America's dreams

America has created great dreams: Man on the moon, civil rights, women’s rights, etc. Why can't we dream of a world free of fossil fuels and make it happen like all the other dreams. Let’s dream a country and world that is sustainable, non-toxic and where individual greatness is honored and respected. How’s that for a dream? Dream on, it’s all a story anyway, let’s create one that works. It is World 3.0

Fact or fiction

I always wonder what is more powerful, fact or fiction? or non-fiction versus fiction? Which one affects our lives the most. I have arrived at the conclusion that the effect is the same because most facts are fiction and most fiction is factual.

Burn down the paradigm

The real weapon to burn the current paradigm is creativity, yes creative destruction is the game. Replication, imitation and the sameness will never work. It is creative trashing of the old models, create, create, create-yes. World 3.0

Creativity is the power play of the future

Innovation and creativity are in the same league with transparency as the global killer applications. So we all need to reconnect with the wild, wacky, powerful, playful, non-heard, unique and authentic inner child to be able to succeed in the future. Operating from the stale imitator part of us will not make it. It is time to give ourselves permission to break through the old personal paradigm of compromise and let the child play -- create, reinvent and transform.

I am stopping imitation

I am trying a new personal experiment which is to stop imitating and start creating, designing and following my own guidance. Instead of asking, I am becoming my own source of reference. Eventually I would like to create a good percentage of what I do, produce and use. What a risk! I guess the only way to change the world is to redesign one’s life. W3.0

They do not know more than you

People in positions of authority do not know anything more than you do. Experts do not exist. We are making up the world as we go along. Question and create. World 3.0

What is more powerful, facts or fiction

I always wonder if facts and non-fiction are counterproductive. They stop the evolution of stories by cementing a way of doing something as the truth. On the other hand fiction keeps the stories of life liquid, in motion, transforming and creating new ways of being, doing and acting. Fiction permits us to expand beyond our limits and explore the unknown. I think it’s all one big make-believe. What is the difference between non-fiction and fiction? No difference-but non-fiction is stationary and cemented to a time in history and attached to certain mechanics; fiction is fluid, creative and ever-changing. Live in fiction, recreate your life, the world and this Paradigm. Yes World 3.0

Why do we love to be fooled

Why is it that we love not being told the truth. We accept living a mega lie and we know at a certain level that we are being taken and that the game is rigged. Yet we continue to act like it is not so. I am not curious about the what and the why of the people doing the covering up and the lying. I am very interested in the why of those of us being taken for a ride in many areas of life: finance, health, politics, education, energy, etc, etc. We cannot handle the truth. We cannot stand transparency, why?
We pretend that China does not censor its citizens, that it is not a violator of human rights and a cruel dictatorship; that Cuba is not run by two gangsters; that Venezuela is not run by a crazy destroyer and a corrupt dictator. That Russia is not a Mafia state and the US congress has not been bought by the top interest groups: Oil, insurance, banks, pharma, etc. How about you? Where do you and I stand in this whole game?
Transparency is the new killer application of the new global paradigm, World 3.0

I love the red Prada shoes the Pope wears

When the Pope last visited New York City, he lifted his robe to say hello to some of his followers. At that moment I realized what is that one thing I really like about the Pope and it is his red Prada shoes. They are symbolic of what is really behind the robes. It’s a different lifestyle than the one on the other side of the religious customs, the spiritual hats and the stories. It is very different. The Pope needs to figure out how to make sure that what is behind is the same that is visible. He cannot preach and tell people to wear PayLess and he wears the red Prada's. I would say he needs to tell everybody to wear designer shoes, cool clothing and stop covering it up. At this point I would not be surprised if we find out that the Pope actually works or had worked for Goldman Sachs.

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.