Values divide us. Virtues align us. Listen to the song, Values devalue virtues.

How might we create ethical "butterfly" chain reactions and fusion energy to cultivate equity meta-governance and launch Equity Moonshot?

Equity meta-governance is our Ultimate Meta-process for Humanity (UMH): use a guiding constellation of virtues to co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for the benefit of all, on a regenerating planet. The UMH is an antidote to our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics.

Our meta-crisis sets up our poly-crisis, our complex entanglement of self-inflicted, wicked problems. Wicked problems are complex in that they have no single, simple or final solution: no either-or, right-wrong answers. They are not per se solvable, such as eliminating our ego-centric shadows and the dark sides of human nature that set up our meta-crisis.

Equity Moonshot is our Massive Transformational Purpose (MTP): co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future. This MTP minimizes the negative influences and toxic impacts of our meta-crisis.

Musing is essential to unleash our ethical imaginations and moral co-creativities to exponentiate transformational learning network power to cultivate equity meta-governance and launch Equity Moonshot.

The UMH and MTP calls us to understand distinctions between virtues and values to redress our ethical illiteracy, incompetent political leadership, inept democracies, and the toxic divisiveness of dysfunctional polarizations.

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• Values Devalue Virtues

This song challenges our mindsets about how we can use our virtues in managing our conflicting value systems. (Lyrics below.)

Use this song prior to seeing up rotating small group Zoom calls (3-4 people) to co-create generative dialogues and learning communities to explore and understand why understanding the distinctions between virtues and values matter in cultivating equity governance and launch Equity Moonshot.

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Values divide us. Virtues align us.

Freedom is moral, amoral and immoral: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Equality and equity are the community virtues of fairness. Liberty and freedom are individual values that have set up systemic prejudices against equality and equity. We need virtues to guide our values.

We need emotionally intelligent people to ethically discern the distinctions between values and virtues to understand the implicit biases of individual values against community virtues. The USA is the best example of escalating inequities, dysfunctional polarizations. and divisive toxicity where freedom trumps truth.

• How might we co-create human-AI synergies to advance human self-awareness, consciousness, moral humility, cognitive, emotional and ethical development, and higher levels of wisdom to cultivate equity meta-governance ?

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• How might we, the people, and launch Equity Moonshot: co-design and build a fair-free-flourishing-future on a regenerating planet to benefit all and solve our complex entanglement of self-inflicted, wicked problems?

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Lyrics

Verse

Values compete, taking more than giving,

Hierarchical order, what’s, who’s most important,

Reductionist values dominate, power control,

Perpetrate conflicts over supremacy.

Power abuse dynamics, our meta-mire crisis,

Freedom, a value, devalues others,

Good, bad, ugly, fails to value virtues,

Moral, amoral, immoral actions fight wars.

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Chorus

Constellations of virtues, transform our mindsets,

Collaborate to do good, better, best, even better,

Guiding lights, illuminate our ego-shadows,

Emancipate us from the dark sides of our values.

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Verse

Value systems battle to win,

Incite hubris, self-righteous fundamentalism,

Regressing to reptilian brains, fear-driven,

Toxic divisiveness, tearing us apart.

Freedom’s tyrannizing reign, perpetrates,

Biases, isms, prejudices, inequity, discriminations,

Let’s liberate freedom from tyranny,

Co-elevate moral freedom of virtues.

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Chorus

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Bridge

Virtues transcend conflicting values,

Middle ground navigates the higher path,

Beyond dysfunctional polarizations,

Virtues compose harmonious ways,

Mutual reciprocities, giving, gifting, taking,

Generosity and fairness, live in spirit,

Thriving on diversity, our differences flourish

Regenerating our humanity, our planet

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Chorus

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Outro

Align equity leaders, mentors, mavens,

Super-connectors, learning designers,

Liberate us from our meta-mire crisis,

Our poly-crisis, self-inflicted wicked problems,

Sing equity anthem, Be fair and kind

To all people, planet, nature,

Animals, plants, and soil

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Outro chorus

Let’s sing, sing

Let’s sing equity,

Let’s sing liberty

Let’s sing equity and liberty

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Cultivate a fair,

Cultivate a fair-free,

Cultivate a fair-free-flourishing,

Cultivate a fair-free-flourishing future,

Liberate equity, freedom for all.

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