How might we learn to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, and the well-being of all life, and regenerate the health of our planet?
How might we use strategic meta-thinking to cultivate equity meta-governance to scale up strategic doing exponentially to solve our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems?
For learning design thinkers, humanitarians, techies, conscious capitalists, catalytic innovators and social entrepreneurs who seek to create transformational networks of hubs, eco-systems, and living communities to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, and the well-being of all life, and regenerate the health of our planet.
Details for hosting dialogues sessions are described at the end.
Dialogue session 1. How might we use songs, poems, images, videos, living books and communities, enabled by human-AI synergies and AI-enabled digital platforms, to overcome our prejudices against equity meta-governance?
Creative and inspirational resources set the stage for inviting learners to engage in dialogues on how to cultivate equity meta-governance and launch Equity Moonshot. Read on to learn the meaning of jargon words to understand complex questions
Neo-terrorism, wicked problems, equity meta-governance, equity, Equity Moonshot, semantic middling. strategic meta-thinking, and strategic doing.
Click on link to listen to an evocative song, Drinking Fool-aid.
Lyrics by author, with AI as an assistant with music generated by Suno. Use the song to inspire deep learning about exploring the questions below.
How might we, as equity learners:
Overcome the resistance to cultivating equity meta-governance: co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for the benefit of all, on a healthy planet?
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Use the light of co-creating human-AI synergies to illuminate our ego shadows and our dark sides to unravel our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems?
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Wicked problems are complex because they have no single, simple, definitive, or final solutions, with no right-wrong answers. Wicked problems have no linear root causes.
Co-create new transformational learning paradigms to redesign our dysfunctional educational system and solve our wicked problems?
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Dialogue session 2. How might we co-elevate equity, the virtue of fairness?
Lyrics by author, with AI as assistant. Suno-generated music.
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Freedom from unfairness drives the individual value of liberty. Paradoxically, liberty enables the immoral freedoms of neoliberalism to control resources and people in ways that accelerate planetary demise, escalate inequities and reinforces systemic prejudices against equity
Equity liberates freedom for all
Our competing value systems between liberal and conservative mindsets divide us and set up dysfunctional polarizations and toxic divisiveness.
Divided, we fall. Aligned, we stand.
Equity is the humanitarian virtue of fairness, kindness, decency, and mutual reciprocities based on the principles of interdependence and interconnectedness without division, fragmentation, and atomization.
Equity is about ensuring that each of us, according to our particular needs, has fair opportunities to strive, thrive and flourish to our highest potential of healthy well-being.
Equity is not about equal treatment nor equal outcomes: consider how fair-minded, caring parents balance the dilemmas of treating children equally without favoritism, and each according to their needs (equity).
Equity is about co-creating a diverse and overwhelming abundance of human resources, talents, and human capital to solve our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems.
How might we co-create exponential digital opportunities and scale up human-AI synergies to cultivate the acorn of equity?
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How might we overcome how the individual values of liberty and freedom reinforce our prejudices against the virtues of the equity and equality that prevent us from solving ?
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Dialogue session 3. How might we engage in “semantic middling” to de-construct the propaganda war of neo-terrorism, dysfunctional polarizations, and toxic divisiveness that prevent us from solving our wicked problems?
Semantic middling is about clarifying where we agree to agree, and where we agree to disagree,
This learning process involves developing the middle ground where we agree on the meaning of key works, such as the fairness of equity, Acknowledging where our differences lies is about developing the common ground of disagreements, without tearing each other apart into warring tribes.
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Free speech is a value, not a virtue. This communication process spans the moral-amoral-immoral spectrum: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
How might we use moral free speech to triumph snd trump over amoral and immoral speech in the land of dysfunctional polarization, toxic divisiveness and escalating inequities?
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Neo-terrorism is the propaganda war of words, with a sociopathic disregard for the integrity of truth-seeking and transparent accountability.
Extremist propagandists manipulate fake news to gain immoral power over people, using neo-terrorism.
Neo-terrorism involves spreading false information with no regard for truth or accountability. Words are weaponized in cancel cultures wars. Extreme propagandists set up grievance mindsets and virtuous victimhood, based on the metaphor of "the pot calling the kettle black" This projective process accuses others of faults and flaws that they themselves possess.
Neo-terrorists use a variety of strategies for political gain.
Exploit fear, hate, rage and paranoia to induce vulnerable gullibility. hijack mindsets, and suppress rational and critical thinking
Set up grievance games to play the cancel culture blame game
Play the virtuous victim and scapegoating games (such as isms, immigration, crimes, lack of law and order, crimes, DEI, critical race theory, and wokeness)
Manipulate disinformation to induce cult trance of blind unconditional loyalty
Incite the rule of the mob
Right-wing neo-terrorists have been highly effective in flipping the positive framing of words, such as woke, DEI and critical race theory, into profoundly negative ones. The paranoid vestiges of McCarthyism smears the negative framing of these words with associations to Marxism, communism and socialism. This triggered reflex is the red reject button.
These highly effective strategies incite extreme dysfunctional polarizations and toxic divisiveness. This sets up dissociative states between the unwoke of inequity and the woke of equity. This dysfunctional energy disables us from solving our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems.
The Divided States of America, along with its extreme right-wing propaganda machines, have exported neo-terrorism and corrode democracies globally. The bully boys rule the play yards. They enable the tyranny of authoritarian Strongmen to rise to power.
Dialogue session 4. How might we prevent, minimize, and unravel our complex entanglements of self-inflicted wicked problems?
Wicked problems arise from our conflicting value systems within and across our political, private, and public sectors, and worse still, conflicts between these sectors.
The power abuses arising from our conflicting value systems between different political mindsets (such as conservative vs liberal) set up our self-inflicted wicked problems, such as escalating inequities.
Our litany of wicked problems arises from the abuses of power. This includes BIPID issues (Biases, Isms, Prejudices, Inequities, and Discriminations), human rights violations, rigged elections, dark money, chronic traumatic media stress disorder, the cult propaganda machines of neo-terrorism, emotional regression to fundamentalist thinking, and the blind unconditional loyalty of mass psychosis, such as the BIG LIE (USA): to name a few.
Take the time to think slow, self-reflect and contemplate the meaning of this complex questions in the post-truth disinformation era of neo-terrorism.
How might we redress the neo-terrorism that enables political cascades of wicked problems: unethical governance, inept stewardship, incompetent leadership, authoritarianism, systemic and legal corruption, toxic patriarchy, colonialism, tyranny, autocracies, plutocracy, kleptocracy, disinformation plagues, dysfunctional polarizations and triangulations, self-righteous fundamentalism, divisive toxicities, futile debates, civil strife, terrorism, and wars?
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Dialogue session 5. How might we develop a shared understanding about equity meta-governance and Equity Moonshot?
Equity meta-governance is about developing a diverse abundance of human, social, sustainability, regenerative and financial resources to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics that set up our poly-crisis, the complex webs of self-inflicted wicked problems, that are exacerbated by living beyond planetary boundaries.
Equity meta-governance builds transparent accountability, trust, and integrity that we all need to flourish free from paralyzing fear, the amoral-immoral uses of power, and the abuses of BIPID issues.
Equity Moonshot is our Ultimate Meta-Purpose: co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future.
This monumental cause calls for developing change agents to work with transformational leaders to mass-mobilize people to do good for all.
Equity muses are a new transformational change agent archetype, using a blend of roles to open, inspire and align our mindsets to do good:
Holy fool - asking naive poignant questions
Jester - using humor and satire to lower defenses
Magician - facilitating mindset shifts and transformations
Heretic - challenging accepted beliefs
As Socratic Sherpas, we ask complex questions. This helps learners tap into the "wisdom of the crowd" to redress our systemic power abuse dynamics. This crisis has complex, interlinked problems that societies have created for themselves. As equity muses, we untangle and address these wicked, self-inflicted problems, using the power of questioning and cultivating the wisdom of the crowd.
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How might we, as equity muses, pose complex questions to transform our mindsets and re-design our inept, dysfunctional systems to serve, we, the people, and the planet?
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Dialogue session 6. How might we use strategic meta-thinking and cultivate equity meta-governance to build launching pads for the Equity Moonshot story movement?
Strategic meta-thinking provides overall ontological and complexity science guidance for facilitating mindset transformations and systemic re-designs needed to enhance the impacts of Strategic Doing in solving our wicked problems.
The strategic meta-thinking process of posing complex questions about our future involves reflecting on the worldview and meta-cognition of the mindset creator, in terms of philosophy, moral and cultural humility (or their lack of, or hubris), ethics, political orientation, beliefs, virtues, values, power-control, empowerment, prejudices, biases, perspectives, presumptions, and assumptions.
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Equity meta-governance involves transformational learning processes to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics that set up our poly-crisis of wicked problems and our poly-collapse of living beyond planetary boundaries.
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Equity Moonshot is a story movement for narrating our progress in addressing our poly-crisis of wicked problems and mitigating against and adapting to our poly-collapse because of living beyond planetary boundaries.
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This calls for upgrading to deliberative and participatory democracies, such as citizen assemblies and sortition. We need equity meta-governance to transform how we collaborate on solving wicked problems. This calls for upgrading to deliberative and participatory democracies, such as citizen assemblies and sortition. These monumental quests call for asking complex questions to open our closed mindsets that constrain and limit our capabilities and capacities to address these wicked problems.
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Parameters for hosting generative dialogue session.
Preparations
Set up each session by ensuring that all people have had time to read a complex question (1-5 below) and reflect about the explanatory text before going into dialogue sessions.
Mini-session 1 (15-25 minutes)
Understanding a question (10-15 minutes)
Divide into triads for 7-10 minutes to discuss what the question evokes and means from each person’s perspective. Debrief the experience of hearing different perspectives about the question for 3-5 minutes
Large group debriefing (5-10 minutes)
Allow 2-5 minutes to write learning notes about the experience of hearing the similarities and differences in perspectives about the meaning and implications of complex questions.
Allow 3-5 minutes of large group debriefing about understanding to the question..
Mini-session 2 (15-25 minutes)
Responding to the question
Stay in the same triads to develop a shared meaning of a question and then discuss how to respond to it for 7-10 minutes. Debrief the experience of hearing different perspectives about the question for 3 minutes
Allow large group debriefing about responding to a question.
Large group debriefing (5-10 minutes)
Allow 2-5 minutes to write learning notes about the experience of hearing the similarities and differences in perspectives about the meaning and implications of complex questions.
Allow 3-5 minutes of large group debriefing about understanding to the question
Iterative learning and feedback loops
Encourage participants to make notes about any new learnings, insights, understandings and after thoughts that they can share on this page during or synchronously after the sessions, and iterative feedback loops for lifelong learning.
Enjoy slow thinking, self-reflection, and deep learning about complex questions. The purpose of these evocative questions is to:
Challenge the constraints of simple questions and reductionist framing
Develop higher order complexity thinking and ontological skills
Cultivate equity meta-governance