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1. The Common Purpose Society

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3. Society
"It really upsets me to think
Tolerant to Difference that those people weren’t
put on trial. That justice was
never done. I wanted so
much to testify against them.
But at the same time, I do
understand them. They were
just trying to make a living.
Intolerant to Harm To do well for their
families, but all at our
expense."
Dahlin in Child Slavery pt
Equal Constraint 2, BBC World (2007).

4. Culture
"How far your nephew might approve of your "I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act
interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but in that manner, which will, in my own
you have certainly no right to concern opinion, constitute my happiness, without
yourself in mine." reference to you, or to any person so wholly
Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de unconnected with me."
Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de
Austen (1813) Bourgh, c.XIV vol. 3, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
(1813)
The typical controller: others must
comply with me, but me with none. I
must be respected, but I need not
respect anyone.
Reject control. Opportunities are
equalised where fulfilment is pursued
without harm, and a shared base income
gives freedom to all to pursue it.

5. Respect
Mutual respect is not differential respect, mutual
respect is equal respect. It is not greater respect
for anyone, but respect for all.

6. Governance
KISS
Keep It Simple Stupid
The line between private and public sector becomes blurred when
organisation decision-making becomes decentralised and democratic, and
fulfilment is the common purpose. When this happens all organisations
serve us, whether private or public, and we become self-governing.
Widespread voluntary contribution requires a shared base income. When a
shared income is in common so can other things be shared, like our
ideas, our labour and our time.

7. Education Those parts of education, it is
to be observed, for the
teaching of which there are no
public institutions, are
generally the best taught.
Wealth of
Nations, V, III, II, 353, Adam
Smith (1776)
For our greatest learning we need to be able to
direct our own learning. For this we need open Students should be asked the
institutions, open information, and open problems that have not been
assessment. solved, not those that have.

8. Health
"Fundamentally, a society that asks questions
and has the power to answer them is a healthier
society than one that simply accepts what it’s
told from a narrow range of experts and
institutions. If professional affiliation is no
longer a proxy for authority, we need to develop
our own gauges of quality. This encourages us to
think for ourselves."
p191, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson (2007)
Enable people with their own unexcellable knowledge of their own symptoms to
discover all they can about their own conditions and access their own treatments.

9. Environment
"It’s not the Earth that’s in peril, it’s us."
Earth, BBC (2007)
Given the world is one place, damage to one part harms all. Damaging the
environment harms others and ourselves. This is why the right to a
clean, attractive, harmonious environment should be specified as a right
in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

10. Media
Open and free media transmitting in real
time, without an owner-controller agenda.
The Media too often eggs on controller
behaviour, considers every concession a
ploy, and derides the vision.
But it is the vision that is important to
changing the story, and changing the story
changes reality.

11. Faith
Free and open faith, not exclusive religion.
We do not need a prescriptive God to have faith or
purpose, we can have faith in ourselves and our
universe.
Moral rules should never be taken as greater than the
principle of fulfilment without harm.

12. Ethnicity
Ethnicity is the strongest
link in extended
communities. It is a
source of identity with a
culture, a people and a
land.
People should not be deprived
of citizenship to the lands with
which their ethnicities are
associated.
A continuous right to reside in
one’s homeland gives security
when one lives outside it.

13. Borders
Once fulfilment without harm is the purpose and
principle of all nations, then all borders can be open.

14. Security
Weapons will only become irrelevant when no-one needs them, but this will only
happen when the opportunity for growth is shared so everyone can grow. This won’t
happen until we share in a base income everyone receives.
Obama, by removing America as the grand enemy of non-Western nations (though
that’s debatable), diverts the attention of nations onto their own regimes. Without
an enemy these regimes cannot divert attention from the harm they do their own
people and self-destruct.

15. For further information visit…
OUR SYSTEM
http://oursystem.info
The Common Purpose Manifesto
http://thecommonpurpose.com