A Better World Project

In the early 70s, I was around 10 years old; a school project was to draw the world as we expected it to be in year 2000. Of course, kids expectations are usually more wishes than expectations; kids don’t really know the difference do they? And if they do, they are “just kids”, right? Back then, year 2000 was an eternity away, so who cared, there was plenty of time for things to happen and change; responsible, powerful persons, adults, were in charge… After all, why worry?

Fast forward 35 years, a short decade into the 21st century; energy, economy, pollution, world hunger, immigration, unemployment, education, etc… are problems more present than ever; wars, lies, deceit, corruption, politicians that insist in telling us what to do, personal interests… mass extinctions, depletion of the oceans, deforestation, desertification, top soil erosion… inflation, malaria, refugees, terrorists, recession, clean water, over population and how am I going to pay the rent?

STOP!

Stop. I am not saying that all items in the above list were in my drawing, but certainly my kid’s mind was aware, conscious of them; powerful responsible adults too. We are now 10 years into the 21st century and guess what: Progress? Not at all my dear, not to avail: 35 years have passed, I am now the powerful person and our kid’s expectations, humanity’s future, are on my shoulders – and on yours too.

So what to do? I turn to Bucky Fuller and quote:

“What do I see that needs to be done and that nobody else is attending to? What do I need to learn to be effective in attending to it in a highly efficient and inoffensive-to-others manner?

-R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller.

…and TheTrimTab was born; picking up Critical Path where Bucky left it 28 years ago.

Drive is born from dissatisfaction. Are you somewhat dissatisfied Dear Reader? What is it you see that needs to be done? What do you need to learn to be effective in attending to it? The daunting size of the task can be overwhelming, but simple little things count; one is raising your awareness, understanding, knowledge about what is going on around you, and TheTrimTab can help you with that; another way is to just get out there and do something, anything, like creating an artifact that will help others raise their awareness, or creating a point of exchange where people, just like you or me can share their idea, vision of a better world…

This leads me to “A Better World Project”: it is not mine, it is Quinn Michael’s idea – In Quinn’s (yes, Quinn is the first name) own words:

… Then I thought to myself… how can I bring that idea. The idea of people sharing their stories and doing the drawings and then it hit me.

Use all of my programming, graphic, and art skills to build a digital sketchbook site that let’s you share stories and then I can draw some of them.

If you so happen to be curious, here is a link to A Better World Project

Quinn created A Better World Project, it is an interactive website (link above) where you can share your ideas of a better world – not only that, Quinn is an artist; he will, at his discretion, take your idea and make it into a drawing (The illustration above is reproduced from Quinn’s Digital Sketchbook) that will be posted for everyone to see and enjoy. Quinn Michael also created another artifact, he calls it “the dream tree”; I will leave you with a short video of Quinn explaining his dream tree.

Other related (hand picked) articles & postings that you may like:

• An Easy To Read List of Bucky Fuller’s Principles For Making The World Work for 100% Of Humanity.
• Opening The Bucky Call To All. Is it reasonable to suspect you are interested in becoming an active part of The Bucky Call?
• The Bucky Call. A study of Critical Path, Bucky’s starting point and road map for a world that works for all.

Tags: artifact, awareness, bucky fuller, conscious mind, crisis, critical path, Extinction, Future Of Humanity, inflation, integrity, Quinn Michael, right brain