Launch #EquityMoonshot: how can we co-create a fair and flourishing future to benefit all?

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Enjoy slow thinking and self-reflection about the questions in this blog series. This preparation sets the stage to co-create generative dialogues about how to solve complex problems. These dialogues deepen our learning capabilities and thinking capacities about how we can use equity governance to redress the injustices of isms, power abuse and inequities.

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How can we build a story movement to co-create a fair and flourishing future to benefit all?

#EquityMoonshot is a lifelong intergenerational learning story movement about how we can use virtues to co-create a fair and flourishing future to benefit all. We need to re-imagineer our mindsets beyond our ego-centric limits of our horizons to the transcendent abundance of blue sky thinking.

Equity muses catalyze change by asking the right questions to create, broadcast, record and document ongoing stories about unfairness and fairness. This involves listening to all voices, especially from people who live on the fringes or who have been marginalized or excluded. They have perspectives about the center that the people in the middle cannot see.

What personal and professional experiences have you had of:

• Being treated fairly and unfairly?
• Witnessing fairness and unfairness?

What did your parents and others teach you about fairness and unfairness?

Use your own lived experiences to respond these questions

• Who and how do we define what's unfair and fair?
• How do we redress unfairness and the uneven playing-fields of unfair advantages?
• How do we promote fairness, fair rules, fair play and more level playing-fields of fair opportunities?

These equity questions call for defining what unfairness and fairness mean to us as individuals, communities and cultures as concentric circles. Co-creating a story movement on this theme involves weaving threads into evolving social tapestries of co-designing and building an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future (#ERSF).

• What constellations of virtues do we need to guide how we weave social tapestries for co-creating a fair and flourishing future that benefits all of us?

This tapestry metaphor calls for an educational revolution in adopting a full-person, whole-brain, learning-centered approach to cultivate the virtues for seeking truth-seeking, co-elevating open innovation and exponentiating human resource development for social impact and the common good.

How can we all:

• Become open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers together, working collaboratively together in learning networks, organizations and communities to solve complex problems?
• Find middle ground and negotiate aligned actions to serve the commons, despite our differences, divergence of opinions, disagreements and conflicts?

These educational questions call on all of us to decrease our needs for follower-ship and increase our capacities and capabilities to lead ourselves more effectively in collaborative learning relationships with others, without the bonds of blind unconditional loyalty that reinforce closed-mindedness.

How can we:

• Transform reactive, individualistic and passive educational methods into proactive, collaborative and activating learning platforms that are scalable for the common good?
• Better understand about how to enhance our brain functioning and develop higher levels of human consciousness for solving the complex web of self-inflicted problems in the 21s century?

Imagine all students around the world keeping lifelong learning portfolios that address ethical questions about cultivating virtues (such as being fair, kind, compassionate, empathic altruistic, etc.,) to co-create a fair and flourishing future.

• How can we, as lifelong learners, align our personal, communal and global credos to work on living in peace, harmony and communion?

These higher aspirations call for understanding and redressing the shadow and dark sides of human nature.

Neo-terrorism is the uncivil war of words, without truth, integrity and transparent accountability.

How can our leadership, educational and religious systems enable us to:

• Redress the irresponsible use of freedom, ameliorate neo-terrorism and prevent the systemic abuses of political power?
• Accelerate the demise of wars and vastly reduce military spending?
• Invest in learning platforms, processes and systems that co-elevate reciprocal peer learning and mentoring systems and exponential our collaboration for the common good?

Equity muses ask virtuous questions that call on for all political, legal, economic, agricultural, religious, spiritual, educational, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial enterprises to align our open mindsets for co-designing and building an #ERSF. This meta-view perspective calls for creating synergies for the common good at the macro, meso and micro-levels within our interdependent systems.

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The complex webs of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century arise from the shadows of power abuse and the dark sides of human nature. Together, our shadows and dark sides are eroding our humanity, breaking down civilizations and destroying our planet. We are on amoral and immoral paths of self-destructive melt-downs.

Failing to zoom out from reductionist perspectives is our ethical sin against the virtuous use of complexity, holistic and interdependent thinking.

To heal our sins, we must co-design, collaborate and embrace the virtuous use of complexity, holistic and interdependent thinking.

• How we co-create the equity governance needed to develop the antibodies and antidotes against our shadows and our dark sides that prevent us from solving our wicked problems?

The list of wicked problems is long: the personal lack of virtues, integrity and authenticity: the ethical hypocrisies between professed values and moral actions; the irresponsible use of freedom and free speech by cult personalities, false prophets, media mavericks, marketing savants and immoral saviors; the instant, attention-grabbing marvels of fame; "woo-wow" spectacles that distract from facing our dire realities and create the naive hopes of false dreams; the tribal trances of hero-worshiping follower-ship with blind unconditional loyalty; dysfunctional polarizations driven by divisive fundamentalism and?different priorities in value systems; the injustices of isms and inequities;?the plagues of unfair advantages; the unconscious capitalism of neoliberalism and amoral corporations;?hyper-consumerism and planetary demise; unethical marketing and?the propaganda machines of neo-terrorism (the war of words without regards to truth and transparent accountability); the epidemics of misinformation, fake news and dis-information; the power abuses of autocracies, plutocracies, oligarchies, kleptocracy and corrupt political systems, and terrorism and wars.

Neoliberalism, unconscious capitalism and unethical marketing live in the shadows of short-term profits and fail the two marshmallow test.

The systemic determinants of isms and inequities are a formidable foe.

No wonder why we fail to rectify our rigged systems that escalate wealth for the elites, income shrinkages for middle classes and poverty for the poor.

• Which archetype is the lead driver for our wicked problems?

Our political systems are designed to enable a delusional archetype to rise to the top of our food chains. This archetype is asocial leadership personality disorders (#ALPD). The core character flaws that drive #ALPD?are pathological megalomania, narcissism, sociopathy and authoritarianism. This "strongman" archetype is the symbolic symptom of systemic corruption.

• What can we, the people, do to usurp systemic corruption and thereby dis-empower #ALPD leaders?

We need a mass movement to co-develop equity muses who ask the right questions about how to launch?#EquityMoonshot :?open, inspire and align our mindsets to co-design and build an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future (#ERSF).

Muse and learn about this idealistic cause. Reflect about this virtuous question.

• How can we lead with Love, truth-seeking and the pursuit of equity?

This intergenerational lifelong learning journey with never-ending aspirations inspires people to take glocal (global-local) actions for the common good and the health of the planet. This long-term vision is a monumental learning endeavor for humanity that extends beyond seven generations.

How can we co-create the learning organizations, communities, networks and networks of networks needed to:

• Become open-minded, truth-seeking and free-thinkers in communion with kindred spirits of diverse perspectives?
• Scale up transformational network power to co-create a fair and flourishing future for all?

Ecological regenerative economics, conscious capitalism and ethical marketing live in the light of virtues and long-termism.

• How can we use the liberation ethos of equity governance to deconstruct the colonial hegemony of neoliberalism and plutocracy?
• Why does equity governance liberate freedom?

Equity governance is based on liberty for all and the responsible use of freedom with transparent accountability to truth-seeking and long-termism. This aspiration involves the development of virtues, critical thinking, discernment, verification and cross validation of claims to knowledge with triangulated use of reputable sources.

Never depend on one resource, guru, thought leader, marketing maverick, cult personality or propaganda media outlet.

This mission of truth-seeking depends on cultivating reliable advancements in trustful information and knowledge generation. This is essential for mitigating against the epidemics of mis-information, fake news and dis-information.

Equity governance is an inclusive, collaborative and egalitarian system of shared decision-making, sense-making, systemic stewardship, ecological (regenerative) economics and dynamic distributive leadership.

Equity governance provides a foundation to cross pollinate ideas for co-creativity, open innovation, and generative dialogues. This collaborative learning process is essential to foster humanitarian harmony and political cohesiveness needed to exponentiate social impact entrepreneurship.

How can we:

• Cultivate cultures and co-design systems to bend our dystopian trajectory toward a favorable, fair and flourishing future to benefit all?

Equity governance moves us beyond social safety nets, redistributive wealth and basic income. This calls for re-imagineering the future of work, life and co-creative living to unleash the vast swaths of untapped human potential.

The mission of equity governance is about engaging all people to become open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers, working collaboratively within learning networks, communities and organizations to co-create an ever-evolving human civilization of higher consciousness. This lifelong evolving process of enhancing our brain functioning and developing our virtues is essential for exponentiating human flourishing needed to launch?#EquityMoonshot?for the greater good of all.

Working toward the?#EquityMoonshot?vision is stymied by the elephant in the room. Our dysfunctional systems and their political abuses of power sabotage our aspirations to co-create a fair and flourishing future for all.

We fail to call out the moral timidity and the ethical hypocrisies of redressing the discrepancies between our far-sighted, higher "We" aspirations of our co-operative neocortical brains versus our short-sighted, tribal ("we") responses of our amygdala brains and our short-sighted reactivity of our reptilian brains (the competitive survival of the fittest.)

We are blind to what we can see.

Why do we:

• Fail to see how our complicity in creating our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century?
• Allow our political, educational, religious and spiritual leaders to fail us in co-designing an #ERSF?

Let's?#UniteEquityMuses?in asking the right questions about how to cultivate open global mindsets needed to solve the complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.

• How can we launch #EquityMoonshot with the same priorities given to advances in technology, such as IOT (the internet of things) and space exploration?

\Social technologies, AI, cryptocurrencies, NFTs and tokens cannot make up for the inhumanities of our shadows and the dark sides of human nature.

With the ethical guidance of equity governance, we collaborate for the good of the commons and the common good.

These open peer-reviewed newsletters are episodically updated, based on feedback and dialogue at?#UniteEquityMuses ?Clubhouse sessions.

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