve equity governance over time.
To move beyond the futility of debates, we can learn to co-create generative dialogues and civil discourse on how to cultivate equity governance.
Take time to think slowly about the meaning of complex questions
The use of complex questions move us beyond the downsides of debates.
How might we scale up exponential opportunities to accelerated learning journeys on how to:
Co-create generative dialogues to cultivate equity governance?
Facilitate civil discourse to launch Equity Moonshot?
Complex questions challenge the marketing dogma of simple messaging and communication that disables us from understanding and addressing our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.
How might we enable epigenetic cultures of collaborative learning and deep meaningful relationships about developing our virtues to:
Slow down the monster content machines that disable the learning processes of slow thinking needed to rise above the noise of poor information, propaganda,misinformation and disinformation?
Serve the needs of learners and not the needs of the teachers, leaders, sages, and savors?
Evolve human nature beyond the patriarchy of competitive, aggressive, and chronically stressed chimpanzees and toward the matriarchy of collaborative, cooperative, and beloved inclusive learning communities of Bonobo monkeys?
Develop the equanimity and executive functioning of our neo-cortical brains to understand and work through our disagreements to make a difference, and not make our differences worse?
Self-regulate our fast-talking reptilian brains and the amygdala reflexes of emotional reactivity that reinforce divisive, toxic, and warring tribalism?
Move beyond the domineering cultural hubris of power abuses (colonialism, slavery, etc) and the monologues of mansplaining and women-espousing and toward egalitarianism, cultural humility, and the power-sharing spirit of co-creating generative dialogues to launch Equity Moonshot?
Prevent our political and media dysfunctional systems from mass-producing spectator citizens and compliant zombies who become victims of their voting that sabotage the interests of the middle majority?
Halt the desecrations that destroy the cooperative spirit of our untapped human potential to develop our ethical sovereignties in serving the greater good?
Cultivate equity governance to co-create deliberative democracies that develop proactively engaged citizens to serve, we the people, and not the megalomania of narcissistic and sociopathic political systems that elevate self-serving extroverts who talk too much and fail to listen?
Complex questions open our apertures and our scopes of inquiry, curiosity, and co-creativity needed to develop new ways of thinking, perceiving, and feeling. Reflecting on these questions opens our mindsets to co-designing catalytic innovations and the social entrepreneurship needed to launch Equity Moonshot and solve our wicked problems.