Everything is up for sale including your congressman/woman

As a libertarian I am having a hard time expressing this particular point of view. It has to do with the fact the Congress is really a puppet institution of corporate America and special interests. It has nothing to do with you and me. The strings are being directly pushed and pull by the strong and influential community of ex-politicians called lobbyists. Under this current scenario most things that need to change will not change because the status wants it this way because the rules are tilted in their favor so they can win all the time. The question is how do change this. I say public financing of campaigns. Anybody that qualifies as a candidate through getting the right amount of signatures, etc., will have access to a set amount of money in accordance to the office they are running for. All the candidates have the same amount of cash. It is an even playing field. It becomes about creativity, personal skills and drive. They can focus on the issues instead of fund-raising. They cannot be bought and therefore more independent minded people can participate in the political game and affect real change. In this way the public is really served and politicians can keep their integrity and not be fund beggars, which is what they are right now. Okay, now we have a chance to see a real shift in America, where the future is bright and fair, how about that? World 3.0

The Wizard of Oz

I was consuming a bit of TV news and reading newspapers after a trip abroad. As I was reading I realized that all this stuff we consider news, in its majority, is all a distraction to cover-up what is behind the curtains of the game we cannot see. It is about making us look in the wrong direction and focus on what is really not important so the game goes on as a little group continues to benefit. This little group has all types of ideologies, political beliefs and political systems - they too are part of the entertainment. The owners of the theatre game run their company called Power and the audience and the actors represent a global movement that is growing in leaps and bounds called the heard. Time to pull the curtain to see who is running the show-the method is radical transparency. World 3.0

Time for a new mind-set

It is really time for us to make a global mind shift. It is really getting boring. The old mind-set of command and control is just stale, inefficient and inhumane. I would say that on a global scale it is very unprofitable and it squashes creativity and the evolution of the human race. It is time for an open source mind ware. As the Internet expands in all corners of life it would seem that openness and freedom would be growing but the opposite is true, even though there is an apparent sense of freedom. In my opinion it is to the contrary, even in countries where democracy has been established, if one looks in depth into the power base it is controlled by a very small group of people. Does this sound familiar, think about it. I say paradigm shift for World 3.0.

World 3.0 No more dictators for 2010

I have a wish for this upcoming year, which is: have all the dictators disappear off the phase of the earth. This includes individuals, tribal oppressors and party dictatorships. I do not understand why in this day and age we still have these gang type governments and the hoards of mobs that follow them as they destroy their countries, kill the future of their youth and burn to the ground the aspirations of all, just for a big ego trip to which the world seems to indirectly turn a blind eye. I say we do not put up with these power plays that affect a lot of us and benefit very few. In a World 3.0 dictators do not exist.

World 3.0 Media life transparency

Information, connectivity and content are creating a global transformation. Media technology is giving us the opportunity to be more democratic in many areas of our living landscape. But we have to make sure that this technology does not become a tool for further dumbing down of the population and that transparency and personal empowerment do not end their importance. If the media content does not make you better, make you think and grow, as well as inform you, turn it off. World 3.0.

2010 World 3.0

Wow - this year is almost over, and the current paradigm is simply getting older, very stale and outdated. It’s starting to become very obvious for the planet that we need to make a move into a more advanced state of consciousness and the creation of a new living model. I must say the current one is just getting very boring: same old injustices, same old violence and same old repetitive dynamic of defending a way of being that is simply broken. I say let’s move on, let go of the old and let our imaginations fly to create the new, a new that works-World 3.0

World 3.0 The libertarians of collectivism

In the new global paradigm one thing we all have to stop doing is pretending such beliefs as collectivism are really about our well-being. We have to stop fantasizing that someone is going to save us. Socialist governments are simply gangs that really use the masses or the collective as a tool for their own self interest. That is great if you are not part of the masses because then you are a member of the brotherhood of global victims. Bottom line socialist leaders are simply great entrepreneurs and libertarians using the masses for their ultimate goals. Think about it - they are libertarians because they do not believe in big government but they believe in government that works for their objectives. Just make sure you do not get caught in the cross fire of the great game of global manipulation. Be a player in the World 3.0 not a victim.

World 3.0 Wars

Wars, wars, wars for us watching from afar they feel and look like video games; for those participating and their families it is a horrible nightmare. This dynamic has gone on for most of our existence on this planet. Now is it possible to interrupt this pattern, and develop a way to solve these conflicts? I believe that moving away from fossil fuels will certainly minimize lots of the current conflicts specially in the Middle East and Latin America. As long as a small number of people control the most vital source of energy for this current living model, war is going to happen. Of course another big potential source for big conflicts is now slowly rearing its huge head and that is lack of water. A solution to many of these global problems, is making a conscious shift to a sustainable living model, a New Global Paradigm. It is called World 3.0.

World 3.0 Decentralizing finance

I believe it is time to start decentralizing the financial game taking place on Wall Street, how it ‘s played to give access to very few. The vision is very short-term-it’s all about the next quarter. You cannot develop anything of value in a quarter. The models used to rate the success or failure of the global economy are counterproductive to human development, individual growth , sustainability of the planet and creative expansion.
Capital is contained and controlled by a small group of players operating under an old model of the world. These sets of rules are not in tune with the new global paradigm now being created underneath the current collapse of the status quo. This new direction is about an open system in which individuals are highly empowered to create their own lives, realities and ways of living. It is about "Small is beautiful," niches are king and where creative destruction is part of the natural flow of life; no more "Too big to fail." If we continue on this centralized track we could witness one of the biggest failure of human history, the failure of The American Empire. I suggest we start creating smaller niche financial markets that are accessible to lots of people, develop business transparency, what are we hiding? We also need alternative local and industry-related currencies. A new global paradigm is being created; it is unstoppable. It is about sustainability, transparency and individual empowerment. It is World 3.0

The return of the Planet of the Apes

If we do not make a move and a commitment to a new living model very fast it will be time to revisit the movie the “Planet of the Apes.” That is the life we are heading towards very quickly. Of course in the United States this is not as noticeable even though lately in certain regions of the country we can smell the whiff of third world. There are other areas on the planet where this is very evident. How about where I am from, Latin America? My country is the first country in Latin America which is now officially run by a non-human. He is part of a new race that has 15% human genes and 85% orangutan. Its mission is to destroy everything in its path, lie about it and attack anybody or anything that could mean progress, better quality of life, transparency, sustainability and individual empowerment. This model is about turning anybody with any resemblance of humanity, uniqueness and originality into a member of the collective of brainless apes. Watch out - the Apes have arrived in my country. Be careful, they may be coming to a neighborhood near you.

Transparency II

I continue to think about the lack of transparency even though we get the impression that there is more of it due to the fact that allegedly digital technology makes us all interconnected and information flows with ease. My feeling is that there is less of it. Power is concentrating at the corporate and government levels more than ever before. Corporations have become insular business dictatorships in which very few people have real access to the decision-making process and the valuable information. As I said in my last blog, dictatorships have made themselves look almost like democracies, at least that is how the rest of the world treats them. Most governments and countries conduct business with them like they were free, open and just countries. In reality, power loves power, power hates transparency. That is why we see democratic governments and powerful figures cozying up to those rough, corrupt governments, people and institutions. They have more affinity to power, no matter how dark it is, than to transparent people, countries, organizations and ways of thinking. Transparency is a very dangerous thing; let’s spread some around the planet.

Time for World 3.0

The recent bombings around the world, the significant growth in terrorism activity, how we continue to turn a blind eye to the actions of dictators and rough regimes around the world, to me it is all related to the United States’ (our) dependency on oil. Given this belief, I am amazed that we have not moved into a state of emergency/urgency in terms of energy efficiency, innovation in the areas of alternative energies and a conscious shift to conservation and rational consumption. It is time that we transform our personal spending from toxic junk to those products that really contribute to our humanity and the quality of our lives, wow that is a concept. I am slowly working on my personal transformation to this shift. There will be no other option as we move towards a pick oil scenario, more wars over oil and soon to be water. It is time for World 3.0

It is time to be very optimistic

As I watch the markets collapse and people’s overall reaction to this apparent misfortune, I have come to the conclusion that we are in a financial, social, sustainable, personal and spiritual correction. As we all know most of the time it takes a big shock to our system for us to change. This could be it, the time to examine the behaviors of those in the government and the financial institutions but also to question our own and our relationship with ourselves, the planet, our happiness, the concept of consumption and the purpose of living beyond our means. This process of self-analysis and introspection is one that I have started. I must tell you it is a painful one but I predict that it is going to be very liberating. I think it is going to relieve us of a great deal of pressure. It will give us permission to stop trying to be or desire to be something we do not want to be, to stop buying what we do not want nor need as well as to stop conforming to a lifestyle that is out of sync with our true nature. I believe this process or correction will bring us closer to ourselves and nature, and inject quality to our lives instead of more quantity. The earth will also benefit from our shift in living philosophy, as we become conscious of our behaviors and consumption patterns.

Designers will own the world

The world is now slowly starting to shift as is evident in what is now occurring in the global markets and economies. These changes are coming faster and faster. It is now obvious that the process of creative destruction is starting to take its place. The old is now collapsing and the new will soon come to the surface. The new is already brewing underneath it all. It is brewing in our consciousness as well as in most industry and service sectors. Given this non-linear and exponential change, the redesign has started. This means the design of new financial, business and political systems. The artists and protagonists of the new world are and will be professional designers in the different disciplines of design and those people that start to think and operate as a designer. These people will also design the environments we live in, in this reality as well as any other virtual realities we choose to hang out in. Imagine a whole new planetarium conversation. The time has come for us to redesign ourselves and how we live - think designer.

The new design of the globe

I continue to try to figure out where we are heading in this redesign of the planet. How are we going to live, communicate, do business and relate to one another. How about currency? Will we still be using the dollar or the Euro? Will we combine them with barter? What will be the definition of the GDP? Our cities? Are we going to continue to build these really spread out, hard to get around-type living spaces? Spirituality - not religion - will it play a big role in our world or will the status quo religion rule. The world’s poverty - is it going to continue as it is now? or are we going to be able to figure a way to stop exploiting those in poverty and bring forth a solution. The media, will the television networks despair and will all the content move to the Internet? How will the Internet transform the way we interact, vote and do business? Will the concept of government still be valid or will the world go back to a tribal-type system or a series of gang-like groups with different agendas, good and bad, roaming the planet.
When alternative energies do kick in for real, what will happen to the Middle East, Russia, Venezuela-will they just become poor agriculture states? Or maybe disappear? What will happen to our lifestyle here in America? What will happen to the old paradigm? Bye, bye.

Men's new vortex

Men, we need to make a significant change in our framework and state of being. I believe that we are entering into a living model which will force us to reconnect with a different internal guiding system. The one we are consulting with at this current time is not working. It is time to seek that part of us that is not about repeating the old but creating the new, taking the risk of leaving the current cocoon and diving into our new existence. It is time to stop imitating the traditional and build the new with pure imagination and a new design void of old parameters. It is time to be with nature, get clues and learn for the earth. The time has come to block out a little of the exterior noise, go within and tap into a better and wiser source of information. Let’s go out into the woods and ask better questions about what are the next steps to take for this living model to work. At this moment we cannot continue to take our marching orders from a broken frame and systems which are obviously heading in the wrong direction.
Men, let’s simply connect, create, innovate and reinvent ourselves. The time has come - if you do not believe look at the financial markets, global violence and the environment. But most important look at our individual lives. Time to get to work.

The old model is collapsing

As I look at what is happening in the financial markets, I continue to think of the new redesign of the planet that I believe is currently taking place. The old models will start slowly to fall apart and the new will start to reveal itself. This whole crisis in the capital markets is indication of the fact that the current paradigm is unsustainable and the only way for it to continue to operate is basically to move into a criminal model by doing what was done in the sub-prime market by establishing a pyramid scheme. The United States, due to is lack of oversight, is now forced to move away from being a market-based system into being a quasi-socialist state in which the government must rescue business and not let the market take its course in terms of who fails and who succeeds. Many believe that this process of creative destruction has just begun in the financial world and will move next to the car manufacturers and continue throughout many industries. Our only option is to move as fast as possible to a business and personal model of sustainability, transparency and of human integration in a holistic manner. If not we will also going the way of Lehman, AIG, etc.

I have the feeling that the Democrats are in trouble

The Democrats are starting on the road to self-destruction. The reason being. I believe, is their philosophy or political point of view of collective, big government. “I know what’s good for you” no longer works and it will become less and less appealing as we move into a new paradigm of living where the world is more interconnected and individuals have more and more access to self-empowerment and self-expression. The world is not moving into a frame of sustainability, individual empowerment/greatness, transparency, fairness and abundance. This new global scenario is one in which the individual creates a collective, not where a collective tries to impose itself on the individual. That is why Democrats - even the ones I like - will continue to lose influence and power as we slip into a new global framework.

The new design

This summer I traveled across Maine. I also spent time in Boston and New York City. At the end of this beautiful trip I realized that America needs to make a shift into a new living design. Our current living model seems outdated. I felt it as I drove through towns and saw their living conditions. I felt it as I exchanged ideas with people of different walks of life. America has hit a wall. Our thinking has become complacent and stuck. Our individual and country stories need an urgent update; reinvention is a must. The rest of the world is slowly leapfrogging over cemented mind-sets and moving at high speeds towards new prosperity. I believe that a green, sustainable and non-toxic lifestyle model is the new paradigm and our new opportunity to find our edge again and a new global leadership. Of course there is a catch - it all starts at an individual level; it is bottom revolution and evolution. Yes, self-responsibility.

The shift is already happening

There are strong signs of a global shift. The traditional institutions such as the financial and oil sectors, the political status quo, and many large global corporations, are showing signs of the initial stages of a collapse. I finally understood what sustainability means but understanding how unsustainable our current global paradigm is -- we are coming very close to a fork in the road. We will have to decide if we want to continue down this dead-end road. The game has to change hands and become more inclusive. The current game favors a very small group of people on both sides of the political and economic spectrums. It has to open up and become playable for more people on the planet. It also has to be nature-based. Nature is who we are, not something to control and destroy. I also think that we need to re-think our values in terms of what success is. Because our current concept of it is unsustainable.

May the shift be with you.

Radames