The Utopian World Championship

Janet Sealy: THE UTOPIAN VORTICAL WEB - LIVING ON A BORDERLESS PLANET WITH A DIMINISHING NATURAL WORLD.

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This essay is underpinned by understandings and hopes which together suggest the evolution of a contextually relative Utopia of present day relevance.

Predicated on the acceptance that ‘all flesh is grass’, this search for Utopia believes that humans are individual and unique but, identity has relevance only in an interdependent “web of life”. The borderless nature of our LifeSupport of Air, Water and Soil ensures that beggar and superpower are equal in their codependence on the LifeSupport, common to the existence of Plants, Animals and Humans in Utopia.

As we move into a Utopian Age of the Intellect, an androgynous, complex-survival perspective all men, women and children are able to assume, will overcome anarchic collapse of the world’s delicate but reformable social structures and attempt redress of global ecological devastation. To this extent a ‘pre-position’ within the Preamble of the United Nations Charter is suggested as a vital precursor to peace, establishing the complete relevance of this body, to an interconnected web of nations on one Planet. Finding Utopia means using our Intellect to replicate the complex pattern of life’s basic mechanisms of cooperation, feedback, self organisation, and emergence, at human grassroots and institutional levels, to create self sustaining, coevolving behaviour at global levels.

Under an overarching ecological perspective, I have tied concepts from Complexity science to a global “exploration” for a Utopia. By anchoring to the United Nations through a Utopian Vortical Web (UVW) of Global Conversation and Celebration, we continue the search for a Utopian ecologically Conscious Civilization, to detangle some of the most pressing problems today. One of these is “terrorism” which, in some ways, is driven by a “Frankenstein” search for its own Utopia.

My essay is titled:
The Utopian Vortical Web - Living On A Borderless Planet With A Diminishing Natural World.

It is presented in 5 parts:

Part 1. Introduction, Context and Rationale – for a Utopia of a Conscious Civilization.

Part 2. The Utopian Society of the Mind.
2.1. Search for new understandings in a Utopia of the Mind.
2.2. A 21st century charter acknowledging the centrality of The Natural World.

Part 3. The Utopian Vortical Web.
3.1. A Utopian Conversation
3.2. A Utopian Celebration
3.3. Utopian Consciousness

Part 4. Conclusion, Reference/Short Bibliography, Dedication.

Part 5. Appendix. (1.-3.)

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What kind of changes do we need? How long can we leave things the way they are? Will change be possible at all? Our options narrow the longer we take. Awareness amongst ordinary individuals is the key. One simple step to awareness is the installation of a formal process of regulated announcement and recording of “utopian factors” as ecological indicators. Huge capital flows of wealth and the lives of millions hinge upon the economy and the ecology. It would not be wrong to say that mostly, only the market and its indicators are given prominence. If we can announce globally, the factors upon which the Ecology depends in the same way as the announcement of international stockmarket indicators currently dictate the Economy and if we could globally give equal and then greater prominence to the Ecology and its indicators - our Utopia may be more easily discovered. In the real world, the advocacy of law, commerce, sport and consumerism still overshadows the skills of higher order debate, dialogue and discussion. In a Utopia of the mind the skills of the intellect are directed to higher values less concerned with power and wealth. Change is happening, very slowly. “The Greens are coming!” is a promise for our children. But will they come, with effect, in time? Changing the very culture of today’s integrated world is not easy. Indeed, it is a task for Utopia.

Under an overarching ecological perspective, the desire of this Utopia is to overcome the possibility of anarchic collapse of the world’s delicate but reformable institutional and social structures. More importantly, it is to attempt redress of global devastation of the Natural World. This search is based on the understanding that all humans are individual and unique and that our identity has meaning only in the interdependent web of earthly existence. The borderless nature of our LifeSupport of Air, Water and Soil ensures that, in the trajectory of our future, beggar and superpower are equal in their co-dependence on this LifeSupport, which is common to all Plants, Animals and Humans. To this extent a pre-position is proposed, within the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, as a newly conceived, 21st century precursor to peace. Adopting this new benchmark referent in the UN Charter, all institutions are encouraged to think and act contingent upon the urgent needs of the new millennium. This search for Utopia believes our future depends upon how we perceive ourselves as global citizens and thus the question of leadership is thrown into the spotlight. Leadership in the 21st century demands an aware "planetary citizen" and to create such a Utopian individual the Utopian Vortical Web of Conversation and Celebration is described. Engaging in this vorticity is vital to lifting individuals and institutions into consciousness of interdependency for survival. Utopia is no longer a beautiful city or land located in some future time [5]. Utopia is a "cosmos of consciousness" in the minds of global citizens Today.

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