Share the #BillionSongMovement song to spread this idea virus. Co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future, regenerate Mother Earth, deconstruct our meta-crisis, & solve our poly-crisis concurrently.
Cultivate mycelia networks of evocative and inspirational song writers to co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future to benefit all.
For slow thinkers & complexity explorers who seek to discover innovative ways of solving our wicked problems.
What germinated the Billion Song Movement idea virus?
When I was in my late teens and 20s, I wrote songs and poems for sense-making and meaning-making purposes. I had low self-esteem about my writing because of my dyslexia. My fear of ridicule, embarrassment and humiliation created a protective boundary. I did not share my writing.
As a teenager, I enjoyed going to music festivals. The most memorable one was the 1970 Isle of Wight. At the age of 17, I went to the largest festival event in those early days; over 600,000 surpassing the attendance at Woodstock.
The line-up of performers included: Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Doors, The Who, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Melanie, Donovan, Free, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, and Jethro Tull: to name a few of 50 performers. Wow!
Early in 2024, I watched the Apple eight-part music docu-series, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything. I was blown away by the power of consciousness-raising protest songs.
These meaningful, superficial songs reached millions of people, but they made little deep long-lasting impacts.
We are far worse off today than in 1971 and yet, we lack consciousness-raising protest songs on the order of magnitude needed for 2024.
This docu-series triggered my creative sprint to write lyrics with over 60 songs, using about 600 experimental versions over 3 months. It takes me about 10 trials of prompts to find a voice and music to fit the lyrics. I am sharing my learning story to inspire people to embark on their lyric-writing journeys about the perils of our dystopian future.
AI-generated music and voice are no match for the creative genius of savant musicians and song writers, but it does democratize the process of enabling everyday lyric writers to bring their songs to life with music and voice. AI-generated music and voice raises the floor of creative song-making to co-elevate our humanity.
Write songs about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Cults
Today’s mega-stars with mega followings speak out for their political candidates. Taylor Swift’s support of #KamalaJoy drew the instant ire and narcissistic revenge of #DontheHater.
How might we break free of cult inductions across the political spectrum that entrap closed mindsets in self-righteous fundamentalism and perpetuate the futilities of never-ending tribal conflicts between competing value systems?
Cults are more of a problem than a solution. All cult personalities have varying degrees of ego-light and ego-shadows, with tribal blends of the good, the bad, and the ugly.
How might we:
Co-create the virtuous light of good, caring, and nurturing cultures to illuminate the ego shadows of bad cults and the dark ugly sides of “lizard brain” cults?
Develop the ethical discernment and moral judgement to understand why the distinctions between virtues and values matter?
Values involves rank ordering what is important: what is seen as high priority and what is marginalized as low priority. Poorly handled, value priority differences (such as between liberal and conservative mindsets) can evoke emotional reactivity and regression to self-righteous fundamentalism, dysfunctional polarizations, and the toxic divisiveness of warring tribes in politics and religion.
Competing value systems sabotage our virtues.
Virtues align our mindsets to find middle ground and navigate through our conflicting value systems to do good for all.
Imagine if we all wrote our own personal lyrics, as part of our educational upbringing, to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, and the well-being of all life needed to regenerate the health of our ailing planet.
This early socio-emotional learning process enables children to grow up with the abilities to develop the virtues needed to navigate between conflicting value systems without tearing each other apart and regressing into warring tribalisms.
How might we democratize lyric writing and use AI-generated music and voice to:
Disrupt the propaganda machines of disinformation and break their cult trances of inducing citizens to become pawns, parrots, puppets and pit bulls, serving the narcissistic needs of their megalomaniac leaders?
Cultivate the virtues of good cultures to reverse tribal indoctrinations of bad and ugly cults?
Create our own emancipation songs in becoming open-minded, truth-seeking, virtuous free-thinkers to serve the greater good?
Unleash the emancipation spirit of song writing
Songwriting is a sense-making, meaning-making, and transformational process. The learning process of writing lyrics for songs facilitates self-awareness, self-understanding, social consciousness, ethical discernment, cognitive, emotional and moral development, and critical and media literacy skills.
How might we:
Co-create a future where every school and educational institution empowers students of all ages to write their songs about their emancipation learning journeys on how to co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future on a healthy regenerating planet to benefit all?
Enable the collaborative and transformational lifelong inter-generational learning process of composing, sharing and discussing the meaning and implication osf songenables our personal and professional growth within beloved communities.
Write lyrics for the Billion Song Movement
This meme for emancipation movement is: Liberate Equity, Freedom for All.
We need a broad array of creative songs to help us make sense of complexity in solving our wicked problems. Wicked problems have no single, simple, or final solution: no either-or, right-wrong answers.
Wicked problems are not per se solvable, such as economic, social and educational inequities, our degenerating planet, the non-sustainability of ever-increasing economic growth, hyper-consumerism, and our impeding poly-collapse arising from living beyond planetary boundaries.
Our complex entanglements of self-inflicted wicked problems are overwhelming, such as eliminating our ego-centric shadows and the dark sides of human nature that set up our political meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics and in turn, our poly-crisis of wicked problems.
Wicked challenges are opposite sides of the same coin to wicked problems. Our wicked challenges relate to how we might cultivate equity meta-governance as an antidote to redress our meta-crisis. There is so much that we can do to prevent or minimize the negative impacts of wicked problems.
Equity meta-governance involves using a constellation of virtues to guide how we co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for the benefit of all, on a healthy regenerating planet. Cultivating equity meta-governance enables us to build launching pads for Equity Moonshot story movement.
Equity Moonshot is about co-designing and building an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future.
We need to develop deliberative and participatory democracies to cultivate equity meta-governance and transform how we collaborate on solving wicked problems.
The mission of this democratizing emancipation process is to make ethical mindset transformation of moral leadership to systemically re-designs our power-sharing models. This collaborative and transformational process empowers us make profound, long-lasting, positive impacts for the greater good.
How might we:
Exponentially launch the emancipation idea virus, the Billion Song Movement, as empowering, egalitarian, centripetal forces of virtuous light to illuminate the dark hegemonic centrifugal forces of pathological megalomania, autocracy and totalitarianism?
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Inspire the equity and liberty vision with millions of people writing their emancipation lyrics for the Billion Song Movement?
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Create emancipation, protest and inspirational songs to cultivate open-minded, truth-seeking, and virtuous free-thinkers, thriving within beloved learning communities, on how to collaborate and understand ourselves and solve our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems?
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Co-create pro-social media, human-AI synergies (such as these protest songs), and AI-enabled transformational learning platforms to orchestrate a peasant’s revolt against the asocial media debacle, the propaganda machings of disinformation, cult indoctrination and the War Lord tyrannies of techno-feudalism?
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The bold aspirations of the #BillionSongMovement go well beyond transient campaigns and celebrity cause endorsements.
#S.E.L (socio-emotional learning)
Click on links (above and below) to listen to emancipation, protest, inspirational and evocative songs.
We can play any of these songs on Zoom calls and in-person learning workshops to initiate the process of developing a diverse array of skills:
Ethical literacy and discernment skill to cultivate higher purpose-callings
Moral development of virtues and character strengths
Socio-emotional learning
Systems and complexity thinking
Nature-centered and human-centered design thinking-doing
Collaborative sense-making
Shared meaning-making
Media literacy
Anti-propaganda immunization
Working in ongoing rotating triads between generative-strategic dialogues and debriefing sessions, we can gain new insights to break through the constraints of our mindsets. This emancipation process enables us to untap our abundance of hidden potential to do good.
Share and discuss political protest songs
Inspirational songs to open, transform, and align our mindsets for the benefit of all.
Abundant Equity (Female indie)
Equity Anthem (Male reggae)
Sing Equity and Liberty (Female gospel)
Make America Truthful Again (Female American country)
#UBI (Universal basic income)
Share and discuss songs to deconstruct the dark side
The light of inspiring songs casts the smallest shadows, but their naivety is no match the indoctrinated closed mindsets of lizard brains addicted to fear-anger-hate-outrage. We need evocative songs to deconstruct the deep state of dark forces.
We can use these songs to increase voter registration and turnout. A 1% percent increase in vote for Harris and 0.5% abstain
#DontheCon Patriotic Uniter (Male American country)
Take the Red Pill (Male American country)
Double agent J.D.Vance (Male American country)
Cult Power (Female rap)
Cult Power (Male ethereal voice)
If so inspired and moved, share your favorite songs.
Inspire others to write their own songs.
Explore, discover, dive in for deep learning
How might we metaphorically trigger the fusion energy of exponential transformation learning to unleash network power to:
Do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet?
AI-response to this question to begin your learning journey
Cultivate equity meta-governance, and regenerative policies, economics, education, agriculture, and energy?
AI-response to this question to begin your learning journey
These questions calls on all of us to do our part and share songs for inspiration.
Join #UniteEquityMuses to support the #MillionSongMovement to do good.
Opening Mindsets
Click on the link to listen to this song, and share if so moved.
Chorus verse (leader’s version)
Imagine living neobooks, learning communities,
Learning together about equity meta-governance,
Fair rules, fair games, fair plays, opportunities, and rewards,
For all, on a regenerating Mother Earth, Pachamama.
Chorus verse (people’s version)
Dream to learn and think anew,
Become open-mind, truth-seeking, free-thinkers,
About fair rules, fair opportunities, rewards for all,
Healing Mother Earth, Pachamama.
Sacred Silence
Chorus verse
O where, O where, is moral humility?
Courage to open openness, sacred silence,
Listen deeply within oneself, and to others,
Co-create deep learning, understanding.
Click on link to listen to this song, and share if so moved
#MillionSongMovement
Chorus 1 verse
O, how might we imagine beyond,
The limits of popular music?
With fan appeal, massive followership,
O, what about music, for deep learning?
Chorus 2 verse
How might we embrace complexity
With abundance of personal lyrics?
Finding our beat, our rhythm, our harmonies,
Of living in beloved learning communities.
Click on link to listen to this song, and share if so moved
“Sing Your Soul Song”
Chorus verse
Listen to the sacred silence in our souls,
Let turmoil quieten down, await the calm,
Open up, type, grab a pen, record, document,
Explore our thoughts, feelings, metaphors.
Click on the link to listen to this song and share.
Fairness Abundance for All
Chorus verse
Cultivating equity abundance,
Liberating moral imagination, freedom for all
Let the lights of fairness, kindness,
Cast the smallest shadows on inequities
Click on link to listen to this song and share.
Equity Anthem
On May 29th 2024, I wrote for this song.
Chorus verse
Equity, our beacon of trust,
Transparent accountability, integrity
Free from fear, power abuse,
Together we strive, thrive, flourish
Click on link to listen and share.
Sing Equity and Liberty
Chorus verse
Sing the rhodium rule to guide us
Be fair and kind to all,
People, planet, nature,
Animals, plants, and soil.
Click on links to listen to different versions and share.
Which version do you prefer?
Dream Pro-social Media
Chorus verse
Dream pro-social media,
Goodness leading the way,
Love, empathy beats hate, fear,
Let fairness guide our freedoms.
Click on link to listen to this song and share.
Human-AI Dream Teams
Chorus verse
Dream pro-social media,
Goodness leading the way,
Love, empathy beats hate, fear,
Let fairness guide our freedoms.
Click on link to listen to this song and share.
Co-create Human-AI Synergies
Chorus verse
We, AI learners, endless possibilities,
Diverse minds, we’re open to collaborate,
Improvise, innovate, exponentiate,
Co-elevate visions beyond our dreams
Click on link to listen to a song and share.
Share inspirational songs
How might we write evocative songs to challenge the indoctrinated closed mindsets of lizard brains addicted to fear-anger-hate-outrage and deconstruct the deep state of dark forces?
Inspirational songs to open, transform, and align our mindsets for the benefit of all.
Abundant Equity (Female indie)
Equity Anthem (Male reggae)
Sing Equity and Liberty (Female gospel)
Make America Truthful Again (Female American country)
Opening mindsets (Female angelic)
Co-create human-AI synergies (Female ethereal voice)
Prosocial Media (Male reggae)
#UBI (Universal basic income)
Elder Wisdom (Female ethereal voice)
Share evocative songs to disarm the dark side
The light of inspiring songs casts the smallest shadows, but their naivety is no match the indoctrinated closed mindsets of lizard brains addicted to fear-anger-hate-outrage. We need evocative songs to deconstruct the deep state of dark forces.
#DontheCon Patriotic Uniter (Male American country)
Take the Red Pill (Male American country)
Double agent J.D.Vance (Male American country)
Break Dark Quad (Female reggae)
Cult Power (Female rap)
Cult Power (Male ethereal voice)
Unfair Country ( Male American country)
Women's Health Protection Act (Female rap)
Crooked Justice (Male folk)
#Psychomedia (Female acoustic)
If so inspired and moved, share your favorite songs.
Inspire others to write their own songs.
Explore, discover, dive in for deep learning
How might we metaphorically trigger the fusion energy of exponential transformation learning to unleash network power to:
Do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet?
AI-response to this question to begin your learning journey
Cultivate equity meta-governance, and regenerative policies, economics, education, agriculture, and energy?
AI-response to this question to begin your learning journey
These questions calls on all of us to do our part and share songs for inspiration.