Launch #EquityMoonshot: how can we cultivate equity governance to end the disinformation plague?

#EquityMoonshot is about co-creating the governance that gives everyone fair opportunities to reach their highest levels of healthy well-being and to develop the virtues needed to co-create a fair and flourishing future for benefit of all. It is based on liberty and the responsible use of freedom with transparent accountability to truth-seeking and long-termism.

#EquityMoonshot is about exploring our inner space and inter-being, using social media and meta-verse platforms to launch lifelong intergenerational learning journeys based on collaborative co-opetition. This mass mobilization of exponential collaboration and learning synergistically empowers our humanity and our technology to solve to our complex webs of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.

• Why are we not asking nor answering the right questions about the unhealthy state of our politics that stymies the cultivation of equity governance?

Big data cannot redress inequities when our politics are embedded in quagmire of dysfunctional polarizations that perpetuates inequities.

Equity is political but the politics of equity is toxic.

We are suffering with chronic political toxic stress disorder (PTSD) that impairs our abilities to transform our deep state of systemic corruption, the perpetrator of isms and inequities, into a virtuous state of governance and justice based on the individual values of liberty and freedom guided by the social virtues of equality and equity.

• How can we cultivate equity governance within a corrupt crony democracy and a divided republic?

Reflecting on the book, "The Dawn of Everything: a New History of Humanity" (David Graeber and David Wengrow), it is diabolical how French and English colonialism were enlightened by indigenous wisdom about freedom and equality, and then they violated those values to decimate the sacred cultures of so-called "savages."

How will we:

• Ameliorate the colonial vestiges of this hegemony that are living through post-colonial neoliberalism?
• Redress the hegemonic abuses of political power that perpetrate disinformation, isms and inequities?

Our representational democratic republic has failed and divided us. It shows little progress in healing and making amends to these wicked deeds.

• How can we reverse the downwards spirals of disinformation eroding our democracies and the erosion of democracies enabling disinformation?

The University of Chicago’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics and the Atlantic are hosting Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy: a groundbreaking three-day event (April 6-8th) to address the organized spread of disinformation and the strategies to counteract the impacts of disinformation propaganda machines.

• How can we co-design deliberative participatory sociocracies based on equity governance, civil stewardship, distributed leadership models of empowerment, activated engaged citizens and educational systems that cultivate open-minded, truth-seeking free-thinkers committed to launch #EquityMoonshot?

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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 that are destroying our civilizations and our planet. We are on amoral and immoral paths of self-destructive melt-downs.

Failing to zoom out from reductionism is our original ethical sin against complexity, holistic and interdependent thinking.

To heal our sins and solve our wicked problems, we must co-design for virtuous collaboration that embraces us all in 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. But with the ethical guidance of equity governance, they can work for the commons and the common good.

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