The Riddle

There's a palpable sensation that humanity is at an epic point in the fight against authoritarian regimes, hidden behind fake democracies. There's more centralized power, more control, more surveillance, more wars, but not justice, freedom, cooperation.

In this endless fight for the right to speak up against the power structures, people need to draw hope from new sources. There is far too little courage to withstand the seductive appeals of the power and privileges, that come with lining up with the elites agendas. It is understandable ⇧. Few people have the courage to risk their jobs, their livelihoods and those of their children for the sake of truth, or to remain true to one's own principles. Who, or what, is going to save whom? The world? Freedom? Humanity? Looking at the long list of prosecuted whistleblowers prosecuted, journalists discredited, intimidated, banned and censored, one can't help to ask the most important question: Do the conditions even exist for a shift?

Experts, leaders, academics have already dealt with such important questions? Which important conclusions have they reached? What is the history of societal upheaval showing us? Do we really know who the enemy is? How are we supposed to know what to expect if we have not precisely defined the enemy? Howard Zinn said it rightly: "For hope to remain, people must see an opportunity." There must be a way out of this "going around in circles." Courage, so to speak, must become more accessible. "Activism" must find a new form of objection, not new ways to say No.

You know it too well, because you have been confronted with these questions many times. What is the answer to the riddle of empowerment? What is the trigger of revolt and who has been working incessantly at solving it for us?

Albert Einstein - Bertrand Russell - Noam Chomsky - George Bernhard Shaw - Apple 1984 “Think Different” Kampagne - Rainer Mausfeld - Alberto Melucci - Victor Hugo - Sun Tsu - Rumi - Howard Zinn - Daniel Ellsberg - Martin Luther King - Gandhi - Michael Manley - Roger Willemsen - Chris Hedges - John Lennon - Ronnie Kasrills - Buckminster Fuller - Sheldon Wolin - John Ralston Saul - Wolfgang Streeck - George Lakoff - MalcomX - John F. Kennedy - Eve Ensler - Alice Walker - Willie Nelson - Abraham Lincoln - Dwight Eisenhower - Lawrence Lessig

The conditions for an efficient global would be:

1. It cannot be a hero, who unites and empowers the silent, not a leading personality, a politician, journalist, a whistleblower or a scientist. Leaders are killed. Dissenting academics lose their careers, their image gets destroyed. Journalists, their portals are censored, their sources of income and donations are cut off. They often have to flee into exile. Only ideas cannot be killed, dissolved, censored or forced into exile.

2. The protest must be measurable. 100,000 or a million demonstrators at a demonstration? Nice photos and posts on Facebook or Twitter, but that's no use. The feeling of "look how many of us there were" must be conveyed in a different way. The idea or solution must therefore make protests and demonstrations superfluous. They are too costly. Those who call protests and peaceful demonstrations are arrested and persecuted.

3. The solution cannot be political, obviously, because politics is of no use except for promoting the criminal agenda of the elites. The alternative press is still far too weak/underfunded to stand up to the power structures.

4. The solution must be positive (proactive), and avoid direct confrontations.

5. It must be able to become irresistible.

6. It must empower people with an inherent, designed simplicity (strategy).

7. The elites, in their immense arrogance, must be completely unprepared (Sun Tsu).

8. The idea must shake up the assumptions and beliefs of those who research social change and call movements.

9. It must be a new model that radically overturns the normal, the conventional. It should trigger a paradigm shift.

10. It must show a clear way forward. Finding a way forward means starting a process, not delivering a finished result. The goal would be freedom, truth, justice, responsibility, empathy, in other words a "miracle." A miracle can only come about through a collective, unified will, something that has never happened.

11. The solution to a puzzle makes sense. So the way forward must make sense.

12. It must be practical and accessible to everyone.

13. The solution/idea needs an identity. A struggling humanity must find the roots of its existential struggle inside slavery and oppression. Social force from Solidarity can only reemerge from it.

14. People must feel their common emotion. They must be told what it is.

15. The solution must be organized. It must have a simple message, it must be coherent worldwide.