Reinventing the institutions of industrial society

What is ‘Elemental society’? It is whatever we must do to build a society based on care and understanding,
and of course it is founded on a vision of the nature of that society.

Economics—True riches. Instead of scarcity and consumerism, the seeking of real wealth, true riches, and quality.

Government—Vitality & Implicity. Instead of policy, control, and power, inspiration and humanity, bringing institutions to life.

Culture—Culture of care. Instead of the regime of the crude and hard-heartedness, understanding and love.

Click here for our exploration of these ideas and possibilities in our Huzanity website.

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Reformulation of Institutions: Building the world we envision
Vitality: Bringing social institutions to life
Implicity: The full range of our interconnections

IMPLICITY

A stitch is broken, a sleeve is torn. A thread is hanging loose. We must mend our complicity and sew our implicity. The purpose should not be only to remove what is injurious, but to weave a world in which every part is made with care: where no one prospers by making another suffer, where the small and hidden origins of everything that impacts us – though the cause is far away and unknowable – is beneficial.

This great interaction of events, of one caring, insightful creation on top of another, could produce beauty that is unimaginable to us now. Implicity is complicity in the good. It heals fractured relationships, and produces spiritual joy.

Implicity is also an alternative to political action: instead of turning to structures, we assume the full scope of action we actually have that ‘lives into being’ the world we envision. It is the means and method of bringing the spiritual reality we comprehend into life in society....