Roadmap

This is not a joke. This is not a drill. This is an actual plan to initiate an inclusive, transparent and peaceful cultural revolution, championing LOVE, FAIRNESS & SCIENCE

Phase One: Planning & Recruiting

Goal: 1,000 members, 100 volunteers

  • Recruit members and inspire as many as possible to volunteer

  • Produce engaging and informative content that explains Optimalism and United Humans in a variety of ways (including approachable high-level explanations and deep dives into important topics) to publish on all major social media platforms and in multiple languages

  • Form a committee to write the first draft of the United Humans Constitution and to establish a set of evidence-based Collective Decision-Making Protocols

  • Form additional committees to develop proposals for:

    • Re-establishing Shared Reality–we need to hold public figures, the media and social media to higher standards of honesty and integrity

    • Reinvigorating Science–if we’re basing our decision-making on science, we need to make it more accessible and less biased

    • Reprioritizing the Environment–between climate change, the loss of habitats and biodiversity, our ecosystem needs urgent attention

    • Redesigning Democracy–existing technology makes direct democracy feasible, so why do we need politicians?

    • Reworking Money–our current financial system incentivizes predatory practices that increase wealth inequality

    • Replacing Capitalism–it’s possible to design an economic paradigm that isn’t a zero sum game, where every transaction is win-win

    • Rethinking the State–what kind of public institutions do we need, at what levels, to support the United Humans Constitution?

  • Publish first drafts of the above, in multiple languages, for public review and feedback

 

Phase Two: Research & Development

Goal: 1 million members, 100,000 volunteers

  • Continue to recruit members, expanding the committees and forming a large population sample for research and polling

  • Continue producing content to make the case for Optimalism and to educate audiences on the goals and progress of United Humans

  • Iterate on the collective decision-making protocols as the size of the organization scales, to ensure fair representation and measurably optimal outcomes

  • Develop or adopt a social media platform that is inclusive and unbiased, with tools for collaboration, surveys and crowd-sourced fact checking

  • Create new committees, tasked with studying all areas of human and ecological well-being, proposing appropriate rules and regulations

  • Conduct experiments and simulations to test and iterate all proposed rules and regulations, and to evaluate and resolve conflicting priorities

  • Educate members and the wider population on the evolving Optimalist methodologies and encourage members to vote on proposals being considered

  • Conduct experiments and simulations to test and iterate potential strategies for deploying these new social, economic and political paradigms (to be implemented in Phase Three)

  • Publish the first, ratified, versions of the complete set of documents that define the formation and function of the new systems of social, political and economic governance being proposed

  • Establish a protocol for regularly evaluating and if necessary, updating and republishing the Constitution and the above mentioned documents

 

Phase Three: Mobilize & Deploy

Goal: 1 billion members, 100 million volunteers

Following are four possible strategies for turning the principles of Optimalism into law at a global level. Better and more specific plans are likely to emerge during Phases One and Two.

1. Found a United Humans political party in all democratic countries

  • By being a global party, United Humans will overcome the credibility issues that new political parties typically face

  • Each party runs on a platform of establishing—or modifying—the respective country’s Constitution to align with that of the global United Humans organization

  • In the worst case, the very existence of these parties will change the national conversation and maybe even influence policy

  • In the best case, once one party gets into parliament anywhere, it will further boost the credibility of all the sister parties and trigger a snowball effect that eventually leads to most democratic nations adopting an Optimalist Constitution

  • Countries that do not initially choose to adopt Optimalism will be encouraged, through trade agreements and economic sanctions, to do so

  • But even if only a small number of countries adopt Optimalism, it’ll have a huge positive impact

2. Deploy policies in a piecemeal, but strategic fashion, around the world

  • Analyze the social and political landscape in all democratic countries with a view to determining which of the Optimalist policies that have been developed in earlier phases each country might be ready to adopt

  • Tailor policies, if necessary, to the local conditions and transparently lobby both the public and politicians to see them implemented

  • In the best case, this may initiate a snowball effect with popular Optimalism-branded initiatives that boost the chances of future Optimalist initiatives being adopted

  • At a minimum, the discussion of Optimalist ideas in the public sphere is a positive

3. Found a parallel global political and economic infrastructure

  • Create a new Optimalist currency that functions as a medium of exchange and store of value, but not as a speculative financial instrument

  • Encourage use of the Optimalist currency for trade between individuals and organizations that embrace Optimalism

  • Found each of the institutions of global Optimalist governance and task them with –

    • transparently assessing the same information available to existing governments

    • publishing recommended courses of action based on their findings

    • tracking the outcomes of government decisions compared with the anticipated results of the recommendations

  • If sufficient trust has been earned by these parallel institutions to influence governments to adopt Optimalist principles, then there may not be any need for an abrupt transition

  • However, if those in power resist, it may be plausible for Optimalists to agree on a date to cease using legacy currencies at all, stripping the holdouts of their wealth and power

4. Found a religion around Optimalist ideals and sue for the right to practice it

  • Most countries’ laws confer special privileges on religious practices that are denied to secular practices, so it’s worth considering founding a religion in order to benefit from those same privileges

  • Such an Optimalist religion would enshrine the principles and practice of Optimalism, including

    • universal human equality—past, present and future

    • fair treatment for all humans and our ecosystems

    • promoting scientific consensus in all decision-making

  • Target the industries and institutions that are most antithetical to Optimalist progress, such as

    • natural resource extraction

    • fossil fuels and dirty energy

    • industrial agriculture

    • exploitative financial institutions

    • for-profit healthcare, education, prisons, etc

  • Launch litigations, arguing that these industries and institutions violate Optimalists’ rights to freely practice their religion

  • Appeal all the way to the highest court in every country, if necessary

It’s as simple as that!

OK, it’s not simple. Or easy. But it’s actually not impossible. It will just require a lot of humans, united, to make it happen.