If unrealized
potential had a sound, the unrealized potential of humanity blares like a sound
cannon used to scatter unruly crowds.  If
we could see from the sky the momentum we’ve generated for transforming our
world, we’d see a great tsunami.

Despite the
tremendous energy we’ve generated, it remains scattered and insufficient,
activating people alone or in small groups across the globe, often focusing on
individual issues.  In the face of widespread
systemic crises, we must now ask ourselves what we’re missing.  How do we harness all this power into a
unified sea of coherent, collaborative creation?

We’ll have to
go broader and deeper than we’ve ever gone. 
We’ll need to go beneath our differences to the core of our common
humanity, ask ourselves better questions, and intentionally create our lives
and world on the scaffolding of our answers. 
The questions aren’t, “Whose fault is it?”  “Who should we elect?”  “What reforms are needed in education,
healthcare, or social services, etc.?”  They’re
not even “How do we fix our broken systems?”

Rather, they’re
“Who ARE we?”  And, “How do we TRULY want
to live?”  Without asking these deeper
questions, we have no idea what we’re even trying to accomplish.  We’re just rearranging the furniture by
recreating what we already have by doing the things we’re already doing.  Without knowing what we’re building and why,
how can we know what systems and structures to put in place?  If we don’t know who we TRULY are and how we
TRULY want to live, how will we know what we need to support this new way of
living?  How will we know what’s
important and what’s not, what to focus our energy and resources on and what
not to?  As they say, if you don’t know
where you’re going, any road will take you there.

We’ve never
done this before as a global society.  We
haven’t asked ourselves the deeper questions that would take us to the core of
our common humanity, where the answers to every one of our personal and
planetary crises reside.  We haven’t
stopped blaming each other for running into the proverbial iceberg or bickering
about where the deck chairs go.  We have
yet to design the safe, creative space necessary to draw out our best answers,
nor created the mechanism to translate them into coherent, collaborative local
and global creation.  Without these
things, we haven’t been able to get beyond what divides us, much less unite
intentionally in common purpose for the good of all.

We, the people
of the world, can resolve
every personal and planetary crisis we face, and create a world that no longer
produces them.  We can create our lives,
communities, and a world that reflect our deepest truths and highest
aspirations as human beings—one that’s economically viable, ecologically
flourishing, naturally sustainable, wholly fulfilling, and truly just.  We can purposefully design the new systems
and structures to support us in this vibrant, new reality.  In other words, we can create a whole new,
thriving world.  We can do all this, not
go insane, and even have fun in the process.

Of all the
amazing things we’ve created over time, we’ve never intentionally created a
whole New World.  We’ve never been in the
powerful, daunting position of deciding and being responsible for the fate of
our species and the well being of the planet our lives depend on.  As a human society, we’ve never made creating
a world that reflects our deepest truths and highest aspirations our explicit
and central focus.

Of all the
inspiring messages and important calls to action we’ve communicated, and
despite all the magnificent work many are doing to address our global
challenges, we’ve yet to frame creating our New World as humanity’s concrete
task, invite the people of the world to engage in it, or to empower ourselves
with a viable way to accomplish it.   

For the last
decade, I’ve been creating and testing a whole-system, community-based social
action architecture that does just that. 
I call it the Architecture for
Creating Our New World.  It’s
designed with the universal intelligence of Nature to empower a locally
autonomous, globally coherent world-building movement in which regular people
create a world that reflects our deepest truths and highest aspirations as
human beings. 

The purpose of
this social architecture is to deliberately ignite and empower a coherent
global world-building movement—because we need one if we’re going to survive as
a species, and there isn’t one occurring.  None of us can do this alone, so please join
together as this global co-creation is initiated next spring, when my book, Out of the Giant Hairball:  How Regular People Can Create a Whole New
World is released.

Today,
the world is focused on our differences as sources of conflict, and applying
our considerable creative capacity to create our way to the brink of our own extinction.  This is a road none of us wants to be on.  If we wish to survive, thrive, and evolve,
it’s time to begin a whole new body of work. 
It’s time to create a whole New World. 
On purpose.  Together.