CENTENNIALISM
Centennialism is built on 100 year planning.
It promotes prosperity by enabling stability.
Centennialism achieves long-term vision with present-tense initiative.
Centennialism is made in America.
It is a tool for sustaining democracy both nationally and internationally.
Centennialism is non-partisan.
It uses both liberal and conservative ideologies to create practical solutions.
Centennialists make decisions based on data and return-on-investment.
Centennialists are patriots who have:
a feeling of pride in a common culture,
a belief in the permanence of that culture, and
a personal desire to contribute to that culture’s longevity.
Centennialists are individuals.
Centennialists are invested in their communities.
Centennialists are globally aware.
Centennialism encourages leadership and innovation.
Centennialism cultivates individual and social optimization.
Centennialism shifts localized globalization to globalized localization.
Centennialism promotes:
human equality
active citizenship
economic stability
sustainable urban design
ecological restoration
Centennialism acknowledges these fundamental rights:
clean air
clean water
nutritional food
a safe place to live
dignified work
the opportunity to learn
the availability of community
access to democratic representation
Centennialism uses tools such as:
the Internet
biomimicry
3D printing
big data
de-salinization
genetic engineering
public transportation
renewable clean energy
interior agriculture
climate-adaptive urban design
A friend of mine, a 37-year-old lawyer, told me “this just sounds like what Millennials think”
after I asked his opinion of my outline. He has a point.
Centennialism is designed to be revolutionary, not radical—the world is already radical enough.
Centennialism is an argument for aggressively rational behavior, pro-social behavior;
permanent, sustainable, healthy behavior.
It is an update to our cultural Operating System.
The problems we face as members of the Global Human Race are not due to a lack of technology. They are not due to a lack of intelligence, or willpower, or innovation.
They are not due to obstacles in communication or access to information.
The problems we face are due to a lack of leadership.
All of the tools we require for continued survival and prosperity already exist. Through technology, we have powers once attributed to the gods: We can predict the coming rainstorm, send messages to space and back again, harness the very power of the sun. We have the ability to better understand natural systems and to participate within them in a responsible way. We have the ability to better understand ourselves and to facilitate a culture that is respectful to the needs of all human beings.
Why are these tools not being used?
Why are so many people unhappy and unfulfilled?
Why do we allow the breakdown of our ecological systems?
Why do we participate in the patterns of life?
Is it because we’ve given up?
The data is there to support this. Massive shifts due to climate change are already doing great harm to human civilizations. The scientists and researchers paint a grim picture of the future—not of the distant future, the immediate future. Not your grandkids. You.
However, these are all based on projections of the status-quo, a continuation of the system at large.