CONVENING A NATION

Written before the age of Trump, which adds a lot to these concerns....

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In the context of

• polarization
• rage
• mistrust
• accusation
• congressional gridlock and paralysis
• national vulnerability

and under conditions of

• massive information overload
• historically unprecedented complexity and rapid social change
• wide-spread economic disruption and uncertainty
• national brain-fog

where

• hierarchical systems are failing
• neighborhoods are fragmented
• people in separate sectors or "silos" cannot understand one another
• national debt looms over everything
• the two-party political system is dangerously self-serving
• the national media profits by encouraging polarization
• millions of voters are willing to believe total nonsense

we identify

• major sectors of national society where creative and visionary innovation is emerging
• specialized skill and expertise
• innovative new ideas

and we synthesize

• universal standards for ethics, drawing on all contributing perspectives
• network connections between creative sectors, organizations and individuals
• innovative approaches to collective decision-making
• a new vision of integral and holistic collaboration and co-creation

• the emergence of optimal and highly ideal new forms of democracy
• a culture of enlightened unity-in-diversity co-creation
• a new era of civilization guided by and held within wholeness
• a resolution or amelioration of thousands of problems in society
• renaissance