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The Common Purpose Society

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Ben Wallace
Ben Wallace

The document discusses the principles and vision of an organization called The Common Purpose Society. It advocates for mutual respect among all people, equal opportunity and constraint, decentralized and democratic governance, open education and media, and ensuring basic needs like health, environment and security are met for all. The goal is a society where people can fulfill their potential without harming others, with a shared base income to provide freedom and mobility for all.

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Notice This presentation is free to all users and may be freely copied and distributed on a not-for-profit basis. Please note that many of the images used in the slides have been sourced on a fair-use basis from the Internet and so no profit should be extracted from their use in this presentation, or via any other medium, without permission from their respective copyright holders.
Society "It really upsets me to think Tolerant to Difference that those people weren’t put on trial. That justice was never done. I wanted so much to testify against them. But at the same time, I do understand them. They were just trying to make a living. Intolerant to Harm To do well for their families, but all at our expense." Dahlin in Child Slavery pt Equal Constraint 2, BBC World (2007).
Culture "How far your nephew might approve of your "I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but in that manner, which will, in my own you have certainly no right to concern opinion, constitute my happiness, without yourself in mine." reference to you, or to any person so wholly Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de unconnected with me." Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de Austen (1813) Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813) The typical controller: others must comply with me, but me with none. I must be respected, but I need not respect anyone. Reject control. Opportunities are equalised where fulfilment is pursued without harm, and a shared base income gives freedom to all to pursue it.
Respect Mutual respect is not differential respect, mutual respect is equal respect. It is not greater respect for anyone, but respect for all.
Governance KISS Keep It Simple Stupid The line between private and public sector becomes blurred when organisation decision-making becomes decentralised and democratic, and fulfilment is the common purpose. When this happens all organisations serve us, whether private or public, and we become self-governing. Widespread voluntary contribution requires a shared base income. When a shared income is in common so can other things be shared, like our ideas, our labour and our time.
Education Those parts of education, it is to be observed, for the teaching of which there are no public institutions, are generally the best taught. Wealth of Nations, V, III, II, 353, Adam Smith (1776) For our greatest learning we need to be able to direct our own learning. For this we need open Students should be asked the institutions, open information, and open problems that have not been assessment. solved, not those that have.
Health "Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what it’s told from a narrow range of experts and institutions. If professional affiliation is no longer a proxy for authority, we need to develop our own gauges of quality. This encourages us to think for ourselves." p191, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson (2007) Enable people with their own unexcellable knowledge of their own symptoms to discover all they can about their own conditions and access their own treatments.
Environment "It’s not the Earth that’s in peril, it’s us." Earth, BBC (2007) Given the world is one place, damage to one part harms all. Damaging the environment harms others and ourselves. This is why the right to a clean, attractive, harmonious environment should be specified as a right in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Media Open and free media transmitting in real time, without an owner-controller agenda. The Media too often eggs on controller behaviour, considers every concession a ploy, and derides the vision. But it is the vision that is important to changing the story, and changing the story changes reality.
Faith Free and open faith, not exclusive religion. We do not need a prescriptive God to have faith or purpose, we can have faith in ourselves and our universe. Moral rules should never be taken as greater than the principle of fulfilment without harm.
Ethnicity Ethnicity is the strongest link in extended communities. It is a source of identity with a culture, a people and a land. People should not be deprived of citizenship to the lands with which their ethnicities are associated. A continuous right to reside in one’s homeland gives security when one lives outside it.
Borders Once fulfilment without harm is the purpose and principle of all nations, then all borders can be open.
Security Weapons will only become irrelevant when no-one needs them, but this will only happen when the opportunity for growth is shared so everyone can grow. This won’t happen until we share in a base income everyone receives. Obama, by removing America as the grand enemy of non-Western nations (though that’s debatable), diverts the attention of nations onto their own regimes. Without an enemy these regimes cannot divert attention from the harm they do their own people and self-destruct.
For further information visit… OUR SYSTEM http://oursystem.info The Common Purpose Manifesto http://thecommonpurpose.com

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The Common Purpose Society

  • 2. Notice This presentation is free to all users and may be freely copied and distributed on a not-for-profit basis. Please note that many of the images used in the slides have been sourced on a fair-use basis from the Internet and so no profit should be extracted from their use in this presentation, or via any other medium, without permission from their respective copyright holders.
  • 3. Society "It really upsets me to think Tolerant to Difference that those people weren’t put on trial. That justice was never done. I wanted so much to testify against them. But at the same time, I do understand them. They were just trying to make a living. Intolerant to Harm To do well for their families, but all at our expense." Dahlin in Child Slavery pt Equal Constraint 2, BBC World (2007).
  • 4. Culture "How far your nephew might approve of your "I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but in that manner, which will, in my own you have certainly no right to concern opinion, constitute my happiness, without yourself in mine." reference to you, or to any person so wholly Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de unconnected with me." Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de Austen (1813) Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813) The typical controller: others must comply with me, but me with none. I must be respected, but I need not respect anyone. Reject control. Opportunities are equalised where fulfilment is pursued without harm, and a shared base income gives freedom to all to pursue it.
  • 5. Respect Mutual respect is not differential respect, mutual respect is equal respect. It is not greater respect for anyone, but respect for all.
  • 6. Governance KISS Keep It Simple Stupid The line between private and public sector becomes blurred when organisation decision-making becomes decentralised and democratic, and fulfilment is the common purpose. When this happens all organisations serve us, whether private or public, and we become self-governing. Widespread voluntary contribution requires a shared base income. When a shared income is in common so can other things be shared, like our ideas, our labour and our time.
  • 7. Education Those parts of education, it is to be observed, for the teaching of which there are no public institutions, are generally the best taught. Wealth of Nations, V, III, II, 353, Adam Smith (1776) For our greatest learning we need to be able to direct our own learning. For this we need open Students should be asked the institutions, open information, and open problems that have not been assessment. solved, not those that have.
  • 8. Health "Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what it’s told from a narrow range of experts and institutions. If professional affiliation is no longer a proxy for authority, we need to develop our own gauges of quality. This encourages us to think for ourselves." p191, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson (2007) Enable people with their own unexcellable knowledge of their own symptoms to discover all they can about their own conditions and access their own treatments.
  • 9. Environment "It’s not the Earth that’s in peril, it’s us." Earth, BBC (2007) Given the world is one place, damage to one part harms all. Damaging the environment harms others and ourselves. This is why the right to a clean, attractive, harmonious environment should be specified as a right in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
  • 10. Media Open and free media transmitting in real time, without an owner-controller agenda. The Media too often eggs on controller behaviour, considers every concession a ploy, and derides the vision. But it is the vision that is important to changing the story, and changing the story changes reality.
  • 11. Faith Free and open faith, not exclusive religion. We do not need a prescriptive God to have faith or purpose, we can have faith in ourselves and our universe. Moral rules should never be taken as greater than the principle of fulfilment without harm.
  • 12. Ethnicity Ethnicity is the strongest link in extended communities. It is a source of identity with a culture, a people and a land. People should not be deprived of citizenship to the lands with which their ethnicities are associated. A continuous right to reside in one’s homeland gives security when one lives outside it.
  • 13. Borders Once fulfilment without harm is the purpose and principle of all nations, then all borders can be open.
  • 14. Security Weapons will only become irrelevant when no-one needs them, but this will only happen when the opportunity for growth is shared so everyone can grow. This won’t happen until we share in a base income everyone receives. Obama, by removing America as the grand enemy of non-Western nations (though that’s debatable), diverts the attention of nations onto their own regimes. Without an enemy these regimes cannot divert attention from the harm they do their own people and self-destruct.
  • 15. For further information visit… OUR SYSTEM http://oursystem.info The Common Purpose Manifesto http://thecommonpurpose.com