Email/The Aesthetics and Ethics Manifesto

To: 	Ben Koo
From: 	Marina de Moses
Re:	The Aesthetics and Ethics Manifesto
Date:	February 2, 2021

Dear Ben – for your reading, comments, changes, additions


The Aesthetics and Ethics Manifesto

1.	No aesthetics without ethics
2.	Remember that we don’t know is much greater than what we know
3.	Approach big goals through the small and doable decisions and actions
4.	Truth has to be repeated constantly, because error is also being preached all the time
5.	Innovation and progress are to be designed around optimal outcomes
6.	The real solution lies in a world in which charity will become unnecessary and thus obsolete 
 

The Aesthetics of the Global Imagination 

We believe that not one of the compelling crises of our times exists in an isolation – poverty, environmental degradation, family and community disintegration, crime, famine, intolerance - these all exist within the context of vast social ecosystems. Unless they are addressed within that context, every one of them will remain resistant to change.

Communication across cultures and languages should not strive for accuracy but for embrace of the best metaphor that we can find to convey the intent and essence of an idea or experience.

Facing challenges, we are looking for solutions in collaboration - working to apply ancient wisdom combined with modern scientific research and thus create innovative approaches that can be applied practically in everyday lives and livelihoods.

Based on the premise that financial means, ideas and methods for change are present around us - we aim to analyze and create the link to these, and thus establish new ways in which seemingly disconnected resources can develop into fruitful relationships.


Professional Collaboration Involves:

•	A conscious engagement in the mutual appreciation of knowledge and its stewardship.
•	Agreement to honor interests of the (1) donor/investor/trustee, (2) the recipient party and the 
(3) community of engagement.
•	Open-source technology – aiming for the open access to knowledge, applications and models to perpetual use, and engagement of all users. Unlike past and modern economic frameworks that have been derived from a scarcity model we aim to create models that can enable the experiment of economic growth and abundance with creativity and adaptability.


Credo:

Paths to the wealth and health of humanity are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.

We believe that nothing can prevent us from shifting our evolutionary path toward a peaceful and sustainable civilization – nothing except our own patterns of thinking and action.

Networks that can encourage creative solutions by:

•	Learning-teaching experience
•	Shift from competition to partnership
•	Shift from aggressive profit seeking to a sense of solidarity and respect for integrity
•	The extent of mental, physical and spiritual energy spent on a particular issue is what ultimately brings success.
•	Our own well-being depends on the world's prosperity.


Fellowship assets:

A heart to follow nature
A capacity for curiosity and modesty
A common sense, moderation, responsibility, conscience
A sense for humor