Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2022 12:05:08 GMT
Changing how we play the Game of Life on planet Earth
anneloessmitsman.medium.com/changing-how-we-play-the-game-of-life-on-planet-earth-928dbde6af1e
Rose is feeling furious. “What’s the return on investment for all the trees who have to sacrifice their lives in the name of ‘progress’ every day? Or the animals who no longer have a place to live because every acre of land is covered with concrete and high-rise buildings? I don’t want you to control what I can do with my ideas. This compass is for all of humanity!”
“You’re out of line, young woman,” the mustache man grumbles. A few other heads nod in agreement.
But Rose’s inner dragon is up in full force. She looks each of them in the eye. “Did any of you even read my proposal?” No one responds. Rose continues, “Do you realize what’s at stake here? Do you? We are ‘playing’ for the very survival of the human species in the game of life. If we lose this game, we lose our planet. We lose the chance to continue to exist! We’ve wasted so much time being too arrogant to admit that we’ve been destroying our planet and each other’s future. There’s no time for hesitation. We must take appropriate action. Now!”
“You’ve pitched your ideas to the wrong company,” the CEO answers sternly. “As I said, we are not a charity, and without financial capital, your nice little ideas won’t get far. If you don’t like our conditions, then we have finished here.”
Rose feels overwhelmed by a deep sense of injustice. She’s overcome with a burning desire to expose the lies and manipulations of corporate greed and their abuse of power. She feels close to rage and is ready to spit fire. The intensity of these raw emotions takes her by surprise.
“You are exactly what’s wrong with this world,” Rose says sharply. “It’s because of people like you and companies like yours that our world is in such a mess. Because of your corporate interests, I now have to fight for my future. You’re the reason I developed this game: to get people to opt-in to the game of life and opt-out of the game of greed and control. You know what? Never mind. I’m going to develop my game with blockchain technologies.” The board members look at her blankly. “I’ll bet you don’t even know what that means. Blockchain makes it possible to work transparently and in a decentralized way with open-source codes and smart contracts. In my project, I want multiple developers from around the world to be able to work together and be protected through a creative commons license. This ‘central control’ that you want is a thing of the past. These days everything is done through smart contracts,” (Smitsman and Houston, 2022, chapter 1).
The scene above is from chapter 1 of Return of the Avatars: The Cosmic Architect Tools of Our Future Becoming, book 2 of the Future Humans Trilogy, which I’ve co-authored with Dr. Jean Houston. During this scene, Rose (the main character) is pitching her ideas of a Cosmic Compass game as a Future Humans Quest for addressing our world in crisis, to potential investors.
anneloessmitsman.medium.com/changing-how-we-play-the-game-of-life-on-planet-earth-928dbde6af1e
Rose is feeling furious. “What’s the return on investment for all the trees who have to sacrifice their lives in the name of ‘progress’ every day? Or the animals who no longer have a place to live because every acre of land is covered with concrete and high-rise buildings? I don’t want you to control what I can do with my ideas. This compass is for all of humanity!”
“You’re out of line, young woman,” the mustache man grumbles. A few other heads nod in agreement.
But Rose’s inner dragon is up in full force. She looks each of them in the eye. “Did any of you even read my proposal?” No one responds. Rose continues, “Do you realize what’s at stake here? Do you? We are ‘playing’ for the very survival of the human species in the game of life. If we lose this game, we lose our planet. We lose the chance to continue to exist! We’ve wasted so much time being too arrogant to admit that we’ve been destroying our planet and each other’s future. There’s no time for hesitation. We must take appropriate action. Now!”
“You’ve pitched your ideas to the wrong company,” the CEO answers sternly. “As I said, we are not a charity, and without financial capital, your nice little ideas won’t get far. If you don’t like our conditions, then we have finished here.”
Rose feels overwhelmed by a deep sense of injustice. She’s overcome with a burning desire to expose the lies and manipulations of corporate greed and their abuse of power. She feels close to rage and is ready to spit fire. The intensity of these raw emotions takes her by surprise.
“You are exactly what’s wrong with this world,” Rose says sharply. “It’s because of people like you and companies like yours that our world is in such a mess. Because of your corporate interests, I now have to fight for my future. You’re the reason I developed this game: to get people to opt-in to the game of life and opt-out of the game of greed and control. You know what? Never mind. I’m going to develop my game with blockchain technologies.” The board members look at her blankly. “I’ll bet you don’t even know what that means. Blockchain makes it possible to work transparently and in a decentralized way with open-source codes and smart contracts. In my project, I want multiple developers from around the world to be able to work together and be protected through a creative commons license. This ‘central control’ that you want is a thing of the past. These days everything is done through smart contracts,” (Smitsman and Houston, 2022, chapter 1).
The scene above is from chapter 1 of Return of the Avatars: The Cosmic Architect Tools of Our Future Becoming, book 2 of the Future Humans Trilogy, which I’ve co-authored with Dr. Jean Houston. During this scene, Rose (the main character) is pitching her ideas of a Cosmic Compass game as a Future Humans Quest for addressing our world in crisis, to potential investors.