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3 days at the Cabaret

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OuiShare Fest 16, Cabaret Sauvage Paris - Philip Dodson
OuiShare Fest 16, Cabaret Sauvage Paris – Philip Dodson

So for the last 3 days, I have been at the OuiShare Fest 16 in Paris, it’s another tough assignment!!

The event has been hosted at the Cabaret Sauvage situated on the banks of the Canal in Parc Villette and unlike many events/conferences/festivals that I have attended this has been really different.

I will be coming away from the event with a real positive energy, that I have picked up from talking to so many people who are creating something different.

The feeling of optimism about the future of the human race can be felt from all and the feeling of shared values, shared common purpose, there has been a real feeling of togetherness.

Most of our society is driven by fear, intolerance, judgement, hate, anger and that is created and fuelled like a disease by the established order. The order that hoards all the power, wealth, resources, media and government for the benefit of a tiny few. It is the industrialised system, that has turned the mass into interchangeable and disposable cogs in their machine, living a life of servitude to debt and living under an umbrella of fear and control.

It is the moment for the human race to turn that off, it is the moment to walk away from that all and come together and build an alternative, bypass the old OS. Build a new positive future for the human race focused on common good, focused on people and values.

We are living in a moment previously unimaginable to humans, where we can all now write our own book and publish it ourselves, we can broadcast on our own TV channel, we can share our message via a blog, social media, we can sing on our own ‘record label’, we each have the power to create whatever we want and share with whoever we want. We can use technology such as block chain to govern ourselves.

All of this has only happened in the last few years out of the 70,000 years it has taken homo sapiens to leave the plains of Africa to today. We are living in the most amazing times and none of us can predict just how much we can do, other than we have the power for the first time ever to become a single human race and govern ourselves for the good of all and turn our backs on greed, hate, fear, judgement, control and slavery.

What 3 days at the Cabaret have done for me, is to convince me to pursue my plans to be part of building that alternative.

I urge everyone to join in and help to create a world for all and not to be slaves to the tiny few.

What is work for?

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I watched a TED by Seth Godin asking that very same question, only he was asking ‘what is school for?’ That got me thinking, what is work for?

This is perhaps a good thing to write about on the eve of going back to work for another week. Do we ever stop to ask that question? What is work for?

For most, it is simply an activity that they do in order to earn money. Then that money is used to buy stuff. Most of us have been prepared to do exactly that for the rest of our adult lives by school.

We have been trained to comply and be good workers in the mechanised, sanitised and industrial world.

We’ve been sold the dream that if we work hard, we’ll get more money, we’ll be able to get a bigger house, which we can use the bigger income, to fill with more worthless trinkets.

Most of those trinkets lose their shine and end up in a skip. We are encouraged to constantly replace our trinkets, with updated more ‘fashionable’ items, even if the trinkets are still perfectly usable.

So work is for the benefit, mainly, of the owners of work and not us. We are merely fodder to keep the system working.

Surely there is something more meaningful for human kind to be doing each day than simply working to consume stuff that benefits just a few.

Surely it is better to be creating something that enhances human kind? Surely it is better to be caring for one another? Surely it is better to be creating our own stuff and not simply working to line the pockets of a few.

Anyone for work? or perhaps we’d all be better off working in collaboration in communities creating our own individual stuff to share with each other?