The Common Purpose Society

The Common Purpose Society

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Society

"It really upsets me to think that those people weren’t put on trial. That justice was never done. I wanted so much to testify against them. But at the same time, I do understand them. They were just trying to make a living. To do well for their families, but all at our expense."Dahlin in Child Slavery pt 2, BBC World (2007).

Tolerant to Difference

Intolerant to Harm

Equal Constraint

Culture"How far your nephew might approve of your interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but you have certainly no right to concern yourself in mine."Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813)

"I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813)

The typical controller: others must comply with me, but me with none. I must be respected, but I need not respect anyone.

Reject control. Opportunities are equalised where fulfilment is pursued without harm, and a shared base income gives freedom to all to pursue it.

Respect

Mutual respect is not differential respect, mutual respect is equal respect. It is not greater respect for anyone, but respect for all.

Governance

KISSKeep It Simple Stupid

The line between private and public sector becomes blurred when organisation decision-making becomes decentralised and democratic, and fulfilment is the common purpose. When this happens all organisations serve us, whether private or public, and we become self-governing.

Widespread voluntary contribution requires a shared base income. When a shared income is in common so can other things be shared, like our ideas, our labour and our time.

Those parts of education, it is to be observed, for the teaching of which there are no public institutions, are generally the best taught. Wealth of Nations, V, III, II, 353, Adam Smith (1776)

Education

For our greatest learning we need to be able to direct our own learning. For this we need open institutions, open information, and open assessment.

Students should be asked the problems that have not been solved, not those that have.

Health"Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what it’s told from a narrow range of experts and institutions. If professional affiliation is no longer a proxy for authority, we need to develop our own gauges of quality. This encourages us to think for ourselves." p191, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson (2007)

Enable people with their own unexcellable knowledge of their own symptoms to discover all they can about their own conditions and access their own treatments.

Environment"It’s not the Earth that’s in peril, it’s us." Earth, BBC (2007)

Given the world is one place, damage to one part harms all. Damaging the environment harms others and ourselves. This is why the right to a clean, attractive, harmonious environment should be specified as a right in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

MediaOpen and free media transmitting in real time, without an owner-controller agenda.

The Media too often eggs on controller behaviour, considers every concession a ploy, and derides the vision.

But it is the vision that is important to changing the story, and changing the story changes reality.

Faith

Free and open faith, not exclusive religion.

We do not need a prescriptive God to have faith or purpose, we can have faith in ourselves and our universe.

Moral rules should never be taken as greater than the principle of fulfilment without harm.

EthnicityEthnicity is the strongest link in extended communities. It is a source of identity with a culture, a people and a land.

People should not be deprived of citizenship to the lands with which their ethnicities are associated.

A continuous right to reside in one’s homeland gives security when one lives outside it.

Borders

Once fulfilment without harm is the purpose and principle of all nations, then all borders can be open.

Security

Weapons will only become irrelevant when no-one needs them, but this will only happen when the opportunity for growth is shared so everyone can grow. This won’t happen until we share in a base income everyone receives.

Obama, by removing America as the grand enemy of non-Western nations (though that’s debatable), diverts the attention of nations onto their own regimes. Without an enemy these regimes cannot divert attention from the harm they do their own people and self-destruct.

For further information visit…

The Common Purpose Manifesto http://thecommonpurpose.com

OUR SYSTEM http://oursystem.info