Launch #EquityMoonshot: why dialogue about co-creating generative dialogues?

• How does equity governance develop antidotes to the inhumanities of our shadows and the dark sides of our human nature?
• What makes up the wicked problems of our shadows and dark sides?
• Which archetypes are the main drivers for our wicked problems?

Using reductionism to address wicked problems is the original sin.

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The problem list is long. Our complex inter-connected web of self-inflicted wicked problems include: the 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, spectacles, the "wow" factor and the naive hopes of false dreams; the strong man rise of asocial leadership personality disorders (pathological megalomania, narcissism, sociopathy and authoritarianism); the tribal trances of hero-worshiping follower-ship with their 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 power abuses of autocracies, plutocracies, oligarchies, kleptocracy and corrupt political systems; the unconscious capitalism of neoliberalism and amoral corporations;?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; 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.

We need a mass movement to co-develop equity muses who ask the right questions about how to launch?#EquityMoonshot.?

• How can we open, inspire and align our mindsets to co-design and build an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future?

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 inspire people to take glocal (global-local) actions for the common good and the health of the planet. This vision of long-termism extends beyond seven generations and is a monumental educational endeavor for humanity.

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 and with people of different perspectives?
• Scale up transformational network power for a fair and flourishing future for all?

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

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

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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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Why dialogue about co-creating generative dialogues?

We need generative dialogues to solve our complex web of so-called "wicked" problems in the 21st century. These complex problems are without final solutions. The most challenging wicked problems arise from the shadows and dark sides of human nature. They drive the injustices of isms, inequities and planetary demise. These challenges calls for asking the right questions to redress the hubris of power abuse.

Ask the right questions about power to co-elevate E4: equanimity, egalitarianism, equity governance and an ecological regenerative economy.

This collaborative learning process of co-creating a fair and flourishing future is based more on ethical inquiry, moral curiosity and sense-making than on statements, claims and assertions.

The humility of the not-knowing position is more co-creative than the hubris of authority.

Aphorisms (italicized texts) are at best approximations to enable truth-seeking for addressing wicked problems. Manipulative cult gurus use aphorisms as absolute truths. They provide false reassurance and comforting certainties to vulnerable people. This disables people from becoming open-minded, truth-seeking free-thinkers.

In contrast, free-thinkers use complexity thinking to consider the exceptions to aphorisms with "yes ... and ..." and "yes ... but no ..." statements. They challenge the authority of gurus.

The purpose of generative dialogues is to use skepticism, reasonable doubt and discernment by iteratively asking questions to challenge aphorisms, statements, claims, facts and the quality of evidence. This is essential for developing new knowledge and ideas to co-create social and technological innovations for solving complex problems.

Ask virtuous questions about our shared future to de-construct our past problems.

Why do we need to understand brain functioning to co-create generative dialogues?

A prior #EquityMoonshot newsletter responded to this question;?why do our brains wage war against humanity and equity?

• Why do our dysfunctional brains regress to the zero-sum, competitive, win/lose debate games?

When our amygdala and reptilian brains are triggered, we de-activate the higher functioning of our neocortical brains. This unleashes the shadow and dark side of human nature. This triggers regression to fast thinking, dichotomous (either/or) fundamentalism: good/evil, right/wrong, and black/white.

In turn, this sets up the futile fundamentalist games of zero-sum debates: I'm right, you're wrong.

• Why are zero-sum games futile for co-designing an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future?

The shadow and dark sides of human nature subvert the collaboration needed to redress the unfair advantages of isms (sexism, racism, etc.,) and to reverse the systemic causes of inequities and escalating wealth inequalities.

Our inequitable systems are perfectly designed to create the complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems they cannot solve.

The self-righteousness fundamentalism of reductionist thinking, compounded by the futility of these zero-sum games, destroys opportunities to co-create generative dialogues needed to manage the uncertainties of solving complex problems.

What drives the zero-sum, win/lose debates?

Power, competition and dominance drive the zero-sum debate games. These games unravel a cascade of dysfunctional polarizations and political toxicities: including incivilities, fear, hate, distrust, paranoia and fictitious conspiracy theories. These negative emotions arise from our unthinking reflexes of our reactive our amygdala and reptilian brains.

Activation of our amygdala and reptilian brains disable the self-regulation and mediation of our neocortical brains (equanimity and slow-thinking deliberation) from unleashing these negative impulses.

• Focus first on being right by regressing to dichotomous (either/or) fundamentalist thinking: "I'm right, and you're wrong."
• Dispute contrarian assumptions, perspectives, beliefs and opinions without deliberate or rational thinking
• Criticize perceived moral hypocrisies without any providing any justifications
• Trigger aggressive disagreements
• Escalate dysfunctional polarizations
• Evoke destructive conflicts
• Decimate opportunities for finding middle ground
• Destroy opportunities for collaboration, compromise and consensus-making
• Disintegrate the integrity of civility and virtues
• Find faults and create falsehoods
• Elevate our ego-centric "i" and tribal "we" mob mindsets of blind loyalty over the transcendent "I" and global "We" mindsets of open-minded, truth-seeking, free thinkers

Self-regulation of our neocortical brains prevents us from acting out our negative impulses and enables our co-creation of generative dialogues for solving complex problems.

Why do we need to cultivate healthy relationships between our humanity and equity governance?

Our neocortical brain enables us to create a space between the stimuli (what triggers us) and our reflex reactions to engage in slow, deliberative and self-reflective thinking. This gap allows us to inhibit our dysfunctional reflex impulses and develop empathic and thoughtful responses.

To enhance the prospects of peace and harmony, the equanimity of our neocortical brains enable us to co-elevate a healthy relationship between our humanity and equity governance.

Humanity gives equity its ethical form. Equity governance gives humanity its moral courage to act for the greater good.

How can we:

• Be self-aware of the extent to which we are speaking from our neocortical, amygdala and reptilian brains?
• Listen to people to discern the extent to which they are speaking from their neocortical, amygdala and reptilian brains?
• Move beyond the reflex reactivity and the futility of zero-sum debate games?to the deliberative responses of civil debates?

We need equity muses to ask the right questions to expand, open and align our mindsets for the greater good, such as:

• How can we co-create abundance of human resource development that gives everyone fair opportunities to reach their highest potential of healthy well-being and develop the virtues for exponentiating human flourishing and the network power to launch #EquityMoonshot?

Equity muses are anti-cult change agents who aspire themselves to be, and inspire others to become open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers who seek to lead themselves with integrity and a commitment to asking virtuous, meta-view and macro-level questions. They do not seek nor manipulate followers.?They mentor people to become equity muses (change agents) and equity peace-makers (change makers).

Equity muses and peace-makers work on cultivating inclusive networks of reciprocal mentoring, both horizontally and vertically. This enables flexible, dynamic and adaptable boundaries between leadership and follower-ship are according to circumstances. They cultivate living "mycelium" networks to co-create a dynamic, emerging story movement of collaborative lifelong learning journey based on equity governance.

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• How can the liberation ethos of equity governance decimate the imperial perils of neoliberalism?

This questions calls for contrasting neoliberalism and equity governance.

Why is neoliberalism an imperial peril?

Overall, our neoliberal, linear, extractive growth economies are based on unconscious capitalism, hyper-consumerism and waste proliferation, without regard to stakeholders vested in the commons nor our shared destiny.

Neoliberalism atomizes humanity.

Neoliberalism is designed to perpetrate, perpetuate and exacerbate unfair advantages, inequities, wealth inequalities and the demise of planetary health.

Neoliberalism is the one marshmellow world.

Technocratic neoliberalism feeds political and corporate megalomania of controlling the mainstream media, social media and the mindsets of people. Our ADD (attention deficit disorder) manipulative marketing world of hooks, pitches, addictive distractions and shinning objects psychologically enslaves our mindsets within the superficial realms of consciousness and relationships. We become puppets, pawns, parrots and zombies to the malicious propaganda machines of malfeasance.

We are on a dystopian trajectory toward an ever-increasing fragile, vulnerable and traumatic future: the downward spirals into the amoral abyss of political, social and psychological toxicities.

Neoliberalism is de-civilization.

Why does equity governance liberates 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 for facilitating the cross pollination of ideas, co-creativity, generative dialogues, conflict management, exponential collaboration, open innovation, social impact entrepreneurship, humanitarian harmony and political cohesion to work toward the common good.

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, they work for the common good.