Thread:JasonSears78/@comment-25764524-20141126021629

We have serious problems to solve. Climate change, rare resources, environmental damage, obesity and debt, hunger and violence; all problems that we have been working to solve for some time.

My gut is telling me that momentum is building. The direction we are headed is more peace, more sustainability, and more fairness in our society. The momentum is coming from a fear about negative trends - climate change, health and economic disparities.

We all see it. Preppers. Evangalists. 99% protesters & Tea Partiers. Hipsters. Gen Y. All of them contain movements. All movements contain leaders. All those leaders are executing personal development initiatives, getting the knowledge and power that will be required for the real action.

So what's the real action? It hasn't happened yet. But it's starting. The popular vote movement. The many climate change initiatives. The global collaborations around health. And charity- inprecedented charity.

The action is a '''restructuring of society. '''

The rate of learning has accelerated beyond our current institution's ability to apply it. We learn something new every day that would make the world better if only it could be implemented. We can envision better systems, better governments and better ways to perform the most crucial services we need: nurishing, sheltering, educating, socilaizing and engaging citizens. Yet, we cannot bring this vision about without fundamental changes. Thus, the action is the change itself.

We don't know how long the change will take, nor how exactly to bring it about. This means that we are in the earliest stages of change. From here forward, it's best to focus on what we know. What we really know, based on vast studies and wise application of techniques. What we know will become what we live after the change. And what we know right now is suffecient to change it all for the better. One thing we know already is how to bring about change.

First, you need to identify the leadership team. Then you establish a clear and compelling vision. Then, remove barriers. So since we're early on, we have a clear and actionable first step: Identify Leadership.

So that's what my mission is. I want to establish the leadership that will help transform society. But this leadership team willbe unlike any that has existed before. It will need to be huge, representing people from all parts of the globe, with all kinds of experience in business, government, social services, finance, science, technology and arts.

No team has ever been established without a vision, and the vision required to pull this many people together would need to be unprecedentetly awe inspiring. The vision would need to be more impactful than any corporate change initiative, deeper than any communiy collaboration, and more vast than a mere movement. This vision would need to be clear, but also complex, unifying the group on a set of values that will maintain focus on what's most important. It must also be so powerful that it will keep messages alive and complelling for years, decades and even beyond, however long it takes.

The vision must be like a religion. Only a religion can pay people to maintain beliefs through time. Only a religion can set a system of beliefs and encourage people to adhere to them. Only a religion has the impact, the scope, the scale and the power that will be needed to change the whole world. I firmly believe that by establishing a religion based on science, peace and sustainability, we will recruit as members the leaders that will take us to the next step in changing the world. This religion will have one ultimate goal: to bring about a true sustainability.

While I will not start a religion, what I want to start will be religion-like. 