Before Imagining the future: A Warning from the Present
The world, as it stands, is not sustainable. We do not mean this abstractly. We mean it in the soil, in the rising oceans, in the mental health of our youth, in the choking air, in the unbearable cost of living, and in the disillusioned eyes of those promised a future that never came.
What we face is not just a climate emergency, or an inequality crisis, or a political breakdown. It is a full-spectrum unraveling of the stories, systems, and structures that once claimed to hold civilization together.
And still, many continue to sell us the dream of control—through data, through markets, through surveillance, through technology. But this dream is a nightmare dressed in comfort. We are promised faster convenience while the Earth burns. We are promised artificial intelligence while natural intelligence—ours—is numbed and disempowered.
If we do not choose a new direction, the likely future is not a dramatic apocalypse, but a slow, quietly brutal decay...
- A world where corporate algorithms know you better than your friends, but no one listens when you cry for help.
- A planet so exhausted by extraction that survival becomes a privilege of birth, not a right of being.
- A society where truth is debatable, kindness is weak, and the powerful are insulated from consequence.
This is not inevitable.
But neither is the alternative.
It will take intention, imagination, and courage.
We do not need a perfect plan. What is imposed on us is far from being perfect.
We need better questions, better stories, better trust.
We need people willing to imagine again—not utopia, but responsibility, interdependence, and repair.
That is why this we are suggesting this blueprint. Not as a solution but as a conversation.
🌱Foundational Principles
Universal Dignity
Every person is inherently valuable and deserves respect, care, and opportunities to flourish. A society as no other reason to exist than to take care of the people. This very simple value as been long forgotten in societies trapped in the western worldview. This is not bug, this is a feature.
Collective Responsibility
A just society is co-created through shared responsibility for well-being, fairness, and sustainability.
Ecological Stewardship
Humanity is part of a living planet. Caring for ecosystems is a sacred and practical obligation. We like to ignore it, but many people before us and still now have understood and practices this for thousands of years.
Freedom Without Harm
Freedom of expression, belief, and lifestyle is protected so long as it does not harm others or deny them their rights. Conversely to what many insecure powerful people would love, freedom of of expression does not protect you from being criticised.
🏛️Governance: From Personality to Policy
- While we don't believe in frontier or large scale centralised governance, as long as these exist they should act for the people. To make this possible deep changes should be implemented.
- Policy-Based Representation: Citizens vote on policies, not individuals, not parties.No slogan and campaign to convince. Facilitators of chosen policies are assigned based on alignment and proven ability to implement those policies.
- Term Limits and Accountability: Roles rotate, with strict time limits and review periods. Decision-makers are regularly evaluated by those impacted by their work.
- Representation for All: Children (if they choose), neurodiverse individuals, and historically marginalized groups have pathways to participate and be heard.
- Participatory Structures: Decentralized councils, neighborhood forums, and digital platforms support ongoing community input and feedback.
💼Inverted Work Hierarchy and a Post-Capitalist Economy
Work Inversion Principle: Those performing essential, life-sustaining work (care, food, maintenance, education, healing) are compensated more than those in administrative or managerial roles. Similarly, in any enterprise, those who are the most useful (the work force) and whose work condition are more difficult, are better compensated than the executive function, safer, and often coming with many social advantages/opportunities.
- Democratic Control of Workplaces: All workplaces are democratically governed. Profit is distributed based on contribution and collective goals.
- Commons-Based Economy: Land, water, digital infrastructure, and vital services are managed as commons — accessible, protected, and community-run.
- Degrowth and Post-Growth Models: Economic success is measured by well-being, environmental regeneration, and equity — not perpetual GDP growth.
- Financial Incentives: The dismantlement of stock market should be a short-term priority.
⚖️Justice and Harm Prevention
- Restorative Justice: Crime is treated as social failure. The goal is healing, accountability, and reintegration — not punishment.
- No Prisons or Police as We Know Them: First responders are trained in mediation, care, and de-escalation. Armed enforcement is abolished. This will probaly for less cool movies and TV series but fantasy and historical drame are still a thing. Prison sentences are reserved to those who abuse their power, the more power, the harsher the punishment.
- Community Support Systems: Local networks replace carceral models — with access to care, mediation circles, and restorative panels.For victims AND offenders
- Structural Harm Repair: Reparations, land return, and investment in formerly colonized and marginalized communities.
✊Rights and Bodily Autonomy
- Bodily Autonomy is Non-Negotiable: Includes reproductive rights, gender-affirming care, medical choice, and end-of-life decisions.
- Abortion is Legal and Easily Accessible
- Right to Die: People have the right to end their life with support, care, and dignity.
- Love is Love: Who someone loves is no one's business, this of course include Polyamorous and Queer Rights.
- Disability: People with disability are supported to live with dignity. This means provided with every necessary suport to reach the maximum autonomy permitted by their disabilities and/or the care and presence they need to live.
🧠Mental Health and Neurodiversity
- Mental Health as Collective Barometer: Widespread mental health issues such as depression and PTSD are treated as a sign of systemic failure, not individual weakness.
- Neurodiversity is Natural: Diverse ways of thinking are welcomed, supported, and celebrated.
- Care and Choice: Access to free therapies and medication is guaranteed — but never imposed.
📚Children, Education, and Creativity
- Creativity Over Conformity: Children are encouraged to explore, imagine, and create — not molded into obedient adults.
- Learning as Liberation: Education is lifelong, learner-driven, and embedded in community and nature.
- Children's Rights and Representation: Children may participate in decision-making processes if they wish.
📚Science, Storytelling, and Futures
- Science with Integrity: Research is collaborative, peer-reviewed, and shielded from any form of private manipulation. Results are released outside the research system when they are conclusive and with interpretation and context.
- Against Scientism: Science is a tool — not a dogma. Other ways of knowing (spiritual, intuitive, ancestral) are also respected as long as they are not becoming dogma themselves.
- Bureau of Futures: Publicly-supported artists, thinkers, and storytellers imagine possible futures, test social ideas, and create shared narratives.They are also evaluating future policies.
- At the service of the people: Science prioritise research in sector that support people not corporation: care, health... technology should focus on sustaining life not enhancing people who are valid for the sake of profit or "technocates" wet dreams.
💻Digital Commons, AI, and Media
- Internet as a Public Utility: Everyone has free, open access. Infrastructure is public, decentralized, and secure.
- Ad-Free Media Ecosystem: Digital platforms are user-owned. Ads are banned to prevent manipulation and extractive economics.
- Freedom of Expression with Boundaries: Hate speech and advocacy to restrict others' rights are not tolerated in public discourse. The argument that this undermines so called Freedom of Speech is preposterous: Everyone is free to think whatever they think but there is a responsability in the way you express your views. This SHOULD be common sense.
- AI for the Common Good: AI must be aligned with ecological, social, and democratic values. No private monopoly over AI: models are open-source, democratically governed, and focused on public benefit.
🌍Environment, Land, and Climate
- Earth as a Living Being: Nature is sacred. Environmental care is prioritized above economic profit.
- Climate Action Beyond Green Capitalism: No offsets, no market-based "solutions" — just systemic change.
- Rural Preservation: Rural lands are protected and revitalized. There is space for everyone.
- Borders Abolition as a Priority: The world is globalized at the very least in terms of movement: People move freely and are welcomed anywhere. This doesn't mean than the cultural specifities are flatten, but that curiosity and collaboration are encouraged.
🎭Culture, Spirituality, and Belonging
- Cultural Pluralism: Decolonized thinking (getting out of the Myths of the modern western world), Indigenous knowledge, and global south perspectives are integral to governance.
- Spiritual Freedom Without Imposition: All beliefs are welcome so long as they are not imposed. The Earth is recognized as a source of the sacred: If we need a "guide" to behave morally we should look at what can actually punish us if our ambition are unrealistic.
- Diverse Relationships: Legal and social systems support all forms of consensual relationships and identities. Relationships and Love can no longer be a tool for control.
🔄Transition Plan & Realistic Pathways
- Pilot Communities: Start with self-governing experimental zones to test policies at local levels.
- Policy Incubators: Fund institutions that develop, test, and refine restorative, inverted, and democratic policy frameworks.
- Cultural Seeding: Storytelling, art, games, and speculative fiction used to awaken imagination and create and experiment new ways of living-with.
- Coalition Building: Connect with movements already aligned (climate justice, disability justice, Indigenous sovereignty, mutual aid, open-source).
- Gradual Implementation: Phased strategies with feedback loops to evolve the vision with real-world insight.
- THIS IS TOO IDEALISTIC? Think again. What is more realisitc? learning to live together or beleiving that a small part of humanitiy is above all the rest of the web of live and should reach transcendence?
Caution and Long-Term Safeguards: Many revolutions begin with noble aims but are corrupted by control, fear, or hierarchy. This manifesto must be a living document, constantly reviewed with humility.
🚀A Future Envisioned
A Society Where Essential Work is Valued and Well-Rewarded
Caregivers, teachers, farmers, healers — those who sustain life — have dignified, well-paid roles. Workplaces are democratic communities where everyone's voice matters.
Governance That Truly Reflects Collective Will
People vote on policies, not personalities. Decision-making is transparent, inclusive, and continuously shaped by diverse communities.
Justice as Healing, Not Punishment
Prisons are replaced by restorative justice programs focused on healing harm and repairing relationships.
Deep Ecological Connection and Respect
The Earth is honored as a living entity; policies prioritize environmental restoration and sustainability above economic growth.
In essence: People live in interconnected, thriving communities where collaboration replaces competition; care and creativity are the core; power is transparent and accountable; justice is healing; and the planet is protected as a shared home.
It's a world where hope, empathy, and imagination shape how we live together.
This manifesto is not a conclusion, but an invitation — to imagine, to build, and to become together what none of us can become alone.
This is a blueprint and should never be accepted without discussion.