This meetup
Speakers' Corner is the traditional home for free exchange of ideas in London.
For the next few meetups the so called housing problem is our focus. "so called" because the problem is about the scarcity and cost of building land not of the bricks-and-mortar structure.
A proposal for a "Countryside Living Allowance" will be looked at this meetup.
The CLA could be a policy to reduce urban living congestion and demand for housing.
In general, these meetups investigate in detail the changes in social organisation implied by our motto, "Something New Must Emerge".
This expression is the title of an essay by Adi Da on the need for a Global Co-operative Forum to transcend the feuding and warring Nation States who currently ravage our world.
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Past meetups
Emergence is one of the characteristics of complex systems. It is the result of the combined interaction of all the elements composing the whole system.
The developments of species in evolution are an example of emergence.
One of the questions arising from Something New Must Emerge is, How new does the new have to be?
In the context of evolution something new can be as different from what went before as a frog is different from a tadpole.
But let us be a bit more modest, and prepare to enable a new state of society to emerge during the next ten to twenty years.
Evolution as divine discontent;
Changing gear with humanity;
Evolution becomes social;
Society as family;
The dysfunctional family must change or go extinct.
This refers to the metaphor of humanity as a family. Children an not able to grow up to become mature and responsible independent adults in an usable, problem ridden environment.
It is well evident that something is deeply wrong in our society and it is the social layer of thinkers and leaders who can fairly regarded as the parents with the masses as the children.
This may be a crude metaphor, but we have to start our analysis somewhere. Meetups like this offer the space to refine this model and make it into a useful analytical tool.
"Something New Must Emerge", in the words of World Friend Adi Da, is the theme of B M Hubbard's book, Birth 2012 and Beyond---Humanity's Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution. It is an invitation to participate in the symbolic birth of our new planet. March 22 2012 a conception date and consequently the due birth date of 22 st December of that "something new".
"The years behind us have prepared us for systemic change, with economic meltdowns, political gridlock, environmental destruction, unrest and fear. The breakdown of the old systems have become painfully evident; Time magazine chose the "protestor" as the Person of the Year from 2011 to reflect the global uprising of discontent aimed at moneyd elites, oppressive dictators, unaccountable corporations, and aloof politicians."
