This post continues the rough draft of Chapter 1 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres. This is the next outline section, chapter 1, section IC.
I am posting the 288 words, which was meant to be 250 words, for this section along with some more thoughts on the overall chapter outlining process for the book as a whole.
Yet again, as previously stated, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases. This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us. This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind will eventually have each person’s basic needs met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind.
Chapter One, section IC:
Phase III with respect to Phase I and to the entire project:
(section IB was last week…)
IC rough draft:
Phase III will build on phases I and II, which help prepare a physical and cultural climate in which Human Rgts and Equity both thrive, and create a virtuous feedback loop to drive further peaceful change. The three principle goals of Phase III would be to implement a fully universal single payer system of health care, universal free education from pre-k to trade-craft or PhD, and a universal basic income. These goals would clearly require coordination across a wide variety of policy and geographic areas in order to prevent in-migration from lesser advantaged places before sufficient development has taken place at the global level. This brings home the adage that “no one is free until all are free,” to paraphrase the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If people in all parts of the world are assured of their safety and freedom from want, then greater development for all of, and contribution from all of us, becomes possible. Many of the tools currently being used, like RCV/IRV, Participatory Budgeting, Citizens Juries, local complementary currencies, and even Cesare Emiliani’s proposed Holocene Era calendar, can help in building new policies and forms of governance based on equal Human Rights. So can some old tools, like the New Deal era CCC, and the Peace Corps. Updating old programs for new purposes and times can bring policy in line with good governance objectives while potentially avoiding some of the pitfalls involved in crafting brand new programs from scratch. The scope of each program can be widened as needed to aid other regions and nations in developing similar benefits as should be visible during Phase III. Such cooperation, becoming the norm, can lead the way to a relaxing of travel restrictions for many more people, and create pathways toward Phase IV.
— (Next section: Chapter 1, ID…)
I’m continuing to build my detailed section outlines, and then write each section, but I found Phase III much more difficult to outline, probably because I never really had a clear idea of what that stage was supposed to be.
(JYP, this photo’s for you:)
Going back to my earlier posts was annoying, since they are scattered around, but helpful, since it made it obvious to me that essentially I was thinking of what many call “the Good Governance paradigm,” from my PhD days. It finally hit me that that is what this middle phase is really about: building enough faith in each other and tools (like local complementary currencies) for working together, to get to the fourth and final stage. For some reason, I found myself hearing (Lionel Richie?) the song The Children are our Future, just after imagining our infrastructure as a Village lifting up kids to Adulthood, which led me to how It takes a Village to Raise a Child, and The Children are Our future, and thus to today’s featured image. 🙂 I hope that that made sense, and that no one considers me too crazy, yet!
Oh, right, and I think I’ve finally figured out who my audience might be, or at least a couple of comps: Walden Two meets The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective (by Dr.s Jean and Edgar Cahn, 1964). I know that lots of people consider Skinner’s writing to be stilted, but I like the tilt of most reviewers, in that the idea is that a community should keep trying policies that members agree upon until they find what works for all of them.
As for genre, apart from the obvious Non-fiction, I’m not sure where this book falls. System Change, Causes, someone even suggested Inspirational, but I doubt that one.
Last week was the ninth installment of this series…
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