Tag: Global change

Let’s get this revolution well and truly going.

Posted on by philipdodson

You see previously if you wanted to change the system, you had to be prepared to take up arms and you needed to have a lot of muscle, money and influence.

revolution - Philip Dodson

Now there is no need for a musket or £millions, you still need influence though. That’s what is great about today’s connected world, is that if you have the right message that others what to align to or they share the same values and desires, then you can connect with them online through social media and blogs etc.

So the need to make change happen by force is now redundant, you can make the change by spreading the message to your followers. The following will increase if enough people like the message and want to spread it to others for you.It takes time, unless you’re a celebrity, but if you want to do your bit to help change happen then you have to put the work in.

There are a growing number of people worldwide, who have (as I blogged about before) discovered, that we have all been fed a ‘crock of shit’. That the top 1%, who have all the money and power, are screwing all of us over and that inequality gap is growing wider and wider at an alarming rate.

There are a growing number of us fed up by being taken for a ride and are fed up with the ‘old school’ system, that has ruined the world and is still continuing to take it further and further down, for the benefit of a tiny, tiny select few.

Our freedoms are gradually being further and further eroded, especially as the establishment see the threat that social media and internet is becoming to their cushy little tea party,

What is happening with virtual currencies, the sharing economy, the likes of people such as Russell Brand and many others, who are now openly challenging the established world order, is that there is momentum growing, more and more people are start to look at things differently.

The current world order is driven by consumerism, by fear, by scarcity, by money, by profits, by anything but people. More and more of us now have grown tired of that and we now want to see a world based on communities, on helping others, on putting people first.

This is what is one of the driving forces behind the self-employment revolution and the rise of the sharing economy, coworking and social enterprise.

We are standing at the edge of the abyss, we are at a fork in the road for humanity.

It is time to tear down that world that has kept all of working as slaves to the system, so that top 1% can keep themselves at the top.

Most people will just work to scrape by in life, there is no more cheap food, no more cheap utilities, the scarcity economy has seen to that. So most people earn enough to survive, now relatively compared to billions in developed nations, most of us are doing OK. But increasingly all we are doing is to work all hours to then spend all our money on materials and just consume.

This is what the system wants us to do, keep consuming, buying shit we really don’t need. The endless pressure on all of us is relentless and if you haven’t got the latest this and that, then you’re a loser.

So it is time to stop this and time to start spreading the word and to stop consuming, stop worshipping money, stop work for others in shitty jobs that we hate.

It is time to stand up to all of this, stop buying your food at Tesco’s, stop buying Starbucks who never pay tax, stop eating junk food and processed food that is full of sugar and salt, which is going to turn out to be a bigger killer than tobacco.

It is predicted now that the younger generations will now for the first time have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

By 2050 1/3 of the US will be diabetic, yet we are feeding ourselves sugary crap on a daily basis and governments go hand in hand with giant food corps the world over to promote it.

There is still people clamouring for cigarettes to be outlawed etc, forget that, heart, diabetes, and circulatory diseases will dwarf that.

There is a globally epidemic relating to health, there is a global widening of the wealth inequality, the is worsening health, there is a rising population with dwindling resources.

There are now people being arrested in the US who feed homeless people because businesses see homeless people like litter and that they have a detrimental effect on the their business and profits.

So if you are sick of the way the world is run, don’t wait for it to change, start connecting with others on social media, influence friends, write blogs, share other peoples stuff. Take ownership, stop buying stuff you don’t really need, share and help others. Stop supporting the party political system regardless of their ‘flavour’ – they are all only there to serve themsleves, stay in power and do what their narrow base of financial supporters want.

If like me you have had enough of the old school world, then let’s start the revolution now.

What does collaboration really mean for the world?

Posted on by philipdodson

What does collaboration really mean for the world?

I think that we would all agree that with 7 billion of us on the planet and with limited/dwindling resources, something has to change.

The problem at the moment is, we have not yet reached that critical tipping point, where necessity forces change on those who are most resisting it. We need to have shortages of fuel, food, water etc on big scale.

The reason it needs to get to this almost anarchic position is, that the old school system doesn’t want change. It likes the old scarcity, fear based world that it controls. It likes hoarding all the knowledge and it definitely does not like sharing.

The top 1% globally that controls all the wealth and power likes the status quo exactly as it is.

However the collaborative or sharing economy has the potential to give the world a complete ‘software’ upgrade, where we can move from ‘old school bollocks’ 3.8 to a brand new operating system, which is completely focused on sharing. Thus avoid having to wait for a total catastrophe.

The benefits of this for the human race are enormous, it is a chance to start implementing the solutions that can save our world. The world is on ‘fire’ and you’re not going to put it out by pouring the odd bucket or two of water on it, which is the mainly what the governments of the world do. In fact many of them actually help the ‘fire’ to spread by pouring ‘petrol’ on the ‘fire’ not water.

Most of the worlds problems could be solved and be solved by many of the new technologies that are or could be developed if enough resources were allocated to them.

One example could be hydrogen cars or other alternative fuels coupled with driver-less cars that are shared in a community. Why do we all need to own our own car and use up massive amounts of the world’s precious resources. Why because the old school world needs you to buy oil.

We can already share car journeys with platforms such as Bla Bla Car. We can recycle our furniture with Furniture Re-Use Network, we can get people going our way to delivery things via Nimber. However at the moment this sharing economy is in it’s infancy and this what needs to change and fast. The momentum needs to be accelerated.

That’s why collaboration is so important, so time banks like Echo (Economy of Hours) can grow and replace the need for money in the way in which we use it today.

We need that knowledge that the old school system keeps, in order to maintain it’s power and control over us. We need to start sharing ideas and collaborating with others to improve those ideas in order to improve them and unlock that huge latent potential that exists among the 7 billion souls that inhabit this planet.

It’s time to stop all this small minded nations and petty party politics, we need to start thinking about the world as the human race, for many reasons, and we need to get people leading who are not shackled by the dogma of a political agenda that’s based on self-preservation.

Sharing is the only way that we can change the fact, that the 85 most wealthiest people have as much wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest. I defy anyone to give me a rational argument that’s right and good for the future of the human race.

Sharing and collaborating is the only way to get the message across, that once we reach a level whereby we have food, shelter, and enough ‘creature comforts’ in life that we don’t need to carry on hoarding and accumulating wealth and resources.

I am not suggesting that we all have to live in a shed eating worms, but we all know that we reach a level where adding more material things is an indulgence.

So the time has come to work with each other, help each, give and not do it just get money. Do it to help your community, to help others succeed and to collectively work to replace the old school OS that is now so riddled with bugs and viruses, that it is beyond repair.

I am not suggesting that we have Robin Hood style approach where we take from the rich and give to the poor. It is the responsibility of everyone of us to take ownership of this and do our bit the bring about change. We can bring about that change by collaborating and sharing. This is the way to bypass the old system and create new communities that are not driven by profit and endless accumulation resources for a very, very select few.

Essentially we need to collaborate or die.