Will
you download and use the
app when it is ready? Then sign up below. The download link will
be emailed to everyone on the list. We have at least until the
end of 2024 before the app will be ready, enough time to get the
targeted 501 supporters signed up. Please join
us.
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Voices
of Humanity is the Solution
Please
consider joining the Voices of Humanity list of pledged
prospects. We need at least 100 participants promising to use the
new VoH app when it is released later this year. It would be
better if we can get 501. When we get 101, we will have a zoom
meeting and perhaps that will spark the outreach needed to get to
501. To get more users, we need more users. This is the hurdle
that Voices of Humanity must overcome.
The future
looks dim for humanity. Wealth
inequality
is
huge. Wildlife populations are down
69%
in
50 years. Eighty
percent of climate change scientists are agreed
on
at least 2.5C degrees of heating coming our way, a global
disaster with unimaginable consequences. Then there is the horror
of war - the atomic
doomsday clock
is
set at 90 seconds to midnight. Adding it all up, civilization
could collapse as early as 2040.
Nuclear
weapons have locked humanity into an us vs them world. That is
the underlying problem. As a result, the nations are not
cooperating on global issues as they should. If they/we are
willing to use these weapons, what does that say about them/us?
If they/we are not willing to use nukes, then why do they/we have
nukes? At the same time it is clear that nuclear disarmament
cannot happen without complete and general disarmament. Somehow
we must persuade the us vs them world to disarm - not an easy
task.
“Collective
communication” as implemented by Voices of Humanity uses
voting on messages to give collective voices to groups.
Geographical levels from city to province to nation to global are
easily selected. Thus the cities and the nations each have a
collective voice. At every level there is a breakout by gender
and age, so women, men, youth, middle-aged and seniors will
always have their say. The religions also have collective voices,
as do each of the United Nations goals.
We won’t
know for sure until we get going, but it seems likely that highly
rated messages at the global level will be consistently kind,
intelligent and spirited. Generous, smart, and upbeat messages
are what people like. Hateful, dumb and dull messages will not
make it to the top of the list. Hardliners will stay away from a
forum structured to support the goals of the UN, and in any case,
messages will be monitored and explicitly hateful messages and
their authors removed from the process.
Still, in the
us vs them world that we share, the voices of the nations and
perhaps of the religions may well be less than kind on occasion.
We can expect this tendency to be restrained by the overall tone
of the forum. Also, leagues of cities at the national level will
be helpful. Cities are consistently in favor of nuclear
disarmament and peace. They are the targets and they don’t
themselves have nuclear arms.
Kind, intelligent and
spirited - this matters because the highly rated messages will
tell us that the human race is on our side. Participants will
develop a sense of togetherness at the global level. As
participation grows, so will morale for collective nonviolent
action to persuade the nations to disarm. My guess is that a
global women’s strike is what will make it happen. Please
join the list of those who promise to use the new VoH app when it
is released later this year. You will be notified with info for a
zoom meeting when we have 101 signed up.
Voices
of Humanity - Order out of Chaos
finding
our common humanity across
all national, religious and
cultural boundaries
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