Robot Army will not do it for us!

We all try to find out how to tackle barriers to life-long learning with the effectiveness of the spread of a pandemic. Readers of #book Many Many Beginnings agree that the world was facing big challenges already before the COVID-19 crisis. Climate change, environmental destruction, widening inequality, and unbearable disparities were problems that some of us chose to downplay. Forces have driven the rise in populism and anti-establishment sentiment over recent years: economic prolonged disenchantment for many and a growing unease with immigration.

Also, Europe is facing deep structural headwinds to growth and with both monetary and fiscal policies severely constrained and shows still a fragmented picture: The European economic and monetary union looks like a half-built home. Plus Brexit still highlights disputes between Brussels and Central and Eastern Europe elites over migration burden-sharing and rule of law.

The past weeks of protests in the USA, Poland, and Nigeria or devastation by earthquakes or storms like ETA lately show once again how much we need a mentality switch to reset.

Those challenges today can no longer be ignored.

On one side the pandemic has exposed and amplified those problems – and in some cases made them even more unbearable, forcing us to re-value just how sensible yet magical life is and how important our families and personal relationships are. On the other side, it seems the youth and women are leading to help everybody else for opening their eyes to digest a bitter fact that unless our societies become just, fair, less patriarchial but more healthy then our security and well-being are built on fragile foundations.

What improvements are happening around the World and how pragmatic can we create our answers?

There are no easy answers but there are a lot of signs for a global need that the ruling older generation has to work towards the creation of a just and sustainable framework that resonates with the younger generation.

EndSARS protests for example help us think about the young generation in Nigeria who is raising up against injustice to show that they, unlike their parents, are no longer afraid. As with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US, for these young Nigerians, the protests have become about more than police brutality. They are about improving a country’s weak governance and lack of accountability. Yet they are not the only ones:

Mass demonstrations in Poland last weeks have exposed underlying anger at political and religious interference in people’s everyday lives. The scale and nature of the protests were new, as they were led by young women, decentralized, locally based, grassroots. They are about restoring hope. Hope for the chance to safeguard our futures.

Many experts claim these days that in its present form, capitalism without a social and legal framework is not truly contributing to the well-being of humanity. Those in power need to reimagine neoliberalism, to incorporate social sustainability and people’s well-being.

This includes unlocking the true potential of those left behind or introverts to contribute to our overall well-being.

How extroverted we are can have a huge bearing on our everyday life across a multitude of meaning layers. It is important to note that there is no ‘better’ level – both ends of the spectrum have their advantages and disadvantages but by understanding where we fall on the scale, we can address areas in which we are perhaps lacking.

Understanding how introverted or extroverted an individual is can also help practitioners in the positive psychology space adapt their approach to suit the subject while in relationships and social bonds, knowing an individual’s willingness to internalize or externalize actions can help us adapt our behavior accordingly.

Many, who suffer an Alzeimer’s disease surely prioritize huge concerns on the loss of independence and shorter survival over less important matters, such as the knowledge about how long our sun in our planet system will last let alone if we are able to pinpoint more precisely when it will burn out. Even though humanity never managed to escape the fact of its mortality, we see more and more how we can deal with its implications. This requires a deeper understanding through time about ourselves and our universe. Every generation puts a little more air to our gigantic air-balloon lifting our consciousness higher, and every one of us plays his role within it, independent of how we subjectively find the meaning of our existence in our way of transcending death by attaching ourselves to permanent things that will outlast us, such as love for instance.

In the end; yes we can learn; yes we educate migrants. Of course, we can increase the attractiveness of rural areas. We can help billions of people without the internet have access to virtual learning. We can restore our health and the one of our planet.

Today, it is up to us - a robot army will not do it for us!

All of us need to awake the other – who needs to make a little effort to realize - that we can make the most of this moment. Governments, citizens, and businesses can change their behaviors. We all can re-think how we can contribute to co-building sustainable societies. Let us go back a few years to remember:

Two German artists; Otto Piene and Heinz Mack are two important architects of the ZERO movement that started in 1957 and deeply influenced the art world for the following ten years. This duo, which created in one of the countries most affected by the Second World War, has embarked on its arms to revive the art life that has come to a standstill in Germany, and sought a brand-new art, completely away from traditional methods. According to them, like Germany, which was almost rebuilt after the war, art should have started from the very beginning, from scratch. This could only be achieved by getting rid of traditional methods that form the basis of art such as paint, composition, figure, and using materials that have never been used before, in the light of technology and ever-evolving science.

Today, formulating a road map to fix climate change or global social problems may smack of hubris, if not megalomania. As far-fetched as such efforts might seem from the angle of singularity, progress is possible with little steps in the good direction, with one step at a time. Let us focus on a small example:

With the support of readers # book Many Many Beginnings we worked together towards a small step ahead. This is an open-space market-creating innovation to help those in need, especially in Africa.

Its core inspires us to help turn excess into access for many to break barriers for those left behind by the incorporation of social value into a business that would pay off for the whole project – steering away from “donation spirit” to a learning autobahn to empower the youth. The outlandish scale of this thinking won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has read the book.

It is called ARTBOX, a small ecosystem, to help for a “NEW SOCIETY” turning rural villages to Smart Rural by following UN advocated points be considered:

1. Create a system that can generate “good demand” to meet the various objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and captures that as economic profit.

2. Business should pursue the happiness of the whole society in line with Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), and society should support those businesses that do, hence resulting in greater future profits and increased current corporate values.

During a webinar "Global Authors and Activists" this Sunday we will talk about these ideas to focus on how to lead by example. Please join us to discuss and set a small structure to prove that we can be inspired to learn from human to human and that we can achieve much more through social collaboration and economic cooperation rather than division and polarisation.

During the turbulent times of the pandemic, this offers a perfect opportunity to reach a broader circle, including activists, authors, academia, NGOs, and business people: Motto: from inside out to social and ecological cohesion. Join the free webinar you can learn more and be part of the discussions and the change – either as a beneficiary or as a contributor. Who knows maybe your genie may be already out of the bottle, too?

WEBINAR – Global Authors and Activists

Why would people living in Finland, the USA, Sierra Leone, China, Turkey, Tanzania, Germany, and the UK come together as free guest speakers in a highly commercialized era of superpowers? If it is not the boredom during Corona times, what can it be then at a valuable lazy Sunday afternoon?

Join to learn a unique broadcast celebrating the works of Authors and Activists for Global Network on Sunday, November 15 at 3:00 pm (Abidjan Time GM +5).

Mohamed Mansaray is Sierra Leone’s expert and activist on social change as well as an internationally admired advocate for a better world through art and literature.

This special event is organized by TEAM Many Many Beginnings and others: international authors, artists and experts such as Prof Agnis Stibe on transformation, Planetary Health expert Melvine Anyango, Author Chrissy Sykes, Founder of Digital Democracy Platform Susanna Maier on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Youth Empowerment in Sierra Leone.

We will talk about the role of art and literature to shape “A NEW SOCIETY”.

It will be very interesting to put light on new ways of organizing our life in the future and the necessary transition from today’s profit-oriented consumer society to a truly sustainable society by using state of the art research results on technology and innovation, green economy, working and living as well as education.

Please register on this link for free before November 15th:

https://www.linkedin.com/events/6723025385514242048/

#changemaking #humanrights #biodiversity #environmentalprotection #sustainability #youthempowerment #virtuallearning #bioeconomy

Time

Presenter

Topic

15.00-15.20

Cem TANRIOVER, Diplom-Volkswirt; Moderator

New Society, Many Many Beginnings for Education and Circular Economy

15.20-15.40

Agnis STIBE, Prof.

TRANSFORMS.ME

15.40-16.00

Susanna MAIER, Founder

Vote Rookie - Digital Democracy Today

16.00-16.20

Melvine Anyango, Planetary Health

Mother Earth, we can learn!

16.20-16.40

Damla SEVIL, Architect & Lesley MICHAELS, Author

Love and Architecture from Within & International Strategic Alliance of Women

16.40-17.00

Chrissy SYKES, Author

Women Empowerment and Children

17.00-17.20

Ludovick PETERS, CEO of SLIOC

Albinos and Black Lives Movement – The two sides of the Madallion

17.20-17.40

Mohammed MANSARAY, Activist

Youth Empowerment after 6 years

17.40-18.00

Cem TANRIOVER, Diplom-Volkswirt; Moderator

Participants Comments & Questions