Paradigm shifters is a blog dedicated to thoughts and ideas about the future directions of humanity.
If we, as citizens of the modern post-industrial society, in all our technological and democratic glory, are able to take a step back from the daily grinds of our existence and glimpse even just a smidge of comprehension about the full and complete state of our existense… as a whole species of highly intelligent beings living on a planet… can we really convince ourselves that this is the *best* we can possibly do for ourselves?
At Paradigm Shifters, we don’t want to live in a world which is spiralling towards the brave new future. A future which, if we keep going along in the same circles we have been for the past 200 or so years, is *not* going to be a free and democratic and healthy society; rather the one that the critics have prophecized for the past 200 years or so; totalitarian, despotic and suicidal.
We are people – dead and alive, real and fictious – who are commited to changing the world by changing ourselves; in re-evaluating our consumption patterns, in becoming better neighbours, in challenging tradition and the status quo, and in understanding ourselves and our behaviour.
Because the big machine is so complex. And everything is all so sensitive to the individual’s behaviour… especially these days, when that behaviour ebbs and flows in waves as facilitated by mass communication technologies; there is no such thing as one individual anymore.
We believe that this manufactured world which we have created around us is, at it’s core, unhealthy, unsustainable, unstable and unfair.
We believe that a logical way to proceed towards getting the existence that we all so badly crave… one of personal security, leisure and optimum health for as many as possible… is to start realizing that we are empowered to change what is unhealthy, unsustainable, unstable and unfair about society by changing what is unhealthy, unsustainable, unstable and unfair in our own lives.
It is time to wake up. It is time for us, the citizens of the modern post-industrial society, in all our technological and democratic glory, to start taking personal responsibility for the consequences of our lifestyles, both in our immediate and our global neighbourhoods. Because we *are* better than this… and we *should* demand better from those who control our lives – the government, the banks, the boss, the media, the experts…
And we believe the best way to do that is by shedding ourselves of these parochial, patriarchial, perverted, patronizing, paradigms that have been paralysing our potential progress as a species and a society.
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