How might we build launching pads for Equity Moonshot story movements: co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future?

How might we cultivate equity governance to upgrade our democracies and solve our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems?

The first part of this article series (see below) is about using story-telling to enable lifelong intergenerational learning about cultivating equity governance. This second part is about building Equiry Moomnshot story movements.

How might we restore the original meaning of equity?

The corporate meaning of this word is about ownership and the transactional value of investments. This definition culturally dominates over its original ethical meaning. The 4th century-old French word, equite, was derived from a Latin word meaning the transformational virtue of fairness.

Equity is the sacred virtue of fairness. Equity is about giving each of us, according to our particular needs, fair opportunities to strive and thrive to our highest potential of healthy well-being.

The pursuit of equity also involves enabling families, communities, organizations, networks, and institutions to cultivate the virtues to work and collaborate on the Equity Moonshot quest: co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future.

This humanitarian virtue calls for moving beyond the constraints of warring social tribalism to the inclusive belongingness of all. But we have not evolved beyond the survival modes and short-termism of our amygdale-limbic-reptilian brain.

• How might we cultivate our neocortical brains and meta-cognitions to prevent and minimize marginalization, exclusion, the inequities of favoritism, unfair inside-outside dynamics, dysfunctional triangulations, and the status, wealth, and fame games of unfair advantages and disadvantages?

The normalization of these group dynamics perpetuates inequitable systems that escalate the unfairness of #BIPID: Biases, Isms, Prejudices, Inequities, and Discriminations.

Negative tropes against equity include erroneous associations, such as “equal outcomes” and “taking from the deserving to giving to the undeserving.” These derogatory smears evoke the anti-red reflexes of Marxism and communism. This narrow-minded tunnel vision rejects the virtue of equity. This reframing of meaning flips the positive connotation of equity into a negative one about unfairness. This closed-mindedness enables the amoral rise of neo-terrorism: to win at all costs.

Neo-terrorism is a propaganda war of words, with sociopathic disregard for the integrity of transparent accountability and truth-seeking. Neo-terrorists create cascades of negative impacts: futile debates, disinformation pandemics, cultural toxicities, dysfunctional polarizations, the tyrannies of authoritarianism, plutocracy, political corruption, kleptocracy, civil strife, terrorism, and wars. This creates the conditions for the rise of authoritarianism when voters fall for the false security and hubris of charismatic strongmen.

How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, and learning designers, promote the fairness of equity to:

• Use our moral imagination, courage, and power to deconstruct neo-terrorism?

• Launch Equity Moonshot?

• Pose complex questions about this Massive Transformational Purpose (MTP) , the ultimate quest for humanity?

Equity governance calls for co-creating fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards on a healthy planet to benefit all.

Equity governance is a peace-making strategy to root out systemic determinants of BIPID, prevent neo-terrorism, and minimize the risks of terrorism, wars, and war crimes.

• How might we enable inclusive inputs into negotiating a shared understanding about the meaning of fairness and unfairness?

Cultivating equity governance is about enabling mutual reciprocities, moral empowerment, power-sharing, and profit-making for higher-purpose callings based on regeneration and sustainability. This involves ensuring safety, trust, and the integrity of transparent accountability and truth-seeking to solve our wicked problems.

Equity governance sets up the moral use of power and healthy functional triangulations based on collaborative alliances to serve the greater good. This peace-making strategy minimizes the risks of warring factions.

In contrast, the immoral use of power and dysfunctional toxic triangulation based on coalitions that marginalize and disadvantage third parties increase the risks of terrorism and wars.

How might we liberate ourselves from the amoral-immoral use of power and the exercise of irresponsible freedom that:

• Extract resources without regard to the health of the planet?

• Exploit people and communities to maximize profits?

• Generate exponential meritocracy to benefit the elites?

• Escalate inequities that disadvantage working people?

How might we learn how to ask complex questions that matter?

Complex questions should be read slowly, and not aloud. The fire hydrant effect of reading them out aloud may exceed our cognitive abilities of comprehension.

Complex questions are perplexing and challenge our assumptions and mindsets. The purpose of these questions is to evoke new ideas, perspectives, insights, breakthrough understandings, and innovations about how to launch Equity Moonshot.

True wisdom is in knowing that you don’t know. Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Frances Bacon (1561-1626).

Complex questions are deliberately dense to disrupt habitual thinking. These questions prepare us for different kinds of learning experiences. They may trigger emotional reactivity related to past abuses of power and psychological traumas, such as BIPID issues.

We need time to assimilate the deeper meaning of these interrelated complex questions (listed below) for our semantic, sense-making, and lifelong intergenerational learning journeys toward higher ethical purpose, awareness, and consciousness.

How might we, as boards of directors, leaders, governance and policy-makers, politicians, impact investors, entrepreneurs, innovators, inter-faith religious leaders, academicians, trainers, educators, and coaches, learn together to:

• Zoom out to understand the interconnectedness and interdependencies of our wicked problems that affect working on the ultimate quest?

• Co-create inquiry frameworks of complex questions to transform our mindsets and re-design our systems to serve the greater good?

• Generate empowerment networks to exponentiate cultural transformations?

Complex questions can evoke the flow states of creative inspiration needed to innovate on how to solve our wicked problems and redress the abuses of power.

How might we take the time for self-reflection, slow thinking, and truth-seeking in communion together about how

• Understand better how our moral, amoral, and immoral use of power and freedom (the good, the bad, and the ugly) affect our capabilities and capacities, for better or worse, in addressing our self-inflicted wicked problems?

• Develop the mindful self-reflection, deep contemplation, and transformational learning needed to redress the power abuses of BIPID, terrorism, and wars?

We can also use different levels of questions for the same domain of concern. Simplifying complex questions has a purpose in terms of enhancing clarity and comprehension. However, this clarifying process may underestimate complexity and overlook the nuanced meaning of a complex question.

Questioning questions is part of the inquiry and ethical process of exploring the scope and depth of purpose. Simplifying questions runs the risk of regressing to reductionist dichotomies, and/or low-level complexity thinking about understanding and addressing the determinants of BIPID.

Everyone has had BIPID experiences of being treated unfairly to varying degrees. Our attempts and failures to make amends in addressing these injustices leave emotional wounds of varying degrees of severity and healing. These memories never leave us.

In extreme cases, these wounds inflict psychic scars that induce chronic post-traumatic stress injuries. At scale, unhealed wounds and psychic scars between warring factions perpetuate endless, festering dysfunctional conflicts that incite civil strife, terrorist attacks, wars, and vengeful counter-attacks with war crimes.

How might we:

• Set stages for story-telling about how to redress the amoral-immoral abuses of freedom and promote moral freedom and empowerment networks?

• Assure all people have equitable opportunities to share their untold BIPID stories?

• Ethically co-create upward spirals of moral empowerment to reverse the downward spirals of power abuses into the immoral abyss of distrust, toxic divisiveness, dysfunctional polarizations, and incivilities?

Storytellers are first invited to reflect on the complex questions (summarized below) related to power, reductionism, and complexity. Without understanding the perils of reductionism, dichotomous thinking, and self-righteous fundamentalism, our story-telling recapitulates the sins of the past with never-ending cycles of power abuses, traumas, civil strife, conflicts, terrorism, and wars.

How might we:

1. Transform amoral-immoral megalomania into moral empowerment networks?

2. Understand how value propositions devalue our virtues?

3. Enhance our ethical literacy to understand how our conflicting hierarchical value systems compete and sabotage our virtues in collaborating to do good?

4. Redress the immoral practices of systemic BIPID?

5. Shift beyond reductionist linear thinking and simple questions that disable us from understanding how to unravel our wicked problems?

6. Adopt Equity Moonshot as a transformational metaphor?

7. Open, inspire, and align our mindsets to address the ultimate question?

8. Develop a new kind of transformational change agent?

9. Shift from mass media and social media megaphones broadcasting opinions about what to think to co-creating generative dialogues on learning platforms about how to think and understand why we think and feel the ways that we do?

10. Adopt the Rhodium Rule to make equity, regeneration, and sustainability matter?

11. Cultivate equity governance to launch Equity Moonshot?

Take the time to understand what a question means to you, and what it evokes before responding to it. And then develop a shared understanding of the question within a learning community before engaging in generative dialogues about how to solve our wicked problems.

This preparation process sets the stage for co-creating generative dialogues to craft your own story of origin about how to redress your BIPID experiences, in response to questions in described in the article linked at the end,

Explore the ethical dimensions of power

This section elaborates on the complex questions (listed above). These questions initiate the process of lifelong intergenerational learning journeys. The purpose of these questions is to cultivate open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers who strive to assure the integrity, fidelity, and transparent accountability of equity governance.

1. How might we transform amoral-immoral megalomania into moral empowerment networks?

Pathological megalomania, malignant narcissism, incessant sociopathy, and autocratic authoritarianism are the character flaws that drive the injustices of power abuses: unkindness, unfair advantages, incivilities, isms, inequities, human rights violations, dysfunctional polarizations, disinformation, cultural toxicities, exploitative extractions, domination and control, authoritarianism, unethical governance, inept stewardship, amoral-immoral leadership, self-righteous fundamentalism, religious and racial supremacy, the Discovery Doctrine, colonialism, corrupt political systems, plutocracies, imperialism, tyranny, kleptocracies, fascism, totalitarianism and more.

Equity governance is the antidote to pathological megalomania and the authoritarian, narcissistic, and sociopathic injustices of power abuses.

How might we:

• Cultivate cultural humility and equity governance to deconstruct the hegemony of megalomania?

• Transform the power of evil into the power of good?

• Use a constellation of virtues and moral empowerment to guide our learning journeys in managing our conflicting value systems that impair our abilities to solve our wicked problems?

2. How might we understand how value propositions devalue our virtues?

Amoral-immoral megalomania is the self-centered values of greed, power, wealth, possessions, money, status, and fame. This value proposition creates cultural biases against virtues.

Megalomania overvalues opinionations, the uncertainty zone between facts and ignorance, and devalues truth-seeking to fuel self-righteous fundamentalism. Might is right.

The cultural hubris of megalomania atomizes our humanity, fragments our communities and systems, and disaggregates our political-private-public sectors. This disintegration undermines equity governance and moral empowerment.

The competitive language of value systems and identity politics set up never-ending ethical conflicts across political domains: fascism, communism, socialism, libertarianism, liberalism, and conservativism. The hegemonies of conflicting value systems perpetrate and perpetuate dysfunctional polarizations and divisive toxicities, within and across all systems and sectors. They corrode and degrade the functioning of our democracies to serve we, the People. These zero-sum games suffocate the collaborative language of harmonious virtues.

• How might we expand, open, inspire, and align mindsets to cultivate the virtues for evolving to higher levels of consciousness, civility, and flourishing civilizations needed to serve the greater good?

3. How might we enhance our ethical literacy to understand how our conflicting hierarchical value systems compete and sabotage our virtues in collaborating to do good?

Values divide us. Our conflicting values create wars. Self-righteous fundamentalists of all political and religious persuasions abuse values to take center stage. These extremists use values to divide, conquer, and tyrannize the middle majority.

Values are moral, amoral, and immoral drivers of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Freedom is a moral-amoral-immoral value that includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. The transactional biases of over-valuing values undermine the transformational inspirations of virtues.

• How might we emancipate equity to liberate us from the tyrannies of amoral and immoral freedoms?

Negative deviants value power, greed, wealth, money, celebrity, fame, status, and self-interest over the ethics of service. These ego-centric opportunists sabotage and subvert ethical aspirations. They exist along a continuum of cult influencers, benevolent dictators, and malevolent tyrants.

In extreme cases, bad actors manipulate ignorance, exploit anger, and incite hatred to gain domination and control over people. They indoctrinate people and induce cult trances of blind unconditional loyalty.

In contrast, virtues align us. Virtues make peace. We need a mainstream of virtues to wash ashore fundamentalist extremists and leave them stranded on the banks of the river.

The ethics of virtues redress the inequities and injustices arising from our conflicting value systems. Equity governance calls for a mindset shift away from the destructive impacts of conflicting values to the emancipation of virtues.

Divine Love is the transcendent virtue to emancipate the sacred virtue of equity. These virtues illuminate the shadows of ignorance and redeem the dark sides of greed and hatred.

Love and equity are the lead virtues for ethically guiding socio-emotional learning from cradle-to-grave, as part of our lifelong intergenerational learning journeys. Together, these virtues enable us to co-create the cultures, contexts, and settings to align humanity and assure the long-term cause of equity governance.

There is no moral freedom without equity.

Equity liberates moral freedom for all.

Without equity, there is no true liberty

The ethical meme for cultivating this governance is: to Love, Equity, and the Pursuit of Truth-seeking. The virtues of this meme are counterpoints to the individual values of the freedom meme: to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

How might we, as positive deviants:

• Co-create ethical governance, stewardship, leadership, political, religious, educational, and social systems needed to cultivate the lifelong intergenerational learning processes for developing the virtues needed to ensure that good women and men rise to positions of empowerment?

• Evolve beyond defaulting to reductionist fixations on our hierarchical conflicting value systems to embracing a non-hierarchical constellation of virtues to launch Equity Moonshot?

• Disrupt the negative deviants, the makers of chaos and noise, and the propagators of neo-terrorism and prevent them from creating divisive toxicities and dysfunctional polarizations that divide the middle majority?

• Prevent bad actors with Apolitical Leadership Personality Disorders (pathological megalomania, malignant narcissism, incessant sociopathy, and autocratic authoritarianism) from rising to power?

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How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, and learning designers, use the sacred virtue of fairness as:

• The power abuse antidote to political corruption: unethical governance, inept stewardship, and incompetent leadership?

• The remedy to redress the injustices of BIPID)?

• The driver to cultivate cultural humility, respect for all, equanimity, equity, and egalitarianism to prevent BIPID issues?

The purpose of telling BIPID stories is to inspire and build Equity Moonshot story movements.

• How might we deconstruct the neoliberal hegemony and the monopoly of dark money that corrupts our political systems and perpetuates the forces of economic tyranny and financial insecurities?

The narrative purpose of this cause is to cultivate lifelong intergenerational learning about equity governance.

How might our political, corporate, and religious leaders empower people to:

• Prevent and reverse our plagues of BIPID issues that corrupt political systems?

• Unrig our neoliberal systems that escalate meritocracies and inequities?

• Advocate for equity governance to upgrade our democracies?

4. How might we redress the immoral practices of systemic BIPID?

An ethical measure of humanity is the extent to which civilizations listen to the most marginalized people and redress the injustices of their BIPID stories.

The history of slavery extends beyond white supremacy. All major religions (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism) have tainted histories of slavery at some point in their histories.

One of the most recent egregious practices was the Roman Catholic Discovery Doctrine (15th century) and its lasting legacy over six centuries. This doctrine perpetrated and perpetuated colonialism to the peril of indigenous people, all in the name of God Almighty.

The free market of neoliberalism is an economic extension of colonialism that cultivates uneven playing fields of unfair advantages for the elites and unfair disadvantages for working people. The unregulated neoliberal practices of exploitation and extraction disregard the health of the planet, with no transparent accountability to improving the well-being of life.

The exclusive elite tunnels of executive leadership coaching do not redress the widening discrepancies between increasing meritocracy and worsening inequities. This omission exacerbates the inverse care law: the people who need the least get the most, and the people who need the most get the least.

Most executive coaching leadership models are complicit enablers of systemic inequities to varying degrees because they predominantly reinforce rather than disrupt the status quo of power, greed, wealth, money, celebrity, fame, status, and self-interests.

Sages, saviors, hubris leaders, cult influencers, and the hero’s story cannot save us from our self-inflicted wicked problems.

How might we cultivate the bold cultural humility to co-evolve higher levels of ethical consciousness and civic responsibilities to:

• Evolve our individualistic paradigms of servant leaders into collaborative networks of distributive equity leadership needed to address our wicked problems?

• Visualize and co-create interconnected systems and sectors of social innovation, entrepreneurship, and impact investing for a fair-free-flourishing future for the benefit of all?

• Democratize mastermind, executive coaching models, peer coaching, mentoring, and reciprocal mentoring systems to cultivate intergenerational lifelong learning journeys and ongoing stories about working together on how to solve our self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century?

5. How might we shift beyond reductionist linear thinking and simple questions to unravel our wicked problems?

Typically, simple questions address a specific problem focusing on a particular domain or an aspect of the system. Reductionist linear questions are useful for solving complicated issues, but not for our poly crisis of wicked problems.

Reductionist thinking, framing, and fixations are inadequate for addressing the complexities of understanding our interconnected wicked problems.

Reductionism, without zooming in-out-in-out across the metaphysical, meta, macro, meso, micro, and nano levels of the system to see the overall whole, is our original sin. The reductionist focus on the individual values of liberty and freedom eclipses the community virtues of equity and equality.

Without an ethical Polaris as our guiding light, we are divided into warring tribes before we begin. Bridge-building across the chasms of conflicting value systems is arduous at best, and impossible when right and left-wing self-righteous fundamentalists are buttressed against each other. Without an alignment of our virtues, we are no longer swimming in our diverse cultural streams, rivers, and estuaries, flowing into the big blue ocean of our common humanity.

At its worst reductionism into the dichotomous thinking of self-righteous fundamentalism sets up partisanship identity politics of blind unconditional loyalty, dysfunctional polarizations, and toxic cultures.

The absolutism of so-called “free speech” gives equal credence to the ethical pursuit of truth-seeking and moral speech on the one hand, and the sociopathic manipulations and irresponsible abuses of amoral-immoral speech that perpetrate and perpetuate alt-facts, lies, misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (activities such as phishing, catfishing, and doxing), paranoia, conspiracy theories, and death threats on the other hand.

Absolute libertarianism enables neo-terrorism, the breeding ground for pathological megalomaniacs, malignant narcissists, incessant sociopaths, and authoritarian autocrats that ferment the dark sides of human nature.

At its best, reductionism into the binary, yin-yang dynamics, and dialectical ways of both-and thinking sets up polarity management that is insufficient for solving our multi-polar, poly-crisis.

The reductionism of making dichotomies in terms of either-or, us-versus-them, “I’m right, you’re wrong” thinking is far more problematic than both-and, us-and-them. The first form of thinking is exclusive, divisive, and toxic. The latter form of thinking is inclusive and tolerant of divisions in low-stress situations that emotionally regress into either-or thinking when triggered by the duress of fear and distress.

Unawareness about how the reductionist, dichotomous thinking enables the cultural hubris of self-righteous fundamentalism is arrogant unwokeness.

• How might we awaken the unwoke about their unawareness of the complexities of truth-seeking?

Either-or and both-and thinking create different problems and challenges in terms of living in our non-binary world: infinite shades of gray between black and white. The dichotomy between black and white sets up different positive and negative connotations, meanings, and biases.

Unless we de-contaminate our distorted associations, biases, and cult indoctrinations of our dichotomous thinking, we lack the capabilities, capacities, and equanimity to respond effectively to the seven pivotal questions listed below. These questions call for breaking through the limitations of dichotomous thinking and opening closed mindset sets to the downsides of these detrimental associations and indoctrinations.

How might we evolve beyond reductionist thinking to:

• Labor ontologically over cultivating the virtues needed to co-elevate the ethical understanding and the practical applications of equity?

• Seek the truth with integrity and transparent accountability, develop the wisdom to ethically discern the differences between moral speech and amoral-immoral speech, and amplify moral speech to de-amplify immoral-moral speech without censorship?

• Act with the integrity of truth-seeking and transparency accountability to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all, and the health of the planet?

• Nurture human capital to serve the greater good?

• Co-create synergies across upward ethical spirals of virtuous beings and moral actions?

• Develop adaptive, agile, complexity, systems, and human-centered design thinking to solve our wicked problems?

6. How might we adopt Equity Moonshot as a transformational metaphor?

Equity Moonshot is a humanitarian-technological metaphor to inspire and co-elevate virtues needed to cultivate equity governance.

How might we all get along to:

• Generate the light of our humanity and technology to cast the smallest shadows on our egos and prevent the dark side from abusing its power?

• Avoid going over the precipice of our poly-crisis?

• Co-create the network power needed to exponentiate the massive ethical transformations of our mindsets and evolve our consciousness needed to take on the Equity Moonshot quest?

These questions call for unprecedented systemic collaborations within and across all political, private, and public sectors.

7. How might we open, inspire, and align our mindsets to address the ultimate quest?

Equity Moonshot is the ultimate quest that faces overwhelming systemic resistance to change. Regenerative, sustainability, and impact investment initiatives are swimming upstream against unconscious capitalism and amoral-immoral neoliberalism that are designed to escalate and amplify inequities.

Systemic inequities prevent us from making any insignificant progress with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Environmental Social Governance (ESG), impact investing, and new systems of economics (such as regeneration, solidarity, degrowth, donut and environmental) needed to address our self-inflicted wicked problems.

The MTP question provides the foundation for composing inquiry frameworks of complex questions needed to foster the curiosity, collaboration, and co-creativity for aligning impact investing with social entrepreneurship to solve our wicked problems.

How might we:

• Promote the virtue of equity to redress the injustices of BIPID?

• Zoom out from our ego-centric, closed-mindedness to visualize the big picture of how to launch Equity Moonshot?

• Swim with the tide of equity governance to reverse the neoliberal torrents of systemic BIPID?

8. How might we develop a new kind of transformational change agent?

We need a new change agent archetype to open, inspire, and align our mindsets to scale up the ethical practices of equity, regeneration, and sustainability.

Equity muses are part jesters, magicians, heretics, and holy fools. We work for transformational causes and not transactional brands. As catalytic change agents, we are anti-influencers to the cult leaders: the false prophets whose egos are primarily driven by corporate, professional, and personal brands of celebrity, status, fame, power, and self-interests.

How might we, as Socratic Sherpas, ask questions to:

• Nurture cultural humility to empower humanity to higher levels of ethical consciousness, moral purposes, and civics to absolve the cultural hubris and false promises of amoral and immoral brands?

• Liberate fans and followers from their ego-centric cult influencers and self-centered brands?

As emancipators of sovereignty for ethical causes, we ask complex questions that enable people to embark on lifelong intergenerational learning journeys of becoming open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers. We empower people to rise up and envision how we can strive and thrive on a flourishing planet.

9. How might we shift beyond mass media and social media megaphones broadcasting opinions about what to think to co-creating generative dialogues on learning platforms about how to think and understand why we think and feel the ways that we do?

Cult content generators are sage-on-the-stages and spectacle-makers. They use novelties to attract attention and entertain readers, fans, and followers as spectators, and not as proactive learners. The novelties of “What’s new?” release dopamine and glutamate neurotransmitters. These cult leaders preach, broadcast, and espouse what to think.

In contrast, equity muses are process creators. As evocative guides on the stage, they ask complex questions. These questions stimulate how to think about the ethical purpose and to inquire about why we think the way that we do think (meta-thinking) about the moral-amoral-immoral spectrum. This exploration can evoke new ontological and systemic lines of inquiry, thinking, meta-thinking, empathic capabilities, and intuitive capacities.

• How might we explore, address, and understand the complex relationships between our inner selves and our outer worlds in ways that create new insights, breakthrough understandings, and wisdom needed to solve our wicked problems?

Complex questions can evoke creative inspirations and flow states needed to solve our wicked problems. These higher states of being create a rich alchemy of neurotransmitter activations: anandamide, endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine for social innovation and entrepreneurship.

Zooming from the BIG to the LITTLE picture, and back and forth, expands our perspectives about the complexities of the whole. Expanding perspectives help us to gain a deeper understanding of the systemic influences that disable our political-private-public sectors from collaborating to work on our wicked problems.

Fragmented, disconnected initiatives disable us from making the ethical, second-order re-designs needed to redress our unethical governance, our inept political, economic, educational, and social stewardship, and incompetent leadership. These factors enable the dysfunction concentrationate of power and wealth to advantage the elites and exacerbate escalating inequities to disadvantage working people.

• How might we co-create generative dialogues to set the stages for improvisational and transformational learning needed to innovate how to manage our wicked problems and redress the injustices of BIPID? `

10. How might we adopt the Rhodium Rule to make equity, regeneration, and sustainability matter?

What is the most precious metal? Rhodium is worth far more than gold and platinum combined.

The Rhodium rule is driven by equity governance, the North Star within a constellation of aspirational virtues.

Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil and plants.

One virtue is not enough to address our wicked problems.

Heading North involves using a range of virtues to do good. Our lifelong intergenerational learning journey involves using a dynamic blend of virtues concurrently in agile and adaptive ways.

• How might we learn how to use a dynamic blend of virtue that accommodates what is needed within the context of the challenge or quest?

This aspirational rule is designed to inspire us to serve the greater good and to regenerate and sustain the health of Mother Earth.

• How might we cultivate equity governance to prevent the ethical and moral declines in our political, corporate, and religious leadership institutions that disable us from making the Rhodium rule matter?

The holistic premise of the Rhodium rule expands beyond the golden and platinum rules that focus on enhancing human relationships. The Golden Rule involves treating others as you want to be treated. The Platinum Rule involves treating others in ways that they want to be treated, respecting their autonomy, integrity, dignity, and sovereignty, empathically understanding their feelings, and accommodating their preferences.

• What good are the Golden-Platinum rules if we trash our planet and destroy our living conditions?

• Why is the Rhodium rule so easy to say, yet so hard to do?

We are locked into a reductionist worldview of values. We value human life more than the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.

• Why is it ethically important to discern and understand the distinctions between values and virtues?

Values are about rank ordering what is important. Virtues are about doing good.

• How might we visualize, imagine, and transform the virtues of the Equity Moonshot metaphor and the Rhodium rule to co-create and co-elevate equity governance?

11. How might we cultivate equity governance to launch Equity Moonshot?

Equanimity is the ethical driver of equity to cultivate agile, adaptive, and dynamic power-sharing for exponentiating transformational change. These egalitarian processes are for enabling moral empowerment and distributive leadership networks needed to align our mindsets to serve the greater good.

Moral empowerment is the altruistic cause of ethical service that enables people to do good for the greater good.

Equity governance is the transformational cause to promote the well-being of all life forms and the health of the planet guided by regeneration and sustainability.

• How might we scale up and tell our untold stories of inequities to build up the trust, integrity transparent accountability, and truth-seeking to cultivate equity governance?

Our divisive, conflicting values stand in the way of aligning our virtues to dialogue about co-creating networks of networks to launch Equity Moonshot story movements.

We all have untold BIPID stories to tell. In the spirit of equity, we all need the opportunities to tell our own personal-professional stories about adapting to adversities, redressing violations of traumas and incivility, making amends, and sharing our wisdom for the benefit of all and future generations.

• How might we:

  • Co-create cultures of ethical discernment to seek truth in communion together to cultivate equity governance?

  • Develop the equanimity of equity to redress the histories of real, perceived, and distorted perceptions about fairness and unfairness?

  • Overcome our human failures in co-creating a shared meaning about what fairness and unfairness mean?

The pursuit of equity also involves enabling families, communities, organizations, and institutions to cultivate the virtues to work and collaborate on these questions.

• How might we open, inspire, and align our mindsets to build networks of launching pads for Equity Moonshot?

• How might we cultivate cultural humility to co-create living tapestries of inequity stories to advocate for equity governance?

Our fragmented political-private-public sectors and systems lack integrated service aspirations to align together in addressing complex questions about developing equity governance.

• How might we develop equity governance to strive and thrive in building entrepreneurial hubs and networks of innovation ecosystems for Equity Moonshot across all sectors?

Our leadership systems within and across the political-public-private sectors are disconnected in taking on the common cause of equity governance.

How might we, as equity mentors, leaders, muses, and learning designers:

• Create the space for We, the people, to stop and engage in self-reflection, slow thinking, deep learning, and generative dialogues in communion together about the meaning of complex questions needed to solve our complex questions?

• Wake up and innovate to co-create lifelong intergenerational learning processes that exponentiate mindset and systemic transformations, as ethical antidotes to the shadows and dark sides of power abuses?

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Why does equity matter to me?

May my story inspire you to share your BIPID experiences in ways that promote equity. My mother was the heroine of my (in)equity story.